Laura E. Berk
Parents and teachers today face a swirl of conflicting theories about child rearing and educational practice. Indeed, current guides are contradictory, oversimplified, and at odds with current scientific knowledge. Now, in Awakening Children's...
Palloff, Rena M. and Pratt, Keith
Written for faculty, instructors, and trainers in any distance learning environment, Building Learning Communities in Cyberspace shows how to create a virtual classroom environment that helps students excel academically, while fostering a sense of...
Collison, George; Elbaum, Bonnie; Haavind, Sarah; Tinker, Robert
This book is aimed specifically at new or relatively new facilitators of online education or training courses. The authors guide you in learning the ground breaking techniques and skills necessary to effectively facilitate online dialogue, community...
Robinson, Cynthia and Gretchen S. Sorin
This book provides you with many ideas, including ways to build community connections through youth programs, collaboration with nontraditional partners, creative outreach, mission-based fundraising, programs that target participants, and even...
Ed. Polly Welts Kaufman and Katharine T. Corbett
Here is a guide to finding and presenting places that bring new visibility to women's lives and illuminate their goals. Some of these sites, such as city hall, are not generally associated with women; some are sites of long-forgotten women...
The State Education Department
Includes information on learning standards for career development and occupations, and provides samples of student work related to these standards.
The State Education Department
Includes learning standards for languages other than english at three different levels and also provides samples of student work realted to these standards.
The State Education Department
Includes Learning standards for math, science and technology at three different levels and samples of student work related to these standards.
The State Education Department
Includes information on the learning standards used in social studies curriculums at multiple different grade levels and provides sample work of students to show how it relates to the set standards.
Leinhardt, Gaea and Knutson, Karen
We all know that learning takes place in museums, but what does that really mean? Who learns what, and how do they learn it? The authors set out to investigate these questions through the conversations of museum visitors. The model they developed...
The State Education Department
Includes chapters on the New York State English language arts standards, a rationale for these standards, learning-centered curriculums, implementation strategies, and multiple assessment evidence.
The State Education Department
Chapters include information on the New York State framework for the arts, learning standards, planning and assessing growth in the arts, dance, music, theatre, and the visual arts.