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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...
Before Conflict
Preventing Aggressive Behavior
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2002
In Before Conflict: Preventing Aggressive Behavior, John Byrnes gets to the heart of the concept of aggression prevention. Rather than look strictly at violence and all its implications_fatalities, crime, and assault_Byrnes instead chooses to look ahead, in order to prevent violence rather than simply...
Motivating Teen and Preteen Readers
How Teachers and Parents Can Lead the Way
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
Computer games, video games, Internet, iPods, DVDs, CDs, texting, social media, and surfing: No wonder reading has a hard time competing for adolescents' attention. Research studies find that interest in reading diminishes after the fourth grade and continues through high school. Throw in a testing...
The Teachers' Lounge (Uncensored)
A Funny, Edgy, Poignant Look at Life in the Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2012
Teachers step to the front of the classroom every day and do their darnedest to capture their student’s attention and keep it.
But so many things get in the way: unruly kids, disagreeable parents, homes so broken it is beyond imagining, bureaucracy and red tape, the influence of technology...
by Kär-i-Êl
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
This book is about your spiritual jorney, is about awakening... When you let your human consciousness behind and start to accept and embody your Divine consciousness in your Life... This book is about how to be an Awakened Human, how to be a Divine Human, how to be a Human Angel...Angels are...
The Missing Link
Teaching and Learning Critical Success Skills
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2014
A glance at successful people reveals a simple truth: successful people employ successful habits. Yet in schools, amongst all of the information and all of the skills that are taught, few concern how to employ and internalize these key habits of success. These skills are expected, even demanded, but...
Betrayed
How the Education Establishment has Betrayed America and What You Can Do about it
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2011
In America, more money is spent from all sources on K-12 education than on the U.S. Department of Defense. Why then are so many children suffering what amounts to educational malpractice? Why are they crippled for life with a substandard education and a life-altering vision of themselves as 'incapable'?...
Saving Students from a Shattered System
Igniting the Passion for Learning
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2010
Based on real experiences of those in the trenches, this book describes a new delivery system of education designed to allow all students to succeed with the help of teachers who are led by their passion to do what is right for students. Lee and Budsisz take the reader step-by-step through not only...
Threading the Concept
Powerful Learning for the Music Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2010
This book provides both preservice and seasoned music educators with a unique and powerful way of teaching. The premise of the book is to offer a pedagogical approach that emphasizes focus on conceptual learning that is sensory oriented. From the musical concepts we teach_melody, harmony, rhythm,...
The Challenge of Greatness
The Legacy of Great Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2012
The Challenge of Greatness: The Legacy of Great Teachers reveals the characteristics and teaching strategies of Great Teachers. Simultaneously the book describes a Pantheon of thirty-two great teachers, and challenges the reader to continue their legacy by becoming one. Recognizing the uniqueness...
Success in School
The Essential How-to Guide for Students of All Ages
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
In nine cohesive chapters, Success in School covers the essential skills and strategies that are prerequisites to student success: how to promote a positive attitude, how to organize a work space, how to manage time, how to heighten reading comprehension, how to take notes, how to study for exams,...
Successful Schools
Achieving Excellence through STAR Theory
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2001
How can teachers ensure that every student who graduates is competent in subject matter and responsible in citizenship? Dan Kahler explains how, through the STAR theory: Successful Teachers Are Real. Not only are excellent teachers sound in pedagogy, they are genuine, empathetic, and have a high regard...
A Journalist's Education in the Classroom
The Challenge of School Reform
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2010
After an impressive career in journalism, David S. Awbrey became a middle-school social studies teacher in Springfield, Missouri, a typical American community that he uses as a compelling case study to explore many of the social and academic problems facing education nationwide.