S G Grant: 17 books
Reforming Reading, Writing, and Mathematics
Teachers' Responses and the Prospects for Systemic Reform
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
In this book S.G. Grant reports his study of how four Michigan elementary school teachers manage a range of reforms (such as new tests, textbooks, and curriculum frameworks) in three different school subjects (reading, writing, and mathematics). Two significant findings emerge from his comparison...
by S.G. Grant
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
David had never been one for hiking but, under the insistence of his best friend's younger sister, he had agreed to spend the last Saturday of October walking on Dartmoor. It hadn't sounded like such a bad idea at the time, at least until they got caught in a thunderstorm. But there are...
by S.G. Grant
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2017
Six weeks ago Lewis almost died stopping Anthony’s coronation. In his absence something has been attacking the city after dark. What are the creatures and where are they coming from? What else lurks in the forest beyond Tristan’s walls? Could the creatures be connected to the nightmares of a nine...
by S.G. Grant
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
Emily Bridwell was hand-picked by King Vandemark to become a Sister of Tristan when she was only a year old. But, as an orphan filling a role normally reserved for the rich and entitled she has never felt more alone. When King Vandemark is poisoned he turns to Emily, asking her to leave the castle...
Teaching History with Big Ideas
Cases of Ambitious Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2010
In the case studies that make up the bulk of this book, middle and high school history teachers describe the decisions and plans and the problems and possibilities they encountered as they ratcheted up their instruction through the use of big ideas. Framing a teaching unit around a question such as...
Inquiry-Based Practice in Social Studies Education
Understanding the Inquiry Design Model
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
Written by the lead authors of the C3 Framework, *Inquiry-Based Practice in Social Studies Education: Understanding the Inquiry Design Model *presents a conceptual base for shaping the classroom experience through inquiry-based teaching and learning. Using their Inquiry Design Model (IDM), the authors...
Elementary Social Studies
Constructing a Powerful Approach to Teaching and Learning
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014
Organized around four commonplaces of education—learners and learning, subject matter, teachers and teaching, and classroom environment—Elementary Social Studies provides a rich and ambitious framework to help social studies teachers achieve powerful teaching and learning results. By blending...
History Lessons
Teaching, Learning, and Testing in U.S. High School Classrooms
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
In this book, extended case studies of two veteran teachers and their students are combined with the extant research literature to explore current issues of teaching, learning, and testing U.S. history. It is among the first to examine these issues together and in interaction. While the two teachers...
Containing Health Benefit Costs
The Self-Insurance Option
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The springboard for this sixth volume in the Industry and Health Care series was a conference sponsored by the Center for Industry and Health Care of Boston University on June 9 and 10, 1978. That conference had a gradual genesis. Over a year ago we spent some time with Kevin Stokeld of Deere and...
by Wilkie Collins, Arthur Conan Doyle, Arthur Morrison
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
The theme of this Megapack is classic mystery and crime fiction from the Victorian era. We have taken the liberty of extending the qualifying publication dates to the end of World War I, since that event marked more of a turning point in world literature than the advent of the Edwardian Age. Certainly...
Fortress of Terror: 550+ Horror Classics, Supernatural Mysteries & Macabre Tales
The Phantom of the Opera, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Turn of the Screw, The Dunwich Horror, Frankenstein, The Vampire, Dracula, A Haunted Island, Black Magic, The Beetle, The Picture of Dorian Gray…
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2018
Musaicum Books presents to you this unique collection, designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Content: Edgar Allan Poe: The Tell-Tale Heart The Cask of Amontillado The Black Cat… Henry James: The Turn of the Screw The Ghostly Rental…...
THE SPELL HAS BEGUN: 550+ Supernatural Mysteries, Macabre & Horror Classics
Black Magic, Sweeney Todd, The Vampyre, Dracula, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Frankenstein, The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Tell-Tale Heart, A Haunted Island, Northanger Abbey, The Horla, The Willows…
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2018
This meticulously edited horror collection is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: Mary Shelley: Frankenstein The Mortal Immortal… John William Polidori: The Vampyre Bram Stoker: Dracula The Jewel of Seven Stars… Gaston Leroux: The Phantom of the Opera Marjorie...
by Dr. Ian G. Baird, Corey L. Bell, Dr. Stephen C. Berkwitz
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2016
This book introduces contemporary Buddhists from across Asia and from various walks of life. Eschewing traditional hagiographies, the editors have collected sixty-six profiles of individuals who would be excluded from most Buddhist histories and ethnographies. In addition to monks and nuns, readers...
Supporting Students with Special Health Care Needs
Guidelines and Procedures for Schools, Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Essential for every school health office, this fully illustrated reference is the ultimate guide to caring for and supporting children with special health care needs in educational settings. A comprehensive update of the classic guide school nurses trust, this authoritative book compiles the latest...
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