Mindsets and Moves applies important research on effective instruction and motivation to infuse today's reading classrooms with a fresh breath of student independence.

This book shows how to use technology to address the needs of students with learning disabilities through differentiation and universal design for learning.

Patty McGee helps teachers transform student writers by demonstrating what to do to build tone, trust, motivation, and choice into daily lessons, conferences, and revision suggestions.

This book is a contemporary analysis of children’s music education, combining theoretical insight with practical application. It examines how children engage with, and think about, music and how an understanding of this can empower rich approaches to teaching and learning. Key topics include: an overview of music education as a field of study, musical imagination in thought and practice, musical worlds created with, and for, children and a range of perspectives on musicality and musical kno...

A manual to teach students the science and reality of climate change, while empowering them to take action in their own communities.

This book scaffolds teachers as they learn to develop effective text dependent questions across ELA, science, and social studies/history with the goal of assisting students to read closely and comprehend deeply.

This title is designed to institutionalize a "common engagement literacy" for schools and districts to use in creating a culture of "passionate learners."

This book provides elementary school teachers with strategies to unleash the learning superpowers of students that foster inquiry-based, student-driven classrooms.

While most books focus on transition from secondary education to the immediate future (college or initial employment), this book addresses adulthood from a developmental perspective that includes educational, vocational, social, interpersonal, and emotional dimensions throughout the lifespan.

De ouderenzorg staat onder toenemende maatschappelijke en politieke druk. Veranderingen binnen de zorg zijn dan ook onontkoombaar. Van zorgorganisaties wordt verwacht dat men de kwaliteit van de zorg weet te waarborgen. Heldere communicatie en duidelijke afspraken naar cliënt en diens familie, betreffende de geboden zorg, zijn een absolute voorwaarde voor de persoonlijke beleving van deze waarborging.In dit boek wordt het proces - Van hard werken naar bewust werken - ontvouwd dat organisatie...