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Susan's Books and other Cogent Catalyst Publications

Memorization and Test Taking Strategies: Training DVD Set Featuring Susan Fitzell M. Ed.

This video series was built to make student performance pop by dramatically upgrading the memory skills of students. These are best practice, research-based lessons to engage your learners. With NCLB s ever-rising benchmark for your schools, you need all the resources you can get to stay ahead. This video course was developed to work as a perfect supplement to RTI and differentiation curriculum you already employ. Presented by sought-after national education speaker and experienced education consultant Susan Fitzell, this video series reveals the intricacies of student memory and its extreme importance in learning. Going beyond the theoretic, this course helps to improve students reading, arithmetic and writing skills. Perhaps most importantly, the course concludes with vital test-taking skills for students. This set includes 2 training DVD's and 10 books.

2 DVD Set with 10 Paperback Participant Manuals
ISBN 1932995080 Published: January 2010
$895.00 USD

Special Needs In The General Classroom: Strategies That Make It Work, 2nd Edition by Susan Fitzell M. Ed.

A Personal Education Coach in a book! How to Nurture Student Learning and Foster Success This book shows you how to identify, face, and solve the teaching challenges you may experience in an inclusive classroom. From co-teaching issues to collaboration between educators, parents and students, this book empowers educators and students to maximize learning potential and help each person succeed in the classroom. This is a book you cannot afford NOT to have. Learn twelve brain-based learning principles and how to apply each one in your classroom. Gain access to valuable templates and guidelines that offer effective classroom management techniques. Learn proven strategies that enhance memorization and recall for any student at any learning level. Give your students the priceless gifts of empowerment, accountability, and motivation to tackle any learning challenge. Learn practical strategies today and implement them in your curriculum tomorrow. Discover effective ways to use technology to supplement instruction. Gain precious insight and tips on how to help students with attention and distraction issues. Acquire useful learning techniques for students in the autistic spectrum. Become skilled at differentiating for multiple intelligences and enhancing the learning experience for ALL students. Learn how culture and language bias become barriers to learning and how to overcome these challenges. Find the best methods and techniques to maximize learning for all personality types. This book demonstrates proven solutions! The effective tools outlined in this book will guide you to motivate students to learn, harness their desire and potential, and empower each individual to overcome any challenge. As a comprehensive guide to successful learning, this book is a must-have for educators, parents, and students. Get your copy today!

Paperback
ISBN 1932995099 Published: January 2010
$24.97 USD

Umm Studying? What's That?: Learning Strategies for the Overwhelmed and Confused College and High School Student by Shivahn Fitzell & Susan Fitzell M. Ed.

Paperback - 108 pages
ISBN 1-932995-06-4 Published: January 2006
$15.00 USD

Co-teaching and Collaboration in the Classroom; Strategies for Success, 2nd Edition by Susan Fitzell M. Ed.

Co-teaching and Collaboration in the Classroom 2nd Edition

Find strategies to work through personality differences between educators that can obstruct successful collaboration. Learn how to set up Fitzell Acceleration Centers© that address the needs of a variety of students without singling out one particular group. Never heard of a Fitzell Acceleration Center? Follow explicit instructions on how to set up one in your classroom, and then begin implementation by engaging students in flexible grouping. The result is a more motivated, accomplished, and well-behaved class. It also utilizes the talents of the co-teachers so students who require more one-on-one instruction receive it. This edition includes the benefits and challenges of each co-teaching model as well as how to choose which model to use. There are suggestions on how to incorporate differentiated instruction into the co-teach model. Also, instructions for MSWord 2007 were included where appropriate. Many record-keeping chart templates are provided along with helpful follow-up questions to activities and conflict resolution scripts. The goal of any co-teaching situation is to reach more student learning styles, and this book succeeds at offering practical options for doing so.

Paperback
ISBN 1932995102 Published: January 2010
$24.97 USD

Paraprofessionals and Teachers Working Together, 2nd Edition by Susan Fitzell M. Ed.

The book provides practical solutions for confusing or opposing teaching strategies that paraprofessionals and teachers experience during collaboration. Working Together explains the importance of starting a dialogue with your colleague, for one, and sustaining communication with all parties involved in order to avoid situations that hinder the learning process. It also suggests having a systematic approach to education thereby removing the guesswork from working together. You'll find more instructions on effective strategies are supplied with forms and charts to prepare educators in this second edition book. Personal checklists included in the book outline necessary steps to achieve positive changes in behavior and information retention in students. Other forms and charts organize data to assist in making informed decisions about what techniques will have the most success. Paraprofessionals and teachers are encouraged to take full advantage of having the organizational tools already created for them.

