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Reaching and Teaching Middle School Learners

Asking Students to Show Us What Works

By: Penny A. Bishop,Susanna W. Pflaum

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Reaching and Teaching Middle School Learners

Asking Students to Show Us What Works

By: Penny A. Bishop,Susanna W. Pflaum

Enhance classroom practice by promoting an open and shared process with your students! Middle school students have much to say about the quality of their schooling experiences and can provide rich insight into what works for them and what doesn′t. Educators Penny A. Bishop and Susanna W. Pflaum demonstrate how to enhance classroom practice by inviting students to offer feedback on pedagogy, learning styles, and their individual preferences and needs. Written for new and veteran teachers of grades 4-8, the unique framework of this book takes its cue from the students themselves by using their own words and drawings, combined with the authors′ action research, insightful analysis, and shared experiences. Highlights of this powerful resource include: Instructional strategies and content-area learning Social interactions within the classroom that promote or inhibit learning Learner insights into their own engagement and disengagement in the classroom Student drawings, reflective questions for teachers, mini-lessons, and frequently asked questions about consulting students and honoring their insights Reaching and Teaching Middle School Learners focuses on the learning needs of adolescents as identified by the students themselves. By promoting an open and shared process with your students, you can meet the unique challenges of working with middle school learners and create a positive schooling experience for all.

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169

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Corwin Press

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1483361462

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9781483361468

Living at the Edge

Sacrament and Solidarity in Leadership

By: Penny Jamieson

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Living at the Edge

Sacrament and Solidarity in Leadership

By: Penny Jamieson

As the first woman in the Anglican Communion to become a diocesan bishop, she brought to her diocese an experience of beng an outsider, a woman in a hierarchical church in which women were second class citizens. In this, her first book, she asks how outsiders who win power may exercise that power without making others outsiders.

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A&C Black

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144118175X

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9781441181756

Personalized Learning in the Middle Grades

A Guide for Classroom Teachers and School Leaders

By: Penny A. Bishop,John M. Downes,Katy Farber

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Personalized Learning in the Middle Grades

A Guide for Classroom Teachers and School Leaders

By: Penny A. Bishop,John M. Downes,Katy Farber

Personalized Learning in the Middle Grades shows how teachers in grades 5–8 can leverage the use of personalized learning plans (PLPs) to increase student agency and engagement, helping youth to establish learning goals aligned with their interests and assess their own learning—particularly around essential skills that cut across disciplines. Drawing on their research and work with fifty schools in Vermont, where PLPs are used statewide, the authors show how personalized learning aligns with effective middle grades practice and provide in-depth examples of how educators have implemented PLPs in a wide range of schools representing different demographics and grade configurations. They also highlight five critical roles for teachers in personalized learning environments—as empowerer, scaffolder, scout, assessor, and community builder—and illustrate how teachers can adapt the PLP process for their own unique contexts. Grounded in experience and full of engaging examples, artifacts, and tools, the book builds on the emerging field of personalized learning and connects it with the developmental needs of middle schoolers to provide a unique and valuable resource for individual classroom teachers, teacher teams, school leaders, teacher‐educators, and others.

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Harvard Education Press

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1682533190

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9781682533192

Teaching Adolescents Religious Literacy in a Post-9/11 World

By: Robert Nash,Penny A. Bishop

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Teaching Adolescents Religious Literacy in a Post-9/11 World

By: Robert Nash,Penny A. Bishop

For thousands of years, religion has been a key element of human societies. Whenever we, as educators, exclude or minimize religion’s vast role in society, we leave out a large part of our world’s shared history. This is a serious act of educational omission, even neglect, on the part of our nation’s public middle and secondary schools, particularly when adolescents are so ready to engage in meaningful conversation about the world that surrounds them. Our book’s central purpose is to provide middle-level and high school teachers with the necessary background knowledge and pedagogical skills necessary to help adolescents become religiously literate learners and citizens. Currently, there is no text like ours on the market that both covers a number of world religions, and presents concrete recommendations for teaching and learning this material. Our book is meant to educate the following audiences: teacher educators, middle-level and high school teachers in all content areas, administrators, school boards, and parents. For us, educating for religious literacy is all about bringing adolescents into the 21st century of teeming religious and spiritual diversity—a long-neglected component of the multicultural curriculum in public schools. In a post-9/11 world, religious literacy requires that students understand the whats and whys of differing religious beliefs, both in their own country and elsewhere. It means looking for commonalities, as well as differences, between and among the great wisdom traditions—both nationally and internationally. It is about understanding how all of us might live peacefully in a religiously diverse world. Our book accomplishes these goals by being informative, practical, experiential, case-based, and, above all, accessible to beginners.

