Artificial intelligence may change the world more than the iPhone, the internet, or even electricity.

It's bound to change education. (It already has.) But how?

AI for Educators is a readable guide for educators.

• It translates AI through a teacher lens.
• It provides practical ideas you can use in class right away.
• It unlocks powerful ways to streamline teaching and save time.

It also paints a picture of the future our students will face-and provides questions you can help them grapple with.

We can use AI to empower teaching and learning. And it can start today.

Tech Like a PIRATE helps provide the tools, ideas, and inspiration for educators to use technology as a treasure map to amazing learning. With a customizable set of principles for ensuring that technology is an asset, and not a barrier, Matt Miller's guidance will help all teachers - from the tech-savvy to the tech-terrified--create impactful, transformative learning using low- or no-cost equipment.

The rise of digital culture has left some teachers and their students distracted, divided, and overwhelmed. But Tech Like a PIRATE brings educators flexible strategies for creating classroom tech experiences that will electrify student engagement. You don't have to be a tech genius--just willing to try

Tech Like a PIRATE offers an accessible, engaging, and empowering toolkit for educators looking to innovate and engage their classes through technology. It's full of practical examples that are rooted in research, best practices, and solid pedagogy, and it's accompanied by a treasure trove of additional resources at DitchThatTextbook.com/TechLAP.

Artificial intelligence may change the world more than the iPhone, the internet, or even electricity.

It's bound to change education. (It already has.) But how?

AI for Educators is a readable guide for educators.

• It translates AI through a teacher lens.
• It provides practical ideas you can use in class right away.
• It unlocks powerful ways to streamline teaching and save time.

It also paints a picture of the future our students will face-and provides questions you can help them grapple with.

We can use AI to empower teaching and learning. And it can start today.

Are you ready for a change? You know potential exists for innovative, engaging, revolutionary education if you get the right ideas, right tools, and right people, all in the right order. If that sounds like you, then you're ready to DITCH old mindsets and methods and replace them with empowering, liberating ones. Author and teacher, Matt Miller shows you how to choose and incorporate teaching practices that are: Different from what students see daily. Innovative, drawing on new ideas or modifying others' ideas. Tech-laden with the use of digital sites, tools and devices. Creative, tapping into students' original ideas as well as your own. Hands-on, encouraging students to make and try things on their own. Packed with practical advice, specific recommendations for tools, and the encouragement you need to revolutionize your classes, Ditch That Textbook will inspire you to create relevant teaching that gets student buy-in so they'l enjoy learning.

Matt Miller's debut essay collection, Leaves of Healing: A Year in the Garden, journeys through the garden year and the church year together to uncover how life in both realms can help us rediscover our bodies and our sense of time, thereby helping us reach toward the sense of wholeness we all seek. Following the cycles of physical and liturgical seasons from a residential permaculture garden in the Ozarks, each meditation combines reflections on labor in the soil with investigations of spiritual insights into the paradoxically timeless yet time-rooted realities of our eternal souls.

Tech Like a PIRATE helps provide the tools, ideas, and inspiration for educators to use technology as a treasure map to amazing learning. With a customizable set of principles for ensuring that technology is an asset, and not a barrier, Matt Miller's guidance will help all teachers - from the tech-savvy to the tech-terrified--create impactful, transformative learning using low- or no-cost equipment.

The rise of digital culture has left some teachers and their students distracted, divided, and overwhelmed. But Tech Like a PIRATE brings educators flexible strategies for creating classroom tech experiences that will electrify student engagement. You don't have to be a tech genius--just willing to try

Tech Like a PIRATE offers an accessible, engaging, and empowering toolkit for educators looking to innovate and engage their classes through technology. It's full of practical examples that are rooted in research, best practices, and solid pedagogy, and it's accompanied by a treasure trove of additional resources at DitchThatTextbook.com/TechLAP.

A beautiful and practical guide to calming anxiety and stress through spiritual practice by a leading Christian counselor.

God desires for His children to live abundant, joyful lives. He is also a Healer when human anxieties get in the way of the good life He intends. In fact, He has provided many ways to harness calm even within the hustle and bustle of modern life. This workbook features simple exercises and action-oriented steps that incorporate solid mental health strategies with Christian teaching about God's provision and healing.

The book guides you through:

• Gratitude practices
• Finding calm in God's creation
• Taking honest feelings to God through connecting with Scripture, praying, and journaling
• Letting go of what we can't control and surrendering to God

Daunted by differentiation and devices?

Ditching tech isn't the answer--understanding how to find the right tool for the right moment is

Don't Ditch That Tech provides practical ideas to help you find the sweet spot where classroom devices meet students' needs. In this teacher-tailored guide, you'll find tips on how to handle cart/lab scenarios, develop attention-grabbing strategies, build metacognitive practices, and more--all with differentiation in mind. Whether you're a tech newbie or the school's device guru, you'll walk away with new understandings and strategies for transforming and diversifying your approach to teaching in a twenty-first-century world.

Authors Matt Miller, Nate Ridgway, and Angelia Ridgway, PhD, bring a diverse range of perspectives to this useful guide. From their own classroom experiences they share practical suggestions for working within your classroom walls--and ultimately, transforming your students' lives beyond it.

