Language of Possibility: How Teachers' Words Shape School Culture and Student Achievement (Increase empathic communication in your classroom)

"Those kids are so behind." "If the sixth-grade teachers did their job, my students would be prepared." "Kids these days just don't care." Teachers employ these kinds of phrases without much thought, but what is their impact? In The Language of Possibility: How Teachers' Words Shape School Culture and Student Achievement, author Michael Roberts dives into the limiting language educators inadvertently use in schools and how built-in assumptions negatively affect students' ability to learn an...