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Ribbin' Jivin' and Playin' The Dozens: The Persistent Dilemma in our Schools
ISBN: 9780962484704 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Every six months or so, a study reports about our inability to educate black males. Yet, after reading Ribbin', Jivin, and Playin' the Dozens: The Persistent Dilemma in Our Schools, teachers learned how to teach black males. Through 99 Realities and other examples, Ribbin', describes, discusses, and explains black male street corner language and behavior and how it is played out in the classroom. Too often, teachers misunderstand and misinterpret their black male student's language and behavior resulting in their black male students being referred to special education or considered a...
Every six months or so, a study reports about our inability to educate black males. Yet, after reading Ribbin', Jivin, and Playin' the Dozens: The Per...
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60,49 zł |
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We Don't Need Another Hero: Struggle, Hope, and Possibility in the Age of High-Stakes Schooling
ISBN: 9780807753507 / Angielski / Miękka / 147 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In his latest book, bestselling author Gregory Michie critiques high-stakes schooling and provides a powerful alternative vision of teaching as a humanistic enterprise, students as multidimensional beings, and schools as spaces where young people can imagine and become, not just achieve. Drawing on his experiences over the past two decades as a classroom teacher, community volunteer, researcher, and teacher educator in Chicagos public schools, Michie offers compelling accounts of teaching and learning in urban America. Mindful of the complex realities educators face, he portrays urban schools...
In his latest book, bestselling author Gregory Michie critiques high-stakes schooling and provides a powerful alternative vision of teaching as a huma...
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126,51 zł |
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Aim High, Achieve More: How to Transform Urban Schools Through Fearless Leadership
ISBN: 9781416614678 / Angielski / Miękka / 142 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Two veterans of urban education provide a powerful model for urban school transformation based on a leadership approach consisting of affirmation, inspiration, and mediation (AIM). This practical guide includes examples of successful practices and activities to help your leadership team produce its own roadmap for change.
Two veterans of urban education provide a powerful model for urban school transformation based on a leadership approach consisting of affirmation, ins...
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137,52 zł |
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The Urban School System of the Future: Applying the Principles and Lessons of Chartering
ISBN: 9781607094777 / Angielski / Miękka / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For more than two generations, the traditional urban school system--the district--has utterly failed to do its job: prepare its students for a lifetime of success. Millions and millions of boys and girls have suffered the grievous consequences. The district is irreparably broken. For the sake of today's and tomorrow's inner-city kids, it must be replaced. The Urban School System of the Future argues that vastly better results can be realized through the creation of a new type of organization that properly manages a city's portfolio of schools using the revolutionary principles of chartering....
For more than two generations, the traditional urban school system--the district--has utterly failed to do its job: prepare its students for a lifetim...
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210,08 zł |
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Voices in the Hall
ISBN: 9781463516543 / Angielski / Miękka / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Latoya was molested by her mother's boyfriend when she was eight years old. Chungo's uncle was shot four times in the head in a gang turf war. Ashley was dragged off school grounds in handcuffs and shackles. Sandy finds out she is pregnant, but is so ashamed, she conceals it for four months while attending school daily. Welcome to the world of today's troubled teenagers. Florida's Sun Sentinel Newspaper calls -Voices in the Hall-, -a book-in-progress of surprising depth, complexity and heart.- -Voices in the Hall- is a riveting and compelling account of kids in our school system, as told to...
Latoya was molested by her mother's boyfriend when she was eight years old. Chungo's uncle was shot four times in the head in a gang turf war. Ashley ...
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48,38 zł |
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Understanding Differences in Perceptions of Effective Urban Elementary School Principals Among Various Educational Stakeholders
ISBN: 9781481053457 / Angielski / Miękka / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Jesse Jeremy Payne, Ed.D., earned his terminal degree from the University of Southern California. His research focused on the similarities and differences in perceptions of job skills for effective elementary school principals in urban areas. After collecting data from 51 school superintendents, 114 principals and 101 teachers, he discovered the differences in perception far outweighed the similarities, even within similar stakeholder groups. * * * Dr. Payne is the son-in-law of renowned physician and psychiatrist Dr. Daniel Amen, who pioneered the use of brain scans to study neural pathways...
Jesse Jeremy Payne, Ed.D., earned his terminal degree from the University of Southern California. His research focused on the similarities and differe...
