Yong Zhao
Children are born learning machines who want to learn and can organise and manage their own learning. Unfortunately, today children have little choice over what they do in school and how and when they do it. Children prepared in this ‘other-determined’ manner will be poorly equipped to navigate an adult world requiring that they act autonomously and self-direct learning to acquire skills in rapidly changing environments.
In Teaching students to... Details
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Award-winning director Damon Gameau embarks on a journey to explore what the future would look like by the year 2040 if we simply embraced the best solutions already available to us to improve our planet and shifted them into the mainstream. Structured as a visual letter to his 4-year-old daughter, Damon blends traditional documentary footage with dramatised sequences and high-end visual effects to create a vision board for his daughter and our planet.
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Written by one of the UK's leading experts in ADHD, O'Regan's Successfully Teaching and Managing Children with ADHD is an invaluable resource offering practical and effective strategies for managing the difficult and often disruptive symptoms of ADHD in the classroom setting. Alongside the accessible and user-friendly resources that have made the first edition so valued, this second edition offers:
A greater number of case studies addressing the key issues surrounding... Details
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Author: Bryan Harris
This book will help you learn practical ways to manage the stress of teaching and avoid burnout. Bestselling author and educational consultant Bryan Harris presents strategies for building resilience, including reframing, understanding the power of "no", focusing on what you can control, building positive relationships, advocating for yourself, and more. Each chapter clearly presents concise and practical applications that you can implement right... Details
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Powerful Pedagogy: Teach Better Quicker
by Ruth Powley
In Powerful Pedagogy, Ruth Powley, Love Learning Ideas blogger and experienced teacher and school leader, debunks teaching and learning myths and shows how the more we know about pedagogy, the more able we are to make informed and efficient choices about our practice, saving ourselves valuable time. Focusing on building sequences of learning rather than one-off lessons, it is an antidote to ‘quick fix’ books,... Details
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How to upgrade literacy instruction for digital learners
Educating students to traditional literacy standards is no longer enough. If students are to thrive in their academic and 21st century careers, then independent and creative thinking hold the highest currency. The authors explain in detail how to add these new components of literacy:
Solution Fluency
Information Fluency
Creativity Fluency
Collaboration Fluency
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by Cathy Lassiter
Have you ever wondered how or where you find the inner strength and determination to stand up and lead fellow administrators, teachers, or students to meet ever-changing expectations?
Courage is a “must have” for effective leadership. Everyday Courage guides readers to develop Leadership Courage from within and become exceptional and resilient. In addition to expanding instructional leadership, practical elements and features... Details
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Leading Collaborative Learning: Empowering Excellence
by Lyn Sharratt and Beate Planche
Leadership, collaborative learning, and student achievement - discover what works! Today's improving school systems require educators who intentionally collaborate and co-learn in service of students to get expected results. This resource-rich book from experts Sharratt and Planche is a straightforward, strategic path to achieving sustainable communities of deep learners. ... Details
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Bright Ribbons: Weaving Culturally Responsive Teaching Into the Elementary Classroom
Lotus Howard
Weave culturally responsive teaching into every lesson and activity
Culturally responsive teaching practices are like bright ribbons: when you weave them into everything you teach, you create a beautiful tapestry for successful learning. Lotus Howard, who has spent four decades teaching in diverse classrooms, will show you how to build relationships ... Details
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FinnishED Leadership: Four Big, Inexpensive Ideas to Transform Education
by Pasi Sahlberg
Improve overall school performance from start to Finnish!
Finland’s consistent performance in international student assessments has caused much curiosity in recent years. Educators around the world are exploring what Finland does well and how they remain at the top.
Pasi Sahlberg has hosted multiple delegations of educators in Finland seeking... Details
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Teaching Kids to Thrive: Essential Skills for Success
Debbie Silver and Dedra Stafford
There’s more to student success than standards and test scores…
The modern view of student achievement focuses on high test scores, higher standards, and racing to the top. Thrive skills fit with new ESSA requirements to go beyond basic academic measurements in order to equip students for lifelong success.
Debbie Silver and Dedra Stafford present a... Details
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Teaching Literacy in the Visible Learning Classroom, Grades 6-12
Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, John Hattie and Marisol Thayre
It could happen at 10:10 a.m. in the midst of analyzing a text, at 2:00, when listening to a students’ debate, or even after class, when planning a lesson. The question arises: How do I influence students’ learning–what’s going to generate that light bulb Aha-moment of understanding?
