In Kelly Gallagher's high school classroom in Anaheim, California, students are not only learning to comprehend difficult novels and texts, they are developing the skills and behaviors of lifelong readers. Drawing from his books Reading Reasons and Deeper Reading, Kelly's new video set brings effective reading strategies to life. Presenting examples of both small- and whole-group discussions, Building Adolescent Readers demonstrates how to engage...

The Godmother of Silicon Valley, legendary teacher, and mother of a Super Family shares her tried-and-tested methods for raising happy, healthy, successful children using Trust, Respect, Independence, Collaboration, and Kindness: TRICK.
Esther Wojcicki—"Woj" to her many friends and admirers—is famous for three things: teaching a high school class that has changed the lives of thousands of kids, inspiring Silicon Valley...

Bel Kaufman's Up the Down Staircase is one of the best-loved novels of our time. It has been translated into sixteen languages, made into a prizewinning motion picture, and staged as a play at high schools all over the United States; its very title has become part of the American idiom.Never before has a novel so compellingly laid bare the inner workings of a metropolitan high school. Up the Down Staircase is the funny and touching story of a committed,...

This programme looks at Body Analysis.--Kanopy.

Insight Text Guides - Wild Cat Falling is designed to help secondary English students understand and analyse the text. This comprehensive guide to the novel by Mudrooroo contains detailed chapter and character analysis and explores language, genre, structure and themes. Essay questions and sample answers help to prepare students for creating written responses to the text.

The I-Search process differs from traditional research in that it focuses as much on the process as the product of research. I-Search requires the researcher to identify what he or she already knows about the topic, what questions he or she would like answered, what knowledge others hold on the topic, and how that new knowledge has enriched and changed his or her understanding of the topic. • Relates to all content areas • Helps students practice...

The Insight Text Guide on Conrad's Heart of Darkness provides detailed chapter-by-chapter analyses as well as discussions of context, genre, structure, language, characters and themes. It also includes an overview of critical responses to the novella and develops contrasting interpretations. Analytical responses to the text are further supported through sample essay topics, an analysis of a topic and a complete sample essay on the text.

Insight Text Guides - The Complete Maus is designed to help secondary English students understand and analyse the text. This comprehensive guide to Art Spiegelman's graphic novel contains detailed character and chapter analysis and explores genre, structure, themes and language. Essay questions and sample answers help to prepare students for creating written responses to the text.

This book is the story about the best-kept secret in Leicester: New College, a secondary school and sixth form college located in west Leicester. The past still haunts the reputation of New College, which was labelled the worst school in the country in 2005. Today New College is an exceptional educational establishment where its values are integral to everything on offer for students and staff. From once having failed to provide a good education to...