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Schools are busy places! Lots of community helpers are needed to make a school run smoothly. Listeners will learn about who works at a school, what the workers do, and what makes a school special. Simple, at-level text helps listeners learn all about schools in the community.

Charles Dickens was a writer and social critic who created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime, and by the twentieth century critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories enjoy lasting popularity.

A school resource officer plays a diverse role in the school community and has many duties and responsibilities. In Police in Our School, kids learn about the important role their school resource officer plays in the protection of their school. Becky Coyle learned firsthand how children can misunderstand officer's roles in schools through her work as an elementary-school resource officer.

It's Our School, It's Our Time outlines a whole-school approach to teacher-pupil collaboration, illustrating how aspects of social inequality can be addressed by involvement in the school community and active participation in decision—making from an early age. The book presents insights into the psychological processes that are at work when pupils and teachers share decision-making, and how this can harness and increase motivation for teachers and pupils.

Play is how children explore, discover, fail, succeed, socialize, and flourish. It is a fundamental element of the human condition. It's the key to giving schoolchildren skills they need to succeed. Expert organizations such as the American Academy of Pediatrics, the National Academy of Sciences, and the Centers for Disease Control agree that play and physical activity are critical foundations of childhood, academics, and future skills - yet politicians are destroying play in childhood education.

A brilliant research mathematician reveals math to be a creative art form on par with painting, poetry, and sculpture, and rejects the standard anxiety-producing teaching methods used in most schools today. Witty and accessible, Paul Lockhart's controversial approach will provoke spirited debate among educators and parents alike, altering the way we think about math forever.

In Creating Cultures of Thinking: The 8 Forces We Must Master to Truly Transform Our Schools, Ron Ritchhart, author of Making Thinking Visible, explains how creating a culture of thinking is more important to learning than any particular curriculum, and he outlines how any school or teacher can accomplish this by leveraging eight cultural forces: expectations, language, time, modeling, opportunities, routines, interactions, and environment.

Drawing on his twenty years as a teacher, hundreds of interviews and his experience on the UK Government's Social Mobility Commission, Sammy Wright shows that schools are - and should be - so much more than this. Filled with funny, tender encounters and an unflinching focus on the profound challenges of daily life for both teachers and pupils, his book argues that we need urgently to think of school differently: as something more like a home than a factory, a community hub rather than a boot-camp or testing ground.

Rob Buyea returns to his beloved MR. TERUPT series with a warm-hearted, multi-POV school story about five kids drawn together by unexpected events and one very special student teacher—a familiar face from the Mr. Terupt universe! School is b-o-r-i-n-g, until a student teacher shakes things up!...

Welcome to Our Schools, Our Stories, the Wayne County Public Schools podcast where we celebrate the amazing achievements happening in our classrooms, hallways, and communities. Join us as we shine a spotlight on the students, staff, and programs that make our district a place of pride and innovation. From inspiring success stories to behind-the-scenes looks at what makes our schools thrive, this is your front-row seat to the heart of education. Together, let's share the stories that shape our future!

Our school district is Richland County CUSD #1, located in Olney, a rural community in Southern Illinois. Our mission is to explore why public education matters by talking to the people who live it every day: teachers, students, administrators, staff, and community members across Richland County.Each season, your host Mr. Ryden sits down for conversations about what matters in our schools. From how we all learn and grow to AI, mental health, bullying, and the everyday realities of school life, this podcast looks at the issues shaping public education through a local lens.It’s about listening...

Describes the role of different adults in the school setting.

Are you ready to hear honest conversations about what’s holding us back from living our optimal lives? Have you been dreaming of finding a community where you can grow? Want a space where you can dream big and laugh? Yes! Welcome. We are excited you’re here and can’t wait to start this journey with you. “Community is important. Honest conversations are important. That is why we are starting this podcast.” Hosted by Jenna Veirs and Denise Mayree. Our School of Heart is honest conversations about living an optimal, growth-oriented life. Jenna and Denise get real about relationships, ...

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Bringing people together for respectful conversations about today’s most contentious issues affecting our schools. A way forward in divided times.

Welcome to The State of Our Schools, a podcast to explore and refine Ohio's future, Education. Each episode discusses pressing education policy topics in Ohio and features interviews with Ohio education experts. The Podcast host, Michael Collins is a Public Education Advocate working in the arena for 30+ years. The State of Our Schools podcast is presented by Real Choice Ohio.

Why do some leaders double their team’s effectiveness, while others seem to drain the energy right out of the room? Using insights gained from more than 100 interviews with school leaders, this book pinpoints the five disciplines that define how Multipliers bring out the best across their schools.

A podcast discussing all issues around Education in Ireland. Bringing the inside conversations outside.

This enormously fascinating and practical book shows parents and teachers how to help boys overcome their current classroom obstacles by helping to create the proper learning environment, understand how to help boys work with their unique natural gifts, nurture and expand every bit of their potential, and enabling them to succeed in life the way they ought to.

This is a book that celebrates the most neglected but valuable emotion we can feel: melancholy. Melancholy isn’t depression, rage, or bitterness. It’s a serene, wise, and kindly response to the difficulties of being alive. It helps us navigate a wise and rational middle ground between extreme despair and naïve optimism. But melancholy is a well-kept secret. It isn't celebrated or recommended. It remains relatively unexplored in a hyper-competitive, noisy, frantic age.