Attention schools, and districts—Contact Origins for discounts on larger orders!
Some of the books available at the Origins Bookstore are particularly useful for middle school educators. The following either are expressly written for them or contain chapters that are focused on young adolescents.
NEW from ORIGINS! The Advisory Book, by Linda Crawford, everything you need for a community-building advisory time including:
• step-by-step guide to two flexible structures for advisory, Activity Plus and The Circle of Power and Respect
• 200+ sample advisories in thematic units
• 200+ greetings, activities, sharing ideas, and daily messages
Teaching Children to Care, by Ruth Sidney Charney, co-founder of the Responsive Classroom approach: written for elementary as well as middle school educators, this book has great insight for helping middle schoolers build self-control.
Yardsticks: Children in the Classroom Ages Four to Fourteen—3rd Edition, by Chip Wood, co-founder of the Responsive Classroom approach, gives valuable information about the social, emotional, language, and physical aspects of young adolescents.
Also, both The Morning Meeting Book, by Roxann Kriete, and Rules in School, by Kathryn Brady, Mary Beth Forton, Deborah Porter, and Chip Wood, have sections on grades 6-8.