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  • Mentoring At-Risk Students through the Hidden Curriculum of Higher Education

    by Buffy Smith ...
    Mentoring At-Risk Students through the Hidden Curriculum of Higher Education reveals how the institutional culture and social networks of universities influence the academic success of underrepresented students. This book is based on a qualitative study that integrates a sociological and higher education theoretical framework to examine the impact of mentoring programs on students’ acquisition of ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

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    Inspiring Play in Young Children

    by Lisa Daly, Miriam Beloglovsky ...
    Series series Loose Parts Series
    Use loose parts to spark children's creativity and innovationLoose parts are natural or synthetic found, bought, or upcycled materials that children can move, manipulate, control, and change within their play. Alluring and captivating, they capture children's curiosity, give free reign to their imagination, and motivate learning.The hundreds of inspiring photographs showcase an array of loose ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Transformative Classroom Management

    Positive Strategies to Engage All Students and Promote a Psychology of Success

    by John Shindler ...
    Transformative Classroom ManagementThe natural condition of any classroom is harmonious, satisfying, and productive, so why do so many teachers struggle with problems of apathy, hostility, anxiety, inefficiency, and resistance?In this groundbreaking book, education expert John Shindler presents a powerful model, Transformative Classroom Management (TCM), that can be implemented by any teacher to ... Read more

    $18.00 USD

  • Setting Limits in the Classroom, Revised

    How to Move Beyond the Dance of Discipline in Today's Classrooms

    by Robert J. Mackenzie ...
    Disruptive behavior, power struggles, lack of motivation, attention deficit disorder—at times the list of obstacles to teaching seems endless. That’s why thousands of teachers and child-care providers have turned to the solutions in Setting Limits in the Classroom. This fully updated and expanded third edition offers the most up-to-date alternatives to punishment and permissiveness—moving beyond ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Little Book of Restorative Justice for Colleges and Universities

    Repairing Harm And Rebuilding Trust In Response To Student Misconduct

    by David R. Karp ...
    Here’s a call to colleges and universities to consider implementing restorative practices on their campuses, ensuring fair treatment of students and staff, while minimizing institutional liability, protecting the campus community, and boosting morale. From an Associate Dean of Student Affairs who has put these models to work on his campus. ... Read more

    $4.95 USD

  • The Classroom X-Factor: The Power of Body Language and Non-verbal Communication in Teaching

    by John White, John Gardner ...
    Why is it that some teachers have a kind of magical charisma and charm which sets them apart from their peers? This book gives us a fresh and exciting answer – They have the classroom X-Factor! White and Gardner’s gripping text, The Classroom X Factor, examines the notion of having what the public has come to call the ‘X-Factor’ from the perspective of the teacher, offering fascinating insights ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • Grant Writing

    Practical Strategies for Scholars and Professionals

    by Rekha S. Rajan, Daniel R. Tomal ...
    Series series The Concordia University Leadership Series
    A first of its kind, this book provides you everything you need to know about successfully navigating the grant writing process including understanding the language of grant writing, finding grants, preparing the proposal, completing the application, preparing budgets, organizing information and timelines, revising and editing the proposal, including the assessment and evaluation, and building ... Read more

    $38.09 USD

  • Life as a Professor: Observations on Declining Education Quality

    by Dr Randall J Dyck ...
    As a result of ongoing academic changes seen over the last decade, the students of today are obtaining a poorer understanding of material, which means that they are less prepared for jobs in the workplace and employers are reluctant to hire them when they graduate. Less courses are being offered in various subject areas, less details are being presented in those courses, the number of assignments ... Read more

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  • Wisdom's Workshop

    The Rise of the Modern University

    by James Axtell ...
    Series series The William G. Bowen Series
    An essential history of the modern research universityWhen universities began in the Middle Ages, Pope Gregory IX described them as "wisdom's special workshop." He could not have foreseen how far these institutions would travel and develop. Tracing the eight-hundred-year evolution of the elite research university from its roots in medieval Europe to its remarkable incarnation today, Wisdom's ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Leading the Modern University

    York University’s Presidents on Continuity and Change, 1974-2014

    Edited by Lorna R. Marsden ...
    Founded in 1959, York University is now the second largest university in Ontario and third largest university in Canada. However, starting in 1970s the success of the university was far from guaranteed.Leading the Modern University documents the challenges and solutions that five successive university presidents (H. Ian Macdonald, Harry Arthurs, Susan Mann, Lorna Marsden, and Mamdouh Shoukri) ... Read more

    $36.79 USD

  • The Modern Land-Grant University

    by Robert J. Sternberg ...
    In an increasingly competitive higher education environment, Americas public universities are seeking ways to differentiate themselves. This book suggests that a hopeful vision of what a university should be lies in a reexamination of the land-grant mission, the common system of values originally set forth in the Morrill Land Grant Acts of 1862 and 1890, which established a new system of ... Read more

    $50.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The University Professor

    by Dr Randall J Dyck ...
    This story focuses on the challenges, rewards, and setbacks of an instructor and his students at pivotal points during a single term in a university, with flashbacks from a decade of learning, and from two decades of applying knowledge.Along the way, a complete study philosophy emerges.The story also contains a helpful discussion guide at the end of it for reading groups, so that they may discuss ... Read more

    $1.99 USD