Nick Duda 
The Modern Teacher’s Handbook [EPUB ebook] 
Your Ultimate Guide to Success in Education

• Foreword by Kristina Davis Salazar


• Introduction


• Who can benefit from this book?


• What type of student was I?


• The teachers that believed in me


• No room for politics in the classroom


• Part 1: The Duda Model for Modern Education


• Make Connections


• Be Mindful


• Unconditional support


• Promote a growth mindset


• Social-Emotional Learning and Character Education


• The Duda Model for Modern Education Summary


• Part 2: Lessons learned in my career


• Pat yourself on the back


• Professional Development


• Try to understand the administration’s intentions


• Align yourself to Danielson


• Integrate the ISTE standards


• Whenever possible, don’t teach – facilitate


• Market yourself


• Lessons learned with students


• Classroom Management


• The Teaching Career


• Professional Responsibilities


• Take care of yourself


• It’s okay to not stay in education


• Part 3: Techniques to positively navigate school and classroom dynamics


• Fundamental techniques in handling people


• Six ways to make your students and coworkers like you


• Win people to your way of thinking


• Be a leader


• The takeaway


• Suggested


• Works cited


• Acknowledgements

Kristina Davis is currently the Superintendent in West Chicago District 33. West Chicago District 33 is a suburban school district situated 30 miles west of Chicago in Du Page County. It serves 4, 500 students in grades Pre K-8. Although West Chicago D33 is located in the third most affluent county in Illinois, it is over 74 percent low-income. As of 2019, 81 percent of the district’s population is Hispanic, with over 54 percent of the students designated as English Language Learners. Over the past 12 years, Kristina has overseen D33’s Prek-8th grade curriculum and instructional programs as well as assessment and accountability systems. Kristina’s educational career began 20 years ago as the first bilingual teacher in an Illinois farming community of migrant workers. In 2003, she started her administrative career as a principal and district administrator in the third largest district in Illinois. In 2009, she was hired in West Chicago as the Director of Second Language Learning and then assumed the role of Assistant Superintendent. Since then she has been involved in numerous initiatives that have promoted equity and helped to expand programming for a diverse community of learners. She did this through professional development for building administration around systems for improvement that focus on teaming and data-driven action plans at all levels of the organization. She also did this by tailoring programs to meet the needs of the diverse population of learners. More recently, District she was involved in strategic planning as well as successful collective bargaining. She also worked with her team to expand the gifted program to include more students, rolled out full-day kindergarten, and expanded the dual language program district-wide. Over the past couple of years, the expansion of the dual-language program has flourished into an amazing cultural arts program that now boasts a ballet foklórico dance troupe, mariachi band, and student art gallery that is becoming well-known in the area. This has dramatically increased student involvement and parent engagement among families. She supported these growing initiatives through the professional development of staff, and parent and community engagement. She credits the amazing teachers and administrative colleagues that she has worked with and grown from for the success of these initiatives. Kristina has two children, Alexandra and Joshua who have recently graduated from college and are living currently living in St. Charles, Illinois with her husband, Pete, and two dogs.