Product Description: SEASON ONE debuted on HBO in 2010 and was nominated for an Emmy. Featuring 9 artistic masters with Julian Schnabel,Edward Albee, Frank Grehy,Jacques D'Amboise,Placido Domingo,Olafur Eliasson,Bill T Jones,Michael Tilson Thomas and Liv Ullman working with emerging high school artists of the YoungArts program in the visual, literary and performing arts to raise appreciation and support for the arts in American society...read more

Product Description: Offering fresh alternatives to common instructional practices that fail to get results, this accessible, highly practical guide highlights ways to motivate middle school students while enhancing content-area learning. Each chapter features an enlightening case study of a teacher whose current strategies are not supported by research; describes effective instructional alternatives, illustrated with concrete examples; and lists online resources and lesson examples...read more

This text for middle school classroom teachers provides a solid core of essential knowledge about middle schools.  Balancing the practical and the theoretical, it has a strong research base, as well as a focus on teaching methods, strategies, materials, resources, and technology that are linked to the standards of the National Middle School Association.  The author’s objectives are to tell readers about middle schools today, describe adolescents and their developmental period, identify essential middle school concepts that have potential for their age group and educational experiences that are developmentally responsive for young adolescents.

Product Description: What are the differences in teaching boys and girls? What kind of leadership should you expect of your principal? What do prospective teachers need to know about young adolescent growth and development? How important is classroom climate and how does one achieve a truly positive, nurturing, and learning environment? These and many other questions will be answered in this first Just For Teachers Series book...read more