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Home Education

by Charlotte Mason ...

Home Education consists of six lectures by Charlotte Mason about the raising and educating of young children (up to the age of nine), for parents and teachers. She encourages us to spend a lot of time outdoors, immersed in nature and handling natural objects and collecting experiences on which to base the rest of their education. She discusses the use of training in good habits such as attention, ... Read more

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Home Education consists of six lectures by Charlotte Mason about the raising and educating of young children (up to the age of nine), for parents and teachers. She encourages us to spend a lot of time outdoors, immersed in nature and handling natural objects and collecting experiences on which to base the rest of their education. She discusses the use of training in good habits such as attention,
... Read more
Dumbing Us Down - 25th Anniversary Edition

The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling

by John Taylor Gatto ...

Transform your child's education from institutional compliance to intellectual freedom. Former New York State Teacher of the Year John Taylor Gatto reveals how compulsory schooling creates dependent workers instead of independent thinkers, replacing natural curiosity with rule-following conformity. Over 30 years of classroom experience led to his revolutionary discovery: genius is as common as ... Read more

$14.39 USD

Transform your child's education from institutional compliance to intellectual freedom. Former New York State Teacher of the Year John Taylor Gatto reveals how compulsory schooling creates dependent workers instead of independent thinkers, replacing natural curiosity with rule-following conformity. Over 30 years of classroom experience led to his revolutionary discovery: genius is as common as
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Developmentally Appropriate Practice in Early Childhood Programs Serving Children from Birth Through Age 8, Fourth Edition (Fully Revised and Updated)

by NAEYC, Barbara Willer, Sue Bredekamp ...

Clear, Relevant, Evidence-Based Guidance to Support Early Childhood EducatorsAcademic's Choice Awards Smart Book Winner. Developmentally appropriate practice is the foundation on which quality early learning is built. The fourth edition of this classic, influential text addresses developmentally appropriate practice within the context of the ever-changing and evolving world of early childhood ... Read more

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Clear, Relevant, Evidence-Based Guidance to Support Early Childhood EducatorsAcademic's Choice Awards Smart Book Winner. Developmentally appropriate practice is the foundation on which quality early learning is built. The fourth edition of this classic, influential text addresses developmentally appropriate practice within the context of the ever-changing and evolving world of early childhood
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Modern Languages Across the Curriculum

Edited by Michael Grenfell ...

This book sets out the agenda for the future of modern language teaching in schools. It aims to look beyond the dominant methods of second language teaching to a new approach emphasising the integration of language learning within the wider curriculum. Through research and case studies from the UK, France, Spain, Italy, Germany, Belgium and Finland, the book shows how teachers and policy makers ... Read more

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This book sets out the agenda for the future of modern language teaching in schools. It aims to look beyond the dominant methods of second language teaching to a new approach emphasising the integration of language learning within the wider curriculum. Through research and case studies from the UK, France, Spain, Italy, Germany, Belgium and Finland, the book shows how teachers and policy makers
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Teaching with AI

A Practical Guide to a New Era of Human Learning

by José Antonio Bowen, C. Edward Watson ...

Now completely revised! An essential guide on how AI is revolutionizing the future of learning and how educators can adapt to this new era of human thinking.Artificial Intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing the way we learn, work, and think. Its integration into classrooms and workplaces is already underway, transforming ideas about creativity, authorship, and education. In this practical guide, ... Read more

$21.29 USD

Now completely revised! An essential guide on how AI is revolutionizing the future of learning and how educators can adapt to this new era of human thinking.Artificial Intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing the way we learn, work, and think. Its integration into classrooms and workplaces is already underway, transforming ideas about creativity, authorship, and education. In this practical guide,
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The Ethics of School Administration

by Kenneth A. Strike, Emil J. Haller, Jonas F. Soltis ...

Series series Professional Ethics in Education Series
This popular text features a rigorous yet practical approach to the difficult dilemmas that so often arise in school administration. Using case studies to illustrate particular ethical issues, the authors cover such topics as: standards • assessment and evaluation • equal opportunity • multiculturalism • religious differences • due process • freedom of expression • personal liberty • and authority ... Read more

$30.59 USD

This popular text features a rigorous yet practical approach to the difficult dilemmas that so often arise in school administration. Using case studies to illustrate particular ethical issues, the authors cover such topics as: standards • assessment and evaluation • equal opportunity • multiculturalism • religious differences • due process • freedom of expression • personal liberty • and authority
... 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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Loose Parts 3

Inspiring Culturally Sustainable Environments

by Miriam Beloglovsky, Lisa Daly ...

Series series Loose Parts Series
Loose parts cross the boundaries of gender, age, abilities, and socioeconomic challenges. This book helps teachers make a conscious effort to create culturally sustainable environments that allow children to grow and to conquer a dynamic world. ... Read more

$25.19 USD

Loose parts cross the boundaries of gender, age, abilities, and socioeconomic challenges. This book helps teachers make a conscious effort to create culturally sustainable environments that allow children to grow and to conquer a dynamic world.
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Ensuring High-Quality Curriculum

How to Design, Revise, or Adopt Curriculum Aligned to Student Success

by Angela Di Michele Lalor ...

