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The Civil Rights Road to Deeper Learning

Five Essentials for Equity

by Kia Darling-Hammond, Linda Darling-Hammond ...

Series series Multicultural Education Series
This concise and compelling book outlines the key civil rights conditions that are essential to deeper learning—the skills and knowledge that students need to succeed in 21st-century jobs and life. It describes schools that enable young people, including those traditionally furthest from opportunity, to develop into caring and critical problem solvers, effective communicators, collaborators, and ... Read more

$30.05 CAD

This concise and compelling book outlines the key civil rights conditions that are essential to deeper learning—the skills and knowledge that students need to succeed in 21st-century jobs and life. It describes schools that enable young people, including those traditionally furthest from opportunity, to develop into caring and critical problem solvers, effective communicators, collaborators, and
... Read more
Teaching Mathematical Thinking

Tasks and Questions to Strengthen Practices and Processes

by Marian Small ...

This new resource by math education expert Marian Small helps schools and districts to refine their teaching of standards-based mathematical practices. Small devotes a chapter to each of the eight standards of practice and includes a discussion of what each standard looks like in grades K–2, 3–5, and 6–8. Specific attention is given to helping students make sense of problems and persevere in ... Read more

$32.03 CAD

This new resource by math education expert Marian Small helps schools and districts to refine their teaching of standards-based mathematical practices. Small devotes a chapter to each of the eight standards of practice and includes a discussion of what each standard looks like in grades K–2, 3–5, and 6–8. Specific attention is given to helping students make sense of problems and persevere in
... Read more
The Early Years Matter

Education, Care, and the Well-Being of Children, Birth to 8

by Marilou Hyson, Heather Biggar Tomlinson ...

Series series Early Childhood Education Series
This accessible and engaging work introduces current and future teachers, child care providers, and others interested in early childhood education to the importance of the early years in children’s well-being and success. It summarizes the research on the value of high-quality services for young children, families, and society, showing why early education matters both today and into the future. ... Read more

$33.02 CAD

This accessible and engaging work introduces current and future teachers, child care providers, and others interested in early childhood education to the importance of the early years in children’s well-being and success. It summarizes the research on the value of high-quality services for young children, families, and society, showing why early education matters both today and into the future.
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Teaching in the Cracks

Openings and Opportunities for Student-Centered, Action-Focused Curriculum

by Brian D. Schultz ...

This engaging book shows how teachers and schools are creating emergent, democratic, progressive education amidst the current context of high stakes accountability. In this follow-up to his bestseller, Spectacular Things Happen Along the Way, Schultz explores how today’s rhetoric and restrictive mandates result in curriculum that fails to capture the attention of students. For meaningful learning ... Read more

$32.03 CAD

This engaging book shows how teachers and schools are creating emergent, democratic, progressive education amidst the current context of high stakes accountability. In this follow-up to his bestseller, Spectacular Things Happen Along the Way, Schultz explores how today’s rhetoric and restrictive mandates result in curriculum that fails to capture the attention of students. For meaningful learning
... Read more
Studio Thinking 3

The Real Benefits of Visual Arts Education

Edited by Kimberly M. Sheridan, Shirley Veenema, Ellen Winner, Lois Hetland ...

Studio Thinking 3 is a new edition of a now-classic text, a research-based account of teaching and learning in high school studio arts classes. It poses a framework that identifies eight habits of mind taught in visual arts and four studio structures by which they are taught. This edition includes new material about how the framework has been used since the original study, with new perspectives ... Read more

$37.07 CAD

Studio Thinking 3 is a new edition of a now-classic text, a research-based account of teaching and learning in high school studio arts classes. It poses a framework that identifies eight habits of mind taught in visual arts and four studio structures by which they are taught. This edition includes new material about how the framework has been used since the original study, with new perspectives
... Read more
ICT for Curriculum Enhancement

by Moira Monteith ...

This book considers the cognitive nature of courses connected with ICT or using ICT as an integral part of the course, including some views on the associated learning and teaching styles. Which factors lead to learning outcomes and are these intended or fortuitous? Factors may include ones specific to particular subject areas and their relationship with ICT, motivation associated with ICT usage, ... Read more

$31.94 CAD

This book considers the cognitive nature of courses connected with ICT or using ICT as an integral part of the course, including some views on the associated learning and teaching styles. Which factors lead to learning outcomes and are these intended or fortuitous? Factors may include ones specific to particular subject areas and their relationship with ICT, motivation associated with ICT usage,
... Read more
Paideia Program

by Mortimer J. Adler ...

