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  • Teaching Reading and Literature with Classroom Talk

    Dialogical Approaches and Practical Strategies in the Secondary ELA Classroom

    by Dawan Coombs ...
    This book presents a framework for conceptualizing and enacting dialogic approaches to teaching literature and reading in your classroom. Dialogical approaches have often been used in secondary classrooms for teaching writing by incorporating students’ lives and experiences into the English Language Arts (ELA) curriculum. But what might it look like to create reading moments that bring texts to ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Novice Teachers Embracing Wobble in Standardized Schools

    Using Dialogue and Inquiry for Self-Reflection and Growth

    by Bob Fecho, Dawan Coombs, Trevor Thomas Stewart, Todd S. Hawley ...
    A critical resource for pre-service and practicing teachers, this book addresses what happens when new teachers try to enact inquiry-based and dialogical pedagogy within standardized schools. Exploring the narratives from beginning ELA and humanities teachers when they encounter challenges and obstructions, this book explores moments of wobble—key events that called attention to practice in the ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Two Years in the Lives of Two English Teachers

    To Be, To Do, To Become

    by Bob Fecho, Dawan Coombs, Trevor Thomas Stewart, Rachel Knecht, Emelio DiSabato ...
    This book invites readers to explore the complexity of becoming a teacher through the stories of two novice ELA teachers, Emelio and Rachel, over the course of their first two years. The authors’ detailed, empathetic, and ethnographic approach allows space for the teachers to reveal little-seen and often overlooked "wobble moments." These moments illuminate the complexity and nuances that confront ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Using Young Adult Literature to Work through Wobble Moments in Teacher Education

    Literary Response Groups to Enhance Reflection and Understanding

    by Dawan Coombs, Jon Ostenson ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Teacher Education
    This volume offers a novel approach to exploring how literary response groups can be used as part of teacher education programs to help preservice teachers navigate "wobble" moments.Focusing uniquely on the potential of young adult literature (YAL), the text draws on the first-hand experiences of teacher candidates and uses a range of well-known books to demonstrate how narrative-based inquiry and ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

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  • Einstein Never Used Flash Cards, Revised Edition

    How Our Children Really Learn--And Why They Need to Play More and Memorize Less

    by Kathy Hirsh-Pasek PhD, Roberta Michnick Golinkoff PhD, Diane Eyer PhD ...
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    Moving Beyond Traditional Classrooms and "Tougher Standards"

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    In this provocative and well-researched book, Alfie Kohn builds a powerful argument against “teaching to the test” in favor of more child-centered curriculums to raise lifelong learners.Drawing on stories from real classrooms and extensive research, Kohn shows parents, educators, and others how schools can help students explore ideas rather than just fill them with forgettable facts and prepare ... Read more

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    Series series What Principals Need to Know About
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    Discovering and Encouraging Your Child's Multiple Intelligences

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    How to Find Hope while Coping with Stress and Grief

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    Comprehending, Analyzing and Discussing Text

    by Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey ...
    Series series Essentials for Principals
    Prompt students to become the sophisticated readers, writers, and thinkers they need to be to achieve higher learning. The authors explore the important relationship between text, learner, and learning. With an array of methods and assignments to establish critical literacy in a discussion-based and reflective classroom, you’ll encourage students to find meaning and cultivate thinking from even ... Read more

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    The Power of Personality and How It Shapes Our Lives

    by John D. Mayer ...
    John D. Mayer, the renowned psychologist who co-developed the groundbreaking theory of emotional intelligence, now draws on decades of cognitive psychology research to introduce another paradigm-shifting idea: that in order to become our best selves, we use an even broader intelligence—which he calls personal intelligence—to understand our own personality and the personalities of the people around ... Read more

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