What makes some students thrive while others struggle? This exciting book reveals how teachers can help young people become expert learners—curious, resilient, and capable of thinking for themselves.Drawing on educational and psychological research, this book explores three key themes—how we learn, the challenges of thinking, and habit formation—providing a clear practical framework to help students develop more effective, lasting learning habits. It explains how students absorb an...

Supply or substitute educators play a crucial role in keeping classrooms running and student learning on track. However, stepping into an unfamiliar classroom, with students you’ve never met and minimal guidance, is far more challenging than it may seem. Drawing on over 20 years of classroom and leadership experience, this practical guide explores how temporary teachers can navigate the complex world of unfamiliar schools, build meaningful connections with students, and develop a strong pr...

In Museum Metamorphosis, over forty cultural innovators and changemakers in contemporary art share strategies for building sociocultural relevancy and responsiveness in museums. Representing diverse perspectives from across the entire arts and culture ecosystem, the book offers tools to reshape museums into collaborative platforms for collective impact and social change.Part One features seven roundtables in which practitioners discuss best practices for dismantling barriers to entr...

What happens when life throws us a curveball? Usually, we deal with it in the moment and go on about our day. But what happens when the world is thrown a curveball — a global pandemic? The world is forced to pause.In this book, you will meet 21 courageous authors who chose to act when thrown the curveball of the pandemic. Like most of us, they were not prepared for the year 2020. But in each captivating story, we see how they met the challenging year head-on in their own unique and...

Edward Leigh Alfred lives a difficult life, dictated by the small people that live in his head. His best, and only, friend Elliot decides to relieve him of his burdens, taking him to visit a mysterious associate who practices hypnosis. Edward is skeptical, but Elliot is sick of it - could hypnosis really improve his friend's life?Through hallucinations, words the size of cows, and an enormous, devilish face, Edwards fights, not only for his small friends, but for his very existence...