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Engaging Curriculum
Bridging the Curriculum Theory and English Education Divide
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
Explicitly linking curriculum inquiry to English education via recurring themes of representation, democracy and knowledge, this book is a call for both researchers and practitioners to engage with curriculum, explicitly and deliberatively, as both a concept and a question. The approach is broadly...
Fighting for Our Place in the Sun
Malcolm X and the Radicalization of the Black Student Movement 19601973
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
In Fighting for Our Place in the Sun, Richard D. Benson II examines the life of Malcolm X as not only a radical political figure, but also as a teacher and mentor. The book illuminates the untold tenets of Malcolm X’s educational philosophy, and also traces a historical trajectory of Black activists...
by Bhagavan Shree Prasannaji
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2014
New Age Meditations are synonymous with uplifting the consciousness of the individual. These meditations are written by Bhagavan Shree Prasannaji (first spiritual guru in the world to create over 6000 New Age Meditations) while in a state of Samadhi. These meditations are going to surely shed light...
Hip Hop Genius
Remixing High School Education
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2011
Many educators already know that hip-hop can be a powerful tool for engaging students. But can hip-hop save our schools? In Hip Hop Genius, Sam Seidel introduces an iteration of hip-hop education that goes far beyond the usual approach of studying rap music as classroom content and looks instead at...
by Christopher Waterworth
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
Have you watched a YouTube video to learn a new skill and then fixed your car, sketched a portrait or baked a cake? How many times did you pause and rewind different parts of the clip? The biggest advantage of flipped learning is that 'You can pause and rewind your teacher.' ...
Beyond Words
Pictures, Parables, Paradoxes
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
Human thinking depends not only on words but also on visual imagery. Visual argumentation directly exploits the logic of the pictorial, while verbal arguments, too, draw on figurative language, and thus ultimately on images. In the centuries of handwritten documents and the printed book, our educational...
The Aptitude Myth
How an Ancient Belief Came to Undermine Children’s Learning Today
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013
The Aptitude Myth addresses the decline in American children’s mastery of critical school subjects. It contends that a contributing cause for this decline derives from many Americans’ ways of thinking about children’s learning: They believe that school performance is determined very largely...
by James Kemoli Amata
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2012
This book can be a good accident to You and others.
There are many activities that do not add value to your life. Those are activities which do not help you live a better life ten years from now. Identify such activities and spend your time on them.
I want to believe you will want to fail any examination...
Keeping Your Smile
Caring for Children with Joy, Love, and Intention
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Directed at all branches of child care including family child care, center care, preschools, and parents 2. Has connection to Finding Your Smile Again but is able to stand on its own for people who did not read it 3. Three sections address stress and burnout, how to act with intention, and how to take...
Building Equity
Policies and Practices to Empower All Learners
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2017
Imagine a school with a diverse student body where everyone feels safe and valued, and all—regardless of race, culture, home language, sexual orientation, gender identity, academic history, and individual challenges—have the opportunity to succeed with interesting classes, projects, and activities....
by Joseph Ssebunya
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
This book demonstrates that academic attitude is the starting point in the search for academic excellence. The book is written for students and counselors on academic excellence. It covers the skills required for successful studying and revision. Further it has unique lessons on how different examination...
by Fredy Seidel
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2014
Having a difficult time getting a raise from your boss? It may be difficult to get a raise from your boss in these troubled economic times. But as there are more ways than one to skin a cat so are there other ways of increasing your income. This self help e-book will show you various methods of increasing...
Culture and Learning
Access and Opportunity in the Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2006
The Visionary Director, Second Edition
A Handbook for Dreaming, Organizing, and Improvising in Your Center
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
An inspiring and practical guide to creating a larger vision in early child care, this popular professional development tool has been thoroughly revised and offers a concrete framework for organizing an early childhood center director's ideas and work. Updated and expanded, it reflects new requirements...