Carl Anderson, Supreme Knight of the Knights of Columbus, surveys the exciting and history-changing ideas of Pope John Paul II in A Civilization of Love. By popularizing not only John Paul's vision but also that of his successor, Benedict XVI, Anderson hopes to inspire Christians to work toward creating a civilization of love. In such a civilization every person is a child of God. We are all intrinsically valuable. The battle today is between the culture of death (where people are judged by their social or economic value) and the culture of life. Anderson pushes aside religious differences in order to spread a message of hope to those who are weary of the constant turmoil of modern society. While he does specifically challenge Christians to take an active role in their faith, you do not have to be a Christian to participate in the movement toward a civilization of love.
By embracing the culture of life and standing with those most marginalized and deemed "useless" or a "burden" on modern society, Christians can change the tone and direction of our culture. Anderson demonstrates that regardless of our differences, we can come together on the centrality of loving and caring for others. He brings a message of inclusion and hope in the midst of a clash of civilizations and provides a road map for helping Christians understand their role in the world.

A Civilization of Love: What Every Catholic Can Do to Transform the World

Religion & Spirituality

ANDERSON, Carl

Christian Books & Bibles

HarperOne

Now Includes a Survey of the Popes' Statements on Building a "Civilization of Love"
Carl Anderson, Supreme Knight of the Knights of Columbus, surveys the history-changing ideas of Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI, and brings a message of inclusion and hope in the midst of a battle between the culture of death and the culture of life, providing a road map to help Christians understand their role in the world.

If you follow politics or the news, America is a country of culture wars and great divides, a partisan place of red states and blue states, of us against them. From pundits to politicians it seems that anyone with an audience sees a polarized country - a country at war with itself. In a radical departure from this "conventional wisdom," Carl Anderson explores what the talking heads have missed: an overwhelming American consensus on many of the country's seemingly most divisive issues. If the debates are shrill in public, he says, there is a quiet consensus in private - one that America's institutions ignore at their peril. From health care, to the role of religion in America, to abortion, to the importance of traditional ethics in business and society, Anderson uses fresh polling data and keen insight in BEYOND A HOUSE DIVIDED to show that a surprising consensus has emerged despite these debates. He sheds light on what's been missing in the public and political debates of the last several years: the consensus that isn't hard to find if you know where to look. For Anderson, allowing polar opposites to drive the discussion has made the resolution of contentious issues impossible. Instead, he says, we should look to the consensus among Americans as the best prospect for a beneficial conclusion.

Beyond a House Divided: The Moral Consensus Ignored by Washington, Wall Street, and the Media

Business & Money

Economics

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Our one-on-one talks with students during writing workshop offer us perfect opportunities to zero in on what each student needs as a writer. As Lead Staff Developer for the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project, Carl Anderson has provided hundreds of teachers with the information and confidence they need to make these complex conferences an effective part of classroom practice. Finally, in How's It Going?, Anderson shares his expertise with the rest of us. 
 For Anderson, the key to a powerful writing conference lies in understanding that it is a conversation with a clear purpose and a predictable structure. This is the best lens through which to view the task of talking about writing. To that end, Anderson shows how we can take what we already know about having effective conversations and use that knowledge. Sample transcripts of conferences with elementary and middle school students in both urban and suburban settings walk us through the process step by step, providing new insight into how ambitious conferences unfold. 
 Above all, How's It Going? is a practical book. Written in a conversational style, it's filled with lots of useful advice, including an in-depth discussion of the teacher's role in conferences, strategies for teaching students to take an active role, ways to weave in literature, minilessons, classroom management strategies, and responses to the most frequently asked questions about conferring. Along the way, readers will learn new ways of thinking, develop effective techniques, and perfect straightforward strategies. At the same time, they'll grasp the art and logic of conferring, and with this learning in mind, discover for themselves how to confer well.

How's It Going?: A Practical Guide to Conferring with Student Writers

Education & Reference

Heinemann

The Fostering Algebraic Thinking Toolkit

  The Fostering Algebraic Thinking Toolkit is a set of professional development materials.  The Toolkit features four separate modules.  The second and fourth include a video   This module takes a step beyond analysis of written student work

Reference

Driscoll, Mark

Nikula, Johannah

Zawojewski, Judith

Words, Language & Grammar

Mark Driscoll and codevelopers of The Fostering Algebraic Thinking Toolkit: A Guide for Staff Development will conduct the secondFostering Algebraic Thinking Facilitation Institute at the Education Development Center in Newton, Massachusetts, from July 21 to July 25, 2003.Commenting on their experience at the 2002 Institute, participants cited a range of new insights and skills they gained, including how todesign with purpose infuse facilitation into listening and questioning employ different strategies to manage group dynamics capitalize on diversity in mathematical thinking. As one participant noted, "It was great to learn and network with other professionals and to think more deeply about improving my techniques as a facilitator and presenter."For more information about the Institute, contact Angela Martino at 617.969.7100, ext. 2524, oramartino@edc.org. The Fostering Algebraic Thinking Toolkit is a set of professional development materials whose goal is to help mathematics teachers in grades 6-10 learn to identify, describe, and foster algebraic thinking in their students. Underlying the Toolkit is a core belief that good mathematics teaching begins with understanding how mathematics is learned. The focus here is on how students think about mathematics.The Toolkit features four separate modules containing notes for the facilitator and reproducible blackline masters for the workshop participants. Each module concentrates on a different kind of classroom evidence and, in facilitated sessions, asks teachers to collect student and/or teacher data to share and analyze with colleagues. A module can be covered in four three-hour sessions.The first module, Introduction and Analyzing Written Student Work gives participants an opportunity to analyze students' written work for evidence of algebraic thinking, and to become comfortable with the language of the algebraic habits of mind, before moving on to one of the other modules. Each of the three remaining modules builds on the work done here.Asking Questions of StudentsTogether with the accompanying video, this module offers a change both in the type of student data considered-from written to real time-and in the emphasis of the module-from understanding to fostering student thinking. Of the four modules, this one puts the least emphasis on looking at student thinking and focuses more specifically on the relationship between teacher intentions and teacher questions.

