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The Funeral Officiant & Ceremony

A Course In Funeral Celebrancy ~CSOC volume ONE

by CSOC Canadian Society Of Celebrants ...

Academia - AcademiaShort DescriptionCanadian Society Of Celebrants ~"motto": is to bring together the "B.E.S.T." forward !BusinessEducationSpiritualityTraining ... Read more

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Academia - AcademiaShort DescriptionCanadian Society Of Celebrants ~"motto": is to bring together the "B.E.S.T." forward !BusinessEducationSpiritualityTraining
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Wild and Free Holidays

35 Festive Family Activities to Make the Season Bright

by Ainsley Arment ...

Series Book 8 - Wild and Free
Imaginative holiday-themed activities from Wild + Free to spark children’s curiosity and wonder and help families connect with each other in the most wonderful season of the year.Wild + Free is a great resource for parents to engage their kids’ creativity using festive, holiday-themed crafts, outdoor activities, and essays that celebrate the warmth of the season. Curated by Wild + Free families ... Read more

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Imaginative holiday-themed activities from Wild + Free to spark children’s curiosity and wonder and help families connect with each other in the most wonderful season of the year.Wild + Free is a great resource for parents to engage their kids’ creativity using festive, holiday-themed crafts, outdoor activities, and essays that celebrate the warmth of the season. Curated by Wild + Free families
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The New Balanced Literacy School

Implementing Common Core

by Margaret Mary Policastro, Becky McTague ...

Series series Maupin House
Create a new approach to balanced literacy grounded in research-based best practices. This book infuses best practices of the new balanced literacy model through the lens of Common Core, with support on read-alouds, guided reading, language and literacy centers, word walls to language walls, independent reading and writing, and classroom libraries. It also provides the "how" for novice and veteran ... Read more

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Create a new approach to balanced literacy grounded in research-based best practices. This book infuses best practices of the new balanced literacy model through the lens of Common Core, with support on read-alouds, guided reading, language and literacy centers, word walls to language walls, independent reading and writing, and classroom libraries. It also provides the "how" for novice and veteran
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The Sustainable Self

A Personal Approach to Sustainability Education

by Paul Murray ...

Achieving a sustainable society is the biggest issue of our time. It is not an issue confined to a particular subject area or to certain jobs. It is a way of thinking and behaving that will need to be embedded in all aspects of all of our lives. The Sustainable Self is the perfect resource for lecturers, trainers, students and professionals of any discipline who need to teach or learn about ... Read more

$72.82 CAD

Achieving a sustainable society is the biggest issue of our time. It is not an issue confined to a particular subject area or to certain jobs. It is a way of thinking and behaving that will need to be embedded in all aspects of all of our lives. The Sustainable Self is the perfect resource for lecturers, trainers, students and professionals of any discipline who need to teach or learn about
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Reading the Visual

An Introduction to Teaching Multimodal Literacy

by Frank Serafini ...

Series series Language and Literacy Series
Today’s teachers need up-to-the-minute information to help their students make sense of the multimodal texts they encounter daily in and out of school. Reading the Visual is an essential introduction that focuses on what teachers should know about multimodal literacy and how to teach it. This engaging book provides theoretical, curricular, and pedagogical frameworks for teaching a wide-range of ... Read more

$39.99 CAD

Today’s teachers need up-to-the-minute information to help their students make sense of the multimodal texts they encounter daily in and out of school. Reading the Visual is an essential introduction that focuses on what teachers should know about multimodal literacy and how to teach it. This engaging book provides theoretical, curricular, and pedagogical frameworks for teaching a wide-range of
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Understanding the Steiner Waldorf Approach

Early Years Education in Practice

by Janni Nicol, Jill Taplin ...

Series series Understanding the… Approach
This fully revised edition of Understanding the Steiner Waldorf Approach is a much needed source of information for those wishing to extend and consolidate their understanding of the Steiner Waldorf early childhood approach. It enables the reader to analyse the essential elements of the Steiner Waldorf Approach to early childhood and its relationship to quality early years practice.Covering all ... Read more

$61.82 CAD

This fully revised edition of Understanding the Steiner Waldorf Approach is a much needed source of information for those wishing to extend and consolidate their understanding of the Steiner Waldorf early childhood approach. It enables the reader to analyse the essential elements of the Steiner Waldorf Approach to early childhood and its relationship to quality early years practice.Covering all
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"The Tangi Bridge" Common Core Standards Lesson Plans

by KM Zafari ...

