SHIFTING PAIRED-LEARNING (SPL) A Practical Guide for Parents, Teachers, and School Administrators: How Pairing Students and Shifting Partners Transforms Learning, Relationships, and School Culture - Softcover

Vraniak, Damian Anthony; Vraniak, Christina Cherie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0975890395 ISBN 13: 9780975890394

Verlag: WAUBISHMAA'INIGAN/WHITEWOLF PRESS, 2026

Inhaltsangabe

What if the most powerful force in a classroom is not a lesson plan or a textbook, but the space between two students thinking together?
Shifting Paired-Learning (SPL): A Practical Guide for Parents, Teachers, and School Administrators presents a complete, field-tested approach to transforming how students learn, relate, and grow. Grounded in decades of research from military training, medical education, software engineering, and the ancient Jewish chavrusa tradition of paired study, SPL recovers the missing dimension in modern education: the interpersonal.
At its heart, SPL is elegantly simple. Students work in pairs. The pairs shift systematically so that every student works with every other student over time. This shifting weaves individual gifts across an entire group, breaks down cliques, reduces bullying, and builds a depth of community that no other method achieves.
The guide walks readers through a practical four-year implementation plan — from first pairings to school-wide integration — with detailed session structures, rotation schedules, and 36 skill cards organized across three developmental levels: Balancing Within (self-regulation), Harmonizing Between (interpersonal connection), and Synchronizing Among (group cohesion). Chapters address classroom scenarios, gender considerations, special education, multi-age groupings, and integration with social-emotional learning standards.
Drawing on over twenty years of field testing in public, tribal, and private schools, Scout troops, churches, and community organizations across Wisconsin and beyond, SPL is not theory alone — it is a living practice, refined by real students and real teachers in real classrooms. This book is both the invitation and the roadmap.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: WAUBISHMAA'INIGAN/WHITEWOLF PRESS
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2026
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0975890395
• ISBN 13: 9780975890394
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 102
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