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Cover
Half Title
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: I Hate School and I'm Not Wild About You Either
These Kids Don't Care
The Masks Kids Wear
The Mask of the Class Clown
The Mask of Minimal Effort
The Mask of Invisibility
When Am I Fully Engaged?
Circles of Engagement: Behavioral, Emotional, and Cognitive
What Comes First?
Back to Our Big Questions
Chapter 2: Wedgies, Drunken Bears, and the Stress of Shortsighted Planning
Trust Them to Think
Our Big Questions
Planning Ahead to Keep from Getting Behind
Winging Workshop
Thinking About the Long and Short of It: Long-Term Planning that Guides the Day-to-Day Work
Curriculum Is More Than the "Stuff" We Teach
CYA Structures: Harnessing the Power of the Six Ts: Topic, Tasks, Targets, Text, Tend to Me, and Time
The Six Ts Organized by Small Bites: Topic, Tasks, Targets, Text, Tend to Me, and Time
Long-Term Planning Components that Remove the Masks
Chapter 3: The Masks of Anger and Apathy
The Mask of Anger
The Mask of Apathy
Teacher as Chief Connector
Connecting Kids to Content
Connecting Students to Each Other
Connections to Text
What Works Best to Connect Kids to Text?
Where Do I Find Text That Kids Will Read?
Connections Affect Anger and Apathy
What Works? Five CYA Strategies That Help Students Take Off the Masks of Anger and Apathy
Chapter 4: The Mask of the Class Clown
Why Text Matters
Tending to Text Selection
Tending to Topics
Who Cares About the Rock Cycle?
Rodderick and the Rocks
Fifty-Two Stories High
What Makes a Topic Compelling?
I Don't Want to Get Political
Why Controversy Matters
The View from the Street
What Works? Five CYA Strategies That Help Students Put Away Their Class Clown Mask.
Chapter 5: The Mask of Minimal Effort
If Only I Could Read My Teacher's Mind
Showing What Success Looks Like by Analyzing a Model
Authentic Artifacts and Mentors: Meet the Guest Teacher
Working Smarter, Not Harder, with Learning Targets
The Open Letter Learning Target Rubric
Minilessons Students Need to Keep Going
Real Work: The Need for Audience and Authenticity
What Works? Five CYA Strategies That Remove the Masks of Minimal Eor ff t
Chapter 6: The Mask of Invisibility
Talking Isn't the Only Way to Show Thinking
Making the Invisible Visible
What They Are and What They Aren't
Design Structures That Make Thinksheets Versatile
Eight Go-To Structures for Thinksheets
Provocative Question Reflections
Double-Entry Diaries
Inner Voice Sheets
Synthesis Thinksheets
Exit Tickets
Vocabulary Builders
Silent Reading Thinksheets
Back to the Big Questions
What Works? Five CYA Structures That Help Students Remove the Masks of Invisibility
Chapter 7: When You Care, You Fall More
Teachers Wear Masks, Too
A Last Look at Our Big Questions
The Six Ts Are Our Tools
One Last Story
We Determine the Weather
Appendices
Appendix A: Learning Target Rubrics
Appendix B: Double-Entry Diaries
Appendix C: Inner Voice Sheets
Appendix D: Synthesis Sheets
Appendix E: Vocabulary Builders
Appendix F: Silent Reading Response Sheet
Appendix G: Virtual Background Knowledge Placemats
References.
Half Title
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: I Hate School and I'm Not Wild About You Either
These Kids Don't Care
The Masks Kids Wear
The Mask of the Class Clown
The Mask of Minimal Effort
The Mask of Invisibility
When Am I Fully Engaged?
Circles of Engagement: Behavioral, Emotional, and Cognitive
What Comes First?
Back to Our Big Questions
Chapter 2: Wedgies, Drunken Bears, and the Stress of Shortsighted Planning
Trust Them to Think
Our Big Questions
Planning Ahead to Keep from Getting Behind
Winging Workshop
Thinking About the Long and Short of It: Long-Term Planning that Guides the Day-to-Day Work
Curriculum Is More Than the "Stuff" We Teach
CYA Structures: Harnessing the Power of the Six Ts: Topic, Tasks, Targets, Text, Tend to Me, and Time
The Six Ts Organized by Small Bites: Topic, Tasks, Targets, Text, Tend to Me, and Time
Long-Term Planning Components that Remove the Masks
Chapter 3: The Masks of Anger and Apathy
The Mask of Anger
The Mask of Apathy
Teacher as Chief Connector
Connecting Kids to Content
Connecting Students to Each Other
Connections to Text
What Works Best to Connect Kids to Text?
Where Do I Find Text That Kids Will Read?
Connections Affect Anger and Apathy
What Works? Five CYA Strategies That Help Students Take Off the Masks of Anger and Apathy
Chapter 4: The Mask of the Class Clown
Why Text Matters
Tending to Text Selection
Tending to Topics
Who Cares About the Rock Cycle?
Rodderick and the Rocks
Fifty-Two Stories High
What Makes a Topic Compelling?
I Don't Want to Get Political
Why Controversy Matters
The View from the Street
What Works? Five CYA Strategies That Help Students Put Away Their Class Clown Mask.
Chapter 5: The Mask of Minimal Effort
If Only I Could Read My Teacher's Mind
Showing What Success Looks Like by Analyzing a Model
Authentic Artifacts and Mentors: Meet the Guest Teacher
Working Smarter, Not Harder, with Learning Targets
The Open Letter Learning Target Rubric
Minilessons Students Need to Keep Going
Real Work: The Need for Audience and Authenticity
What Works? Five CYA Strategies That Remove the Masks of Minimal Eor ff t
Chapter 6: The Mask of Invisibility
Talking Isn't the Only Way to Show Thinking
Making the Invisible Visible
What They Are and What They Aren't
Design Structures That Make Thinksheets Versatile
Eight Go-To Structures for Thinksheets
Provocative Question Reflections
Double-Entry Diaries
Inner Voice Sheets
Synthesis Thinksheets
Exit Tickets
Vocabulary Builders
Silent Reading Thinksheets
Back to the Big Questions
What Works? Five CYA Structures That Help Students Remove the Masks of Invisibility
Chapter 7: When You Care, You Fall More
Teachers Wear Masks, Too
A Last Look at Our Big Questions
The Six Ts Are Our Tools
One Last Story
We Determine the Weather
Appendices
Appendix A: Learning Target Rubrics
Appendix B: Double-Entry Diaries
Appendix C: Inner Voice Sheets
Appendix D: Synthesis Sheets
Appendix E: Vocabulary Builders
Appendix F: Silent Reading Response Sheet
Appendix G: Virtual Background Knowledge Placemats
References.