TY - BOOK AU - Benner, Susan TI - Promising practices for elementary teachers : : make no excuses! SN - 978-1-4129-7808-8 AV - 372.1102 B43p PY - 2010/// CY - Thousand Oaks, Calif. PB - Corwin Press KW - Classroom management KW - Effective teaching KW - Elementary school teaching N1 - Includes bibliographic references and index; Who belongs in school? -- Prevention as intervention : building a sense of community -- Motivation as intervention -- Parent involvement is worth the effort -- Understanding challenging behavior in the classroom -- Universal design for learning -- Dialogue and instructional conversation as an instructional strategy -- Peer-assisted learning models of instruction -- Differentiating instruction N2 - This book offers educators tools to break the cycle of failure for students who are unsuccessful in school, including alternative instructional strategies, practices for vulnerable children, and more ER -