You'll find ideas for how to use tech to . . .

• Personalize learning and add authenticity

• Promote metacognition and student agency

• Increase students' and stakeholders' access to your classroom

• And more

DON'T Ditch That Tech
Use it to transform your classroom

This guide is chock full of tools/apps, graphic images, classroom examples, methods, and practical tips for any classroom educator looking to try new things or further strengthen their current differentiation practices. And it's differentiated for teachers too

--The HyperDoc Girls (Sarah Landis, Kelly Hilton, and Lisa Highfill)

Do yourself a favor and buy this book You won't be sorry Warning: Be

prepared to see smiling faces on students and engaged classrooms when you do

--Holly Clark, author, The Google Infused Classroom

Anecdotes, exemplars and examples abound in this easy-to-read how-to for any teacher

--Jon Corippo, Chief Learning Officer, Cue, Inc.

Textbooks are symbols of centuries-old education. They're often outdated as soon as they hit students' desks. Acting by the textbook implies compliance and a lack of creativity. It's time to ditch those textbooks--and those textbook assumptions about learning In Ditch That Textbook, teacher and blogger Matt Miller encourages educators to throw out meaningless, pedestrian teaching and learning practices. He empowers them to evolve and improve on old, standard, teaching methods. Ditch That Textbook is a support system, toolbox, and manifesto to help educators free their teaching and revolutionize their classrooms.

How can Google Classroom help me teach better? Be more efficient? Make a difference?

YouTube tutorials, support pages, and how-to guides about Google Classroom's features are everywhere. But information on the features doesn't automatically translate to great teaching.

Do More with Google Classroom is the guide book teachers have always needed about this digital tool that millions around the world are using. Inside, you will learn how to . . .

• Set up and organize Google Classroom for success.
• Create great assignments with FREE templates and tools.
• Assess to truly know what students know.
• Save time for what matters most.

Use these strategies whether you're teaching face to face, in a hybrid environment, or are remote teaching or online teaching. You'll learn innovative ways to create assignments with Google Docs, Google Slides, and Google Drawings. You'll discover the effective ways to teach virtually through Google Classroom and Google Meet, Zoom, Skype, and other video conferencing platforms.

The book includes detailed infographics, links to articles and videos, downloadable resources, and more. Plus, it includes a companion website with loads of ideas to get you started right away.

It's written by a real educator Matt Miller taught in public schools for more than 10 years. In his career, he planned nearly 12,000 class lessons. He taught more than half a million instructional minutes. And he graded work for nearly 2,000 days of class. He's a Google Certified Innovator, and his blog, Ditch That Textbook, and five books have equipped and inspired tens of thousands of educators in more than 100 countries.

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Winner of the Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry, 2012.

With muscular language and visceral imagery, Club Icarus bears witness to the pain, the fear, and the flimsy mortality that births our humanity as well as the hope, humor, love, and joy that completes it. This book will appeal to sons and fathers, to parents and children, to those tired of poetry that makes no sense, to those who think lyric poetry is dead, to those who think the narrative poem is stale, to those who think that poetry has sealed itself off from the living world, and to those who appreciate the vernacular as the language of living and the act of living as something worth putting into language.

There is no hard and fast rule when it comes to gauging just how much or how little you should give a damn about what others think. Living in today's world has made it virtually impossible not to care; from displaying your most flattering picture on Facebook, to carefully selecting what words to string together to create the perfect status update, materialism and caring about what others think has slowly crept into the digital world-as if it isn't hard enough dealing with it in real life.

The key to a happy, satisfied life is learning where and when to give a fuck. You are not going to live forever. You need to be smart about your time in the world. So enjoy life while you can. Stop worrying about what other people think, and start focusing on what YOU think. It is not simple, and you will struggle plenty of times as you strive to get your act together, but it is worth the effort.

Get a copy of this book and stay happy always!

Miller explores the littoral zone; between the firmament of experience and understanding, between first breath and death, where strict definitions of gender, fatherhood, and masculinity swirl in the pull of tides and the curl and crush of waves. In these lyrical meditations, we are witness to our own drowning in family and history, in politics and love. We are dragged across reefs and pounded into the shore, realizing ultimately that the only way to avoid drowning is to embrace the maelstrom and breathe in the water. Miller was winner of the 2015 River Styx Micro-fiction Prize and Iron Horse Review's 2015 Trifecta Poetry Prize. He has been awarded a Wallace Stegner Fellowship in Poetry from Stanford. He teaches English at Phillips Exeter Academy, and lives in New Hampshire.

There are several books on unfucking yourself, but do they really talk about how to unfuck every aspect of your life? This book does!

Are you tired of feeling overwhelmed and trapped in a never-ending cycle of chaos? It's time to take charge and unleash the power within you to unfuck your life. In this eye-opening book, Matt Miller presents a no-nonsense guide to breaking free from self-destructive patterns and transforming your life into one of purpose, fulfillment, and joy.

