active learning

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Kids deserve it!

pushing boundaries and challenging conventional thinking
2016
In Kids Deserve It!, Todd and Adam encourage you to think big and make learning fun and meaningful for students. While you're at it, you just might rediscover why you became an educator in the first place. Learn why you should be calling parents to praise your students (and employees). Discover ways to promote family interaction and improve relationships for kids at school and at home. Be inspired to take risks, shake up the status quo, and be a champion for your students. Offers strategies for making learning fun and meaningful through promotion of family interaction, taking risks, being a champion for students, and more.

Nine thousand straws

teaching thinking through open-inquiry learning
2008
Contains hands-on projects and "focus-theme" discussions that motivates students through open-inquiry learning.

Know can do!

put your know-how into action
2007
Presents a practical guide for learning more effectively and actually putting that knowledge into use.

"It's our world too"

socially responsive learners in middle school language arts
2002

85 engaging movement activities

2002
Presents eighty-five movement activities for the kindergarten through sixth-grade classroom, and includes a music CD.

All means all

what is it about me you can't teach?
2005
"To close the achievement gap, all educators must understand that all students have the right to learn at high levels. Through the five E's of education: Exposure, Experience, Expectations, Enduring Understandings, and Enthusiasm, students are not left asking, 'What is it about me you can't teach?'" (enclosed flyer).

Adventure in the classroom

using adventure to strengthen learning and build a community of life-long learners
1996
Offers teachers, curriculum developers, and administrators an overview of the basic concepts of Adventure Education and explains how the method can be used to engage learners and improve classroom experiences.

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