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The peaceful farm life of a teenage girl in Germany is abruptly upended when WWII comes knocking at her family's door. One month before her sixteenth birthday, Mildred "Mickchen" Schindler and her family are captured by Russian Soldiers. Having already survived life in Hitler's Nazi Germany, they now face the terror of a new enemy--Stalin's Red Army. Driven from their home, Mildred and her family become refugees along with a sad, slow-moving caravan...
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Textbook designed to be the first course of middle school and walks students through the transition from elementary to middle school sciences. This General Science course gives students an understanding of the world that surrounds them so they can appreciate the real-world relevance of scientific inquiry and the beauty of Creation.--Publisher
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Bel Kaufman's Up the Down Staircase is one of the best-loved novels of our time. It has been translated into sixteen languages, made into a prizewinning motion picture, and staged as a play at high schools all over the United States; its very title has become part of the American idiom.Never before has a novel so compellingly laid bare the inner workings of a metropolitan high school. Up the Down Staircase is the funny and touching story of a committed,...
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Activities, exercises, and questions invite teens to go deeper into the stories and issues of the updated edition of The Struggle to Be Strong.
Designed for use with the anthology The Struggle to Be Strong, this leader's guide explains how to use the stories in the student book to build teens' resiliency. Activities, exercises, role plays, and questions about the issues in The Struggle to Be Strong help students go deeper into the stories, reflect...
5) Building Everyday Leadership in All Teens: Promoting Attitudes and Actions for Respect and Success
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Every teen can be a leader. That's because leadership is not just about taking the lead in big ways, but in everyday small things, too. The 21 sessions in this youth leadership curriculum guide teens to explore ethical decision-making, team-building, what it means to be a leader, how to work with others, risk-taking, communication, creative thinking, and more. Choose the sessions that seem best for your class or group, or explore leadership skills...
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Here are two classics of moral philosophy from one of the most revered Christian voices of our time. In The Abolition of Man, C.S. Lewis reflects on society and nature and the challenges of how best to educate our children. He describes what public education should be and how far from this standard modern education has fallen. Lewis eloquently argues that we need as a society to underpin reading and writing lessons with moral education. In The Great...
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Guide to the unique and often confusing New York City High School Admissions Process. The author uses a Q and A format to explain the complexities of applying to New York City High Schools. The book covers such topics as testing, touring, the selection process helps parents navigate through the maze of options.
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The I-Search process differs from traditional research in that it focuses as much on the process as the product of research. I-Search requires the researcher to identify what he or she already knows about the topic, what questions he or she would like answered, what knowledge others hold on the topic, and how that new knowledge has enriched and changed his or her understanding of the topic.
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This book is the story about the best-kept secret in Leicester: New College, a secondary school and sixth form college located in west Leicester. The past still haunts the reputation of New College, which was labelled the worst school in the country in 2005.
Today New College is an exceptional educational establishment where its values are integral to everything on offer for students and staff. From once having failed to provide a good education to...
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En las últimas décadas, la tendencia internacional de las políticas educativas estuvo orientada a generar mejores condiciones para garantizar el derecho a la educación de los sectores sociales más afectados por las desigualdades sociales y educativas. La ampliación de la obligatoriedad de la educación secundaria colocó a las escuelas en situación de poner en acción (enacted) múltiples y diversas iniciativas que en formato de planes, programas...
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Attending boarding school is a serious commitment in many realms, whether emotional, financial, academic, or otherwise. With that in mind, it is important to understand what boarding school is all about. This valuable resource is full of insights from students who attend or recently graduated from a boarding school. The Boarding School Survival Guide provides a variety of perspectives that help both prospective students and parents decide if boarding...
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Décryptez Hygiène de l'assassin d'Amélie Nothomb avec l'analyse du PetitLitteraire.fr!
Que faut-il retenir d'Hygiène de l'assassin, le best-seller de la littérature belge contemporaine? Retrouvez tout ce que vous devez savoir sur cette œuvre dans une fiche de lecture complète et détaillée.
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• Une présentation des personnages principaux tels que Prétextat Tach, Nina,...
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Existe una preocupación internacional por la formación del profesorado de educación Secundaria. Justifican esa inquietud la particular responsabilidad de este nivel educativo para el futuro de sus estudiantes, el aumento masivo de la escolarización y las distintas características y necesidades específicas de apoyo educativo del alumnado, que impregna las aulas de diversidad y exige a los docentes una especial atención a esa fisonomía social...
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With foreword by Jason Ohler. Despite technological advancements, most secondary schools still function on ideas that are more than 100 years old. Learning Without Classrooms outlines new guidelines for how schools must operate to remain relevant and effective as we move further into the 21st century. Making a persuasive argument for moving beyond the long-established idea of operating schools with traditional classroom instruction to a personalized...
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Days of Respect offers specific strategies for creating a multiday school wide event that brings together young people, teachers, parents, administrators, and the community to build respect, promote integrity, and stop the violence. Twenty-one reproducible handouts facilitate all phases of the event: presenting the idea to parents and administrators, conducting planning meetings, staging the event, and establishing ongoing campaigns to reduce violence....
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The Absence Addiction Program is a proven platform for student success. The educational principles that underpin this book assists the success of a diverse student population that is the face of America.
The Absence Addiction Program outcomes demonstrates that all children can succeed and attain the highest levels of their potential regardless of economics, zip codes, or the range of ethnicity and culture that is America.
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En la presente obra, los autores socializan su extensa experiencia en el campo de la investigación educativa. Ambos de manera conjunta han estado al frente de los programas de investigación llevados a cabo durante los últimos quince años en la innovación pedagógica del Instituto Alberto Merani e independientemente han dirigido programas de investigación en diversas Universidades.
El libro expone los principios y fundamentos teóricos de las...
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Los discursos sobre las tecnologías nos hablan de la urgencia para que tengan un lugar en la enseñanza y en las aulas, no obstante, pese a reconocer su importancia, este llamado no se suele acompañar de la apertura para conversar entre colegas sobre qué hacer y cómo planear la enseñanza.
En este trabajo se presenta lo que hace un grupo de profesores de colegios oficiales, en el municipio de Yumbo y en Cali, para enseñar a leer cuentos policiacos...
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Are you a freshman in high school? Are you a current student in high school and you need help to succeed? Are you a student who makes good grades but are clueless about what is next after high school? Are you a student who is on the right track but unsure about your options after high school? If you answered yes to any of these questions, THIS BOOK is for YOU!
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