The Fostering Algebraic Thinking Toolkit (Asking Questions of Students) with VHS Tape

Science & Math

Mathematics

When it comes to writing assessment, there's no better judge of what your students know and are able to do than you. And when it comes to advice on best practices for assessment, there's no better source than Carl Anderson's Assessing Writers. Like he did in the popular and highly acclaimed How's It Going?, Anderson offers smart, ready-to-use ideas for assessment. Assessing Writers offers practical methods for gathering information about every writer in your classroom and shows you how to create writing lessons that address the needs of individual students as well as the whole class. Anderson's straightforward approach helps you imagine an ongoing assessment program that takes you from meeting new students to designing curriculum. In Assessing Writers you'll find out: 
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<li>what you need to know about students to assess them as writers</li> <li>how to uncover and make sense of this information</li> <li>how to make an individualized plan for each student</li> <li>how to use these plans when you confer</li> <li>how to structure units of study to meet classroom-wide needs.</li> </ul> Let Carl Anderson be your guide as you place assessment at the center of writing instruction. With a wealth of smart suggestions, useful charts, reproducible rubrics, and activities for professional reflection, Assessing Writers gives you powerful tools that make assessment simple and effective.

Assessing Writers

Carl Anderson's Strategic Writing Conferences is a curriculum resource and diagnostic guide for writing teachers looking to use conferences to move young writers another step forward. These conferences will enhance your current writing curriculum and help you confer with greater purpose and effectiveness. Components 
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<li>The Teacher's Guide outlines the principles that shape Carl's approach to conferring and provides tools for diagnosing common writing problems.</li> <li>
Three conference books present over one hundred conferences organized around three stages of writing-identifying topics, crafting drafts, and polishing finished projects. Each book opens with a diagnostic guide that helps you locate a conference that addresses a student's particular area of need.</li> <li>Two Carl on Camera DVDs provide video-based professional development support. 1) On Introducing Strategic Writing Conferences Carl explains the elements of an effective conference, conferring concepts, and ways to assess young writers. 2) On Modeling Strategic Writing Conferences eleven full length conferences let you eaves drop on Carl as he confers with students at various stages of the writing process.</li> </ol>

Strategic Writing Conferences: Smart Conversations that Move Young Writers Forward (Firsthand)

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

How can I get started with conferring or improve my conferences? How can I fit conferences into my busy writing workshop schedule? How can conferences help me meet the diverse needs of student writers? Helping students become better writers is what writing conferences are all about.In A Teacher's Guide to Writing Conferences, Carl Anderson explains the underlying principles and reasons for conferring with students, and how to make writing conferences a part of your daily routine. With clear and accessible language, Carl guides you through the three main parts of a writing conference, and shows you the teaching moves and intentional language that can be used in each one. He helps you understand: - how to get started with conferring, or improve your existing conferences - how to use conferences to meet the diverse needs of your student writers - how to fit conferences into your busy writing workshop schedule. More than 25 videos bring the content to life, while Teacher Tips, Q&amp;A's, and Recommended Reading lists provide everything you need to help you become a better writing teacher.

A Teacher's Guide to Writing Conferences: The Classroom Essentials Series

Ray, Katie Wood

In this step-by-step guide, Carl Anderson shows you how to put teaching with mentor texts at the center of the way you teach writing in your elementary classroom. You'll learn how to find just-right mentor texts for your students, analyze them for multiple craft and convention teaching points, and teach with mentor texts with your whole class, in small group lessons, and in writing conferences.\nClassroom video, annotated mentor texts and student writing samples, and teaching and planning tools will give you what you need to teach effectively with mentor texts.

A Teacher's Guide to Mentor Texts, K-5: The Classroom Essentials Series

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Books by ANDERSON, Carl

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A Civilization of Love: What Every Catholic Can Do to Transform the World

A Civilization of Love: What Every Catholic Can Do to Transform the World

Beyond a House Divided: The Moral Consensus Ignored by Washington, Wall Street, and the Media

How's It Going?: A Practical Guide to Conferring with Student Writers

The Fostering Algebraic Thinking Toolkit

The Fostering Algebraic Thinking Toolkit (Asking Questions of Students) with VHS Tape

Assessing Writers

Strategic Writing Conferences: Smart Conversations that Move Young Writers Forward (Firsthand)

A Teacher's Guide to Writing Conferences: The Classroom Essentials Series

A Teacher's Guide to Mentor Texts, K-5: The Classroom Essentials Series