The Wild Card

The Wild Card : 7 Steps to an Educator's Creative Breakthrough

Experience a Creative Breakthrough in Your Classroom

Have you ever wished you were more creative... or that your students were more engaged in your lessons? The Wild Card is your step-by-step guide to experiencing a creative breakthrough in your classroom with your students. Even if you've never painted a portrait or written a poem, you can create unforgettable lessons that help your learners retain content.

In this book, Wade and Hope King show you how to draw on your authentic self--your past experiences, personality quirks, interests, hobbies, and strengths--to deliver your content creatively. The seven steps in The Wild Card will give you the knowledge and the confidence to bring creative teaching strategies into your classroom. You'll learn...

Why the deck is not stacked against you, no matter what kind of hand you've been dealt

Why you should never listen to the Joker

How to identify the "Ace up your sleeve" and use it to create classroom magic

How to apply the "Rules of Rigor" in order to fuse creativity with learning

How to become the Wild Card that changes the game for your students

"This book is a teacher wonderland of ideas, inspiration, and mind-blowing magic." --Ron Clark, New York Times bestselling author and cofounder, Ron Clark Academy

"Hope and Wade provide powerful, proven, practical steps to discovering the creativity inside of us all." --Kim Bearden, cofounder and executive director, Ron Clark Academy, author of LA Times bestselling Crash Course

"Wade and Hope King challenge, equip, and emPOWER you to create lessons that bring light (not dread) to your students' eyes." --Jason David Frank, actor, Power Ranger, and eighth-degree black belt martial artist

"These pages are full of real-life stories that will pull you in and challenge you to your core." --Amy Lemons, educator and blogger

SetTheStageToEngage.com

  • Format: Paperback | 262 pages
  • Dimensions: 150 x 226 x 20mm | 499g
  • Publication date: 08 Jan 2018
  • Publisher: Dave Burgess Consulting, Inc.
  • Language: English
  • ISBN10: 1946444529
  • ISBN13: 9781946444523
  • Bestsellers rank: 40,428

More Books:

The Wild Card
Language: en
Pages: 262
Authors: Wade King
Categories: Activity programs in education
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-12-17 - Publisher:

A step-by-step guide to delivering classroom content creatively.
Wildcard
Language: en
Pages: 354
Authors: Marie Lu
Categories: Young Adult Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-09-18 - Publisher: Penguin

An Instant New York Times Bestseller! Return to the immersive, action-packed world of Warcross in this thrilling sequel from #1 New York Times bestselling autho
Knaves Over Queens
Language: en
Pages: 525
Authors: Wild Cards Trust
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-08-13 - Publisher: Tor Books

Perfect for current fans and new readers alike, Knaves Over Queens is an all-new adventure set in London, featuring a fresh cast of characters from the Wild Car
Wild Cards I
Language: en
Pages: 495
Authors: George R. R. Martin
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-11-23 - Publisher: Tor Books

Soon to be a TV show on Hulu! Back in print after a decade, expanded with new original material, this is the first volume of George R. R. Martin's Wild cards sh
Wild Cards
Language: en
Pages: 354
Authors: Simone Elkeles
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-10 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Love, life, and sports will never be the same in the first title of a new series by the bestselling author of "Rules of Attraction" and "Chain Reaction."
The Wild Card Kids: A Journey to Magic
Language: en
Pages: 54
Authors: Hope King
Categories: Juvenile Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-01-08 - Publisher:

Warcross
Language: en
Pages: 368
Authors: Marie Lu
Categories: Young Adult Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-09-12 - Publisher: Penguin

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Marie Lu—when a game called Warcross takes the world by storm, one girl hacks her way into its dangerous depths. For
Wild Card
Language: en
Pages: 157
Authors: Tiki Barber
Categories: Juvenile Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-07-24 - Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Through the course of a difficult season, Ronde learns that his coach is right about football being a mental game, as he tries to fill in as kicker while he and
Wild Card
Language: en
Pages: 322
Authors: Stuart Woods
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019 - Publisher:

A peaceful country retreat with his latest paramour is interrupted by an unknown, ruthlessly vengeful adversary who orchestrates multiple plots targeting Manhat
Wild Cards III: Jokers Wild
Language: en
Pages: 413
Authors: George R. R. Martin
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-02-11 - Publisher: Tor Books

Here, in the third volume of the Wild Cards series, seven of science fiction's most gifted writers take you on a journey of wonder and excitement. September 15t