learning and scholarship

A guide to lesson planning by way of "lesson imaging" for educators that features classroom examples, templates, and tips.

Provides a guide for teachers to shift the dynamic of the classroom from teaching to learning, based on observations from 17,000 classroom visits.

Provides guidance for teachers to energize and engage their students to become active participants in their own learning.

Explores the impact the high-stakes testing movement and the race to wireless classrooms have had on preschoolers, discussing how educational reforms are stunting children's intellects, block in brain development, and fueling mental illness.

"Illustrates...practical, authentic, research-based ways to engage and guide children aged 3-8 years in active inquiry"--Back cover.

"Offers guidance and resources to help teachers leverage the Common Core instructional shifts in literacy to create more empowered and literate students"--Page 8.

"Demonstrates the advantages a blended [learning] model has over traditional instruction when technology is used to engage students both inside the classroom and online"--Back cover.

"Demonstrates exactly how to integrate and implement Guided Inquiry Design (GID) theory into practice. Answers the needs of teachers and librarians who are seeking actual lesson plans using the GID concepts specifically at the 6th-8th grade levels"--Provided by publisher.

Provides advice and lessons to engage middle school students and encourage collaboration, self-awareness, and compassion in the middle school classroom.