Paperback - 151 pages
ISBN 1932995110 Published: January 2010
$24.97 USD, ON SALE $17.48 until January 31. 2010!

Please Help Me With My Homework! 2nd Edition by Susan Fitzell M. Ed.

Doing homework has never been this fun! If you are a parent or guardian, this book will shed valuable light on the reasons why learning strategies that work for one student might not work for another. Through developing a better understanding of the many ways in which we learn, you and your child will take an important step toward creating an educational environment that can include everyone, regardless of the area in which his or her natural abilities may lie. Looking for answers? This book is a veritable goldmine of practical information, resources and tools for the parents and caregivers of students of any age and is chock-full of illustrations, examples and innovative techniques, including: Customizing learning activities according to multiple intelligences and the student s personal learning style Establishing the ideal environment in which to focus on homework tasks. Simple exercises for fortifying the connection between mind and body and increasing mental alertness. A plethora of memorization techniques, based on the particular type of stimulus to which the student most responds. Practical suggestions to aid students in methodically approaching their writing assignments and increasing their comprehension in reading assignments. Resources for organizing the seemingly unruly amount of paperwork and learning implements that confront any student.

Paperback - 85 pages
ISBN 1932995129 Published: January 2010
$10.97 USD

Please Help Me With My Homework! Spanish Edition by Susan Fitzell M. Ed.

¡Hacer los deberes nunca ha sido asíde divertido! Si usted es un padre o tutor, este libro arrojará luz sobre las razónes porqué las estrategias de aprendizaje que funcionan bien para un estudiante quizás no funcionen igualmente para otro. Con desarrollar un mejor entendimiento de las muchas maneras en las cuales aprendemos, usted y su niño darán un paso significativo hacia la creación de un entorno educativo que puede incluir a todos, independientemente del área en donde yazcan sus habilidades nativas. ¿Busca soluciónes? Este libro es una verdadera mina de oro con información práctica, recursos y herramientas para los padres y cuidadores de estudiantes de cualquier edad y está abarrotado de ilustraciónes, ejemplos y técnicas innovadoras, inclusive: Personalizar las actividades de aprendizaje según las inteligencias múltiples y el estilo individual de aprendizaje del estudiante, Establecer un entorno ideal en donde enfocarse en los deberes, Ejercicios sencillos para fortalecer la conexión entre la mente y el cuerpo y para aumentar la agudeza mental, Una plétora de técnicas de memorización, basadas en el tipo de estímulo en particular al cual mayor responda el estudiante, Sugerencias prácticas para ayudar a que los estudiantes tomen un enfoque metódico hacia las tareas de escritura e incrementen su comprensión en las tareas de lectura, Recursos para organizar el revoltijo de papeleo e implementos de aprendizaje que enfrentan cualquier estudiante. Esta guía es imprescindible para cualquiera que trabaje habitualmente con un estudiante. ¡Definitivamente lamentará que un manual como éste no existía cuando usted asistía a clases!

Paperback - 85 pages
ISBN 1932995137 Published: January 2010
$10.97 USD

Transforming Anger to Personal Power: An Anger Management Curriculum Guide for Grades 6 through 12 by Susan Fitzell

This user-friendly resource provides educators and mental health professionals with a unique approach for teaching anger management to middle and high school students. It can be used with an entire class or in small group settings. The approach is not about adults trying to fix youth, telling them how to live, or showing them that adults know better. It is to help students realize that they have the power to take control of their lives and emotions and choose healthy responses to anger. Through engaging lessons, students learn to use empowering language, to take responsibility for their behavior, and to understand the social, cultural, and personal influences that shape their thinking. Appendices include a reproducible pre/posttest and sample charts illustrating important points in the lessons. The program draws from several bodies of knowledge including cognitive intervention techniques, Eastern philosophy, brain research theories, and educational psychology.

Paperback - 108 pages
ISBN 1-932995-01-3 Published: January 2007
$23.95 USD

Free The Children by Susan Fitzell M. Ed.

