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Summary: Taking Flight provides the essential information students with disabilities will need to be successful in college.Rather than just focusing on the academic skills needed in college, Taking Flight addresses college as a system that needs to be mastered and the strategies and self-awareness needed to be successful.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Morgan James Publishing 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 378 LARWillingham, Daniel T.
Summary: "Written by a cognitive psychologist who has spent decades studying low we learn, OUTSMART YOUR BRAIN is the definitive guide to help students master the skills of understanding material and retaining information. In clear, accessible prose, Dan Willingham lays out the techniques necessary for students at any stage to succeed and thrive when learning, studying, and taking exams. When studying,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 370.15 WILCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 370.15 WILLang, James M.
Summary: "A decade ago, James Lang banned cell phones in his classroom. Frustrated by how easily they could sidetrack his students, Lang sought out a distraction-free environment, hoping it would help his students pay attention to his lessons. But after just a few years, Lang gave in. Not only was his no-cellphones policy ineffective (even his best students ignored it), he realized that he, like many of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 370.15 LANTyre, Peg.
Summary: From the moment they step into the classroom, boys begin to struggle. By eighth grade huge numbers are reading below basic level. Perhaps most alarmingly, boys now account for less than 43 percent of those enrolled in college, and the gap widens every semester! The growing gender imbalance in education portends massive shifts for the next generation: how much they make and whom they marry....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 371.821 TYRSummary: About Los Angeles elementary school teacher and winner of the American Teacher Award, Rafe Esquith, who teaches his students to understand and perform Shakespeare as a motivational teaching tool and unique method of education.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Docurama 2006
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC HOBMiller, Donalyn.
Summary: "Explores whether or not we are truly instilling lifelong reading habits in our students and provides practical strategies for teaching 'wild' reading. Based on survey responses from over 900 adult readers and classroom feedback, [the book] offers ... advice and strategies on how to develop, encourage, and assess key lifelong reading habits, including dedicating time for reading, planning for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 372.4 MILCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Parent-Teacher Collection, Call number: JPT 372.4 MILWhitmire, Richard.
Summary: Looks at the downward slide of the academic achievement of boys, offering analysis of the reasons for the decline and strategies to promote literacy and academic success.
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Publisher / Publication Date: American Management Association 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 370.154 WHILitwin, Eric
Summary: Eric Litwin and Gina Pepin provide practical tools and strategies to transform your classroom into a reading playgrounda space in which children read along to, sing to, dance to, and celebrate words and texts. A space in which they experience the power of joyful reading.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2020
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Summary: Makes an impassioned defense of teaching and explains how dedicated teachers are and why they should be given better salaries.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 371.1 MALBrock, Annie
Summary: The psychology of mindset continues to be the hottest topic of discussion among educators everywhere. Studies show growth mindset results in higher engagement, better test scores, and all-around greater student success. In this follow-up to widely praised The Growth Mindset Coach, education professionals Annie Brock and Heather Hundley show how to take mindset to the next level with further...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ulysses Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 370 BROGlasser, William
Summary: Denouncing conventional coercive teaching methods as counterproductive, an education expert advocates a less adversarial method.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperPerennial 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 371.2 GLAWagner, Tony
Summary: "One of the world's top experts on education delivers an uplifting memoir on his own personal failures and successes as he sought to become a good learner and teacher. Tony Wagner is an eminent education specialist: he's taught at Harvard and MIT; done significant work for the Gates Foundation; and speaks across the country and all over the world. But before he found his success, Tony was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WAGNER, TONY WAGGlasser, William
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperPerennial 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 371.1 GLAJannot, Jeannine
Summary: Drawing on her over 25 years' experience as a school psychologist, educator and student coach, the author identifies the skill deficits and counterproductive behaviors of disintegrating students and provides a complete toolbox of techniques and strategiesto combat them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Citadel Press, Kensington Publishing Corp. 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 370.15 JANMiller, Donalyn.
Summary: Known for her popular blog, "The Book Whisperer," Donalyn Miller says she has yet to meet a child she couldn't turn into a reader. No matter how far behind Miller's students might be when they reach her 6th grade classroom, they end up reading an average of 40 to 50 books a year. She shares her teaching methods and includes a dynamite list of recommended "kid lit" that helps parents and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jossey-Bass 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 372.6 MILStixrud, William R.
Summary: A few years ago, Bill Stixrud and Ned Johnson started noticing the same problem from different angles: Even high-performing kids were coming to them acutely stressed and lacking motivation. Many complained they had no control over their lives. Some stumbled in high school or hit college and unraveled. Bill is a clinical neuropsychologist who helps kids gripped by anxiety or struggling to learn....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155 STI1 available in Juvenile Parent-Teacher Collection, Call number: JPT 155.4 STI