<p><strong><em>Now THIS is college and career ready!<br/> </em></strong><br/> Take your kids on a carefully paced upward spiral of collaboration, with explicit coaching on how to teach the language and behaviors of working effectively together. The added bonus: Your kids will meet speaking and listening standards, while you score better on classroom-engagement rubrics. For each lesson, Web-based slides focus on one vital social-academic skill, while you refer to teaching tips in the planning guide: </p> <ul> <li>The first slides introduce the target skill</li> <li>The next slides help model the skill in action</li> <li>You co-create strategies to enhance use of the skill</li> <li>Additional slides help kids practice the skill, followed by debriefing lessons</li> </ul>
