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1) What do our 17-year-olds know?: a report on the first national assessment of history and literature
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What Do Our 17-Year-Olds Know? Gives the results of the first nationwide test of American high school students' knowledge of history and literature, as well as fascinating insight into what teenagers are reading, how much television they watch, what influence their home environment has on their academic achievement, and what historical topics and literary works are included in (or have been dropped from) the school curriculum.
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Improve core instruction to ensure learning for all. Created specifically for grades 612, this book provides proven response to intervention strategies to differentiate instruction, engage students, increase success, and avoid additional interventions. Discover how to identify essential power standards to include in Tier 1 instruction, create a brain-friendly learning environment, shift instructional processes to support collaboration, and more. ...
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The graduation guidelines have two purposes, the first is to articulate Colorados shared beliefs about the value and meaning of a high school diploma. The second is to outline the minimum components, expectations, and responsibilities of local districts and the state to support students in attaining their high school diploma.
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"Exploring Creation with Botany, 2nd Edition, by Apologia is a God-honoring study of botany. Revised and updated with new content, illustrations, graphics, new and reworded activities, and redesigned Notebooking Journals! Your young botanist will begin this course with an overview of botany and then grow in their knowledge of seeds, flowers, pollination, fruits, leaves, roots, and stems of plants. Their awareness of the world around them will blossom...
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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...
12) Building Everyday Leadership in All Teens: Promoting Attitudes and Actions for Respect and Success
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Every teen can be a leader. That's because leadership is not just about taking the lead in big ways, but in everyday small things, too. The 21 sessions in this youth leadership curriculum guide teens to explore ethical decision-making, team-building, what it means to be a leader, how to work with others, risk-taking, communication, creative thinking, and more. Choose the sessions that seem best for your class or group, or explore leadership skills...
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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...
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This book is the story about the best-kept secret in Leicester: New College, a secondary school and sixth form college located in west Leicester. The past still haunts the reputation of New College, which was labelled the worst school in the country in 2005.
Today New College is an exceptional educational establishment where its values are integral to everything on offer for students and staff. From once having failed to provide a good education to...
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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...
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Ensure all learners have opportunities to engage deeply in meaningful intellectual work. In Ambitious Instruction, author Brad Cawn offers a blueprint for how to make rigor visible, accessible, and actionable in grade 6—12 classrooms. The resource guides readers toward using the twin tenets of problem-based learning and synthesis to significantly strengthen students' ability to read, write, and think within and across disciplines.
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With foreword by Jason Ohler. Despite technological advancements, most secondary schools still function on ideas that are more than 100 years old. Learning Without Classrooms outlines new guidelines for how schools must operate to remain relevant and effective as we move further into the 21st century. Making a persuasive argument for moving beyond the long-established idea of operating schools with traditional classroom instruction to a personalized...
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Are you a freshman in high school? Are you a current student in high school and you need help to succeed? Are you a student who makes good grades but are clueless about what is next after high school? Are you a student who is on the right track but unsure about your options after high school? If you answered yes to any of these questions, THIS BOOK is for YOU!