Reducing the Risk Increasing the Promise

<p>In their new book Bergmann and Brough provide a clear path to follow for helping your at-risk students achieve success in and out of the classroom. Packed with classroom-tested practical strategies and lesson plans for teaching respect responsibility resilience reading and other essential skills to at-risk students this is a must-have book for educators at all levels. </p><p>Use the plans alone or as part of a unit. Either way the tools for success in this book will help you positively impact the lives of at-risk students every day. Each chapter is dedicated to a different skill and offers easy-to-implement activities and strategies based on achieving success in that essential skill. </p><p>For example: </p><ul> <li>Strategies for establishing positive peer relationships </li> <li>Cooperative treasure hunting for resilience building </li> <li>Keys to structured role-playing for conflict resolution </li> </ul><p>Each chapter includes a component about what parents and caregivers can do to help their at-risk children achieve success and provides a basis for effective communication between educator and parent an important piece of the puzzle often overlooked. </p>