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CompTIA CTT+ Certified Technical Trainer All-in-One Exam Guide

by Joseph Phillips ...

Series series All-in-One
"All-in-One is All You Need""This book coaches you through the five domains of the exam and provides effective practice exercises to prepare you with confidence. Thanks for providing the industry with such a great book!" -- Linda Hainlen, Director; Learning Solutions, Indiana University HealthGet complete coverage of all the material included on the CompTIA CTT+ exams inside this comprehensive ... Read more

$57.39 CAD

"All-in-One is All You Need""This book coaches you through the five domains of the exam and provides effective practice exercises to prepare you with confidence. Thanks for providing the industry with such a great book!" -- Linda Hainlen, Director; Learning Solutions, Indiana University HealthGet complete coverage of all the material included on the CompTIA CTT+ exams inside this comprehensive
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Brain Matters

Translating Research into Classroom Practice

by Patricia Wolfe ...

Everyone agrees that what we do in schools should be based on what we know about how the brain learns. Until recently, however, we have had few clues to unlock the secrets of the brain. Now, research from the neurosciences has greatly improved our understanding of the learning process, and we have a much more solid foundation on which to base educational decisions.In this completely revised and ... Read more

$40.69 CAD

Everyone agrees that what we do in schools should be based on what we know about how the brain learns. Until recently, however, we have had few clues to unlock the secrets of the brain. Now, research from the neurosciences has greatly improved our understanding of the learning process, and we have a much more solid foundation on which to base educational decisions.In this completely revised and
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Using Formative Assessment to Improve Student Outcomes in the Classroom

by Michael W Connell ...

"Formative assessment--the process of interpretating data on student performance to adapt instruction to individual needs--is perhaps the single most powerful tool available to teachers to help every student succeed to their full potential."With that bold statement, Michael W. Connell sets out to unpack formative assessment--what it is, how it works, and why it is so essential for learner growth. ... Read more

$12.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

"Formative assessment--the process of interpretating data on student performance to adapt instruction to individual needs--is perhaps the single most powerful tool available to teachers to help every student succeed to their full potential."With that bold statement, Michael W. Connell sets out to unpack formative assessment--what it is, how it works, and why it is so essential for learner growth.
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Enacting Praxis

How Educators Embody Curriculum Studies

Edited by Kelly P. Vaughan, Isabel Nuñez ...

In this collection of writing and reflection, readers are invited to reclaim the connection between curriculum studies and the work of educators in schools and society. As the curriculum field has grown more complex and theoretical, our schools have become more corporatized, standardized, and dehumanized. This volume focuses on curriculum theory’s power to assist practitioners in creating positive ... Read more

$54.99 CAD

In this collection of writing and reflection, readers are invited to reclaim the connection between curriculum studies and the work of educators in schools and society. As the curriculum field has grown more complex and theoretical, our schools have become more corporatized, standardized, and dehumanized. This volume focuses on curriculum theory’s power to assist practitioners in creating positive
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Curriculum Development and Design

by Murray Print ...

This book has been written to provide a current, practical, Australian-based approach to designing and developing curriculum. The demands of schools and educational systems today are such that teachers with practical curriculum skills are highly valued and this book provides a vital source for teachers who wish to build their skills in the field of curriculum design and development.The book ... Read more

$59.08 CAD

This book has been written to provide a current, practical, Australian-based approach to designing and developing curriculum. The demands of schools and educational systems today are such that teachers with practical curriculum skills are highly valued and this book provides a vital source for teachers who wish to build their skills in the field of curriculum design and development.The book
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Classroom Instruction from A to Z

by Barbara R. Blackburn ...

Series series A to Z Series
Learn the most effective ways to promote student learning. This second edition of bestselling author Barbara Blackburn’s Classroom Instruction from A to Z covers a broad range of key instructional strategies to help you create more meaningful, engaging learning experiences for your students. Each chapter from A to Z offers guidance on a specific aspect of classroom instruction, such as planning ... Read more

$63.20 CAD

Learn the most effective ways to promote student learning. This second edition of bestselling author Barbara Blackburn’s Classroom Instruction from A to Z covers a broad range of key instructional strategies to help you create more meaningful, engaging learning experiences for your students. Each chapter from A to Z offers guidance on a specific aspect of classroom instruction, such as planning
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Leading under Pressure

Educational Leadership in Neoliberal Times

Edited by Stephanie Chitpin, Robert E. White ...

