North Dakota United is proud to offer online book studies as part of our professional development curriculum. A variety of relevant topics to enhance professional skills and awareness are offered throughout the year. Typically a new book study begins each week. The format of the book studies enables communication and collaboration, along with an opportunity for self-directed learning.
Each book study is available for one graduate credit through the University of North Dakota.
2020-2021 Book Studies (By Category)
Behavioral Health
- “I Wish My Teacher Knew: How One Question Can Change Everything for Our Kids” – August 31, 2020
- “All Learning is Social and Emotional: Helping Students Develop Essential Skills for the Classroom and Beyond” – November 30, 2020
- “Watch Your Mouth: Non-Negotiables for Success with Your Toughest Kids” – December 14, 2020
- “Lost at School: Why Our Kids with Behavioral Challenges are Falling Through the Cracks and How We Can Help Them” – March 1, 2021
- “iGen: The 10 Trends Shaping Today’s Young People and the Nation” – April 5, 2021
- “Easy to Love, Difficult to Discipline: The 7 Basic Skills for Turning Conflict” – May 3, 2021
Classroom Management
- “The School Discipline Fix: Changing Behavior Using the Collaborative Problem-Solving Approach” – June 1, 2020
- “Better Than Carrots or Sticks: Restorative Practices for Positive Classroom Management” – November 9, 2020
Diversity
English Language Learner
- “Fifty Strategies for Teaching English Language Learners” – October 12, 2020
- “English Learners Academic Literacy and Thinking: Learning in the Challenge Zone” – March 29, 2021
Leadership
- “The Power of a Positive Team” – July 20, 2020
- “Powerful Partnerships: A Teacher’s Guide to Engaging Families for Student Success” – September 21, 2020
- “The Power of Positive Leadership: How and Why Positive Leaders Transform Teams and Organizations and Change the World” – February 1, 2021
- “Leading a High Reliability School” – April 19, 2021
LGBTQ
- “The Right to Be Out: Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in America’s Public Schools” – June 15, 2020
- “Getting Ready for Benjamin: Preparing Teachers for Sexual Diversity in the Classroom (Curriculum, Cultures, and (Homo)Sexualities)” – October 19, 2020
Personal Wellness/Mindful
- “Deliberate Optimism: Reclaiming the Joy in Education” – July 6, 2020
- “Kids Deserve It: Pushing Boundaries and Challenging Conventional Thinking” – September 28, 2020
- “The Energy Bus: 10 Rules to Fuel Your Life, Work, and Team with Positive Energy” – October 26, 2020
- “The Body Keeps Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma” – November 2, 2020
- “The No Complaining Rule” – January 11, 2021
- “Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead” – March 8, 2021
Social/Racial Justice
- “The Price of Privilege: How Parental Pressure and Material Advantage Are Creating a Generation of Disconnected and Unhappy Kids” – June 29, 2020
- “Education for Extinction: American Indians and the Boarding School Experience 1875-1928” – March 22, 2021
Student Success
- “Teach Like a Pirate: Increase Student Engagement, Boost Your Creativity, and Transform Your Life as an Educator” – June 22, 2020
- “Make it Stick: The Science of Successful Learning” – July 13, 2020
- “The Wild Card: 7 Steps to an Educator’s Creative Breakthrough” – August 3, 2020
- “No Drama Discipline: The Whole-Brain Way to Calm the Chaos and Nurture Your Child’s Developing Mind” – August 10, 2020
- “I Wish My Teacher Knew: How One Question Can Change Everything for Our Kids” – August 31, 2020
- “Fostering Resilient Learners: Strategies for Creating a Trauma-Sensitive Classroom” – September 7, 2020
- “How Children Succeed: Grip, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character” – September 14, 2020
- “Better Than Carrots or Sticks: Restorative Practices for Positive Classroom Management” – November 9, 2020
- “It’s Always About the Children” – December 7, 2020
- “Change*able: How Collaborative Problem-Solving Changes Lives at Home, at School, and at Work” – January 18, 2021
- “Differently Wired: Raising an Exceptional Child in a Conventional World” – January 25, 2021
- “Teaching with Poverty in Mind: What Being Poor Does to Kids’ Brains and What Schools Can Do About It” – February 8, 2021
- “Essential 55: An Award-Winning Educator’s Rules for discovering the Successful Student in Every Child” – February 22, 2021
- “How to Create a Culture of Achievement in Your School and Classroom” – March 15, 2021
- “Empower: What Happens When Students Own Their Learning” – April 12, 2021
- “A Framework for Understanding Poverty” – May 10, 2021
Trauma
- “Help for Billy: A Beyond Consequences Approach to Helping Challenging Children in the Classroom” – June 8, 2020
- “The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Adversity” – July 27, 2020
- “Fostering Resilient Learners: Strategies for Creating a Trauma-Sensitive Classroom” – September 7, 2020
- “The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist’s Notebook—What Traumatized Children Can Teach Us About Loss, Love, and Healing” – October 5, 2020
- “The Body Keeps Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma” – November 2, 2020
- “It Didn’t Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle” – November 23, 2020
- “Born for Love: Why Empathy is Essential and Endangered” – February 15, 2021