Doing School

Author : Denise Clark Pope
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300130589
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Doing School written by Denise Clark Pope and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a highly revealing and troubling view of today's high school students and the ways they pursue high grades and success. Denise Pope, veteran teacher and curriculum expert, follows five motivated and successful students through a school year, closely shadowing them and engaging them in lengthy reflections on their school experiences. What emerges is a double-sided picture of school success. On the one hand, these students work hard in school, participate in extracurricular activities, serve their communities, earn awards and honours, and appear to uphold school values. But on the other hand, they feel that in order to get ahead they must compromise their values and manipulate the system by scheming, lying, and cheating. In short, they do school, that is, they are not really engaged with learning nor can they commit to such values as integrity and community. The words and actions of these five students - two boys and three girls from diverse ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds - underscore the frustrations of being caught in a grade trap that pins future success to high grades and test scores. Their stories raise critical questions that are too important for parents, educators, and community leaders to ignore. Are schools cultivating an environment that promotes intellectual curiosity, cooperation, and integrity? Or are they fostering anxiety, deception, and hostility? Do today's schools inadvertently impede the very values they claim to embrace? Is the success that current assessment practices measure the kind of success we want for our children?

Author : Denise Clark Pope
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300098334
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book "Doing School" written by Denise Clark Pope and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follows five successful high school students in their often stressful journey through class work, grades, and tests, all of which contribute to the lacking performance of even our top schools.

Author : Anne Bowen
Publisher : Carolrhoda Books
ISBN 13 : 0822571951
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What DO Teachers Do (after YOU Leave School)? written by Anne Bowen and published by Carolrhoda Books. This book was released on 2006-08-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rhyming text reveals the surprising ways that teachers behave when their students are not at school.

Author : Isaac Klein
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780692953679
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The School of Doing written by Isaac Klein and published by . This book was released on 2017-11-22 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kevin Kline, Patti LuPone, Chita Rivera, Olympia Dukakis, Sam Waterston, and many more lend their voices to The School of Doing, a comprehensive guide to the craft and teachings of internationally renowned stage director and educator Gerald Freedman, including lessons on acting, directing, text analysis, comedy technique, camera technique, Shakespeare, musical theater, design, pedagogy, and the business itself. Foreword by Mandy Patinkin.

Author : James M. Kilts
Publisher : Crown Currency
ISBN 13 : 030745178X
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Doing What Matters written by James M. Kilts and published by Crown Currency. This book was released on 2010-01-05 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Warren Buffett was asked why the Gillette board of directors chose Jim Kilts to be CEO, he said, “Jim made as much sense in terms of talking about business as anybody I’ve ever talked to. If you listen to Jim analyze a business situation you get absolutely no baloney. And, frankly, finding someone like that is a rarity.” There is only one CEO in recent times who has faced—and succeeded at—the extraordinary challenges of leading three major companies—Gillette, Nabisco, and Kraft—into prosperous futures by doing what matters on the fundamentals. That CEO is Jim Kilts. In this vivid first-person account he reveals his system for success that is both cutting-edge and back-to-basics. Doing What Matters—the action plan for identifying and tackling what’s important and ignoring the rest—is the key to winning in a warp-speed world where the need for revolutionary speed and decisiveness increases by the day. Kilts illustrates his ideas with colorful stories, such as “that little red razor.” A new product idea he proposed early on at Gillette, it was initially shelved because “everyone knew you couldn’t sell a red razor,” but went on to become one of Gillette’s biggest marketing successes ever. Jim Kilts’s focus on both business fundamentals and personal attributes provides the “complete package,” showing how to get results that make a difference through:• Intellectual integrity: The ability to face the unvarnished truth about yourself and your business and using what you see as the basis for action.• Generating emotional engagement and enthusiasm: Using the force of your personality and ideas to infuse people and an entire organization with a sense of purpose and mission. • Action: Gillette, with just five product lines, had over 20,000 SKUs. After studying the issue for over two years, there were still 20,000. How Kilts got Gillette off the dime to pare down the number to 7,000 almost overnight is an astonishing example of getting the rubber to meet the road—with enormous benefits to the business. • Understanding the right things through an overarching concept to frame and filter issues: For Jim Kilts it was Total Brand Value, the framework he used in the consumer products industry for achieving better, faster, and more complete results than the competition.Whether you’re CEO of a multibillion-dollar global company, the brand manager for a product, an entrepreneur starting a small business, or just beginning a career, Doing What Matters provides the practical ideas that get results—ranging from a day one action plan for starting a new job to a chorus of cheers and support to a program of total innovation that involves everyone in changes from small to “big bang.”

