<div> <p><strong>F<strong>ormerly a Sky Light publication.</strong><span> </span><br /></strong></p> <p>Project learning is an exciting, challenging, and memorable way of engaging students in active, authentic learning experiences. It immerses students in the process of creating, testing, polishing, and producing a project such as a biography or invention. This book offers step-by-step guidelines for nine different projects ranging from basic to advanced.</p> </div> <b>Features</b> <ul> <li>Authored - Sally Berman.</li> <li>Author Affiliation - Educational Consultant, Texas.</li> <li>Binding - Paperback.</li> <li>Pages - 176.</li> <li>Publication Date - 01/06/97.</li> <li>Primary Subject Code - Teaching Methods & Learning Styles - CF0.</li> <li>Item Weight - 18 oz.</li> <li>Copyright year - 1997.</li> </ul> <b>About The Author</b> <p><span><span><strong>Sally Berman</strong></span></span><span></span><span>specializes in teaching educators how to use practical strategies that expand student teamwork, cognition, meta cognition, and self-evaluation skills. She developed and tested many of her ideas during her 30 years of teaching science in a large Chicago-area high school. Berman regularly presents at workshops and conferences and has taught graduate courses for Sky Light Professional Development in conjunction with St. Xavier University and Cumberland University.</span></p>- SKU: CRWN3198
<p>Children and adolescents who enjoy healthy growth and development along six primary pathways are the students who learn well and achieve success in school and in life. But children from poorly functioning families and impoverished social networks too often find themselves without adequate preparation and support for the academic challenges that await them in kindergarten and the grades that follow. Believing that schools are uniquely situated to foster healthy development, renowned child psychiatrist Dr. James P. Comer and his colleagues at the Yale School Development Program (SDP) have dedicated 35 years to guiding students, schools, and educators toward academic success along the six developmental pathways of learning. Combining research; evidence-based best practices; essential tools for planning, data analysis, and assessment; and a generous collection of charts, tables, and graphics, Six Pathways to Healthy Child Development and Academic Success offers educators a comprehensive and effective framework for whole school reform. In 17 lively and informative chapters, Dr. Comer and his coauthors offer a complete guide to:</p> <ul> <li>Fostering healthy student growth and development along physical, cognitive, psychological, language, social, and ethical pathways.</li> <li>Comprehensive school planning to optimize opportunities for child development and learning.</li> <li>Creating a positive school climate in which all adults-teachers, parents, administrators, school staff, and community members-can help children grow and succeed.</li> <li>Ensuring continuous professional development and program improvement for the entire school community.</li> </ul> <b>Features</b> <ul> <li>Sub-Title - The Field Guide to Comer Schools in Action</li> <li>Edited - James P. Comer</li> <li>Author Affiliation - Yale Child Study Center, New Haven, CT</li> <li>Other Author- SKU: CRWN1059</li> </ul>
<p>While many working in the teaching profession cite intangible rewards as reasons for staying in the profession, concrete rewards such as salary, benefits, and working conditions are inextricably linked to attracting, developing, and retaining highly-qualified teachers. This timely text examines the fundamental link between teacher pay and teacher quality as well as the extent to which compensation can be aligned with student achievement. A range of existing compensation models are reviewed in order to provide a balanced, practical, research-based approach for developing a comprehensive, best-practice teacher compensation system. School administrators can use these synthesized, innovative findings to.</p> <ul> <li>Determine the most practical compensation model for achieving their school's objectives.</li> <li>Examine different pay options used across the country.</li> <li>Connect their school's compensation program to organizational goals.</li> <li>Discover how to attract and retain high-quality teachers.</li> </ul> <p>Advance student achievement and improve teacher retention by developing a deeper understanding of the connection between teacher pay and teacher quality.</p> <b>Features</b> <ul> <li>Sub-Title - Attracting, Developing, and Retaining the Best Teachers</li> <li>Authored - James H. Stronge</li> <li>Author Affiliation - College of William and Mary</li> <li>Other Author's - Christopher R. Gareis</li> <li>Binding - Hardcoverk</li> <li>Pages - 200</li> <li>Publication Date - 05-Apr-06</li> <li>Language - English</li> <li>Primary Subject Code - Superintendents & District Administration - CAB</li> <li>Copyright Year - 2006</li> <li>Item Weight - 21 oz.</li> </ul> <b>About the Author</b> <p>James H. Stronge is the Heritage Professor in the Educational Policy, Planning, and Leadership Area at the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia. His research interests i- SKU: CRWN1129</p>
Choosing locally grown organic food is a sustainable living trend that's taken hold throughout North America. Celebrated farming expert Eliot Coleman helped start this movement with "The New Organic Grower" published 20 years ago. He continues to lead the way, pushing the limits of the harvest season while working his world-renowned organic farm in Harborside, Maine. Now, with his long-awaited new book, "The Winter Harvest Handbook," anyone can have a ccess to his hard-won experience. Gardeners and farmers can use the innovative, highly su ccessful methods Coleman describes in this comprehensive handbook to raise crops throughout the coldest of winters. Building on the techniques that hundreds of thousands of farmers and gardeners adopted from "The New Organic Grower" and "Four-Season Harvest," this new book focuses on growing produce of unparalleled freshness and quality in customized unheated or, in some cases, minimally heated, movable plastic greenhouses. Coleman offers clear, concise details on greenhouse construction and maintenance, planting schedules, crop management, harvesting practices, and even marketing methods in this complete, meticulous, and illustrated guide. Readers have a ccess to all the techniques that have proven to produce higher-quality crops on Coleman's own farm. His painstaking research and experimentation with more than 30 different crops will be valuable to small farmers, homesteaders, and experienced home gardeners.
The powerful bond between humans and dogs is one that's uniquely cherished. Loyal, obedient, and affectionate, they are truly "man's best friend". But do dogs love us the way we love them, Emory University neuroscientist Gregory Berns had spent decades using MRI imaging technology to study how the human brain works, but a different question still nagged at him: "What is my dog thinking", After his family adopted Callie, a shy, skinny terrier mix, Berns decided that there was only one way to answer that question use an MRI machine to scan the dog's brain. His colleagues dismissed the idea. Everyone knew that dogs needed to be restrained or sedated for MRI scans. But if the military could train dogs to operate calmly in some of the most challenging environments, surely there must be a way to train dogs to sit in an MRI scanner. With this radical conviction, Berns and his dog would embark on a remarkable journey and be the first to glimpse the inner workings of the canine brain. Berns's research offers surprising results on how dogs empathize with human emotions, how they love us, and why dogs and humans share one of the most remarkable friendships in the animal kingdom. "How Dogs Love Us" answers the age-old question of dog lovers everywhere and offers profound new evidence that dogs should be treated as we would treat our best human friends: with love, respect, and appreciation for their social and emotional intelligence.