Today's educators-pre- and in-service teachers and teacher educators serve increasing percentages of adolescents who have limited relationships to school. These young people are often our most diverse youth; they are frequently English Language Learners (ELLs) and immigrants, and they are too often part of multi-generational dropout and ......
The Squabble-free Way to Get Kids Off Their Devices
Get ready to reunite parent & child from all walks of life and make finding healthy screentime balance easy and fun. Time Tokens - the only screen time management system of it’s kind - was created to makeswitching off kids’ devices easy and enjoyable (yes, really!).
Can a robot be kind? Can you touch the wind? Is there more future than past?
Since publishing The Little Book of Thunks over a decade ago, Ian Gilbert's beguilingly simple-looking questions' have caused brain ache across the world in children, young people and the wider school community. Born out of ......
How to nurture young children's well-being and learning to reverse the erosion of childhood? Children's lives have been speeded up by commercialisation, 'adultification', and the government's 'nappy curriculum' which 'schoolifies' them and pushes quasi-formal learning too soon. Now, in twenty-three hard-hitting chapters, leading educators, ......
A Toolkit for Department Chairs is designed to give academic administrators the skills they need in order to do their jobs more effectively. Combining case studies, scenarios, practical advice, and problem solving activities, the book offers chairs a valuable resource for negotiating the real-life challenges they face as academic leaders. Many of ......
A Toolkit for Department Chairs is designed to give academic administrators the skills they need in order to do their jobs more effectively. Combining case studies, scenarios, practical advice, and problem solving activities, the book offers chairs a valuable resource for negotiating the real-life challenges they face as academic leaders. Many of ......
Helps teachers choose from an array of approaches and implement them effectively. This book provides a review of developed applications such as Lexiles, as well as traditional readability formulas and systems for beginning readers. It includes an appendix on two electronic book matching programs, 'Accelerated Reader' and 'Reading Counts'.
