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The Digital Teaching Portfolio Handbook: A How-To Guide for Educators

The Digital Teaching Portfolio Handbook: A How-To Guide for Educators

by Clare R. Kilbane

The Digital Teaching Portfolio Handbook offers comprehensive information on preparing a teaching portfolio for a Web site or CD-ROM. This practical text not only demonstrates the process for developing a digital teaching portfolio, it also provides students with strategies and suggestions for creating an appealing package that is accessible to a diverse audience. The Digital Teaching Portfolio Handbook helps... (more)

Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns

Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns

by Michael B. Horn, Curtis W. Johnson, Clayton M. Christensen

Selected as one of the "Best Books on Innovation, 2008" by BusinessWeek magazine Named the "Best Human-Capital Book of 2008" by Strategy + Business magazine A crash course in the business of learning-from the bestselling author of The Innovator's Dilemma and The Innovator's Solution … "Provocatively titled, Disrupting Class is just what America's K-12 education system... (more)

Today I Made a Difference: A Collection of Inspirational Stories from America?s Top Educators

Today I Made a Difference: A Collection of Inspirational Stories from America?s Top Educators

Everyone remembers that teacher who made a difference. The one who went the extra mile to truly affect lives, whose lessons carried as much importance outside the classroom as inside. This book is a celebration of those teachers who continue to make an impact. A collection of stories from some of the country’s top educators, this book is a celebration of teachers’ work, and motivation for them to continue. Joseph... (more)

Night Trilogy: Book 1

Night

by Elie Wiesel

In Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel's memoir Night , a scholarly, pious teenager is wracked with guilt at having survived the horror of the Holocaust and the genocidal campaign that consumed his family. His memories of the nightmare world of the death camps present him with an intolerable question: how can the God he once so fervently believed in have allowed these monstrous events to occur? There are no easy answers... (more)

The Concise Oxford Companion to Classical Literature (Oxford Paperback Reference)

The Concise Oxford Companion to Classical Literature (Oxford Paperback Reference)

Derived from the highly praised second edition of The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature, this is the ideal reference book for anyone interested in the classical world and its literary heritage. Including accounts of the lives and works of the classical authors, character entries and plot summaries, general entries tracing the development of literary forms such as comedy and tragedy, and wide coverage of the... (more)

What Can I Write About?: 7000 Topics for High School Students

What Can I Write About?: 7000 Topics for High School Students

by David Powell

Medea and Other Plays (Penguin Classics)

Medea and Other Plays (Penguin Classics)

by Euripides, R. B. Rutherford, James Morwood

Translated by John Davie with an Introduction and Notes by Richard Rutherford.

The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Eighth Edition, Volume 1: The Middle Ages Through the Restoration and the Eighteenth Century

The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Eighth Edition, Volume 1: The Middle Ages Through the Restoration and the Eighteenth Century

Read by millions of students over seven editions, The Norton Anthology of English Literature remains the most trusted undergraduate survey of English literature available and one of the most successful college texts ever published. Firmly grounded by the hallmark strengths of all Norton Anthologies—thorough and helpful introductory matter, judicious annotation, complete texts wherever possible— The Norton... (more)

Writers Inc: A Student Handbook for Writing and Learning

Writers Inc: A Student Handbook for Writing and Learning

by Dave Kemper, Patrick Sebranek, Verne Meyer

It's meant for high schoolers, but adults who haven't inhaled chalk dust for years might appreciate it even more. The process of organizing, researching and writing a paper is laid is out in easy-to-understand normal-speak. The chapters on grammar and usage are very user-friendly, and lots of extras (suffixes, parliamentary procedure, periodic table, metric system, the U.S. Constitution, world maps, etc.)... (more)

Sahara Special

by Esme? Raji Codell

Sahara Jones is going into fifth grade-again. Although she won't be "Sahara Special" anymore (special needs, that is), she doesn't expect this year to be any better than last year. Fifth grade is going to be different, though, because Sahara's class is getting a new teacher: Miss Pointy. From her eggplant-colored lipstick to the strange subjects she teaches, like "Puzzling" and "Time Travel," she is like no... (more)

Your Own, Sylvia: A Verse Portrait of Sylvia Plath

Your Own, Sylvia: A Verse Portrait of Sylvia Plath

by Stephanie Hemphill

On a bleak February day in 1963 a young American poet died by her own hand, and passed into a myth that has since imprinted itself on the hearts and minds of millions. She was and is Sylvia Plath and Your Own , Sylvia is a portrait of her life, told in poems. With photos and an extensive list of facts and sources to round out the reading experience, Your Own, Sylvia is a great curriculum companion to Plath's... (more)

The Salem Witch Trials: An Unsolved Mystery from History

The Salem Witch Trials: An Unsolved Mystery from History

by Jane Yolen, Heidi Elisabet Y Stemple

In 1692 Salem, Massachusetts, witnessed one of the saddest and most inexplicable chapters in American history. When a group of girls came down with a horrible, mysterious bout of illness, the town doctor looked in his medical books but failed to find a reasonable diagnosis. Pretty soon everyone in town was saying the same thing: The girls were ill because they were under a spell, the spell of witchcraft! And... (more)

Neurogenetic Developmental Disorders: Manifestations and Identification in Childhood (Issues in Clinical and Cognitive Neuropsychology)

Neurogenetic Developmental Disorders: Manifestations and Identification in Childhood (Issues in Clinical and Cognitive Neuropsychology)

Genetic disorders in children can have highly variable effects. Even relatively common disorders may go undiagnosed and untreated by clinicians who are not familiar with the range of atypical cognitive or behavioral symptoms possible in an affected child. Recent research in genetics and brain development has altered the phenotypic description of various disorders, but this new knowledge is not readily available to... (more)

Growing Smarter: Achieving Livable Communities, Environmental Justice, and Regional Equity (Urban and Industrial Environments)

Growing Smarter: Achieving Livable Communities, Environmental Justice, and Regional Equity (Urban and Industrial Environments)

Finalist, 2008 Book of the Year, Association for Humanist Sociology The smart growth movement aims to combat urban and suburban sprawl by promoting livable communities based on pedestrian scale, diverse populations, and mixed land use. But, as this book documents, smart growth has largely failed to address issues of social equity and environmental justice. Smart growth sometimes results in gentrification and... (more)

Nothing's Fair in Fifth Grade

by Barthe Declements

The award-winning national bestseller! When Elsie Edwards becomes the new girl in the fifth grade, nothing seems fair--but lots of things are fun. "Absolutely marvelous."--Parents' Choice.

What Is It About Me You Can`t Teach?

by Eleanor Rene?e Rodriguez

Gangs, drugs, poverty, shootings, lack of materials, dilapidated classrooms, lack of support–urban teachers sometimes deal with issues like these on a daily basis. In spite of these intense obstacles, teachers must stay focused on one goal–getting through to the students. This book arms educators with new knowledge, skills, and ideas to enhance teaching techniques. Teachers will gain a fresh view of goal... (more)

Hooked On English!: Ready-to-Use Activities for the English Curriculum, Grades 7-12

Hooked On English!: Ready-to-Use Activities for the English Curriculum, Grades 7-12

by Jack Umstatter

This unique and practical resource gives junior and senior high school English teachers 186 stimulating activities that can be used to review and reinforce concepts across the English curriculum in a challenging and entertaining way. The activities have been tested with students of varying abilities and include a variety of crossword puzzles, word jumbles, word searches, magic squares, crypto-quotes, word... (more)

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