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Welcome to the October 2021 edition of Learning and Leading.
If you’re a new subscriber, each month we gather valuable professional learning resources under a common theme to share with Canadian educators. In every issue you can expect regular features like new and best-selling professional books, powerful free videos, emerging research and thought leadership, upcoming events and webinars, professional learning opportunities, and free chapters and reproducibles.
If you are already a subscriber, thank you for your support, and we encourage you to send us feedback or suggestions for future editions.
This month’s newsletter is focused on equity and inclusion in education. Whether you’re a classroom teacher, school administrator, or district leader, you’ll find valuable professional development resources to support learning for all students in Canadian schools.
—Solution Tree Education Canada |
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| New and Best-selling Books |
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| Evident Equity
By Lauryn Mascareñaz
Integrate equitable practices into every facet of your school or district with the help of this timely, essential guide.
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| The School Wellness Wheel
By Mike Ruyle, Libby Child, and Nancy Dome
Discover how your school can evolve to address trauma, promote well-being, and elevate learning with this comprehensive resource.
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| Beyond Conversations About Race
By Washington Collado, Sharroky Hollie, Rosa Isiah, Yvette Jackson, Anthony Muhammad, Douglas Reeves, and Kenneth C. Williams
Written by a collective of brilliant authors, this essential work provokes respectful dialogue about race that catalyzes school-changing action.
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| The Wraparound Guide
By Leigh Colburn and Linda Beggs
With this timely guide, discover actionable steps for launching and sustaining wraparound services embedded within your school that support the whole child.
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| Reclaiming Youth at Risk, Third Edition
By Larry K. Brendtro, Martin Brokenleg, and Steve Van Bockern
Empower your alienated students to cultivate a deep sense of belonging, mastery, independence, and generosity.
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| Finding Your Blind Spots
By Hedreich Nichols
Identify biases that adversely affect your practice, and learn how to move beyond them to ensure an equitable, inclusive campus culture.
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On-site and Online
Professional Development |
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| Professional Learning for Equity in Schools will equip your learning community with the behaviors, structures, and tools it needs to move toward real change and advance educational equity for the benefit of all students. Learn more » |
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Sharroky Hollie, EdD, is a national educator who provides professional development to thousands of educators in the area of cultural responsiveness. Since 2000, Dr. Hollie has trained more than 150,000 educators and worked in nearly 2,000 classrooms.
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Response to Intervention at Work™ Virtual Workshop
A Live 2-Day Event with Mike Mattos & Heather Friziellie
Virtual Event | November 9 & November 16
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| As an active virtual participant of this virtual workshop, you will learn why bureaucratic, paperwork-heavy, compliance-oriented, test-score-driven approaches fail, and then discover how to create an RTI model that works. |
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Beyond Conversations About Race Portable Event Package
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| Use this powerful on-demand event as a springboard for teachers, administrators, and community members to enter into respectful dialogue that creates a call to action and a plan to do better. |
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| Free Chapter |
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| Read a free chapter from The Wraparound Guide to gain comprehensive knowledge about three essential concepts underpinning any effort to offer full-spectrum services. |
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| Free Reproducible |
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| Access a figure from The Wraparound Guide depicting six recommended categories of school- and community-based wraparound services. |
| Download reproducible » |
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Inclusion Strategies and Interventions: Then, Now, and Later
By Toby J. Karten |
| During the first two weeks of March, I attended a Broadway show, presented at educational conferences, offered on-site inclusion coaching, received a massage, and whispered… |
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| Videos to watch and share |
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| In this edWebinar, Allen Mendler—author of Motivating Students Who Don’t Care—looks at how addressing students’ unfulfilled needs will reawaken their excitement and enthusiasm for learning. |
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| In this brief Q&A, expert Anthony Muhammad shares strategies to build confidence in a student body that has been historically cast as low-performing. |
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| Additional Reading & Listening |
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Featured Article
Engaging with Cultural Diversity
By Rola Koubeissy and Geneviève Audet |
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| What would it take to support all students and be a part of their academic and social success? How can we advocate for our students? Isn’t education a tool for social justice? Around the world… |
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| Featured Resources |
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| Teaching for Diversity, part of a research project funded by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), shares a valuable list of resources on teaching for diversity in classrooms. |
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For more information on Solution Tree Education Canada
resources and PD, please contact Lori Veres at [email protected]. |
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| Are you an avid reader of professional books for K–12 educators? We are looking for reviewers to provide feedback on new books in development. If you are interested in becoming a reviewer, please let us know by emailing [email protected] |
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