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How the Common Core standardizes our kids’ education—and how it threatens our democracy. The Common Core State Standards Initiative is one of the most controversial pieces of education policy to emerge in decades. Detailing what and when K–12 students should be taught, it has led to expensive reforms and displaced other valuable ways to educate children. In this nuanced and provocative book, Nicholas Tampio argues that, though national standards can raise the education bar for some students, th...

In Up for Debate!, high school math teacher and debate coach Chris Luzniak shares stories, examples, and step-by-step routines that will help you build a classroom culture where students do the talking, explain their thinking, and critique each other's reasoning, all in the context of the math content you're expected to teach. Inside, you'll find: Inspirational stories of students debating math in real classroomsConcrete structures and routines that will get your students talking, listening, and...

In 2009, a conglomerate of unelected, self-appointed officials met behind closed doors to create a set of rules that would outline what children must learn in every grade in core K-12 classes. In 2010, the Obama administration required states to use these rules for curriculum and tests to have a chance at extra federal money during the Great Recession. Three years later, most Americans told pollsters they had no idea what common Core was. Their children were beginning to find out, however. Pullm...

Modern learning must be global and therefore learning environments must be connected and able to ""flatten"" learning around the globe. This calls for a shift in pedagogy, a shift in mindset and integration of digital and online technologies. Author and global education forerunner Julie Lindsay illustrates the need for intercultural understanding and collaboration to personalize learning, achieve curriculum objectives, and bring the world to our students. How do we navigate these new waters of n...

In order to adequately prepare students for success in their lifetimes, our schools need to be transformed into environments that encourage students to evolve and develop as creative individuals. Educators are challenged to establish an instructional practice that will encourage and support the development of student creativity as well as meet curricular goals and assessments. In this book, author Mark Gura shows that yes, creativity can be developed and - with the variety of technology resourc...

This book was written for educators who want to incorporate drones into their curriculum but have no idea where to start. It will cover all that you need to need to know to get off of the ground with a drone program in your school. It covers such basic but important information as which drones need to be registered and where you can fly them. It also provides recommendations as to the drones that are best for specific students' age levels and subject areas. Complete with lesson plans, real-world...

The Mobile Learning Mindset series offers practical knowledge and strategies for successful implementation of K-12 BYOD programs and 1:1 initiatives. This six-book series provides district leaders, principals, teachers, IT staff, educational coaches and parents with the information they need to make any mobile learning program a success. The District Leader's Guideto Implementation and the Principal's Guide to Implementation share lessons learned and provide many examples and activities that wil...

Storytelling, story analysis, report writing, persuasive writing, discussing literature, vocabulary-no matter what language arts topic you're addressing, this book will provide you with dozens of activity ideas using a wide range of technologies. Each activity in this book is tagged with a recommended level, main technologies used, and literacy covered, and all are aligned to the NETS*S and Common Core State Standards. You can easily adapt the majority of the activities for any level with minor...

Beyond Science Standards capture a vision of science education both whimsical and serious. Ranging across examples from elementary to university level classrooms and grounded in philosophy and history, the stories address dimensions beyond the realm of bureaucratic standards. Its thesis brings into question the premise of scientific unity and its representation in school as notions of method, process, nature, and practice. Schools, no less than the sciences, profit from playful exploration-of mu...

Quality and Equity in Education draws attention to the importance of developing and testing theories of educational effectiveness and using these theories for improvement purposes. It makes a major contribution to knowledge and theory building in research on promoting quality and equity in education. The book presents an improved version of the dynamic model of educational effectiveness based on the empirical data emerged from studies testing its validity, claiming that the proposed theory can...