Nicholas Sparks

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Michigan

Colin Hancock is giving his second chance his best shot. At 28, he's focused only on walking a straight line - getting his teaching degree, working out at the gym religiously, and avoiding all the places and people that proved so destructive in his earlier life. The last thing he's looking for is a serious relationship. But when Maria Sanchez crosses paths with him on a rain-swept night in North Carolina, his plans are upended in a way that will rattle the foundations of his carefully structured life. As for Maria, the hardworking lawyer and daughter of Mexican immigrants, Colin will challenge every notion she's ever had about herself and her future, making her question what truly makes her happy. Before the couple has a chance to envision what a life together might look like, however, menacing reminders of events in Maria's past begin to surface. And as the threat of violence begins to shadow her every step, she and Colin will be tested in increasingly terrifying ways. Will demons from their past destroy the tentative bonds they have forged, or will their love protect them, even in the darkest hour?

See Me

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Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

School and Society

Nelda H. Cambron-McCabe

Martha M. McCarthy

Suzanne E. Eckes

Government

Key Benefit: Gives pre- and in-service educators a concise, informative, comprehensive guide to the legal issues affecting their daily activities with students and teachers. Key Topics: The legal framework of public education; tort liability; church/state relations; instruction; student expression, association, and appearance; student classifications; rights of students with disabilities; student discipline; terms and conditions of employment; teachers' substantive constitutional rights; discrimination in employment; termination in employment; legal generalizations; selected Supreme Court decisions Market: Pre- and in-service educators

Legal Rights of Teachers and Students

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Linda Darling-Hammond

James A. Banks

How America's Commitment to Equity Will Determine Our Future

Drawing on her broad experience, Darling-Hammond examines the roots of the U.S. modern education system and shows how the skills required for our 21st-century global economy cannot be learned in traditional education systems, which have been in place since the early 1900s. She identifies an "opportunity gap" that has evolved as new kinds of learning have become necessary - a gap where low-income students, students of colour, and English language learners often do not have the same access as others to qualified teachers, high-quality curriculum, and well-resourced classrooms. After setting the stage on current conditions in the U.S., Darling-Hammond offers a coherent approach for effective reform that focusses on creating successful systems, inducting and supporting quality teachers, designing effecting schools, establishing strong professional practice, and providing equitable and sufficient resources. The Flat World and Educationlays out what the U.S. needs to do in order to build a system of high-achieving and equitable schools that ensures every child the right to learn.

The Flat World and Education

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Robert Rothman

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Learning from High-Performing Systems

This book will help school systems improve their teacher workforce by drawing important lessons from nations with high-performing educational systems, as well as from successful state experiments in the United States. The authors examine common features and differences in the approaches of high-performing systems that made education a top priority and developed high-leverage strategies to meet their goals. Their varied solutions offer valuable ideas for how to create a strong teacher and school administrator ccorps from recruitment and preparation through induction, professional development, evaluation, and career advancement into leadership roles. Chapters focusing on systems in Finland, Ontario, and Singapore are coauthored by local scholars with extensive knowledge of the history and current status for policy and practice in their nation. A final chapter highlights attributes that are absolutely necessary for any education system to flourish. The book will be useful to policymakers, practitioners, and researchers interested in strengthening the quality of teaching.

Teaching in the Flat World

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William Glasser

A bestseller with over 90,000 copies sold in its first edition, this expanded edition explains that traditional coercive management in school is the root of today's educational problems. "This should be required reading by every school administrator, every teacher, every board member and all university faculty involved in the training of teachers".--Dr. Albert Mamary, Superintendent of Schools, Johnson City, New York.

The Quality School

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Jason F. Wright

After the deaths of their parents, three siblings return home to make funeral arrangements and find boxes full of love letters that their father wrote to their mother each week on Wednesday, uncovering the shocking truth about the past. Reprint.

The Wednesday Letters

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Dolly Chugh

Laszlo Bock

Hardcover. Like new condition. No markings inside book. Description from Amazon: An inspiring guide from Dolly Chugh, an award-winning social psychologist at the New York University Stern School of Business, on how to confront difficult issues including sexism, racism, inequality, and injustice so that you can make the world (and yourself) better.

How Good People Fight Bias

"Favorite Books of 2018" The Greater Good Magazine Foreword by Laszlo Bock, the bestselling author of Work Rules! and former Senior Vice President of People Operations at Google An inspiring guide from Dolly Chugh, an award-winning social psychologist at the New York University Stern School of Business, on how to confront difficult issues including sexism, racism, inequality, and injustice so that you can make the world (and yourself) better. Many of us believe in equality, diversity, and inclusion. But how do we stand up for those values in our turbulent world? The Person You Mean to Be is the smart, "semi-bold" person’s guide to fighting for what you believe in. Dolly reveals the surprising causes of inequality, grounded in the "psychology of good people". Using her research findings in unconscious bias as well as work across psychology, sociology, economics, political science, and other disciplines, she offers practical tools to respectfully and effectively talk politics with family, to be a better colleague to people who don’t look like you, and to avoid being a well-intentioned barrier to equality. Being the person we mean to be starts with a look at ourselves. She argues that the only way to be on the right side of history is to be a good-ish— rather than good—person. Good-ish people are always growing. Second, she helps you find your "ordinary privilege"—the part of your everyday identity you take for granted, such as race for a white person, sexual orientation for a straight person, gender for a man, or education for a college graduate. This part of your identity may bring blind spots, but it is your best tool for influencing change. Third, Dolly introduces the psychological reasons that make it hard for us to see the bias in and around us. She leads you from willful ignorance to willful awareness. Finally, she guides you on how, when, and whom, to engage (and not engage) in your workplaces, homes, and communities. Her science-based approach is a method any of us can put to use in all parts of our life. Whether you are a long-time activist or new to the fight, you can start from where you are. Through the compelling stories Dolly shares and the surprising science she reports, Dolly guides each of us closer to being the person we mean to be.

The Person You Mean to Be

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Legal Rights of Teachers and Students

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The Flat World and Education

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Teaching in the Flat World

William Glasser

The Quality School

Jason F. Wright

The Wednesday Letters

Dolly Chugh; Laszlo Bock

The Person You Mean to Be

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See Me

Walter Feinberg and Jonas F. Soltis

School and Society

Nelda H. Cambron-McCabe; Martha M. McCarthy; Suzanne E. Eckes

Legal Rights of Teachers and Students

Linda Darling-Hammond; James A. Banks

The Flat World and Education

Linda Darling-Hammond; Robert Rothman

Teaching in the Flat World

William Glasser

The Quality School

Jason F. Wright

The Wednesday Letters

Dolly Chugh; Laszlo Bock

The Person You Mean to Be

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