High Expectations Teaching: How We Persuade Students to Believe and Act on Smart Is Something You Can Get

Jon Saphier

In drill-down detail, Saphier provides an instructional playbook for increasing student confidence and agency in the daily flow of classroom life:

• Powerful  strategies for attribution retraining, organized around  50 Ways to Get Students to Believe in Themselves  
• Concrete examples, scripts, and classroom structures and routines for empowering student agency and choice
• Dozens of accompanying videos showing high-expectations strategies in action

All children in all schools, regardless of income or social class, will benefit from the strategies in this book. But for children of poverty and children of color, our proficiency with these skills is essential . . . in many ways life saving. Jon Saphier challenges us all—educators, students, and parents—to get started today.