Sentences with phrase «recent books we learned»

In recent books we learned that Luke spent the last 30 years traveling to various planets and temples to learn more about the force than has presumably ever been known.

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Another big lesson of recent decades is the value of experiential learning, in contrast to the book learning the world imposed on me most of my life.

And that is exactly how Slate editor David Plotz cooked up a carefree pot of blasphemies in his recent book Good Book: The Bizarre, Hilarious, Disturbing, Marvelous, and Inspiring Things I Learned When I Read Every Word of the Bibook Good Book: The Bizarre, Hilarious, Disturbing, Marvelous, and Inspiring Things I Learned When I Read Every Word of the BiBook: The Bizarre, Hilarious, Disturbing, Marvelous, and Inspiring Things I Learned When I Read Every Word of the Bible.

To learn my more recent views, read some of my newer posts on the church, or my books on church.

If I were choosing recent books in this area which most deserve to be read outside the country, I would start with Oliver O'Donovan's political theology in The Desire of the Nations; John Milbank's critique of the social sciences in Theology and Social Theory; Timothy Gorringe's provocative political reading of Karl Barth in Karl Barth: Against Hegemony; Peter Sedgwick's The Market Economy and Christian Ethics; Michael Banner's Christian Ethics and Contemporary Moral Problems; Duncan Forrester's Christian Justice and Public Policy; and Timothy Jenkins's Religion in Everyday Life: An Ethnographic Approach, which argues with a dense interweaving of theory and empirical study for a social anthropological approach to English religion which has learned much from theology.

Where appropriate, I will refute mainstream parenting myths (e.g. that you must teach a baby to sleep or they will never learn to sleep) or demonstrate where some mainstream approaches could be dangerous (e.g. my recent post highlighting Macall Gordon's work comparing CIO recommendations in infant sleep books with actual research on CIO).

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If there's one thing she learned on her most recent book tour, Hillary Clinton said it's that being a grandparent is more popular than being a parent.

Based on his experience as a marine ecologist and Congressional Fellow, he authored «Learning from the Octopus: How Secrets from Nature Can Help Us Fight Terrorist Attacks, Natural Disasters, and Disease» (2012), among several other recent books.

A recent study found that kids better learn new vocabulary from books when there's just one picture to see at a time.

Many books have been written, including a couple of recent best - sellers, which disclose that people learn faster when they can directly identify with the process.

His two recent books are Learning from the Octopus: How Secrets from Nature Can Help Us Fight Terrorism, Natural Disasters, and Disease (Basic Books) and Observation and Ecology: Broadening the Scope of Science to Understand a Complex World (Island Prbooks are Learning from the Octopus: How Secrets from Nature Can Help Us Fight Terrorism, Natural Disasters, and Disease (Basic Books) and Observation and Ecology: Broadening the Scope of Science to Understand a Complex World (Island PrBooks) and Observation and Ecology: Broadening the Scope of Science to Understand a Complex World (Island Press).

See his recent TEDx talk based on the book, and learn more at www.deepyoga.com and Healing with Bhava Ram.

I highly recommend two recent books to accompany your direct experience of the eclipse: Between the Dark and the Light by Joan Chittister and Learning to Walk in the Dark by Barbara Brown Taylor.

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In writing her recent book, The Test, NPR's lead education blogger Anya Kamenetz wanted to trace high - stakes testing back to its roots in the hope of understanding where these tests come from, how they are made, and how they are really affecting teaching and learning in the United States.

ALISON GOPNIK: So part of the inspiration for this book is a lot of really fascinating recent research in evolutionary biology and developmental psychology — the kind of research I have done for 15 years — about how childhood works and how children learn from adults.

Growing up, Professor David Perkins wasn't especially good at baseball.Yet it was America's national pastime that Perkins turned to when he started writing his recent book, «Making Learning Whole.»

She is deeply committed to helping teachers use the knowledge gained through her research and has authored the Causal Patterns in Science curriculum series and a recent book entitled, Learning Causality in a Complex World: Understandings of Consequence.

Pillemer's recent book, 30 Lessons for Living: Tried and True Advice from the Wisest Americans, explores the lessons he learned.

His most recent book is Multicultural Andragogy for Transformative Learning (IGI Global, 2018).

His recent co-edited books include Learning Through Outdoor Experiences (PDF) and Youth Work and Faith.

A recent recipient of the Sanford McDonnell Award for Lifetime Achievement in Character Education, among Dr. Elias» numerous books are ASCD's Promoting Social and Emotional Learning: Guidelines for Educators, the Social Decision Making / Social Problem Solving curricula for grades k - 8, the new e-book, Emotionally Intelligent Parenting (via Kindle and Nook) and a book for young children: Talking Treasure: Stories to Help Build Emotional Intelligence and Resilience in Young Children (www.researchpress.com, 2012).

As William Deresiewicz underscored in his recent book, Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life, the goal of education should always be «to leverage learning as an agent of social change — the kind of objective that makes leadership and citizenship into something more than pretty words.»

Open up any recent instructional strategy book, and you'll find the buzzy phrase cooperative learning scattered throughout.