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80,70 zł |
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Connecting with Students: Strategies for Building Rapport with Urban Learners
ISBN: 9781475806823 / Angielski / Twarda / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Connecting with Students: Strategies for Building Rapport with Urban Learners focuses on how educators can efficiently establish ongoing rapport with each student through three simple steps: Seeing beyond barriers, sharing their intentions, and showing their "face." Chapter details are narrated through anecdotal experiences, confirmed by research, and seconded by actual urban learners. Educators are prompted to consistently reflect on their classroom practices and implement new strategies and techniques. This text will provide immediate strategies and techniques to build relational capacity...
Connecting with Students: Strategies for Building Rapport with Urban Learners focuses on how educators can efficiently establish ongoing rapport with ...
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204,96 zł |
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Connecting with Students: Strategies for Building Rapport with Urban Learners
ISBN: 9781475806830 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Connecting with Students: Strategies for Building Rapport with Urban Learners focuses on how educators can efficiently establish ongoing rapport with each student through three simple steps: Seeing beyond barriers, sharing their intentions, and showing their "face." Chapter details are narrated through anecdotal experiences, confirmed by research, and seconded by actual urban learners. Educators are prompted to consistently reflect on their classroom practices and implement new strategies and techniques. This text will provide immediate strategies and techniques to build relational capacity...
Connecting with Students: Strategies for Building Rapport with Urban Learners focuses on how educators can efficiently establish ongoing rapport with ...
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102,43 zł |
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A World Beyond Home
ISBN: 9781522712930 / Angielski / Miękka / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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56,45 zł |
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Breaking the Cycle: How Schools Can Overcome Urban Challenges
ISBN: 9781475806106 / Angielski / Twarda / 166 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Breaking the Cycle tells the inspiring story of young people whom many would write off as a lost cause but who, thanks to a remarkable school, are headed for success. We learn about their world from teens like Shawna, the daughter of a crack-addicted mother. Or Andre, the only one in his family not on drugs. Or Daron, kicked out of his home by an abusive father. Challenged by the pernicious factors of their environment--drugs, violence, fatherless homes, and poor educational backgrounds--students at the Dayton Early College Academy are nevertheless beating the odds. All are headed for...
Breaking the Cycle tells the inspiring story of young people whom many would write off as a lost cause but who, thanks to a remarkable school, are hea...
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327,94 zł |
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Breaking the Cycle: How Schools Can Overcome Urban Challenges
ISBN: 9781475806113 / Angielski / Miękka / 166 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Breaking the Cycle tells the inspiring story of young people whom many would write off as a lost cause but who, thanks to a remarkable school, are headed for success. We learn about their world from teens like Shawna, the daughter of a crack-addicted mother. Or Andre, the only one in his family not on drugs. Or Daron, kicked out of his home by an abusive father. Challenged by the pernicious factors of their environment--drugs, violence, fatherless homes, and poor educational backgrounds--students at the Dayton Early College Academy are nevertheless beating the odds. All are headed for...
Breaking the Cycle tells the inspiring story of young people whom many would write off as a lost cause but who, thanks to a remarkable school, are hea...
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179,34 zł |
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Junior's Guide to New York
ISBN: 9781480094178 / Angielski / Miękka / 36 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. EVER WONDER WHAT NEW YORK IS LIKE, FROM THE JUNIOR POINT OF VIEW? Ever taste Junior's Strawberry Cheesecake? Visit Alice's for Tea? Ride the accordion style, jumbo buses? Slide away on a mega-ton unique granite slide while breathing in Central Park? Join us We explore New York City the Junior's way, inexpensively and with an extra dollop of fun, and Junior's Cheesecake too... Our fact and photo filled story takes you on a train ride to some of the Big Apple's fabled treasures. Unfolding as we journey in from the Suburbs, you will feel like you are experiencing the trip too Fun and...
EVER WONDER WHAT NEW YORK IS LIKE, FROM THE JUNIOR POINT OF VIEW? Ever taste Junior's Strawberry Cheesecake? Visit Alice's for Tea? Ride the accordion...
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36,92 zł |
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New York City Public Schools from Brownsville to Bloomberg: Community Control and Its Legacy
ISBN: 9780807754511 / Angielski / Miękka / 199 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg centralized control of the citys schools in 2002, he terminated the citys 32-year experiment with decentralized school control dubbed by the mayor and the media as the Bad Old Days. Decentralization grew out of the community control movement of the 1960s, which was itself a response to the bad old days of central control of a school system that was increasingly segregated and unequal. In this probing historical account, Heather Lewis draws on new archival sources and oral histories to argue that the community control movement did influence school...
When New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg centralized control of the citys schools in 2002, he terminated the citys 32-year experiment with decentral...
