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Music on Mars: Why Creativity Is Tomorrow's Critical Ability, and How to Develop Yours Today - Paperback

$19.44

by Neil Moore (Author) Number of Pages: 182 Dimensions: 0.42 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: February 25, 2025

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Hidden in Blackness: Being Black and Being an Immigrant in U.S. Schools and Colleges - Paperback

$76.86

by Chrystal A. George Mwangi (Author), Adaurennaya C. Onyewuenyi (Author), Janice B. Fournillier (Foreword by) Hidden in Blackness analyzes the experiences, perspectives, and development of Black immigrant students, while also complicating how race, ethnicity, nativity, and nationality are understood across the P-20 education landscape. The authors unpack how Blackness and anti-Black racism in the United States can foster Black immigrants becoming hidden in Blackness in schools and education ...

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Youth Participatory Action Research in Your Classroom: Teaching and Learning for Active Citizenship - Paperback

$64.89

by Beth C. Rubin (Author), Thea Renda Abu El-Haj (Foreword by), Wayne Journell (Editor)Youth participatory action research can turn your classroom into a site of meaningful, relevant civic learning, in which young people gain a sense of civic empowerment as they discuss, investigate, analyze, and speak with authority on issues that directly affect them and their communities. Through stories, examples, and the reflections of youth and adults who have participated in these projects, this book d...

Lessons from the Bad Kids: The Realities of Challenge and Inspiration - Paperback

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by Vonda Viland (Author), Deborah Turner (Author)Picking up before the award-winning documentary The Bad Kids began, Lessons from The Bad Kids will teach us not only to improve our educational system but also how to become better people.Author BiographyVonda Viland leads the Morongo Unified School District's alternative program for at-risk students. With thirty years of experience in education, Vonda works with students who have been disenfranchised from the traditional school system. She and...

Challenging Learning Through Questioning: Facilitating the Process of Effective Learning - Paperback

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by Martin Renton (Author)Better questioning for better learningEffective questioning builds on natural curiosity, moving students out of their comfort zone and into the learning zone in a purposeful, accessible way. With this insightful guide, you'll fine-tune the three essential skills of questioning--know your intent, plan your responses, and stay purposefully silent--to elicit noticeably improved responses from students. Features include- Questioning sequences that work in any discipline- ...

The Family Guide to Psychiatric Hospitalization - Hardcover

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by Mark J. Russ (Author)A comprehensive and compassionate guide to help families understand and navigate psychiatric hospitalization.Each year, millions of Americans face psychiatric hospitalizations, yet this process often remains shrouded in stigma and mystery. In this indispensable guide, Mark J. Russ, MD, offers patients and families essential support and vital information to navigate this challenging process, from admission to discharge. The Family Guide to Psychiatric Hospitalization pr...

Music on Mars: Why Creativity Is Tomorrow's Critical Ability, and How to Develop Yours Today - Hardcover

$30.24

by Neil Moore (Author)All human beings, without exception, are profoundly musical. Even you!As ever-increasingly advanced technologies redefine life on Earth, and redefine what it means to be human, developing our creative capability is more important now than at any other time in history.As technology transforms our world, music education is also being transformed. New thinking and new perspectives are giving us a new opportunity to reconnect with something humanity created over 60,000 years...

Renew!: Become a Better and More Authentic Writing Teacher - Paperback

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by Shawna Coppola (Author)When was the last time you shook up your writing instruction? In Renew!: Become a Better and More Authentic Writing Teacher, author Shawna Coppola builds on the premise that our students are ever-changing, and so is our collective knowledge base.Author BiographyShawna Coppola has taught in public schools for over sixteen years. She currently works as a K-6 literacy specialist in Rollinsford, New Hampshire, and teaches courses and seminars through the NH Literacy Inst...

Emotionally Healthy Children: A Proven Guide for Educators and Families to Raise Confident, Secure and Resilient Children - Paperback

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by Helen Ober (Author)The emotional health of our children has risen to a critical stage.Imagine a world where consistency exists between home and school, both domainsencourage talking about emotions, what triggers them, what to call them, and the best wayto cope with anxiety and unhealthy stress. No longer would a child repress how they feel, act out with angry outbursts, and struggle with regulating emotions.This book is 2 books in one...for educators and parents. The goal is to equip teach...

Complete Guide to Public Speaking Tips and Tricks to Improve Skills and Give a Speech Without Fear and Anxiety - Paperback

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by LeRoy Jackson (Author)If you've been asked to give a public speech, you may wonder: what is public speaking, and why is public speaking important? Those questions are quite logical if you've never thought much about public speaking before. Public speaking is essential in both business, education, and the public arena. There are many benefits to speaking in public, whether you're an individual or a company.If you ask most people, they'll probably say they don't like public speaking. They ma...