In this sequel to their megawatt... Details
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Ready-to-Go Instructional Strategies That Build Collaboration, Communication, and Critical Thinking
Denise White and Alisa Braddy
As education consultants, the authors have been delivering professional development for many years. After every presentation, training, or instructional coaching session, someone approaches them and asks, “Is there a book where I can find all the instructional strategies you used?” The strategies in this book make lessons... Details
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Every Math Learner, Grades K-5: A Doable Approach to Teaching With Learning Differences in Mind
Nanci Smith
For busy classroom teachers, this theory-lite and practice-heavy book makes manageable the process of differentiating mathematics instruction to maximize each student’s learning potential, ultimately leading to improved test scores.
Features and Benefits:
• provides practical structures for assessing how students learn and manage the information;
• shows teachers how... Details
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Feedback That Moves Writers Forward: How to Escape Correcting Mode to Transform Student Writing
Patty McGee
The number one challenge of student writers today isn’t word choice, logic, voice, or even grammar and spelling - it’s buy-in. In Feedback That Moves Writers Forward, Patty McGee shares how to’s for teaching that changes the writing-as-obligation vibe for good. She demonstrates the way feedback can inspire students to reach new heights as... Details
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All Together Now: How to Engage Your Stakeholders in Reimagining School
by Suzie Boss
This book prompts readers to make their own meaning by considering a series of questions. Abundant examples and case studies from the frontlines of school change provide inspiration and ideas you can adopt or adapt for your context. Discussion prompts are included to promote and provoke conversations - both inside and outside school - with everyone who has a stake in... Details
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Unlocking English Learners' Potential: Strategies for Making Content Accessible
Diane Fenner and Sydney Snyder
A once-in-a-generation text for assisting a new generation of students
Content teachers and ESOL teachers, take special note: if you’re looking for a single resource to help your English learners meet the same challenging content standards as their English-proficient peers, your search is complete. Just dip into this toolbox of... Details
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Wonder Wall: Leading Creative Schools in an Age of Complexity
by Peter Gamwell and Jane Daly
Gamwell shares the keys to nurturing and fostering creativity, innovation, leadership, and engagement in classrooms, businesses, and even families in THE WONDER WALL. By creating a stimulating environment, you’ll learn to naturally nurture and foster the inborn creative capacities of every individual. This book shows readers how to build a school culture that... Details
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Disruptive Classroom Technologies: A Framework for Innovation in Education
by Sonny Magana
Ensure your technological integration is leading to deeper learning!
Timely and precise, Disruptive Classroom Technologies provides a new model with which to evaluate technology usage in the classroom to maximise student learning. The T3 framework appraises technology as translational, transformational, or transcendent, thereby sorting through the low-value... Details
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Future Focused Leaders: Relate, Innovate & Invigorate for Real Change
Authors: Bill Ziegler and David Ramage
The latest from Bill Ziegler and David Ramage, Future Focused Leaders, provides school leaders with practical, relevant, and useable strategies for immediate application that promote sustainable innovation in leadership. Organized by three main overviews—Relate, Innovate, and Invigorate—each chapter ends with action steps for school leaders to take in ... Details
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Learning Challenge: How to Guide Your Students Through the Learning Pit to Achieve Deeper Understanding (International Edition)
by James Nottingham
Embrace challenge and celebrate eureka!
Challenge makes learning more interesting. That’s one of the reasons to encourage your students to dive into the learning pit—a state of cognitive conflict that forces students to think more deeply, critically, and strategically until they discover their... Details
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He was the only one left alive; now it was his turn to die.
In September 1972 journalist Anna Rosen takes an early morning phone call from her boss at the ABC telling her about two bombings in Sydney's busy CBD. It's the worst terrorist attack in the country's history and Anna has no doubt which group is responsible for the carnage. She has been investigating the role of alleged war criminals in the globally active Ustasha movement.
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Author: Philip Waters
What is participation?; What's the difference between 'adult-led' and 'child-led' participation?; And do we really need to do it at all?
This second edition of The Busker's Guide to Participation sets out to help us understand our values and reasons for undertaking participation with children and young people. It shows us what authentic participation really looks like, helping us to get to grips with the ways we can positively support, ... Details
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Positive Behaviour Management in Early Years Settings: An Essential Guide
by Liz Williams
Drawing on her extensive practical experience, Liz Williams provides a highly accessible and much-needed guide to promoting positive behaviour in early years settings.
In this book, she explains why children may act in the way that they do and how behaviour should be understood differently in children of different ages. She demonstrates that social and... Details
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Creative, Successful, Dyslexic: 23 High Achievers Share Their Stories
by Margaret Rooke
Life with dyslexia can be challenging, but it can also fuel your creativity and drive. Filled with first-person stories contributed by well-known people, from Eddie Izzard to Darcey Bussell CBE, this inspiring book proves that dyslexia doesn't have to be a barrier to success.
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