WARNING: If You Want To Reach Distant, Disengaged Students During COVID 19 (even if you think Distance Learning has ruined education) - Read This Entire Book Right Now!Do you want to be a life-changing educator?Do you want to inspire your students to succeed in school?Would you be ecstatic if all of your students cared about school and were fully engaged?Right now, many educators are frustrated by the fact that students are not logging in or showing up to school, and they are asking, "How can I reach and teach my students during COVID?" This book answers that question. Secrets Every Teacher Must Know About Teaching During COVID makes it easier to connect with students, inspire them to succeed, and know that your work as a teacher really matters!

Do you have students who need extra social and emotional help? Do you want to reach Black, Brown, and other traumatized students living in poverty? Do you want to inspire your most underperforming students to succeed in school? THEN GET THIS BOOK! Reflecting on how educators helped him overcome his challenging background of growing up in poverty amidst gang violence in Long Beach, California, in an unstable home with abuse, alcoholism, and drug addiction; thinking critically about his dissertation research on Intercultural Competence; and, most importantly, examining his 20+ years of working with students in 49 states over the last 20+ years, Manny Scott teaches you 40 secrets -principles and strategies- to reach, teach, and empower even your most underperforming students in a diverse, digital world. You will learn: *Proven principles, strategies, frameworks, and understand why they are effective.*Specific tactics you can use with your students.*Real-life examples and case studies of how the principles, strategies, and tactics have worked with real students.You will also learn how to: *Develop in-depth understandings of your students across cultural, racial, political, and religious lines.*Develop awareness of how you have culturally been shaped in order to understand how your students, parents, and colleagues might misunderstand you.*Design and teach lessons that capture and keep the attention of even your most difficult, disengaged students.*Persuade your students to take proactive steps to take responsibility for their success, improve their grades and the overall quality of their lives.*Create an entire curriculum customized to your students.*And much more!You can see over 100 video testimonials on Manny Scott's Youtube channel from superintendents, principals, and teachers who confirm the power of the secrets shared in this book. Don't wait until it's too late to reach your struggling students. Get Teacher Secrets toda

Tap the power of digital learning! In today’s digital world, distance and cultural differences are inconsequential. Technology empowers students and provides them with unlimited resources and opportunities. With this easy guide, you’ll learn the five essential skills to transform students into global learners: Creating and sharing digital information Using social media Digital publishing Building a personal learning network Using aggregators to create, maintain, and share content Loaded with tips and examples for using PLNs, Facebook, Twitter, Skype, YouTube, Jing, and other essential tools, this breakthrough guide to incredible learning opportunities will keep you and your students a step ahead!

Expand classroom experiences and spark student excitement with learning adventures powered by technology! Written by an internationally recognized expert in the field, this second edition of the bestseller provides educators with practical strategies for using technology to "break down" classroom walls and prepare all students to succeed in a digital world. Making the case for technology′s capacity to improve school performance and create communities of best practice, the book demonstrates how appropriate use of computer and Internet technologies enhances students′ critical thinking, research, and problem-solving skills. Equally important, informed use of technology can level the learning field for disadvantaged students and allow children who are disabled to participate more fully in mainstream education. Offering more than 50 Web sites, as well as new resources, realistic lesson ideas, sample activities, more information about online learning, and real-world examples, this timely revision examines: Information literacy Learning in a globally connected community Increased access to information Applications for digital cameras, fax machines, cell phones, and more The relationship between technology expenditures and student achievement Complete with a section on navigating government archives online, this updated edition of Empowering Students With Technology helps students connect instructional content to real life and facilitates their development as independent and collaborative learners.

Personalized Learning: A Guide for Engaging Students with Technology is designed to help educators make sense of the shifting landscape in modern education. While changes may pose significant challenges, they also offer countless opportunities to engage students in meaningful ways to improve their learning outcomes. Personalized learning is the key to engaging students, as teachers are leading the way toward making learning as relevant, rigorous, and meaningful inside school as outside and what kids do outside school: connecting and sharing online, and engaging in virtual communities of their own Renowned author of the Heck: Where the Bad Kids Go series, Dale Basye, and award winning educator Peggy Grant, provide a go-to tool available to every teacher today—technology as a way to ‘personalize’ the education experience for every student, enabling students to learn at their various paces and in the way most appropriate to their learning styles.

How can we understand God's work in a world permeated with evil? Narrating her own wrestling with evil as well as engaging in biblical and philosophical analysis, biblical scholar Ingrid Faro explores the many dimensions to evil in a way that is soberly honest, biblically engaged, and theologically nuanced.

Facebook, Twitter, Google...today's tech-savvy students are always plugged in. However, all too often their teachers and administrators aren't experienced in the use of these familiar digital tools. If schools are to prepare students for the future, administrators and educators must harness the power of digital technologies and social media. With contributions from authorities on the topic of educational technology, What School Leaders Need to Know About Digital Technologies and Social Media is a compendium of the most useful tools for any education setting. Throughout the book, experts including Will Richardson, Vicki Davis, Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach, Richard Byrne, Joyce Valenza, and many others explain how administrators and teachers can best integrate technology into schools, helping to make sense of the often-confusing world of social media and digital tools. They offer the most current information for the educational use of blogs, wikis and podcasts, online learning, open-source courseware, educational gaming, social networking, online mind mapping, mobile phones, and more, and include examples of these methods currently at work in schools. As the book clearly illustrates, when these tools are combined with thoughtful and deliberate pedagogical practice, it can create a transformative experience for students, educators, and administrators alike. What School Leaders Need to Know About Digital Technologies and Social Media reveals the power of information technology and social networks in the classroom and throughout the education community.