Empowering Students Seven Strategies for a

In Empowering Students, educators Robert Brower and Amy Keller provide teachers with seven powerful steps that build character and promote success in students' lives. These step include making critical distinctions; building strong and resilient relationships; avoiding negative attention; positive body language; small, positive behaviors and actions; practicing mirror relationship building; and understanding and accepting consequences of your actions.

Robert Brower, a school superintendent, has been a professional public school educator in Indiana Amy Keller is a science department chair and teacher at Avon High School in Avon, Indiana

Preface

vii

Introduction

xi

Building the Foundation for the Seven Powerful Strategies

1

(10)

Strategy 1: The Power of Making Critical Distinctions

11

(16)

Strategy 2: The Power of Building Strong and Resilient Relationships

27

(12)

Strategy 3: The Power of Avoiding Negative Attention

39

(10)

Strategy 4: The Power of Positive Body Language

49

(8)

Strategy 5: The Power of Small, Positive Behaviors and Actions

57

(8)

Strategy 6: The Power of Practicing ``Mirror Relationship Building''

65

(8)

Strategy 7: The Power of Understanding and Accepting Consequences of Your Actions

73

(30)

Discipline in Schools as the Foundation for All Learning

103

(14)

Character and Success

117

(8)

Bringing It All Together

125

(14)

APPENDIXES

A. Student Wallet Cards With Strategies Summarized

131

(2)

B. Teacher Reference Note Page

133

(2)

C. Implementation Guide and Strategies

135

(4)

References

139

(4)

About the Authors

143

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Empowering Students Seven Strategies for a Smart Start in School and Life

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