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Creating Caring Classrooms

How to encourage students to communicate, create, and be compassionate of others

by (author) Kathleen Gould Lundy & Larry Swartz

Publisher
Pembroke Publishers
Initial publish date
Nov 2011
Category
Professional Development
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781551382708
    Publish Date
    Nov 2011
    List Price
    $28.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781551388328
    Publish Date
    Nov 2011
    List Price
    $25.95

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This passionate book is about community, compassion, and creativity; it is about caring for others. It is also about helping students care about their work. Teachers will learn how to establish inclusive classrooms where kindness and concern become crucial backdrops for critical conversations. They will be introduced to simple but profound strategies that initiate and maintain respectful dialogue, promote collaboration over competition, and confront difficult issues such as bullying and exclusion.

Creating Caring Classrooms is committed to building respectful relationships among students, teachers, and the school community. Through active, engaging, relevant, open-ended activities, students will be encouraged to explore events, ideas, themes, texts, stories, and relationships from different perspectives, and then represent those new understandings in innovative and creative ways.

About the authors

Kathleen Gould Lundy has been involved in teaching and the arts for more than 30 years. A popular speaker and education leader, Kathy has worked on the development of curriculum documents and instructional videos on many aspects of literacy and learning. Coordinator of Destination Arts at York University, a joint venture of the Faculty of Education and the Faculty of Fine Arts, she was coordinator of dramatic arts and dance at the Toronto District School Board for many years. She has been involved in the development of ground-breaking educational programs including BOLDPRINT and TIMELINE.

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LARRY SWARTZ is an instructor in literacy as well as dramatic arts at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto. He has been an educator for over thirty-six years and is well known for his use of childrenâ??s literature to help young people grow as readers, writers, and citizens of the world. As a classroom teacher, consultant, author, and speaker, Larry has shared his enthusiasm and expertise with teachers, administrators, teacher-librarians, and parents throughout Canada, the United States, and Asia. He is the author of several teacher resource publications.

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