Reach Before You Teach

<em></em><p><strong><em>Direct connection with students’ unique identities is the key to teaching them.</em></strong></p><p>Every student possesses a distinct combination of strengths and insecurities that will not respond to a one-size-fits-all teaching method. <em>Reach Before You Teach</em> shows educators how to form the nurturing individualized connections that make students feel worthy fulfilled and ready to flourish as learners.</p><p>The book details:</p><ul> <li>Practical empowering information about how a sense of self comes to be and what threatens it.</li> <li>Interventions that soften the myriad defenses students develop to protect themselves.</li> <li>How to address the often-overlooked connections between physical social and emotional health and classroom performance.</li></ul>