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1. Radical Listening: Reading and Writing Conferences to Reach All Students

   Active listening is the key to developing rubrics, feedback and guidance for students. In this book, teachers will find useful strategies for developing active listening skills to use in reading and writing conferences.

2. Oser avec audace

   L’auteure de ce livre explique comment le courage d’être vulnérable transforme notre façon de vivre, d’aimer, d’être un parent et leadeur.

3. Finding Your Blinds Spots: 8 Guiding Principles for Overcoming Implicit Bias in Teaching

   We all have biases toward and against certain things. When we are aware of our biases, we can consciously compensate for them. When biases are hidden, even to ourselves, they can have unanticipated impacts on our students. This great book gives teachers the tools to search out and identify their hidden biases so that they can better reach all students in the classroom.

4. Supporting Adolescents with Autism in Secondary Schools

   The mix of teenage hormones and autism is a daunting challenge for students and their teachers. This book explains the research-based strategies developed by the Center on Secondary Education for Students with Autism Spectrum Disorders (CSESA) to support students through the difficult transition in and out of adolescence and high school.

5. Infusing Self-Advocacy into Physical Education and Health Education

   Self-advocacy is one of the most important skills a student can learn, and this useful book outlines how teachers can help students learn to speak up as well as to know their rights, their responsibilities and how to do research to advocate for their position.

6. Social Emotional Stories: Lessons and Learning from Plants and Animals

   Teachers can use the lessons and activities that accompany the stories to support young students in developing healthy self-esteem and positive character.

7. Animer des groupes d’entrainement aux habiletés sociales

   Cet ouvrage est un véritable guide pratique avec des conseils relatifs à la mise en place d’un groupe thérapeutique. Il contient des outils pédagogiques « prêts à l’emploi » et adaptables aux âges ou au niveau cognitif des enfants et adolescents.

8. Struggling with Substance Use: Supporting Students’ Social Emotional Learning

   Substance abuse among students rarely happens without co-occurring disorders. Author Deborah Lynch argues that teachers need awareness of the presentation of this abuse in the classroom and evidenced-based strategies for supporting these students in their learning journeys.

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