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El jardín es escuela porque allí aprendemos a estar con otros, a salir de nosotros mismos. Los chicos van al jardín para ser verdaderamente escuchados y para habitar otras vidas a través de los relatos que allí se construyen. Van a preguntar y a preguntarse, a mirar y a mirarse, a través de la lente amorosa del juego. Van para abrirse a una conversación que los humaniza como infancias y que devuelve infancia a la humanidad toda. Van a hablar...
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In this inspiring collection for these times, the award-winning, bestselling author-and MacArthur genius-gathers all-star advice for K–12 teachers on engaging students around today's toughest issues
Is it okay to discuss politics in class? How can teachers talk about immigration without putting undocumented students in the spotlight or at risk? What are constructive ways to help young people process the daily news coverage of sexual assault? How...
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Welcome to "The Secrets of Polyglots: How to Learn Multiple Languages at Once". This book will guide you on an exciting journey toward mastering multiple languages, revealing the secrets and strategies used by those who have embraced linguistic diversity. If you've ever wondered how some people can speak five, ten, or even more languages fluently, this book will help you.will reveal the keys to your success. Multilingualism is not a skill...
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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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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...
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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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Children today face an unprecedented amount of stress due to our fastpaced society, the influence of social media, and the threat of climate change and global pandemicss. Instructors also face new challenges with helping kids focus on what they need to learn. Including mindfulness as part of the curriculum has been shown to help students improve both their academic and social skills. With greater awareness of their feelings and surroundings, children...
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Decades of research clearly show what works in schools, yet a huge gap persists between those instructional best practices and what is widely taught-and not taught-in classrooms today.
In Results Now 2.0, Mike Schmoker expands on his bestselling book and offers a broader, deeper analysis of the entire K–12 education system and how it can improve. He describes a systemic buffer of policies, pedagogy, and initiatives that prevents everyone-teachers,...
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Bienvenido a "Los Secretos de los Políglotas: Cómo Aprender Múltiples Idiomas a la Vez". Este libro te guiará en un apasionante viaje hacia el dominio de varios idiomas, revelando los secretos y estrategias utilizados por aquellos que han abrazado la diversidad lingüística. Si alguna vez te has preguntado cómo algunas personas pueden hablar cinco, diez o incluso más idiomas con fluidez, este libro te desvelará las claves de su éxito.Aprender...
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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...
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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?...
53) 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...
54) 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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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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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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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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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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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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