The Best School: Practical Ideas on What Really Works in Education

No extra credit. No late work. A strict grading scale. Administrators in classrooms daily. Few interruptions. With 32 years in education, Dr. Keen Babbage has seen his share of the highs, the lows, and what really works in education from the most important perspective: the classroom. "The Best School" explores some of his deeply held beliefs gained from this perspective, a “tell all that matters” filled with practical, authentic, and realistic thoughts on how to improve a system too often weighed down by bureaucracy, bad ideas, and unrealistic goals. In these pages, you’ll find no perfect formula. There is no magic solution. There is only considerate thought and inviting conversation. Truth emerges when ideas collide, and "The Best School" encourages you to engage with the ideas presented inside and come to your own conclusions. Is your school the best school? Through dedication to the high standards and focus on a unified vision at every level of education, it could be. But the best school is not powered by intentions. The best school is powered by sensible actions that get the desired results. Each school can get great results. Each school can reach bestness. Read on and let’s think about how to make that happen.

Education & Teaching

Babbage, Dr. Keen

Schools & Teaching

Cherrymoon Media

No extra credit. No late work. A strict grading scale. Administrators in classrooms daily. Few interruptions. With 32 years in education, Dr. Keen Babbage has seen his share of the highs, the lows, and what really works in education from the most important perspective: the classroom. The Best School explores some of his deeply held beliefs gained from this perspective, a "tell all that matters" filled with practical, authentic, and realistic thoughts on how to improve a system too often weighed down by bureaucracy, bad ideas, and unrealistic goals. In these pages, you'll find no perfect formula. There is no magic solution. There is only considerate thought and inviting conversation. Truth emerges when ideas collide, and The Best School encourages you to engage with the ideas presented inside and come to your own conclusions. Is your school the best school? Through dedication to the high standards and focus on a unified vision at every level of education, it could be. But the best school is not powered by intentions. The best school is powered by sensible actions that get the desired results. Each school can get great results. Each school can reach bestness. Read on and let's think about how to make that happen.

Babbage, Keen

A Baby Cries

Literature & Fiction

Green, Ryne

Genre Fiction

There are at least two essential things that every student should take with them when graduating from high school: a diploma and a fully read and written-in copy of "Four Vital Questions for High School Seniors." In this book, the author guides the reader through an adventure in self-knowledge and awareness of what to do after completing high school. Throughout senior year, high school seniors often are asked, "What are you going to do after you graduate from high school?" This book helps them explore possibilities and make decisions about their next big step in life after graduation. The reader becomes the co-author of this book and is guided through a very personal, individualized, and meaningful step-by-step process of answering the four vital questions. The reader of this book will do much thinking, writing, and learning. This book is inspiring, vibrant, interactive, and rewarding for each reader. The book becomes a close friend for each high school senior. Students of all ages are welcome to read this book in anticipation of their senior year, yet it is especially designed for seniors as they decide what to do after high school. What awaits the reader? Insights and ideas, opportunities considered and options evaluated, decisions made and direction established. Before you graduate from high school, read "Four Vital Questions for High School Seniors." These questions will not appear on any test you take in high school, yet they must be answered. Why? Because these four vital questions are all about you knowing who you are and what you intend to become. This could be the only book you ever read that is all about you. You deserve a book like that.

Four Vital Questions for High School Seniors

Four Vital Questions for Teachers and Principals

The Swinging Tree

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Fantasy

"I used the image of his perfect face as motivation to force my feet to move. It's working. It's working. It's... Everything went black." After the unexpected and unexplained death of her mother, Josie Parker, a young witch, is finally starting to feel normal again. She is closer than ever with her best friend, Lillian, studying advanced witchcraft in her courses, and falling in love for the first time. But things take a turn for the worse when a student at North End is found murdered. Suddenly, Josie isn't sure who she can trust. Have her enemies, once faceless shadows haunting her worst nightmares, become a reality? North End: The Black Forest is the first addictive entry in this series by author Amanda Turner. The adventure begins here...

North End: The Black Forest

Teen & Young Adult

Turner, Amanda

Four Vital Questions About Your Life

Reference

One of the benefits of growing older and entering the senior citizen age group is that a person can appreciate anew the wisdom that was originally offered to him many years ago by his grandparents. In "Life Lessons from My Grandparents," Dr. Keen Babbage shares the timeless life lessons he learned from his grandparents, Keen and Eunice Johnson, many years ago, which he can only now truly and fully understand, value, and treasure.This book guides the reader along a meaningful, delightful, genuine, and practical consideration of insights about love, family, friends, faith, education, manners, money management, and politics. Integrity, honor, ethics, and virtue build the foundation for the life lessons which this book presents. Keen Johnson's years as the Governor of Kentucky (1939-1943) and Eunice Johnson's matching years as the First Lady of Kentucky, add some historical strength to the life lessons in this book.

Life Lessons from My Grandparents

Parenting & Relationships

North End: The Complete Saga

Romance

Paranormal

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