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  • I Learned More Than Them; True Story

    About Middle School Students Educating A Teacher

    by Bill Massey ...
    A collective of precious moments and fond memories jointly created and shared with each other by a public school teacher and his middle school students as the teacher brings relevant life experiences into their classroom and his students bring inspiration and gratification into his twilight career. ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Careers in Child and Adolescent Development

    A Student's Guide to Working in the Field

    Child and Adolescent Development is a rich and continuously evolving field that offers a wealth of career opportunities. Careers in Child and Adolescent Development is the first textbook to guide students along each step of the career path—from the levels of academic degrees and programs available, to preparations for the professional world. It presents a brief description of the field, explores a ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • This Is Not A Test

    A New Narrative on Race, Class, and Education

    The conversation about turning around failing schools is in the national spotlight, and that spotlight is often focused on schools that black and brown children attend. Certain proposals to improve urban schools generate lots of headlines: expanding charter schools, funding school vouchers, using student test scores to evaluate, promote and pay teachers. But race is seldom considered as a tool for ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Education and Democracy in the 21st Century

    by Nel Noddings ...
    Eminent educational philosopher Nel Noddings draws on John Dewey's foundational work to reimagine education's aims and curriculum for the 21st century. Noddings looks at education as a multi-aim enterprise in which schools must address needs in all three domains of life: home and family, occupational, and civic. She raises critical questions about the current enthusiasm for standardization, the ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Visionary Director, Third Edition

    A Handbook for Dreaming, Organizing, and Improvising in Your Center

    The Visionary Director has sold over 56,000 copies of its first two editions. It was last updated over ten years ago and has been widely course adopted. The new edition will be 40% new content including new reflections, stories, and provocations in Spanish.Deb Curtis and Margie Carter are well known in the early childhood field and two of Redleaf Press' most consistent best selling authors.The ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Witnessing Whiteness

    The Journey into Racial Awareness and Antiracist Action

    Witnessing Whiteness offers a comprehensive and empathetic exploration of what white people experience when learning about race, why it is so confusing, how whiteness works in their lives, and how to act against racism. The author combines authentic storytelling, nuanced analysis, and compelling voices from a collection of cross-race guides to lead readers through a self-reflective process that ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • (Un)Learning Disability

    Recognizing and Changing Restrictive Views of Student Ability

    Series series Disability, Culture, and Equity Series
    How do high school students confront and resolve conflicting messages about their intelligence and academic potential, particularly when labeled with social and learning disabilities? How does disability become “disablement” when negative attitudes and disparaging perceptions of ability position students as outsiders? Following the lives of adolescents at home and at school, the author makes ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Paideia Program

    An Educational Syllabus

    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

    $14.99 USD

  • The Trouble with Boys

    A Surprising Report Card on Our Sons, Their Problems at School, and What Parents and Educators Must Do

    by Peg Tyre ...
    From the moment they step into the classroom, boys begin to struggle. They get expelled from preschool nearly five times more often than girls; in elementary school, they’re diagnosed with learning disorders four times as often. By eighth grade huge numbers are reading below basic level. And by high school, they’re heavily outnumbered in AP classes and, save for the realm of athletics, show ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Race among Friends

    Exploring Race at a Suburban School

    Series series Rutgers Series in Childhood Studies
    Many saw the 2008 election of Barack Obama as a sign that America had moved past the issue of race, that a colorblind society was finally within reach. But as Marianne Modica reveals in Race Among Friends, attempts to be colorblind do not end racism—in fact, ignoring race increases the likelihood that racism will occur in our schools and in society.This intriguing volume focuses on a “racially ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Der Taubenfütterer und andere Geschichten

    Deutsch als Fremdsprache / EPUB-Download

    Series series Lesehefte Deutsch als Fremdsprache
    Niveau B1 Vier kurze Geschichten, die - mal eher nachdenklich, mal eher amüsiert - von mehr oder weniger seltsamen Begegnungen erzählen. Niveaustufe B1 ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Baby Signs: How to Talk with Your Baby Before Your Baby Can Talk, Third Edition

    The Essential Parenting Guide- NOW COMPLETELY UPDATED AND EXPANDED!In 1982, child development experts Linda Acredolo, Ph.D., and Susan Goodwyn, Ph.D., discovered that babies can communicate with simple signs-even before they're able to talk. The result: Baby Signs, the groundbreaking technique that has changed parenting forever.Now, with the widespread popularity of signing with hearing babies and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Biography-Driven Culturally Responsive Teaching, Second Edition

