Circus dreams: The making of a circus artist

Text and photographs follow eighteen-year-old Montana Miller's move to France to study with the circus in hopes of becoming a trapeze artist

Circus Dreams: The Making of a Circus Artist

Cushman, Kathleen

Miller, Montana

Arts & Photography

Little,Brown & Co

In this unusual advice book, teenagers from around the country talk openly of their real feelings about their parents and other important adults in their lives. They offer insights and strategies for connecting with adolescents in this all-important stage of life.

What We Can't Tell You: Teenagers Talk To The Adults In Their Lives

Parenting & Relationships

Parenting

Next Generation Pr

If we can do it, so can you! That's the message sent to students in this advice book, written with college students who were the first in their families to go past high school. It's tough to aim for college if other family members have not--so this book offers the kind of encouraging, practical guidance that an older sibling would give. Inspiring stories of the diverse student contributors--who end up at institutions from community colleges to elite universities--combined with warm and well-organized counsel and checklists.

First in the Family: Advice About College from First-Generation Students; Your High School Years

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

A companion to First in the Family: Your High School Years, this next-step guidebook straight from their peers tells first-generation college students how to stay in college and graduate.

First in the Family: Advice About College from First Generation Students

Self-Help

Motivational

Fires in the Mind: What Kids Can Tell Us About Motivation and Mastery

Teens talk to adults about how they develop motivation and mastery Through the voices of students themselves, Fires in the Mind brings a game-changing question to teachers of adolescents: What does it take to get really good at something? Starting with what they already know and do well, teenagers from widely diverse backgrounds join a cutting-edge dialogue with adults about the development of mastery in and out of school. Their insights frame motivation, practice, and academic challenge in a new light that galvanizes more powerful learning for all. To put these students' ideas into practice, the book also includes practical tips for educators. <ul>
<li>Breaks new ground by bringing youth voices to a timely topic-motivation and mastery</li> <li>Includes worksheets, tips, and discussion guides that help put the book's ideas into practice</li> <li>Author has 18 previous books on adolescent learning and has written for the New York Times Magazine, Educational Leadership, and American Educator
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From the acclaimed author of Fires in the Bathroom, this is the next-step book that pushes the conversation to next level, as teenagers tackle the pressing challenges of motivation and mastery.

Education & Teaching

The Students of What Kids Can Do

Schools & Teaching

Jossey-Bass

High school students share their views on what teachers can do to motivate students to learn.

Fires in the Bathroom: Advice for Teachers from High School Students

The New Press

Learning from the Student's Perspective

Much has been written about how to engage students in their learning, but very little of it has issued from students themselves. Compiled by one of the leading scholars in the field of student voice, this sourcebook draws on the perspectives of secondary students in the United States, England, Canada, and Australia as well as on the work of teachers, researchers, and teacher educators who have collaborated with a wide variety of students.Highlighting student voices, it features five chapters focused on student perspectives, articulated in their own words, regarding specific approaches to creating and maintaining a positive classroom environment and designing engaging lessons and on more general issues of respect and responsibility in the classroom. To support educators in developing strategies for accessing and responding to student voices in their own classrooms, the book provides detailed guidelines created by educational researchers for gathering and acting upon student perspectives. To illustrate how these approaches work in practice, the book includes stories of how pre-service and in-service teachers, school leaders, and teacher educators have made student voices and participation central to their classroom and school practices. And finally, addressing both practical and theoretical questions, the book includes a chapter that outlines action steps for high school teachers, school leaders, and teacher educators and a chapter that offers a conceptual framework for thinking about and engaging in this work. Bringing together in a single text student perspectives, descriptions of successful efforts to access them in secondary education contexts, concrete advice for practitioners, and a theoretical framework for further exploration, this sourcebook can be used to guide practice and support re-imagining education in secondary schools of all kinds, and the principles can be adapted for other educational contexts.

Learning from the Student's Perspective: A Sourcebook for Effective Teaching

Cook-Sather, Alison

Clarke, Brandon

Easton, Lois

Condon, Daniel

Demetriou, Helen

Routledge

The highly anticipated sequel to the bestselling Fires in the Bathroom—filled with practical, honest advice from middle school students to their teachers. Following on the heels of the bestselling Fires in the Bathroom, which brought the insights of high school students to teachers and parents, Kathleen Cushman now turns her attention to the crucial and challenging middle grades, joining forces with adolescent psychologist Laura Rogers. As teachers, counselors, and parents cope with the roller coaster of early adolescence, too few stop to ask students what they think about these critical years. Here, middle school students in grades 5 through 8 across the country and from diverse ethnic backgrounds offer insights on what it takes to make classrooms more effective and how to forge stronger relationships between young adolescents and adults. Students tackle such critical topics as social, emotional, and academic pressures; classroom behavior; organization; and preparing for high school. Cushman and Rogers help readers hear and understand the vital messages about adolescent learning that come through in what these students say. This invaluable resource provides a unique window into how middle school students think, feel, and learn, bringing their needs to the forefront of the conversation about education.

Fires in the Middle School Bathroom: Advice for Teachers from Middle Schoolers

Rogers, Laura

New Press

The highly anticipated sequel to the bestselling Fires in the Bathroom—filled with practical, honest advice from middle school students to their teachers Following on the heels of the bestselling Fires in the Bathroom, which brought the insights of high school students to teachers and parents, Kathleen Cushman now turns her attention to the crucial and challenging middle grades, joining forces with adolescent psychologist Laura Rogers. As teachers, counselors, and parents cope with the roller coaster of early adolescence, too few stop to ask students what they think about these critical years. Here, middle school students in grades 5 through 8 across the country and from diverse ethnic backgrounds offer insights on what it takes to make classrooms more effective and how to forge stronger relationships between young adolescents and adults. Students tackle such critical topics as social, emotional, and academic pressures; classroom behavior; organization; and preparing for high school. Cushman and Rogers help readers hear and understand the vital messages about adolescent learning that come though in what these students say. This invaluable resource provides a unique window into how middle school students think, feel, and learn, bringing their needs to the forefront of the conversation about education.

Belonging and Becoming: The Power of Social and Emotional Learning in High Schools

Despite growing attention to the importance of grit and other character traits for achievement, developing them in students rarely finds its way into secondary school curricula. Authors Barbara Cervone and Kathleen Cushman investigate the exceptions, telling the stories of five high schools with a national reputation for infusing rigorous academics with social and emotional learning, which results in demonstrable benefits for students. Based on extensive interviews and on-site visits, the book identifies six elements that all of these schools have in common, including advisories and other structural supports for students and teachers; rituals and other means for establishing an intentional, reflective, and respectful community as well as a firm commitment to restorative justice; and a broad and engaging curriculum that includes service learning. Featuring the voices of educators and students alike, Belonging and Becoming not only shows how these schools stand out for their high degree of caring and success, but makes a strong case for why other schools should be inspired to take up the challenge and replicate their efforts.

Cervone, Barbara

Harvard Education Press

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Circus Dreams: The Making of a Circus Artist

What We Can't Tell You: Teenagers Talk To The Adults In Their Lives

First in the Family: Advice About College from First-Generation Students; Your High School Years

First in the Family: Advice About College from First Generation Students

Fires in the Mind: What Kids Can Tell Us About Motivation and Mastery

Fires in the Bathroom: Advice for Teachers from High School Students

Learning from the Student's Perspective: A Sourcebook for Effective Teaching

Fires in the Middle School Bathroom: Advice for Teachers from Middle Schoolers

Fires in the Middle School Bathroom: Advice for Teachers from Middle Schoolers

Belonging and Becoming: The Power of Social and Emotional Learning in High Schools