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  • Hope, Heart, and the Humanities

    How a Free College Course is Changing Lives

    Hope, Heart, and the Humanities tells the story of how Venture, a free, interdisciplinary college humanities course inspired by the national Clemente Course, has helped open doors to improve the lives of people with low incomes who face barriers to attending college. For over a decade, this course has given hundreds of adults, some of them immigrants or refugees, the knowledge, confidence, and ... Read more

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  • Educating for Creativity

    A Global Conversation

    by Robert Kelly ...
    Bringing creativity into mainstream educational practice has become a mantra among educators. But what does creative practice in education really look like? Take a journey around the globe with educator and artist Robert Kelly to witness innovative creative practice in action, with examples from early childhood to post-secondary levels. Through stories and real-life examples, discover the ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • The Learner-Directed Classroom

    Developing Creative Thinking Skills Through Art

    Educators at all levels want their students to develop habits of self-directed learning and critical problem-solving skills that encourage ownership and growth. In The Learner-Directed Classroom, practicing art educators (PreK–16) offer both a comprehensive framework for understanding student-directed learning and concrete pedagogical strategies to implement student-direct learning activities in ... Read more

    $30.59 USD

  • Managing Stage Fright

    A Guide for Musicians and Music Teachers

    Why is it that well-prepared, talented, hardworking, and intelligent performers find their performance and self-esteem undermined by the fear of memory slips, technique failures, and public humiliation? In Managing Stage Fright: A Guide for Musicians and Music Teachers, author Julie Jaffee Nagel unravels these mysteries, taking the reader on an intensive backstage tour of the anxious performer's ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Creating Together

    Participatory, Community-Based, and Collaborative Arts Practices and Scholarship across Canada

    Edited by Diane Conrad, Anita Sinner ...
    Creating Together explores an emerging approach to research that combines arts practices and scholarship in participatory, community-based, and collaborative contexts in Canada across multiple disciplines. Looking at a variety of art forms, from photography and mural painting to performance art and poetry, the contributors explore how the process of creating together generates and disseminates ... Read more

    $27.39 USD

  • Shake, Rattle, and Roll

    Rhythm Instruments and More for Active Learning

    Music and movement go together like books and reading—they spread joy! It’s no secret that quiet doesn’t always equal quality learning. At times, we struggle to help children settle down so they can listen and learn. However, we can also encourage them to move to the beat so they can listen and learn in more active ways.In Shake, Rattle, and Roll: Rhythm Instruments and More for Active Learning, ... Read more

    $13.09 USD

  • Why Our Schools Need the Arts

    This inspiring book leads the way to a new kind of advocacy—one that stops justifying the arts as useful to learning other subjects, and argues instead for the powerful lessons that the arts, like no other subjects, teach our children. Jessica Hoffmann Davis, a leading voice in the field of arts education, offers a set of principles and tools that will be invaluable to advocates already working ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • Teaching Design

    A Guide to Curriculum and Pedagogy for College Design Faculty and Teachers Who Use Design in Their Classrooms

    An Expertly Written Guidebook to Teaching Design at All LevelsTeaching Design provides a practical foundation for teaching about and through design. The exploding interest in design and design thinking calls for qualified faculty members who are well prepared for a variety of institutional settings and content areas. While designers know their disciplines, they frequently lack experience in ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Youth Media Matters

    Participatory Cultures and Literacies in Education

    In an information age of youth social movements, Youth Media Matters examines how young people are using new media technologies to tell stories about themselves and their social worlds. They do so through joint efforts in a range of educational settings and media environments, including high school classrooms, youth media organizations, and social media sites. Korina M. Jocson draws on various ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Peer Power: How to Peer Pressure Proof Your School

    Are Your Students Emotionally Safe at School?Why is it that students can spell the word respect and quote the definition but completely forget the concept in day-to-day conduct?Even more concerning is why 25% of youth contemplate suicide, one in six have a plan and two-million attempt it each year. That’s more than all the students enrolled in school in the states of WA, OR, and ID combined, every ... Read more

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  • Seven Days Of Possibilities

    One Teacher, 24 Kids, and the Music That Changed Their Lives Forever

    Johanna Grussner arrived in New York City starry-eyed. She was a young Finnish jazz singer looking for the big time. But it was hard to find steady gigs. Propelled by pluck, determination, and a smidgen of desperation, she obtained a job teaching music at P.S. 86, a public school in the Bronx. At first, it was just to pay the bills. But over the course of several years, Johanna formed an intense, ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Teaching as Scholarship

    Preparing Students for Professional Practice in Community Services

    This book is about teaching for professional practice and explores ways to engage students in the classroom. It draws on the principles of rigorous scholarship and focuses on interactive learning between the class and the professor and among the students. Each contributor addresses the need to connect theory with community practice, deploying different methods in different contexts, and sharing ... Read more

    $24.49 USD