We know that curriculum is the core of the classroom experience, but what makes a quality curriculum? How can educators be sure that what they teach is strongly aligned to the specific standards that their district or school has adopted? What kinds of lessons, learning experiences, and assessments are most effective, and how should they be embedded within the curriculum? You'll find the answers to ... Read more

$28.69 USD

We know that curriculum is the core of the classroom experience, but what makes a quality curriculum? How can educators be sure that what they teach is strongly aligned to the specific standards that their district or school has adopted? What kinds of lessons, learning experiences, and assessments are most effective, and how should they be embedded within the curriculum? You'll find the answers to
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The Principal as Curriculum Leader

Shaping What Is Taught and Tested

by Allan A. Glatthorn, Jerry M. Jailall, Julie K. Jailall ...

Your best resource for curriculum leadership post-NCLB and beyond!Put quality curriculum front and center with this classic toolkit to savvy curriculum leadership for the 21st Century. Newly revised and updated case studies, research, and state and national curriculum and leadership standards complement a completely new section focused on emerging technologies.New features include up-to-date ... Read more

$35.09 USD

Your best resource for curriculum leadership post-NCLB and beyond!Put quality curriculum front and center with this classic toolkit to savvy curriculum leadership for the 21st Century. Newly revised and updated case studies, research, and state and national curriculum and leadership standards complement a completely new section focused on emerging technologies.New features include up-to-date
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What Your Preschooler Needs to Know

Get Ready for Kindergarten

by Core Knowledge Foundation ...

Series series The Core Knowledge Series
Give your child a smart start with What Your Preschooler Needs to KnowDesigned for parents to enjoy with children, filled with opportunities for reading aloud and fostering curiosity, this beautifully illustrated anthology offers preschoolers the fundamentals they need to prepare for a happy, productive time in school—and for the rest of their lives. Hundreds of thousands of children have ... Read more

$15.99 USD

Give your child a smart start with What Your Preschooler Needs to KnowDesigned for parents to enjoy with children, filled with opportunities for reading aloud and fostering curiosity, this beautifully illustrated anthology offers preschoolers the fundamentals they need to prepare for a happy, productive time in school—and for the rest of their lives. Hundreds of thousands of children have
... Read more
Tools for Teaching

by Barbara Gross Davis ...

This is the long-awaited update on the bestselling book that offers a practical, accessible reference manual for faculty in any discipline. This new edition contains up-to-date information on technology as well as expanding on the ideas and strategies presented in the first edition. It includes more than sixty-one chapters designed to improve the teaching of beginning, mid-career, or senior ... Read more

$47.00 USD

This is the long-awaited update on the bestselling book that offers a practical, accessible reference manual for faculty in any discipline. This new edition contains up-to-date information on technology as well as expanding on the ideas and strategies presented in the first edition. It includes more than sixty-one chapters designed to improve the teaching of beginning, mid-career, or senior
... Read more
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
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How to Educate a Citizen

The Power of Shared Knowledge to Unify a Nation

by E. D. Hirsch ...

Why a dumbed-down curriculum is bad for our democracy: "A persuasive, scientifically sound case for an education revolution." — Shelf AwarenessIn How to Educate a Citizen, E.D. Hirsch continues the conversation he began thirty years ago with his classic bestseller Cultural Literacy, urging America's public schools, particularly at the elementary level, to educate our children more effectively to ... Read more

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Why a dumbed-down curriculum is bad for our democracy: "A persuasive, scientifically sound case for an education revolution." — Shelf AwarenessIn How to Educate a Citizen, E.D. Hirsch continues the conversation he began thirty years ago with his classic bestseller Cultural Literacy, urging America's public schools, particularly at the elementary level, to educate our children more effectively to
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Competencias docentes del profesorado universitario

Calidad y desarrollo profesional

by Miguel Ángel Zabalza ...

Series Book 4 - Universitaria
La tesis de este libro es que la Universidad desarrolla una tarea formativa de alto nivel que requiere, para resultar efectiva, tanto de condiciones institucionales como de capacitación del personal. La misión formativa de cada institución universitaria se concreta y operativiza en su oferta curricular y la calidad de la formación, por su parte, dependerá, en buena medida, de la actuación de los ... Read more

$22.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

La tesis de este libro es que la Universidad desarrolla una tarea formativa de alto nivel que requiere, para resultar efectiva, tanto de condiciones institucionales como de capacitación del personal. La misión formativa de cada institución universitaria se concreta y operativiza en su oferta curricular y la calidad de la formación, por su parte, dependerá, en buena medida, de la actuación de los
... Read more
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

$16.59 USD

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
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Young Readers’ Edition

Everything American History Textbooks Get Wrong

by James W. Loewen, Rebecca Stefoff ...

