Tina Allen: 11 books
Invitational Education and Practice in Higher Education
An International Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
This edited collection examines the means to create, maintain, and enhance welcoming colleges and universities in the United States and abroad with personal accounts, case studies, models, programs, and other frameworks written by practitioners in higher education. The contributors explain how they...
Hiding Out
A Memoir of Drugs, Deception, and Double Lives
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
“[Hiding Out] brims with drunkenness, sexuality and urgency...a “can’t-put-down” read." — Washington Post
Actress and playwright Tina Alexis Allen’s audacious memoir unravels her privileged suburban Catholic upbringing that was shaped by her formidable father—a man whose...
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Turn Dinnertime into Family Time with 100 Assemble-and-Freeze Meals
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
"What's for dinner?"
If the sound of those three words sends you reeling or, worse, straight to the nearest fast-food chain or take-out joint, then relax. Dream Dinners will change all that forever.
With their new cookbook, Stephanie Allen and Tina Kuna, founders of Dream Dinners,...
Facilitating for Learning
Tools for Teacher Groups of All Kinds
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
“I have had the good fortune to watch both David and Tina facilitate learning groups and have learned from the power of their modeling. . . . I am delighted that they have gathered their wisdom here in this volume to share with others eager to embark on the journey and experience the joys of...
The Facilitator's Book of Questions
Resources for Looking Together at Student and Teacher Work
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This book is an essential tool for facilitators of groups using protocols, or structured conversations, to collaboratively review student and teacher work. A follow-up to Looking Together at Student Work and Assessing Student Learning, this resource considers the purposes for engaging in collaborative...
Funny People: The Playboy Interview
50 Years of the Playboy Interview
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Laugh along with the men (and woman) who used comedy to reveal the human condition in probing, wide-ranging and provocative interviews that first appeared in Playboy magazine. From the seven-dirty words of George Carlin to the nothingness of Jerry Seinfeld to the political satire of Stephen Colbert,...
Bill Gibson
Pioneering Bionic Ear Surgeon
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2017
During his distinguished career as an ear, nose and throat surgeon, Professor Bill Gibson gained a reputation as a world-expert in Ménière's disease and cochlear implant surgery. In 1984, he restored the hearing of two young women who were some of the first to receive the bionic ear, developed by...
The Hour That Matters Most
The Surprising Power of the Family Meal
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011
The facts are on the table. Dinnertime is truly the most important hour in a day that a family can spend together. Focusing on the family meal, this book will help strengthen families by showing them how to reclaim this important time in order to build relationships, draw closer to one another, and...
by Melissa Allen Heath, Tina Taylor Dyches, Mary Anne Prater
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2013
Featuring 20 selected bully-themed children's picture books, this teacher-friendly resource book offers lesson plans and activities to assist educators in strengthening bystander support against bullying.
by Tina Blythe, David Allen, Barbara Schieffelin Powell
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This updated third edition provides teachers and administrators with strategies and resources for examining and discussing student work, such as essays, math problems, projects, artwork, and more. The authors describe two ways of looking together at student work—The Tuning Protocol and The Collaborative...
Protocols in the Classroom
Tools to Help Students Read, Write, Think, and Collaborate
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
For nearly 2 decades, Looking Together at Student Work and The Power of Protocols have sustained educators in their professional learning. Protocols in the Classroom expands the scope of those books from teachers’ professional learning to include students’ learning, providing teachers with the...