Series series Transforming Education Through Critical Leadership, Policy and Practice
The best leaders lead by example, not by mandate. However, so much leadership has become conscripted by neoliberal values. Educators and politicians, who are increasingly making policy for educators, have come to believe that standardized test scores are the same as knowledge acquired, as if test scores actually measure knowledge as opposed to information. Simply put, educational policy is no ... Read more

$115.49 CAD

The best leaders lead by example, not by mandate. However, so much leadership has become conscripted by neoliberal values. Educators and politicians, who are increasingly making policy for educators, have come to believe that standardized test scores are the same as knowledge acquired, as if test scores actually measure knowledge as opposed to information. Simply put, educational policy is no
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The Essential Guide for Student-Centered Coaching

What Every K-12 Coach and School Leader Needs to Know

by Diane Sweeney, Leanna S. Harris ...

Insights, ideas, and inspiration to keep student learning at the center of instructional coachingDiane Sweeney and Leanna Harris, whose best-selling books have influenced the practice of thousands of K-12 coaches, frame how Student-Centered Coaching serves as an evidence-based model of professional learning that focuses on student outcomes. Shifting the focus from "fixing" teachers to partnering ... Read more

$38.39 CAD

Insights, ideas, and inspiration to keep student learning at the center of instructional coachingDiane Sweeney and Leanna Harris, whose best-selling books have influenced the practice of thousands of K-12 coaches, frame how Student-Centered Coaching serves as an evidence-based model of professional learning that focuses on student outcomes. Shifting the focus from "fixing" teachers to partnering
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Lies My Teacher Told Me: Young Readers’ Edition

Everything American History Textbooks Get Wrong

by James W. Loewen, Rebecca Stefoff ...

Now adapted for young readers ages 12 through 18, the national bestseller that makes real American history come alive in all of its conflict, drama, and complexityLies My Teacher Told Me is one of the most important—and successful—history books of our time. Having sold nearly two million copies, the book won an American Book Award and the Oliver Cromwell Cox Award for Distinguished Anti-Racist ... Read more

$19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

Now adapted for young readers ages 12 through 18, the national bestseller that makes real American history come alive in all of its conflict, drama, and complexityLies My Teacher Told Me is one of the most important—and successful—history books of our time. Having sold nearly two million copies, the book won an American Book Award and the Oliver Cromwell Cox Award for Distinguished Anti-Racist
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Nature-Based Learning for Young Children

Anytime, Anywhere, on Any Budget

by Julie Powers, MA, Sheila Williams Ridge, MA ...

Nature-Based Learning for Every Preschool Setting is designed to provide ideas for all early childhood educators ranging from novice nature educators to highly experienced nature educators in a wide range of ecosystems, including forests, cities, prairies, coastal, and deserts. It includes background information on a range of nature topics, reproducible parent newsletters, sample play-based lesson ... Read more

$36.79 CAD

Nature-Based Learning for Every Preschool Setting is designed to provide ideas for all early childhood educators ranging from novice nature educators to highly experienced nature educators in a wide range of ecosystems, including forests, cities, prairies, coastal, and deserts. It includes background information on a range of nature topics, reproducible parent newsletters, sample play-based lesson
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Preschoolers and Kindergartners Moving and Learning

A Physical Education Curriculum

by Rae Pica ...

80 movement activities for preschoolers and kindergartnersPhysical education is a critical part of every early childhood curriculum. Children need to move to channel their energies in creative, beneficial ways and to learn habits for lifelong health and fitness. Preschoolers and Kindergartners Moving & Learning provides 80 developmentally appropriate activities that contribute to a well-rounded ... Read more

$27.99 CAD

80 movement activities for preschoolers and kindergartnersPhysical education is a critical part of every early childhood curriculum. Children need to move to channel their energies in creative, beneficial ways and to learn habits for lifelong health and fitness. Preschoolers and Kindergartners Moving & Learning provides 80 developmentally appropriate activities that contribute to a well-rounded
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Arguing From Evidence in Middle School Science

24 Activities for Productive Talk and Deeper Learning

by Jonathan Francis Osborne, Brian M. Donovan, J. (Joseph) Bryan Henderson, Anna C. MacPherson, Andrew J. Wild ...

Teaching your students to think like scientists starts here!If you’ve ever struggled to help students make scientific arguments from evidence, this practical, easy-to-use activity book is for you! Give your students the critical scientific practice today′s science standards require. You’ll discover strategies and activities to effectively engage students in arguments about competing data sets, ... Read more

$38.39 CAD

Teaching your students to think like scientists starts here!If you’ve ever struggled to help students make scientific arguments from evidence, this practical, easy-to-use activity book is for you! Give your students the critical scientific practice today′s science standards require. You’ll discover strategies and activities to effectively engage students in arguments about competing data sets,
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What Your Sixth Grader Needs to Know

Fundamentals of a Good Sixth-Grade Education, Revised Edition

by E.D. Hirsch Jr. ...

