It's Not Free Speech
By Michael Bérubé
- Release Date : 26 April 2022
- Genre: Education
This book will resonate for anyone who has followed debates over #MeToo, Black Lives Matter, Critical Race Theory, and "cancel culture"; more specifically, it should have a major impact on many facets of academic life, from the classroom to faculty senates to the office of the general counsel....
Snails & Monkey Tails
By Michael Arndt
- Release Date : 22 March 2022
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
"There are countless books that can teach you the alphabet, but almost none that focus on the tiny designs that run interference among the letterforms: those easily overlooked punctuation and typographic symbols. These symbols, as Michael Arndt proves in this beautiful and endlessly fascinating book, are absolutely indispensable to communication: punctuation turns words into sentences and language into meaning... From commas to semicolons, from slashes to asterisks, from guillemets to octothorpes (named, perhaps, after athlete Jim Thorpe), you’ll never look at punctuation the same way again."—Michael Bierut, partner, P...
The Sentences That Create Us
By PEN America
- Release Date : 11 January 2022
- Genre: Education
The Sentences That Create Us draws from the unique insights of over fifty justice-involved contributors and their allies to offer inspiration and resources for creating a literary life in prison. Centering in the philosophy that writers in prison can be as vibrant and capable as writers on the outside, and have much to offer readers everywhere, The Sentences That Create Us aims to propel writers in prison to launch their work into the world beyond the walls, while also embracing and supporting the creative community within the walls. The Sentences That Create Us is a comprehensive resource writers can grow with, beginning ...
The Journey Home
By Jakoye’ Pinson
- Release Date : 02 January 2022
- Genre: Education
Spiritual children's book implementing valuable life lessons to our youth empowering them to Love one another despite their differences....
Self Managing School
By Brian J. Caldwell
- Release Date : 17 December 2021
- Genre: Education
First published in 1988. This book concerns one of today’s key educational issues: how schools can be encouraged to develop their own management skills. The present British government has introduced legislation for schools to manage their own budgets and to enable schools to opt out of LEA control and become independently run and financed by central government. In other countries such as Australia, Canada, the Scandinavian countries and also in some parts of the United States, the devolution of budgeting and management power to schools and the decentralisation of educational administration are being pursued with vigour....
Achieving Sustainability Using Creativity, Innovation, and Education: A Multidisciplinary Approach
By Fields, Ziska
- Release Date : 26 November 2021
- Genre: Business & Economics
In recent years, there has been an increased emphasis placed on the role of creativity and innovation in critical areas such as thinking and problem-solving, self-management, stress tolerance and flexibility, education, sustainability, and the new normal caused by COVID-19. Though creativity is a crucial cognitive skill and innovation is a requirement to meet the challenges of today and tomorrow, these concepts must be thoroughly examined and considered as they are often misunderstood and underestimated. Achieving Sustainability Using Creativity, Innovation, and Education: A Multidisciplinary Approach discusses important i...
SIMPLE TRICKS & TIPS IN CHEMISTRY PART-2 (For Class 12)
By Dr. Monica Bhandari
- Release Date : 24 November 2021
- Genre: Education
A STRATEGIC BOOK THAT GIVES YOU A SURE SHOT COMPETITIVE EDGE § Competitive exams test the conceptual knowledge of students along with time management skills. However, several students generally do not get the expected rank/score despite knowing all the concepts. § It is an irony that students spend several precious hours and parents spend huge money running from one coaching institute to another, but nobody guides them on time management right from the beginning, and when students attend crash courses (about 1-2 months before competitive exam), they hardly have any time to master these skills. § The author of this book ...
Creating a Language-Rich Math Class
By Sandra L. Atkins
- Release Date : 17 November 2021
- Genre: Education
What meanings do your students have for key mathematics concepts? What meanings do you wish them to have? Creating a Language-Rich Math Class offers practical approaches for developing conceptual understandings by connecting concrete, pictorial, verbal, and symbolic representations. The focus is on making mathematics memorable instead of on memorizing. You’ll learn strategies for introducing students to math language that gives meaning to the terms and symbols they use every day; for building flexibility and precision in students’ use of math language; and for structuring activities to make them more language-rich. Thi...