With a refreshing blend of humor, straight talk, and practical advice, Unfuck Yourself offers a roadmap for navigating through life's messiest challenges. From tackling procrastination and overcoming self-doubt to cultivating healthy relationships and creating meaningful goals, this book provides the tools and mindset shifts needed to unleash your full potential.

If you're ready to kick self-sabotage to the curb, break free from negative patterns, and create lasting change, Unfuck Yourself is the kick in the balls you've been waiting for. Get ready to take charge, unfuck your life, and embrace the vibrant, fulfilling existence you deserve.

Warning: This book contains explicit language, brutal honesty, and the unfiltered truth. If you're easily offended or prefer fluffy self-help, this may not be the book for you. But if you're ready to get real, get motivated, and get shit done, then buckle up and prepare to unfuck your life once and for all.

Matt and Alice are challenging educators to fly again. To give up the shortcuts and the bureaucratic tools and actually go back to making change happen. Bravo --Seth Godin, author, Stop Stealing Dreams

Students hate it.

Parents wonder if it's worth the tears, frustration, and nightly arguments.

Teachers debate whether it's really helpful or just busywork that consumes their precious time.

One thing everyone can agree on is that homework is a contentious topic.

In Ditch That Homework, Matt Miller and Alice Keeler discuss the pros and cons of homework, why teachers assign it, and what life could look like without it. As they evaluate the research and share parent and teacher insights, the authors explore some of the benefits for ditching homework:

• Better education for all students

• Reduced stress for families

• More intentionality with lesson planning

• Increased love of learning

• More time for teachers to focus on learning at school and enjoying their after-school hours

And that's just the beginning. Miller and Keeler offer a convincing case for ditching--or at a minimum greatly reducing--homework. They also provide practical guidance on how to eliminate homework from your lessons. You'll discover strategies for improving learning through differentiation and student agency and by tapping into the way the brain works best.

Are you ready? Read this book and you'll understand why it's time to

Ditch That Homework

#DitchHW

Over the course of the twentieth century, African Americans in New Orleans helped define the genres of jazz, rhythm and blues, soul, and funk. In recent decades, younger generations of New Orleanians have created a rich and dynamic local rap scene, which has revolved around a dance-oriented style called bounce.

Hip-hop has been the latest conduit for a New Orleans sound that lies at the heart of many of the city's best-known contributions to earlier popular music genres. Bounce, while globally connected and constantly evolving, reflects an enduring cultural continuity that reaches back and builds on the city's rich musical and cultural traditions.

In this book, the popular music scholar and filmmaker Matt Miller explores the ways in which participants in New Orleans's hip-hop scene have collectively established, contested, and revised a distinctive style of rap that exists at the intersection of deeply rooted vernacular music traditions and the modern, globalized economy of commercial popular music. Like other forms of grassroots expressive culture in the city, New Orleans rap is a site of intense aesthetic and economic competition that reflects the creativity and resilience of the city's poor and working-class African Americans.

Offers the most plausible way to renovate our political and policy thinking to meet the challenges of the twenty-first century.--Joe Klein, Time

A leading political and business thinker identifies the greatest threat to our economic future: the things we think we know-but don't.

America is at a crossroads. The global economic downturn that began in 2008 has laid bare the structural weakness of our economy, putting the country through its most severe test since the Great Depression. Yet our political and business leaders have failed to prepare us because they are in the grip of a set of dead ideas about how a modern economy should work. Even the proponents of change in the Obama administration remain tentative in pushing the boundaries of the conventional wisdom.

But as Matt Miller shows in this provocative and influential analysis, the American economy will turn the corner only if we move beyond these outdated ways of thinking and recognize the ascendance of a new set of destined ideas that will reinvigorate our economy, our politics, and our day-to-day lives. And in a new preface, Miller shows how today's financial crisis has finally stripped these dead ideas of their power, offering hope for a durable recovery.

Collage of Myself presents a groundbreaking account of the creative story behind America's most celebrated collection of poems. In the first book-length study of Walt Whitman's journals and manuscripts, Matt Miller demonstrates that until approximately 1854 (only a single year before the first publication of Leaves of Grass), Whitman--who once speculated that Leaves would be a novel or a play--was unaware that his ambitions would assume the form of poetry at all. Collage of Myself details Whitman's discovery of a remarkable new creative process that allowed him to transform a diverse array of texts into poems such as Song of Myself and The Sleepers. Whitman embraced an art of fragments that encouraged him to cut and paste his lines into ever-evolving forms based on what he called spinal ideas. This approach to language, Miller argues, represents the first major use in the Western arts of the technique later known as collage, an observation with significant ramifications for our reception of subsequent artists and writers. Long before the modernists, Whitman integrated found text and ready-made language into a revolutionary formulation of artistic production that anticipates much of what is exciting about modern and postmodern art. Using the Walt Whitman Archive's collection of digital images to study what were previously scattered and inaccessible manuscript pages, Miller provides a breakthrough in our understanding of this great American literary icon.

Seriously Silly is a book of silly poems that are fun and engaging enough for children (10 and up), but are just as fun and meaningful to kids of all ages. Some are just ridiculous, while others have a little something more. There's a little something for everyone in here.