Kristyn Klei Borrero - Every Student, Every Day: A No-Nonsense Nurturer® Approach to Reaching All Learners (No-Nonsense Behavior Management Strategies for the Classroom)

EVERY STUDENT,

EVERY DAY

A NO-NONSENSE NURTURER
APPROACH TO REACHING ALL LEARNERS

KRISTYN KLEI BORRERO

FOREWORD BY LEE CANTER

Copyright 2019 by Kristyn Klei Borrero

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Names: Klei Borrero Kristyn, author.

Title: Every student, every day : a No-Nonsense Nurturer approach to reaching all learners/ Kristyn Klei Borrero.

Description: Bloomington, Indiana : Solution Tree Press, [2018] | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2018020578 | ISBN 9781947604292 (perfect bound)

Subjects: LCSH: Classroom management.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

To the incredible (past and present) team with whom I work at CT3. You inspire and push me every day. Words cant express the gratitude I experience and the pride I feel in the work we do to impact educators and youth every day.

Special thanks to Noah Borrero for his support and mentorship as I wrote this manuscript and to Karen Klei Schlosser for her ideas and inspiration for the cover design of this book.

Solution Tree Press would like to thank the following reviewers:

Daniel Allen

Principal

Sullivan Elementary School

Sullivan, Illinois

Randy King

Assistant Principal

Sam Houston Middle School

Garland, Texas

Dan Westfahl

Principal

Brookfield Elementary School

Brookfield, Wisconsin

Karen Whetsell

Principal

Suncoast Community High School

Riviera Beach, Florida

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

by Lee Center

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

K ristyn Klei Borrero, EdD, is an accomplished educational leader and coach who strives to make a profound difference in the professional lives of educators. Kristyn has committed to improving the education of students in traditionally disenfranchised schools, as a classroom teacher, principal, area superintendent, and cofounder and CEO of the CT3.

Prior to her work with CT3, Kristyn led the research and development of No-Nonsense Nurturer and Real Time Teacher Coaching, widely recognized as two of the most innovative, transformative professional development programs in education. She is also a noted contributor to national education blogs, trade journals, and news media.

As an education leader, Kristyn spent 19962007 spearheading turnaround initiatives for underperforming schools in Oakland and East Palo Alto, California. She propelled schools under her supervision to significantly exceed all state academic benchmarks, organizational fundraising and financial goals, teacher retention rates, and family and student satisfaction ratings.

Kristyn holds a doctorate in education leadership from the University of California, Berkeley.

To learn more about Kristyns work, visit www.ct3education.com.

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FOREWORD

By Lee Canter

I am proud of the work I did with Assertive Discipline, a model that school leadership teams use to establish a schoolwide behavior management program that supports teachers classroom efforts. I am grateful for the many teachers who embrace that work and strive to create classrooms where students achieve. However, I know now that my work with Assertive Discipline is incomplete. This work was necessary to our field, but like everything, the next generation of work builds on the effective practices of what came before and, through innovation, often proves even better.

My opportunity to innovate and work on the No-Nonsense Nurturer model began in 2007 when I met Kristyn Klei Borrero. I was working with a network of urban schools in the Bay Area of California, which were deeply committed to the achievement of traditionally disenfranchised students. Kristyn was one of the eager principals in Oakland, California, I met; at the time, she was completing her doctoral coursework at the University of California, Berkeley. She understood urban youth and critiqued the efficacy of Assertive Discipline in a way that no one else had brought to my attention.

At the insistence of a mutual good friend and colleague, the two of us collaborated to dig deeper and discover what was missing from my previous classroom management work. Together, we found that the biggest pieces missing lived in the area of what we call life-altering relationships, specifically how teachers and students communicate with one another and how they work together in the classroom to create authentic engagement.

The No-Nonsense Nurturer model is the result of our collaboration and subsequent research, having observed hundreds of classrooms and engaged in interviews with endless educators, family members, and students (Klei Borrero & Canter, 2018). This book, Every Student, Every Day, is Kristyns review of what the highest-achieving teachers use to set up classrooms for success, rigor, and caring in culturally relevant ways. This body of work serves students in urban, rural, and suburban schools.

I am proud of cofounding CT3, and since I retired, I am proud of how the work has grown. I am also proud of the countless educators this work has supported and will continue to support. Confidently, I can say that I leave you in great hands. I hope you learn as much as I did on my journey with CT3 and the work of No-Nonsense Nurturers. You deserve the best professional developmentand your students deserve the best from you.

INTRODUCTION

The Need for No-Nonsense Nurturers

Necessity is the mother of invention.

Plato

I n my travels as an educational consultant and executive coach, I am constantly reminded of a reality that all too many educators face. While many are well prepared in curriculum, most are not prepared to handle classroom management or support the academic culture necessary for all students to succeed. Teachers spend years studying at universities to learn how to effectively prepare lessons and reach students through content. Yet all that time and expense is potentially meaningless if students dont see your classroom as a culture of high expectations deeply embedded with a relentless belief in what is possible for them.