Mike Anderson
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Packed with practical strategies you can use to create a culture of self-motivation in your school!
Teachers use traditional incentive and reward systems with the best of intentions. We're trying to support students' positive behavior and learning. We're hoping to motivate and inspire students to work hard and do well in school. If everyone behaves, we'll have a pizza party. The more books you read, the more stickers you'll receive. On the surface,...
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Offering students choices about their learning, says author Mike Anderson, is one of the most powerful ways teachers can boost student learning, motivation, and achievement. In his latest book, Anderson offers numerous examples of choice in action, ideas to try with different students, and a step-by-step process to help you plan and incorporate choice into your classroom. You'll explore *What effective student choice looks like in the classroom. *Why...
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You've probably heard the advice "put on your own oxygen mask before assisting others." This is true both in airplanes and in classrooms-you have to take care of yourself before you can help someone else. If teachers are stressed out and exhausted, how can they have the patience, positive energy, and enthusiasm to provide the best instruction for students? Author Mike Anderson asked that question as a teacher himself, and the answers he found form...
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Devoted to the travels of Mike and his next door neighbor Denny! From the time of living in the country, to moving to town and first meeting Denny, to sling-shotting Denny’s cousin into space, this is a recording for every kid! Includes: Hey Diddle Diddle, Peas, The New School, The Return of the Poultrygeist, & Riding Trees.
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In a conversational and professional storyteller's cadence, author Mike Anderson communicates a wealth of vivid, down-home imagery! Includes the stories: "genuine imitation Davy Crockett hats," 25 cent movies, Schwinn Sting Ray bicycles, October moons, and crawdad fishing next to a graveyard!
7) Questions
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Life for Josh isn't the easiest. He moved into a new school, attracted the wrath of Brenda, an opinionated and quite capable classmate who believes John is making up wild stories and passing them off as true, and has conversations with the corn. A school fieldtrip to a local retirement home unearths a bit of the town's unspoken oral history. It seems Alice and Henry, two teenagers who lived in Wagston long before Josh, had run away causing embarrassment...
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Did you ever wonder where Santa got the bag that holds more toys than it should, or wonder about flying reindeer? Hugo Kringle, Santa's little brother, tells about growing up with the boy who would become Santa. For additional information, visit www.HugoKringle.com.
10) Bisbee '17
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Radically combining collaborative documentary, western, and musical elements, the new film by Robert Greene (Kate Plays Christine) follows several members of a close-knit community as they attempt to reckon with their town's darkest hour. In 1917, nearly two-thousand immigrant miners, on strike for better wages and safer working conditions, were violently rounded up by their armed neighbors, herded onto cattle cars, shipped to the middle of the New...
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We all want our students to feel safe, collaborate well with others, feel ownership for their learning, and be joyfully engaged in their work. Nevertheless, many teachers end up using language patterns that undermine these goals. Do any of these scenarios sound familiar?
We want students to take responsibility for their learning, yet we use language that implies teacher ownership.
We want to build positive relationships with students, yet we use sarcasm...
12) Music & Murder
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Not every rags to riches story arrives via a clean cut straight and narrow path. Sometimes long after the rags have been replaced with Versace, the stench from the counterfeit mindset lingers longer than a starlet would like.
13) Music & Murder 2
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After Chastity is found, the women of Venom studios must put life back together and keep the studios running. While they attempt to keep the business running smoothly, the women discover a new threat in the form of a potential friend. Now they have to find out what really happened to Famous and find a way to keep Venom studios afloat.
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Music and Murder volume 4
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Chastity takes her crew on the road to shoot a video in Miami, meanwhile Books flies to Baltimore to meet with his street connect. After a good day on set Chastity decides to blow off some steam, but she's not prepared for what happens next.
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Music and Murder volume 3
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Chastity reminisces about her past while Detectives Benedict and Walters pay Troy Weeks a visit. Chastity is introduced to a strange and potential new client.
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Music and Murder volume 2
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Regina Sanders and her detectives use any means at their disposal to bring Chastity to justice, including the help of a not so credible witness.
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Music and Murder volume 1
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Chastity gets pushed by the streets and pushes back and after she learns about Famous, Chastity is brought in for questioning.
19) Shark Waters
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Great white sharks attack a fishing charter, ramming a hole in the ship's hull. With the shoreline miles away, those aboard are forced to fight for their lives.