Expecting Excellence in Urban Schools: 7 Steps to an Engaging Classroom Practice (Paperback)  | Released: 01 Jan 2017

A comprehensive approach to achieve real and lasting change with urban students! In high-poverty, urban, minority classrooms, teachers often struggle to engage their students emotionally, intellectually and behaviorally. Drawing on his more than twenty years of experience working with high-poverty, urban, minority students, Jelani Jabari delivers - Seven cohesive steps for planning, delivering and reflecting on captivating learning experiences- Techniques for gathering critical information about your students to forge deeper connections- Strategies to transform students' perceived "deficits" into instructional assets- An emphasis on teaching methods and classroom culture, not simply standards and accountability engagement.