A comprehensive lesson plan aligned with the Common Core Standards for Reading: Literature for grades 9-12 (3-4 classroom hours).CCS: RL: 9-10.1 – 10.10CCS: RL: 11-12.1 – 12.10Follows the Madeline Hunter format.Includes:-Duration-Objective/Purpose-Standards-Concepts Taught (CCS and Enrichment)-Resources Needed (CCS and Enrichment)-Anticipatory Set-Instructional Input-Guided Practice-Quick Links (. ... Read more

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A comprehensive lesson plan aligned with the Common Core Standards for Reading: Literature for grades 9-12 (3-4 classroom hours).CCS: RL: 9-10.1 – 10.10CCS: RL: 11-12.1 – 12.10Follows the Madeline Hunter format.Includes:-Duration-Objective/Purpose-Standards-Concepts Taught (CCS and Enrichment)-Resources Needed (CCS and Enrichment)-Anticipatory Set-Instructional Input-Guided Practice-Quick Links (.
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Introducing Little Kids to the Big Ideas of Mathematics: A Rad Makeover for Teaching Math

by Evelyn Raiken Lewis ...

We all expect children to learn their native language without lessons, worksheets, or tests. They are linguistic geniuses who can learn language by immersion. But this time of linguist genius is short-lived.If we can leave the assumption aside that young children must spend years doing simplistic arithmetic and provide an early introduction to higher-level math vocabulary and concepts, children ... Read more

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We all expect children to learn their native language without lessons, worksheets, or tests. They are linguistic geniuses who can learn language by immersion. But this time of linguist genius is short-lived.If we can leave the assumption aside that young children must spend years doing simplistic arithmetic and provide an early introduction to higher-level math vocabulary and concepts, children
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UDL in the Cloud!

How to Design and Deliver Online Education Using Universal Design for Learning

by Katie Novak ...

Series series UDL Now!
UDL in the Cloud helps educators design and deliver more accessible, engaging, and effective online learning experiences.Drawing on years of experience in K-12 and postsecondary settings, authors Katie Novak and Tom Thibodeau offer a highly practical approach to developing e-courses, virtual snow days, flipped classes, and blended learning experiences that meet the needs of diverse learners ... Read more

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UDL in the Cloud helps educators design and deliver more accessible, engaging, and effective online learning experiences.Drawing on years of experience in K-12 and postsecondary settings, authors Katie Novak and Tom Thibodeau offer a highly practical approach to developing e-courses, virtual snow days, flipped classes, and blended learning experiences that meet the needs of diverse learners
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Beauty for Truth's Sake

On the Re-enchantment of Education

by Stratford Caldecott ...

A call for renewal in educationBased in the riches of Christian worship and tradition, this brief, eloquently written introduction to Christian thinking and worldview helps readers put back together again faith and reason, truth and beauty, and the fragmented academic disciplines.By reclaiming the classic liberal arts and viewing disciplines such as science and mathematics through a poetic lens, ... Read more

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A call for renewal in educationBased in the riches of Christian worship and tradition, this brief, eloquently written introduction to Christian thinking and worldview helps readers put back together again faith and reason, truth and beauty, and the fragmented academic disciplines.By reclaiming the classic liberal arts and viewing disciplines such as science and mathematics through a poetic lens,
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Audacious Education Purposes

How Governments Transform the Goals of Education Systems

Edited by Fernando M. Reimers ...

Series series Education (R0)
This open access book offers a comparative study of eight ambitious national reforms that sought to create opportunities for students to gain the necessary breath of skills to thrive in a rapidly changing world. It examines how national governments transform education systems to provide students opportunities to develop such skills. It analyses comprehensive education reforms in Brazil, Finland, ... Read more

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This open access book offers a comparative study of eight ambitious national reforms that sought to create opportunities for students to gain the necessary breath of skills to thrive in a rapidly changing world. It examines how national governments transform education systems to provide students opportunities to develop such skills. It analyses comprehensive education reforms in Brazil, Finland,
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Designing Groupwork

Strategies for the Heterogeneous Classroom

by Elizabeth G. Cohen, Rachel A. Lotan ...

As teachers today work in ever more challenging contexts, groupwork remains a particularly effective pedagogical strategy. Based on years of research and teaching experience, the new edition of this popular book features significant updates on the successful use of cooperative learning to build equitable classrooms. Designing Groupwork, Third Edition incorporates current research findings with new ... Read more

$37.99 CAD

As teachers today work in ever more challenging contexts, groupwork remains a particularly effective pedagogical strategy. Based on years of research and teaching experience, the new edition of this popular book features significant updates on the successful use of cooperative learning to build equitable classrooms. Designing Groupwork, Third Edition incorporates current research findings with new
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Drama Lesson Plans for Busy Teachers Book One

Drama Lesson Plans for Busy Teachers, #1

by Louise Tondeur ...

