Student category: 717 books
The Seven Steps to Help Boys Love School
Teaching to Their Passion for Less Frustration
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
The 7 Steps to Help Boys Love School: Teaching to their Passion for Less Frustration is an easy to follow, humorous book with practical, researched strategies for ensuring boys success in school, home, and in their future pursuits. This book is built upon the 7 Es of Excellent Education with step-by-step...
Digital Generations
Children, Young People, and the New Media
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Computer games, the Internet, and other new communications media are often seen to pose threats and dangers to young people, but they also provide new opportunities for creativity and self-determination. As we start to look beyond the immediate hopes and fears that new technologies often provoke,...
Changing Curriculum through Stories
Character Education for Ages 10-12
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2017
Changing Curriculum Through Stories: Character Education for Ages 10-12 is a book about transforming school culture from one that supports a culture of competition to one where an understanding of how we are 'All In it Together’ permeates what is studied and how. Whether the issue is ‘going along...
by Jude moxon, Catherine Skudder and Jim Peters
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2006
Put relationships first with Restorative Solutions for Schools. This resource offers a vision of a safe and orderly school based on processes that promote positive relationships and empower victims. It covers the philosophy and practical application of restorative practices in schools and includes...
Cool Things to Do If a Bully's Bugging You
50 Classroom Activities to Help Elementary Students
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
Cool Things to Do If a Bully's Bugging You: 50 Classroom Activities to Help Elementary Students aims to help students facing bullying and other problems while they're actually experiencing them. The activities feature a multidisciplinary approach that encourages speaking, listening, reading, and writing...
Interrogating Whiteness and Relinquishing Power
White Facultys Commitment to Racial Consciousness in STEM Classrooms
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
Interrogating Whiteness and Relinquishing Power: White Faculty’s Commitment to Racial Consciousness in STEM Classrooms is a collection of narratives that will transform the teaching of any faculty member who teaches in the STEM system. The book links issues of inclusion to teacher excellence at...
Single-Sex Schools
A Place to Learn
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2015
Single sex schooling might appear to be an obscure issue on the sidelines of the educational policy debates of our times. But it is far from this. In fact, a sizable number of people and political organizations would like to make these schools obscure, but somehow they are “scaling up” rather...
Losing America's Schools
The Fight to Reclaim Public Education
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
Losing America’s Schools: The Fight to Reclaim Public Education is a call to save one of the last great democratic institutions in America. Corporatization, charter schools, misleading claims of skill gaps, the loss of Separation of Church and State, deprofessionalization, and the over–use of...
Culturally Relevant Pedagogy
Clashes and Confrontations
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2010
The authors in this edited volume reflect on their experiences with culturally relevant pedagogy_as students, as teachers, as researchers_and how these experiences were often at odds with their backgrounds and/or expectations. Each of the authors speaks to the complexity and difficulty in attempting...
Goat
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2004
NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE • This searing memoir of fraternity culture and the perils of hazing provides an unprecedented window into the emotional landscape of young men.
Reeling from a terrifying assault that has left him physically injured and psychologically shattered, nineteen-year-old...
Speed Trap
eighty robberies and fifty years
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
“In this personal account that reads like a novel,
Allen describes the exhilaration of his youthful rule-breaking behavior
as well as the crushing reality that followed.”
– William Stephens, Ph.D.
The Freshman Survival Guide
Soulful Advice for Studying, Socializing, and Everything In Between
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
A completely revised and updated values-based guide to navigating the first year of college that speaks to college students in their own language and offers practical tools that readers need to keep from drinking, sleeping, or skipping their way out of college.
In the four years since its initial...
by Maureen G. Mulvaney
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
MGM, the #1 Rated School Nutrition Speaker and Author, loaded this easy-to-read, emotion-evoking book with practical, proven strategies you can use immediately in your School Cafeteria to create 'Magical Experiences' for Your Customers–The Kids.
by Margie Erikson
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
There are many legitimate reasons to pull an all-nighter on occasion. Perhaps you've got to cram before an important test or finish off an essay, perhaps you need to be up at odd hours when it's daylight "Down Under" for a Skype connection, or perhaps you need to stay awake to finish off an important...