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Teaching What Really Happened

How to Avoid the Tyranny of Textbooks and Get Students Excited About Doing History

by James W. Loewen ...

Series series Multicultural Education Series
"The revised edition of Loewen’s book builds upon the first edition by applying these principles to contemporary circumstances. For example, a new chapter addresses post-truth politics and the Trump presidency. This makes Loewen’s work more valuable than ever for students, educators, and communities." —Teachers College Record“Should be in the hands of every history teacher in the country.”— Howard ... Read more

$43.99 CAD

"The revised edition of Loewen’s book builds upon the first edition by applying these principles to contemporary circumstances. For example, a new chapter addresses post-truth politics and the Trump presidency. This makes Loewen’s work more valuable than ever for students, educators, and communities." —Teachers College Record“Should be in the hands of every history teacher in the country.”— Howard
... Read more
Formation Of Character

by Charlotte Mason ...

Formation of Character is the fifth volume of Charlotte Mason's Homeschooling series. The chapters stand alone and are valuable to parents of children of all ages. Part I includes case studies of children (and adults) who cured themselves of bad habits. Part II is a series of reflections on subjects including both schooling and vacations (or "stay-cations" as we now call them). Part III covers ... Read more

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Formation of Character is the fifth volume of Charlotte Mason's Homeschooling series. The chapters stand alone and are valuable to parents of children of all ages. Part I includes case studies of children (and adults) who cured themselves of bad habits. Part II is a series of reflections on subjects including both schooling and vacations (or "stay-cations" as we now call them). Part III covers
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Create an Engaging Syllabus: A Concise, 7-Step Guide for Professors

by Norman Eng ...

How do I write a syllabus? What kind of tone should it set? Isn't there a template I can just use? These are some of the questions many professors—especially if you're NEW—want answered. You just want the specifics, minus the jargon. A syllabus that captivates students and gets them excited about the course you teach.The problem is, students think our course syllabus is like a contract. And who ... Read more

$0.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

How do I write a syllabus? What kind of tone should it set? Isn't there a template I can just use? These are some of the questions many professors—especially if you're NEW—want answered. You just want the specifics, minus the jargon. A syllabus that captivates students and gets them excited about the course you teach.The problem is, students think our course syllabus is like a contract. And who
... Read more
Shakespeare’s Guide to Hope, Life, and Learning

by Lisa Dickson, Shannon Murray, Jessica Riddell ...

"What is the most wonderful thing about teaching this play in our classrooms?" Using this question as a starting point, Shakespeare’s Guide to Hope, Life, and Learning presents a conversation between four of Shakespeare’s most popular plays and our modern experience, and between teachers and learners.The book analyzes King Lear, As You Like It, Henry V, and Hamlet, revealing how they help us to ... Read more

$19.19 CAD

"What is the most wonderful thing about teaching this play in our classrooms?" Using this question as a starting point, Shakespeare’s Guide to Hope, Life, and Learning presents a conversation between four of Shakespeare’s most popular plays and our modern experience, and between teachers and learners.The book analyzes King Lear, As You Like It, Henry V, and Hamlet, revealing how they help us to
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Unmistakable Impact

A Partnership Approach for Dramatically Improving Instruction

by Dr. Jim Knight ...

Award-winning author Jim Knight outlines strategies for excellence that translate staff members’ joy of learning into high-leverage practices that achieve dramatic student outcomes. ... Read more

$47.19 CAD

Award-winning author Jim Knight outlines strategies for excellence that translate staff members’ joy of learning into high-leverage practices that achieve dramatic student outcomes.
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Bloomsbury Curriculum Basics: Teaching Primary French

by Dr. Amanda Barton, Ms Angela McLachlan ...

Series series Bloomsbury Curriculum Basics
This book is closely tied to the new curriculum, with extracts from the curriculum itself and lesson plans and teaching ideas for every area.This book will equip non-specialists to confidently deliver engaging and well-informed lessons, that acount for the changes in the National Curriculum.This is a very practical and easy to apply programme for teaching French either in your own classroom, or to ... Read more

$26.09 CAD

This book is closely tied to the new curriculum, with extracts from the curriculum itself and lesson plans and teaching ideas for every area.This book will equip non-specialists to confidently deliver engaging and well-informed lessons, that acount for the changes in the National Curriculum.This is a very practical and easy to apply programme for teaching French either in your own classroom, or to
... Read more
Problem-Based Learning

An Inquiry Approach

by John F. Barell ...

