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In the tradition of The Power of Habit and Thinking, Fast and Slow comes a practical, playful, and endlessly fascinating guide to what we really know about learning and memory today—and how we can apply it to our own lives.
From an early age, it is drilled into our heads: Restlessness, distraction, and ignorance are the enemies of success. We’re told that learning is all self-discipline, that we must confine ourselves...
From an early age, it is drilled into our heads: Restlessness, distraction, and ignorance are the enemies of success. We’re told that learning is all self-discipline, that we must confine ourselves...
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My weird school volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
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A.J. and his classmates are convinced that the new school librarian, Mrs. Roopy, has multiple personality disorder because she keeps pretending to be famous people.
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From the bestselling author of the Bone Collector novels, soon to be an NBC series
Bill Corde looks down at the face of the murdered girl and sees the horror of sudden death. He cannot know, as he stands there at the trampled, muddy scene beside the college girl’s corpse, that his own life is about to slip into terror. He cannot know that everything he holds precious is about to shatter before his eyes. He cannot know that his career—and...
Bill Corde looks down at the face of the murdered girl and sees the horror of sudden death. He cannot know, as he stands there at the trampled, muddy scene beside the college girl’s corpse, that his own life is about to slip into terror. He cannot know that everything he holds precious is about to shatter before his eyes. He cannot know that his career—and...
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A significant shift in the way we think about the identification of Specific Learning Disabilities has occurred. There is heightened emphasis throughout IDEA 2004 on effective core instruction and intervention that will result in improved educational outcomes for all students, including those at risk for learning difficulties and those who may be identified as having SLD.
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2015
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Facilitating conversations about race often involves tension, as both the facilitators and participants bring emotional experiences and their deeply held values and beliefs into the room.
“Diversity, Equity and Inclusion: Strategies for Facilitating Conversations on Race” guides facilitators through a process of becoming comfortable with the discomfort in leading conversations about racism, privilege and power.
This book walks you through the...
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2018.
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In Colorado, work-based learning is a strategy that provides individuals with opportunities to gain awareness, exposure and training for in-demand occupations and the skills needed by business and industry. This document provides a list of publicly available funding resources throughout the state that can be leveraged to develop work-based learning programs. This is not an exhaustive list of funding sources. Additional eligibility requirements and...
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Employ cognitive theory in the classroom every daySmall Teaching, James Lang presents a strategy for improving student learning with a series of modest but powerful changes that make a big difference—many of which can be put into practice in a single class period. These strategies are designed to bridge the chasm between primary research and the classroom environment in a way that can be implemented by any faculty in any discipline, and even integrated...
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2004.
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The Bell Policy Center's Colorado: The State of Opportunity Report (2002) offers a hopeful vision of a "Cycle of Opportunity" for every resident of Colorado. Each of the state's residents would find a "gateway" into this cycle and have the opportunity to achieve their full economic, social, and personal potential. The Cycle of Opportunity is self-sustaining. Once a family is in the cycle, it is likely to stay in, improving the prospects for its children...
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2015.
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Service learning is an opportunity for children and youth in your program to engage in the world around them. This may be at a local, regional, or even global level. By participating in these processes, young people are able to both volunteer their time and efforts, while also learning and developing on a personal and academic level.
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