Hack Learning

As questions and mysteries around project-based learning and inquiry continue to swirl, experienced classroom teachers and school administrators Ross Cooper and Erin Murphy have written a book that will empower those intimidated by PBL to cry, "I can do this!" while at the same time providing added value for those who are already familiar with the process. Hacking Project Based Learning demystifies what PBL is all about with ten hacks that construct a simple path that educators and students can easily follow to achieve success. Hacking Project Based Learning provides a simple blueprint for PBL that helps you: • Establish a culture of inquiry and creativity in your classroom • Teach the kind of collaboration skills that harness dissonance • Turn High Impact Takeaways (HITs) into a project based plan • Create Umbrella questions that drive the project • Build a Progress Assessment Tool (PAT) that helps students inform and assess their learning • Use formative assessment throughout the entire PBL experience • Seamlessly integrate direct instruction to enhances the process, rather than interfere with it • Practice the patience that inspires a productive struggle, which leads to better understanding • Teach and embrace reflection during and at the end of the project • and Publish work the right way, so all stakeholders can see it.

Classroom management is never a problem for the teachers they make movies about! Want a class like theirs, no matter what grade or subject you teach or how many students you have? Learn the ten ideas you can use today to create the classroom any great movie teacher would love. Utah English Teacher of the Year and sought-after speaker Mike Roberts brings you ten quick and easy classroom management hacks that will make your classroom the place to be for all your students. He shows you how to create an amazing learning environment that actually makes discipline, rules, and consequences obsolete, no matter if you're a new teacher or a thirty-year veteran teacher. Teachers they make movies about are innovative, engaging, and beloved. Hacking Classroom Management is about putting the F word-FUN-into your teaching, and Mike Roberts shows you how to do this, while meeting your standards and teaching your curriculum. Hacking Classroom Management shows you how to build lasting relationships with your students, maximize teaching time, reduce behavior issues, enhance student ownership, and improve parental involvement.

Are you or your teachers frustrated with carrots and sticks, detention rooms, and suspension-antiquated school discipline practices that simply do not work with the students entering our classrooms today? Our kids have complex needs, and we must empower and embrace them with restorative practices that not only change behaviors but transform students into productive citizens, accountable for their own actions. In a book that should become your new blueprint for school discipline, teachers, presenters, and school leaders Nathan Maynard and Brad Weinstein demonstrate how to eliminate punishment and build a culture of responsible students and independent learners. In Hacking School Discipline, you learn to: • Reduce repeated negative behaviors • Build student self-regulation and empathy • Enhance communication and collaboration • Identify the true cause of negative behaviors • Use restorative circles to reflect on behaviors and discuss impactful change

In Hacking Leadership, award-winning school administrators Joe Sanfelippo and Tony Sinanis demonstrate how to increase learning by leaving the office and engaging directly with all teachers and learners. They identify ten problems with school leadership and provide dynamic, right-now solutions. During this exciting journey toward change, you learn how to: • Transform yourself from leader to Lead Learner • Amplify individual staff needs while maintaining a collaborative vision • Employ unique strategies to break down the walls between home and school • Empower students and staff to own their space • Create a culture where "Yes" and "Trust" are the default • And more