Paperback - 190 pages
ISBN 0-865713-61-8 Published: August 1, 1997
$15.95 USD

Lets Create Again! by Fritz Bell

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Let's Create Again! gives classroom teachers sequential steps for differentiating classroom instruction through the use of drama, arts, storytelling and movement. Fritz Bell also focuses on developing effective listening skills to encourage better communications in the classroom. This book is loaded with activities from this outstanding national workshop leader.

Paperback - 128 pages
ISBN 1-932995-02-1 Published: January 2002
$10.00 USD

Total Body Learning: Movement and Academics by Fritz Bell

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This little book is filled with activities for grades K-12 in all academic areas using the Bodily Kinesthetic intelligence. Learn how to use all that kinesthetic energy students have as a positive force in the classroom.

Paperback - 57 pages
ISBN 1-932995-03-X
$10.00 USD

The Best Use of a Lifetime by John Georgevits

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This book is about answering the question, "What is the best use of a life time?" In it, John Georgevits combines his own personal passion for rock and ice climbing with ideas from the world’s great philosophers and religions to develop a framework for making the right choices in life.

Paperback - 141 pages
ISBN 1-932995-05-6 Published: May, 2005
$16.95 USB

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MOODZ Laminated Poster (Feeling Faces)

The MOODZ poster (sometimes called Feeling Faces) is a laminated multiethnic mood poster that is a wonderful tool to help students, especially adolescents find the right words for how they are feeling. Use this poster when building rapport, mediating conflict, working out discipline, or for any other number of feelings. Use a dry-erase marker to indicate to others how you might be feeling! This is a fantastic resource for every Classroom.

Available in two sizes:

18" X 24" on 100lb. Gloss Cover Stock.
$9.95 USD

8.5 x 11 inches.
$4.95 USD

RTI Poster Set

These two posters create a visual flow chart of how Differentiated Instruction, Response to Intervention, Marzano's Strategies & Susan's best-practice strategies and techniques are connected.

Administrators are saying, "Finally, I have a visual that helps my teachers to 'see' how all this fits together. This demonstrates how the process can work!"

18" X 24" on 100lb. Gloss Cover Stock.
$29.95 USD

Mem-Cards: Special Needs in the General Classroom

Twenty-eight pocket-sized cards contain the best ideas from Special Needs in the General Classroom. Take them out of the box, slide them into the clear bi-fold wallet, and they’re even more portable and accessible. Each card reinforces a concept or skill learned from reading the book, turning principles into practice.

28 cards, each 2 1/2" x 3 1/2", with vinyl bi-fold wallet.
$7.95 USD

Mem-Cards: Umm Studying? What's That?

Twenty-eight pocket-sized cards contain the best ideas from Umm Studying? What's That?. Take them out of the box, slide them into the clear bi-fold wallet, and they’re even more portable and accessible. Each card reinforces a concept or skill learned from reading the book, turning principles into practice.

28 cards, each 2 1/2" x 3 1/2", with vinyl bi-fold wallet.
$7.95 USD

"Best Ideas" Sticky Notes

Sticky-note reminders to use your strategies when you plan your lessons!

Add them to your teacher's manuals and check off the strategies that you will use during the lesson.
Note when to use them in the note box.
Stick them in your plan book to provide a quick reminder to use these effective participation and memorization strategies to improve student achievement.
Stick them on your mirror, computer, desk, etc to reinforce making it a 'habit' to use these strategies to differentiate instruction.
Stick them on notes home to parents to suggest ways that parents can help their children.
Use them to give paraprofessionals ideas for working with students.

Package of 50 3" x 3" Sticky Post-It style notes.
$2.50 USD

Audio Presentation - Increasing the Effectiveness of Paraprofessionals and Classroom Teachers Working Together: Highly Effective Strategies for Inclusive Classrooms (Grades K-12) This strategies-packed audio seminar will provide paraprofessionals as well as general and special education teachers with practical, easy-to-integrate, proven techniques for making inclusion successful. A wealth of ideas will be presented that will help all of your students be more productive in the content area. The seminar’s focus will be on introducing practical strategies that have been proven successful when working with students with special needs in inclusive or general education classrooms. In addition to either six audio cassettes, or four CD's, each audio training program includes a valuable resource handbook specifically designed for the audio training program. Each resource handbook includes countless "ready-to-use tomorrow" ideas, lessons and resources that can be immediately implemented in your own classroom program. $95.00 USD

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