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Teachers come to teaching because of students. They genuinely want to serve both student learning and development. But they often do not know what best serves learning and development. And they often don’t know where the “land mines” are that will undermine their best intentions. They don’t know how to “teach around the rat!” or even that they are supposed to.
This book is based on decades of experience successfully teaching and mentoring educators as well as consulting with schools in the U.S., Europe and Asia. Many of those schools and districts have earned national and international recognition for both academic achievement and student development. More importantly, based on Marvin’s insights and support, thousands of educators have rediscovered the true reason why they went into education—because they loved children and knew how to “teach through or, at least, around a rat!”
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Dr. Marvin W. Berkowitz is the inaugural Sanford N. McDonnell Endowed Professor of Character Education and Co-Director of the Center for Character and Citizenship at the University of Missouri– St. Louis. He is the author of over 100 scholarly publications. He has received many awards including the Sanford N. McDonnell Lifetime Achievement Award from the Character Education Partnership (2006),and the University of Missouri System’s Thomas Jefferson Professorship (2011). He is co-founder of ComedySportz, a nationally franchised improvisational comedy show, and has co-written the play “Chuck, Bob, and Louie” which won best of show at the 1994 Milwaukee Festival of Ten Minute Plays.
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Relationships + Rules + Routines = Results is a rather simple book with profound implications
for your career as an educator, regardless of your position in education. This book is about four foundational ideas. These ideas are: 1) positive relationships with all stakeholders combined with the development of, 2) rules that act as expectations and require us to develop, 3) routines with the input of our students and other stakeholders that yields, 4) results in your school across the curriculum as well as throughout all other areas in the life of the school. Or another way to think about this is the formula: Relationships + Rules + Routines = Results The formula is simple, but the ideas within the book will not be simplistic. We will ask you to think and re-think your assumptions about what kind of climate you want to work in so that you and your students can flourish during the school year.
Dr. Philip Vincent has worked in education for forty years. During that time he has traveled extensively in the United States and Canada working with educators on character education, social development, building the civil school and developing relationships and routines within the school environment. He is the author, co-author or editor of over 30 books. He has also authored and been a director on numerous federal research grants. During Phil’s career he taught K-12 and was a site and central office administrator. He was the recipient of Sanford N, McDonnell Lifetime Achievement Award from the Character Education Partnership in 2007 and has been honored by Canada for his contributions to their character education efforts.
Dr. Doug Grove is a professor with an extensive background in Educational Leadership, Research Design and Methodology. As a respected professor, Grove has taught courses on classroom assessment, statistics, research design and accountability in education. Grove is well respected from coast to coast for providing outcome and process evaluation services to local and state education agencies. Dr. Grove has taught English, business, and physical education in public and private school settings. He has worked as a high school vice principal, the coordinator of a county office assessment unit, and school board member. Doug, with Phil and Michael Corrigan are co-authors of, Multi-Dimensional Education: A Common Sense Approach to Data Driven Thinking on Corwin/Sage Press.
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