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 | Becoming a Critically Reflective Teacher (Jossey Bass Higher and Adult Education Series) By Stephen D. Brookfield | See this on Amazon Avg. Rating:  1996 Winner of the Cyril O. Houle World Award for Literature in Adult Education "[Brookfield] gently demystifies critically reflective learning and teaching with dozens of practical examples from the classroom in different scholarly fields. Lucid, wise, jargon-free, personal and fluently written. Required reading for educators of adults everywhere and for all faculty development programs."-- Jack Mezirow, emeritus professor of adult education, Teachers College, Columbia UniversityBuilding on the insights of his highly acclaimed earlier work, The Skillful Teacher, and ... (more)
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![]() | Entertaining an Elephant: A Novel about Learning & Letting Go By William McBride, William L. McBride | See this on Amazon Avg. Rating: First shelved by wabrown on August 24th, 2006
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 | How's It Going?: A Practical Guide to Conferring with Student Writers By Carl Anderson | See this on Amazon Avg. Rating:  How's It Going? is a practical book. Written in a conversational style, it's filled with lots of useful advice.
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 | Moral Leadership : Getting to the Heart of School Improvement (The Jossey-Bass Education Series) By Thomas J. Sergiovanni | See this on Amazon Avg. Rating: "A vision of what could (and probably should) be. . . . The reader may want to revisit some sections for further reflection."--Educational Leadership"An excellent book that offers much to the seasoned administrator and should be on the list of required reading for introductory administration classes."--NASSP Bulletin Moral Leadership shows how creating a new leadership practice--one with a moral dimension built around purpose, values, and beliefs--can transform a school from an organization to a community and inspire the ... (more)
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 | Writing without Teachers By Peter Elbow | See this on Amazon Avg. Rating: If Peter Elbow's Writing Without Teachers seems to have come into being at the same time as '70s encounter groups, that's because it did. First published in 1976, Writing Without Teachers advocates improving your writing via freewriting and the "teacherless writing class." Freewriting, according to Elbow, is a terrific way to get things onto the page that you never knew you had in you: "Never stop ... to wonder what word or thought to use, or to think about what you ... (more)
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 | The Power of Grammar : Unconventional Approaches to the Conventions of Language By Mary Ehrenworth, Vicki Vinton | See this on Amazon Avg. Rating: Grammar is the gatekeeper to a culture of power, yet it is also the power behind the startling beauty and robustness of the English language. In The Power of Grammar, Mary Ehrenworth and Vicki Vinton show you how these two notions of power can help your grammar instruction address the practical and aesthetic needs of your student writers.
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 | Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools By Jonathan Kozol | See this on Amazon Avg. Rating: National Book Award-winning author Jonathan Kozol presents his shocking account of the American educational system in this stunning New York Times bestseller, which has sold more than 250,000 hardcover copies.
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 | Lives on the Boundary : A Moving Account of the Struggles and Achievements of America's Educationally Underprepared By Mike Rose | See this on Amazon Avg. Rating: Remedial, illiterate, intellectually deficient—these are the stigmas that define America’s educationally underprepared. Having grown up poor and been labeled this way, nationally acclaimed educator and author Mike Rose takes us into classrooms and communities to reveal what really lies behind the labels and test scores. With rich detail, Rose demonstrates innovative methods to initiate "problem" students into the world of language, literature, and written expression. This book challenges educators, policymakers, and parents to re-examine ... (more)
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