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IAP

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1607523132

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9781607523130

Giotto to Dürer

Early Renaissance Painting in the National Gallery

By: Jill Dunkerton,Susan Foister,Dillian Gordon,Nicholas Penny

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Giotto to Dürer

Early Renaissance Painting in the National Gallery

By: Jill Dunkerton,Susan Foister,Dillian Gordon,Nicholas Penny

This book provides a survey of European painting between 1260 and 1510, in both northern and southern Europe, based largely on the National Gallery collection ... some 70 of the finest and best known paintings in the Gallery are examined in detail"--Cover.

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414

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Yale University Press

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0300050828

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9780300050820

Heavenly Army of Angels

By: Bob Lord,Penny Lord

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Heavenly Army of Angels

By: Bob Lord,Penny Lord

Bob and Penny Lord focus on the reality of Angels, contending that we are surrounded and protected by these heavenly beings, dispatched by God to preserve and empower us.

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260

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0926143107

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9780926143104

A City in Conflict

Troyes During the French Wars of Religion

By: Penny Roberts

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A City in Conflict

Troyes During the French Wars of Religion

By: Penny Roberts

This text explores in depth the impact of the French wars of religion on the inhabitants of one French city, Troyes, in Champagne. Drawing on previously neglected sources, the author examines the individual and collective experience of the religious conflict in Troyes. She considers how the religious divisions created such brutal conflict between neighbours.

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248

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Manchester University Press

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0719046947

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9780719046940

Late Roman Warlords

By: Penny MacGeorge

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Late Roman Warlords

By: Penny MacGeorge

Late Roman Warlords reconstructs the careers of some of the men who shaped (and were shaped by) the last quarter century of the Western Empire. There is a need for a new investigation of these warlords based on primary sources and including recent historical debates and theories. The difficult sources for this period have been analysed (and translated as necessary) to produce a chronological account, and relevant archaeological and numismatic evidence has been utilised. An overview of earlier warlords, including Aetius, is followed by three studies of individual warlords and the regions they dominated. The first covers Dalmatia and Marcellinus, its ruler during the 450s and 460s. A major theme is the question of Marcellinus' western or eastern affiliations: using an often-ignored Greek source, Penny MacGeorge suggests a new interpretation. The second part is concerned with the Gallic general Aegidius and his son Syagrius, who ruled in northern Gaul, probably from Soissons. This extends to AD 486 (well after the fall of the Western Empire). The problem of the existence or non-existence of a 'kingdom of Soissons' is discussed, introducing evidence from the Merovingian period, and a solution put forward. This section also looks at how the political situation in northern Gaul might throw light on contemporary post-Roman Britain. The third study is of the barbarian patrician Ricimer, defender of Italy, and his successors (the Burgundian prince Gundobad and Orestes, a former employee of Attila) down to the coup of 476 by which Odovacer became the first barbarian king of Italy. This includes discussion of the character and motivation of Ricimer, particularly in relation to the emperors he promoted and destroyed, and of how historians' assessments of him have changed over time.

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380

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OUP Oxford

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0191530913

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9780191530913

Partonopeus de Blois

Romance in the Making

By: Penny Eley

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Partonopeus de Blois

Romance in the Making

By: Penny Eley

First book-length treatment of a fascinating medieval French romance, underlining its influence in the genre. Partonopeus de Blois is one of the most important works of twelfth-century French fiction; it shaped the development of romance as a genre, gave rise to adaptations in several other medieval languages and even an opera (Massanet's Esclarmonde). However, partly because of its complicated transmission history, and partly due to the fact that it has been overshadowed by the works of Chrétien de Troyes, it has been unjustly neglected. This firstfull-length study of the romance brings together literary, historical and manuscript studies to explore its making as it evolved through seven medieval "editions", the earliest of which probably predated most of Chrétien's romances. The book's thematic analyses show how the Partonopeus poet applied established techniques of rewriting to a wide range of classical, vernacular and Celtic sources, combining this literary fusion with political subtexts to create a new and influential model of romance composition. Detailed studies of the Continuation reveal more ambitious experimentation by the original author, as well as the activities of a series of "editors" who continued to modify the text for over a century. A final discussion of patronage proposes a new reading of the poem's distinct narratorial interventions on women and love, and suggests a link between Partonopeus and a disturbing episode in the history of Blois. Penny Eley is Professor of Medieval French at the University of Sheffield.

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Boydell & Brewer Ltd

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1843842742

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9781843842743

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Reaching and Teaching Middle School Learners

Reaching and Teaching Middle School Learners

Living at the Edge

Living at the Edge

Personalized Learning in the Middle Grades

Personalized Learning in the Middle Grades

Teaching Adolescents Religious Literacy in a Post-9/11 World

Teaching Adolescents Religious Literacy in a Post-9/11 World

Giotto to Dürer

Giotto to Dürer

Heavenly Army of Angels

Heavenly Army of Angels

A City in Conflict

A City in Conflict

Late Roman Warlords

Late Roman Warlords

Partonopeus de Blois

Partonopeus de Blois

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