Based on an extensive worldwide study, this book reveals what gets boys excited about learning 
Reaching Boys, Teaching Boys challenges the widely-held cultural impression that boys are stubbornly resistant to schooling while providing concrete examples of pedagogy and instructional style that have been proven effective in a variety of school settings. This book offers more than 100 detailed examples of lessons that succeed with male students, grouped thematically. Such themes include: Gaming, Motor Activities, Open Inquiry, Competition, Interactive Technology, and Performance/Role Play. Woven throughout the book is moving testimony from boys that both validates the success of the lessons and adds a human dimension to their impact. <ul>
<li>The author's presents more than 100+ specific activities for all content areas that have proven successful with male students</li> <li>Draws on an in-depth, worldwide study to reveal what lessons and strategies most engage boys in the classroom</li> <li>Has been described as the missing link that our schools need for the better education of boys</li> </ul>

Reaching Boys, Teaching Boys: Strategies that Work -- and Why

Education & Teaching

Richard Hawley

Michael Reichert

Schools & Teaching

Jossey-Bass

The Kiski School is celebrating its 125th year, and a long look backwards reveals an inspiring and often surprising story. Great schools worldwide have typically been founded or revitalized by passionate visionaries: Thomas Arnold of Rugby, Endicott Peabody of Groton, Frank Boyden of Deerfield. Kiski's founder, Andrew Wilson, was such a figure. Like his distinguished forerunners he managed to combine a deeply ingrained piety and robust athleticism with a loving commitment to a particular place. Moreover, the great boarding schools of the eastern United States have been, at their best, family schools, mitigating the rigors of scholarship and physical challenges with warm, caring residential life, faculty and spouses serving not merely in loco parentis but as genuinely parental mentors and guides and often lifelong friends. Through its first half century Kiski did not merely feel like a family school--it genuinely was. The remarkable Andrew Wilson guided the school through its first four decades with the inspired assistance of his wife, daughters, sons-in-law, and his closest friends. Only in 1957 would school leadership pass out of the family--and then to a man, young John (Jack)Anderson Pidgeon, who not only adhered to the course established by Wilson and his heirs but managed over forty-six years to breathe new life into it. Today, under Headmaster Chris Brueningsen's thoughtful guidance, Kiski continues to be what it has always been at its best: a scholastically rigorous school with a demonstrated capacity to transform uncertain scholars into confident, capable ones. Kiski is still a family school in which the adult commitment to students extends far beyond the classroom. It is still a school where a boy's decency and character are more highly valued than any scholastic, athletic or other achievement. In extent and breadth of program it is a school Andrew Wilson could never have imagined-- and yet would recognize instantly. Kiski, perhaps foremost, is a school for boys, and this is its story.

Kiski: The Story of a Boys' School

The Kiski School

This major collection of 47 new short stories is the second in the acclaimed series from Short Story America. Full of great contemporary stories by established, emerging and new authors, Short Story America gives new life to the tradition of quality short fiction in American and world cultures. James Goertel writes about the series: "This is a great collection, perhaps the best anthology series of the 21st century."

Short Story America: Volume II

Literature & Fiction

Marjorie Brody

Foust

Mark S. Jackson

Alan Heathcock

Vanessa Hemingway

D.G. Bracey

Andrew Felming

Warren Slesinger

T.S. Frank

Heather Fowler

Gary Percesepe

Seth Marlin

Susan Mary Dowd

Contemporary

Short Story America Press

From the author of the modern classic novel THE HEADMASTER'S PAPERS comes this masterpiece collection of short fiction, a cycle of stories told by the main character, Jonathan Force. Contemporary boys and the men they become are in an altogether new kind of peril; they are no longer merely adrift as Holden Caulfield once was in mid-twentieth century Manhattan; they are broken and finished, like the authors of our era's schoolyard shootings.The stories that unfold in THE OTHER WORLD address the inner life of boys in a way that offers a bigger, better vision, charting the formative experiences of a spirited boy who, by an admixture of grace, luck, and indomitable spirit, does not bow finally before the cultural imperatives to forfeit his deep nature-although he comes very close. Attentive readers are likely to find these stories touching, at times funny, and ultimately inspiring. Blake Bailey, author of CHEEVER: A LIFE, writes:" Richard Hawley explores, with eloquence and sensitivity, the secret lives of children and the unexpected moments that linger in memory and give shape to our souls. A stunning collection." Ann Hood, author of THE OBITUARY WRITER, calls THE OTHER WORLD "both a tender and harsh coming-of-age story." As John Irving writes of the author, "Richard Hawley has the poise and vision to create an entire world."

Other World : Stories

A reflection, told in intimate day-to-day detail, on issues that arise as one passes over the threshold from middle into true old age.

On My Way Out

Orchises Press

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