Series Book 1 - Drama Lesson Plans for Busy Teachers
‘Pick up and teach it’ drama sessionsI want to enable the teaching of creative subjects in an accessible, flexible and down-to-earth way. When I started teaching I noticed that there were hardly any ‘pick up and teach it’ drama session plans available, and so set out to create my own. You’re about to read the newly revised version of those session plans.Why use drama?Drama is both a teaching ... Read more

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‘Pick up and teach it’ drama sessionsI want to enable the teaching of creative subjects in an accessible, flexible and down-to-earth way. When I started teaching I noticed that there were hardly any ‘pick up and teach it’ drama session plans available, and so set out to create my own. You’re about to read the newly revised version of those session plans.Why use drama?Drama is both a teaching
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Schaum's Outline of Basic Business Mathematics, 2ed

by Joel J. Lerner, Eugene Don ...

Tough Test Questions? Missed Lectures? Not Enough Time?Fortunately for you, there's Schaum's Outlines. More than 40 million students have trusted Schaum's to help them succeed in the classroom and on exams. Schaum's is the key to faster learning and higher grades in every subject. Each Outline presents all the essential course information in an easy-to-follow, topic-by-topic format. You also get ... Read more

$26.99 CAD

Tough Test Questions? Missed Lectures? Not Enough Time?Fortunately for you, there's Schaum's Outlines. More than 40 million students have trusted Schaum's to help them succeed in the classroom and on exams. Schaum's is the key to faster learning and higher grades in every subject. Each Outline presents all the essential course information in an easy-to-follow, topic-by-topic format. You also get
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Writing Strategies for the Common Core

Integrating Reading Comprehension into the Writing Process, Grades 6-8

by Hillary Wolfe ...

Series series Maupin House
Middle-school students must be able to write explanatory/informational, argument, and narrative genre pieces and respond to literature, both for standardized tests and, more importantly, real-world writing. With a balanced literacy approach, Wolfe provides core instruction, teaching strategies, and mini-lessons on these text types, each of which can be delivered in a four- to six-week time period. ... Read more

$10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

Middle-school students must be able to write explanatory/informational, argument, and narrative genre pieces and respond to literature, both for standardized tests and, more importantly, real-world writing. With a balanced literacy approach, Wolfe provides core instruction, teaching strategies, and mini-lessons on these text types, each of which can be delivered in a four- to six-week time period.
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Mindset Mathematics: Visualizing and Investigating Big Ideas, Grade 1

by Jo Boaler, Jen Munson, Cathy Williams ...

Series series Mindset Mathematics
Engage students in mathematics using growth mindset techniquesThe most challenging parts of teaching mathematics are engaging students and helping them understand the connections between mathematics concepts. In this volume, you'll find a collection of low floor, high ceiling tasks that will help you do just that, by looking at the big ideas at the first-grade level through visualization, play, ... Read more

$22.99 CAD

Engage students in mathematics using growth mindset techniquesThe most challenging parts of teaching mathematics are engaging students and helping them understand the connections between mathematics concepts. In this volume, you'll find a collection of low floor, high ceiling tasks that will help you do just that, by looking at the big ideas at the first-grade level through visualization, play,
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Project Based Learning

Real Questions. Real Answers. How to Unpack PBL and Inquiry

by Ross Cooper, Erin Murphy ...

Countless educators from across the globe would love to leverage project based learning to create learner-centered opportunities for their students, but, believe it or not, PBL has yet to go mainstream.If project based learning can benefit so many students, why isn't this approach the norm in teaching? Because educators have questions.Since the release of their first book, Hacking Project Based ... Read more

$10.99 CAD

Countless educators from across the globe would love to leverage project based learning to create learner-centered opportunities for their students, but, believe it or not, PBL has yet to go mainstream.If project based learning can benefit so many students, why isn't this approach the norm in teaching? Because educators have questions.Since the release of their first book, Hacking Project Based
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Education to Better Their World

Unleashing the Power of 21st-Century Kids

by Marc Prensky ...

“Marc Prensky—one of the smartest people working in educational reform today—offers us a lucid, inspiring, optimistic, doable, and crucial blueprint for how we can build a future with the schools children desperately need in our modern, high-risk, highly complex, fast-changing, and imperiled world.”—James Paul Gee, Mary Lou Fulton Presidential Professor of Literacy Studies, Regents’ Professor, ... Read more

$24.99 CAD

“Marc Prensky—one of the smartest people working in educational reform today—offers us a lucid, inspiring, optimistic, doable, and crucial blueprint for how we can build a future with the schools children desperately need in our modern, high-risk, highly complex, fast-changing, and imperiled world.”—James Paul Gee, Mary Lou Fulton Presidential Professor of Literacy Studies, Regents’ Professor,
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How to Integrate the Curricula

by Robin J. Fogarty, Brian Mitchell Pete ...

