Professional Development Materials

Classroom Management Resource Manual

This resource manual is over 200 pages long and is not available for sale to the general teaching public. It is exclusively provided to participants of our classroom management seminars, as well as those attending our on-site trainings in schools and districts. The manual offers advanced and effective ideas, strategies, tips, and techniques that can significantly enhance your teaching time and increase your students’ on-task time, while simultaneously reducing stress for both you and your students. Our innovative strategies are designed to create the optimal learning environment that goes beyond traditional discipline methods, and enables you to establish a program that can truly transform your students’ behavior.

Time To Teach® ENC book

Having trained tens of thousands of teachers who teach hundreds of thousands of students, we know that children and adolescents can and will be responsible for their own behavior and for their own learning, but these skills must be taught first. That’s why we have been tirelessly promoting it for over twenty-seven years! This book focuses on proven strategies for teaching important skills to students, evaluating their successes, and certainly focuses on the art of delivering effective consequences when all else fails. Special techniques are outlined for preventing discipline problems and dealing effectively with those that do occur.

Teach-To’s:  100 Behavior Lesson Plans

100 BEHAVIORAL LESSON PLANS AND ESSENTIAL ADVICE. Every educator knows that curriculum and discipline go hand in hand. We easily prepare academic lesson plans – BUT – what about behavioral lesson plans. This book provides 100 behavioral lesson plans for educators (no need to recreate the wheel – it’s been done for you!). The most useful behavior lessons are included which will save educator’s valuable time and energy and which will help your students to know the expectations of your classroom.

Unconditional Positive Regard

Relationships are at the heart of high-performing classrooms, and unconditional positive regard (UPR) is a key strategy used to develop strong, positive relationships. Bringing UPR into classrooms and schools will give teachers more time to teach and students more time to learn. The authors demonstrate how to build a classroom full of respect, empathic understanding, compassion, fairness, trust, patience, and self-control that are all key components of UPR and necessary for authentic, culturally responsive classrooms. The authors also provide doable strategies and activities to implement and nurture each of these components so the teachers can bring unconditional positive regard into their classrooms and the wider school community to enjoy high-performing classrooms.

Time To Teach® ENC Audio Book

This audiobook focuses on proven strategies for teaching important skills to students, evaluating their successes, and certainly focuses on the art of delivering effective consequences when all else fails. Special techniques are outlined for preventing discipline problems and dealing effectively with those that do occur.

Time To Teach® DVD

This DVD includes:  All of the Self-Control strategies you have learned, which will help you “remain calm and respond right” every time. All of the seminar philosophy and strategies, which will help set you and your children up for peak performance. All of the rapport building philosophy and strategies which will help you establish connections with all children, even children who challenge, and which always pay big dividends to the classroom teacher. Also, classroom arrangement ideas! All of the seminar philosophy and strategies which will guarantee that you “stay out of the tornado” and never again find yourself giving multiple warnings and repeated requests. “All of the critically important “what if’s” asked by teachers from around America, and answered by a master educator.

Teachin’ The Blues Away (CD music)

This is a music CD. Teachin’ The Blues Away lyrics were written for the classroom teacher and are riddled with tips, strategies, and ideas – mixed together with Blues music. Vocals are by John Carswell. John has played with Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, and Muddy Waters, to name just a few. It is unique in that we perform and have fun with you and at the same time we also teach you! We celebrate both the challenge and joy of teaching on this VERY UNIQUE product. There is nothing like it.

Student Engagement & Motivation
Resource Manual

100+ pages. This Resource Manual is given only to Differentiated Instruction participants at our trainings. WE DO NOT SELL THIS RESOURCE MANUAL TO THE GENERAL TEACHING PUBLIC. It is given to participants of our Differentiated Instruction seminars and at our on-site trainings conducted in schools and districts. This Resource Manual provides cutting edge ideas, strategies, tips, and easy-to-implement differentiation strategies to address diverse learning needs and promote motivation and a desire to learn in all.
Training Resource Manuals are not for sale online.

