Student category: 717 books
Hanging Out and Hanging On
From the Projects to the Campus
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2014
Hanging Out and Hanging on: From the Projects to the Campus chronicles the progress of students from Hartford and Manchester, Connecticut, who are enrolled in the Dual College Enrollment Program (DCEP) at Eastern Connecticut State University. “Hanging Out” sets the stage for describing the program...
Writing and Understanding Poetry for Teachers and Students
A Heart's Craft
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2015
Grounded in craft, this book was composed on three premises: That the study and modeling of great poems is integral to understanding poetry and learning to write poems, that scaffolded learning builds a writer’s and a reader’s confidence and knowledge base and increases learning, and that teachers...
Common Sense Questions About Learners
Answers to Reveal Essential Steps for Improvement
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2017
Parents asked educators about their children’s learning. Frustrated when they were ignored, they asked politicians to put pressure on the educators. They were then surprised when the politicians provided personal advice about the optimal way to nurture learning. They were even more surprised when...
Gender Fairness in Today's School
A Breach of Trust for Male Students
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
This book traces back how male students are currently disadvantaged in school by instruction in an overwhelmingly female environment devoid of male role models, who can inspire the love of learning in male students. Further, teachers are unduly influenced by biases related to compliant behaviors which...
by John J. Schmidt Ed.D.
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2010
An expanded edition filled with ideas, strategies, and tools for school counselors
This Survival Guide helps counselors plan and implement an effective counseling program tailored to the needs of all students. Step by step, the book walks readers through every aspect of the school counselor...
Graduate Study in the USA
Surviving and Succeeding
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
The premise of this book is simple: if the chapter writers could go back in time and talk with themselves when they began their studies, what advice would they give? Isn’t hindsight a bonus? Each chapter offers this hindsight. The chapters are not personal stories, but useful lessons learned through...
CriticalService Learning as a Revolutionary Pedagogy
An International Project of Student Agency in Action
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
This volume will be a valuable resource to instructors who teach in the fields of teacher education, social studies, educational leadership, social work, social, cultural and philosophical foundations of education, sociology, political science, and global studies as well as their students. Due to...
Education is Special for Everyone
How Schools can Best Serve all Students
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2014
Reform in education has focused mainly on development of new programs and procedures to increase the achievement of the student in the classroom. Teacher evaluations are now based on how students perform in their classrooms on yearly standardized tests. The advent of integrating students with special...
Emotionally Intelligent Leadership for Students
Facilitation and Activity Guide
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2015
A how-to guide to help for facilitators and instructors develop emotionally intelligent leadership capacities in their students
The Emotionally Intelligent Leadership for Students: Facilitation and Activity Guide delivers a comprehensive curriculum for those who want to help students foster...
They're Not Stupid
Unleashing the Genius of Each Student
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
It has long been assumed that school redesign can’t happen in already existing comprehensive high schools. The thought has been, if you want to make real change, start your own school. While it seems expedient to follow this path, two decades of pursuing change by building new schools has left the...
Creating Effective Transitions
Moving from the Elementary Grades to Middle School
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2018
This book focuses primarily on elementary to middle school transitions. This book was developed with a two-fold premise: one, that educators and parents understand the role they play in meeting the basic developmental needs of individual students during times of transition; and two, that school leaders...
Dissent in the Heartland, Revised and Expanded Edition
The Sixties at Indiana University
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2017
During the 1960s in the heartlands of America—a region of farmland, conservative politics, and traditional family values—students at Indiana University were transformed by their realization that the personal was the political. Taking to the streets, they made their voices heard on issues from...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
The Autistic Self Advocacy Network is honored to join The Daniel Jordan Fiddle Foundation in presenting Empowering Leadership: A Systems Change Guide for Autistic College Students and Those With Other Disabilities, a resource for equipping the next generation of leaders in the disability rights movement....
by Marcy Levy Shankman, Scott J. Allen, Rosanna Miguel
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2015
The only instrument that measures behaviors associated with emotionally intelligent leadership
The Emotionally Intelligent Leadership for Students: Inventory is an evidence-based assessment of the capacities of emotionally intelligent leadership (EIL). Research that spans the globe has demonstrated...