All Products by M. Colleen Cruz

Trauma-Responsive Pedagogy

Nell K Duke , Arlène Elizabeth Casimir , M. Colleen Cruz , Courtney N. Baker

Pub Date: 3/12/2024
Product Type: Paperback
Grade: K-8th

Trauma and adversity are increasingly common experiences for students and educators, with growing poverty, income inequality, social injustice, institutional inequity, and the global pandemic worsening the situation. Now more children are attending school while experiencing significant chronic and acute stressors. What can educators... more

Trauma Responsive Pedagogy (Audiobook)

Nell K Duke , Arlène Elizabeth Casimir , M. Colleen Cruz , Courtney N. Baker

Pub Date: 2/22/2024
Product Type: Audiobook
Grade: K-8th

Trauma and adversity are increasingly common experiences for students and educators, with growing poverty, income inequality, social injustice, institutional inequity, and the global pandemic worsening the situation. Now more children are attending school while experiencing significant chronic and acute stressors. What can educators... more

Tuned-In Teaching

Nell K Duke , Antero Garcia , M. Colleen Cruz , Ernest Morrell

Pub Date: 4/25/2022
Product Type: Paperback
Grade: 6th-12th

Does your classroom ever feel stuck, or out-of-tune? Meaningful teaching is something educators strive for each day. Educators also know that there is no such thing as a perfect classroom. Despite our best intentions, our classrooms sometimes feel like they’re stuck, or out of tune. In Tuned-in Teaching, Antero Garcia and Ernest... more

Technology with Intention

Nell K Duke , Suzanne Kelly , M. Colleen Cruz , Elizabeth Dobler

Pub Date: 4/15/2021
Product Type: Paperback
Grade: K-5th

Educational software can do many things—assess a student’s reading skill, give instruction and practice at the student’s level, and assess again to determine progress. But software cannot build a relationship with a child and it cannot look at a child’s face and recognize understanding or confusion. It still comes down to teaching... more

Technology with Intention (eBook)

Nell K Duke , Suzanne Kelly , M. Colleen Cruz , Elizabeth Dobler

Pub Date: 4/15/2021
Product Type: eBook
Grade: K-5th

Educational software can do many things—assess a student’s reading skill, give instruction and practice at the student’s level, and assess again to determine progress. But software cannot build a relationship with a child and it cannot look at a child’s face and recognize understanding or confusion. It still comes down to teaching... more

Technology with Intention (Print eBook Bundle)

Nell K Duke , Suzanne Kelly , M. Colleen Cruz , Elizabeth Dobler

Pub Date: 4/15/2021
Product Type: Bundle
Grade: K-5th

Educational software can do many things—assess a student’s reading skill, give instruction and practice at the student’s level, and assess again to determine progress. But software cannot build a relationship with a child and it cannot look at a child’s face and recognize understanding or confusion. It still comes down to teaching... more

Risk. Fail. Rise. (Audiobook)

M. Colleen Cruz

Pub Date: 1/12/2021
Product Type: Audiobook
Grade: K-12th

Mistakes are not the problem. The problem is the shame we attach to mistakes and inability to grow from them. You have likely heard the adage, ‘Everyone makes mistakes.’ But what you might not have heard is that there are some predictable reasons why we make these mistakes. Knowing why we make mistakes can help us make fewer mistakes... more

Risk. Fail. Rise.

M. Colleen Cruz

Pub Date: 10/27/2020
Product Type: Paperback
Grade: K-12th

Mistakes are not the problem. The problem is the shame we attach to mistakes and inability to grow from them. You have likely heard the adage, ‘Everyone makes mistakes.’ But what you might not have heard is that there are some predictable reasons why we make these mistakes. Knowing why we make mistakes can help us make fewer mistakes... more

Risk. Fail. Rise. (Print eBook Bundle)

M. Colleen Cruz

Pub Date: 10/27/2020
Product Type: Print + eBook
Grade: K-12th

Mistakes are not the problem. The shame we attach to mistakes and inability to grow from them is.  Mistakes are part of learning. Every educator knows this. But what happens before and after a mistake that facilitates that learning is rarely explored practically. Colleen provides research, examples, and tools that help teachers... more

Risk. Fail. Rise. (eBook)

M. Colleen Cruz

Pub Date: 10/27/2020
Product Type: eBook
Grade: K-12th

Mistakes are not the problem. The shame we attach to mistakes and inability to grow from them is.  Mistakes are part of learning. Every educator knows this. But what happens before and after a mistake that facilitates that learning is rarely explored practically. Colleen provides research, examples, and tools that help teachers... more