Reclaiming Our Students: Why Children Are More Anxious, Aggressive, and Shut Down Than Ever--And What We Can Do about It, Beach Hannah, Strijack Tamara

Hannah Beach, a celebrated educator and specialist in the field of emotional health, and Tamara Neufeld Strijack, Clinical Counsellor and Academic Dean of the acclaimed Neufeld Institute, provide a thoughtful guide to restoring the student-teacher relationship and creating the conditions for change. Reclaiming Our Students arms teachers with strategies to reassert their leadership role and build emotional safety in the classroom. The result: students can get back to learning, and teachers can get back to teaching

Youll learn:
- How to build, feed, and protect the student-teacher relationship
- Why children are anxious or bossy, aggressive or checked out, and what teachers can do to address these behavioral issues at their root
- How you can help students and classes shift their identity as the problem student or bad class
- Experiential activities for students of all ages that preserve and restore emotional health and well-being

Plus, youll find special considerations and information for parents, principals, counsellors, and home educators for building safety and support in the learning environment.

Combining Hannahs groundbreaking experiential approach to creating emotional health and community in the classroom with the Neufeld Institutes insightful approach to building relationships and making sense of children, Reclaiming Our Students is required reading for teachers who not only want to understand and overcome daily challenges, but also re-connect to their calling as educators.