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The Booklover's Guide to Midwest: A Literary Tour
by Greg Holden Publisher Comments With its rich literary tradition, the Midwest provides a wealth of opportunities for bibliophiles to retrace the steps of their favorite writers and characters. The Booklover’s Guide to the Midwest is a treasure map in book form, pointing the way...
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Research Methods for the Social Sciences #21: Performance Evaluation: Proven Approaches for Improving Program and Organizational Performance
by Ingrid J. Guerra-lopez Publisher Comments This book offers a guide for practitioners, researchers, and educators for the understanding and application of scientifically based evaluations that are both rigorous and flexible. The book covers seven major evaluation models and the author, a highly...
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Teaching Students with Learning Disabilities: A Step-By-Step Guide for Educators
by Roger Pierangelo Synopsis Discover how to effectively meet the learning needs of students with learning disabilities ??Learning disabilities (LD) vary with each person and teaching strategies for students with LD must be responsive to individual differences. This step-by-step...
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Culture and Teaching Mathematics: Reflective Teaching and the Social Conditions of Schooling
by Crockett Michel Publisher Comments Mathematics and Teaching uses case studies to explore complex and pervasive issues that arise in teaching. In this volume, school mathematics is the context in which to consider race, equity, political contexts and the broader social and cultural...
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Higher Education Dynamics #23: Non-University Higher Education in Europe
by Josa(c) Brites Ferreira Publisher Comments This book represents the first-of-its-kind comprehensive discussion of the non-university higher education sector in Europe. Higher education throughout the world is facing rapid change. Despite the enormous attention devoted to that reality, this volume...
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Homeschool: An American History
by Milton Gaither Publisher Comments This is a lively account of one of the most important and overlooked themes in American education. Beginning in the colonial period and working to the present, Gaither describes in rich detail how the home has been used as the base for education of all...
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Reteaching Math: Data Analysis & Probability: Mini-Lessons, Games, & Activities to Review & Reinforce Essential Math Concepts & Skills
by Maryann Mcmahon-nestor Synopsis Some students may have difficulty grasping math concepts the first time they are taught. When this happens, teachers will need to use different approaches to reteach and reach these struggling learners. This book can help! Every lesson begins with a...
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Eight Essentials for Empowered Teaching and Learning, K-8: Bringing Out the Best in Your Students
by Steve Reifman Publisher Comments Using W. Edwards Deming's 14 Points of Quality as the philosophical foundation for this book, national board certified teacher Steve Reifman offers teachers a comprehensive approach to organizing and managing??elementary and middle school classrooms...
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The Diary of Laura: Perspectives on the Reggio Educational Diary
by Carolyn P. Edwards Publisher Comments This English translation of an educational diary follows a child's first weeks in a Reggio Emilia infant-toddler program. Professionals have contributed essays on using these diaries as models for observation and family-oriented programming. Laura, the...
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Diary of a Harlem School Teacher
by James Haskins Publisher Comments This classic work, long out of print, recounts the experiences of an African American teacher during his first year working in a Harlem elementary school in the 1960s. Though written more than forty years ago, the diary still rings true to the experience...
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Teaching in a Special Education Classroom: A Step-By-Step Guide for Educators
by Roger Pierangelo Publisher Comments Designed for professionals working in a resource room, self-contained special class, or inclusive setting, this resource provides new teachers with practical guidelines for beginning the school year as a special education teacher and offers experienced...
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Empowering Online Learning: 100+ Activities for Reading, Reflecting, Displaying, and Doing
by Curtis J. Bonk Synopsis This is an essential resource for anyone designing or facilitating online learning. It introduces an easy, practical model (read, reflect, display, and do) that will show online educators how to deliver content in ways that benefit all types of learners (...
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Supporting Youth: How to Care, Communicate, and Connect in Meaningful Ways
by Nancy Tellett-royce Publisher Comments Essential for adult youth leaders, educators, and other adults who work with youths, this helpful book offers valuable tools for providing supportive leadership to youth. An introduction to Search Institute's Developmental Assets®...
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Encyclopedia of Bilingual Education
by Josue M. Gonzalez Publisher Comments Encyclopedia of Bilingual Education in the United States Josu?? M. Gonz??lez, General EditorThe Encyclopedia of Bilingual Education in the United States is a two-volume work intended to be a comprehensive, first-stop reference work. It is tightly focused...
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How to Write a Pantomime
by Lesley Cookman Synopsis There are thousands of pantomimes staged throughout the world every year, most of them in Britain. This book is aimed at those people who take part in this increasingly popular hobby, and at the writer who wishes to write a pantomime, either for a local...
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The Political Use of Racial Narratives: School Desegregation in Mobile, Alabama, 1954-97
by Richard A. Pride Publisher Comments Arguing that politics is essentially a contest for meaning and that telling a story is an elemental political act, Richard A. Pride lays bare the history of school desegregation in Mobile, Alabama, to demonstrate the power of narrative in cultural and...
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The Literacy Coaching Challenge: Models and Methods for Grades K-8 (Solving Problems in Teaching of Literacy)
by Michael C. Mckenna Publisher Comments When the goal is supporting excellent teaching, there is no "one-size-fits-all" approach. This book helps literacy coaches and administrators navigate the many choices involved in developing and fine-tuning a coaching program that offers the best fit for...
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Creating Robust Vocabulary: Frequently Asked Questions and Extended Examples (Solving Problems in Teaching of Literacy)
by Isabel L. Beck Publisher Comments Bringing Words to Life has enlivened the classrooms of hundreds of thousands of teachers. Responding to readers' success stories, practical questions, and requests for extended examples, this ideal complementary volume picks up where Bringing Words to...
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Are You Listening?: Fostering Conversations That Help Young Children Learn
by Lisa Burman Publisher Comments Conversations take place in every early childhood classroom-between teachers and children, and among children. Are You Listening?asks teachers to examine these conversations and their impact on children's learning. Often, teachers use conversations to...
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Tested: One American School Struggles to Make the Grade
by Linda Perlstein Publisher Comments A “vivid, unpredictable, fair, balanced and . . . very entertaining” look at how education reforms have changed one typical American elementary school over the course of a year (Jay Mathews, The Washington Post) The pressure is on at schools...
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