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  • Literary Life Histories

    Reclaiming Reading and Living the Story

    by Valarie Lee, Marjorie Madden, Susan Browne ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    Synthesizing fifteen years of experience using Life Histories students, grades five to university, this textbook provides a framework for deepening student understandings of text and promoting classroom engagement through collaborative writing and performance. Intended for undergraduate and graduate education students, as well as practicing teachers for grades five through twelve, this textbook ... Read more

    $47.39 CAD

  • Learning from the Boys

    Looking Inside the Reading Lives of Three Adolescent Boys

    by Valarie G. Lee ...
    Series series Literacy, Language and Learning
    The “Boy Crisis” is cited often in educational and news reports due to the consistent reading achievement gap for boys and the statistics paint a dismal picture of boys in school. Politicians and researchers often focus on boys’ low scores on reading achievement tests and compare these scores to the girls’ scores with little consideration for the actual reading lives of boys. As a result, ... Read more

    $59.39 CAD

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  • You're Not Listening

    What You're Missing and Why It Matters

    by Kate Murphy ...
    When was the last time you listened to someone, or someone really listened to you?"If you’re like most people, you don’t listen as often or as well as you’d like. There’s no one better qualified than a talented journalist to introduce you to the right mindset and skillset—and this book does it with science and humor."-Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Originals and Give and Take< ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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  • Before You Know It

    The Unconscious Reasons We Do What We Do

    by John Bargh, Ph.D. ...
    Dr. John Bargh, the world’s leading expert on the unconscious mind, presents a “brilliant and convincing book” (Malcolm Gladwell) cited as an outstanding read of 2017 by Business Insider and The Financial Times—giving us an entirely new understanding of the hidden mental processes that secretly govern every aspect of our behavior.For more than three decades, Dr. John Bargh has conducted ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • The Reading Mind

    A Cognitive Approach to Understanding How the Mind Reads

    by Daniel T. Willingham ...
    A Map to the Magic of ReadingStop for a moment and wonder: what's happening in your brain right now—as you read this paragraph? How much do you know about the innumerable and amazing connections that your mind is making as you, in a flash, make sense of this request? Why does it matter?The Reading Mind is a brilliant, beautifully crafted, and accessible exploration of arguably life's most ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

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  • The Highly Engaged Classroom

    by Robert J. Marzano, Debra J. Pickering ...
    Series series Classroom Strategies
    Student engagement happens as a result of a teacher’s careful planning and execution of specific strategies. This basic premise drives The Highly Engaged Classroom, a self-study text that provides in-depth understanding of how to generate high levels of student attention and engagement. Using the suggestions in this book, every teacher can create a classroom environment where engagement is the ... Read more

    $49.59 CAD

  • Life in Three Dimensions

    How Curiosity, Exploration, and Experience Make a Fuller, Better Life

    by Shigehiro Oishi PhD ...
    **A NEXT BIG IDEA CLUB MUST-READ BOOK • From one of our foremost psychologists, a trailblazing book that turns the idea of a good life on its head and urges us to embrace the transformative power of variety and experience • The guidebook to the pyshologically rich life“Dr. Oishi’s enthusiasm for a big and bold existence is infectious” —The Wall Street Journal"Life in Three Dimensions will give you ... Read more

    Was $16.99 CAD Now $13.99 CAD

  • Personal Intelligence

    The Power of Personality and How It Shapes Our Lives

    by John D. Mayer ...
    John D. Mayer, the renowned psychologist who co-developed the groundbreaking theory of emotional intelligence, now draws on decades of cognitive psychology research to introduce another paradigm-shifting idea: that in order to become our best selves, we use an even broader intelligence—which he calls personal intelligence—to understand our own personality and the personalities of the people around ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD

  • The Good Guy Greg Guide to Motivating Language Learners

    by Adam Simpson ...
    Why isn't he coming to class? Why does she come to class and not do anything? Why is he so confident of passing when he's done so little work? Why does she think she'll fail when she's working so hard? Why do they spend so much time talking about IELTS when this is a TOEFL preparation course? Does he even want to be in this room? It feels like she's deliberately trying to fail this course… why ... Read more

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  • Understanding Black Male Learning Styles

    by Jawanza Kunjufu ...
    Offering information for use inside and outside of the classroom, this educational resource delineates how black males learn differently from other students and what can be done to most effectively reach them. Outlining the differences as both behavioral (attention span, aggression, maturation, energy level, and pressure from peers) and educational (verbal skills, organization, gross and fine ... Read more

    $12.00 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Truth About Girls and Boys

    Challenging Toxic Stereotypes About Our Children

    by Caryl Rivers, Rosalind Barnett, , Ph.D. ...
    Caryl Rivers and Rosalind C. Barnett are widely acclaimed for their analyses of women, men, and society. In The Truth About Girls and Boys, they tackle a new, troubling trend in the theorizing of gender: that the learning styles, brain development, motivation, cognitive and spatial abilities, and "natural" inclinations of girls and boys are so fundamentally different, they require unique styles of ... Read more

    $27.19 CAD

  • The Classroom X-Factor: The Power of Body Language and Non-verbal Communication in Teaching

    by John White, John Gardner ...
    Why is it that some teachers have a kind of magical charisma and charm which sets them apart from their peers? This book gives us a fresh and exciting answer – They have the classroom X-Factor! White and Gardner’s gripping text, The Classroom X Factor, examines the notion of having what the public has come to call the ‘X-Factor’ from the perspective of the teacher, offering fascinating insights ... Read more

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