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Teaching and Learning

A Model for Academic and Social Cognition

by Marjorie S. Schiering, Drew Bogner, Jorun Buli-Holmberg
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2011

Learners are multi-faceted, unique people. Discovering the whole individual is incumbent upon realizing the teaching/learning environments, common social and societal realities, and belief and value systems respective of academic and socio-societal factors that establish who one is as a learner and...
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Hip Hop Genius

Remixing High School Education

by Sam Seidel, Herbert Kohl
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2011

Many educators already know that hip-hop can be a powerful tool for engaging students. But can hip-hop save our schools? In Hip Hop Genius, Sam Seidel introduces an iteration of hip-hop education that goes far beyond the usual approach of studying rap music as classroom content and looks instead at...
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Reading, Writing, Speaking, and Listening

Keys to Your Child's School Success

by Kristen J. Amundson, president/CEO, National Association of State Boards of Education
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1999

Parents play a critical role in helping their children develop the communication skills so important for success in school ... and in life. This booklet discusses some of the ways parents can work with their children to develop these important skills. Set of 10 - ISBN 0-8108-4229-7 $21.95
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Cockeyed Education

A Case Method Primer

by Gerard Giordano, PhD, professor of education
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2010

Should educators pay students? Should they make them wear sunglasses, regulate their clothing, allow them to bring animals into classrooms, discourage them from playing videogames, or transform their schools into gymnasiums? These are some of the suggestions that Cockeyed Education examines. This...
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The Aptitude Myth

How an Ancient Belief Came to Undermine Children’s Learning Today

by Cornelius N. Grove, Ed.D., independent scholar
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013

The Aptitude Myth addresses the decline in American children’s mastery of critical school subjects. It contends that a contributing cause for this decline derives from many Americans’ ways of thinking about children’s learning: They believe that school performance is determined very largely...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2011

With Multicultural Perspectives in Music Education, you can explore musics from around the world with your students in a meaningful way. Broadly based and practically oriented, the book will help you develop curriculum for an increasingly multicultural society. Ready-to-use lesson plans make it easy...
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Joey's Story

A Portrait of a School Leader

by Joseph P. Batory
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2002

The twists and turns and influences of life that helped shape the career of this award-winning school administrator form a story worth telling and sharing with anyone who works or aspires to a career in education. The book is a revealing look at the author's childhood spent growing up in a large city...
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Action Research for Teacher Candidates

Using Classroom Data to Enhance Instruction

by Robert P. Pelton, Elizabeth Baker, Johnna Bolyard
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2010

Teachers are the single most important element in helping every child succeed in school. Action Research for Teacher Candidates has been written in the hopes of equipping teachers-in-training with the skills needed for action research: a process that leads to focused, effective, and responsive strategies...
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The Teacher's Gradebook

Strategies for Student Success

by Barry Raebeck
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2002

In The Teacher's Gradebook, Barry Raebeck, a practicing secondary school English teacher, shares the grading strategies that he uses so successfully with his own students. Ample discussion is given to not only grading techniques, but also to other important issues surrounding the philosophy and ethics...
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A Complete Guide to Rubrics

Assessment Made Easy for Teachers, K-College

by Audrey M. Quinlan
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2011

This book takes a developmental perspective at the use of scoring rubrics to assess student work. Citing developmental characteristics of each age, the author presents examples and adaptations of assessment rubrics on a variety of subjects for teachers from kindergarten through adult/college. After...
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The 12 Laws of Urban School Leadership

A Principal's Guide for Initiating Effective Change

by Sean B. Yisrael
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2012

The 12 Laws of Urban School Leadership was written to give urban school principals strategies for successfully implementing change, and achieving systemic reforms. The book also gives aspiring and novice principals a window into the real issues that affect the prinicpalship, and the circumstances...
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You Can't Do It Alone

A Communications and Engagement Manual for School Leaders Committed to Reform

by Jean Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011

Experts and reformers have suggested many promising ideas for improving schools and ramping up student learning, but in too many cases, proposals for change run up against resistance, confusion, and anxiety from key stakeholders such as teachers, parents, students, and members of the broader public....
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Faulty Assumptions

Taking Custody of Your Classroom

by William Miller
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2013

Why do some students thumb their nose at a good education, disrupt everyone’s day at every turn, and pretty much subject themselves to a lifetime of compromise and want? This unique book is based on a decade of hands on experience and research dealing with thousands of students in regular education,...
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Educating Elites

Class Privilege and Educational Advantage

by Beth Cooper Benjamin, Peter W. Cookson Jr, Raygine DiAquoi
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2010

The gaze of educational researchers has traditionally been turned 'down' toward the experiences of communities deemed at-risk, presumably with the purpose of improving their plight. Indeed, theorizing about the relationship between education, culture, and society has typically emerged from the study...
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