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OWNING IT
Proven Strategies to Ace and Embrace Teaching
Alex Kajitani
Foreword by Harry K. Wong
Copyright © 2019 by Solution Tree Press
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Kajitani, Alex, author.
Title: Owning it : proven strategies to ace and embrace teaching / Alex Kajitani ; contributors, Mindy Crum, Pete Fisher, and Megan Pincus-Kajitani.
Description: Bloomington, IN : Solution Tree Press, [2018] | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018013705 | ISBN 9781947604117 (perfect bound)
Subjects: LCSH: Effective teaching--Methodology. | Academic achievement.
Classification: LCC LB1025.3 .K355 2018 | DDC 371.102--dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018013705
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For my wonderful wife, Megan.
Here’s to creating the world as it can be. —Alex
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I am deeply grateful to the thousands of teachers, students, and parents I have come into contact with over my education career, a career which started the day I entered preschool. There is not a single person that I’ve met in that time who hasn’t taught me something, and what I’ve learned is reflected in small and big ways in these pages. Also, to my wonderful wife, children, and family, I thank you from the depths of my soul. What is best in me, I owe to all of you.
Solution Tree Press would like to thank the following reviewers:
Tara Foster
Assistant Principal
Hueytown Middle School
Hueytown, Alabama
Clint Heitz
Instructional Coach
Bettendorf Community Schools
Bettendorf, Iowa
Kathy Hoover
CTE: Sports Medicine & Rehabilitation Services Teacher
Kofa High School
Yuma, Arizona
Katie McCann
Fifth-Grade Teacher
Appomattox Elementary School
Appomattox, Virginia
Jason Ince
Agriculture Teacher
Chatham High School
Chatham, Virginia
Heidi Trude
French Teacher
Skyline High School
Front Royal, Virginia
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Foreword by Harry K. Wong
Part 1: Owning It in Your Classroom
