This is the remarkable story of the creation of a new kind of high school that truly aspires to educate all students to high standards. Believing that a deeply personalized culture can prevent the senseless violence that has invaded many public schools, educators at Souhegan High School in Amherst, New Hampshire, set out to create a safe, caring, and academically rigorous school. In this volume, Silva (a teacher) and Mackin (a principal) chronicle their experiences as they worked through t...

Featuring engaging narratives, this “how-to” book delves into reflection as a concept and provides specific, replicable tools for professional practice. Each chapter draws on a particular school situation demonstrating the value of teacher reflection and describing the nuts and bolts of the process, including protocols for handling many different circumstances.“At the end of each chapter I was dying to go back to the classroom and adapt a new idea into my practice. But probably mor...

HOME, A Sense of Place; A Sense of Belonging is a story of Amherst, NH in the 1950’s and ‘60’s, from the perspective of the children who grew up there. These were the children of The Greatest Generation; their parents built a strong rural community and gave them strong memories of farm and village life. The memories include color and black and white photos, woven into a cohesive narrative.

Link Templeton tinha jurado que nunca se casaria, mas estava a passar o umbral de uma porta com uma noiva ao colo. No entanto, Isabelle Fortune não era sua noiva, ele só estava a cumprir o seu dever: protegê-la do homem com quem tinha estado a ponto de se casar.Link era um homem que punha o dever acima de tudo, inclusive da sua própria sensatez. Mas partilhar um refúgio no meio do deserto com aquela virgem tão sedutora estava a pôr à prova a sua força de vontade. Até pensava estar ...

Amantes durante un mêsUm mês de sedução, fantasias… e amor?Amelia Weatherbee herdou o castelo que a sua família tinha em França e Remy de Fournier jurou que havia de recuperá-lo custasse o que custasse. Mas Amélia estava a pôr um preço muito alto: queria que o reputado amante, o privilegiado conde, lhe ensinasse a arte da sedução... durante um mês.Remy aceitou o desafio com prazer. O que não esperava era que a doce e inocen...

GEGEN DAS VERGESSEN!In diesem besonderen Buch für Jugendliche und Erwachsene erzählt Peggy Parnass die bewegende Geschichte ihrer Kindheit im Dritten Reich. Die brasilianische Künstlerin Tita do Rêgo Silva hat großartige farbenprächtige Holzschnitte dafür geschaffen.Die Schauspielerin, Kolumnistin, Gerichtsreporterin und Autorin Peggy Parnass erzählt in diesem bewegenden Memoire ihre Kindheitsgeschichte: 1939 wurde sie mit ihrem vierjährigen Bruder mit einem Kindertransport n...

The purpose of this text is to further flesh out some of the factors--specific dimensions of our n-dimensional hyperspace--important to inquiry in the classroom. As such, some of the of the factors have already been introduced, others will be new to the conversation. In our discussions that lead to the preparation of this manuscript, it became clear that each of us was interested in classroom inquiry, and so we each wanted to situate our analysis in these classrooms. For that purpose, our ...