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Student poverty and adversity don’t have to prevent student success. Examine how poverty affects education, achievement, and motivation for students across the U.S. and discover seven mindsets for ensuring college and career readiness for all students, regardless of socioeconomic status.

This book sounds an urgent alarm for educators to increase student, family, and community engagement in learning. Coach Carlos Johnson’s framework for performance-based relationships offers a valuable guide to motivating unmotivated students and deepening the investment of all stakeholders in effective classroom instruction.

Our Providing Soluciones Institute Portable Event Package is designed to fully prepare leaders, teachers, parents, and community partners to eradicate learning gaps for ELs during the coronavirus pandemic and beyond. Top educational thought leaders share specific, practical ways to virtually connect with students from diverse backgrounds and help them overcome the barriers they often face. You will gain a unique combination of research-based strategies and best practices as well as the know-how to develop an actionable plan for creating an equitable and inclusive distance-learning environment for your English learners.

This anthology presents a collection of powerful stories written by women whose backgrounds are as diverse as their leadership roles. Readers will discover a sense of community among the pages, as well as practical guidance on how to develop the skills and character to achieve success.

How can you effectively address the academic and SEL needs of your diverse learners? By activating social-emotional learning within a framework that includes trauma-informed, culturally responsive, and restorative teaching practices.

Reach alienated youth using the unique strategies of the updated Reclaiming Youth at Risk book by Larry K. Brendtro, Martin Brokenleg, and Steve Van Bockern. Learn how cultivating the Circle of Courage values of belonging, mastery, independence, and generosity can combat core hazards that dominate the lives of youth at risk.

Students do not put up walls to avoid relationships, but to see who cares enough to break the walls down. Research shows that building relationships with students increases engagement, motivation, test scores, and grade point averages while decreasing absenteeism, dropout rates, and discipline issues.

Step In, Step Up guides current and aspiring women leaders through a twelve-week development journey to discover their personal leadership identity and overcome the gender barriers to leadership in education.

Discover a clear two-step roadmap for uniting PBIS strategies with culturally and linguistically responsive teaching and learning in your classroom, school, or district.

Understand and utilize a framework for systemic equity. Author Lauryn Mascareñaz shares how to move equity work out of the “team” setting–where only a few members hold the work–and into multiple spaces and systems.