Positive School Culture & Effective Leadership: Working Together for Great Results - Paperback

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by Michael Stewart (Author)There is a growing body of research concerning the important role of the school principal in cultivating a positive school culture. School culture influences all happenings in a school and therefore impacts on a school community and on an individual's behaviour, expectations and interactions with others. It follows that cultivating and sustaining a positive school culture should be one of the highest priorities for all school principals. To improve schools and stude...

Canaries Reflect on the Mine: Dropouts' Stories of Schooling - Paperback

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by Jeanne Cameron (Author)In Canaries Reflect on the Mine: Dropouts' Stories of Schooling, Jeanne Cameron invites the reader to see schooling and early school leaving through the eyes of high school dropouts themselves. The transcendent desires revealed by this research - to be known and valued, to learn with purpose and autonomy - are spoken with poignant clarity by the young people who story these pages. This study offers a compelling and timely critique of the dominant, neoliberal discours...

The Door Holder: The Art of Leadership Navigation: Transforming Challenges into Opportunities. - Paperback

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by CI? Gee (Author)Ci?'s book, "The Door Holder," is about transforming challenges into opportunities through small acts of kindness, courage, and selflessness. It demonstrates how everyday leadership can shape the leaders of tomorrow by highlighting true-life vignettes and practical responses to leadership challenges. The book emphasizes that leadership is both an art and a science, requiring more than just theoretical wisdom. Ci? draws from her extensive experience, portraying leadership as...

Deculturalization and the Struggle for Equality: A Brief History of the Education of Dominated Cultures in the United States - Paperback

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by Joel Spring (Author)Joel Spring's history of school policies imposed on dominated groups in the United States examines the concept of deculturalization--the use of schools to strip away family languages and cultures and replace them with those of the dominant group. The focus is on the education of dominated groups forced to become citizens in territories conquered by the United States, including Native Americans, African Americans, Asian Americans, Latino Americans, and Hawaiians.In seven...

The Family Guide to Psychiatric Hospitalization - Paperback

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The Book of Human Empowerment: Purpose & Mindset - Paperback

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by Erik Swanson (Author), Brian Tracy (Author), Brian Smith (Author)The Book of Human EmpowermentEmpowerment is more than a feeling or experience-it's a global movement. I'm thrilled to introduce you to The Book of Human Empowerment book series, a transformative collection that brings together 33+ remarkable co-authors and a select lineup of celebrity contributors, each sharing their personal stories, insights, and experiences on what it means to create, design, and live an empowered life. Ou...

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Hacking College: Why the Major Doesn't Matter--And What Really Does - Hardcover

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by Ned Scott Laff (Author), Scott Carlson (Author)How college faculty and staff can help students "hack" their college experience through a proactive, personalized approach to success.College is a complex, high-stakes game, according to authors Ned Scott Laff and Scott Carlson, but students can learn how to win it. Hacking College offers college advisors, faculty, and staff in student and academic affairs a groundbreaking guide to rethinking higher education so that students can succeed in an...

Smart Girl: A First-Gen Origin Story - Paperback

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by La'tonya Rease Miles (Author)Smart Girl: A First-Gen Origin Story is a memoir that redefines first-gen and Black student narratives that highlights mass media, pop culture, and sports as key to shaping identity, resilience, and community. In her memoir, Dr. Rease Miles traces the (sound)tracks of her life as she journeys through myriad K-12 public schools and several college experiences toward a PhD and beyond, battling self-doubt, racism, "imposter syndrome," and "survivor's guilt" to tra...

Handbook on Teaching Social Issues, 2nd edition - Paperback

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by Ronald Evans (Editor)The Handbook on Teaching Social Issues, 2nd edition, provides teachers and teacher educators with a comprehensive guide to teaching social issues in the classroom. This second edition re-frames the teaching of social issues with a dedicated emphasis on issues of social justice. It raises the potential for a new and stronger focus on social issues instruction in schools. Contributors include many of the leading experts in the field of social studies education. Issues-ce...

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by Daniel Reid Kuespert (Author)Research Laboratory Safety explains the most important prerequisite when working in a laboratory: Knowing the potential hazards of equipment and the chemical materials to be employed. Students learn how to assess and control risks in a research laboratory and to identify a possible danger. An approach on the hazard classes such as physical, chemical, biological and radiation hazards is given and exercises to each class prepare for exams.Author BiographyDaniel R...

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by Tracey Wood (Author)This manual offers practical guidance to parents of school-age boys on helping their child to read. Written by a teacher, teacher trainer and educational consultant, and endorsed by the Learning Disabilities Association of America, it answers such questions as: when does a reading delay become a reading problem?; how, when and where should I look for tutoring?; what about testing for learning differences?; how can I get the best help from the school?; how can I avoid (o...

Classroom Literacy Games: Fun-packed activities for ages 7-13 - Paperback

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by Heather Butler (Author)Children enjoyed it so much they didn't realise they were being worked so hard.Jo Miles, Learning Support Assistant at Manor Farm Community Junior School, Hazlemere, Buckinghamshire Great speaking and listening activity-setting-up ideas for the Big Write. The games extended the children's vocabulary. Purposeful learning - love it!Liz Pilgrim, Senior Teacher at Manor Farm Community Junior School, Hazlemere, Buckinghamshire Educational games played in groups or pairs h...

