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Reading Essentials: The Specifics You Need to Teach Reading Well
Regie Routman
Heinemann, 2002
Great book!
I am getting my Master of Arts in Teaching and this book was recommended by my professor. It is amazing for anyone either looking into teaching or someone that's already been a teacher for years. Routman is down to earth about her methods. She gives you the comfort ...
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The Wisdom of Teams: Creating the High-Performance Organization (Collins Business Essentials)
Jon R. Katzenbach, Douglas K. Smith
Collins Business, 2003
How to form high-performance teams
What's nice about Jon R. Katzenbach and Douglas K. Smith's book is their willingness to name the truth. They know that everyone pays lip service to teams, but few people act like they truly value teams - and fewer still actually know how teams really work. The authors ...
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The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book that Will Change the Way You Do Business (Collins Business ...
Clayton M. Christensen
Collins Business, 2003
Disrupt your competitors, not your customers!
With the Innovator's Dilemma, Clayton Christensen delivers a very powerful analysis of the role of innovation in gaining market leadership. The question raised is whether market leadership can be sustained through innovation alone. Indeed, the core of the Innovator's ...
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Reengineering the Corporation: A Manifesto for Business Revolution (Collins Business Essentials)
Michael Hammer, James Champy
Collins Business, 2004
Reengineering the Corporation
Very satified with book, shipping, packaging, and timely fachion sent and received.
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100 Sight Word Mini-Books: Instant Fill-in Mini-Books That Teach 100 Essential Sight Words
Lisa Cestnik, Jay Cestnik
Teaching Resources, 2005
great learning book
This book is very good. It has an advantage of 3 ways to teach each sight word, writing it,using it in 4 short sentences and then the cute word find which is simple for kids trying to learn those first sight words.
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The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever
Christopher Hitchens
Da Capo Press, 2007
Valuable Anthology - Not Just for Atheists
Just like the Bible can also be appreciated by non-believers, due to its impact on world history, it is not required to be an atheist to appreciate this anti-religious anthology.
First of all, what I liked about it was that it was actually of a less polemical nature ...
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Essentials of Evidence-Based Academic Interventions (Essentials of Psychological Assessment)
Barbara J. Wendling, Nancy Mather
Wiley, 2008
Federal laws such as No Child Left Behind mandate that schools demonstrate how federal funds are being spent on scientifically based programs, making it essential that practitioners know which procedures are most effective for improving academic performance. Essentials of Evidence-Based Academic Interventions collects in one convenient reference ...
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Leaders: Strategies for Taking Charge (Collins Business Essentials)
Warren G. Bennis, Burt Nanus
Collins Business, 2003
A Great One!
Of all the books I have read on leadership, I will have to put this one in the top five. Bennis and Nanus have masterly laid out the essential principles of leaders and have also substantiated them with poignant examples.
Their revision is greatly welcome by those ...
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The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Modern Library Classics)
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Modern Library, 2000
Nietzsche's Mentor
Ralph Waldo Emerson could be called America's first Great Man of Letters (sorry Washington Irving). He is the one who started the transendentalist movement in America, influenced Whitman and Thoreau to name a few, and was one of the first framers of the idea and the ...
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Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco
Bryan Burrough, John Helyar
Collins Business, 2003
A Big Deal
Barbarians at the Gate is a classic of the business book genre, and with the private equity boom we have seen in the last couple of years, it is still as relevant as it was when it came twenty years ago. It is the story or some extremely unlikable rich people brought ...
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The Essential Bible Guide: 100 Readings Through the World's Most Important Book
Whitney Kuniholm
Shaw Books, 2003
8 Out of 10 People Will Never Read Thru the Bible
A weeklong Bible-reading marathon on Italian television was launched Oct. 5, 2008, by Pope Benedict XVI as he read "In the beginning" from the first chapter of Genesis. RAI state TV was broadcasting "The Bible Day and Night" marathon featuring more than 1,200 people ...
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Teaching With Favorite Jan Brett Books: Engaging Activities That Build Essential Reading and Writing Skills ...
Jacqueline Clarke
Teaching Resources, 2005
Excellent Jan Brett resource
If you are a teacher and teach using Jan Brett books this is an excellent resource to add to your library. It has many creative activities to compliment some of her most popular book titles. With writing being one of the critical components of the new standardized ...
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Speech to Print: Language Essentials for Teachers
Louisa Cook Moats
Brookes Publishing Company, 2000
Very important text.
I bought this book a few years ago after attending the International Dyslexia Association Conference and seeing Louisa Moats speak. She gave the audience of Denver teachers the "language survey" to see what we all knew about language. I stumbled on quite a few of the ...
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Teaching Essentials: Expecting the Most and Getting the Best from Every Learner, K-8
Regie Routman
Heinemann, 2007
Essential for Every Teacher
This is a wonderful and inspiring book for teachers. It helps you to remember why you wanted to teach in the first place and how to get back to doing what you love.
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Building Academic Language: Essential Practices for Content Classrooms, Grades 5-12 (Jossey-Bass Teacher)
Jeff Zwiers
Jossey-Bass, 2007
Signaling a coming of age in adolescent literacy instruction
Have you been waiting for this book too? Jeff Zwiers' newest book, "Building Academic Language: Essential Practices..." represents a "coming of age" with respect to the nation-wide focus, intensified less than a decade ago, on improving adolescent literacy instruction. ...
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