A step-bystep guide for teaching your students to think critically and solve complex problems!In a world with increasingly global economies and competition, students need to learn how to think critically and analytically, and to apply their imaginations to solve complex problems. Problem-based learning (PBL) does just that, helping students identify problems, pose their own questions, research ... Read more

$39.19 CAD

A step-bystep guide for teaching your students to think critically and solve complex problems!In a world with increasingly global economies and competition, students need to learn how to think critically and analytically, and to apply their imaginations to solve complex problems. Problem-based learning (PBL) does just that, helping students identify problems, pose their own questions, research
... Read more
Beyond Learning by Doing

Theoretical Currents in Experiential Education

by Jay W. Roberts ...

What is experiential education? What are its theoretical roots? Where does this approach come from? Offering a fresh and distinctive take, this book is about going beyond "learning by doing" through an exploration of its underlying theoretical currents.As an increasingly popular pedagogical approach, experiential education encompasses a variety of curriculum projects from outdoor and environmental ... Read more

$96.18 CAD

What is experiential education? What are its theoretical roots? Where does this approach come from? Offering a fresh and distinctive take, this book is about going beyond "learning by doing" through an exploration of its underlying theoretical currents.As an increasingly popular pedagogical approach, experiential education encompasses a variety of curriculum projects from outdoor and environmental
... Read more
The Impact Cycle

What Instructional Coaches Should Do to Foster Powerful Improvements in Teaching

by Jim Knight ...

"Jim Knight is one of the wise men of coaching. His well is deep; he draws from it the best tools from practitioners, the wisdom of experience, and research-based insights. And he never loses sight of the bigger picture: the point of all this is to have more impact in this life we′re lucky enough to live."**—MICHAEL BUNGAY STANIER, Author of The Coaching HabitIdentify . . . Learn . . . Improve* ... Read more

$45.59 CAD

"Jim Knight is one of the wise men of coaching. His well is deep; he draws from it the best tools from practitioners, the wisdom of experience, and research-based insights. And he never loses sight of the bigger picture: the point of all this is to have more impact in this life we′re lucky enough to live."**—MICHAEL BUNGAY STANIER, Author of The Coaching HabitIdentify . . . Learn . . . Improve*
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Collaborative Leadership

Six Influences That Matter Most

by Peter M. DeWitt ...

Get the fuel you need to drive collaborative leadership in your school!What type of leadership do you practice? If your answer is transformational or instructional, you’re not alone. Many of us rely on these tenets. But there are better advantages in applying a holistic angle including all stakeholders—an approach known as collaborative leadership.Peter DeWitt unpacks six leadership factors in ... Read more

$38.39 CAD

Get the fuel you need to drive collaborative leadership in your school!What type of leadership do you practice? If your answer is transformational or instructional, you’re not alone. Many of us rely on these tenets. But there are better advantages in applying a holistic angle including all stakeholders—an approach known as collaborative leadership.Peter DeWitt unpacks six leadership factors in
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Writing Speculative Fiction: Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror

Student Edition

by Lelia Rose Foreman ...

This textbook develops an 18-week program designed to guide prospective students through creating their own speculative fiction story, that is, a science fiction, fantasy, or horror story. Designed for homeschoolers and small-school settings, this textbook draws on excerpts from dozens of speculative fiction authors and writing experts. It gives detailed information about genre, cultural world ... Read more

$7.19 CAD

This textbook develops an 18-week program designed to guide prospective students through creating their own speculative fiction story, that is, a science fiction, fantasy, or horror story. Designed for homeschoolers and small-school settings, this textbook draws on excerpts from dozens of speculative fiction authors and writing experts. It gives detailed information about genre, cultural world
... Read more
The Well-Educated Child

How the Principles and Practices of Quality Thinking, Agency, and Ethical Purpose Cultivate Deeper Learning

by Deborah Kenny ...

**AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLEROne of America’s leading educators explains what children need to thrive and excel.**In The Well-Educated Child, Dr. Deborah Kenny offers an inspiring vision for education that cultivates intelligent, happy, morally grounded young people. This landmark book will change the way we think about what it means for our children to be well educated.Drawing on decades ... Read more

$14.39 CAD

**AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLEROne of America’s leading educators explains what children need to thrive and excel.**In The Well-Educated Child, Dr. Deborah Kenny offers an inspiring vision for education that cultivates intelligent, happy, morally grounded young people. This landmark book will change the way we think about what it means for our children to be well educated.Drawing on decades
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Curriculum in Abundance

by David W. Jardine, Patricia Clifford, Sharon Friesen ...