Project-Based Learning in the Math Classroom
By Chris Fancher
- Release Date : 05 November 2021
- Genre: Education
Project-Based Learning in the Math Classroom explains how to keep inquiry at the heart of mathematics teaching and helps teachers build students' abilities to be true mathematicians. This book outlines basic teaching strategies, such as questioning and exploration of concepts. It also provides advanced strategies for teachers who are already implementing inquiry-based methods. Project-Based Learning in the Math Classroom includes practical advice about strategies the authors have used in their own classrooms, and each chapter features strategies that can be implemented immediately. Teaching in a project-based environment m...
Social and Emotional Curriculum for Gifted Students
By Mark Hess
- Release Date : 22 October 2021
- Genre: Education
The Social and Emotional Curriculum for Gifted Students series provides the gifted resource specialist, regular classroom teacher, or counselor with the tools they need to help gifted students in grades 3-5 develop interpersonal skills, reflect on their often intense emotions, and express their creativity. The grade 4 book: Contains five units and more than 50 hours of instruction. Shares helpful directions for implementing lessons and connecting content across the curriculum. Addresses psychosocial skills. Features critical thinking activities, hands-on building and design, reading, writing, creativity, and math and scien...
Creative Acts for Curious People
By Sarah Stein Greenberg
- Release Date : 21 September 2021
- Genre: Business & Economics
“A delightful, compelling book that offers a dazzling array of practical, thoughtful exercises designed to spark creativity, help solve problems, foster connection, and make our lives better.”—Gretchen Rubin, New York Times bestselling author and host of the Happier podcast In an era of ambiguous, messy problems—as well as extraordinary opportunities for positive change—it’s vital to have both an inquisitive mind and the ability to act with intention. Creative Acts for Curious People is filled with ways to build those skills with resilience, care, and confidence. At Stanford University’s world-renowned Hasso ...
Sexual Justice
By Alexandra Brodsky
- Release Date : 24 August 2021
- Genre: Social Science
A pathbreaking work for the next stage of the #MeToo movement, showing how we can address sexual harms with fairness to both victims and the accused, and exposing the sexism that shapes today's contentious debates about due process Over the past few years, a remarkable number of sexual harassment victims have come forward with their stories, demanding consequences for their assailants and broad societal change. Each prominent allegation, however, has also set off a wave of questions – some posed in good faith, some distinctly not – about the rights of the accused. The national conversation has grown polarized, inflamed...
A.L.L.I.E.D
By Srisesha
- Release Date : 13 August 2021
- Genre: Education
"Well-presented book will give you the powers to unlock your inner potential" - Foreword by Vikram Dhar, Global Gurus Top 30, Author of The Ultimate Coaching Guide Involve the whole brain into thinking your lessons. Reach all types of learners with only your words. The pandemic has left us in the most vulnerable space, and our kids even more. Turn around the “I can’t” to “I did it” by automating the learning in your classroom. Save tons of instructional time and transform the “low performers” into “super achievers.” Accelerated Learning in Education Development equips the teachers and learners with method...
A Leadership Guide for Women in Higher Education
By Marjorie Hass
- Release Date : 10 August 2021
- Genre: Education
In this frank guide to launching, building, and advancing your academic career, Hass addresses a wide range of topics, including; deciding whether academic leadership is for you; developing a personal leadership style; becoming comfortable with power, ambition, and personal voice; navigating patriarchal assumptions; finding joy in leadership work; gaining experience with budget management, revenue generation, personnel management, and fund-raising—no matter your current job title; effectively managing conflict; aligning personal and career values and goals; winning your next job; and much moreWomen at any stage of their ...
The Choice We Face
By John N. Hale
- Release Date : 10 August 2021
- Genre: Education
A comprehensive history of school choice in the US, from its birth in the 1950s as the most effective weapon to oppose integration to its lasting impact in reshaping the public education system today. Most Americans today see school choice as their inalienable right. In The Choice We Face, scholar Jon Hale reveals what most fail to see: school choice is grounded in a complex history of race, exclusion, and inequality. Through evaluating historic and contemporary education policies, Hale demonstrates how reframing the way we see school choice represents an opportunity to evolve from complicity to action. The idea of school ...