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Primary Reading Simplified

A Practical Guide to Classroom Teaching and Whole-School Implementation

by Christopher Such ...

"Such’s passion and knowledge for reading shines through. This is a thoughtful text as well as a practical one."- Schools Week-From the bestselling author of The Art and Science of Teaching Primary Reading, this is your essential guide to teaching reading in primary schools.Filled with classroom-tested, practical guidance, this book addresses common questions faced in every school by those seeking ... Read more

$40.35 NZD

"Such’s passion and knowledge for reading shines through. This is a thoughtful text as well as a practical one."- Schools Week-From the bestselling author of The Art and Science of Teaching Primary Reading, this is your essential guide to teaching reading in primary schools.Filled with classroom-tested, practical guidance, this book addresses common questions faced in every school by those seeking
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Indigenous Data Sovereignty and Policy

Edited by Maggie Walter, Tahu Kukutai, Stephanie Russo Carroll, Desi Rodriguez-Lonebear ...

Series series Routledge Studies in Indigenous Peoples and Policy
This book examines how Indigenous Peoples around the world are demanding greater data sovereignty, and challenging the ways in which governments have historically used Indigenous data to develop policies and programs.In the digital age, governments are increasingly dependent on data and data analytics to inform their policies and decision-making. However, Indigenous Peoples have often been the ... Read more

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This book examines how Indigenous Peoples around the world are demanding greater data sovereignty, and challenging the ways in which governments have historically used Indigenous data to develop policies and programs.In the digital age, governments are increasingly dependent on data and data analytics to inform their policies and decision-making. However, Indigenous Peoples have often been the
... Read more
Mindset Mathematics

Visualizing and Investigating Big Ideas, Grade 5

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 fifth-grade level through visualization, play, ... Read more

$33.99 NZD

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 fifth-grade level through visualization, play,
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The Knowledge Gap

The Hidden Cause of America's Broken Education System--and How to Fix it

by Natalie Wexler ...

**“Essential reading for teachers, education administrators, and policymakers alike.” —STARRED Library JournalThe untold story of the root cause of America's education crisis**It was only after years within the education reform movement that Natalie Wexler stumbled across a hidden explanation for our country's frustrating lack of progress when it comes to providing every child with a quality ... Read more

$19.65 NZD

**“Essential reading for teachers, education administrators, and policymakers alike.” —STARRED Library JournalThe untold story of the root cause of America's education crisis**It was only after years within the education reform movement that Natalie Wexler stumbled across a hidden explanation for our country's frustrating lack of progress when it comes to providing every child with a quality
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Developing Curriculum for Deep Thinking

The Knowledge Revival

by Tim Surma, Claudio Vanhees, Michiel Wils, Jasper Nijlunsing, Nuno Crato, John Hattie, Daniel Muijs, Elizabeth Rata, Dylan Wiliam, Paul A. Kirschner ...

Series series Education (R0)
This open access book discusses why the seemingly straightforward strategy of teaching children how to think deeply does not work and offers an alternative way forward for the curriculum to achieve these objectives. Over the years, the role of knowledge in the curriculum has, like a pendulum, shifted between two extremes, from highly visible to virtually invisible knowledge elements. Insights from ... Read more

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This open access book discusses why the seemingly straightforward strategy of teaching children how to think deeply does not work and offers an alternative way forward for the curriculum to achieve these objectives. Over the years, the role of knowledge in the curriculum has, like a pendulum, shifted between two extremes, from highly visible to virtually invisible knowledge elements. Insights from
... Read more
Disciplining and Drafting or 21st Century Learning?

by Rachel Bolstad,Jane Gilbert ...

Will todays curriculum prepare secondary school students for life in the 21st century? ... Read more

$18.39 NZD

Will todays curriculum prepare secondary school students for life in the 21st century?
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Mindset Mathematics: Visualizing and Investigating Big Ideas, Grade K

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 kindergarten-grade level through visualization, ... Read more

$33.99 NZD

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 kindergarten-grade level through visualization,
... Read more
Mindset Mathematics: Visualizing and Investigating Big Ideas, Grade 3

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 third-grade level through visualization, play, ... Read more

$42.99 NZD

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 third-grade level through visualization, play,
... Read more
Mindset Mathematics

Visualizing and Investigating Big Ideas, Grade 4

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

$33.99 NZD

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
Running the Room: The Teacher’s Guide to Behaviour

by Tom Bennett ...

Good behaviour is the beginning of great learning. All children deserve classrooms that are calm, safe spaces where everyone is treated with dignity. Creating that space is one of the most important things a teacher needs to be able to do. But all too often teachers begin their careers with the bare minimum of training – or worse, none. How students behave, socially and academically, dictates ... Read more

$27.99 NZD

Good behaviour is the beginning of great learning. All children deserve classrooms that are calm, safe spaces where everyone is treated with dignity. Creating that space is one of the most important things a teacher needs to be able to do. But all too often teachers begin their careers with the bare minimum of training – or worse, none. How students behave, socially and academically, dictates
... Read more
Simply Notetaking and Speedwriting

Learn How to Take Notes Simply and Effectively

by Kristine Setting Clark ...

