The Godmother of Silicon Valley, legendary teacher, and mother of a Super Family shares her tried-and-tested methods for raising happy, healthy, successful children using Trust, Respect, Independence, Collaboration, and Kindness: TRICK.
Esther Wojcicki—"Woj" to her many friends and admirers—is famous for three things: teaching a high school class that has changed the lives of thousands of kids, inspiring Silicon Valley...

In Kelly Gallagher's high school classroom in Anaheim, California, students are not only learning to comprehend difficult novels and texts, they are developing the skills and behaviors of lifelong readers. Drawing from his books Reading Reasons and Deeper Reading, Kelly's new video set brings effective reading strategies to life. Presenting examples of both small- and whole-group discussions, Building Adolescent Readers demonstrates how to engage...

Activities, exercises, and questions invite teens to go deeper into the stories and issues of the updated edition of The Struggle to Be Strong. Designed for use with the anthology The Struggle to Be Strong, this leader's guide explains how to use the stories in the student book to build teens' resiliency. Activities, exercises, role plays, and questions about the issues in The Struggle to Be Strong help students go deeper into the stories, reflect...

Attending boarding school is a serious commitment in many realms, whether emotional, financial, academic, or otherwise. With that in mind, it is important to understand what boarding school is all about. This valuable resource is full of insights from students who attend or recently graduated from a boarding school. The Boarding School Survival Guide provides a variety of perspectives that help both prospective students and parents decide if boarding...

En las últimas décadas, la tendencia internacional de las políticas educativas estuvo orientada a generar mejores condiciones para garantizar el derecho a la educación de los sectores sociales más afectados por las desigualdades sociales y educativas. La ampliación de la obligatoriedad de la educación secundaria colocó a las escuelas en situación de poner en acción (enacted) múltiples y diversas iniciativas que en formato de planes, programas...

Great Men at Bad Moments centres on the indignities and brutalities inflicted on young pupils during the reigns of some twenty-five headmasters, many of them Church of England clergymen. A major source for the book is the revelations of individual pupils who suffered under the cruel regimes. Many of these boys were later to achieve literary and other fame. So, for example, Leigh Hunt and Coleridge remember the unbridled behaviour of their headmaster,...

Existe una preocupación internacional por la formación del profesorado de educación Secundaria. Justifican esa inquietud la particular responsabilidad de este nivel educativo para el futuro de sus estudiantes, el aumento masivo de la escolarización y las distintas características y necesidades específicas de apoyo educativo del alumnado, que impregna las aulas de diversidad y exige a los docentes una especial atención a esa fisonomía social...

En el cruce de los estudios sobre juventud e investigación educativa, esta obra, que no desconoce la complejidad del mundo adolescente, contribuye a la comprensión de quiénes y cómo son esos actores desconocidos que son los estudiantes de secundaria

Designed for students in grades six to nine, this curriculum offers more than 30 innovative class sessions that address diversity (racial, ethnic, and sexual) and violence issues. Each session contains a warm-up exercise, theme information, value clarification, and an experience or activity. Journal writing, critical thinking about history textbooks, role-playing, storytelling, poetry/rap, photographs, illustrations, tables, and whole-school research...