This timely book offers teachers practical tools that promote student learning and personal growth in our fast-paced information age. Building on students' love of text messaging, this book offers 100 "crisp and snappy" strategies that are easily taught, reviewed, and reinforced by teachers. The name of each strategy reflects its function, which makes the strategy easy to recall, easy to apply, and fun to use. The strategies are organized around seven themes — Remembering, Communicating, Organizing, Discovering, Understanding, Creating, and Living Well — that represent general teaching goals. provides teachers with a wealth of tactics to help students sift through volumes of content and develop life-enhancing strategies.