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These resources are now available through the ATA library.
The ATA library has great resources for teachers in print and online. Library staff are happy to mail out whatever you need to wherever you are, and we prepay the return postage for you. Drop us a line at library@ata.ab.ca and let us know how we can help you with your teaching this year.
1. When Kids Lead: An Adult’s Guide to Inspiring, Empowering, and Growing Young Leaders
Taking a different view of students’ capabilities, educator–authors Todd Nesloney and Adam Dovico consider how to develop students’ leadership skills now, before they grow up. They provide guides for teaching these skills and ideas for celebrating leadership in their classrooms.
2. Digital Storytelling in Indigenous Education: A Decolonizing Journey for a Métis Community
Written by a Métis professor in Alberta, this book looks at how education is interwoven into Indigenous survival and how digital storytelling can work in a community-based education project to create stronger ties within the Indigenous community.
3. Next Steps with Academic Conversations: New Ideas for Improving Learning Through Classroom Talk
Jeff Zwiers, an educational researcher, worked closely with teachers to develop ways of altering classroom discussions to improve student learning. He offers practical steps for teachers to take with their students.
4. The Interactive Class: Using Technology to Make Learning More Relevant and Engaging in the Elementary Classroom
In this engaging book, the authors present practical ideas for using technology to make your classroom more interactive for students.
5. Pratiques gagnantes et pédagogie 3.0
Cet ouvrage explique aux enseignants comment augmenter leur efficacité en se concentrant sur les pratiques pédagogiques qui mènent aux meilleurs résultats scolaires. L’auteur présente des exemples concrets de la vie en classe ainsi qu’une vaste gamme d’outils dans le but de réorganiser les pratiques des enseignants.
6. Children and Teenagers Who Set Fires: Why They Do It and How to Help
Author Joanna Foster examines what the research says about why youth set fires and the best practices that have been established to help them stop. She includes many activities and resources that can be used.
7. Brown: What Being Brown in the World Today Means (to Everyone)
This Canadian book examines the people left out of the Black Lives Matter movement but who often experience much of the same discrimination as African Canadians while being on “the cusp of whiteness.”
8. 100 petites leçons pour bien débuter en photo
Guide présentant les notions élémentaires pour s’initier à la pratique de la photographie. Sont abordés les principes fondamentaux de la photo numérique, les techniques et l’aspect esthétique de la prise de vue, le choix des sujets ainsi que la résolution de problèmes courants.
Information provided by ATA librarian Sandra Anderson.
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Andy Funke
I am quite enjoying The Miracle of Mindfulness by Thich Nhat Hanh. It has short chapters with excellent ideas for cultivating mindfulness and peaceful thoughts.
Theresa Davidson
All Things Being Equal: Why Math is the Key to a Better World by John Mighton. This Canadian publication aligns with my perspective as it promotes access for all—how supporting the weakest supports all going forward.
Val Hanson
Anxious People by Fredrik Backman. This is a poignant comedy about a crime that never took place, a would-be bank robber who disappears into thin air, and eight extremely anxious strangers who find they have more in common than they ever imagined.
Charis Crandall
Compassion Fatigue in Schools: A Guide for Counsellors, Administrators and Educators by Alison Dubois and Molly Mistretta. I highly recommend it for educators right now, especially during these crazy pandemic times. Our students are getting more and more complex, and we wear so many hats as teachers. We need support to effectively support our students with complex traumas without burning out.