Series series Studies in Curriculum Theory Series
In this text Jardine, Clifford, and Friesen set forth their concept of curriculum as abundance and illustrate its pedagogical applications through specific examples of classroom practices, the work of specific children, and specific dilemmas, images, and curricular practices that arise in concrete classroom events. The detailed classroom examples and careful philosophical explorations illustrate ... Read more

$100.30 CAD

In this text Jardine, Clifford, and Friesen set forth their concept of curriculum as abundance and illustrate its pedagogical applications through specific examples of classroom practices, the work of specific children, and specific dilemmas, images, and curricular practices that arise in concrete classroom events. The detailed classroom examples and careful philosophical explorations illustrate
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Life Skills Education for Youth

Critical Perspectives

Edited by Joan DeJaeghere, Erin Murphy-Graham ...

Series series Education (R0)
This open access volume critically reviews a diverse body of scholarship and practice that informs the conceptualization, curriculum, teaching and measurement of life skills in education settings around the world. It discusses life skills as they are implemented in schools and non-formal education, providing both qualitative and quantitative evidence of when, with whom, and how life skills do or ... Read more

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This open access volume critically reviews a diverse body of scholarship and practice that informs the conceptualization, curriculum, teaching and measurement of life skills in education settings around the world. It discusses life skills as they are implemented in schools and non-formal education, providing both qualitative and quantitative evidence of when, with whom, and how life skills do or
... Read more
Looking for Learning: Loose Parts

Creative ideas for incorporating loose parts into all child-led play

by Laura England ...

Looking for Learning: Loose Parts won "Highly Commended" in the Creative Play Awards 2019 for Teaching Resources.Looks for Learning: Loose Parts is a full-colour, practical guide to inspire child-led learning that's linked to to current policy and the EYFS framework. As each child progresses through their learning journey, Early Years practitioners are expected to identify and understand what ... Read more

$17.39 CAD

Looking for Learning: Loose Parts won "Highly Commended" in the Creative Play Awards 2019 for Teaching Resources.Looks for Learning: Loose Parts is a full-colour, practical guide to inspire child-led learning that's linked to to current policy and the EYFS framework. As each child progresses through their learning journey, Early Years practitioners are expected to identify and understand what
... Read more
Curriculum Development in the Postmodern Era

Teaching and Learning in an Age of Accountability

by Patrick Slattery ...

This landmark text was one of the first to introduce and analyze contemporary concepts of curriculum that emerged from the Reconceptualization of curriculum studies in the 1970s and 1980s. This new edition brings readers up to date on the major research themes (postmodernism,ecological, hermeneutics, aesthetics and arts-based research, race, class, gender, sexuality, and classroom practices) ... Read more

$126.41 CAD

This landmark text was one of the first to introduce and analyze contemporary concepts of curriculum that emerged from the Reconceptualization of curriculum studies in the 1970s and 1980s. This new edition brings readers up to date on the major research themes (postmodernism,ecological, hermeneutics, aesthetics and arts-based research, race, class, gender, sexuality, and classroom practices)
... Read more
Looking for Learning: Provocations

Creative ideas for incorporating provocations into all child-led play

by Laura England ...

Looking for Learning: Provocations is a full-colour, practical guide to inspire child-led learning that's linked to current policy and the EYFS framework.As each child progresses through their learning journey, Early Years practitioners are expected to identify and understand what learning is taking place in every activity that a child is involved in. Laura England, creator of Little Miss Early ... Read more

$17.39 CAD

Looking for Learning: Provocations is a full-colour, practical guide to inspire child-led learning that's linked to current policy and the EYFS framework.As each child progresses through their learning journey, Early Years practitioners are expected to identify and understand what learning is taking place in every activity that a child is involved in. Laura England, creator of Little Miss Early
... Read more
100 Ideas for Secondary Teachers: Outstanding Lessons

by Ross Morrison McGill ...

