$65.00 (Paperback book / Sage / ISBN:9781412939409)
Uncovering Teacher Leadership
Richard Ackerman and Sarah Mackenzie have gathered the top names in the field of teacher leadership into one volume. Full of classic essays and contemporary gems, this handbook discusses and explores teacher leadership in insightful and surprising ways. The voices of teacher leaders themselves are central to the book. Ackerman and Mackenzie include stories and lessons from teacher leaders in the field fully engaged with this rewarding, yet difficult, work. Rather than providing pat answers or step-by-step directions, this compendium surfaces issues, exposes underlying ideas, provides different perspectives, and generates even more questions for creative exploration.
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Teaching Boys Developing Classroom Practices That Work
$35.00 (Paperback book / Allen & Unwin )
Boys' education continues to be a focus of public controversy and anxiety among teachers. Concern about boys general educational under-achievement and the impact this under-achievement has on the boys themselves, as well... More »
Uncovering Teacher Leadership
$65.00 (Paperback book / Sage )
Richard Ackerman and Sarah Mackenzie have gathered the top names in the field of teacher leadership into one volume. Full of classic essays and contemporary gems, this handbook discusses and explores teacher leadership i... More »
What Video Games Have To Teach Us About Learning And Literacy
$31.00 (Paperback book / Palgrave )
A controversial look at the positive things that can be learned from video games by a well known professor of education.
James Paul Gee begins his new book with: 'I want to talk about video games (yes, even violent video... More »
Blackboard And The Bottom Line Wy Schools Cant Be Businesses
$28.95 (Paperback book / Harvard Univ Pr )
In this provocative new book, Larry Cuban, one of the most distinguished scholars in education, takes aim at the alluring cliche that schools should be more businesslike, and shows that in its long history in business-mi... More »
Teachers Who Change Lives
$26.95 (Paperback book / Melb Univ Press )
Teachers Who Change Livesconcerns outstanding teachers, and the qualities that enable them to help change students lives for the better. It focuses on learning and teaching as a relationship. The book is based on intervi... More »
Enriching The Brain How To Maximize Every Learners Potential
$25.95 (Paperback book / Jossey Bass )
Eric Jensen, a leading expert in the translation of brain research into education, argues in Enriching the Brain that we greatly underestimate students' achievement capacity. Drawing from a wide range of neuroscience res... More »