"This book should make educators stop and consider exactly what they mean when they discuss curriculum integration."—Julie Prescott, Assessment CoordinatorVallivue High School, Caldwell, ID"The biggest strength of Fogarty′s work is its clear, concise organization centered on the guiding questions of each chapter."—John C. Baker, Eighth-Grade Social Studies TeacherSalem Middle School, Apex, ... Read more

$39.99 CAD

"This book should make educators stop and consider exactly what they mean when they discuss curriculum integration."—Julie Prescott, Assessment CoordinatorVallivue High School, Caldwell, ID"The biggest strength of Fogarty′s work is its clear, concise organization centered on the guiding questions of each chapter."—John C. Baker, Eighth-Grade Social Studies TeacherSalem Middle School, Apex,
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School Education

With linked Table of Contents

by Charlotte Mason ...

'School Education', the third volume of Charlotte Mason's Homeschooling Series, consists of thoughts about the teaching and curriculum of children aged 9-12, either at school or at home. She suggests that parents should practice what she calls "masterly inactivity"-not neglectful or permissive parenting, but simply allowing children to work things out for themselves, do things for themselves, ... Read more

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'School Education', the third volume of Charlotte Mason's Homeschooling Series, consists of thoughts about the teaching and curriculum of children aged 9-12, either at school or at home. She suggests that parents should practice what she calls "masterly inactivity"-not neglectful or permissive parenting, but simply allowing children to work things out for themselves, do things for themselves,
... Read more
Listening in Language Learning

by Michael Rost ...

Series series Applied Linguistics and Language Study
Examines listening as both a means of achieving understanding and as a teachable skill. The underlying theme of the volume is that an integration of cognitive, social, and educational perspectives is necessary in order to characterise effectively what listening ability is and how it may develop. It introduces listening from a cognitive perspective, and presents a detailed investigation of ... Read more

$116.99 CAD

Examines listening as both a means of achieving understanding and as a teachable skill. The underlying theme of the volume is that an integration of cognitive, social, and educational perspectives is necessary in order to characterise effectively what listening ability is and how it may develop. It introduces listening from a cognitive perspective, and presents a detailed investigation of
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Evidence-Based School Development in Changing Demographic Contexts

Edited by Rose M. Ylimaki, Lynnette A. Brunderman ...

Series series Education (R0)
This Open Access book features a school development model (Arizona Initiative for Leadership Development and Research – AZiLDR) that offers a roadmap for schools to navigate the complexities of continuous school development. Filled with processes that balance evidence-based values with democratic, culturally responsive values, this book offers strategies to mediate the tensions and to address ... Read more

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This Open Access book features a school development model (Arizona Initiative for Leadership Development and Research – AZiLDR) that offers a roadmap for schools to navigate the complexities of continuous school development. Filled with processes that balance evidence-based values with democratic, culturally responsive values, this book offers strategies to mediate the tensions and to address
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Standards-Based Learning for Students with Disabilities

by Marsha Craft- Tripp, Allan Glatthorn ...

This book describes in detail how educators can apply curriculum standards, performance standards and opportunity standards to improve education of special learners. It provides practical examples which show you how to develop and implement standards-based IEPs, use curriculum standards and benchmarks to develop long term plans, develop performance tasks for students with disabilities, and develop ... Read more

$21.97 CAD

This book describes in detail how educators can apply curriculum standards, performance standards and opportunity standards to improve education of special learners. It provides practical examples which show you how to develop and implement standards-based IEPs, use curriculum standards and benchmarks to develop long term plans, develop performance tasks for students with disabilities, and develop
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Teaching By Numbers

Deconstructing the Discourse of Standards and Accountability in Education

by Peter Maas Taubman ...

Series series Studies in Curriculum Theory Series
Over the last decade the transformation in the field of education that is occurring under the twin banners of "standards" and "accountability" has materially affected every aspect of schooling, teaching, and teacher education in the United States. Teaching By Numbers, offers interdisciplinary ways to understand the educational reforms underway in urban education, teaching, and teacher education, ... Read more

$100.30 CAD

Over the last decade the transformation in the field of education that is occurring under the twin banners of "standards" and "accountability" has materially affected every aspect of schooling, teaching, and teacher education in the United States. Teaching By Numbers, offers interdisciplinary ways to understand the educational reforms underway in urban education, teaching, and teacher education,
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