Flip the Script

Breaking Down Barriers, Building Relationships, and Engaging Secondary Students (Impactful and transformative relationships with secondary students)

Rebecca A. Knighton, Jessica R. May

• Publisher: Solution Tree Press
• Year: 2025
• eBook ISBN: 9798893740127
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Classroom Management

In Flip the Script, the authors propose that to build relationships with and engage students, educators must examine core beliefs and assumptions that create unintentional barriers to supporting students. Through self-exploration, empathy building, and real-life examples from five master teachers, educators can learn how to help students break down negative thought patterns and become engaged learners.

Secondary teachers can use this book to:

• Remember what it was like to be adolescents
• Increase students' enthusiasm and willingness to actively engage in class
• Use examples from five highly effective teachers to deepen pedagogy and develop exceptional skills and mindsets
• Approach student conflicts with authenticity and respect, using those experiences as opportunities to guide student growth
• Reframe how students see themselves as learners and increase students' self-efficacy and hope for the future, changing the trajectories of their lives

Contents:
Introduction
Chapter 1: Building Trust and Connection
Chapter 2: Creating Safety
Chapter 3: Developing Authenticity
Chapter 4: Increasing Student Engagement
Chapter 5: Navigating Student Conflict and Behavior
Chapter 6: Flipping the Script
Epilogue
Appendix A: Activities to Help Students Reflect
Appendix B: Middle and High School Essay-Writing Packets
Appendix C: Activities to Help Students Develop Social-Emotional Competencies and Skills
Appendix D: Activities for the First Two Weeks of School
References and Resources
Index

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Acknowledgments
• Table of Contents
• About the Authors
• Contributing Teachers
• Foreword
• Introduction
• Chapter 1 Building Trust and Connection
• Chapter 2 Creating Safety
• Chapter 3 Developing Authenticity
• Chapter 4 Increasing Student Engagement
• Chapter 5 Navigating Student Conflict and Behavior
• Chapter 6 Flipping the Script
• Epilogue
• Appendix A Activities to Help Students Reflect
• Appendix B Middle and High School Essay Writing Packets
• Appendix C Activities to Help Students Develop Social-Emotional Competencies and Skills
• Appendix D Activities for the First Two Weeks of School
• References and Resources
• Index