Schools of Hope

Despite a long tradition of sophisticated, creative materials synthesis among quantum materials researchers, a sense of broader community has been ...

Huge numbers of our students are caught in storms of trauma--whether stemming from abuse, homelessness, poverty, discrimination, violent neighborho...

Reducere. Discover how and why community-engaged teacher preparation is a powerful and vital approach to address an educational system that is historically d...

Reducere. "I'm convinced that Howard Gardner was right when he suggested that all leaders need chances to retreat to the mountains. I hope this book gives yo...

Reducere. DescriptionChanged Forever is the first study to gather a range of texts produced by Native Americans who, voluntarily or through compulsion, atten...

Reducere. Professional learning initiatives in schools come and go, and the constant cycling through programs can resemble fad diets--hype and hope followed ...

Reducere. Starting from the premise that children learn better when their learning community respects their families and cultures, this thought-provoking res...

Reducere. In Natural Allies, Soo Hong offers a paradigm shift in how we think about family engagement with schools. Hong challenges the conventional depictio...

DescriptionIn the summer of 1912 Hopi runner Louis Tewanima won silver in the 10, 000-meter race at the Stockholm Olympics. In that same year Tewan...

Reducere. Educators often invoke the term care to describe why they entered the field and what compels them to continue. This book argues that care, as typic...

Reducere. With more than four thousand entries and over one hundred illustrations, this encyclopedia offers a complete survey of the four major religious tra...

Reducere. DescriptionIn the United States, at least one in four youth experiences trauma severe enough to negatively affect their school success.* Give hope ...

DescriptionDuring times of rapid social and religious change, leadership rooted in tradition and committed to the future is the foundation upon whi...

Reducere. DescriptionOur world is currently undergoing major transformations, from climate change and politics to agriculture and economics. The world we hav...

Breakbeat Pedagogy provides a groundbreaking framework for the inclusion of hip-hop culture in schools.

Reducere. DescriptionMillions of Americans yearn for a lost sense of community, for the days when neighbors looked out for one another and families were stab...

An urgent plea for much needed reforms to legal education The period from 2008 to 2018 was a lost decade for American law schools. Employment resul...

Reducere. An extraordinary journey alongside America's new generation of Eagle Scouts, who are discovering their purpose and bringing the values of Scouting ...

Reducere. Jack Whyte has written a lyrical epic, retelling the myths behind the boy who would become the Man Who Would Be King--Arthur Pendragon. He has show...

There is the person who tells the story. This is the storyteller. And there is the person who listens to the story. This is the story friend. As a ...

Written by Debra Kidd, A Curriculum of Hope: As rich in humanity as in knowledge explores how good curriculum design can empower schools to build b...

Reducere. Rethinking Elementary Education collects the finest writing about elementary school life and learning from 25 years of Rethinking Schools magazine....

Reducere. Once known as the "Pottery Capital of the World, " East Liverpool boasted some 300 potteries in its heyday, along with many ancillary industries. W...

Reducere. Nestled in the heart of Wisconsin's renowned Northwoods and surrounded by the world's largest inland chain of lakes, Three Lakes has developed into...

Reducere. Mark Mathabane touched the hearts of millions with his sensational memoir, Kaffir Boy, . A book highly-praised by Oprah and President Clinton for i...

DescriptionIn our schools, hip-hop culture is the dominant culture among the students. In Youth Culture Power: A #HipHopEd Guide to Building Teache...

DescriptionEgyptian cities and villages abound with an enormous wealth of khatt, or calligraphic script, ranging from casual scrawls and scribbles ...

Reducere. Discover the David vs. Goliath rise of Catholic college basketball, from Villanova to Georgetown to Gonzaga, where small schools perennially shoot ...

Reducere. First time in paperback.In 1927, forty students about to enter the eighth grade arrived, along with their teacher, to open the doors to their small...

Alexander Baima graduated college with $80, 000 in student debt at the age of 23 from one of the top 25 business schools in America. After college ...

Reducere. In this expanded and updated edition, more than 50 articles show how to weave social justice issues throughout the mathematics curriculum, as well ...

Our Children and Future need more care and hope in this rapidly changing uncertain world, so families, educators and society must engage differentl...

Reducere. Systems Thinking has great power in solving complex problems that are not solvable using conventional reductionist thinking. It can help to explain...

DescriptionRelease the Music within. No struggle. No limits. Just play.A revolutionary new understanding of the mind is transforming the field of p...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Shamus Rahman KhanAs one of the most prestigious high schools in the nation, St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire, h...

Reducere. A fifteen-year experience of day-by-day, year-by-year, learning how to create an authentic Montessori education at home through elementary, middle,...

