Well, my friend, it isn’t. These folks are simply preying on new authors who haven’t yet gained the knowledge and experience of what it takes to publish a quality book. In short, they will publish anything as long as they get their money from you up front. They have no editorial ...
Bearing our proposed definition in mind, we go on to present numerous measures that assess teacher enthusiasm, detail research evidence related to its correlates, and finally derive several research implications that, when considered in future research, promise to advance the field....
Sure, I teach grammar and vocabulary, butwe also read “The Diary of Anne Frank.” We read “The Outsiders” and “To Kill a Mockingbird.” We read authors from Edgar Allan Poe to Charles Dickens to Langston Hughes, Toni Cade Bambera and Gwendolyn Brooks. We haveheated discussionsabout rac...
The definition of joie de vivre isn’t what you are doing, but how you are doing it: a lunch without an agenda, a hangout with friends for no reason, an international vacation without the stress of focusing on what could go wrong, or what is waiting for you when you get back. Joie...
Definition ofunsung 1.not sung 2. not sung meaning not celebrated or praised (as in song or verse) anunsunghero Last week, I wrote the following narrative for my students about a season in my life when a high risk pregnancy required bed rest, and I found myself confined to a hospital...
The meaning-making of human dignity, however, becomes problematic because the authors do not clarify what human dignity means in the context of teacher education. Instead, Burant et al. appear to assume that a common and universal definition of human dignity exists. It is not uncommon for autho...
them. Borders are drawn and redrawn as resources and topographies are reassessed, reallocated and redefined. The border is essential to establish relationships of power and difference, and by drawing the border, a nation/society/culture establishes a strict definition of difference from its outsiders...
When I tell you that I did not expect the levels of investment from students over a discussion about hotdogs, I am not kidding. Did you know that the US Department of Agriculture has an official definition of a sandwich? I didn’t either, but I do now. ...
Students will read two selected texts and extract definitions of jazz from various famous people, such as Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Ralph Ellison. Students will compose a working definition/explanation of jazz. Students will develop a time line of the jazz era from the early 1900's ...
I have read Rigor is Not a Four-Letter Word by Barbara Blackburn and I like her definition: Rigor is creating an environment in which each student is expected to learn at a high level, and each is supported so he or she can learn at a high level, and each student demonstrates learning...