Meier, Deborah

Summary: "A challenge to narrow, profit-driven conceptions of school success and an argument for protecting public education to ensure that all students become competent citizens in a vibrant democracy MacArthur award-winning educator, reformer, and author Deborah Meier draws on her fifty-plus years of experience in education to argue that the purpose of universal education is to provide young people...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 371 MEI

Summary: This series covers history from 3500 B.C. to the 1780's. This course analyzes civilizations by looking at their geographic and political environments, their technologies, economies, social institutions, and cultural achievements. Students will look at history from new perspectives, come to understand the connections between human beings despite time and distance, and appreciate the lasting...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: The Teaching Company 1995

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3 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: DVD 909 WOR PART 1
Call number: DVD 909 WOR PART 2
Call number: DVD 909 WOR PART 3

Summary: "The goal of the Engineering & Design Module is to teach kids to recognize challenges, turn them into opportunities, and identify scalable solutions to solve them. Topics in this module include puzzles, invention, construction, machines, architecture, curiosity. STEAM Academy offers an interdisciplinary approach that weaves together the science, technology, engineering, art, and math skills...

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Products, LLC 2023

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1 available in JPT Launchpad, Call number: J LAUNCHPAD ENG

Summary: Encourages the development of number concepts, from basic counting to multiplication and division, through manipulation of cubes of 10 different colors, which can be snapped together.

Format: three dimensional object

Publisher / Publication Date: Didax, Inc. 2010

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Juvenile Cares Kits, Call number: CARES KIT 14

Format: three dimensional object

Publisher / Publication Date: 0000

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1 available in Juvenile Parent-Teacher Collection, Call number: Teach Game Money