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  • Brainball

    Teaching Inquiry Science as a Team Sport

    What is a game? You might think of cards and dice, computers, or sports. You might even think of music or theater as games. But what about Science? Games have rules, players, and objectives, but, maybe most importantly, games are fun. People play games because they think they are “fun,” and sometimes they even learn some important lessons. Classrooms are intended to teach important lessons, and ... Read more

    $38.09 USD

  • Brainball

    Teaching Inquiry Math as a Team Sport

    Inquiry is becoming more and more an area of interest for educators. This book attempts to explain why math inquiry makes sense, what pieces are required to do math inquiry effectively (the knowledge, skills and dispositions), and then provides a series of day-by-day lesson plans. ... Read more

    $34.79 USD

  • Brainball

    Teaching Inquiry and Social Studies as a Team Sport

    Brainball:Teaching Inquiry and Social Studies as a Team Sport is an attempt to clarify that not only is social studies a game, but that it is one of the most useful and powerful games that teachers and students will ever play. Games are the doing of theory, and maybe it would be a good idea to start doing social studies in every social studies classroom. ... Read more

    $28.39 USD

  • Powerful Ideas in Teaching

    Creating Environments in which Students Want to Learn

    True learning—the kind that stays with students long after the grades are in—requires risk. Ownership. Change. But what does it look like for students to really understand your subject? How can you structure assignments so that Googling becomes an asset, not a threat, to demonstrating knowledge? Veteran teacher Mickey Kolis invites you to reflect on how you “do learning” in your classroom. Real ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

  • Thinking Diagrams

    Processing and Connecting Experiences, Facts, and Ideas

    Higher-order thinking questions (and their answers) are considered by many to be the holy grail of teaching. Teachers know when students “get it”, but the question remains “How do you teach students to think explicitly and intentionally?” This book uses a series of diagrams to make thinking explicit by using students’ personal experiences as the foundation for their thinking. Thinking Diagrams ... Read more

    $29.19 USD

  • Brainball

    Teaching Inquiry Music as a Team Sport

    Inquiry is becoming more and more an area of interest in education. This book attempts to explain why music inquiry makes sense, what pieces are required to do music inquiry effectively (the knowledge, skills and dispositions) and then provides how to teach music inquiry in a series of day-by-day lesson plans. ... Read more

    $28.39 USD

  • Brainball

    Teaching Inquiry Theater as a Team Sport

    This volume of the Brainball series gives the theater classroom teacher an intentional, sequenced process for creating inclusive theatre pedagogy that maximizes students’ learning. In addition, the Brainball technique offers concrete forms of meaningful assessment applicable to the theater classroom, and connects easily to our newly published national standards in theatre arts education.Brainball ... Read more

    $28.39 USD

  • Rethinking Teaching

    Classroom Teachers as Collaborative Leaders in Making Learning Relevant

    by Mickey Kolis ...
    Rethinking Teaching is based upon one very simple idea – teachers teach people. That very simple idea is expressed as “Teachers as Collaborative Leaders.” Teachers wishing to redefine how they work in the classroom must focus on three key ideas:They must build and maintain relationships with and among their students,They must view Content as the foundation for personal learning (not the end ... Read more

    $33.19 USD

  • Student Relevance Matters

    Why Do I Have to Know This Stuff?

    by Mickey Kolis ...
    Classrooms are systems, schools are systems, and schooling in the United States is a big system. Changing any of those systems requires an awareness of how they work; what they produce; and where to apply time, energy, and resources. Current systems could be much better in meeting students' current and future needs.Student Relevance Matters: Why Do I Have to Know this Stuff? aims to clarify the ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

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    Engaging the Extremes through Classroom Routines

    Need to decide when, why, and how to differentiate instruction in the classroom? Differentiated Instruction Made Practical introduces teachers to All Learners Learning Every Day (ALL-ED), an easy-to-use framework that enables tailored instruction for every learner. These unique, self-regulated learning routines were developed by an experienced K-12 teacher and researcher in collaboration with an ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Making a Difference

    Stories of Vision and Courage from America's Leaders

    The captivating hero of the Miracle on the Hudson and author of the New York Times bestseller Highest Duty explores the nature of leadership with some of America's best and brightest."Sullenberger has provided a real service in presenting these courageous American leaders and their stories." — Kirkus ReviewsAt a time of politi... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • And the Band Begins to Play. Part Eight: The Definitive Guide to the Beatles’ Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

    by Steve Lambley ...
    And the Band Begins to Play is an in-depth, 12-volume guide to every song recorded by the Beatles. Part Eight examines the Sgt Pepper LP, the Magical Mystery Tour EP and associated singles.Going further than the usual song-by-song, album-by-album guide, it is a record of every moment that the Beatles came together to record, from the first EMI session in 1962 to their acrimonious break-up in 1970. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus