Veteran educator and author Elizabeth Stein offers a thoughtful, useful book on how to integrate restorative practices into the classroom experience to both streamline student behavior and improve learning and engagement. When teachers recognize the ‘in between spaces’ during the day-to-day, they offer students safe, inviting ways to own their learning and participate in an engaged community of learners. By highlighting the Universal Design for Learning framework, Stein’s book is both insightful and practical, offering busy educators easy-to-implement strategies to humanize classroom management and improve student learning.
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Introduction: The Context
Chapter 1: Understanding Brain Basics to Humanize the Learning Environment .
Chapter 2: Discovering Liminal Spaces With Universal Design for Learning
Chapter 3: Integrating Restorative Practices and UDL to Humanize Classroom Management
Chapter 4: Sharpening Your Communication to Bolster Restorative Practices in Your Classroom
Chapter 5: Ramping Up Learning With Restorative Circles and Impromptu Conferences
Author’s Note for YOUR Possible Next Steps
References
Index
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Sobre el autor
Elizabeth Stein, Ed D, has been a special education teacher, instructional coach, and educational consultant for more than 30 years, specializing in universal design for learning (UDL), and co-taught inclusive practices. She is an adjunct professor at Stony Brook University, New York. Elizabeth is a renewed National Board Certified Teacher (NBCT) in literacy and the author of Two Teachers in the Room: Strategies for Co-teaching Success (Routledge, 2017) and other publications.