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Taming the Standards: A Commonsense Approach to Higher Student Achievement, K-12
Make sense of state and national standards across the disciplines. Align them to your curriculum and classroom practices. And achieve the greatest student success. In these politically charged times, the mere mention of standards often leads to heated...
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Teach Like an MC: Hip Hop Pedagogy in the K–12 Classroom
In Teach Like An MC, Edmund Adjapong provides a research-based framework for implementing innovative teaching strategies anchored in the five elements of hip-hop culture: MCing, graffiti, knowledge of self, DJing, and breakdancing. He shares the...
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Teach Like an MC: Hip Hop Pedagogy in the K–12 Classroom.
In Teach Like an MC, Edmund Adjapong creates a framework informed by hip-hop culture that supports educators who have also become teachers to stop the cycle of poor teaching and to nurture positive educational experiences for all youth, with special...
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Teacher Book : Finding Personal and Professional Balance
In February 1999, Bobbi Fisher sent an email to a group of teachers nationwide, asking two main questions: "What are some of the specific stresses in your teaching situation and how do you deal with them?" and "When are the times that you feel the most...
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Teacher to Teacher: A Guidebook for Effective Mentoring
This is a book about the growth and change that can be achieved by teachers, new and experienced, when they work together. Adults learn best when they are interested. They need opportunities to practice and time to integrate and modify new ideas to fit...
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Teacher's Guide to Standardized Reading Tests : Knowledge Is Power
In recent years, the increasingly high stakes attached to norm-referenced reading tests have made it harder to hold onto what we believe about language arts education. Now, Lucy Calkins, Kate Montgomery, and Donna Santman meet us in the true trenches,...
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Teaching and Supporting English Learners: A Guide to Welcoming and Engaging Newcomers
Learn how to best support English learners and address the needs of newcomers! This professional resource provides step-by-step instructional strategies for teachers of ELs. Teaching and Supporting English Learners: A Guide to Welcoming and Engaging...