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"Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?": And Other Conversations about Race by Beverly Tatum Publisher Comments Walk into any racially mixed high school and you will see black youth seated together in the cafeteria. Of course, it's not just the black kids sitting together-the white, Latino, Asian Pacific, and, in some regions, American Indian youth are clustered... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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Eats, Shoots and Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss Publisher Comments We all know the basics of punctuation. Or do we? A look at most neighborhood signage tells a different story. Through sloppy usage and low standards on the internet, in email, and now text messages, we have made proper punctuation an endangered species... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Hardcover
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Teach Like a Champion: 49 Techniques That Put Students on the Path to College [With DVD] by Doug Lemov Publisher Comments 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) List Price $27.95 Your price: $19.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Elementary and Middle School Mathematics: Teaching Developmentally, Fifth Edition by John A. Van de Walle Publisher Comments A Message from the Author Research in mathematics education has consistently found that understanding and skills are best developed when students are allowed to wrestle with new ideas, to create and defend solutions to problems, and to participate in a... (read more) List Price $78.00 Your price: $26.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Positive Discipline by Jane Nelsen Publisher Comments 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) Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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I Am a Pencil: A Teacher, His Kids, and Their World of Stories by Sam Swope Publisher Comments "Swope's marvelous, moving book revives the teaching memoir . . . And takes it to new realms of tenderness, insight and humanity." -Phillip Lopate In 1995, writer Sam Swope gave a workshop to a third-grade class in a Queens school bursting at the seams... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $17.50 Used - Hardcover
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Reading Recovery: A Guidebook for Teachers in Training by Marie M Clay Publisher Comments Reading Recovery is a guidebook for training teachers to deliver an early intervention program designed to reduce literacy problems in an education system. Children entering the Reading Recovery program are those from ordinary classes who have the most... (read more) List Price $21.50 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Talking Their Way into Science: Hearing Children's Questions and Theories, Responding With Curricula by Karen Gallas Publisher Comments As the title suggests, this book treats classroom science as a particular type of discourse, with its own set of language and thinking practices. Gallas describes the content, structure, and practice of her child-centered approach, explains how the... (read more) List Price $27.25 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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How to Teach Art to Children: Grades 1-6 by Joy Evans Publisher Comments This book has it all — background information, literature resources, and concise step-by-step directions for 96 art projects that will help your students learn about the elements of art and then use the elements in the styles of famous artists. In... (read more) List Price $22.99 Your price: $14.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Getting Stoned with Savages: A Trip through the Islands of Fiji and Vanuatu by J. Maarten Troost Publisher Comments From the bestselling author of The Sex Lives of Cannibals, the laugh-out-loud true story of his years on the islands of Vanuatu and Fiji, among cannibals, volcanoes...and the world's best narcotics. With The Sex Lives of Cannibals, Maarten Troost... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America by Alex Kotlowitz Publisher Comments The New York Times This meticulous portrait of two boys in a Chicago housing project shows how much heroism is required to survive, let alone escape. Kotlowitz's story informs the heart. San Francisco Chronicle Amid the darkness and ever-present despair,... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Still Learning To Read by Franki Sibberson Publisher Comments The saying goes that children learn to read in grades K-2, and read to learn in grades 3 and up. However, teachers in grades 3 through 6 are discovering this conventional wisdom is wrong--their students have to deal with an increasingly sophisticated... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price: $16.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Kinder Dolls: A Woldorf Doll-Making Handbook by Maricristen Sealy Publisher Comments The reader can start with easy-to-make baby dolls, and then use the general sewing techniques to tackle the limbed dolls and clothes. The book features: ten different designs including soft, baggy, pouch, angel, sack and limbed dolls; colourful and... (read more) Your price: $35.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong by James W Loewen Publisher Comments Americans have lost touch with their history, and in Lies My Teacher Told Me Professor James Loewen shows why. After surveying eighteen leading high school American history texts, he has concluded that not one does a decent job of making history... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Courage To Teach : Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life (10TH Anniversary Edition) - With CD (07 Edition) by Parker J. Palmer Publisher Comments Celebrating 10 Years of The Courage to Teach I am a teacher at heart, and there are moments in the classroom when I can hardly hold the joy. . . . But at other moments, the classroom is so lifeless or painful or confused—and I am so powerless to do... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $14.00 Used - Hardcover
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The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life by Parker J Palmer Publisher Comments "This book is for teachers who have good days and bad --and whose bad days bring the suffering that comes only fromsomething one loves. It is for teachers who refuse to hardentheir hearts, because they love learners, learning, and theteaching life... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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A Mind at a Time: America's Top Learning Expert Shows How Every Child Can Succeed by Mel Levine Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [337]-342) and index.... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Everything You Need...Geography to Know about Geography Homework (Everything You Need to Know about) by Anne Zeman Publisher Comments With a refreshing new design and fully updated information, the Everything You Need to Know About... series is a first-rate homework reference guide for 4th- 5th- and 6th-graders and their parents! The newly revised and updated Everything You Need to... (read more) List Price $9.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Teaching with the Brain in Mind by Eric Jensen Book News Annotation Trainer and educator Jensen applies current research on how the brain works to the classroom, primarily to help teachers and other educators make decisions about both approach and content based on what the brain needs for its owner to learn. He starts... (read more) List Price $27.25 Your price: $22.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Guiding Readers and Writers (Grades 3-6): Teaching Comprehension, Genre, and Content Literacy by Irene Fountas Publisher Comments Authors Irene Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell have already helped hundreds of thousands of K-3 teachers engage, inform, and inspire early readers and writers. Now, with Guiding Readers and Writers (Grades 3-6), Fountas and Pinnell support teachers on the next... (read more) List Price $56.75 Your price: $39.00 Used - Trade Paper
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