    Culturally responsive pedagogy, literacy, and English learner education expert Socorro Herrera has updated this bestseller to clarify, focus, and redefine concepts for the continued professional development of educators serving culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) populations. Teaching strategies and tools have been updated to reflect important new brain research and to keep pace with our ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Alone Together

    Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other

    by Sherry Turkle ...
    A groundbreaking book by one of the most important thinkers of our time shows how technology is warping our social lives and our inner onesTechnology has become the architect of our intimacies. Online, we fall prey to the illusion of companionship, gathering thousands of Twitter and Facebook friends, and confusing tweets and wall posts with authentic communication. But this relentless connection ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • College

    What it Was, Is, and Should Be

    As the commercialization of American higher education accelerates, more and more students are coming to college with the narrow aim of obtaining a preprofessional credential. The traditional four-year college experience--an exploratory time for students to discover their passions and test ideas and values with the help of teachers and peers--is in danger of becoming a thing of the past. In College ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Bourdieu and Higher Education

    Life in the Modern University

    This book introduces Bourdieu in the context of higher education for unfamiliar readers or those who would like to see his theories applied in the higher education setting. It builds upon research into higher education leadership and administration to examine how the university sector has changed over recent decades and how it has been reshaped into its current form.The book draws together various ... Read more

    $98.99 USD

  • Free to Learn

    Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More Self-Reliant, and Better Students for Life

    by Peter Gray ...
    A leading expert in childhood development makes the case for why self-directed learning -- "unschooling" -- is the best way to get kids to learn.In Free to Learn, developmental psychologist Peter Gray argues that in order to foster children who will thrive in today's constantly changing world, we must entrust them to steer their own learning and development. Drawing on evidence from anthropology, ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Culturally Responsive Teaching and The Brain

    Promoting Authentic Engagement and Rigor Among Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students

    A bold, brain-based teaching approach to culturally responsive instructionThe achievement gap remains a stubborn problem for educators of culturally and linguistically diverse students. With the introduction of the rigorous Common Core State Standards, diverse classrooms need a proven framework for optimizing student engagement and facilitating deeper learningCulturally responsive pedagogy has ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Helping Foster Children In School

    A Guide for Foster Parents, Social Workers and Teachers

    by John DeGarmo ...
    Helping Foster Children In School explores the challenges that foster children face in schools and offers positive and practical guidance tailored to help the parents, teachers and social workers supporting them.Children in care often perform poorly at school both in terms of their behavior and their academic performance, with many failing to complete their education. They will have often ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • The Idea of the University

    A Reader, Volume 1

    Series Book 17 - Global Studies in Education
    The Idea of the University: A Reader, Volume 1 is a unique compilation of selected works of the major thinkers who have contributed to the discourse on the idea of the university in the German, English, American and French traditions, dating from the establishment of the University of Berlin in 1810. Readings include excerpts from Kant and Humboldt in the German tradition of Bildung through to ... Read more

    $83.99 USD

  • Human Resources for School Leaders

    Eleven Steps to Utilizing HR to Improve Student Learning

    Human Resources for School Leaders contains comprehensive and systematic coverage of all aspects of public school human resource management. Unlike other books focused on this topic, the authors ground their text on "student learning" and outline strategies designed to enhance school climate and culture. The early chapters focus on relevant theories and research supporting current human resource ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Teaching English Language Learners K–12

    A Quick-Start Guide for the New Teacher

    by Jerry Jesness ...
    Bring the English language to life with this valuable new resource!Some say that learning a second language is like drinking water from a fire hose. But teaching it does not have to be like standing under Niagara Falls. This is the fundamental message of Jerry Jesness’ new quick-start guide Teaching English Language Learners K-12. In our climate, ELL teachers face immense demands as educators ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • A Pedagogy of Responsibility

    Wendell Berry for EcoJustice Education

    Drawing on the theories of author and conservationist Wendell Berry for the field of EcoJustice Education, this book articulates a pedagogy of responsibility as a three-pronged approach grounded in the recognition that our planet balances an essential and fragile interdependence between all living creatures. Examining the deep cultural roots of social and ecological problems perpetuated by schools ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Piano Lessons for Beginners

    Teach Yourself How to Play Piano (Free Video Available)

    Series series Progressive Beginner
    Teach yourself how to play piano with our easy piano lessons for beginners.***Comes with online access to free piano videos and audio demonstrating all examples. See and hear how each one is played by a teacher, then play along with the backing band. Also includes music score and piano animation for easy music learning.***"Okay, I am of a certain age [so] I decided to learn to play the Piano. You ... Read more

    $9.99 USD