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Musi-matics!
Music and Arts Integrated Math Enrichment Lessons
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2009
Plan an entire year of an arts-integrated mathematics curriculum with ready-to-use lesson plans and resources designed for elementary classroom and music teachers. Eighteen lesson plans combine the mathematics curriculum with music, movement, and visual art to enrich your classroom instruction and...
by Frederic W. Skoglund
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2013
Our schools now face a demand for productivity and accountability that is greater than ever before. Many school leaders are ill prepared to implement a system that will use real time data to monitor, manage and make the teaching/learning activity in the school more effective. This book introduces...
Misguided Education Reform
Debating the Impact on Students
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2013
Misguided Education Reform: Debating the Impact on Students argues for reforms that will help, not hurt, America’s public school students. Early childhood education, testing, reading, special education, discipline, loss of the arts, and school facilities, are all areas experiencing reform in the...
White Urban Teachers
Stories of Fear, Violence, and Desire
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
Stories of the lives of white teachers, as white teachers, too often simplify the complexities and conflicts of their work with students of color. Drawing on in-depth interviews with five white teachers, as well as on her own experiences, Audrey Lensmire provides generous, complex, and critical accounts...
Successful Teaching
Practical Ideas and Enabling Questions
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2013
Successful Teaching: Practical Ideas to Make It Happen is written for all pre and inservice teachers, whether they are the 20 year veteran who needs a renewed sense of purpose, new to the profession, or planning to become a teacher. It will also serve as a resource for administrators wishing to help...
Common Core State Standards for Grades 2-3
Language Arts Instructional Strategies and Activities
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2013
Common Core State Standards for Grades 2-3: Language Arts Instructional Strategies and Activities is designed to help teachers teach CORE standards using research-based, effective instructional strategies in combination with ready-to-use activities. These strategies include identifying similarities...
Level III: Student Text
hm Learning & Study Skills Program
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2000
High school students, whether preparing for college or career, need to learn greater independence and efficiency in their learning. Rather than simply teach them how to study, the hm Program emphasizes the need to understand their learning style, empowering them to adapt to new situations throughout...
Communication and Creativity in the Math Classroom
Non-Traditional Activities and Strategies that Stress Life Skills
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2013
Whether you are a new or an experienced teacher, Communication and Creativity in the Math Classroom provides you with classroom-tested activities and ideas which are motivating, engaging, and meaningful to students.
Traditional textbooks commonly feature conventional, un-engaging, and somewhat...
Parents and Schools Together
Blueprint for Success with Urban Youth
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2014
Parents and Schools Together shows administrators, teachers, and parents how to work together to produce high achieving students in urban school districts. We all know that in this fast-paced world of standards and commitments, it’s easy to forget what schools and parents are all about. There are...
Activating the Primary Social Studies Classroom
A Standards-Based Sourcebook for K-4
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2005
In this educational era of increasing emphasis on student performance, there is a definite shortage of high-interest resources through which teachers can effectively address the ten standards identified by the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS). Teachers need ideas for simple, low-cost...
Breaking the Mold of Classroom Management
What Educators Should Know and Do to Enable Student Success, Vol. 5
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
Classroom management is often perceived as the most overwhelming challenge faced by new teachers; it may also continue to confront more experienced educators as they encounter a new group of youngsters or face a new set of demands. Successful classroom management is invariably tied to student engagement...
Matching Your Message to the Audience
A Practical Guide to Structuring Language for New Administrators
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
Matching Your Message to the Audience provides school administrators with principles and practical steps for creating messages that encourage a positive response. The reader learns strategies for matching the structure, language, and tone of the written or spoken message to each reader or listener...
Common Core State Standards for Grades 4-5
Language Arts Instructional Strategies and Activities
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2013
Common Core State Standards for Grades 4-5: Language Arts Instructional Strategies and Activities is designed to help teachers teach CORE standards using research-based, effective instructional strategies in combination with ready-to-use activities. These strategies include identifying similarities...
Don't Gossip in the Teachers' Lounge
150 Tips for New Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
This book is vital for new teachers! Most of the tips in this book are not taught in education classes in college, but are learned through trial and error and only after years of experience.
This book will help the new teacher learn the inter-workings of school relationships, acquire classroom management...