Student Learning

My Backpack Is Heavier than Yours: The Plight of Marginalized Students is an award-winning, powerful, and eye-opening book that delves into some of the unique challenges faced by marginalized students in the pursuit of academic success. Best-selling author Dr. Edwin Garcia, Jr. analyzes the systemic barriers, biases, and inequities these students face daily, including underfunded schools, lack of resources, cultural insensitivity, implicit bias, and much more in the education system.

So much effort in our early lives is spent aimed towards university, but upon arrival, we are left to fend for ourselves. While this is partly the beauty of university, there are many useful tips, tricks and guidance that the author and their cohort have prepared to help you get the most out of these precious (and expensive!) years. The author started as an underachiever at school, entering university only through sheer luck. Despite initial doubts from teachers and admissions staff, the freedom at university fostered significant personal growth, reflected throughout this book's chapters.

Although there has been significant exploration of the need for and importance of culturally responsive, sustaining, equitable and inclusive teaching and learning within the past several years, the focus is often on creating these environments and experiences for Black and Brown students. Open Windows, Open Minds builds from Rudine Sims Bishop's concept of Mirrors, Windows and Sliding Glass Doors to provide anti-bias, anti-racist, and allyship development for teachers, then to offer strategies for moving that work into classroom instruction through literacy practices

Unlock the hidden secrets of AI in transforming your learning experience with the ChatGPT Bible (Student's Special Edition). Explore the uncharted world of AI-driven conversations and how they are revolutionizing the educational landscape in ways you've never known before.

Do you want the world to be your classroom? Why are our students falling behind in their academics and life-skills needed to become successful? In this student workbook for Dan Blanchard’s best-selling book, The Storm: How Young Men Become Good Men, students will learn the secrets of success that many don’t know…the very things that are holding many back in life.

At a time of political tribalism and ideological purity tests, it can be hard to remember that cross-party hatred isn't an inherent feature of partisan politics. But, as this book reminds us, a backward glance - or a quick survey of so many retiring members of Congress - tells us that even in the past decade partisan rancor has grown exponentially. In Angry Politics, Stacy G. Ulbig asks why. Even more to the point, she traces the trend to the place where it all might begin - the college campus, among the youngest segment of the electorate.

The context in which adolescents are learning has shifted radically since students first offered blunt advice to high school teachers in the groundbreaking Fires in the Bathroom, a perennial best seller. Now their world is changing at warp speed, and classrooms, too, are seething with anxiety. This sequel raises the voices of diverse youth around the nation as they live through the mind-bending quandaries of this era and ask their teachers to notice.

Dave Shutler analyzes twelve faulty assumptions about obtaining a higher education and shows how they can lead to debilitating college debt. Analogizing to the two realities in the Matrix movies, he reveals underlying facts about the assumptions to high schoolers and their parents. These assumptions range from deciding whether to attend college in the first place, to the importance of selecting a major, to how to minimize college living costs. This book is a systematic guide to the many misconceptions that students hold in the college application process.

Through the voices of students themselves, Fires in the Mind brings a game-changing question to teachers of adolescents: What does it take to get really good at something? Starting with what they already know and do well, teenagers from widely diverse backgrounds join a cutting-edge dialogue with adults about the development of mastery in and out of school. Their insights frame motivation, practice, and academic challenge in a new light that galvanizes more powerful learning for all.

This guide is designed to equip you with the valuable skills needed to become a better student and a responsible citizen. Drawing from my experiences during adolescence, college, twenty years on active duty, and fifteen years in the Public School System, I've compiled tools and lessons that have shaped my journey and are now here for you.

This book will focus on Zoom, one of the most popular remote teaching and training tools. It will first walk you through some essential yet straightforward pedagogical strategies you can use to engage learners online. Then, it will explain a few basic and advanced Zoom functions. Yes, you may tend to get mesmerized by complicated technological procedures. But this book doesn't stop there.

Part memoir, part manifesto, Radical is this fearless advocate's incisive, intensely personal call-to-arms. Rhee combines the story of her own extraordinary experience with dozens of compelling examples from schools she's worked in and studied-from students from unspeakable home lives who have thrived in the classroom to teachers whose radical methods have produced unprecedented leaps in achievement. Radical chronicles Rhee's awakening to the potential of every child, her rage at the special interests blocking badly-needed change, and her recognition that it will take a grassroots movement to create outstanding public schools.

Decades of research demonstrate how important the relationships with peers and professors are for students academically, personally, and professionally. Yet many students lack the strategies to develop educationally purposeful relationships in college. Connections Are Everything shows students the simple steps they can take to make their own college experience meaningful and transformational.

Finding your Path will teach you everything you need to know to transition from financial planning student to professional so you can become the financial planner you were destined to be. From understanding the various channels of entry, different firm structures, and career paths available to how to properly vet hiring firms, negotiate compensation, pass your licensing exams, and develop the skills you need to excel, Finding your Path: The Roadmap from Student to Successful Financial Planner is a practical guide packed with resources, examples, ready to use scripts, and tips.

Since Joshua Steckel began work at a Brooklyn public high school as its first-ever college guidance counselor, every one of the hundreds of graduates he has counseled has been accepted to college, many to top-flight schools with all expenses paid. But getting in is only one small part of the drama of his students’ stories. In a riveting work of narrative nonfiction - winner of a Studs and Ida Terkel award - Hold Fast to Dreams follows the lives of 10 of Josh’s students as they navigate the vast and obstacle-ridden landscape of college in America.

This book is for everybody who wants to improve their English. It’s fun to learn English by listening to interesting stories.

Classic Essays for College Students is an initiative to help students get acquainted with a few paradigms of academic papers written by other students that can give them some basic thinking tactics on how they can let their minds play with college subjects. Don't be intimidated by perfectionist attitudes! They constantly make it difficult for us to spread our ideas; being by nature creatures that have trouble dealing with fear, there is one thing that perfectionists always worry about in their state of mind: We are afraid of making mistakes.

In Writing Unbound, Tom Newkirk argues that as a teaching profession, we shoot ourselves in the foot when it comes to writing. We fail to take advantage of a huge opportunity that is before us. That opportunity is fiction writing.

Welcome to the world of visualization where children learn to learn better, achieve more, and build confidence. What happens when the formal school years hit? Why do so many struggle in school, a place where their curiosity should be encouraged to grow? Too many children are frustrated with the basic academic subjects: reading, writing, spelling, and math. Your child may become a master of avoiding tasks, stressed or anxious or have a behavioral problem. No more.

In early 2020, because of COVID-19, many colleges and schools around the world closed, and many teachers, instructors, and faculty members had to learn how to teach online in a hurry. This book takes a step back and focuses on helping educators teach effective live online sessions with Zoom.