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The Achievable Dream
College Board Lessons on Creating Great Schools
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2012
The Achievable Dream: College Board Lessons on Creating Great Schools is an inspiring look at solutions to the challenges facing education in America, from one of the nation's leading authorities. Based on the personal observations of Gaston Caperton, President of the College Board and former Governor...
Finding Your Smile Again
A Child Care Professional's Guide to Reducing Stress and Avoiding Burnout
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Using warmth and humor, this book offers techniques for dealing with the everyday stress of being a childcare professional. Written by a caregiver who’s been there, it describes the symptoms and causes of burnout, with advice to get through each challenge.
Montessori
Living the Good Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
Montessori: Living the Good Life will surprise you more than you can imagine. With a masters degree in theology, author Connie Ripley Lujan delves deep into Marias spiritual understanding of the roots of war. Passionately she explains how we can make a difference.
Maria Montessori discovered...
The Bridge to Brilliance
How One Woman and One Community Are Inspiring the World
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
*Be inspired by the magnetic young principal who * “stands on the front line of the fight to educate America's children." (Brandon Stanton, author of Humans of New York ) and the book that Essence calls * * "Essential reading."
In 2010, Nadia Lopez started her middle-grade public...
Uncommon Learning
Thoreau on Education
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 1999
"It is only when we forget our learning that we begin to know," Thoreau wrote. Ideas about education permeate Thoreau's writing. Uncommon Learning brings those ideas together in a single volume for the first time.
The Best Teachers in the World
Why We Don't Have Them and How We Could
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
John Chubb shows how we can raise student achievement to levels comparable to those of the best nations in the world through a radically new strategy for raising teacher quality. He asserts that we must attract and retain much higher caliber individuals in teaching, which we can accomplish by reducing...
A Focus on Hope
Fifty Resilient Students Speak
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2010
Over the course of ten years, this extensive qualitative study focused on the academic resilience phenomenon. The research delves into the educational resilience experiences of fifty low socioeconomic students of color from a variety of racial and ethnic backgrounds. In addition to chronicling specific...
by Maria Morales
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2005
I started writing my book the first day that I started taking classes at College of the Canyons. I didn't write the book in printing, I wrote in my heart.
The title of my book is My Graduation, because I finished the day I graduated. I took my first class in the spring semester of 1989, my...
by Jason White
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2018
A short, pocket guide to inform you on what you will need and need to know for the zombie apocalypse.
The Chain of Happiness
10 Tips for a Happy and Healthy Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
Depression is one of the leading mental health diseases faced by the majority of the population today. Suicide rates are at an all-time high and the number of people who've had suicide tendencies at least once in their lifetime is also alarming. In such a world where people spend more time in front...
by William F. Pinar
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
This primer for teachers (prospective and practicing) asks readers to question the historical present and their relation to it, and in so doing, to construct their own understandings of what it means to teach, to study, to become "educated" in the present moment.
Curriculum theory...
Whole Child, Whole School
Applying Theory to Practice in a Community School
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012
This book provides a unique examination on the ways in which educating the whole child in the community school serves to ameliorate the conditions of poverty and obstacles to learning faced by students. Using a case study approach the book will highlight the successful journey of one school that transformed...
Moving Ideas
Multimodality and Embodied Learning in Communities and Schools
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
What does it look and feel like to communicate, create, compose, comprehend, teach, and learn with our bodies? Reaching beyond existing scholarship on multimodality and literacies, Moving Ideas expands our capacity to understand the embodied dimensions of learning and stretches our repertoires for...
Mathematics Miseducation
The Case Against a Tired Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2005
Author and veteran teacher Derek Stolp has come to the conclusion that learning mathematics is of no real consequence for the vast majority of our children. This stance flies in the face of the conventional wisdom held among political leaders, business people, teachers, and parents that mathematics...