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The Complete Learning Center Book with CDROM
The Complete Learning Center Book with CDROM
by Rebecca Isbell
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Wake up your classroom with these unique learning centers and new ideas for energizing traditional learning centers. Completely revised, each learning center now has assessment tools and updated literacy components. In addition, you will find nine... (read more)

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How We Decide
How We Decide
by Jonah Lehrer
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From the acclaimed author of Proust Was a Neuroscientist, a fascinating look at the new science of decision-making and how it can help us make better choices. Since Plato, philosophers have described the decisionmaking process as either rational or... (read more)

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Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Pedagogy of the Oppressed
by Paulo Freire
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First published in Portuguese in 1968, Pedagogy of the Oppressed was translated and published in English in 1970. The methodology of the late Paulo Freire has helped to empower countless impoverished and illiterate people throughout the world. Freire's... (read more)

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Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace... One School at a Time
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace... One School at a Time
by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
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The astonishing, uplifting story of a real-life Indiana Jones and his humanitarian campaign to use education to combat terrorism in the Talibanandrsquo;s backyard Anyone who despairs of the individualandrsquo;s power to change lives has to read the... (read more)

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Primary Science: Taking the Plunge
Primary Science: Taking the Plunge
by Wynne Harlen
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When Primary Science was first published, it provided such valuable insight into the teacher's role in the science classroom that it quickly became the standard against which all other methods texts were measured. Now, sixteen years later, Wynne Harlen... (read more)

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Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada's Quest to Change Harlem and America
Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada's Quest to Change Harlem and America
by Paul Tough
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What would it take? That was the question that Geoffrey Canada found himself asking. What would it take to change the lives of poor children—not one by one, through heroic interventions and occasional miracles, but in big numbers, and in a way that... (read more)

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Teach Like a Champion: 49 Techniques That Put Students on the Path to College [With DVD]
Teach Like a Champion: 49 Techniques That Put Students on the Path to College [With DVD]
by Doug Lemov
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This special enhanced edition of Teach Like a Champion brings to life the 49 essential teaching techniques from Doug Lemov. In his best-selling book, Teach Like a Champion, Doug Lemov helps new and veteran teachers working with students of all ages... (read more)

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Teaching with Love and Logic: Taking Control of the Classroom
Teaching with Love and Logic: Taking Control of the Classroom
by Jim Fay
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Teachers often find themselves facing a variety of classroom situations never covered in initial training. This valuable resource helps teachers increase skills, enhance professional development and maximize classroom learning time. .Discover why Love... (read more)

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Creating Opportunity To Learn (11 Edition)
Creating Opportunity To Learn (11 Edition)
by A. Wade Boykin
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Boykin (psychology, Howard U.) and Noguera (New York U.) explore the social and cultural factors that influence the role of race in educational performance, and survey the literature to identify what makes certain processes particularly effective in... (read more)

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Death and Life of Great American School System (10 Edition)
Death and Life of Great American School System (10 Edition)
by Diane Ravitch
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A passionate plea to preserve and renew public education, The Death and Life of the Great American School System is a radical change of heart from one of America’s best-known education experts. Diane Ravitch—former assistant secretary of... (read more)

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Enhancing Professional Practice: A Framework for Teaching
Enhancing Professional Practice: A Framework for Teaching
by Charlotte Danielson
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Educational consultant Danielson presents a framework for effective teaching in grades K-12. Based on the Praxis III: Classroom Performance Assessment criteria developed by Educational Testing Service, this framework identifies 22 aspects of a teacher'... (read more)

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Teach Your Child To Read in 100 Easy Lessons (83 Edition)
Teach Your Child To Read in 100 Easy Lessons (83 Edition)
by Siegfried Engelmann
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Is your child halfway through first grade and still unable to read? Is your preschooler bored with coloring and ready for reading? Are you worried that your child will become lost in overcrowded classrooms? Did you know that early readers hold an... (read more)

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Mindful Teaching and Teaching Mindfulness: a Guide for Anyone Who Teaches Anything (09 Edition)
Mindful Teaching and Teaching Mindfulness: a Guide for Anyone Who Teaches Anything (09 Edition)
by Deborah Schoeberlein
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Mindfulness is going mainstream, and author Deborah Schoeberlein pioneers its practical application in K-12 education. By showing teachers how to tune into whats happening, inside and around them, she offers educators fresh, straightforward approaches to... (read more)

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Notebook Know-how : Strategies for the Writer's Notebook (05 Edition)
Notebook Know-how : Strategies for the Writer's Notebook (05 Edition)
by Aimee Buckner
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A writer's notebook is an essential springboard for the pieces that will later be crafted in writers' workshop. It is here that students brainstorm topics, play with leads and endings, tweak a new revision strategy, or test out a genre for the first time.... (read more)

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Teach Like Your Hair's on Fire: The Methods and Madness Inside Room 56
Teach Like Your Hair's on Fire: The Methods and Madness Inside Room 56
by Rafe Esquith
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Few teachers get the recognition that Rafe Esquith has received during his extraordinary career, but in this case, it is so richly deserved. In a recent poll, over 60 percent of Americans said our country is headed in the "wrong direction." As I read... (read more)

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Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools
Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools
by Jonathan Kozol
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National Book Award-winning author Jonathan Kozol presents his shocking account of the American educational system in this stunning New York Times bestseller, which has sold more than 250,000 hardcover copies.... (read more)

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The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education
The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education
by Diane Ravitch
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A passionate plea to preserve and renew public education, The Death and Life of the Great American School System is a radical change of heart from one of America’s best-known education experts. Diane Ravitch—former assistant secretary of... (read more)

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Pedagogy of Freedom : Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage (98 Edition)
Pedagogy of Freedom : Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage (98 Edition)
by Paulo Freire
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This book displays the striking creativity and profound insight that characterized Freire's work to the very end of his life-an uplifting and provocative exploration not only for educators, but also for all that learn and live.... (read more)

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Experience and Education
Experience and Education
by John Dewey
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Experience and Education is the best concise statement on education ever published by John Dewey, the man acknowledged to be the pre-eminent educational theorist of the twentieth century. Written more than two decades after Democracy and Education (Dewey'... (read more)

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104 Activities That Build: Self-Esteem, Teamwork, Communication, Anger Mangagement, Self-Discovery, and Coping Skills
104 Activities That Build: Self-Esteem, Teamwork, Communication, Anger Mangagement, Self-Discovery, and Coping Skills
by Alanna Jones
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...self-esteem, teamwork, communication, anger management, self-discovery, and coping skills. Each of the 104 activities is simple to follow, requires minimal resources, and includes helpful discussion questions for follow up.... (read more)

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