Now adapted for young readers ages 12 through 18, the national bestseller that makes real American history come alive in all of its conflict, drama, and complexityLies My Teacher Told Me is one of the most important—and successful—history books of our time. Having sold nearly two million copies, the book won an American Book Award and the Oliver Cromwell Cox Award for Distinguished Anti-Racist ... Read more

$16.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Now adapted for young readers ages 12 through 18, the national bestseller that makes real American history come alive in all of its conflict, drama, and complexityLies My Teacher Told Me is one of the most important—and successful—history books of our time. Having sold nearly two million copies, the book won an American Book Award and the Oliver Cromwell Cox Award for Distinguished Anti-Racist
... Read more
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

$30.59 USD

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
Parents And Children

With linked Table of Contents

by Charlotte Mason ...

'Parents and Children' consists of a collection of 26 articles from the original 'Parent's Review' magazines to encourage and instruct parents. Topics include The Family; Parents as Rulers; Parents as Inspirers; Parents as Schoolmasters; The Culture of Character; Parents as Instructors in Religion; Faith and Duty (a secular writer has useful suggestions for using myths and stories to teach morals; ... Read more

$0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

'Parents and Children' consists of a collection of 26 articles from the original 'Parent's Review' magazines to encourage and instruct parents. Topics include The Family; Parents as Rulers; Parents as Inspirers; Parents as Schoolmasters; The Culture of Character; Parents as Instructors in Religion; Faith and Duty (a secular writer has useful suggestions for using myths and stories to teach morals;
... Read more
Ourselves: Our Souls and Bodies

With linked Table of Contents

by Charlotte Mason ...

'Ourselves', the fourth volume of Charlotte Mason's Classic Homeschooling Series, is a character curriculum book written directly to children. 'Book I, Self-Knowledge', is for elementary school students; 'Book II, Self-Direction', is for older students. 'Self-Knowledge' discusses our human desires and appetites; the "helpers" in our minds, such as intellect, sense of beauty, imagination, and ... Read more

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'Ourselves', the fourth volume of Charlotte Mason's Classic Homeschooling Series, is a character curriculum book written directly to children. 'Book I, Self-Knowledge', is for elementary school students; 'Book II, Self-Direction', is for older students. 'Self-Knowledge' discusses our human desires and appetites; the "helpers" in our minds, such as intellect, sense of beauty, imagination, and
... Read more
Maker Project Ideas for Libraries and Schools

by Kristin Fontichiaro ...

Looking for ideas to animate your maker culture or makerspace for youth? Sample a variety of tips and ideas for creating a culture of making, DIY, creativity, and hands-on learning with youth. Note: this eBook was created as an exercise in a class in selling handmade goods online. Therefore, the content is abridged and abbreviated and a work-in-progress. You will find project ideas and tips but ... Read more

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Looking for ideas to animate your maker culture or makerspace for youth? Sample a variety of tips and ideas for creating a culture of making, DIY, creativity, and hands-on learning with youth. Note: this eBook was created as an exercise in a class in selling handmade goods online. Therefore, the content is abridged and abbreviated and a work-in-progress. You will find project ideas and tips but
... Read more
DO-WATCH-LISTEN-SAY

Social and Communication Intervention for Autism Spectrum Disorder, Second Edition

by Dr. Kathleen Quill Ed.D., BCBA-D, L. Lynn Stansberry Brusnahan, Ph.D. ...

Trusted for more than 15 years, the groundbreaking DO-WATCH-LISTEN-SAY has revolutionized social and communication intervention for children of all ages with autism spectrum disorder. Now a new edition is here, reimagined and expanded for the next generation of children and support teams.Whether you're a professional already or in training to be one, this is the resource you need to address ... Read more

$50.39 USD

Trusted for more than 15 years, the groundbreaking DO-WATCH-LISTEN-SAY has revolutionized social and communication intervention for children of all ages with autism spectrum disorder. Now a new edition is here, reimagined and expanded for the next generation of children and support teams.Whether you're a professional already or in training to be one, this is the resource you need to address
... Read more
Misrepresentation and Silence in United States History Textbooks

The Politics of Historical Oblivion

by Mneesha Gellman ...

Series series Education (R0)
This open access book investigates how representation of Native Americans and Mexican-origin im/migrants takes place in high school history textbooks. Manually analyzing text and images in United States textbooks from the 1950s to 2022, the book documents stories of White victory and domination over Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) groups that disproportionately fill educational ... Read more

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This open access book investigates how representation of Native Americans and Mexican-origin im/migrants takes place in high school history textbooks. Manually analyzing text and images in United States textbooks from the 1950s to 2022, the book documents stories of White victory and domination over Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) groups that disproportionately fill educational
... Read more
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

$18.99 USD

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

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