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Of all the goods of life, which life, moreover, parsimoniously measures out to us, the most precious is certainly health. It is also the one we neglect the most. We waste our strength, we abuse our stomachs, we lavish our energy with guilty recklessness.
What do a regularly beating heart, a lucid brain, vigorous and powerful lungs matter? We have only one goal: wealth.
All our faculties, all our acts, all our hopes are concentrated and spent on...
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Do games and play hold the keys to a better employee experience? The rules for engagement in business and in life are changing.... and employees demand to be more active in creating these rules. Employee disengagement is the result of disease in a company's culture.... and business leaders need to understand the symptoms displayed by employees to help keep them engaged. Employee engagement - that is, having employees who are emotionally and psychologically...
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Get to the heart of essential PLC work when you implement the 15-day challenge for unit planning and design. This book offers a step-by-step process for collaborative teams that builds on the three big ideas and four critical questions of a PLC at Work®. In each chapter, you'll find practical actions for how to support all students in mastering essential learning standards.
This book will help K–12 collaborative teams:
• Establish essential...
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In the fast-paced world of education, fostering a positive and enduring learning environment is paramount. Empathy and resilience, crucial attributes in today's classrooms, can be nurtured and fortified through the timeless wisdom of Stoicism. This empowering book, "Empathy and Resilience in Education," offers a transformative approach to education that intertwines Stoic philosophy with modern teaching practices. Drawing inspiration from the ancient...
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Now you can LEARN, PRACTICE and APPLY the transformative Needs Focused™ classroom management techniques.
Used in conjunction with the best-selling Take Control of the Noisy Class, this workbook gives teachers the opportunity to further explore and understand the Needs Focused Classroom Management philosophy. Through a series of practical exercises and thought-provoking questions Rob Plevin will teach you to fully understand the 7 key steps...
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When K-5 students understand how to read text features like diagrams, bullets, insets, and tables, they are reading the whole page-essential for deep comprehension of nonfiction and fiction text. In this revised edition of Reading the Whole Page: Teaching and Assessing Text Features to Meet K-5 Common Core Standards, seasoned educators Michelle Kelley and Nicki Clausen-Grace show you how to explicitly teach K-5 students to read text features, use...
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This edited volume is a collection of empirical scholarship that focuses on curriculum as knowledge connected to the Latinx diaspora from three perspectives: content/subject matter; goals, objectives, and purposes; and experiences. In an effort to fill a void in scholarship in curriculum studies/theory for/from Latinx perspectives, this book is a beginning toward answering two important questions: first, what is the significance of the presence and...
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Explores the ways that immigrant youth identities are shaped by dominant discourses.
In her ethnographic study of Lao American students at an urban, public high school, Bic Ngo shows how simplistic accounts of these students smooth over unfinished, precarious identities and contested social relations. Exploring the ways that immigrant youth identities are shaped by dominant discourses that simplify and confine their experiences within binary categories...
69) A Bookbag of the Bag Ladies' Best: Resources, Ideas, and Hands-on Activities for the K-5 Classroom
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Are you a creative teacher or notice that there's more to teaching than the rigor of skills and core instruction? Have you wondered what the missing piece is that would allow students to be a member of a team, apply standards in a creative way, and learn skills hands-on? Start here with A Bookbag of the Bag Ladies Best and add hands-on pizazz to your teaching. Encourage interactive learning and motivate your K-5 students with projects that use everyday...
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How do you know if your school is improving? Do you know what really works in reading programs...in writing...in math...in science? How do we measure what works? What about teaching to the test--or to the vast array of standards being mandated? How do we effectively use cooperative learning--and direct instruction--and alternative assessment? How do we sustain school reform? How do we get results--and measure them in terms of student achievement?...
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Everyone agrees that what we do in schools should be based on what we know about how the brain learns. Until recently, however, we have had few clues to unlock the secrets of the brain. Now, research from the neurosciences has greatly improved our understanding of the learning process, and we have a much more solid foundation on which to base educational decisions. In this completely revised and updated second edition, Patricia Wolfe clarifies how...
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The authors chart a middle course in our war over religion and public education, one that builds on a developing national consensus among educational and religious leaders. While it is not proper for schools to practice religion or proselytize, neither is it permissible to make them "religion-free" zones.
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How does the home culture of Latino immigrant students differ from the "mainstream" culture of U.S. schools? Why is it important for teachers to understand the differences? How can educators take advantage of students' cultural traits to improve classroom management, student performance, and school-parent relations? Carrie Rothstein-Fisch and Elise Trumbull answer these and many other questions by drawing on the experience and collective wisdom of...
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Designed to promote reflection, discussion, and action among the entire learning community, Educating Everybody's Children encapsulates what research has revealed about successfully addressing the needs of students from economically, ethnically, culturally, and linguistically diverse groups and identifies a wide range of effective principles and instructional strategies. Although good teaching works well with all students, educators must develop an...
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Every school relies on teachers who informally and voluntarily lead various efforts in the school. These teachers may not be appointed leaders or paid leaders, but they are committed leaders: they see a need and they respond to it. What do these teacher leaders do that is different from the work of excellent teachers who are not teacher leaders? If we can articulate those skills, says Charlotte Danielson, then we can take steps to enable more teachers...
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Try going a week without hearing a call for a massive overhaul of our educational system. Parents, students, educators, bureaucrats, pundits . . . everyone says something must be done. But what? And who should do it? In this environment, school leaders must build bridges for change. As the system now stands, many students spend great portions of their lives feeling inferior if they struggle, invisible if they already know the material, problematic...
79) Teaching Boys Who Struggle in School: Strategies That Turn Underachievers into Successful Learners
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Teaching Boys Who Struggle in School: Strategies That Turn Underachievers into Successful Learners responds to growing concerns about a crisis in boys' academic achievement. Kathleen Palmer Cleveland seeks to help K–12 educators cut through the hype to get at the real problem: who is underachieving, why are they struggling, and how can educators respond to these students' needs in new and productive ways? Cleveland presents findings from four large-scale...
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