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.
“For all those well-intentioned, overextended, content-oriented teachers who say ‘I don’t have time for this,’ keep in mind that it is impossible to ignore, because the human element is always there.”
Thank you LibraryThing for the advanced readers copy! The content of the book is definitely aimed more towards general education, middle & high school teachers. The book offers good reminders and a broad overview of best practices and UDL principles reviewed in teacher education programs.