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Two powerful learning models–multiple intelligences (MI) and learning styles–come together in this practical guide to help you meet the challenges of student diversity while you promote high achievement. Based on key principles from the research on learning, the authors explain how to:
Maximize the benefits of learning styles and MI approaches
Ease the stress and demands on [...]
Silly Sports & Goofy Games
Includes over 200 step-by-step fun and involving sports and games in nine categories including:
Terrific Tag
Happy Helpers
Beautiful Balances
Creative Coordination
Meaningful Movements
Crazy Challenges
Ridiculous Relays
Silly Sports
Goofy Games
School Reform from the Inside Out
“Giving test results to an incoherent, badly run school doesn’t automatically make it a better school. The work of turning a school around entails improving the knowledge and skills of teachers-changing their knowledge of content and how to teach it-and helping them to understand where their students are in their academic development. Low-performing schools, and [...]
Schooling for Life
If you believe that schools can go beyond test scores and standards to foster students’ understanding of subjects, then here’s a book that will renew your commitment to meaningful teaching and learning.
Using classroom observations and keen insights from research, one of education’s foremost thinkers on constructivism explains:
Why lessons and courses should involve students in [...]
Letters to the Next President
This stellar collection of more than 30 letters speaks to the heart of public education, the future of American students, and the need for an educated and engaged citizenry.
Contributors include students, parents, teachers, prominent educators, and public leaders who write to our next president, and to all fellow citizens, in an honest and direct way [...]
Resiliency: What Have We Learned
Ten years ago, resiliency theory was relatively new to the fields of prevention and education. Today, it is at the heart of hundreds of successful school and community programs.
This book synthesizes ten years of research, detailing how best to incorporate resiliency research to help young people thrive in school and in their communities.
Multiple Intelligences in the Classroom
In this expanded second edition, Thomas Armstrong updates you on multiple intelligences theory and its proven applications to schools and classrooms.
The book includes:
New strategies for integrating an eighth intelligence–The Naturalist–into curriculum and instruction
New outlooks on a possible ninth intelligence–The Existential–and its potential for teaching and learning
New insights into educational technology, special education, and career development
New [...]
Many Children Left Behind
The No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) has become the most fiercely debated education issue of this election year, and it will be at the center of the national conversation about schools for the foreseeable future. NCLB, signed into law in 2002, purports to improve public schools-and especially the way they serve poor children-by enforcing [...]
Learning By Heart
“In a very large chorus of proponents of school reform, Roland Barth’s voice stands out. As usual, his grounded wisdom makes so much sense. He rightfully puts the locus for improvement in the hands of teachers and principals. He outlines some ideas for creating a community of learners at the local level. He shares some [...]
Kagan Cooperative Learning
The book that started it all-is all NEW! Why would the Kagans completely revise and revamp a classic that has sold nearly half a million copies?
The answer: So much has changed! Cooperative Learning today is different.
This new book presents today’s most successful cooperative learning methods. The Kagans make it easier than ever to boost engagement [...]
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There you will find two topic entries, for the first two weeks of school. These suggestions are not found in your Tribes book, but they support many inclusion strategies you are already doing to get the [...]Comments
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