Series series The Core Knowledge Series
Grade by grade, these groundbreaking and successful books provide a solid foundation in the fundamentals of a good education for first to sixth graders.B & W photographs, linecuts, and maps throughout; two-color printing. ... Read more

$8.99 CAD

Grade by grade, these groundbreaking and successful books provide a solid foundation in the fundamentals of a good education for first to sixth graders.B & W photographs, linecuts, and maps throughout; two-color printing.
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More Urban Myths About Learning and Education

Challenging Eduquacks, Extraordinary Claims, and Alternative Facts

by Pedro De Bruyckere, Paul A. Kirschner, Casper Hulshof ...

More Urban Myths About Learning and Education: Challenging Eduquacks, Extraordinary Claims, and Alternative Facts examines common beliefs about education and learning that are not supported by scientific evidence before using research to reveal the truth about each topic. The book comprises sections on educational approaches, curriculum, educational psychology, and educational policy, concluding ... Read more

$67.32 CAD

More Urban Myths About Learning and Education: Challenging Eduquacks, Extraordinary Claims, and Alternative Facts examines common beliefs about education and learning that are not supported by scientific evidence before using research to reveal the truth about each topic. The book comprises sections on educational approaches, curriculum, educational psychology, and educational policy, concluding
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Middle School General Music

The Best Part of Your Day

by Elizabeth Ann McAnally ...

Series series National Association for Music Education
Create a viable, meaningful program that will motivate your students and have them participating with enthusiasm with Middle School General Music: The Best Part of Your Day. A welcome guidebook for music teachers trying to navigate the sometimes turbulent waters of middle school general music, it offers strategies and lessons that have been created in the real world of general music by a ... Read more

$37.79 CAD

Create a viable, meaningful program that will motivate your students and have them participating with enthusiasm with Middle School General Music: The Best Part of Your Day. A welcome guidebook for music teachers trying to navigate the sometimes turbulent waters of middle school general music, it offers strategies and lessons that have been created in the real world of general music by a
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Teaching Social Studies that Matters

by Stephen J. Thornton ...

No plan to increase achievement and enact reform in the social studies classroom will succeed without recognizing the central importance of the teacher as the “gatekeeper” of instruction. In this book, Thornton details why teachers must develop strong skills in curriculum planning and teaching methods in order for effective instruction to occur. Thornton helps teachers to develop a vision of their ... Read more

$28.59 CAD

No plan to increase achievement and enact reform in the social studies classroom will succeed without recognizing the central importance of the teacher as the “gatekeeper” of instruction. In this book, Thornton details why teachers must develop strong skills in curriculum planning and teaching methods in order for effective instruction to occur. Thornton helps teachers to develop a vision of their
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Picture Pedagogy

Visual Culture Concepts to Enhance the Curriculum

by Professor Emeritus Paul Duncum ...

Contemporary societies are saturated with pictures. They are globally a part of everyday life, and they are seductive, offering values and beliefs in such highly pleasurable forms that it is often difficult to resist their power to persuade. Yet interpreting pictures is largely neglected in schools. Picture Pedagogy addresses this head on, showing that pictures can be used as a powerful form of ... Read more

$38.89 CAD

Contemporary societies are saturated with pictures. They are globally a part of everyday life, and they are seductive, offering values and beliefs in such highly pleasurable forms that it is often difficult to resist their power to persuade. Yet interpreting pictures is largely neglected in schools. Picture Pedagogy addresses this head on, showing that pictures can be used as a powerful form of
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Waking Up the Joys of Writing

Helps from a Homeschool Mom of 12, #5

by Catherine McGrew Jaime ...

Series Book 5 - Helps from a Homeschool Mom of 12
For many young writers the most difficult part of their task is getting started. They want to write. (Or someone else wants them to write!) But they don't know where to begin. And oftentimes when they do begin, they are overwhelmed by the risks of improper spelling or improper punctuation.This e-book takes away the writer's block and the risks. It gives struggling writers starting points and ... Read more

$0.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

For many young writers the most difficult part of their task is getting started. They want to write. (Or someone else wants them to write!) But they don't know where to begin. And oftentimes when they do begin, they are overwhelmed by the risks of improper spelling or improper punctuation.This e-book takes away the writer's block and the risks. It gives struggling writers starting points and
... Read more
The If Machine, 2nd edition

30 Lesson Plans for Teaching Philosophy

by If Machine Peter Worley ...

