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“vicky m giouroukakis”

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  • Growing Up in an Immigrant Household and Community

    Essays by Descendants of Immigrants

    by Vicky Giouroukakis ...
    Although there are thousands of media sources that relate the trials and tribulations of immigrants coming to this country to pursue the American dream, there are few that document the experiences of children of immigrants who typically straddle two worlds: the world of their parents and the country in which they are born.Growing Up in an Immigrant Household: Essays by Descendants of Immigrants is ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • Getting to the Core of English Language Arts, Grades 6-12

    How to Meet the Common Core State Standards with Lessons from the Classroom

    by Maureen Connolly, Vicky M. Giouroukakis ...
    Design effective CCSS-aligned lessons for secondary studentsIf you want to revamp your secondary English Language Arts curriculum to reflect the Common Core State Standards, this book is the perfect resource. The authors move the implementation of the CCSS for ELA from the abstract to the concrete by providing adaptable, exemplar lesson plans in each of the CCSS strands: reading, writing, speaking ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • Getting to the Core of Literacy for History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects, Grades 6–12

    by Maureen Connolly, Vicky M. Giouroukakis ...
    Literacy—it’s not just for English teachers anymore.The new Common Core English Language Arts Standards aren’t just for English teachers. Fluent reading and writing are critically important to the study of history/social studies, science, and technical subjects, too. What’s more, the progress your students make is directly tied to their ability to process information they read and to express their ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Achieving Next Generation Literacy

    Using the Tests (You Think) You Hate to Help the Students You Love

    by Maureen Connolly, Vicky Giouroukakis ...
    As a teacher, what you want most is for your students to learn—to immerse themselves in rich and challenging content and leave your classroom better prepared for school and life. In English language arts and humanities, this includes developing the multifaceted reading, writing, thinking, and communication skills that constitute next generation literacy, including the ability to* Read complex text ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

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  • Impossible to Ignore: Creating Memorable Content to Influence Decisions

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    A groundbreaking approach to creating memorable messages that are easy to process, hard to forget, and impossible to ignore—using the latest in brain scienceAudiences forget up to 90 percent of what you communicate. But people make decisions and act based on what they remember, so a pragmatic approach for the effective communicator is to be deliberate about the 10 percent that audiences do retain. ... Read more

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  • When Can You Trust the Experts?

    How to Tell Good Science from Bad in Education

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    Clear, easy principles to spot what's nonsense and what's reliableEach year, teachers, administrators, and parents face a barrage of new education software, games, workbooks, and professional development programs purporting to be "based on the latest research." While some of these products are rooted in solid science, the research behind many others is grossly exaggerated. This new book, written ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

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    Successful Communication in Groups and Teams (Third Edition)

    by Donald B. Egolf ...
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  • Qualitative Research

    Studying How Things Work

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    Tools to Engage Students in Meaning Making

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  • The Purposeful Classroom

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    by Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey ...
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  • Navigating the New Pedagogy

    Six Principles that Transform Teaching

    by Jeff Halstead ...
    In the early 21st Century, a new vision for classroom practice emerged that looks very different from the teaching that existed previously. This new teaching is a synthesis of effective curriculum, big ideas, nurturing relationships, differentiated instruction, appropriate assessment, teaching to standards, use of technology, and solid understanding of the content being taught.Six core principles ... Read more

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