He's published several books about implementing technology in schools, his most recent being Digital Teaching Platforms: Customizing Classroom Learning for Each Student.

As a researcher and curriculum expert at CCR, she contributed to the recent book, Four Dimensional Education: The Competencies Learners need to succeed and co-authored paper, Character Education for the 21st Century: What Should Student Learn?

Among these were a book he co-wrote with me, Liberating Learning (2009), on the revolutionary promise — and disruptive politics — of technology in reforming America's schools, and his most recent book, The Best Teachers in the World (2012), on the pressing challenge of improving the nation's teaching force.

The Congressionally mandated report argued that recent increases in attendance at museums and cultural events, in book Americans are learning, are gaining the insights that the humanities offer.»

John T. Bruer, president, the James S. McDonnell Foundation, St. Louis, Mo., has received the 1993 Quality Education Standards Award from the American Federation of Teachers, in recognition of his recent book, Schools for Thought: A Science of Learning in the Classroom.

Panelists included Steve Wilson, senior fellow at the Kennedy School of Government, who discussed private management and his recent book, «Learning on the Job: When Business Takes on Public Schools,» and Anrig Professor Richard Elmore, who provided commentary on Wilson's book and the overall issue of private management of public schools.

He said the book would indeed be taught in February, evidently referring to a recent compromise in which students can volunteer to learn about the book in an «enrichment» session outside the regular classes.

Some of the best - selling books for parents are based on recent findings about the brain and learning.

The excerpt below, taken from my recent book, Reaching and Teaching Students in Poverty: Strategies for Erasing the Opportunity Gap (Teachers College Press, 2013), describes what I call Equity Literacy, a framework first used by my super-genius colleague, Katy Swalwell, to describe a kind of literacy youth should learn in school.

Our suggestion is that they either carry these activities out during the term that the subject is a focus or the term after so that they are looking at books and talking to learners about current or recent learning.

His most recent book, coauthored with Leah Rugen and Libby Woodfin, is Leaders of Their Own Learning: Transforming Schools Through Student - Engaged Assessment (Jossey - Bass, 2014).

Carol's recent co-authored books are: Teacher Learning and Leadership: Of, By and For Teachers (Routledge), Empowering Educators in Canada (Jossey - Bass) and Empowered Educators: How High - Performing Systems Shape Teaching Quality Around the World (Jossey - Bass).

In this informative webinar based on their recent book, Disrupting Poverty: Five Powerful Classroom Practices, the authors will discuss the five classroom practices that permeate the culture of successful high - poverty schools: (1) caring relationships and advocacy, (2) high expectations and support, (3) commitment to equity, (4) professional accountability for learning, and (5) the courage and will to act.

As interest continues to build for his recent book, Special Interest: Teachers Unions and America's Public Schools, Terry Moe is on the pages of today's Wall Street Journal with a great op - ed examining how continued advances in internet - based learning will ultimately diminish the power of...

His most recent book, Visual Thinking Strategies: Using Art to Deepen Learning Across School Disciplines, was published by Harvard Education Press in October 2013.

On one recent afternoon, fifth - graders reflected on passages from the book «How to Eat Fried Worms,» fourth - graders learned about topography in preparation for a field trip to the Museum of Science, and some students in other grades slid bows across cellos and violins to the tune of «Carnival.»

Edward's most recent book, Participatory Creativity: Introducing Access and Equity to the Creative Classroom, was published in 2016 by Routledge and his forthcoming book, Maker - Centered Learning: Empowering Young People to Shape their Worlds (co-authored with Jessica Ross, Jennifer Ryan, and Shari Tishman) will be published by Jossey - Bass later this year.

At Teaching Matters we are reading Learning to Improve, a recent book by Anthony Bryk and his colleagues from the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.

This book is a composite of the best applied articles from the Cooperative Learning and College Teaching newsletter, with more recent work done by a distinguished list of contributors.

He coauthored a recent research report for The Learning First Alliance on the school district role in improving teaching and learning (Beyond Islands of Excellence) and edited and contributed to a book of case studies of school improvement projects in East Africa, Improving Schools Through Teacher DeveLearning First Alliance on the school district role in improving teaching and learning (Beyond Islands of Excellence) and edited and contributed to a book of case studies of school improvement projects in East Africa, Improving Schools Through Teacher Develearning (Beyond Islands of Excellence) and edited and contributed to a book of case studies of school improvement projects in East Africa, Improving Schools Through Teacher Development.

His research focuses on life skill development in experiential learning environments and his most recent book is titled Changing the status quo: courage to challenge the education system published by Rowman and Littlefield.

Recent books include: «Text Complexity: Raising Rigor in Reading», «Rigorous Reading» and «Unstoppable Learning.»

Author and consultant Monica Martinez profiled eight innovative public schools involved in deeper learning in her recent book, with the same title.

Her most recent books are Defending Childhood: Keeping the Promise of Early Education (Teachers College Press, 2012); Teaching Matters: Stories from Inside City Schools, co-authored with Megan Blumenreich (The New Press, 2012); Teaching the Way Children Learn (Teachers College Press, 2008) and High Quality Early Learning for a Changing World: What Educators Need to Know and Do (Teachers College Press, 2018).