Discovering Religious History in the Modern Age - Paperback

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by Hans Kippenberg (Author)This book makes an unparalleled attempt to analyze the rise of comparative religion as a particular response to modernization. In the mid-nineteenth century and continuing into the twentieth, Western scholars began to interpret religion's history, drawing on prehistorical evidence, recently deciphered texts, and ethnographical reports. Religions that had been rejected as irrational by Enlightenment philosophers were now studied with enthusiasm. Using comparative met...

190 Ready-to-Use Activities Math V2 - Paperback

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by George Watson (Author), Alan Anthony (Illustrator)This unique resource provides 190 high-interest, ready-to-use activities to help students master basic math skills-- including whole numbers, decimals, fractions, percentages, money concepts, geometry and measurement, charts and graphs, and pre-algebra-- for use with students of varying ability levels. All activities are classroom-tested and presented in a variety of entertaining formats, such as puzzles, crosswords, matching, word/number s...

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by Molefi Kete Asante (Author), Molefi Asante (Editor)What is a person to do with the pain, anger, fear, frustration, and dismay of Black defamation and demise due to White supremacy's racism and anti-Blackness? Even more, how does one celebrate the triumph of surviving and escaping enslavement, establishing civil rights, and creating and promulgating renaissance after renaissance as social movements while inspiring the world to take note? Wonder no more. Dr. Molefi K. Asante has eloquently p...

Teaching Literature in the a Level Modern Languages Classroom: A Teacher's Guide to Success - Paperback

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by Katherine Raithby (Author), Alison Taylor (Author) This book provides essential support and advice on using literature in the A level modern languages classroom, addressing key concerns such as ways to approach this task and how to maximise the benefit to students. There are strategies for understanding works of different genres as well as ways to analyse plot, characterisation, themes and style, all presented in a logical way that allows existing teaching methods to be built upon. Includ...

The Kindergarten Building Gifts, With Hints On Program Making (1905) - Paperback

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by Elizabeth Harrison (Author), Belle Woodson (Author)The Kindergarten Building Gifts, With Hints On Program Making is a book written by Elizabeth Harrison in 1905. The book is a guide for kindergarten teachers on how to use building gifts in their classrooms to enhance the learning experience of young children. The building gifts are a set of educational toys that are designed to help children develop their spatial awareness, problem-solving skills, and creativity. The book contains detailed...

Argentina's Tactical Aircraft Employment in the Falkland Islands War - War College Series - Paperback

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by Gabriel V. Green (Author)This is a curated and comprehensive collection of the most important works covering matters related to national security, diplomacy, defense, war, strategy, and tactics. The collection spans centuries of thought and experience, and includes the latest analysis of international threats, both conventional and asymmetric. It also includes riveting first person accounts of historic battles and wars.Some of the books in this Series are reproductions of historical works ...

College Preparatory French Grammar (1898) - Paperback

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by Charles P. Ducroquet (Author)College Preparatory French Grammar is a book written by Charles P. DuCroquet and published in 1898. The book is designed to prepare students for college-level French courses by providing a comprehensive overview of French grammar. It covers topics such as verb conjugation, noun and adjective agreement, pronouns, prepositions, and adverbs. The book includes numerous exercises and examples to help students practice and reinforce their understanding of the grammar...

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by Eric Martone (Author), Michael Perrota (Author)Founded by the Sisters of Mercy in Tarrytown for members of their order before opening to women in 1961, Mercy College has always striven to positively impact the lives of its students and the members of its community. In 1969, the college became coeducational and nonsectarian. The main campus in Dobbs Ferry expanded throughout the New York metropolitan area, operating several branch campuses in New York City and Westchester County. The missio...

The Principal's Guide to the First 100 Days of the School Year: Creating Instructional Momentum - Paperback

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by Shawn Joseph (Author)For veteran principals, new principals, and aspiring principals, this book is a valuable resource for building instructional momentum during the beginning of the school year. Educational leadership expert Shawn Joseph guides administrators through five key areas: Vision Instructional Leadership Politics Data Planning With detailed timelines, practical advice, and ready-to-use resources, Joseph explains the essential steps to leadership success that will continue throu...

Transparent Design in Higher Education Teaching and Leadership: A Guide to Implementing the Transparency Framework Institution-Wide to Improve Learnin - Paperback

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by Mary-Ann Winkelmes (Editor), Allison Boye (Editor), Suzanne Tapp (Editor)This book offers a comprehensive guide to the Transparency in Learning and Teaching (TILT) framework that has convincingly demonstrated that implementation increases retention and improved outcomes for all students.Author BiographyMary-Ann Winkelmes, PhD, is director of instructional development and research and an associate graduate faculty member in the Department of History at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, a...