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  • Trophy Education: How America's Obsession with Sports is Crippling Our Students and What to Do About It

    by Stephen Melville, Devon Melville ...
    Trophy Education examines a growing contradiction in American education: while national academic indicators such as NAEP and ACT scores have steadily declined, school systems increasingly celebrate athletic success as a central measure of institutional pride. Academic improvement and progress are framed with numbers and letters that are palatable, not transparent, to the public. The art of ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Disrupting Class, Expanded Edition: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns

    by Clayton Christensen, Curtis W. Johnson, Michael B. Horn ...
    Clay Christensen's groundbreaking bestselling work in education now updated and expanded, including a new chapter on Christensen's seminal "Jobs to Be Done" theory applied to education."Provocatively titled, Disrupting Class is just what America's K-12 education system needs--a well thought-through proposal for using technology to better serve students and bring our schools into the 21st Century. ... Read more

    $29.69 CAD

  • Thinking Like a Lawyer

    A Framework for Teaching Critical Thinking to All Students

    by Colin Seale ...
    Critical thinking is the essential tool for ensuring that students fulfill their promise. But, in reality, critical thinking is still a luxury good, and students with the greatest potential are too often challenged the least. This best-selling book:Introduces a powerful but practical framework to close the critical thinking gapGives teachers the tools and knowledge to teach critical thinking to ... Read more

    $42.59 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns

    by Curtis W. Johnson, Michael B. Horn, Clayton M. Christensen ...
    Selected as one of the "Best Books on Innovation, 2008" by BusinessWeek magazineNamed the "Best Human-Capital Book of 2008" by Strategy + Business magazineA crash course in the business of learning-from the bestselling author of The Innovator's Dilemma and The Innovator's Solution…"Provocatively titled, Disrupting Class is just what America's K-12 education system... ... Read more

    $32.69 CAD

  • Perfect Phrases for Classroom Teachers : Hundreds of Ready-to-Use Phrases for Parent-Teacher Conferences, Report Cards, IEPs and Other School: Hundreds of Ready-to-Use Phrases for Parent-Teacher Conferences, Report Cards, IEPs and Other School

    Hundreds of Ready-to-Use Phrases for Parent-Teacher Conferences, Report Cards, IEPs and Other School

    by Christine Canning Wilson ...
    Series series Perfect Phrases Series
    Find the right words for report cards, parent-teacher conferences, and moreWritten for teachers grades K through 12, Perfect Phrases for Classroom Teachers helps you find the right words that will communicate a student’s progress effectively and reveal his or her weaknesses without sounding negative. This book provides lists of words and phrases that convey difficult messages tactfully and with ... Read more

    $19.79 CAD

  • What School Could Be

    Insights and Inspiration from Teachers across America

    by Ted Dintersmith ...
    An inspiring account of ordinary teachers who are doing extraordinary things that could transform educationWhat School Could Be offers an inspiring vision of what our teachers and students can accomplish if trusted with the challenge of developing the skills and ways of thinking needed to thrive in a world of dizzying technological change.Innovation expert Ted Dintersmith took an unprecedented ... Read more

    $27.49 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Test

    Why Our Schools are Obsessed with Standardized Testing–But You Don't Have to Be

    by Anya Kamenetz ...
    "[The anti-testing] movement now has a guidebook. . . . Kamenetz shows how fundamentally American it would be to move toward a more holistic system." -- New York Times Book ReviewThe Test is an essential and critically acclaimed book for any parent confounded by our national obsession with standardized testing. It recounts the shocking history and tempestuous politics of testing and borrows ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • The Good School

    How Smart Parents Get Their Kids the Education They Deserve

    by Peg Tyre ...
    Award-winning education journalist Peg Tyre mines up-to-the-minute research to equip parents with the tools and knowledge necessary to get their children the best education possibleWe all know that the quality of education served up to our children in U.S. schools ranges from outstanding to shockingly inadequate. How can parents tell the difference? And how do they make sure their kids get what's ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Left Brain, Right Stuff

    How Leaders Make Winning Decisions

    by Phil Rosenzweig ...
    Left Brain, Right Stuff takes up where other books about decision making leave off. For many routine choices, from shopping to investing, we can make good decisions simply by avoiding common errors, such as searching only for confirming information or avoiding the hindsight bias. But as Phil Rosenzweig shows, for many of the most important, more complex situations we face -- in business, sports, ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • We Are Generation Z

    How Identity, Attitudes, and Perspectives Are Shaping Our Future

    by Vivek Pandit ...
    A young author shares an insider's perspective on what it means to be Generation Z—and what Generation Z means for the world.Born at the turn of the millennium, the members of Generation Z are no strangers to today's fast-paced, hyperconnected world. They were born in the Digital Age. They grew up online. Their identities, attitudes, and perspectives have all been uniquely integrated with ... Read more

    $9.89 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Testing Charade

    Pretending to Make Schools Better

    by Daniel Koretz ...
    For decades we've been studying, experimenting with, and wrangling over different approaches to improving public education, and there's still little consensus on what works, and what to do. The one thing people seem to agree on, however, is that schools need to be held accountable—we need to know whether what they're doing is actually working. But what does that mean in practice?High-stakes tests. ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Perfectionism and Gifted Children

    by Rosemary S. Callard-Szulgit ...
    Parents and educators expect gifted children to be well-behaved, studious, and hard working. Why, then, do so many have trouble in school? According to Dr. Rosemary Callard-Szulgit, perfectionism—the number one social-emotional trait of gifted children—can actually immobilize some children and cause social adjustment problems for others. This explains why so many of today's gifted children do not, ... Read more

    $55.79 CAD