Simply Notetaking and Speedwriting is a simple and effective notetaking program that is essential to student academic success. Notetaking is a major component in learning and understanding how to recognize and identify main ideas, key facts and details. Simply Notetaking and Speedwriting will also teach the student how to record notes in various formats and how to utilize notetaking when studying ... Read more

$51.05 NZD

Simply Notetaking and Speedwriting is a simple and effective notetaking program that is essential to student academic success. Notetaking is a major component in learning and understanding how to recognize and identify main ideas, key facts and details. Simply Notetaking and Speedwriting will also teach the student how to record notes in various formats and how to utilize notetaking when studying
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That's Not What This Book Is About

by Joanna Johnson ...

Embark on an emotional journey with Joanna Johnson as she navigates life's twists and turns, encountering remarkable individuals and absorbing life-changing insights along the way. Prepare to dive into your own memories, finding solace and inspiration in the enduring forces of love, strength, and human bonds that resonate throughout this captivating story!Learn more about Joanna Johnson at www ... Read more

$34.26 NZD

Embark on an emotional journey with Joanna Johnson as she navigates life's twists and turns, encountering remarkable individuals and absorbing life-changing insights along the way. Prepare to dive into your own memories, finding solace and inspiration in the enduring forces of love, strength, and human bonds that resonate throughout this captivating story!Learn more about Joanna Johnson at www
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Loose Parts 2

Inspiring Play with Infants and Toddlers

by Miriam Beloglovsky, Lisa Daly ...

Series series Loose Parts Series
Loose parts capture children's curiosity, give free reign to their imagination, and encourage creativity. This form of play allows infants to be in control and recognize the power of their bodies and actions. A variety of new and innovative loose parts ideas are paired with beautiful photography to inspire safe loose parts play in your infant and toddler environments. Captivating classroom stories ... Read more

$53.12 NZD

Loose parts capture children's curiosity, give free reign to their imagination, and encourage creativity. This form of play allows infants to be in control and recognize the power of their bodies and actions. A variety of new and innovative loose parts ideas are paired with beautiful photography to inspire safe loose parts play in your infant and toddler environments. Captivating classroom stories
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Concept-Based Curriculum and Instruction for the Thinking Classroom

by Rachel French, H. Lynn Erickson, Lois A. Lanning ...

Series series Corwin Teaching Essentials
Think Beyond the Facts!Knowing the facts is not enough. If we want students to develop intellectually, creatively problem-solve, and grapple with complexity, the key is in conceptual understanding. A Concept-Based curriculum recaptures students’ innate curiosity about the world and provides the thrilling feeling of engaging one’s mind.This updated edition introduces the newest thought leadership ... Read more

$60.48 NZD

Think Beyond the Facts!Knowing the facts is not enough. If we want students to develop intellectually, creatively problem-solve, and grapple with complexity, the key is in conceptual understanding. A Concept-Based curriculum recaptures students’ innate curiosity about the world and provides the thrilling feeling of engaging one’s mind.This updated edition introduces the newest thought leadership
... Read more
The Running the Room Companion: Issues in classroom management and strategies to deal with them

by Tom Bennett ...

In Running the Room: The Teacher's Guide to Behaviour, Tom Bennett rewrote the book on behaviour management, and outlined the psychology and dynamics underpinning student habits. In this companion, he goes into more detail about how to apply those principles to the classroom. Addressing a wide range of circumstances, he explores popular teacher dilemmas such as:How to deal with students who are ... Read more

$20.99 NZD

In Running the Room: The Teacher's Guide to Behaviour, Tom Bennett rewrote the book on behaviour management, and outlined the psychology and dynamics underpinning student habits. In this companion, he goes into more detail about how to apply those principles to the classroom. Addressing a wide range of circumstances, he explores popular teacher dilemmas such as:How to deal with students who are
... Read more
Technology Education in New Zealand

A Guide for Teachers

by Wendy Fox-Turnbull, Elizabeth Reinsfield, Alistair Michael Forret ...

This book aims to develop understanding of technology education in New Zealand. It is New Zealand’s story of technology education in the 21st century and will assist teachers and teacher educators in developing technology education programmes. It explores the philosophy of and rationale for technology education and the relevant theory underpinning technology education. The background to recent ... Read more

$91.13 NZD

This book aims to develop understanding of technology education in New Zealand. It is New Zealand’s story of technology education in the 21st century and will assist teachers and teacher educators in developing technology education programmes. It explores the philosophy of and rationale for technology education and the relevant theory underpinning technology education. The background to recent
... Read more
Leading Groups Online: a Down-and-Dirty Guide to Leading Online Courses, Meetings, Trainings, and Events During the Coronavirus Pandemic

by Daniel Hunter ...