DescriptionEvery Year thousands of educators are accused of physical abuse. Some are guilty and are prosecuted, but hundreds who are innocent are f...

Reducere. In the first anthology of its kind, Robert Olen Butler and Phong Nguyen assemble an astounding collection of stories that cause readers to contempl...

Reducere. "This beautiful story is one that will not only help so many children but many adults too The message in here is beautiful and clear: You are alway...

Reducere. The three stories that follow mean to speak to the head and heart. They are the first in a series of stories Mark and Alexandra will produce in the...

Reducere. Bestselling author and modern-day prophet Tony Campolo believes that one of the best ways to tell the grand story of the gospel is to tell stories ...

The president of Southern Seminary reveals how secularism has infiltrated every aspect of society and how Christians, equipped with the gospel of J...

Reducere. DescriptionTeach students to ACE their responses with this collection of mini-lessons that guides them to utilize their own knowledge to construct ...

Reducere. No one would have known when Victor Marx was rubbing elbows with celebrities or running his lucrative martial arts schools or living in Hawaii that...

Reducere. Addressing the many unique academic challenges that face black males--from low self-esteem, absenteeism, fatherlessness, and gangs to not accepting...

What is your heart crying out for? Is it healing from despair, anxiety, feelings of unworthiness, anger, chronic illness, or not feeling that there...

Theological schools are currently facing a perfect storm of jeopardies that threatens their future prospects and even survivability. The squall is ...

DescriptionThis inspiring, heartfelt, and powerful memoir by a mother of a child with Down syndrome explores the incredible blessings and challenge...

Reducere. The Catholic Church is much more than the Roman Catholics. The Orthodox Church is more than the sects from Greece, Russia, Africa, and Syria. What ...

Reducere. Hollywood. Los Angeles. Tinsel Town. La La Land. The City of Dreams; groaning with wannabes and a few dazzling stars. How many of us have not dream...

Reducere. One educator's story detailing a cross-Canada run to inspire teachers and students to get outside and experience the beauty of the Canadian landsca...

The parable of the Prodigal Son speaks of the wayward son coming to his right mind while working among the pigs. Unfortunately, many people don't h...

Reducere. GET THE LOVE YOU WANT FROM THE GUY YOU WANT She walks into a room and heads turn. Conversations stop. Drinks spill. The man you've been trying to t...

Reducere. Several years ago, the power went out in my home, stranding my family in the dark with only one flashlight. When I held the flashlight under my bus...

Reducere. DescriptionAn accessible but incisive introduction to modern syntax and generative grammar, for conlangers and anyone interested in languages or li...

Reducere. The perfect accompaniment for any student, parent or educator involved in the International Baccalaureate. The book is broken down modularly, to pr...

Reducere. This riveting true story of courage, strength, and football at the height of racial tension in Birmingham, Alabama, inspired the motion picture Woo...

Reducere. Can a Catholic in good conscience unschool? Suzie Andres ably answers this question in the second edition of this unschooling classic-- and the ans...

DescriptionTo all who say our democracy is broken―riven by partisanship, undermined by extremism, corrupted by wealth―history offers hope. In nearl...

Reducere. DescriptionMastering Leadership: Shift the Drift and Change the World is a comprehensive, fresh, and exciting new interpretation of leading and the...

Reducere. DescriptionMeet the man against insanity. His laboratory? The sadly sinister wards of the 3, 000-bed Traverse City State Hospital. His apparatus? O...

Reducere. A story of little ballerinas with big dreams. Little ballerinas have big dreams. Dreams of pirouettes and grande jetes, dreams of attending the bes...

Reducere. DescriptionA GUIDE FOR PRE-DENTS, WRITTEN BY DENTISTS Each year, more than 11, 000 aspiring pre-dents apply for admission to US dental schools. It ...

Reducere. The president of Southern Seminary reveals how secularism has infiltrated every aspect of society and how Christians, equipped with the gospel of J...

Reducere. When Quaker Pastor Sam Gardner is asked by the ill Unitarian minister to oversee a wedding in his place, Sam naturally agrees. It's not until the c...

Reducere. More than one hundred authentic recipes center around Hopi staples of beans, corn, wheat, chilies, meat, gourds, and native greens and fruits.About...

Reducere. As one of the most prestigious high schools in the nation, St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire, has long been the exclusive domain of Ameri...

Reducere. As the mother of one of the children who died at Sandy Hook school in Newtown, Connecticut, in 2012, Alissa Parker had her world shattered by a mas...

DescriptionIf you have a child in school, you may have heard stories of long-dormant diseases suddenly reappearing--cases of measles, mumps, rubell...

Do you have a problem pooch? What do you do with a dog who attacks the telephone whenever it rings? Or one who chases imaginary rabbits down imagin...