Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction
Unit 1: Your Choice of Teaching
1 A “Thank You” in Advance
2 Career Shopping
3 The New Way “You Matter”
4 Extra-Curricular Horsepower: Never-Growing-Up or Always-the-Adult
5 Your Teaching Life
Unit 2: Your Professional Preparation
6 Building Competence and Confidence
7 Things to Borrow; Things to Not
8 Student Brain Surgery
9 Special Education for All Educators
10 Finding the Pearl
Unit 3: Your Classroom
11 Your Domain; Your Show
12 Purpose, Protocol, and Predictability
13 Daily Dignity through Interaction Safety
14 Environmental Gifts for Students
15 Room Décor and Appeal: A Gathering Place
Unit 4: Your Teaching
16 Talent Scouting and Cast Management
17 Differentiated Instruction, Defined
18 Delightfully Different Differentiation
19 Maintaining Classroom Control and Order
20 Organizational Effectiveness through Student Responsibility
Unit 5: Your Students
21 What Students Are Not
22 Who Students Are
23 The Name Game
24 Bringing Their Best Self
25 Discipline as a Teachable Moment
Unit 6: Your Difference Making
26 All Other Duties As Assigned
27 What’s Really Going On
28 The Secret Solution
29 Elder-like Etiquette
30 Doing Difference Differently
Unit 7: Your Workload
31 Work/Life Imbalance
32 The Urgent, the Important, the Both, and the Neither
33 Many Hands Make Light Work
34 Avoiding the Guilt Trip
35 Being Self-ful
Unit 8: Your Colleagues
36 Cast of Characters
37 When Your Mentor Is Assigned
38 Ways to Coteach Ways to Not
39 When Colleagues Resist New Things
40 Work Friends
Unit 9: Your Superpowers
41 Hero Making for Parents
42 First-Exchange Theory: The Power of the Greeting
43 Thinking on the Fly When Something Needs to Change
44 The Gift of Profanity: Reading Between the F’s
45 Favoring Favorable Feedback
Unit 10: By Special Request
46 Classroom Behavioral Management
47 Relationship Building
48 Lesson Plans that Check All the Boxes
49 Driving School Data: From A to Z
50 From Tools to Techniques
Unit 11: Your Unfinished Business
51 Going Back to School
52 Starting Over, Undefeated
Conclusion
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