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Simon (education, California State U. Sacramento) provides classroom teachers, support team specialists, and school leaders with strategies for helping students build resilience, to improve learning and close achievement gaps among disenfranchised student groups. Emphasizing student perceptions, rather than the school system's response to achievement gaps, and including the voices of students throughout the book, he discusses theories about resilience and resiliency protective factors like the impact of caring adults and student participation, and tools for mitigating student risk factors: a caring school team, an engaging classroom, and putting student learning first. He ends with leadership implications. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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Proven strategies for helping students rebound from riskAn experienced teacher and principal of a Title I school, Gabe Simon provides classroom practitioners, support team specialists, and all levels of schools leaders with numerous strategies for forging strong relationships and providing scaffolded supports to help students rebound from risk. Included are: Compelling descriptions of research on the link between resiliency and academic achievement The most important steps educators can take to build students' resiliency Game plans for creating caring school-wide teams and classroom structures that engage students Comments and perspectives from students considered to be at risk
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