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The Origins bookstore offers a range of products--books, music CDs, DVDs of classrooms in action, professional development guide--to support educators as they implement the Responsive Classroom and Developmental Designs approaches in their schools. View all available grades K-9 publications, or filter by elementary or middle level. Search for what you need with keywords or through the topics provided--Advisory, Morning Meeting, Rule Breaking, etc.

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Resources for Building Advisory

Study together and create site-based professional development. Lean on these three resources, carefully designed to help middle-level educators create an effective, school-wide advisory program.

Advisory Book, The REVISED EDITION

Advisory Book Study Guide

Circle of Power and Respect Advisory Meeting, DVD

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For Middle Level • 4-8

Kids' Guide to Working Out Conflicts (Leader's Guide), The

by Naomi Drew

$21.99

Kids' Guide to Working Out Conflicts (Leader's Guide) book cover

For Elementary • K-6

Learning Through Academic Choice

by Paula Denton

$24.00

For Middle Level & Elementary • K-8

Light in Their Eyes, The

Creating Multicultural Learning Communities

by Sonia Nieto

$26.95

For Middle Level & Elementary • K-8

Lively Learning

Using the Arts to Teach the K-8 Curriculum

by Linda Crawford

$24.00

For Elementary • 3-6

Making Big Words

Multilevel, Hands-On Spelling and Phonics Activities

by Patricia M. Cunningham

$16.99

For Elementary • K-3

Making Words

Multilevel, Hands-On, Developmentally Appropriate Spelling and Phonics Activities

by Patricia M. Cunningham

$14.99

For Elementary • K-5

Morning Meeting Book, The

by Roxann Kriete

$24.00

For Elementary • K-6

Morning Meeting Messages

180 Sample Charts from Three Classrooms

by Rosalea S. Fisher, Eric Henry and Deborah Porter

$26.00

For Elementary • K-3

Nobody Owns the Sky

The Story of "Brave Bessie" Colman

by Reeve Lindbergh and Pamela Paparone

For use with creating Hopes and Dreams and goal setting: Bessie Coleman was able to accomplish her dream of becoming a pilot despite many obstacles.

$6.99

For Elementary • K-6

Off to a Good Start

Launching the School Year

by Northeast Foundation for Children

$12.00

Elementary

For Elementary • K-6

Shake It to the One that You Love the Best (from Black Musical Traditions), CD/Book Set

by Cheryl Warren Mattox

$22.00

Shake It to the One that You Love CD/Book cover

For Elementary • K-6

Solving Thorny Behavior Problems

How Teachers and Students Can Work Together

by Caltha Crowe

$27.00

Solving Thorny Behavior Problems book cover

For Elementary • K-6

Talk It Out

Conflict Resolution in the Elementary Classroom

by Barbara Porro

$22.95

For Elementary • K-8

Teaching Children to Care

Classroom Management for Ethical and Academic Growth, K-8

by Ruth Sidney Charney

$32.00

For Elementary • K-6

Teasing, Tattling, Defiance and More

Positive Approaches to 10 Common Classroom Behaviors

by Margaret Berry Wilson

$24.00

For Middle Level & Elementary • K-9

Theater Games for the Classroom

A Teacher's Handbook

by Viola Spolin

$24.95

Theater Games for the Classroom book cover

For Middle Level & Elementary • K-8

Time to Teach, Time to Learn

Changing the Pace of School

by Chip Wood

$24.00

For Elementary • K-2

Transition Time

Let's Do Something Different

by Jean Feldman

$19.95

For Middle Level & Elementary • K-8

Uncle Jed's Barbershop

by Margaree King Mitchell and James Ransome

For use with creating Hopes and Dreams and goal setting: Despite many setbacks, Uncle Jed perseveres and is able to realize his dream of owning a barbershop.

$7.99

For Elementary • K-6

Ways We Want Our Class to Be

Class Meetings That Build Commitment to Kindness and Learning

by Ideas from the Child Development Project

$25.00

Middle Level

For Middle Level • 7th Grade

Child Development Pamphlet – 7TH GRADERS en Español

Ages 11, 12, & 13

by Northeast Fdtn. for Children

Package of 30

$18.00

Child Development Pamphlet: 7th Graders en Español cover

For Middle Level • 8th Grade

Child Development Pamphlet – 8TH GRADERS en Español

Ages 12, 13, & 14

by Northeast Fdtn. for Children

Package of 30

$18.00

Child Development Pamphlet: 8th Graders en Español cover

For Middle Level & Elementary • 6th Grade

Child Development Pamphlets – 6TH GRADERS

Ages 10, 11, and 12

by Northeast Fdtn. for Children

Talking points to share with families during conferences. Charts social, cognitive, and physical growth of sixth graders in a conversational way.
Package of 30

$18.00

Child Development Pamphlet: 6th Graders cover

For Middle Level • 7th Grade

Child Development Pamphlets – 7TH GRADERS

Ages 11, 12, and 13

by Northeast Fdtn. for Children

Talking points to share with families during conferences. Charts social, cognitive, and physical growth of seventh graders in a conversational way.
Package of 30

$18.00

Child Development Pamphlet: 7th Graders cover

For Middle Level • 8th Grade

Child Development Pamphlets – 8TH GRADERS

Ages 12, 13, and 14

by Northeast Fdtn. for Children

Talking points to share with families during conferences. Charts social, cognitive, and physical growth of eighth graders in a conversational way.
Package of 30

$18.00