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Teaching As Leadership

The Highly Effective Teacher's Guide to Closing the Achievement Gap

by Teach For America, Steven Farr, Wendy Kopp ...

A road map for teachers who strive to be highly effective leaders in our nation's classroomsTeach For America has fought the daunting battle of educational equity for the last twenty years. Based on evidence from classrooms across the country, they've discovered much about effective teaching practice, and distilled these findings into the six principles presented in this book. The Teaching As ... Read more

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A road map for teachers who strive to be highly effective leaders in our nation's classroomsTeach For America has fought the daunting battle of educational equity for the last twenty years. Based on evidence from classrooms across the country, they've discovered much about effective teaching practice, and distilled these findings into the six principles presented in this book. The Teaching As
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Old Babes in the Wood

Stories

by Margaret Atwood ...

Narrated by Margaret Atwood, Rebecca Lowman, Bahni Turpin, Dawn Harvey, Allan Corduner, Linda Lavin, Dan Stevens, Kimberly Farr ...

Unabridged

8 hours 43 min

**INSTANT #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLERNamed a Best Book of 2023 by the Globe and Mail and IndigoA dazzling collection of fifteen short stories from Margaret Atwood, the internationally acclaimed, award-winning author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments.**Margaret Atwood has established herself as one of the most visionary and canonical authors in the world. This collection of fifteen extraordinary ... Read more

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**INSTANT #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLERNamed a Best Book of 2023 by the Globe and Mail and IndigoA dazzling collection of fifteen short stories from Margaret Atwood, the internationally acclaimed, award-winning author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments.**Margaret Atwood has established herself as one of the most visionary and canonical authors in the world. This collection of fifteen extraordinary
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A Chance to Make History

What Works and What Doesn't in Providing an Excellent Education for All

by Wendy Kopp ...

Narrated by Kate Mulligan ...

Unabridged

6 hours 53 min

As “the stunningly successful nonprofit organization, Teach For America” (New York Times) celebrates its 20th anniversary, its founder Wendy Kopp issues a passionate and inspiring summation of what she and TFA corps members have learned: that educational inequity—the achievement gap—is a solvable problem, and that the key to solving it—in a single classroom, a school, or system-wide—is leadership ... Read more

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As “the stunningly successful nonprofit organization, Teach For America” (New York Times) celebrates its 20th anniversary, its founder Wendy Kopp issues a passionate and inspiring summation of what she and TFA corps members have learned: that educational inequity—the achievement gap—is a solvable problem, and that the key to solving it—in a single classroom, a school, or system-wide—is leadership
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Snow Road Station

A Novel

by Elizabeth Hay ...

Narrated by Elizabeth Hay ...

Unabridged

6 hours 1 min

**NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the Giller Prize-winning author comes a novel, witty and wise, about thwarted ambition, unrealized dreams, the enduring bonds of female friendship, and love’s capacity to surprise us at any age."Joyous and lyrical." —Mary Lawson"[In Snow Road Station,] Hay makes a case for the simplicity of pleasure." —The New Yorker**In the winter of 2008, as snow falls without ... Read more

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**NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the Giller Prize-winning author comes a novel, witty and wise, about thwarted ambition, unrealized dreams, the enduring bonds of female friendship, and love’s capacity to surprise us at any age."Joyous and lyrical." —Mary Lawson"[In Snow Road Station,] Hay makes a case for the simplicity of pleasure." —The New Yorker**In the winter of 2008, as snow falls without
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Burning Questions

Essays and Occasional Pieces, 2004-2022

by Margaret Atwood ...

Narrated by Margaret Atwood, Omar El Akkad, Naomi Alderman, Stephanie Belding, Amanda Cordner, Lorna Crozier, Tess Degenstein, Ann Dowd, Esi Edugyan, Kaniehtiio Horn0, Amelia Sargisson1, Ann-Marie MacDonald2 ...

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19 hours 28 min

**NATIONAL BESTSELLERFrom cultural icon Margaret Atwood comes a brilliant collection of essays--funny, erudite, endlessly curious, uncannily prescient--which seek answers to Burning Questions such as:**Why do people everywhere, in all cultures, tell stories?How much of yourself can you give away without evaporating?How can we live on our planet?Is it true? And is it fair?What do zombies have to do ... Read more

$36.95 CAD

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**NATIONAL BESTSELLERFrom cultural icon Margaret Atwood comes a brilliant collection of essays--funny, erudite, endlessly curious, uncannily prescient--which seek answers to Burning Questions such as:**Why do people everywhere, in all cultures, tell stories?How much of yourself can you give away without evaporating?How can we live on our planet?Is it true? And is it fair?What do zombies have to do
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Study for Obedience

A novel

by Sarah Bernstein ...

Narrated by Sarah Bernstein ...

Unabridged

3 hours 59 min

**WINNER OF THE 2023 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZEShortlisted for the 2023 Booker PrizeIncluded in Granta's Best of Young British Novelists 2023Longlisted for the Dublin Literary AwardFor readers of Shirley Jackson, Iain Reid, and Claire-Louise Bennett, a haunting, compressed masterwork from an extraordinary new voice in Canadian fiction.**A young woman moves from the place of her birth to the remote ... Read more

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**WINNER OF THE 2023 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZEShortlisted for the 2023 Booker PrizeIncluded in Granta's Best of Young British Novelists 2023Longlisted for the Dublin Literary AwardFor readers of Shirley Jackson, Iain Reid, and Claire-Louise Bennett, a haunting, compressed masterwork from an extraordinary new voice in Canadian fiction.**A young woman moves from the place of her birth to the remote
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On the Ravine

A Novel

by Vincent Lam ...

