Mindsets In The Classroom: Building A Culture Of Success And Student Achievement In Schools
Mary Cay Ricci. Prufrock Press, 2013, 184 pages, $21.95
Professional Learning
Q Tasks, 2nd Edition: How To Empower Students To Ask Questions And Care About The Answers
Carol Koechlin and Sandi Zwaag. Pembroke Publishers, 2014, 160 pages, $24.95
Project Overseas
Project Overseas. These words hung in the back of my mind for almost a decade. At the Thanksgiving table in 2007, I explained to my family how PO, as it is affectionately called, sends Canadian teachers to work internationally to deliver in-service to untrained and undertrained teachers.
Monarch Magic
In July of 2007, my life changed forever – by attending a workshop. I remember reading the flyer. “Best workshop I’ve ever taken,” raved one teacher. Really? I wondered how they could spend three days talking about one thing – the monarch butterfly.
Struggling Readers: Why Band-Aids Don’t Stick And Worksheets Don’t Work
Lori Jamison Rog. Pembroke Publishers, 2014. 160 pages, $24.95
3-Minute Motivators, Revised And Expanded Edition
Kathy Paterson. Pembroke Publishers, 2014. 160 pages, $24.95
Livening Up Assessment with Technology: Comparing Kahoot!, Socrative and Google Forms
Technology has as many uses for learning as ketchup does on food. Heinz would tell you it's endless. I'll tell you the same (excluding the ketchup analogy). Boosting engagement, eliciting smiles, commanding attention and increasing efficiency through technology at the points of instruction and learning are effective. But why not use technology creatively at the point of assessing?
Dramathemes, 4th Edition
Larry Swartz. Pembroke Publishers, 2014, 160 pages, $24.95
Dance Is Elementary to Education
I didn’t always consider myself a dance educator. In fact, when I began my elementary teaching career I thought of myself as a math and science specialist. It wasn’t until my first professional learning experience in dance education 10 years ago that my mindset shifted about the benefits and value of dance education.
The Lost Art of Play
If adult learning is child’s play, then the teachers gathered on this cold Saturday morning in March understand what is meant by the expression “Playing is learning and learning is playing.”