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Mind, Brain, and Education: Neuroscience Implications for the Classroom is the sixth book in the Leading EdgeTM series. The Leading Edge series unites education authorities from around the globe and asks them to confront the important issues that affect teachers and administrators the issues that profoundly impact student success. Mind, Brain, and Education is a landmark publication in the emerging science of educational neuroscience. The leading...
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#1 I put my five-year-old son, Wyatt, on a bus for his first day of school. I watched him become more distant, and I noticed that he was losing his childlike innocence. He was becoming more interested in what other kids thought of him.
#2 I missed my son, and I wanted to give him a childhood. I wanted to experience it with him. I wanted to be with him all day, and not...
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#1 The Olmec people, who occupied the center of Mesoamerica, were believed to have been Africans. The first humans to reach the American continent probably came from northeast Asia or Siberia and intermarried with the early inhabitants, who were probably Africans.
#2 The land bridge allowed the first human ancestors to arrive in Mesoamerica about 1000 years after the...
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#1 You can be successful by making small but meaningful improvements in your daily habits. This will determine who you could become. Developing good habits is a challenge, but it will change your life for the better.
#2 Focus on the process and not the goal.
#3 A simple yet effective way to change your life is to focus on small but meaningful improvements in your daily...
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Transform your classroom culture from one of passive knowledge consumption to one of active learning and student engagement. In this well-researched book, author Rebecca Stobaugh shares how to build a culture of thinking that emphasizes essential 21st century skills - from critical thinking and problem-solving to teamwork and creativity. Gain 50 teacher-tested instructional strategies for nurturing students' cognitive abilities, and utilize the book's...
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#1 A five-year-old girl was fascinated by a nonfiction picture book about birds of prey and spent a lot of time studying them in her classroom. She became an expert on bird shadows and noticed a cartoon image on each page that didn't make sense. She wondered where the bird was going to get salt. It's not just children who can make those connections. I recently heard...
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Changing technologies-as well as demographics, economics, and education policies-are rapidly transforming higher education. This short, reader-friendly book explores current trends in postsecondary education and focuses on developments most likely to impact its future. The author analyzes why we must rethink our understanding of life beyond high school to better prepare students for careers, further education, and economic prosperity.
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Align teaching with next-generation standards. To fully address the Common Core State Standards, educators must pair standards-aligned instructional goals with high-quality texts or content. The author underscores the crucial role of selecting, preparing, and incorporating texts in curriculum design and the importance of close reading, rigorous task construction, purposeful classroom discussion, and focused collaboration in literacy instruction.
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Examine the pivotal role family engagement plays in student achievement, and explore in depth the process of creating and implementing a family-engagement plan. This research-based guide includes many specific strategies, handouts, and reproducibles leaders can use to make their schools family friendly and connect with those families who may be hard to reach.
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The Collaborative Teacher: Working Together as a Professional Learning Community seeks to change education from inside the classroom. Using insights from a variety of experts who have implemented and sustained collaborative cultures of continuous improvement in schools around the nation, this anthology offers best practices, expert insight and testimonials, and supporting research to show the benefits of collaboration in creating a school that reaches...
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What's the secret to making school wide SEL work?
Growing numbers of people recognize that social-emotional learning (SEL) is central to a well-rounded education and to success in life outside and beyond the school building. What's missing is the know-how and framework for weaving SEL into the fabric of the school.
In this highly practical and eminently readable book, Thomas R. Hoerr shows teachers, administrators, and other school staff how to...
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Ensure learning equality in every classroom. Investigate previous and current policies designed to help close the achievement gap. Examine predominant mindsets that contradict school missions to promote equal academic opportunities, and consider the psychological impact this has on students. Explore strategies for adopting a new mindset that frees educators and students from negative academic performance expectations.
75) What Today's Parent Must Know About Today's Classroom!: Meeting the Challenge of New Age Learners
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Author Kendrick Sterling describes six practical, innovative, and powerful methods to enliven and ignite a passion for learning in each-and-every child. It is time to stand on our desks and make every school in America the best it can be. It has been his mission to make a difference in the lives of our children and parents. Over his many years in education, Mr. Sterling, has seen remarkable teachers who inspire kids to greatness and sadly, he has...
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Carve out effective intervention time in your school or district. Discover how to revamp and increase interventions in order to provide compassionate, transformative support to students at all three tiers of the RTI pyramid. Explore strategies for creative and flexible scheduling, and learn how smart intervention efforts and a dedicated staff can reboot a toxic school culture.
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Literacy skills are of paramount importance to students in the digital age. In this book, teachers and administrators will explore the six comprehensive skill areas essential to 21st century literacy-reading, writing, listening, speaking, viewing, and representing. Learn practical strategies for teaching students the skills they need to think critically and communicate collaboratively in the 21st century.
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We want students to master academic standards, and we want them to be confident, adaptive, and socially responsible. Above all, we want them to find meaning and satisfaction in their lives. Achieving these goals requires a concerted focus on the social-emotional skills that empower students in and beyond the classroom.
In Teaching to Empower, Debbie Zacarian and Michael Silverstone explore what an empowered student looks like in our increasingly diverse...
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#1 In 1815, a religious revival swept the Litchfield Female Academy in Connecticut. The daughter of a celebrity preacher, 14-year-old Catharine Beecher refused to convert. This made her conspicuous, because she was the daughter of a preacher.
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Integrate teaching practices that incorporate digital, media, and global-based learning with traditional learning to prepare students to succeed in a highly competitive world. Identify new literacy terms, find points of curriculum intersection, learn how to acquaint faculty with new technologies, and explore case studies featuring teachers and students operating in 21st century classrooms.