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The School Psychologist's Survival Guide
In this newest addition to the Jossey-Bass "Survival Guide" series, popular blogger Rebecca Branstetter offers help...more. Featured Authors
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Rebecca Branstetter
Rebecca Branstetter, Ph.D., has worked as a school psychologist for the past decade in public K-12 schools throughout … Read more.
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Janette K. Klingner
Janette K. Klingner is a professor of education specializing in bilingual multicultural special education at the University of … Read more.
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Tag Archives: Learning & Teaching
Time for Obama to Become Our Teacher-in-Chief: Guest Blog by Sam Chaltain
Guest Blog by Sam Chaltain, Author of Faces of Learning: 50 Powerful Stories of Defining Moments in Education On March 4, during an appearance in Miami with former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, President Obama announced he will spend the month … Read more.
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Excerpt from Reaching Boys, Teaching Boys by Michael Reichert
Reaching Boys, Teaching Boys: Strategies that Work–and Why By Michael Reichert Reaching Boys, Teaching Boys challenges the widely-held cultural impression that boys are stubbornly resistant to schooling while providing concrete examples of pedagogy and instructional style that have been proven … Read more.
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Tagged boys, Learning & Teaching, teaching, Teaching & Learning
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Teach For America
Learning & Teaching, Teacher Education (New York, NY) Teach For America is a prestigious and highly regarded non-profit organization that builds a teacher corps for jobs in our nation’s neediest schools. They recruit recent college graduates and professionals of all … Read more.
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Julia G. Thompson
Classroom Management/Discipline, Learning & Teaching (McLean, VA) As a workshop leader, Julia Thompson has taught hundreds of teachers how to how to create student-centered classrooms, thrive during that important first year, motivate reluctant learners, prevent discipline problems, integrate technology, and … Read more.
Cindi Rigsbee
Classroom Management/Discipline, Learning & Teaching (Durham, NC) Cindi Rigsbee, M.Ed., is a veteran teacher with 20+ years of experience in the classroom. An inspiring speaker and workshop presenter, Rigsbee has spoken at hundreds of schools, districts, and colleges, speaking about … Read more.
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Daniel T. Willingham
Brain & Learning, Learning & Teaching (Charlottesville, NC) Dan Willingham is professor of psychology at University of Virginia. His research has focused on the biological and cognitive basis of learning, especially in the role of basal ganglia in the acquisition … Read more.
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LouAnne Johnson
LouAnne Johnson is a former U.S. Navy journalist, Marine Corps officer, high school teacher, and the author of The New York Times bestseller Dangerous Minds (originally My Posse Don’t Do Homework). At present she is associate professor of teacher education … Read more.
Mary-Dean Barringer
Brain & Learning, Learning & Teaching, Learning Disabilities, Special Education, Teacher Leadership (Davis, CA) Mary-Dean Barringer is CEO of All Kinds of Minds, where she is responsible for developing and expanding the institute’s neurodevelopmental approach for schools. Her leadership of … Read more.