Navigate the hot topic of student engagement with a true expert. The author explores the many factors involved in bringing out the best in students, such as relationships, emotions, environment, and expectations. Become empowered to demand an authentic joy for learning in your classroom. Real-life notes from the field, detailed discussions, practical strategies, and space for reflection complete this essential guide to student engagement. Benefits: Gain practical strategies for increasing student engagement and achievement. - Learn how to create a safe environment that nurtures confidence. - Find a chapter on cultural awareness by Dr. Bonnie Davis of Educating for Change. Contents: Introduction: Engagement Chapter 1: Relationships Chapter 2: Emotion Chapter 3: Environment Chapter 4: Motivation Chapter 5: Fun Chapter 6: Confidence Chapter 7: Attitudes Chapter 8: Cultural Awareness Chapter 9: Expectations Chapter 10: The Engagement Toolbox Chapter 11: Creativity Chapter 12: Soft Skills "As a teacher-coach and leader in some of our nation s most underserved schools, I've found it increasingly challenging over the past few years for teachers to reconcile what we're rightly held accountable by student academic data and our own intuitive drive to make school engaging, relevant, and fun. Most teachers didn't get into the profession to be data managers they want to be catalysts for students to become life-long learners, civically engaged citizens, and productive human beings. You've Got to Reach Them to Teach Them bridges this divide with practical strategies for connecting, motivating, and challenging students and teachers. Each chapter illuminates another layer of the alchemy going on in great classrooms, distills practical and easily implementable strategies, and provides the teacher with an arsenal of educational fireworks sure to increase engagement and make learning sticky. Our kids need to be prepared, and we need to measure it, but You've Got to Reach Them to Teach Them pushes us to not lose the all-important human factor in our work. I've already provided coaching to teachers with strategies from the book, and we've seen a seismic tone shift in their classrooms. Teachers gush that they feel so happy and that their students are doing better on exit tickets than ever before. This excitement is contagious from student to student, teacher to teacher, and the feeling is palpable in our building. I can't wait to implement this book as a discussion group throughout our entire organization." -- Ron Gubitz , Chief Academic Officer, ReNEW Schools, New Orleans, LA "Wow, what a toolbox for educators. I saw Mary Kim work with my staff and students in an urban high school setting. The strategies she modeled for teachers increased the engagement skills for students. Our building made AYP in Communication Arts the year she worked with us. Kudos to Mary Kim and this valuable work she is sharing with teachers and anyone involved with educating students." -- Linda Collins , Principal, Central High School, Kansas City, MO Mary Kim Schreck is a consultant, coach, and author. She serves as an education consultant for districts across America as well as for the National Writing Project and the National Education Association. Mary Kim also works as a cadre member for Dr. Bonnie Davis Educating for Change. She has published a professional development book, Transformers: Creative Teachers for the 21st Century (2009), and four books of poetry. She has served as editor of Missouri Teachers Write and written articles for national and state education journals. During her thirty-six years as a classroom teacher, Mary Kim taught in a variety of settings. She taught at an all-girls private academy, a small 270-student rural school that served grades 6 through 12, and a public school of over 4,000 students in three grades on a split-shift schedule. She also spent years tutoring for the St. Louis (Missouri) Special School District. She later taught classes at Brown s Business College and served as a literacy coach at Vashon High School, an inner-city school in St. Louis. Most of her teaching career was spent in the Francis Howell School District in St. Charles County, Missouri, a rural school district that was forced to transform into a suburban district within a few years. Mary Kim has taught hundreds of teachers through various workshops, presentations, and consulting opportunities. She has been an instructor for the Literacy Academies, a partnership program between the Missouri National Writing Project and the Missouri state department of education, and for the Beginning Teachers Assistance Program offered through the Missouri National Education Association. Mary Kim lives with her husband, Bernard, at the Lake of the Ozarks in Missouri.