Circus Dreams: The Making of a Circus Artist

A study which follows 18 year old Montana Miller and her classmates through one year of intensive training for the circus, from trapeze, to acting, dance, juggling, clowning, tightrope and acrobatics on horseback.

Circus dreams: The making of a circus artist

Kathleen Cushman

Macmillan/McGraw-Hill Pub. Co

The Real Boys' Workbook is a unique, instructive workbook, full of advice, exercises, and stories to help parents, professionals, and boys themselves understand boys—and how to make life with them better. How to listen to boys, talk and be with them, exercises to teach you new ways to handle situations, and strategies for coping with problems (drug and alcohol abuse, gender identity, depression, bullies) are addressed, as readers are encouraged to respond to questions and situations, to learn how to think about boys with new understanding, and to react more creatively. Through writing down responses in the workbook, using the charts and summaries, and taking part in the provocative question-and-answer sections, you will gain insight into boys and their problems and be better able to be with them in effective and powerful ways.

Real Boys Workbook: The Definitive Guide to Understanding and Interacting with Boys of All Ages

William S. Pollack

Reference

Villard

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

Teens talk to adults about how they develop motivation and masteryThrough 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. 
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<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

"The melding of reform approaches by the Coalition of EssentialSchools and of the 'school-to-work' movement has been inevitable aswell as sensible. In Schooling for the Real World, Adria Steinberg,Kathleen Cushman, and Robert Riordan outline how these reforminitiatives have effectively coiled together and put theircollective experience into an accessible and usable form. Given itscomplexity, the practical reshaping of America's high schools willsurely be a messy business. The authors bring some order from theirexperience and thereby provide all of us a big boostahead."--Theodore R. Sizer, chairman, Coalition of EssentialSchools "Schooling for the Real World offers many practical ways forteachers and schools to provide young people a genuine educationthat gives them experience in the world. Such experience addsconsiderable value to what is studied in school and helps youngpeople see themselves as citizens of their places, persons who arehighly valued for their seriousness of purpose and hard work byadults in their communities."--Vito Perrone, director of Programsin Teaching, Harvard Graduate School of Education In today's workplace, the "knowledge worker" has become key to highperformance. This person must have not only multiple talents andskills, but a sound understanding of what works in the real world.This incisive book argues for schooling that combines rigorousacademic instruction with learning in real-world settings. Itoffers practical strategies for designing effective learningprograms, developing a strong curriculum, setting standards andgoals, assessing student work, supporting rewarding internships,and much more. In clear and straightforward language, the authors presentinspiring examples of successful schools from such organizations asthe Coalition of Essential Schools, Jobs for the Future, and NewUrban High Schools to show how work-based learning can become aschoolwide effort--and not simply a specialized program. Throughoutthe book, there are examples offering important lessons and toolsto administrators, teachers, policymakers, and community leaders.Schooling for the Real World heralds a future in which theknowledge worker is not the exception, but the rule.

Schooling for the Real World: The Essential Guide to Rigorous and Relevant Learning

Adria Steinberg

Whether talking about dress codes, detention policies, or school security, teenagers want to help make school a place they care about. Leaders of the nation's 300,000 high schools will be listening to their strategies for changing school culture so that students will invest in their own success.

Sent To The Principal: Students Talk About Making High Schools Better

Next Generation Pr

Schools across the United States have increasingly decided that "small is beautiful." Yet school planners confront crucial facilities challenges as they create smaller, more personalized learning communities that boost student achievement. Here, a team of experienced architects and educators charts a practical and elegant path through the maze of decisions encountered in a school building conversion project. Filled with examples from the field, Architecture for Achievement sets out a "pattern language" with which planners can explore the architectural details that will make or break their school's design. This network of basic principles sheds light on a wide range of issues, helping readers work out a coherent vision of what their own school requires, and why. Architecture for Achievement combines striking visual models with concise architectural explanations and practical advice - and sets all of this in the context of thoughtful school change. For teachers, community members, contractors, school board members, designers, and all those who participate in the project, it guides the way to a place that supports all students in learning.

Architecture for Achievement: Building Patterns for Small School Learning

Victoria Bergsagel

Tim Best

David Stephen

Lorne McConachie

Wendy Sauer

Eagle Chatter Press

Get out your Number 2 pencils! What do inner-city teenagers know that the rest of us may not? What can they do that others might find daunting? What can we all learn, from thinking through the issues that confront urban youth at school and in their neighborhoods? SAT Bronx aims to find out, by framing the words and experiences of fourteen Bronx high school students in the form of standardized test passages. To answer its multiple-choice questions (co-constructed with two of the students teachers and with Kathleen Cushman of What Kids Can Do), one must analyze complex matters of culture, language, behavior, even governmental policy. On this test, the only way to get the right answers is to pay close attention to the words, experiences, and perspectives of its young co-authors. Taking SAT Bronx opens important conversations about multiculturalism and equity, knowledge and skills, and the assumptions that underlie our thinking about urban youth. Discussion questions for both youth and adults follow each section. SAT Bronx developed as a collaborative project of What Kids Can Do, Inc. with generous support from Adobe Youth Voices, a global network of educators and youth who share their ideas, concerns, and aspirations using Adobe's media tools.

SAT Bronx: Do You Know What Bronx Kids Know?

Students from Bronx Leadership Academy 2

Shannon O'Grady

Kristin Ferrales

Next Generation Press

Since its initial publication in hardcover in 2003, Fires in the Bathroom has been through multiple printings and received the attention of teachers across the country. Now in paperback, Kathleen Cushman’s groundbreaking book offers original insights into teaching teenagers in today’s hard-pressed urban high schools from the point of view of the students themselves. It speaks to both new and established teachers, giving them firsthand information about who their students are and what they need to succeed. Students from across the country contributed perceptive and pragmatic answers to questions of how teachers can transcend the barriers of adolescent identity and culture to reach the diverse student body in today’s urban schools. With the fresh and often surprising perspectives of youth, they tackle tough issues such as increasing engagement and motivation, teaching difficult academic material, reaching English-language learners, and creating a classroom culture where respect and success go hand in hand.

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

Science & Math

Behavioral Sciences

The New Press

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