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Author
Series
Publisher
Jossey-Bass
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Author Doug Lemov offers the essential tools of the teaching craft so that you can unlock the talent and skill waiting in your students, no matter how many previous classrooms, schools, or teachers have been unsuccessful. This must-have resource is filled with concrete, specific, and actionable classroom teaching techniques that you can start using in your classroom tomorrow.
Among the techniques:
• Technique #1: No Opt Out. How to move students...
Author
Publisher
ASCD
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Too often, students who fail a grade or a course receive remediation that ends up widening rather than closing achievement gaps. According to veteran classroom teacher and educational consultant Suzy Pepper Rollins, the true answer to supporting struggling students lies in acceleration. In Learning in the Fast Lane, she lays out a plan of action that teachers can use to immediately move underperforming students in the right direction and differentiate...
Language
English
Description
Happy Gilmore:Although Happy dreams of becoming a professional hockey player, he discovers that his hockey slap shot translates to an astonishing 400 yard tee shot. So when his grandmother loses her home to the IRS, Happy decides to earn the house back by joining the pro golf tour, bringing his ferocious temper and outlandish antics to the well-tended fairways. Before long, Happy is a media sensation, attracting crowds and news cameras wherever he...
Author
Series
Timmy Failure ; 3
Language
English
Description
His name is Failure. Timmy Failure. And his detective agency is on the verge of global domination. Global riches. Global fame. And yet the gods keep throwing him curveballs for starters, academic probation. The coveted Miracle Report is the key to everything, including a good grade. It's dirty business. It's best you know nothing. But one thing is for sure that Timmy Failure will be triumphant again!
Author
Publisher
Jossey-Bass
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
The original cloth edition of this book caused a firestorm of controversy and acclaim, with two major features in Newsweek, and other major broadcast and print media. Parents and educators who are painfully familiar with the crisis in boy's education bought and discussed this book passionately, producing the greatest hardcover sales any Gurian titles has achieved to date. Gurian's greatest sales in the past have always been in paperback, so we're...
14) Falling short
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Best friends Isaac and Marco face various challenges in sixth grade, such as Isaac getting better grades, Marco winning a spot on the basketball team, and both seeing their efforts make a change in their respective family lives. They hope their friendship and support for one another will be enough to help them from falling short." --
Author
Publisher
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
The author of the best-selling book What the Best College Teachers Do is back with more humane, doable, and inspiring help, this time for students who want to get the most out of college{u2014}and every other educational enterprise, too.
Author
Series
Publisher
Ulysses Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"From the authors of the bestselling The Growth Mindset Coach, this handy companion is a must-have if you want to empower students through purposeful praise and feedback. Here are the key strategies, helpful tips and go-to phrases for helping students transition thoughts, words and actions into the growth-mindset zone."--Publisher's description.
Author
Publisher
Ulysses Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"In this follow-up to The Growth Mindset Coach, two education professionals show teachers and parents how to apply the psychology of mindset in children's education to achieve greater engagement, improved test scores and overall student success." --
18) Billy Madison
Language
English
Description
He's heir to the Madison Hotel millions, but in order to win his father's respect, and his fortune 500 company, grown-up goof-off Billy must reepeat all 12 grades of school in just 24 weeks!
Author
Publisher
ASCD
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
In Learning Targets, Connie M. Moss and Susan M. Brookhart contend that improving student learning and achievement happens in the immediacy of an individual lesson -- what they call "today's lesson"--Or it doesn't happen at all. The key to making today's lesson meaningful? Learning targets. Written from students' point of view, a learning target describes a lesson-sized chunk of information and skills that students will come to know deeply. Each lesson's...