Paideia is a holistic approach to life-long learning with roots in ancient Greece.The Paideia Program is based on the belief that the human species is defined by its capacity and desire for learning. The program itself argues for a public education that is at once more rigorous and more accessible. ... Read more

$16.99 CAD

Paideia is a holistic approach to life-long learning with roots in ancient Greece.The Paideia Program is based on the belief that the human species is defined by its capacity and desire for learning. The program itself argues for a public education that is at once more rigorous and more accessible.
... Read more
Successful Writing Strategies for National Board Certification

by Bobbie Faulkner ...

Series series What Works!
Successful Writing Strategies for National Board Certification leads National Board candidates through various strategies to help them write in the “National Board Style”. How a candidate writes about their teaching practice greatly impacts the success of their efforts to become a Board-Certified Teacher. Components the candidates submit depend on writing that is clear, consistent, and convincing. ... Read more

$23.66 CAD

Successful Writing Strategies for National Board Certification leads National Board candidates through various strategies to help them write in the “National Board Style”. How a candidate writes about their teaching practice greatly impacts the success of their efforts to become a Board-Certified Teacher. Components the candidates submit depend on writing that is clear, consistent, and convincing.
... Read more
Digital Tools for Learning, Creating, and Thinking: Developmentally Appropriate Strategies for Early Childhood Educators

Developmentally Appropriate Strategies for Early Childhood Educators

by Victoria B. Fantozzi ...

Helping Children Create, Collaborate, and Communicate—with TechnologyChildren are growing up with technologies as part of their daily lives at home and in school. For educators, it is important to understand how to use technologies to promote learning in developmentally appropriate ways. This book helps you make thoughtful, informed decisions that will enhance what you are already doing to support ... Read more

$18.71 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

Helping Children Create, Collaborate, and Communicate—with TechnologyChildren are growing up with technologies as part of their daily lives at home and in school. For educators, it is important to understand how to use technologies to promote learning in developmentally appropriate ways. This book helps you make thoughtful, informed decisions that will enhance what you are already doing to support
... Read more
Embodied Curriculum Theory and Research in Arts Education

A Dance Scholar's Search for Meaning

by Susan W. Stinson ...

Series series Education (R0)
This collection of articles by Susan W. Stinson, organized thematically and chronologically by the author, reveals the evolution of the field of arts education in general and dance education in particular, through narrative and critical reflections by this unique scholar and a few co-authors. It also includes contextual insights not available elsewhere. The author's pioneering embodied research ... Read more

$116.09 CAD

This collection of articles by Susan W. Stinson, organized thematically and chronologically by the author, reveals the evolution of the field of arts education in general and dance education in particular, through narrative and critical reflections by this unique scholar and a few co-authors. It also includes contextual insights not available elsewhere. The author's pioneering embodied research
... Read more
Reference Guide to Writing Across the Curriculum

by Charles Bazerman, Joseph Little ...

Series series Reference Guides to Writing Across the Curriculum
This reference guide traces the writing across the curriculum movement from its origins in British secondary education through its flourishing in American higher education and extension to American primary and secondary education. ... Read more

$18.71 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

This reference guide traces the writing across the curriculum movement from its origins in British secondary education through its flourishing in American higher education and extension to American primary and secondary education.
... Read more
The Social Studies Helper

Creative Assignments for Exam Success

by Denise Fawcett Facey ...

Based on the highest levels of Bloom's taxonomy, The Social Studies Helper easily integrates technology into every core high school social studies course as well as two electives. These creative assignments are designed to appeal to visual, auditory and kinesthetic learning styles as the students are immersed in research, role-playing, art, etc.This is the resource book that you will turn to again ... Read more

$50.21 CAD

Based on the highest levels of Bloom's taxonomy, The Social Studies Helper easily integrates technology into every core high school social studies course as well as two electives. These creative assignments are designed to appeal to visual, auditory and kinesthetic learning styles as the students are immersed in research, role-playing, art, etc.This is the resource book that you will turn to again
... Read more
Extreme Writing

Discovering the Writer in Every Student

by Keen J. Babbage ...