Fully updated edition with five brand new sessions and bonus features.Fully updated with new developments in the theory and practice of teaching philosophy, this new edition of the bestselling book, The If Machine,presents 30 clear, ready-to-use plans to teach philosophy in the classroom with children aged five to 13. Each tried-and-tested session offers an imaginary situation, followed by a ... Read more

$26.09 CAD

Fully updated edition with five brand new sessions and bonus features.Fully updated with new developments in the theory and practice of teaching philosophy, this new edition of the bestselling book, The If Machine,presents 30 clear, ready-to-use plans to teach philosophy in the classroom with children aged five to 13. Each tried-and-tested session offers an imaginary situation, followed by a
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Focus on Developmentally Appropriate Practice

Equitable and Joyful Learning in Preschool

Edited by Iliana Alanís, Toni Sturdivant ...

Series series Focus on DAP: Equitable and Joyful Learning
**What Does Developmentally Appropriate Practice Look Like in a Preschool Classroom? ** If you’ve ever wondered how effective teachers actually do DAP, this is the book for you. Here, you can peek into classrooms to see teachers making intentional decisions in the six key areas of practice that form the six guidelines for DAP in action: Building a community of learners where everyone is welcomed ... Read more

$35.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

**What Does Developmentally Appropriate Practice Look Like in a Preschool Classroom? ** If you’ve ever wondered how effective teachers actually do DAP, this is the book for you. Here, you can peek into classrooms to see teachers making intentional decisions in the six key areas of practice that form the six guidelines for DAP in action: Building a community of learners where everyone is welcomed
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Children's Literature in the Reading Program

Engaging Young Readers in the 21st Century

Edited by Deborah A. Wooten, PhD, Lauren Aimonette Liang, PhD, Bernice E. Cullinan, PhD ...

This indispensable teacher resource and course text, now revised and updated, addresses the "whats," "whys," and "how-tos" of incorporating outstanding children's literature into the K–8 reading program. A strong emphasis on diverse literature is woven throughout the fifth edition, with chapters emphasizing the need for books that reflect their readers and presenting dozens of carefully reviewed ... Read more

$39.99 CAD

This indispensable teacher resource and course text, now revised and updated, addresses the "whats," "whys," and "how-tos" of incorporating outstanding children's literature into the K–8 reading program. A strong emphasis on diverse literature is woven throughout the fifth edition, with chapters emphasizing the need for books that reflect their readers and presenting dozens of carefully reviewed
... Read more
Strengths-Based Approaches to Educating All Learners with Disabilities

Beyond Special Education

by Michael L. Wehmeyer ...

Michael Wehmeyer, a leading scholar with over four decades of experience as a teacher, teacher educator, researcher, and advocate, provides a cogent but accessible account of the evolution of special education. Offering a compelling vision of where the field should be headed in the next decade, he notes how the digital revolution has made it possible for all learners to gain access to content and ... Read more

$38.49 CAD

Michael Wehmeyer, a leading scholar with over four decades of experience as a teacher, teacher educator, researcher, and advocate, provides a cogent but accessible account of the evolution of special education. Offering a compelling vision of where the field should be headed in the next decade, he notes how the digital revolution has made it possible for all learners to gain access to content and
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A Post-Modern Perspective on Curriculum

by William E. Doll Jr. ...

Doll draws relationships among the ideas advanced in chaos theory, Piagetian epistemology, cognitive theory, and the work of Dewey and Whitehead. In this book on the post-modern perspective on the curriculum, the author asserts that the post-modern model of organic change is not necessarily linear, uniform, measured and determined, but is one of emergence and growth, made possible by interaction, ... Read more

$27.49 CAD

Doll draws relationships among the ideas advanced in chaos theory, Piagetian epistemology, cognitive theory, and the work of Dewey and Whitehead. In this book on the post-modern perspective on the curriculum, the author asserts that the post-modern model of organic change is not necessarily linear, uniform, measured and determined, but is one of emergence and growth, made possible by interaction,
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Bridging Educational Leadership, Curriculum Theory and Didaktik

Non-affirmative Theory of Education

Edited by Michael Uljens, Rose M. Ylimaki ...

Series Book 5 - Educational Governance Research
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.This volume argues for the need of a common ground that bridges leadership studies, curriculum theory, and Didaktik. It proposes a non-affirmative education theory and its core concepts along with discursive institutionalism as an analytical tool to bridge these fields. It concludes with implications of its coherent theoretical framing for future ... Read more

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This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.This volume argues for the need of a common ground that bridges leadership studies, curriculum theory, and Didaktik. It proposes a non-affirmative education theory and its core concepts along with discursive institutionalism as an analytical tool to bridge these fields. It concludes with implications of its coherent theoretical framing for future
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