Faye Brownlie – författare

A practical and timely revision, Learning in Safe Schools offers the tools teachers need for building inclusive schools, from establishing a schoolwide code of conduct to creating, enforcing, and supporting a behavior plan. Grounded in the concept that choice for students in both learning and assessment is critical, this completely updated resource offers ideas for planning and adapting curriculum for a wide range of students and encourages strategies that build collaborative learning with examples of effective approaches to problem solving. Learning in Safe Schools includes resource models, class reviews, adaptations, and activities that will help teachers create safer classrooms where all students feel they belong.

Classrooms are richer, more vibrant learning spaces when all students are included. Although a diverse group of students may pose challenges, teachers can overcome these challenges and invite all students to become engaged learners, both academically and socially.  Student Diversity presents many examples of teachers working together to improve their teaching practice—from the primary and early years to middle school and the secondary years. It offers insights into all aspects of literacy instruction along with frameworks for successfully integrating mathematics and other subject areas into powerful learning opportunities.

Grand Conversations, Thoughtful Responses is built upon the premise that all students can become active, independent, thoughtful readers. The structures and strategies in this book are proven to help students develop confidence and competence in their reading. Student engagement with text soars through participation in grand conversations with peers and reflecting on reading with thoughtful, written responses. This unique approach includes:student choice in booksstudents reading at their own pace, thus creating flexible groupsliterature circles where students discuss the shared text they are readingstrategies for teaching written responsestrategies for co-creating assessment criteriaadditional activities to develop and deepen comprehensionbook listsThis new edition has been expanded to include examples and book lists for grades K to 12.

How can we help students develop the thinking skills they need to be successful learners? How does this relate to deep learning of important concepts? How can we engage and support diverse learners in inclusive classrooms where they develop understanding and thinking skills?In this book, Faye and Leyton explore these questions and offer classroom examples to help busy teachers develop communities where all students learn. This book is written by two experienced educators who offer a welcoming and “can do” approach to the big ideas in education today. In this book, you will find: insightful ways to teach diverse learners, e.g., literature and information circles, open-ended strategies, cooperative learning, inquiry curriculum design frameworks, e.g., universal design for learning (UDL) and backward design assessment for, of, and as learninglessons to help students develop deep learning and thinking skills in English, Social Studies, and Humanitiesexcellent examples of theory and practice made accessible real school examples of collaboration — teachers working together to create better learning opportunities for their students

In this second volume of It’s All About Thinking, the authors focus their expertise on the disciplines of mathematics and science, translating principles into practices that help other educators with their students. How can we help students develop the thinking skills they need to become successful learners? How does this relate to deep learning of important concepts in mathematics and science? How can we engage and support diverse learners in inclusive classrooms where they develop understanding and thinking skills?In this book, Faye, Leyton and Carole explore these questions and offer classroom examples to help busy teachers develop communities where all students learn. This book is written by three experienced educators who offer a welcoming and “can-do” approach to the big ideas in math and science education today. In this book you will find:insightful ways to teach diverse learners (Information circles, open-ended strategies, inquiry, manipulatives and models)lessons crafted using curriculum design frameworks (udl and backwards design)assessment for, as, and of learningfully fleshed-out lessons and lesson sequences inductive teaching to help students develop deep learning and thinking skills in Math and Scienceassessment tools (and student samples) for concepts drawn from learning outcomes in Math and Science curriculaexcellent examples of theory and practice made accessible real school examples of collaboration — teachers working together to create better learning opportunities for their students.