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199,58 zł |
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Last Chance High School: A Principal's Crusade to Rescue Throwaway Teens
ISBN: 9781481163842 / Angielski / Miękka / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Last Chance High School is the incredible story of a caring and innovative principal and his staff who found ways to dramatically change the lives of behaviorally challenged teens. It describes the first two years of the successful transformation of an inner city special education school in New York City. From birth, many students in this school had been denied opportunities and had been given nothing to look forward to. General education schools could not find ways to cope with them. For most of these throwaway teens, Last Chance High was their only chance. At the end of two years, fights...
Last Chance High School is the incredible story of a caring and innovative principal and his staff who found ways to dramatically change the lives of ...
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52,42 zł |
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Schooling in the Age of Austerity: Urban Education and the Struggle for Democratic Life
ISBN: 9781137032034 / Angielski / Twarda / 186 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Through a case study in a Chicago public school, Means demonstrates that, despite the fragmentation of human security in low-income and racially segregated public schools, there exist positive social relations, knowledge, and desire for change that can be built upon to promote more secure and equitable democratic futures for young people.
Through a case study in a Chicago public school, Means demonstrates that, despite the fragmentation of human security in low-income and racially segre...
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201,72 zł |
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Schooling in the Age of Austerity: Urban Education and the Struggle for Democratic Life
ISBN: 9781137032041 / Angielski / Miękka / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Through a case study in a Chicago public school, Means demonstrates that, despite the fragmentation of human security in low-income and racially segregated public schools, there exist positive social relations, knowledge, and desire for change that can be built upon to promote more secure and equitable democratic futures for young people.
Through a case study in a Chicago public school, Means demonstrates that, despite the fragmentation of human security in low-income and racially segre...
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201,72 zł |
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The History of Zero Tolerance in American Public Schooling
ISBN: 9781137366535 / Angielski / Miękka / 181 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Through a case study of the Los Angeles city school district from the 1950s through the 1970s, Judith Kafka explores the intersection of race, politics, and the bureaucratic organization of schooling. Kafka argues that control over discipline became increasingly centralized in the second half of the twentieth century in response to pressures exerted by teachers, parents, students, principals, and local politicians - often at different historical moments, and for different purposes. Kafka demonstrates that the racial inequities produced by today's school discipline policies were not...
Through a case study of the Los Angeles city school district from the 1950s through the 1970s, Judith Kafka explores the intersection of race, politic...
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221,90 zł |
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Expecting Excellence in Urban Schools: 7 Steps to an Engaging Classroom Practice
ISBN: 9781452257808 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A seven-step plan for really engaging our urban students Every day, thousands of students sit in our city classrooms, emotionally, intellectually, and behaviorally disengaged. Teachers have their success stories; still, the ability to create and sustain an engaging practice remains elusive. This important book offers new hope. Drawing on his more than twenty years of experience working with high-poverty, urban, minority students, Jelani Jabari delivers Seven cohesive steps for planning, delivering, and reflecting on captivating learning experiences Techniques for gathering critical...
A seven-step plan for really engaging our urban students Every day, thousands of students sit in our city classrooms, emotionally, intellectually, an...
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170,32 zł |
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Building Student Resilience, K-8: Strategies to Overcome Risk and Adversity
ISBN: 9781452258676 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. One of the hazards we face in our focus on test preparation and results-driven schooling is neglecting the needs of our most disenfranchised students. This important book was written to help counter this trend and offer new hope. If, as Gabe Simon suggests, we forge strong relationships and provide scaffolded supports, then we may just make school the transformative experience it should be. An experienced teacher and principal of a Title I school, Simon provides classroom practitioners, support team specialists, and all levels of schools leaders with numerous strategies for helping students...
One of the hazards we face in our focus on test preparation and results-driven schooling is neglecting the needs of our most disenfranchised students....
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121,64 zł |
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When Middle-Class Parents Choose Urban Schools: Class, Race, and the Challenge of Equity in Public Education
ISBN: 9780226120218 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In recent decades a growing number of middle-class parents have considered sending their children toand often end up becoming active inurban public schools. Their presence can bring long-needed material resources to such schools, but, as Linn Posey-Maddox shows in this study, it can also introduce new class and race tensions, and even exacerbate inequalities. Sensitively navigating the pros and cons of middle-class transformation, "When Middle-Class Parents Choose Urban Schools" asks whether it is possible for our urban public schools to have both financial security and equitable diversity....
In recent decades a growing number of middle-class parents have considered sending their children toand often end up becoming active inurban public sc...
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128,10 zł |
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