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“stephen preskill”

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  • Putting Our Youngest Children First

    Building a Movement for High-Quality Early Childhood Education

    by Lois Vermilya, Stephen Preskill ...
    A history of the accomplishments of the University of New Mexico’s Family Development Program that is sure to influence early childhood advocacy networks everywhere.Since 1985, a grassroots initiative called the Family Development Program (FDP) at the University of New Mexico has championed early childhood education as a long-term way to address poverty, strengthen democracy, and protect the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • The Discussion Book

    50 Great Ways to Get People Talking

    by Stephen D. Brookfield, Stephen Preskill ...
    Build teams, make better decisions, energize groups, and think out of the boxDo you need a resource that you can pull out of your pocket to liven up meetings, trainings, professional development, and teaching? The fifty easily applied techniques in this timely manual spur creativity, stimulate energy, keep groups focused, and increase participation. Whether you're teaching classes, facilitating ... Read more

    $17.00 USD

  • Education in Black and White

    Myles Horton and the Highlander Center's Vision for Social Justice

    by Stephen Preskill ...
    How Myles Horton and the Highlander Folk School catalyzed social justice and democratic educationFor too long, the story of life-changing teacher and activist Myles Horton has escaped the public spotlight. An inspiring and humble leader whose work influenced the civil rights movement, Horton helped thousands of marginalized people gain greater control over their lives. Born and raised in early ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Discussion as a Way of Teaching

    Tools and Techniques for Democratic Classrooms

    by Stephen D. Brookfield, Stephen Preskill ...
    Thoroughly revised and updated, the second edition of the landmark book Discussion as a Way of Teaching shows how to plan, conduct, and assess classroom discussions. Stephen D. Brookfield and Stephen Preskill suggest exercises for starting discussions, strategies for maintaining their momentum, and ways to elicit diverse views and voices. The book also includes new exercises and material on the ... Read more

    $35.00 USD

  • Audiobook

    The Discussion Book

    The Discussion Book

    by Stephen D. Brookfield, Stephen Preskill ...
    Narrated by Tim Andres Pabon ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 57 min

    Build teams, make better decisions, energize groups, and think out of the boxDo you need a resource that you can pull out of your pocket to liven up meetings, trainings, professional development, and teaching? The fifty easily applied techniques in this timely manual spur creativity, stimulate energy, keep groups focused, and increase participation. Whether you're teaching classes, facilitating ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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    How Professionals Think In Action

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    A leading M.I.T. social scientist and consultant examines five professions -- engineering, architecture, management, psychotherapy, and town planning -- to show how professionals really go about solving problems. The best professionals, Donald Schon maintains, know more than they can put into words. To meet the challenges of their work, they rely less on formulas learned in graduate school than on ... Read more

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  • Forty Million Dollar Slaves

    The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of the Black Athlete

    by William C. Rhoden ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “An explosive and absorbing discussion of race, politics, and the history of American sports.”—EbonyFrom Jackie Robinson to Muhammad Ali and Arthur Ashe, African American athletes have been at the center of modern culture, their on-the-field heroics admired and stratospheric earnings envied. But for all their money, fame, and achievement, says New York Times columnist ... Read more

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  • At Mama's Knee

    Mothers and Race in Black and White

    by April Ryan ...
    Winner of the African American Literary Show Award for Best Non-FictionIn her first book, The Presidency in Black and White, journalist April Ryan examined race in America through her experience as a White House reporter. In this book, she shifts the conversation from the White House to every home in America. At Mama’s Knee looks at race and race relations through the lessons that mothers transmit ... Read more

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  • I've Got the Light of Freedom

    The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle, With a New Preface

    by Charles M. Payne ...
    This momentous work offers a groundbreaking history of the early civil rights movement in the South with new material that situates the book in the context of subsequent movement literature. ... Read more

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  • What Does It Mean to Be Well Educated?

    And More Essays on Standards, Grading, and Other Follies

    by Alfie Kohn ...
    Few writers ask us to question our fundamental assumptions about education as provocatively as Alfie Kohn. Time magazine has called him'perhaps the country's most outspoken critic of education's fixation on grades [and] test scores.' And the Washington Post says he is 'the most energetic and charismatic figure standing in the way of a major federal effort to make standardized curriculums and tests ... Read more

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  • Lenny, Lefty, And The Chancellor: The Len Bias Tragedy And The Search For Reform In Big-Time College Basketball

    by C. Fraser Smith ...
    Where were you on June 19, 1986? That's the day when--improbably--Len Bias, one of the greats of the college basketball game, a player seemingly destined for NBA stardom, died of a cocaine overdose. For the next several months, millions of Americans followed the continuing, unfolding tragedy at the University of Maryland at College Park. Six years later, where is big-time basketball--the big-money ... Read more

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  • Primer on Decision Making

    How Decisions Happen

    by James G. March ...
    Building on lecture notes from his acclaimed course at Stanford University, James March provides a brilliant introduction to decision making, a central human activity fundamental to individual, group, organizational, and societal life. March draws on research from all the disciplines of social and behavioral science to show decision making in its broadest context. By emphasizing how decisions are ... Read more

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