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Hudson Street Press
Pub. Date
c2010
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Actress and math genius Danica McKellar continues to shatter the "math nerd" stereotype by showing girls how to ace middle school math--and actually feel cool doing it! With Danica's trademark sass and style, this book tackles algebra: the most feared of all math classes and the most common roadblock to high school graduation. McKellar instantly puts her readers at ease, showing teenage girls--and anyone taking algebra--how to feel confident and master...
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Scribner
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2017
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Follows the lives of twenty-two immigrant teenagers from nations devastated by drought or famine or war, over the course of their first school year in America. The talented and endlessly resourceful Denver South High School teacher Mr. Eddie Williams welcomes these students, who speak fourteen different languages but no English and are completely unfamiliar with American culture, to his specially created English Language Acquisition class. He guides...
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"For a century, Chicago's Roger C. Sullivan High School has been a home to immigrant and refugee students. In 2017, during the worst global refugee crisis in history, its immigrant population numbered close to three hundred--or nearly half the school--and many were refugees new to the country. These young people came from thirty-five different countries, speaking among themselves more than thirty-eight different languages. For these refugee teens,...
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Activities, exercises, and questions invite teens to go deeper into the stories and issues of the updated edition of The Struggle to Be Strong.
Designed for use with the anthology The Struggle to Be Strong, this leader's guide explains how to use the stories in the student book to build teens' resiliency. Activities, exercises, role plays, and questions about the issues in The Struggle to Be Strong help students go deeper into the stories, reflect...
5) Building Everyday Leadership in All Teens: Promoting Attitudes and Actions for Respect and Success
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Every teen can be a leader. That's because leadership is not just about taking the lead in big ways, but in everyday small things, too. The 21 sessions in this youth leadership curriculum guide teens to explore ethical decision-making, team-building, what it means to be a leader, how to work with others, risk-taking, communication, creative thinking, and more. Choose the sessions that seem best for your class or group, or explore leadership skills...
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This book is the story about the best-kept secret in Leicester: New College, a secondary school and sixth form college located in west Leicester. The past still haunts the reputation of New College, which was labelled the worst school in the country in 2005.
Today New College is an exceptional educational establishment where its values are integral to everything on offer for students and staff. From once having failed to provide a good education to...
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En las últimas décadas, la tendencia internacional de las políticas educativas estuvo orientada a generar mejores condiciones para garantizar el derecho a la educación de los sectores sociales más afectados por las desigualdades sociales y educativas. La ampliación de la obligatoriedad de la educación secundaria colocó a las escuelas en situación de poner en acción (enacted) múltiples y diversas iniciativas que en formato de planes, programas...
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Attending boarding school is a serious commitment in many realms, whether emotional, financial, academic, or otherwise. With that in mind, it is important to understand what boarding school is all about. This valuable resource is full of insights from students who attend or recently graduated from a boarding school. The Boarding School Survival Guide provides a variety of perspectives that help both prospective students and parents decide if boarding...
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Existe una preocupación internacional por la formación del profesorado de educación Secundaria. Justifican esa inquietud la particular responsabilidad de este nivel educativo para el futuro de sus estudiantes, el aumento masivo de la escolarización y las distintas características y necesidades específicas de apoyo educativo del alumnado, que impregna las aulas de diversidad y exige a los docentes una especial atención a esa fisonomía social...
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With foreword by Jason Ohler. Despite technological advancements, most secondary schools still function on ideas that are more than 100 years old. Learning Without Classrooms outlines new guidelines for how schools must operate to remain relevant and effective as we move further into the 21st century. Making a persuasive argument for moving beyond the long-established idea of operating schools with traditional classroom instruction to a personalized...
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Los discursos sobre las tecnologías nos hablan de la urgencia para que tengan un lugar en la enseñanza y en las aulas, no obstante, pese a reconocer su importancia, este llamado no se suele acompañar de la apertura para conversar entre colegas sobre qué hacer y cómo planear la enseñanza.
En este trabajo se presenta lo que hace un grupo de profesores de colegios oficiales, en el municipio de Yumbo y en Cali, para enseñar a leer cuentos policiacos...
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Ensure all learners have opportunities to engage deeply in meaningful intellectual work. In Ambitious Instruction, author Brad Cawn offers a blueprint for how to make rigor visible, accessible, and actionable in grade 6—12 classrooms. The resource guides readers toward using the twin tenets of problem-based learning and synthesis to significantly strengthen students' ability to read, write, and think within and across disciplines.
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Designed for students in grades six to nine, this curriculum offers more than 30 innovative class sessions that address diversity (racial, ethnic, and sexual) and violence issues. Each session contains a warm-up exercise, theme information, value clarification, and an experience or activity. Journal writing, critical thinking about history textbooks, role-playing, storytelling, poetry/rap, photographs, illustrations, tables, and whole-school research...
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You are who you are. You have a personality, a background, a belief system. To survive in a classroom with adolescents, you cannot turn on or off who you really are. That would be incredibly exhausting. Of course, you can make modifications and adjustments – that is called survival. The key is to make "who you are" work for you and ultimately for your students. Elyse S. Scott's book about what she learned from her 30-plus years teaching middle grades...
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Guide to the unique and often confusing New York City High School Admissions Process. The author uses a Q and A format to explain the complexities of applying to New York City High Schools. The book covers such topics as testing, touring, the selection process helps parents navigate through the maze of options.
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[Youre Accepted] is wonderfully written, in a style that will appeal to everyone involved in the processstudent, parent, guidance counselor. Elizabeth Lesser, cofounder of the Omega Institute and New York Times bestselling author of Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow Students may worry about SATs and grades, but university admissions coach Katie Malachuk knows that it takes much more than numbers to chart the right path to college....
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Décryptez Hygiène de l'assassin d'Amélie Nothomb avec l'analyse du PetitLitteraire.fr!
Que faut-il retenir d'Hygiène de l'assassin, le best-seller de la littérature belge contemporaine? Retrouvez tout ce que vous devez savoir sur cette œuvre dans une fiche de lecture complète et détaillée.
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The I-Search process differs from traditional research in that it focuses as much on the process as the product of research. I-Search requires the researcher to identify what he or she already knows about the topic, what questions he or she would like answered, what knowledge others hold on the topic, and how that new knowledge has enriched and changed his or her understanding of the topic.
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Are you a freshman in high school? Are you a current student in high school and you need help to succeed? Are you a student who makes good grades but are clueless about what is next after high school? Are you a student who is on the right track but unsure about your options after high school? If you answered yes to any of these questions, THIS BOOK is for YOU!
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"The message of research is unmistakable – success in life is inextricably linked to success at the middle level." -Ruby Payne What is your plan for helping students in poverty achieve the success in middle grades that will help them determine and realize their dreams and goals?
In Ruby's first middle grades focused book, she offers vital information on :
• the developmental processes of young adolescents
• what it means to be a young...
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