Hope King - The Wild Card : 7 Steps to an Educators Creative Breakthrough.

Every day, students in schools around the world ask the question, When am I ever going to use this in real life? In Instant Relevance, author and keynote speaker Denis Sheeran equips you to create engaging lessons from experiences and events that matter to your students. Learn how to help your students see meaningful connections between the real world and what they learn in the classroombecause thats when learning sticks.

Teach Like a PIRATE is the New York Times best-selling book that has sparked a worldwide educational revolution. It is part inspirational manifesto that ignites passion for the profession and part practical road map, filled with dynamic strategies to dramatically increase student engagement. Translated into multiple languages, its message resonates with educators who want to design outrageously creative lessons and transform school into a life-changing experience for students.

Todays job market demands that students be prepared to take responsibility for their lives and careers. We do them a disservice if we teach them how to earn passing grades without equipping them to take charge of their education. In Learn Like a Pirate, Paul Solarz explains how to design classroom experiences that encourage students to take risks and explore their passions in a stimulating, motivating, and supportive environment where improvement, rather than grades, is the focus. Discover how student-led classrooms help students thrive and develop into self-directed, confident citizens who are capable of making smart, responsible decisions, all on their own.

Teaching is an adventure that stretches the imagination and calls for creativity every day! In P is for Pirate, husband and wife team, Dave and Shelley Burgess, encourage and inspire educators to make their classrooms fun and exciting places to learn. Tapping into years of personal experience and drawing on the insights of more than seventy educators, the authors offer a wealth of ideas for making learning and teaching more fulfilling than ever before.

Yes! School can be simultaneously fun and educational. In Play Like a Pirate, Quinn Rollins offers practical, engaging strategies and resources that make it easy to integrate fun into your curriculum. Regardless of the grade level you teach, youll find inspiration and ideas that will help you engage your students in unforgettable ways.

Are you ready to transform your classroom into an experiential world that flourishes on collaboration and creativity? Then set sail with classroom game designer and educator, Michael Matera, as he reveals the possibilities and power of game-based learning. In eXPlore Like a Pirate, Matera serves as your experienced guide to help you apply the most motivational techniques of gameplay to your classroom. Youll learn gamification strategies that will work with and enhance (rather than replace) your current curriculum and discover how these engaging methods can be applied to any grade level or subject.

For far too long, schools have been bastions of boredom, killers of creativity, and way too comfortable with compliance and conformity. In PureGenius, Don Wettrick explains how collaboration with experts, students, and other educators can help you create interesting, and even life-changing, opportunities for learning. Wettricks book inspires and equips educators with a systematic blueprint for teaching innovation in any school.

Teachers have incredible power to influence, even improve, the future. In The Zen Teacher, educator, blogger, and speaker, Dan Tricarico, provides practical, easy-to-use techniques to help teachers be their best unrushed and fully focused so they can maximize their performance and improve their quality of life. In this introductory guide, Dan Tricarico explains what it means to develop a Zen practice something that has nothing to do with religion and everything to do with your ability to thrive in the classroom.