Narrated by Vincent Lam, Amy Matysio ...

Unabridged

14 hours 11 min

**From the bestselling, Giller Prize-winning author of Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures comes an exquisitely crafted novel, piercing in its urgency and breathtaking in its intimacy, about the devastating experience of addiction.CBC's Best Canadian Fiction of the Year.**In his downtown Toronto condo, Dr. Chen awakens to the sound of streetcars below, but it is not the early morning traffic that ... Read more

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**From the bestselling, Giller Prize-winning author of Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures comes an exquisitely crafted novel, piercing in its urgency and breathtaking in its intimacy, about the devastating experience of addiction.CBC's Best Canadian Fiction of the Year.**In his downtown Toronto condo, Dr. Chen awakens to the sound of streetcars below, but it is not the early morning traffic that
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VenCo

by Cherie Dimaline ...

Narrated by Michelle St. John ...

Unabridged

11 hours 9 min

From the bestselling author of Empire of Wild, a wickedly subversive, deliciously imaginative, deeply feminist novel of contemporary witches on the rise—a book that only the supremely gifted storyteller Cherie Dimaline could write.Lucky St. James, orphaned daughter of a bad-ass Métis good-times girl, is barely hanging on to her nowhere life when she finds out that she and her grandmother, Stella, ... Read more

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From the bestselling author of Empire of Wild, a wickedly subversive, deliciously imaginative, deeply feminist novel of contemporary witches on the rise—a book that only the supremely gifted storyteller Cherie Dimaline could write.Lucky St. James, orphaned daughter of a bad-ass Métis good-times girl, is barely hanging on to her nowhere life when she finds out that she and her grandmother, Stella,
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Unfinished Business

Women Men Work Family

by Anne-Marie Slaughter ...

Narrated by Anne-Marie Slaughter, Karen White ...

Unabridged

9 hours 40 min

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST, NPR, AND THE ECONOMIST • “Slaughter’s gift for illuminating large issues through everyday human stories is what makes this book so necessary for anyone who wants to be both a leader at work and a fully engaged parent at home.”—Arianna HuffingtonWhen Anne-Marie Slaughter accepted her dream job as the first female director of policy ... Read more

$26.00 CAD

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NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST, NPR, AND THE ECONOMIST • “Slaughter’s gift for illuminating large issues through everyday human stories is what makes this book so necessary for anyone who wants to be both a leader at work and a fully engaged parent at home.”—Arianna HuffingtonWhen Anne-Marie Slaughter accepted her dream job as the first female director of policy
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Primal Leadership, With a New Preface by the Authors

Unleashing the Power of Emotional Intelligence

by Daniel Goleman, Richard Boyatzis, Annie McKee ...

This is the book that established emotional intelligence” in the business lexicon-and made it a necessary skill for leaders.Managers and professionals across the globe have embraced Primal Leadership, affirming the importance of emotionally intelligent leadership. Its influence has also reached well beyond the business world: the book and its ideas are now used routinely in universities, business ... Read more

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This is the book that established emotional intelligence” in the business lexicon-and made it a necessary skill for leaders.Managers and professionals across the globe have embraced Primal Leadership, affirming the importance of emotionally intelligent leadership. Its influence has also reached well beyond the business world: the book and its ideas are now used routinely in universities, business
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The EQ Edge

Emotional Intelligence and Your Success

by Steven J. Stein, Howard E. Book ...

REVISED AND UPDAT ED WITH NEW RESEARCH INTO EQ AND PERSONAL AND CAREER SUCCESSWhat is the formula for success at your job? As a spouse? A parent? A Little League baseball coach or behind the bench of a minor hockey team?What does it take to get ahead? To separate yourself from the competition? To lead a less stressful and happier existence? To be fulfilled in personal and professional pursuits ... Read more

$21.99 CAD

REVISED AND UPDAT ED WITH NEW RESEARCH INTO EQ AND PERSONAL AND CAREER SUCCESSWhat is the formula for success at your job? As a spouse? A parent? A Little League baseball coach or behind the bench of a minor hockey team?What does it take to get ahead? To separate yourself from the competition? To lead a less stressful and happier existence? To be fulfilled in personal and professional pursuits
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Read, Write, Lead

Breakthrough Strategies for Schoolwide Literacy Success

by Regie Routman ...

Literacy is a skill for all time, for all people. It is an integral part of our lives, whether we are students or adult professionals. Giving all educators the breadth of knowledge and practical tools that help students strengthen their literacy skills is the focus of Read, Write, Lead.Drawing on her experience as a mentor teacher, reading specialist, instructional coach, and staff developer, ... Read more

$48.39 CAD

Literacy is a skill for all time, for all people. It is an integral part of our lives, whether we are students or adult professionals. Giving all educators the breadth of knowledge and practical tools that help students strengthen their literacy skills is the focus of Read, Write, Lead.Drawing on her experience as a mentor teacher, reading specialist, instructional coach, and staff developer,
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