Mission Critical
The award-winning memoir of a career military officer who retires into public education and finds a system barely held together by the people inside it. Riveting, funny, and honest, it is the story behind everything Eric teaches.
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The book that explains everything else on this site.
The award-winning memoir of a career military officer who retires into public education and finds a system barely held together by the people inside it. Riveting, funny, and honest, it is the story behind everything Eric teaches.
Common sense protection for real schools, not fortresses.
Common sense personal protection for every staff member. Part one builds safe habits in everyday life. Part two carries them into the classroom and the hallway. Practical and calm, built for real schools rather than fortresses.
Reach the students who are present but checked out.
The Time to Teach program for reaching students who have checked out. Storytelling, connection, and motivation strategies that capture attention and pull students back into the learning.
Engagement and motivation in every classroom, with storytelling. Practical ways to differentiate so more students take part and more of the learning sticks. If a teacher could keep just one manual on differentiation, this is it.
Reclaim time, cut referrals, and keep good teachers.
The complete Time to Teach classroom management manual. Research based and field tested strategies that improve behavior, lift achievement, and reduce stress in the classroom and the office. Teaching tomorrow, today.
If a teacher were permitted to have just one manual, this is the one. The Time to Teach approach to encouragement, empowerment, and excellence, built around the Refocus method that helps students learn to manage their own behavior.
One hundred ready to use behavior lesson plans, plus the essential advice behind them, to teach high expectations and winning classroom behavior. Open it and teach the behavior you want to see.
The science, psychology, and strategies behind high performing classrooms. Why unconditional positive regard changes how students behave and learn, and how to put it to work in your room.
Project and performance assessments, plus classroom tools.
Real alternatives to the standard test for the English classroom. Project and performance assessments that get students writing, speaking, and thinking well beyond the worksheet.
Ways for students to prove they understand the math, not just fill in an answer, with projects that connect to the real world.
Hands on ways to assess understanding in science, from investigations to models to student led demonstrations.
Alternatives to the standard test for social studies, from primary sources to simulations, that let students show what they truly understand.
Differentiated learning for all in the elementary classroom. Age appropriate projects and performances across English, math, science, and social studies that make assessment feel like learning.
A set of polyhedral classroom dice for games, grouping, and quick engagement. A simple, hands on way to add movement and a little chance to any lesson.
Tell Eric your grade level and goals and he will point you to the right resource, or build something custom for your team.
Resources are often bundled into on-site training for the whole staff. Ask about volume pricing for your school or district.
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