Keen Babbage: 10 books
The Conscience of a Teacher
More Than Fulfilling a Contract
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2015
The Conscience of a Teacher encourages readers to think deeply about what actions are right for teachers to take in their work with students. Babbage asks teachers to concentrate on doing what is right and on being conscientious. Conscience, ethics, virtue, integrity, and honor are emphasized as well....
Reform Doesn't Work
Grassroots Efforts Can Provide Answers to School Improvement
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
Where does education happen? In classrooms. Teachers can provide the ultimate reform of education and teachers can be the ultimate reformers of education. Still, teachers cannot create all of the needed improvements in education alone. Input from, involvement from, ideas from, and participation from...
Can Schools Survive?
Questions to Ask, Actions to Take
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2014
Can Schools Survive? raises essential questions about the current status of schools and about the future of schools. The book explores vital questions to answer and considers actions to take so schools can begin to thrive. This book will raise the issue of the purpose of a school and the related issue...
by Keen Babbage
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2014
Extreme Teaching, Second Edition continues the important events in the career of Jason Prather, an outstanding teacher who became an exemplary school administrator. This book emphasizes Jason’s transition from teacher to school administrator, as he promises himself that he will do the work of a...
The Dream and the Reality of Teaching
Becoming the Best Teacher Students Ever Had
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2011
The dream of teaching is that a career in teaching can be fascinating, meaningful, inspiring, and rewarding. The reality of teaching is that a career in teaching can be exhausting, frustrating, heart-breaking, and disappointing. How can the dream endure and thrive while the reality is confronted and...
by Keen J. Babbage
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 1996
Have you ever left a meeting feeling that nothing had actually been accomplished? This book provides you with the keys to running a successful and efficient meeting. Babbage begins with a section on how to prepare effectively for a meeting, methods for running a concise meeting, and finishes with...
Extreme Writing
Discovering the Writer in Every Student
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2010
In recent years, educators have become increasingly concerned about the writing skills of students in elementary, middle, and high school. They wonder what can be done to build proper writing skills, particularly in a generation of students who may consider text messaging to be the only writing a...
The Power of Middle School
Maximizing These Vital Years
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2012
The middle school years are a maze of academic duties, human growth and self-development, discovering self identity, and increasing social interaction with other people. This maze can be an adventure of achievement and opportunity, or it can be a struggle of difficulty and disappointment. As these...
Teachers Know What Works
Experience, Not Statistics, Confirms What Will Work
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
Education works better when teachers can concentrate on teaching and on students instead of concentrating on meticulous implementation of ever-changing political reforms of education or on laborious implementation of increasingly bureaucratic, mechanical procedures which are mandated by the education...
The Extreme Principle
What Matters Most, What Works Best
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2010
The Extreme Principle is to do what matters most and to do what works best. When educational decisions and actions are guided by The Extreme Principle, results improve. The Extreme Principle helps teachers, school administrators, superintendents, school board members, and politicians make decisions...