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  • Chords and Stories

    Ron’S Song

    de Ron Swindall ...
    Ron Swindall looks back at a life spent teaching, coaching, playing music, and enjoying the great outdoors.An ordinary guy from Indian Creek, near the little town of Pound, Virginia, he says there is no better place for him to call home. It was a small town, and he made lifelong friends there.Most of his life has been spent in or around Wise County, Virginia, either in Pound, Norton, Wise, or ... Leer más

    $3.99 USD

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  • Time Out

    A teacher's year of reading, fighting, and four-letter words

    de Liane Shaw ...
    Before she began writing books for teens, Liane Shaw was an elementary teacher. She brings her gifts for storytelling and humor to this account of her journey into the lives of emotionally challenged students. With little in the way of experience or resources, she found herself thrust into the most challenging kind of teaching imaginable. From the moment Shaw meets her first two boys, as they sit ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • The Battle for Room 314

    My Year of Hope and Despair in a New York City High School

    de Ed Boland ...
    In this insightfully honest and moving memoir about the realities of teaching in an inner-city school, Ed Boland "smashes the dangerous myth of the hero-teacher [and] shows us how high the stakes are for our most vulnerable students" (Piper Kerman, author of Orange is the New Black).In a fit of idealism, Ed Boland left a twenty-year career as a non-profit executive to teach in a tough New York ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • The Secret Teacher

    Dispatches from the Classroom

    de Anon ...
    I will teach them literature, poetry, culture. I will teach them The Waste Land ! I will be the Best Teacher Who Has Ever Lived!Or so the Secret Teacher thinks. On his first day at an inner-city state school things don't quite go to plan . . .His students are an unruly mob stuffed with behavioural issues, but somehow, the Secret Teacher needs to enthuse them with a love of books. Or at least keep ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

  • Crazy Like a Fox

    One Principal's Triumph in the Inner City

    de Carey Blakely, Dr. Ben Chavis ...
    The inspiring true story of "one of the country's finest educators" (National Review) and the school he changed forever.Under the leadership of highly unorthodox principal Dr. Ben Chavis, Oakland's American Indian Public Charter School was hailed as an "education miracle" by governor Arnold Schwarzenegger after it was transformed from a failing "nuisance" into one of the best public middle schools ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • Square Peg Round Hole

    A Family's Survival of Developmental Dispraxia and Dyslexia.

    de K.E. Pickard ...
    To what lengths would you go to, to protect your child's well being?. To ensure your child had a happy childhood, to bring laughter into your home?.A very controversial decision was made by this family in order to help their child.Written with frankness, their thoughts on failure and life's challenges.A remarkable tale of struggle, survival and hope.An excellent read for anyone. A positive ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • Maria Montessori

    A Biography

    de Rita Kramer ...
    The definitive biography of a physician, feminist, social reformer, educator, and one of the most influential, and controversial women of the 20th century.Maria Montessori effected a worldwide revolution in the classroom. She developed a new method of educating the young and inspired a movement that carried it into every corner of the world. This is the story of the woman behind the public figure ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Blessed Are the Meek, the Humble, and the Bold

    Memoir of a Remarkable Life Journey

    de Elsie M. Collins ...
    Elsie Collins is not your normal, everyday college professor in America. In her youth, she started out as Kissia descendent of African slaves, living in Wilsons Mill, North Carolina. Her upbringing brought her face-to-face with racism and discrimination, both subtly and overtly. The lines dividing black and white fascinated young Kissi; as she grew up, she decided to take a deeper look at race ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

  • Each One Must Shine: The Legacy of Vasily Sukhomlinsky

    de Alan Cockerill ...
    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 ... Leer más

    $7.50 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Henry Roe Cloud

    A Biography

    de David W. Messer ...
    Henry Roe Cloud was the first Native American to graduate from Yale. His education, his religion, his personal life, and his public life were a mosaic made up of traditional Native American beliefs and practices, the white man's educational system, reform theology, progressive education and progressive politics. Cloud was ordained as a Presbyterian minister in 1913. His widely read ... Leer más

    $38.99 USD

  • Teaching and Hunting in East Africa

    de Dan McNickle ...
    "Lati knew his stuff and before the sun was high we were on the trail of a small herd. These elephant had fed into thick thorn scrub. We could hear them up ahead, close, but we couldn't see them as visibility was close to nil. I reached for some dirt to sift through my fingers and track the breezes. The elephant were almost stationary, languidly browsing. Judging from the contented purring of ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

  • Divided Paths, Common Ground

    The Story of Mary Matthews and Lella Gaddis, Pioneering Purdue Women Who Introduced Science into the Home

    de Angie Klink ...
    Series series The Founders Series
    In the early 1900s, Mary Matthews and Lella Gaddis forged trails for women at Purdue University and throughout Indiana. Mary was the first dean of the School of Home Economics. Lella was Indiana's first state leader of Home Demonstration. In 1914, Mary hired Lella to organize Purdue's new Home Economics Extension Service. According to those who knew them, Lella was a "sparkler" who traveled the ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus