Prufrock Press

No matter what form school takes in the coming year, students need resources and lessons that expand their learning and challenge their skills. These great resources offer student-driven learning experiences and build crucial social-emotional skills and timely critical thinking skills.

• Ready-to-Use Resources for Mindsets in the Classroom: Everything Educators Need for Building Growth Mindset Learning Communities provides educators with tools they need to help students change their thinking about their abilities and potential. This updated 2020 edition contains many of the things that schools need to create a growth mindset school culture in which perseverance can lead to success!

• The Interest-Based Learning Coach: A Step-by-Step Playbook for Genius Hour, Passion Projects, and Makerspaces in School features a step-by-step plan for managing Genius Hour, passion projects, Makerspaces, and more. Chapters also include techniques for helping students identify their interests, frame their goals and questions, create project plans and timelines, self-assess their progress, and share their work with real-world audiences.

• Fighting Fake News! Teaching Critical Thinking and Media Literacy in a Digital Age (Grades 4–6) focuses on applying critical thinking skills in digital environments while also helping students and teachers to avoid information overload. With the lessons and activities in this book, students will be challenged to look at the media they encounter daily to learn to deepen and extend their media literacy and critical thinking skills. 

• Ready-to-Use Resources for Genius Hour in the Classroom: Taking Passion Projects to the Next Level provides practical advice and a wealth of hands-on resources for teachers to implement Genius Hour, or passion projects, in the classroom. This book includes everything educators need to help students apply their learning and reach deep understanding.

• Creating Kind and Compassionate Kids: Classroom Activities to Enhance Self-Awareness, Empathy, and Personal Growth in Grades 3–6 offers lessons and activities that promote problem solving and social-emotional learning, allowing students in grades 3–6 to become more aware of themselves and others who share their world. Each lesson teaches vital affective skills, such as empathy, tolerance, compassion, communication, and leadership.