Differentiated Instruction: ENC book

Every teacher knows the frustration of trying to reach each student at that student’s appropriate level, just as every student knows the frustration of receiving a lesson that was too easy or too difficult. This book describes Differentiated Instruction strategies proven to make the most of every moment of teaching time and learning time in a way that is simple, fun, engaging, and motivating. These ideas will serve you as you further expand your students’ engagement opportunities and support your students in extending their self-motivation. Included are strategies to promote positive feelings, promote attention and interest, promote connectedness and relevancy, promote self-efficacy, and ideas on how to share these best practices with others!

Differentiated Instruction, ENC Audio Book

This audiobook provides cutting edge ideas, strategies, tips, and easy-to-implement differentiation strategies to address diverse learning needs and promote motivation and a desire to learn in all. Gain tools for promoting positive feelings in the classroom. Discover strategies for stimulating attention and interest. Design lessons that are high on the “meaningful and relevant” meter. Help students build confidence and self-efficacy.

Products, Projects, and Performances
for the 21st Century Science Classroom

Learning science is exciting when differentiated instruction is used. Teachers need these 50 science projects, products, and performance lessons to help engage all learners successfully. Each lesson contains a rubric as well as critical thinking verbs that are specifically used in the lesson. Struggling students will come into class eager to learn if they know they are going to be involved in a hands-on activity that is relevant to their everyday world.

Products, Projects, and Performances
for the 21st Century Social Studies Classroom

This book consists of 50 social studies lessons that make real life application and connect students to their world. In each lesson, a product, project, or performance is completed by each student. A rubric is provided for each lesson as well as the critical thinking verbs that are specifically used in the lesson. The book enables the implementation of differentiated instruction to help ensure successful learning.

Products, Projects, and Performances
for the 21st Century Math Classroom

This book contains real life products, projects, and performances that are extremely helpful in engaging all math learners. Use one of these 50 lessons and watch what happens with even your struggling learners. It’s exciting!! These lessons use differentiated instruction in the classroom and all students are engaged in the learning process. Each lesson has a rubric and identifies the critical thinking verbs that students must use to complete the product, project, or performance.

Products, Projects, and Performances
for the 21st Century ELA Classroom

Is your ELA class engaging? This book contains 57 lessons involving products, projects and performances that are extremely useful in engaging all learners. A rubric is attached for each lesson as well as Bloom’s critical thinking verbs that are used in the lesson. Each lesson uses differentiated instruction to engage students effectively in the learning process.

Products, Projects, and Performances
for Elementary Grades 3, 4, 5

Every math, science, social studies and English classroom needs this book. In this book, there are 50 lessons with rubrics and critical thinking verbs that engage all learners. Eight out of ten students are dominant hands on learners. Many of them struggle daily to sit still, listen, and write down the assignment. This book allows students to use hands on activities to learn the content and to know they have completed the assignment correctly. Each lesson engages students individually.

DICE – Introduce Randomness In Your Classroom!

Instruction Manual with dice ideas for your classroom included. Adding an element of chance and randomness (DICE) into your flow of lessons can greatly increase student participation and attention. You can have students roll to do certain tasks, assign specific tasks you want them to do, or a combination thereof. Remember, the idea is that they will not know when they may be called on and that when their number comes up, the expectation is there for them to participate. Keeping it random prevents your students from getting lax in their attention and sends the very powerful signal that at any time, they are responsible for the information and learning within your classroom. This Polyhedral 7-Die Set with velveteen bag allows you to roll any number at any time!

Safety and Security Habits for Educators

Eric Combs has over twenty years of high-level physical, operational, and tactical military security experience, including counter-terrorism and hostage rescue operations training, in addition to protection proficiency of our nation’s nuclear weapons and presidents. Following his military service to our nation, Eric became a successful master teacher and principal. He was recognized as the Ohio Teacher of the Year, and he was a finalist for the Ohio Assistant Principal of the Year. In this volume, Eric offers state-of-the-art safety and security strategies for you to employ at home, in school, and while out in the community-at-large.