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GREENLEAF & PAPANEK PUBLICATIONS

Greenleaf Learning has a strong interest in ideas and strategies that are useful to the practitioner. The books published by Greenleaf & Papanek Publications have strived to generate materials that mirror this interest. Each has been researched and provides applications for increasing student performance outcomes.

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Dr. Robert K. Greenleaf of Greenleaf Learning

bob@greenleaflearning.com

Doris Wells-Papanek, M.Ed. of Tailored Learning Tools

doris@tailoredlearningtools.com

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Formative Assessment Micro-Feedback Loops: Using the Student-Centered Accountability (SCA) for Learning Process

Underlying the SCA Process is an instructional approach that links student outcomes with teacher practices. The SCA Process is designed to identify student learning targets/standards, determine related student learning needs, and produce timely, useful, very specific feedback for educators and students. Given feedback specific to identified criteria, teachers have the opportunity to adjust instruction along the way, rather than after optimal learning moments have passed.

Engaging Today's Students: What All Teachers Need to Know & Be Able to Do

In this book, we have examined the research around grades 5-12 learners of today, the brain sciences (with respect to learning), and effective teaching practices that link to long-term memory and recall. We have observed hundreds of classroom lessons and activities, developed by an array of practicing school teachers. A strong indicator for how we organized this book was our deep commitment to learners ~ students as learners AND faculty as learners ~ and how we all can learn in significant ways that are also sustainable.

Engaging Today's College Students: What All College Instructors Need to Know & Be Able to Do

In Engaging Today's COLLEGE Students, we have examined the research around the adult student learner, the brain sciences, and effective teaching practices that link to long-term memory and recall. The student engagement framework presented in this book combines the essential motivational conditions and the understandings of adult learning into an instructional model for teaching and learning in higher education. Applied learning, student choice, student interaction, and assessment-feedback-evidence of success are illuminated in keeping with the demands of current practice.

Memory, Recall and the Brain: Improve Student Learning Outcomes by Engaging Learners in Visual & Nonlinguistic Strategies, Activities & Organizers

Brain research, though historically focused on abnormalities and pharmaceuticals, has evidenced unprecedented levels of attention in education and learning endeavors. We have come to understand that "learning" is not merely an exercise in storing information for artificially engineered tests. Our interest and intent have evolved to encompass the notions of recall, long-term memory, and applications ~ not to mention life-long learning habits.

Brain Based Teaching: Making Connections for Long-Term Memory & Recall

This book seeks to explore teaching and learning through three overarching lenses:

Question 1) How can I “frame” (design) the learning circumstance or activity so that it INVITES ALL learners to get involved, to participate? Question2) How can I design the learning experience such that it will CAUSE learners to process, to do the work required for sustained learning and recall to take place? Question 3) How do I engineer tasks that create opportunities for multiple PATHWAYS to be formed (connections made) for integrated learning, application and recall?

Coaching Reluctant Learners: A Practical Framework for Classroom Success

The purpose of this book is to provide today's teachers with tools that work for today's students. But even more importantly, this book provides teachers with a condensed version of best practice research in a practical framework for classroom success ~ unit by unit. We have heard from many teachers who have field-tested this design with their own reluctant learners, that it is a doable format where both the teacher and the student feel more successful.

A Mastery Toolkit for the "Can Do" Student: Strategies and Learning Tools to Create Motivation, Build New Connections, Develop Long-Term Mastery of Successful Learning Skills

This book speaks directly to the student ~ the goal being to help them: 1) find the motivation to keep investing in their future and trying their best, 2) build new connections and look at things in powerful ways, 3) improve areas of concern and build on their strengths, 4) master the skills they need to learn that they will never forget.

Creating and Changing Mindsets - Movies of the Mind: Strategies for Long-Term Impact Upon Change and the Acts of Achievement, Motivation, and Relationship Building

This book would not have been conceived, if rational behavior was the basis for human interaction and the mysteries of learning and development might not loom in such large wonderment. Yet, there are some strategies to assist. The questions have long been; “for how long will this practice be in place;” or “will this change last?” Addressing the behavior of another (student, child, colleague) seldom prevents repeat occurrences. We may subdue or postpone behavior, but our experience is that the behavior typically returns and repeats itself.

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Doris Wells-Papanek, M.Ed.

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