Product Description: "Students learn to be active and responsible citizens by actually seeking to promote change, rather than just being-supposedly-prepared to be leaders in the future." -Steven Zemelman What really matters to your students? The issues in front of them at school and in life...read more

Product Description: Grades 7-12   Finally, a book about content-area reading that’s just as useful to math, science, and history teachers as it is to English teachers! Lively, practical, and irreverent, Subjects Matter points the way to activities and materials that energize content and engage students across all subject areas...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: We've read educational essays packed with ideas, and we've read narrative accounts of individual schools. Rethinking High School is a rare and delightful marriage of the two. . . . It's hard to imagine anyone involved with high schools who won't come away from this book both impressed and enlightened...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: With Best Practice: New Standards for Teaching and Learning in America's Schools, authors Zemelman, Daniels, and Hyde highlight the consensus among the many recent national standards documents: all the experts are calling for schools that are more challenging, authentic, and collaborative...read more

Product Description: Teachers recognize that to succeed in school, children need to make connections between their own lives and the subjects they study. By creating a supportive classroom community and employing in-depth inquiry on a topic of real significance to students, you can help them see how school subjects provide essential tools and knowledge for their lives...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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