Books by Connie Hamilton

Hacking Questions

“Connie Hamilton is known by teachers and leaders as the Questioning Guru. She offers minor tweaks and major perspective shifts. You will be a better questioner tomorrow.” — Dr. Dorothy VanderJagt, Professional Learning Coordinator.     
Questions are the driving force of learning in classrooms. Hacking Questions digs into framing, delivering, and maximizing questions in the classroom to keep stuents engaged in learning. Hamilton shows teachers of all stubjects and grades how to: 
  • Scaffold to trigger student thinking without doing it for them. 
  • Kick the "IDK" bucket to avoid "I don't know" as the final answer. 
  • Punctuate your learning time to end with reflection questions. 
  • Spin the throttle to fuel students to ask the questions. 
  • Fill your back pocket with engagement questions. 
Hacking Questions provides practical solutions to the universal questioning problems that teachers face daily. Find your answers now.

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Hacking Group Work

“It’s like having a friend in the corner of your classroom, giving you a steady stream of smart, practical, instantly doable ideas that will make your teaching better.” — Jennifer Gonzalez, Cult of Pedagogy    
Design student collaborations that are relevant, productive, and funThere’s no better way to engage students in active learning than through collaboration. But facilitating group work has its challenges. Education leader, author, and speaker Connie Hamilton shows teachers how to intentionally design successful student collaborations.In Hacking Group Work, you’ll discover how to:
  • Facilitate multiple groups at different levels and pacing
  • Help introverts be more comfortable in social learning tasks
  • Foster productive listening and questioning to elevate student talk
  • Support interdependence and student ownership of their learning
  • Assess each student’s content knowledge, group communication, and collaboration skills
Hacking Group Work also offers over sixty activities and protocols with step-by-step directions that teachers who teach any grade level can use tomorrow with their students.