Author : Pat Thomas
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1526305216
Total Pages : 31 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Starting School: Do I Have to Go to School? written by Pat Thomas and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2017-03-23 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In simple and reassuring terms, this entertaining book explores for young children aged approximately 3-6 what it is like to start school and how the reader might feel about it. Discussion boxes offer an adult opportunities to discuss the issues directly with their child audience. Charmingly clear illustrations give readers immediate access to complex situations and feelings and provide further stimulus for discussion. Notes for teachers and parents, plus suggested further resources, help adults to make the most of the learning opportunities inherent in the book. Written by a trained psychotherapist, journalist and parent, and illustrated by a very experienced children's book artist, this is part of an acclaimed and successful series of picture-book non-fiction for Early Years.

Author : Jerome J. Schultz
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118091736
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nowhere to Hide written by Jerome J. Schultz and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-06-24 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new approach to help kids with ADHD and LD succeed in and outside the classroom This groundbreaking book addresses the consequences of the unabated stress associated with Learning disabilities and ADHD and the toxic, deleterious impact of this stress on kids' academic learning, social skills, behavior, and efficient brain functioning. Schultz draws upon three decades of work as a neuropsychologist, teacher educator, and school consultant to address this gap. This book can help change the way parents and teachers think about why kids with LD and ADHD find school and homework so toxic. It will also offer an abundant supply of practical, understandable strategies that have been shown to reduce stress at school and at home. Offers a new way to look at why kids with ADHD/LD struggle at school Provides effective strategies to reduce stress in kids with ADHD and LD Includes helpful rating scales, checklists, and printable charts to use at school and home This important resource is written by a faculty member of Harvard Medical School in the Department of Psychiatry and former classroom teacher.

Author : Ann Edwards Cannon
Publisher : Gibbs Smith Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780879057435
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book I Know what You Do when I Go to School written by Ann Edwards Cannon and published by Gibbs Smith Publishers. This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A child imagines all of the great adventures that his mother and younger brother have while he is at school.

Author : James Ballard
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1468595377
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Whale Done School written by James Ballard and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2012-06-07 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE WHALE DONE SCHOOL is the third in the Whale Done! series, focusing the proven power of positive attention on the process of educating children. Based on an actual school-turnaround story, the fable demonstrates how students' behavior and academic performance improves dramatically when teachers systematically employ the science of training killer whales -- i.e., building trust, giving lots of attention to what their students do right, and redirecting wrong behavior to positive outcomes.

Author : Jane Yolen
Publisher : Cartwheel Books
ISBN 13 : 9781338828139
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How Do Dinosaurs Go to School? written by Jane Yolen and published by Cartwheel Books. This book was released on 2022-05-03 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's time for school, dinosaurs! A laugh-out-loud prehistoric school adventure from award-winning team Jane Yolen and Mark Teague. Join everyone's favorite dinosaurs as they ride the bus, read their favorite books, and play with their friends. Playful text and hilarious pictures capture the high-sprited and playful nature of young children and make this a perfect book to share with any little one heading off to school for the first time. A gentle introduction to classroom behavior and making friends. Plus, children will find the name of each dinosaurs hidden in the pictures!