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Reading, Writing, and Rising Up: Teaching about Social Justice and the Power of the Written Word
Reading, Writing, and Rising Up: Teaching about Social Justice and the Power of the Written Word
by Linda Christensen
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"My students walk out the school door into a social emergency, " Linda Christensen writes. "They are in the center of it. I believe that writing is a basic skill that will help them both understand that emergency and work to change it." This practical... (read more)

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Write for College: A Student Handbook
Write for College: A Student Handbook
by Patrick Sebranek
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- MLA and APA documentation and research paper styles- Student models of critical college writing forms- Clear guidelines for citing print and electronic sources- Writing process and Proofreading... (read more)

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The Book of Learning and Forgetting
The Book of Learning and Forgetting
by Frank Smith
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A renowned educator explains how schools and educational authorities systematically obstruct the powerful inherent learning abilities of children, creating handicaps that often persist through life. This book will help educators and parents to combat... (read more)

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What Great Teachers Do Differently
What Great Teachers Do Differently
by Todd Whitaker
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This book describes the beliefs, behaviors, attitudes, and interactions that form the fabric of life in our best classrooms and schools. It focuses on the specific things that great teachers do ... that others do not. Readers of author Todd Whitaker's... (read more)

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What Your Kindergartner Needs to Know: Preparing Your Child for a Lifetime of Learning (Core Knowledge Series)
What Your Kindergartner Needs to Know: Preparing Your Child for a Lifetime of Learning (Core Knowledge Series)
by E D Hirsch
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The Complete Guide to Service Learning: Proven, Practical Ways to Engage Students in Civic Responsibility, Academic Curriculum, & Social Action [With
The Complete Guide to Service Learning: Proven, Practical Ways to Engage Students in Civic Responsibility, Academic Curriculum, & Social Action [With
by Cathryn Berger Kaye
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This project-based guide is a blueprint for service learning—from getting started to assessing the experience—and integrates the K–12 Service-Learning Standards for Quality Practice. It provides ideas for incorporating literacy into... (read more)

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City Kids, City Teachers : Reports From the Front Row (08 Edition)
City Kids, City Teachers : Reports From the Front Row (08 Edition)
by William Ayers
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A follow-up to the classic collection on the realities of teaching and learning in urban schools. Of the approximately 50 million public school students in the United States, more than half are in urban schools. A contemporary companion to City Kids... (read more)

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Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
by James W Loewen
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Americans have lost touch with their history, and in andlt;iandgt;Lies My Teacher Told Meandlt;/iandgt; Professor James Loewen shows why. After surveying eighteen leading high school American history texts, he has concluded that not one does a decent job... (read more)

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Teaching with Voices of a People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn and Anthony Arnove
Teaching with Voices of a People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn and Anthony Arnove
by Gayle Olson Raymer
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Voices of a People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn and Anthony Arnove is a symphony of our nation's original voices, an embodiment of the power of civil disobedience and dissent wherein lies our nation's true spirit of defiance and... (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 Taliban’s backyard Anyone who despairs of the individual’s power to change lives has to read the story of... (read more)

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Everything You Need to Know about Science Homework (Scholastic Homework Reference Series)
Everything You Need to Know about Science Homework (Scholastic Homework Reference Series)
by Anne Zeman
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Everything You Need to Know About...Homework series are the must-have information resources for successfully completing schoolwork at home. These handy guides contain the facts and processes fourth-, fifth-, and sixth-graders need to complete assignments,... (read more)

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6+1 Traits of Writing: The Complete Guide for the Primary Grades; Theory and Practice
6+1 Traits of Writing: The Complete Guide for the Primary Grades; Theory and Practice
by Ruth Culham
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Why has the 6+1 TRAIT model had such a tremendous impact on writing instruction? Because it works. It allows teachers to pinpoint students strengths and weaknesses in ideas, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, conventions, and... (read more)

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Thinking Mathematically: Integrating Arithmetic and Algebra in Elementary School
Thinking Mathematically: Integrating Arithmetic and Algebra in Elementary School
by Thomas P Carpenter
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In Children's Mathematics: Cognitively Guided Instruction, Thomas Carpenter, Megan Franke, and Linda Levi helped tens of thousands of teachers understand children's intuitive problem-solving and computational processes. More important, the authors... (read more)

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Courageous Conversations about Race: A Field Guide for Achieving Equity in Schools
Courageous Conversations about Race: A Field Guide for Achieving Equity in Schools
by Glenn Singleton
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'The beauty of this volume is that it is designed to help lay people-teachers, administrators, parents, community leaders, and even university professors begin to engage in the emotionally and psychically difficult conversations about race. Glenn... (read more)

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The Read-Aloud Handbook: Sixth Edition (Read-Aloud Handbook)
The Read-Aloud Handbook: Sixth Edition (Read-Aloud Handbook)
by Jim Trelease
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The classic million-copy bestselling handbook on reading aloud to children—revised and updated For three decades, millions of parents and educators have turned to Jim Trelease’s beloved classic to help countless children become avid readers... (read more)

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The Well-Trained Mind: A Guide to Classical Education at Home
The Well-Trained Mind: A Guide to Classical Education at Home
by Susan Bauer
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Former-teacher Wise and her daughter Bauer (literature, College of William and Mary) draw, among other resources, their own experience of the former home-schooling the latter. Not a classical education in the sense of Greek and Latin, but an... (read more)

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Positive Discipline
Positive Discipline
by Jane Nelsen
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For twenty-five years, Positive Discipline has been the gold standard reference for grown-ups working with children. Now Jane Nelsen, distinguished psychologist, educator, and mother of seven, has written a revised and expanded edition. The key to... (read more)

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Earthways: Simple Environmental Activities for Young Children
Earthways: Simple Environmental Activities for Young Children
by Carol Petrash
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This book is packed with over 200 pages of art and nature activities that promote first-hand environmental understanding and teach children to become creators, not just consumers. Ideas for teaching about recycling, composting, and thrift are geared to... (read more)

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The Giant Encyclopedia of Arts and Craft Activities: Over 500 Art and Craft Activities Created by Teachers for Teachers
The Giant Encyclopedia of Arts and Craft Activities: Over 500 Art and Craft Activities Created by Teachers for Teachers
by Kathy Charner
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A comprehensive collection of the best art and craft activities for young children. The result of a nationwide competition, these art and craft activities are the best of the best. Just the thing to add pizzazz to your day! Activities include:Bath... (read more)

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Word Matters: Teaching Phonics and Spelling in the Reading/Writing Classroom
Word Matters: Teaching Phonics and Spelling in the Reading/Writing Classroom
by Gay Su Pinnell
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In 1996, Gay Su Pinnell and Irene Fountas presented Guided Reading, the most comprehensive guided reading resource ever published. Hailed for its practical, systematic approach, the book showed hundreds of thousands of teachers how to address the needs... (read more)

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