Description: This book helps teachers build students' self-regulation and executive-function skills like goal setting, active listening, and time management with practical strategies.
Brief description:
Dr. Richard M. Cash is an award-winning author and educator who has worked in the field of education for over thirty years.
His range of experience includes teaching, curriculum coordination, and program administration. Currently, he is an internationally recognized education consultant. His consulting work has taken him throughout the United States, as well as into Canada, the Czech Republic, China, England, Indonesia, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Mexico, Oman, Poland, Qatar, Spain, South Korea, and Turkey.
Richard earned his doctorate in educational leadership and a master's degree in curriculum and instruction from the University of St. Thomas in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Along with his bachelor's degree in education from the University of Minnesota, Richard holds a bachelor's degree in theater from the University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire. For over ten years, he codirected a children's theater company in Minnesota and coauthored four award-winning children's plays.
He was the recipient of the National Association for Gifted Children's Early Leader Award (2011), recognizing his leadership in programming for gifted children. Richard was also named the "Friend of the Gifted, 2016" by Minnesota Educators of the Gifted and Talented. His areas of expertise are educational programming, rigorous and challenging curriculum design, differentiated instruction, 21st-century skills, brain-compatible classrooms, gifted and talented education, and self-regulated learning.
Dr. Cash is the author of Advancing Differentiation: Thinking and Learning for the 21st Century (2011/2017), a finalist for the Association for Educational Publishers Distinguished Achievement Award and winner of the The Legacy Book(R) Award; Self-Regulation in the Classroom: Helping Students Learn How to Learn (2016); and coauthor of (with Diane Heacox) Differentiation for Gifted Learners: Going Beyond the Basics (2014/2020), winner of The Legacy Book(R) Award.
Review Quotes: "As a middle school educator who has worked with Dr. Richard Cash since 2014, I've come to trust his work as both practical and inspiring. His strategies have helped me support students in becoming more reflective, independent learners, something every teacher hopes to nurture. Whether you're new to the classroom or have been teaching for years, Strategies and Tools for Self-Regulation in the?Classroom?offers thoughtful and doable ideas that truly make a difference. Tools like reflection prompts, goal-setting exercises, note-taking guides, and strategies for working with peers are easy to weave into the day, and over time, they help students build habits that last well beyond your classroom."--Stephanie Vance, Teacher, North Star Academy, Redwood City School District, California