How do we know what we should teach? And how should we go about teaching it? These deceptively simple questions about education perplexed Tolstoy. Before writing his famous novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina, Tolstoy opened an experimental school on his estate to try and answer them. His experiences there incited his life-long inquiry into the meaning and purpose of religion, literature, art and life itself.In this text, Daniel Moulin tells the story of the co...

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Practical strategies from experienced administrators on managing community relationships, setting goals, solving problems, developing staff, and more.While many books outline the attributes of successful school leaders, few describe how those traits manifest in daily practice. The Daily Practices of Successful Principals goes beyond the outward picture of excellence and provides a compendium of daily practices used by successful principals in various setti...

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THIS BOOK HAS BEEN PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED as the 'Millennium Phrase Book' It's filled with the same great content just a NEW updated title. 'The Contemporary Phrase Book'.Inside this exhaustive treasury you'll find fifteen wonderful categories intended for the hard working novelist, neatly organized, with many sub-sections ready to give your imagination a jolt. Of course there are wide ranging physical descriptions for your Hero/Heroine, Body Movemen...

Each of the four volumes in this set, as well as each volume independently, provide comparative analyses for researches, practitioners, and students of the law and educationIn examining law and education in various countries around the world. Designed to allow readers to learn from, rather than copy, the legal and educational systems in these volumes, the books are designed to generate thought and conversation on how education can be improved around the world. By having chapter auth...

Maria Montessori's work and thinking form a unique legacy to current educational thinking and practice. In this text, Marion O'Donnell explores the key themes of her philosophy of education and explores the relevance of Montessori practices today.In a thorough survey and synthesis of Montessori's thinking and work, this text examines the key aspects of Montessori education: child development; the learning environment; the role of the teacher; the role of the learner and parental in...

A guide for STEM students who want to excel—both in school and beyond.Based on years of research and interviews with successful scientists and science students, this book is designed for college students on the path to a STEM career, helping them avoid pitfalls and obstacles and find success both academically and in the real world.Like an experienced lab partner or a candid advisor, the book provides both realistic practical advice and encouragement, coveri...

How do you teach Shakespeare in school? This book provides five day lesson plans for over a dozen of Shakespeare’s greatest known plays. Lesson plans include: Julius Caesar, Coriolanus, Othello, As You Like It, Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, Midsummer's Night Dream, Richard III, Love's Labour's Lost, Anthony and Cleopatra, Henvry V, King Lear, and The Tempest. Each lesson plan may also be purchased separately.

Researching Education from the Inside focuses on research projects that are undertaken by people who already have an attachment to the institutions or social groups on which their investigations are based. They can, therefore, be considered to be ‘insiders’. In some cases their insider positioning is primarily important because it gets them access to the particular people and/or the phenomena that they want to investigate. At other times, however, aspects of their own ‘insidership...

Unsure how to hold a full-time day job, a second career as an author and have a life outside of working?This book provides not only the details on how to enact a plan that will help you achieve your goal as an author, but also gives you the tools to deal with the stress of juggling multiple jobs, making time for family/friends and committing to practicing self-care.Each chapter provides a roadmap on how to be successful by helping you define your goal, write a business plan...