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“laureen avery”

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  • Putting Students First

    A Game Plan for Personalizing Learning

    by Marsha Jones, Laureen Avery, Joseph DiMartino ...
    This book is part memoir and part history, sharing the story of what is possible when like-minded educators work together to address radical change. The narrative, written by one who lived it, shares the journey of the district, the experts who helped guide them and the practical applications that are in place to support the concept of personalization of learning. ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • Adaptive Implementation

    Navigating the School Improvement Landscape

    by Ryoko Yamaguchi ...
    After decades spent pondering basic questions about adopting or implementing ‘best practices’ in education, educators have assembled a canon of evidence-based strategies and programs that should consistently produce good outcomes. So why is the work of educating students still such challenging work for so many? The best, most skilled educators adapt programs every day to meet the changing needs of ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

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  • The One World Schoolhouse

    Education Reimagined

    by Salman Khan ...
    A free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere: this is the goal of the Khan Academy, a passion project that grew from an ex-engineer and hedge funder's online tutoring sessions with his niece, who was struggling with algebra, into a worldwide phenomenon. Today millions of students, parents, and teachers use the Khan Academy's free videos and software, which have expanded to encompass nearly ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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  • Seven Times Smarter

    50 Activities, Games, and Projects to Develop the Seven Intelligences of Your Child

    by Laurel Schmidt ...
    What Is Smart?There's evidence of so much more than "reading, writing, and 'rithmetic" in every child -- at least seven distinct intelligences, according to the theory of multiple intelligences, developed by Harvard's Dr. Howard Gardner. In Seven Times Smarter, veteran educator Laurel Schmidt offers a parent-friendly explanation of this theory and of the ways that kids are -- simply put -- word ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Teaching for Experiential Learning

    Five Approaches That Work

    by Scott D. Wurdinger, Julie A. Carlson ...
    This book describes how to change the way in which educators conduct business in the classroom. Our current educational systems lack ways to reach today's learners in relevant, meaningful ways. The five approaches in this book inspire and motivate students to learn. The authors provide in-depth descriptions into these overlapping approaches for experiential learning: active learning, problem-based ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD

  • Gender, Schooling and Global Social Justice

    by Elaine Unterhalter ...
    Series series Foundations and Futures of Education
    Timely and original, this book examines gender equality in schooling as an aspiration of global social justice. With nearly one billion people having little or no schooling and women and girls comprising nearly two-thirds of this total, this book analyses the historical, sociological, political and philosophical issues involved as well as exploring actions taken by governments, Inter-Government ... Read more

    $111.30 CAD

  • Keywords in Youth Studies

    Tracing Affects, Movements, Knowledges

    Edited by Nancy Lesko, Susan Talburt ...
    With recent attention to issues such as youth social exclusion, poverty, school underachievement, school violence, gang activity, sexuality, and youth’s interactions with media and the internet, youth studies has emerged as a significant interdisciplinary field. It has moved beyond its roots in subcultural studies to encompass a diverse array of disciplines, subfields, and theoretical orientations ... Read more

    $119.99 CAD

  • Curriculum in a New Key

    The Collected Works of Ted T. Aoki

    by Ted T. Aoki ...
    Series series Studies in Curriculum Theory Series
    Ted T. Aoki, the most prominent curriculum scholar of his generation in Canada, has influenced numerous scholars around the world. Curriculum in a New Key brings together his work, over a 30-year span, gathered here under the themes of reconceptualizing curriculum; language, culture, and curriculum; and narrative. Aoki's oeuvre is utterly unique--a complex interdisciplinary configuration of ... Read more

    $166.99 CAD

  • Shaping the Futures of (Vocational) Education and Work

    Commitment of VET and VET Research

    Edited by Gabriele Molzberger, Manfred Wahle ...
    Series Book 13 - Studies in Vocational and Continuing Education
    Education and work are moving towards an open, but uncertain future. Research on vocational and continuing education constantly needs to reassure the conditions of educational systems, current concepts of VET and work, educational policies, and its own assumptions in ascertaining theory of VET. In this context, modernisation is a significant paradigm. It refers to new ideological, socio-economic, ... Read more

    $119.99 CAD

  • Exploring the Landscape of Scientific Literacy

    Edited by Cedric Linder, Leif Östman, Douglas A. Roberts, Per-Olof Wickman, Gaalen Ericksen, Allan MacKinnon ...
    Series series Teaching and Learning in Science Series
    Scientific literacy is part of national science education curricula worldwide. In this volume, an international group of distinguished scholars offer new ways to look at the key ideas and practices associated with promoting scientific literacy in schools and higher education. The goal is to open up the debate on scientific literacy, particularly around the tension between theoretical and practical ... Read more

    $111.99 CAD

  • Positively Smarter

    Science and Strategies for Increasing Happiness, Achievement, and Well-Being

    by Marcus Conyers, Donna Wilson ...
    Positively Smarter brings together seven principles for connecting the science of neuroplasticity to practical strategies for enhancing the synergy of happiness, achievement, and physical well-being. Moving beyond common myths, the text builds an evidence-based paradigm to empower readers to take practical steps to move forward.Brings together current research on cognitive psychology, education ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Learning Disability

    A Social approach

    Edited by David Race ...
    The detailed study of learning disability features rarely in university courses. To a large extent this reflects the low value attributed by our society and its human services to people with learning difficulties. This unusual book, based on one of those rare courses, includes contributions from academic specialists, students and people with learning difficulties, all of whom have participated in ... Read more

    $86.56 CAD