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This new edition addresses sustainability and spirituality as the core of holistic learning, and the teaching activities provide context and processes for writing that encourage activating multiple intelligences. It also has a cross-disciplinary quality and could be used in a number of educational settings.

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The issue of symbolic clothing has always been prevalent in schools. This title looks at various incidents from France, England, Canada and the United States to examine how symbolic clothing has been addressed in education policy and practice, and by larger government policy.

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Systems Thinkers in Action: A Field Guide for Effective Change Leadership in Education will encourage and educate readers within the field and excite them about systemic thinking through examples and challenging ideas pertinent to education and its reform.

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This book is a straightforward, highly readable book about bullying in athletics.

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Take a Stand! (grades 9-12) helps teens develop critical thinking skills by examining debates on issues directly relevant to their lives (that you won't find in most classroom materials).

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After reading this book more women will gain the confidence necessary to apply for executive positions and feel safe to openly discuss discrepancies when they occur.

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After reading this book more women will gain the confidence necessary to apply for executive positions and feel safe to openly discuss discrepancies when they occur.

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Smith outlines how to overcome resistance to change, lead more effectively, demand accountability for performance, manage resources for the highest return, remain firm with tuition payers and donors when warranted, manage costs to help keep the price of an education contained, and much more.

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This text is designed to provide insights into the application of ideas and theories from psychotherapy and counselling to education in teaching. It is a response to the increasing pressure that is being placed on schools to produce results, and so to neglect pupils with special needs.

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Friedman asserts that it is the instruction students receive in the class that determines their potential much more than the structure of the educational system or the politics that govern the system.

Teaching students how to control outcomes is the thesis that permeates the book.

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Taking Flight to Literacy and Leadership provides a powerful model of 'what works' in schools. It shows superintendents, principals, and teachers how to integrate best practices in literacy, adult learning, and systems thinking, using concrete examples from authentic practice.

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In Australia's public schools, students are now routinely exposed to evangelism from very conservative Christian groups. Marion Maddox uncovers the surprising impact of these groups on once secular public schooling, and the ways in which governments have been persuaded to support their cause.

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This book breaks new ground on how policymakers and journalists can fairly assess charter school performance. The editors and authors show how good approaches to charter school assessment would also work for regular public schools, which is important because of the requirements of No Child Left Behind.

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A guide to leading the learning in schools that draws on theoretical principles and research. It draws on evidence obtained from interviews with effective teachers in primary and secondary schools in England and Wales to explore what leading the learning means in terms of pedagogy in the classroom.

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A practical, stress-reducing guide to help parents navigate the challenges of homework with their children - for success at school and beyond - from two experienced teachers.

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"Talent development is a phrase often used in reference to the education of gifted children. Recently, it has been presented by researchers to refer to a specific approach to the delivery of gifted education services.

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Talent Development in School helps educators utilize research-based curriculum and strategies to implement talent development in the classroom.

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With the vision that children can learn well and achieve excellence if provided with opportunity and challenge, Flack offers exciting ideas and strategies to identify and develop the unique talents found in each one.

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Shows how to use the power of story to teach children about our natural environment. A collection of tales from around the world, this book helps to convey key scientific concepts; and to instil in children such values as conservation, cooperation, sustainability, and empathy, encouraging them to become responsible stewards of the earth.