Life Skills

Empowering educators with strategies to create emotionally safe schools, this book explores powerful tools for fostering belonging, managing behaviors, and supporting student well-being.

Designed to be extremely practical for K–12 administrators, teachers, and students, the book equips educators with the knowledge and skills needed to implement responsive circles effectively. It explores how student behavior serves as communication, how traditional discipline fails to address underlying issues, and the next steps educators can take.

Structured around the author’s IMPACT framework, this book provides grades 6–12 teachers, SEL coordinators, instructional coaches, and administrators with strategies to build meaningful, impactful relationships. Each chapter delves into a letter of the IMPACT acronym: intentional, meaningful, practical, authentic, consistent, and teamwork.

Equip educators with a toolbox of clear, concise, and practical strategies to foster a school culture of belonging and positivity. Author Morgane Michael empowers leaders and classroom teachers to construct a school environment that is welcoming and inclusive, providing a strong foundation for student social-emotional and academic success.

Create more meaningful teaching experiences using the principles and methodology of the TSR model. Through research and experience, author Patricia Erbe provides a concrete plan educators can use to improve teacher-student relationships and promote better educational outcomes for their students.

Busy educators may struggle at times to connect the dots to form an integrated, holistic approach to the overall success of students. With this book, the heavy lifting is done for you so you can rely on an accessible recipe for student well-being that considers five essential ingredients students need to thrive.

Lead a foundational shift in the way your school approaches student behavior. Using straightforward language, the authors offer research-based, practical strategies for understanding and supporting trauma-impacted students and providing a safe environment for them to learn.

Support the growth of your students with meaningful, effective social-emotional learning. You’ll engage in deep reflection and discover ways to refine instruction, lesson planning, and assessment; promote whole-child development; and foster a productive learning environment for all.

Acquire actionable steps you can take throughout the school year to alleviate student test anxiety and create brain-friendly classrooms full of focus and learning. Understand what causes testing anxiety and discover how to implement social-emotional learning strategies in the classroom to help prepare students mentally, emotionally, and physically for high-stakes assessments.

Create safe classrooms where students are empowered to build resilience, cope with traumatic experiences, and achieve at high levels. Learn how to cultivate a trauma-informed classroom environment and utilize classroom management strategies to encourage positive learning experiences for trauma-impacted students.