In recent years, educators have become increasingly concerned about the writing skills of students in elementary, middle, and high school. They wonder what can be done to build proper writing skills, particularly in a generation of students who may consider text messaging to be the only writing a person needs to do. Extreme Writing describes how teachers can build upon the eagerness and skills ... Read more

$55.07 CAD

In recent years, educators have become increasingly concerned about the writing skills of students in elementary, middle, and high school. They wonder what can be done to build proper writing skills, particularly in a generation of students who may consider text messaging to be the only writing a person needs to do. Extreme Writing describes how teachers can build upon the eagerness and skills
... Read more
Curriculum on the Edge of Survival

How Schools Fail to Prepare Students for Membership in a Democracy

by Daniel Heller ...

Typically, school curriculum has been viewed through the lens of preparation for the workplace or higher education, both worthy objectives. However, this is not the only lens, and perhaps not even the most powerful one to use, if the goal is to optimize the educational system. Curriculum on the Edge of Survival, 2nd Edition, attempts to define basic aspects of the curriculum when viewed through ... Read more

$49.22 CAD

Typically, school curriculum has been viewed through the lens of preparation for the workplace or higher education, both worthy objectives. However, this is not the only lens, and perhaps not even the most powerful one to use, if the goal is to optimize the educational system. Curriculum on the Edge of Survival, 2nd Edition, attempts to define basic aspects of the curriculum when viewed through
... Read more
Groups to Facilitate Motor, Sensory and Language Skills 2

Teachers Resource Series, #2

by S Kelley ...

Series Book 2 - Teachers Resource Series
MORE! Groups for early childhood and elementary classroom(can be adjusted for any age/ability group) to facilitate fine motor, gross motor, language and social skillsIntegrates the use of a puppet & classroom materialsProvides specific greeting protocol for group start and end to promote eye contact and engagementIncludes discussion on Common Core StandardsThe books in this collection are designed ... Read more

$11.08 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

MORE! Groups for early childhood and elementary classroom(can be adjusted for any age/ability group) to facilitate fine motor, gross motor, language and social skillsIntegrates the use of a puppet & classroom materialsProvides specific greeting protocol for group start and end to promote eye contact and engagementIncludes discussion on Common Core StandardsThe books in this collection are designed
... Read more
Number Sense and the Days of School

by Christopher Casey ...

Math is patterns. Understanding this fundamental idea is a key to a greater appreciation of mathematics. If students are familiar with various patterns in math, and are geared to look for patterns, they will have a better understanding of how numbers go together, and come apart. They will see relationships between numbers.This unit is a way to help students recognize, seek out, and understand math ... Read more

$12.40 CAD

Math is patterns. Understanding this fundamental idea is a key to a greater appreciation of mathematics. If students are familiar with various patterns in math, and are geared to look for patterns, they will have a better understanding of how numbers go together, and come apart. They will see relationships between numbers.This unit is a way to help students recognize, seek out, and understand math
... Read more
Critical Digital Making in Art Education

Edited by Aaron D. Knochel, Christine Liao, Ryan M. Patton ...

This book integrates the three fields critical theory, digital art making, and pedagogy, drawing from scholarship and practices of new media, social practice and community-based arts interventions, and arts education pedagogy. With a collection of essays from an international group of authors, we guide readers through steps artists and art educators use to explore digital media, using new media ... Read more

$49.22 CAD

This book integrates the three fields critical theory, digital art making, and pedagogy, drawing from scholarship and practices of new media, social practice and community-based arts interventions, and arts education pedagogy. With a collection of essays from an international group of authors, we guide readers through steps artists and art educators use to explore digital media, using new media
... Read more
The Curriculum

Whose Internationalization?

Edited by João M. Paraskeva ...

The Curriculum: Whose Internationalization? asks a series of important questions in the re-examination of the internationalization of curriculum studies. It reflects the work of the Internationalization of Curriculum Studies Task Force – created at the American Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies annual meeting in New Orleans in 2011 – in the context of new theoretical avenues ... Read more

$53.99 CAD

The Curriculum: Whose Internationalization? asks a series of important questions in the re-examination of the internationalization of curriculum studies. It reflects the work of the Internationalization of Curriculum Studies Task Force – created at the American Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies annual meeting in New Orleans in 2011 – in the context of new theoretical avenues
... Read more
Doing History

Investigating with Children in Elementary and Middle Schools

by Linda S. Levstik, Keith C. Barton ...

