The Will to Learn: Cultivating Student Motivation Without Losing Your Own

Student demotivation is painful for everyone: the learner, the teacher, and the community. Thankfully, there are concrete things teachers can do to cultivate student motivation in the heart of every learner. In this book, I unpack just ten high-yield strategies and the Five Key Beliefs they help to form.
(Ideal for audiences in grades 4-12.)
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These 6 Things: How to Focus Your Teaching on What Matters Most

The point of school is long-term flourishing. The best way to promote long-term flourishing in schools is to allow teachers to focus on mastering six key areas: motivation, knowledge-building, argument, reading, writing, and speaking. All six of these areas ought to be wisely, sustainably leveraged toward the mastery of course material.
(Ideal for audiences in grades 4-12.)
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Answers to Your Biggest Questions About Teaching Middle and High School ELA: Five to Thrive

Join three career English teachers as we unpack answers to the most common questions we hear and experience in our work as ELA teachers. The main reason I wrote this book was because I couldn't pass on the chance to write something with two of the greatest ELA teacher-writers in the business, Mr. Matthew Johnson and Mr. Matthew Kay.
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Or: take a look at my first book.

A Non-Freaked Out  Guide to Teaching the Common Core: Using the 32 Literacy Anchor Standards to Develop College- and Career-Ready Students

The most useful way to use the Common Core State Standards is to read them at the anchor standard level. (This book was the culmination of my first phase of blog writing.)
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