Series series 100 Ideas for Teachers
Conflicting government diktat and changeable Ofsted frameworks means that navigating the path to outstanding can be challenging. However, the integrity of an outstanding lesson will always be the same and this book attempts to bottle that formula so that you can recreate it time and time again.In his first book, Twitter phenomenon and outstanding teacher, Ross Morrison McGill provides a bank of ... Read more

$21.29 CAD

Conflicting government diktat and changeable Ofsted frameworks means that navigating the path to outstanding can be challenging. However, the integrity of an outstanding lesson will always be the same and this book attempts to bottle that formula so that you can recreate it time and time again.In his first book, Twitter phenomenon and outstanding teacher, Ross Morrison McGill provides a bank of
... Read more
Teachers and the Epistemology of History

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Edited by Henrik Åström Elmersjö, Paul Zanazanian ...

Series series Education (R0)
This edited book explores conceptual as well as empirical approaches to epistemic beliefs that teachers of history might hold. In many parts of the world, history teachers are tasked with both upholding historical national myths and at the same time giving students the tools needed to deconstruct history and think critically. This ambiguity embedded in the combination of reconstruction and ... Read more

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This edited book explores conceptual as well as empirical approaches to epistemic beliefs that teachers of history might hold. In many parts of the world, history teachers are tasked with both upholding historical national myths and at the same time giving students the tools needed to deconstruct history and think critically. This ambiguity embedded in the combination of reconstruction and
... Read more
Common Core Standards and Banned Books Week

A Thematic Guide to Introducing Banned and Challenged Books in the Classroom

by Pat Scales ...

Banned Books Week is celebrated the last full week in September and strives to make the public aware of books that have been banned or challenged in schools and public libraries, as well as in bookstores and other venues. Founded in 1982, the event is sponsored by the American Library Association, American Booksellers Association, American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression, American ... Read more

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Banned Books Week is celebrated the last full week in September and strives to make the public aware of books that have been banned or challenged in schools and public libraries, as well as in bookstores and other venues. Founded in 1982, the event is sponsored by the American Library Association, American Booksellers Association, American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression, American
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Foundations of Responsive Caregiving

Infants, Toddlers, and Twos

by Jean Barbre ...

Understanding the development of infants, toddlers, and twos equips caregivers with the tools and best practices needed to guide, teach, and care for them. This foundational approach provides information on theories of early development, components of high-quality, responsive caregiving, and strategies to support children in their earliest years. ... Read more

$36.79 CAD

Understanding the development of infants, toddlers, and twos equips caregivers with the tools and best practices needed to guide, teach, and care for them. This foundational approach provides information on theories of early development, components of high-quality, responsive caregiving, and strategies to support children in their earliest years.
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Paideia Program

by Mortimer J. Adler ...

Paideia is a holistic approach to life-long learning with roots in ancient Greece.The Paideia Program is based on the belief that the human species is defined by its capacity and desire for learning. The program itself argues for a public education that is at once more rigorous and more accessible. ... Read more

$16.99 CAD

Paideia is a holistic approach to life-long learning with roots in ancient Greece.The Paideia Program is based on the belief that the human species is defined by its capacity and desire for learning. The program itself argues for a public education that is at once more rigorous and more accessible.
... Read more
What Great Principals Do Differently

Twenty Things That Matter Most

by Todd Whitaker ...

What are the attitudes and actions that make great principals stand out? In this internationally renowned bestseller, Todd Whitaker reveals the 20 keys to effective school leadership.This essential third edition features helpful new strategies for recruiting talent through better interview and reference questions, as well as tips for retaining talent. It also offers a new section on how leadership ... Read more

$46.71 CAD

What are the attitudes and actions that make great principals stand out? In this internationally renowned bestseller, Todd Whitaker reveals the 20 keys to effective school leadership.This essential third edition features helpful new strategies for recruiting talent through better interview and reference questions, as well as tips for retaining talent. It also offers a new section on how leadership
... Read more
Cultures of Curriculum

Edited by Pamela Bolotin Joseph ...

Series series Studies in Curriculum Theory Series
Using "cultures of curriculum" as a lens, this clear, compelling text reveals and critically examines the belief systems and classroom practices of curricular orientations in contemporary American society. It is designed to foster awareness, examination, and deliberation about the curricula planned for and carried out in classrooms and schools; to inspire conversations about theory and practice as ... Read more

$111.30 CAD

Using "cultures of curriculum" as a lens, this clear, compelling text reveals and critically examines the belief systems and classroom practices of curricular orientations in contemporary American society. It is designed to foster awareness, examination, and deliberation about the curricula planned for and carried out in classrooms and schools; to inspire conversations about theory and practice as
... Read more

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