The coronavirus pandemic has created new challenges for facilitators and educators. Across the globe, people are being asked to lead groups online: teachers, trainers, professors, event managers, organizers, activists.Jeanne Rewa and Daniel Hunter swiftly wrote this booklet for this moment. Using their combined two decades of online facilitation, Jeanne and Daniel walk you through the basics of ... Read more

$5.99 NZD or Free with Kobo Plus

The coronavirus pandemic has created new challenges for facilitators and educators. Across the globe, people are being asked to lead groups online: teachers, trainers, professors, event managers, organizers, activists.Jeanne Rewa and Daniel Hunter swiftly wrote this booklet for this moment. Using their combined two decades of online facilitation, Jeanne and Daniel walk you through the basics of
... Read more
Unsettling Responsibility in Science Education

Indigenous Science, Deconstruction, and the Multicultural Science Education Debate

by Marc Higgins ...

Series series Palgrave Studies in Educational Futures
This open access book engages with the response-ability of science education to Indigenous ways-of-living-with-Nature. Higgins deconstructs the ways in which the structures of science education—its concepts, categories, policies, and practices—contribute to the exclusion (or problematic inclusion) of Indigenous science while also shaping its ability respond. Herein, he undertakes an unsettling ... Read more

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This open access book engages with the response-ability of science education to Indigenous ways-of-living-with-Nature. Higgins deconstructs the ways in which the structures of science education—its concepts, categories, policies, and practices—contribute to the exclusion (or problematic inclusion) of Indigenous science while also shaping its ability respond. Herein, he undertakes an unsettling
... Read more
Intelligent Accountability: Creating the conditions for teachers to thrive

by David Didau ...

Uncertainty is a fact of life. You can never know enough to make perfect decisions. Understanding this helps us balance an awareness of our tendency towards overconfidence with an acceptance of our own fallibility. The book discusses two opposed models of school improvement: the deficit model (which assumes problems are someone’s fault) and the surplus model (which assumes problems are unintended ... Read more

$27.99 NZD

Uncertainty is a fact of life. You can never know enough to make perfect decisions. Understanding this helps us balance an awareness of our tendency towards overconfidence with an acceptance of our own fallibility. The book discusses two opposed models of school improvement: the deficit model (which assumes problems are someone’s fault) and the surplus model (which assumes problems are unintended
... Read more
Getting Personal with Inquiry Learning

by Kath Murdoch ...

***"This book is Kath Murdoch's masterpiece. It is immaculately researched, carefully argued, elegantly written, beautifully produced, and above all, incredibly useful and practical."***-Guy Claxton, author of The Future of TeachingIn Getting Personal with Inquiry Learning, world-renowned inquiry expert, Kath Murdoch, draws on decades of experience to offer a thorough, practical guide to ... Read more

$18.04 NZD

***"This book is Kath Murdoch's masterpiece. It is immaculately researched, carefully argued, elegantly written, beautifully produced, and above all, incredibly useful and practical."***-Guy Claxton, author of The Future of TeachingIn Getting Personal with Inquiry Learning, world-renowned inquiry expert, Kath Murdoch, draws on decades of experience to offer a thorough, practical guide to
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Principles and Practice of Case-based Clinical Reasoning Education

A Method for Preclinical Students

Edited by Olle ten Cate, Eugène J.F.M. Custers, Steven J. Durning ...

Series Book 15 - Innovation and Change in Professional Education
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.This volume describes and explains the educational method of Case-Based Clinical Reasoning (CBCR) used successfully in medical schools to prepare students to think like doctors before they enter the clinical arena and become engaged in patient care. Although this approach poses the paradoxical problem of a lack of clinical experience that is so ... Read more

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This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.This volume describes and explains the educational method of Case-Based Clinical Reasoning (CBCR) used successfully in medical schools to prepare students to think like doctors before they enter the clinical arena and become engaged in patient care. Although this approach poses the paradoxical problem of a lack of clinical experience that is so
... 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

$71.86 NZD

"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
Inquiry-Based Early Learning Environments

Creating, Supporting, and Collaborating

by Susan Stacey ...

What does it mean to inquire? Grownups would say it means to question, to search for information, or to finding out about a topic of interest. For children in an early childhood classroom, the definition is no different. From the time of their birth, children want to know how the world works and actively seek out information. How educators respond to their quest is what this book is all about ... Read more

$60.71 NZD

What does it mean to inquire? Grownups would say it means to question, to search for information, or to finding out about a topic of interest. For children in an early childhood classroom, the definition is no different. From the time of their birth, children want to know how the world works and actively seek out information. How educators respond to their quest is what this book is all about
... Read more
Worldwise Learning

A Teacher′s Guide to Shaping a Just, Sustainable Future

by Carla Marschall, Elizabeth O. Crawford ...

Series series Corwin Teaching Essentials
**Nautilus Gold Award Winner (Books for a Better World) in Social Sciences & EducationCreate inclusive, democratic classrooms that prepare knowledgeable, compassionate, and engaged global citizens.**Today’s global challenges—climate change, food and water insecurity, social and economic inequality, and a global pandemic—demand that educators prepare students to become compassionate, critical ... Read more

$60.48 NZD

**Nautilus Gold Award Winner (Books for a Better World) in Social Sciences & EducationCreate inclusive, democratic classrooms that prepare knowledgeable, compassionate, and engaged global citizens.**Today’s global challenges—climate change, food and water insecurity, social and economic inequality, and a global pandemic—demand that educators prepare students to become compassionate, critical
... Read more

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