Now in its sixth edition, Doing History offers a unique perspective on teaching and learning history in the elementary and middle grades. Through case studies of teachers and students in diverse classrooms and from diverse backgrounds, it shows children engaging in authentic historical investigations, often in the context of an integrated social studies curriculum.The book is grounded in the view ... Read more

$126.30 CAD

Now in its sixth edition, Doing History offers a unique perspective on teaching and learning history in the elementary and middle grades. Through case studies of teachers and students in diverse classrooms and from diverse backgrounds, it shows children engaging in authentic historical investigations, often in the context of an integrated social studies curriculum.The book is grounded in the view
... Read more
100 Ideas for Secondary Teachers: Supporting Students with Autism

by Claire Bullock ...

Series series 100 Ideas for Teachers
No matter what you teach, there is a 100 Ideas title for you!The 100 Ideas series offers teachers practical, easy-to-implement strategies and activities for the classroom. Each author is an expert in their field and is passionate about sharing best practice with their peers.Each title includes at least ten additional extra-creative Bonus Ideas that won't fail to inspire and engage all learners.___ ... Read more

$18.26 CAD

No matter what you teach, there is a 100 Ideas title for you!The 100 Ideas series offers teachers practical, easy-to-implement strategies and activities for the classroom. Each author is an expert in their field and is passionate about sharing best practice with their peers.Each title includes at least ten additional extra-creative Bonus Ideas that won't fail to inspire and engage all learners.___
... Read more
Fundamentals of School Scheduling

by Gwen Schroth, Paul Terry, Anita M. Pankake ...

School administrators must constantly evaluate and refine school scheduling for optimum student and teacher performance. This book is for school administrators who need appropriate management techniques for scheduling students into classes. All parts of the puzzle are presented so the administrator can make wise choices about configuring the school day.Discusses a variety of scheduling formats ... Read more

$71.00 CAD

School administrators must constantly evaluate and refine school scheduling for optimum student and teacher performance. This book is for school administrators who need appropriate management techniques for scheduling students into classes. All parts of the puzzle are presented so the administrator can make wise choices about configuring the school day.Discusses a variety of scheduling formats
... Read more
Educating Latino Students

A Guide to Successful Practice

by Josefina Villamil Tinajero, Alma Flora Ada, Rebecca Benjamin, Jaun A. Contreras, Yolanda De La Cruz, Julia Rosa Emslie, Cecilia Espinosa, Maria Cristina Gonzalez, Cyndee Gutske, Linda J. Holman, Sandra Rollins Hurley, Jozi de Leon, Elizabeth Varela Lozano, Nancy J. Lucas, Paul Martinez, Karen Moore, Cecilia Navarete, Virginia R. Padilla, Irene Serena, Nancy Jean Smith, Alicia Salnas Sosa, María Luísa González, Ana Huerta-Macias, Elizabeth Quintero ...

Latino/a students are in a unique position in today's society; teachers and administrators are in an influential position in educating them. Community, parents, and educators alike are poised to enable these students to gain the education they need for success. Chapters by recognized authors and successful practitioners explain theory with actual applicable examples, demonstrating where and how ... Read more

$90.08 CAD

Latino/a students are in a unique position in today's society; teachers and administrators are in an influential position in educating them. Community, parents, and educators alike are poised to enable these students to gain the education they need for success. Chapters by recognized authors and successful practitioners explain theory with actual applicable examples, demonstrating where and how
... Read more
Present Successes and Future Challenges in Honors Education

Edited by Katherine O'Flaherty, Robert Grover ...

Series series Honors Education in Transition
Present Successes and Future Challenges in Honors Education is the first volume in an edited series examining the proliferation of honors programs and colleges in American higher education. While honors education has become ubiquitous in American higher education, this transformation has happened without systematic attempts to align what honors means across institutions, and absent a universally ... Read more

$26.54 CAD

Present Successes and Future Challenges in Honors Education is the first volume in an edited series examining the proliferation of honors programs and colleges in American higher education. While honors education has become ubiquitous in American higher education, this transformation has happened without systematic attempts to align what honors means across institutions, and absent a universally
... Read more
Reassessing the Social Studies Curriculum

Promoting Critical Civic Engagement in a Politically Polarized, Post-9/11 World

The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 dramatically changed many aspects of American society, and the ramifications of that horrific event are still impacting the domestic and foreign policies of the United States. Yet, fifteen years after 9/11—an event that was predicted to change the scope of public education in the United States—we find that the social studies curriculum remains virtually ... Read more

$40.85 CAD

The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 dramatically changed many aspects of American society, and the ramifications of that horrific event are still impacting the domestic and foreign policies of the United States. Yet, fifteen years after 9/11—an event that was predicted to change the scope of public education in the United States—we find that the social studies curriculum remains virtually
... Read more

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