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  • Each One Must Shine: The Legacy of Vasily Sukhomlinsky

    Vasyl Sukhomlynsky (1918-1970) was one of the most influential Soviet educators of the post-war period. His idealistic vision of human development and his deep love for children led him to develop a holistic system of education that emphasised the moral and aesthetic dimensions of a child's development, as well as the physical, intellectual and vocational. His school in the Ukrainian village of ... Read more

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  • My Heart I Give to Children

    Translated by Alan Cockerill ...
    Vasyl Sukhomlynsky's My Heart I Give to Children is an educational classic that has sold millions of copies in 30 languages. It describes Sukhomlynsky's ground-breaking work with thirty-one students in rural Ukraine, during an experimental preschool year and the subsequent four years of their primary schooling.Sukhomlynsky wrote over thirty books, all based on his personal experience as a teacher ... Read more

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    A Small Town, an Unlikely Coach, and a Magical Baseball Season

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    " One Shot at Forever is powerful, inspirational. . . This isn't merely a book about baseball. It's a book about heart." -- Jeff Pearlman, New York Times bestselling author of Boys Will Be Boys and The Bad Guys WonIn 1971, a small-town high school baseball team from rural Illinois, playing with hand-me-down uniforms and peace signs on their hats, defied convention and the odds. Led by an English ... Read more

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  • How to be an Outstanding Primary School Teacher

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    This book features lots of easy-to-introduce activities and techniques that will propel satisfactory and good lessons into the outstanding category - not just when being observed, but all the time. And the best news? This book tells you how to do it without spending lots more time planning, researching and preparing 'out of this world' lessons. There are dozens of starters and plenaries and useful ... Read more

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  • Teach with Your Heart

    Lessons I Learned from the Freedom Writers

    by Erin Gruwell ...
    The extraordinary memoir of the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Freedom Writers Diary, who’s beenhailed as “a true inspiration” (Hilary Swank) and “simply magical when it comes to inspiring people to action” (Los Angeles Times).Don’t miss the public television documentary Freedom Writers: Stories from the HeartIn this passionate, poignant, and deeply personal memoir and call to arms, ... Read more

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  • Robertson Davies

    Magician of Words

    by Nicholas Maes ...
    Series Book 24 - Quest Biography
    Born in Thamesville, Ontario, a student at Queen’s University in Kingston in the 1930’s, and editor and later publisher of the Peterborough Examiner from the 1940s to the mid-1960s, playwright, essayist, critic, professor, and novelist Robertson Davies (1913-1995) was one of Canada’s pre-eminent literary voices for more than a half-century.Davies, with his generous beard and donnish manner, was ... Read more

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  • Master of the Mysteries

    New Revelations on the Life of Manly Palmer Hall

    by Louis Sahagun ...
    "Louis Sahagun's gripping biography is an insightful look at the life and times of one of the last century's most important mystical thinkers."-The Fortean TimesIn 1919, a Canadian teenager with a sixth grade education arrived by train to the wilds of Los Angeles. Within a decade he had transformed himself into a world-renowned occult scholar.His name was Manly Palmer Hall, author of the landmark ... Read more

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  • Whole Child, Whole School

    Applying Theory to Practice in a Community School

    This book provides a unique examination on the ways in which educating the whole child in the community school serves to ameliorate the conditions of poverty and obstacles to learning faced by students. Using a case study approach the book will highlight the successful journey of one school that transformed itself into a community school. Given the rise in poverty nation-wide and the unprecedented ... Read more

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  • Running Records

    Authentic Instruction in Early Childhood Education

    by Mary Shea ...
    The most effective way to understand what a child knows about the reading process is to take a running record. In Running Records, Mary Shea demonstrates how teachers can use this powerful tool to design lessons that decrease reading difficulties, build on strengths, and stimulate motivation, ensuring that children develop self-sustaining learning strategies.Special Features include:a step-by-step ... Read more

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  • Losing My Faculties

    A Teacher's Story

    In his first nine years as a teacher, Brendan Halpin goes from wide-eyed idealist to cynical, heartbroken idealist. Unique among teaching memoirs, Losing My Faculties is not the story of a heroic teacher who transforms the lives of his hardbitten students; rather, it's the inspirational and often unpretty truth about people who choose to get up ridiculously early day after day and year after year ... Read more

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  • One Day, All Children...

    The Unlikely Triumph Of Teach For America And What I Learned Along The Way

    by Wendy Kopp ...
    From her dorm room at Princeton University, twenty-one-year-old college senior Wendy Kopp decided to launch a movement to improve public education in America. In One Day, All Children... , she shares the remarkable story of Teach For America, a non-profit organization that sends outstanding college graduates to teach for two years in the most under-resourced urban and rural public schools in ... Read more

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  • Reading the World, the Globe, and the Cosmos

    Approaches to Teaching Literature for the Twenty-first Century

    Series Book 28 - Global Studies in Education
    This book won the 2014 AESA (American Educational Studies Association) Critics Choice Award.The purpose of this book is restore the centrality of pedagogy in governing the ways literary texts are received, experienced, and interpreted by students in the classroom. Utilizing a method of pedagogical criticism, it provides an account of core approaches to teaching literature that have emerged across ... Read more

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