Summary: A former award-winning middle school science teacher provides tips on study skills for high school students to improve their academic achievement. Parent participation is also discussed.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 371.4 HOWThorpe, Helen
Summary: Follows the lives of twenty-two immigrant teenagers from nations devastated by drought or famine or war, over the course of their first school year in America. The talented and endlessly resourceful Denver South High School teacher Mr. Eddie Williams welcomes these students, who speak fourteen different languages but no English and are completely unfamiliar with American culture, to his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 373 THOMattson, Kristen
Summary: "For years, much of the available curricula for teaching digital citizenship focused on "don'ts." Don't share addresses or phone numbers. Don't give out passwords. Don't bully other students. But the conversation then shifted and had many asking, "Why aren't we teaching kids the power of social media?" Next, digital citizenship curriculum moved toward teaching students how to positively brand...
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Publisher / Publication Date: International Society for Technology in Education 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 302.3 MATQuinn, Patricia O.
Summary: Provides advice for teens with ADHD and learning disabilities on making the transition to college.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Magination Press 2011
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 378 QUISykes, Charles J.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 373.73 SYKTavenner, Diane
Summary: "Diane Tavenner, founder of Summit Public Schools, offers a blueprint for a better way to educate our children, based on the revolutionary lessons, insights, and methodology she and her faculty developed over 15 years at their famously successful charterschools in California and Washington, which she is now introducing to public school systems across the country that Summit is partnering with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Currency 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 371.39 TAVFishman, Elly
Summary: "A year in the life of a Chicago high school that has one of the highest proportions of refugees of any school in the nation"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 370.86 FISCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 370.86 FISHart, Melissa
Summary: "Needed now more than ever: a guide that includes 500 diverse contemporary fiction and memoir recommendations for preteens and teens with the goal of inspiring greater empathy for themselves, their peers, and the world around them. As young people are diagnosed with anxiety and depression in increasing numbers, or dealing with other issues that can isolate them from family and friends-such as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sasquatch Books 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Parent-Teacher Collection, Call number: JPT 152.4 HARKaufman, Bel.
Summary: A young high school teacher relates the frustrations and challenges of teaching through fictitious memos, letters, papers, and student comments.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperPerennial 1991
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KAUSmith, Jay M.
Summary: "Examines athletic-academic corruption at UNC-Chapel Hill and in NCAA athletics"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Potomac Books, an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796 SMISummary: In 1957, Little Rock Central became a symbol of the struggles and hopes of the Civil Rights Movement. African-American students were not allowed into the building. An eye-opening look at racial equality, education, and class at the high school today.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Home Box Office 2007
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC LITGrossberg, Blythe N.
Summary: This book provides high school students with Asperger s strategies that they can use to help themselves feel more comfortable in school, find friends and get along with peers, work productively with their teachers, and move toward greater independence.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Magination Press 2015
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 373 GROZeigler Dendy, Chris A.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Woodbine House 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 371.9263 ZEIBedford, Deborah.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2004
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BEDRyan, Margaret
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Publisher / Publication Date: Franklin Watts 2006
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Summary: " ... Draws out the philosophy that lies behind each story in Homer's epic tale to introduce children not only to the exciting fables of Odysseus, but also to that other great Greek tradition, philosophy. Explore with Odysseus the value of happiness, non-existent entities, moral dilemmas, the philosophy of prophecy, and the nature of love ..." -- back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Continuum International Pub. Group 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 372.67 WORSchmidt, Stanley F. (Stanley Fredric)
Summary: Financial choices can make a big difference in how comfortable your life is. Topics often not taught in schools or in homes, three reasons to use a credit card, the ultimate use of money, the five places to invest, how to retire in 24 years, and five suggestions for choosing a good spouse. PLUS you'll learn about insurance, taxes, personal habits that will help make you successful, real estate,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Polka Dot Publishing 2015