Description:
Elizabeth Stein offers a thoughtful, useful book on how to blend restorative practices and Universal Design for Learning into the classroom experience to both humanize classroom management and improve student learning and engagement.
Brief description: Elizabeth Stein, EdD, has been a special education teacher, instructional coach, and educational consultant for more than 30 years, specializing in universal design for learning (UDL), and co-taught inclusive practices. She is an adjunct professor at Stony Brook University, New York. Elizabeth is a renewed National Board Certified Teacher (NBCT) in literacy and the author of Two Teachers in the Room: Strategies for Co-teaching Success (Routledge, 2017) and other publications.
Review Quotes:
"Our schools and institutions need educators who are courageous enough to acknowledge that what we are currently doing is not meeting the needs of all learners. Our learning environments are not universally designed if we lack the willingness to address the inclusion of systems, structures and routines that provide our learners with agency, such as restorative practices. Elizabeth Stein not only acknowledges this but provides readers with tools that are necessary to implement these practices with fidelity." - Mirko Chardin, Chief Equity and Inclusion Officer at Novak Education and former Founding Head of School of the Putnam Avenue Upper School in Cambridge, MA.
"Dr. Elizabeth Stein so invitingly brings us into her world where understanding students works in intuitive as well as surprising ways. She really connects brain and heart to help educators crack the middle-school code in humanizing, immediately applicable ways. I am beyond thrilled to see her make the work accessible and replicable. She is as loving and passionate as she is knowledgeable and practical." - Jennifer Bradshaw, Ed.D., Assistant Superintendent for Curriculum and Instruction, Ardsley (NY) School District