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Author
Publisher
ASCD
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
xiii, 81 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
How can we ensure that all students, regardless of cultural background or socioeconomic status, are granted equitable opportunities to succeed in the classroom and beyond? In Keeping It Real and Relevant: Building Authentic Relationships in Your Diverse Classroom, author and veteran educator Ignacio Lopez offers hard-won lessons that educators at all levels can apply to teaching, assessing, counseling, and designing interventions for learners from...
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
294 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A dark romance evolves between a high schooler and her English teacher, in this breathtakingly powerful memoir about a young woman who must learn to rewrite her own story. "Have you ever read Lolita?" So begins seventeen-year-old Alisson's metamorphosis from student to lover and then victim. A lonely and vulnerable high school senior, Alisson finds solace only in her writing-and in a young, charismatic English teacher, Mr. North. He praises her as...
83) Freaky Monday
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
690L
Physical Desc
180 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Hadley begins to better understand her teacher and herself when she has to spend a day in her teacher's body.
Author
Pub. Date
1968
Lexile measure
950L
Physical Desc
315 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Narcissus and Goldmund is the story of a passionate yet uneasy friendship between two men of opposite character. Narcissus, an ascetic instructor at a cloister school, has devoted himself solely to scholarly and spiritual pursuits. One of his students is the sensual, restless Goldmund, who is immediately drawn to his teacher's fierce intellect and sense of discipline. When Narcissus persuades the young student that he is not meant for a life of self-denial,...
Series
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (125 min.) : sound, colour ; 4 3/4 inches.
Language
English
Description
It's Sparks' crew to the rescue in ten pet-packed adventures! When an egg hatches and an unfamiliar bird emerges. Sparks' crew vows to reunite the bird with its parents. Then, a little girl's kitten is on the loose! Can the team observe how animals use their tails and apply that information to a rescue that will save the day?
89) Freedom Writers
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
Full screen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (122 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A true story about a teacher in a racially divided school who gives her students what they've always needed, a voice. Erin Gruwell comes to a southern California high school bubbling over with naive optimism. She quickly discovers that her unruly classroom is not easily won over by her good intentions. After a few floundering attempts to connect with her students, Gruwell gives them the assignment of keeping journals about their own lives, This assignment...
90) My education
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
296 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Warned about the womanizing activities of Professor Nicholas Brodeur before her arrival at his prestigious university, graduate student Regina Gottlieb is nevertheless captured by his charisma and good looks before falling prey to his volatile wife.
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
xvi, 216 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
In this book, Patrick Allen maintains that the benefits of conferring are worth the effort of learning to do it well. He sets out to reveal how teachers can overcome their perceived obstacles and make tangible the somewhat intangible aspect of conferring with readers.--[book cover]
92) Spell bound
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 670L
Physical Desc
323 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Edison Rooker isn't sure what to expect when he enters the office of Antonia Hex, the powerful sorceress who runs a call center for magical emergencies. He doesn't have much experience with hexes or curses. Heck, he doesn't even have magic. But he does have a plan--to regain the access to the magical world he lost when his grandmother passed. Antonia is...intimidating, but she gives him a job and a new name--Rook--both of which he's happy to accept....
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
What truly matters in life? David Menasche lived for his work as a high school English teacher. His passion inspired his students, and between lessons on Shakespeare and sentence structure, he forged a unique bond with his kids, buoying them through personal struggles while sharing valuable life lessons. When a six-year battle with brain cancer ultimately stole David's vision, memory, mobility, and--most tragically of all--his ability to teach, he...
Author
Publisher
ASCD
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
xiv, 186 pages : illustrations, 1 portrait ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"This practical, engaging guide explores how student-centered assessment not only improves student engagement and achievement but also ensures that assessment is accurate, meaningful, and fair"--
96) The dying animal
Author
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
156 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
David Kepesh is white-haired and over sixty, an eminent TV culture critic and star lecturer at a New York college, when he meets Consuela Castillo, a decorous, well-mannered student of twenty-four, the daughter of wealthy Cuban exiles, who promptly puts his life into erotic disorder.
Since the sexual revolution of the 1960s, when he left his wife and child, Kepesh has experimented with living what he calls an "emancipated manhood," beyond the reach...
Author
Publisher
Redleaf Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Second edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 158 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"When teachers are not precise in their communication, use idioms, or use sarcasm, children don't learn, or, worse, they experience confusion or embarrassment because they don't know what to do. This new edition of Use Your Words is infused with current research on communicating with young children and their families. The text considers change and current culture in the United States as it affects language and little ones in the context of 2017, while...
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
xi, 106 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Talking, Listening, and Teaching demonstrates how important it is for teachers to understand and monitor classroom communication patterns and resolve problems that may hamper students' learning. Using examples from real classrooms, the author explains
How classroom talk is different from communication outside the classroom
How to gather and analyze data about classroom talk
What type of questioning generates good discussions
Why and how to give feedback...
99) Friction
Author
Pub. Date
2003
Lexile measure
630L
Physical Desc
197 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When a new girl at the private school Alex attends starts rumors about Alex's favorite teacher, Alex and her eighth-grade classmates are not sure how to act around him or with each other.
100) The color of hope
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
311 pages : genealogical table ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Stephanie London led a life of comfort and ease in St. Louis before feeling inexplicably drawn back to her father's roots in the tiny Southern town of Hope Springs. Charlotte Willoughby has lived there all her life and longs to make a new life somewhere else. Stephanie doesn't know exactly what she's doing there--or how to occupy her time. And Charlotte doesn't understand why, despite her overbearing family and reminders of her failed engagement,...