Secondary Education

Our summary is short, simple, and pragmatic. It allows you to have the essential ideas of a big book in less than 30 minutes. You will discover what the five-second rule is and how to apply it. You will also discover: That you have to be honest with yourself, that motivation is useless, how to take action, how to increase your productivity, and how to improve your life.

This book describes why a dangerous rise in police power is happening in America that could lead to the creation of a police state and the loss of democracy. There is time and ways that the problems can be corrected with changes in government policies. The book is suitable for class room instruction as an alternative view in social science and political science classes.

"You're a high school substitute? Are you crazy? We were so mean to them!" This is a common reaction when I tell people what I do, but I love substitute teaching at the high school level. I started substitute teaching in 1989, fresh out of college. I was looking for a way to support myself while I took my "fifth year" of college in secondary education classes and did my student teaching. A friend told me, "You have a bachelor's degree, so you can be a substitute."

Cathal Dunne is lonely and infirm old man. Reflecting back on his life, he examines the events and circumstances that shaped him. He craves another chance, and asks his carer to help him find a monk he is convinced can grant him his wish. In A Second Bite, Robert E. Kearns explores life and death, old age and isolation, and well as the prospect of chance to do it all over again. Now with a Five Star editorial review from Readers' Favorite.

Want to leave the rat race in your rearview mirror? Discover the mile-by-mile guide to a whole new life on the open road...Author and entrepreneur Gary Collins has found true freedom and fulfillment in his life on the road. Now he’s here to help you liberate your lifestyle and find lasting joy through simplicity. The Simple Life Guide to RV Living: The Road to Freedom and the Mobile Lifestyle Revolution contains step-by-step instructions for transitioning to a carefree traveling lifestyle.

Jonathan Starr is not your traditional do-gooder, and in 2009, when he decided to found Abaarso, a secondary school in Somaliland, the choice seemed crazy to even his closest friends. Why, they wondered, would he turn down a life of relative luxury to relocate to an armed compound in a breakaway region of the world's number one failed state? To achieve his mission, Starr would have to overcome profound cultural differences, broken promises, and threats to his safety and that of his staff.

Developed by experienced professors and professionally narrated for easy listening, this course is a valuable tool when preparing for your Secondary School Admission Test (SSAT) or Independent School Entrance Examination Test (ISEE). This is a combination package of our SSAT and ISEE courses also available individually!

De Beauvoir's book charted the oppression of "the second sex" in terms never before seen in the academic world. Her most startling theory became a rallying cry for the feminist movement: "One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman." She argued that gender identity was shaped by upbringing in a world ruled by men. A leading light in the existentialist movement, de Beauvoir applied the radical philosophy of personal choice and freedom to argue that women were subjugated in every area of life.

2 Second Lean will flip your world right-side up. It's a practical way to improve your life every day by making a simple 2 second improvement. Join author, business expert, radio show host, and international speaker, Paul A. Akers, as he takes you on a LEAN journey that will transform every aspect your life... from your home to the office.

This book is about addressing the college-choosing problem. The rankings, metrics, analytics, college visits, and advice that we use today to help us make these decisions are out of step with the progress individual students are trying to make. They don't give students and families the information and context they need to make such a high-stakes decision about whether and where to get an education.

Classroom teacher, author, and speaker Pernille Ripp reveals the five keys to creating a passionate reading environment. Throughout the book, Pernille opens up about her own trials and errors as a teacher and what she's learned along the way. She also shares a wide variety of practical tools that you can use in your own classroom.

The context in which adolescents are learning has shifted radically since students first offered blunt advice to high school teachers in the groundbreaking Fires in the Bathroom, a perennial best seller. Now their world is changing at warp speed, and classrooms, too, are seething with anxiety. This sequel raises the voices of diverse youth around the nation as they live through the mind-bending quandaries of this era and ask their teachers to notice.

Bite-size wisdom and inspirational advice to lift your spirits and help you live a fuller life - from Instagram's answer to the ‘Hot Priest’ from Fleabag. One minute could change your life. Reverend Christopher Lee is a young vicar who has taken the internet by storm. With more Instagram followers than the archbishop of Canterbury and the Church of England put together, Rev Chris helps and inspires hundreds of thousands of his followers every day with his 60-second sermons, full of bite-size wisdom for busy people.

Each lesson in English for Russian Speakers Phase 1, Units 1-5 provides 30 minutes of spoken language practice, with an introductory conversation, and new vocabulary and structures. Detailed instructions enable you to understand and participate in the conversation.

In The Last Dropout, CIS founder Bill Milliken offers nine key principles that Communities In Schools has tested over four decades. Interwoven are his real-world life stories, a journey that began in the turbulent 196s as a youth worker and evolved into a handful of groundbreaking "Street Academies" that became the CIS movement with a national network of hundreds of local affiliates. Milliken also shares transformative stories about how CIS leaders have adopted these principles in their own communities, with stunning results.

Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners. Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language. Now Collins has adapted her famous detective novels for English language learners. These carefully abridged versions are shorter with the language targeted at learners of English.

Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners. Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language. Now Collins has adapted her famous detective novels for English language learners. These carefully abridged versions are shorter with the language targeted at learners of English.

Four teenage boys are high school seniors at two very different schools within the city of Los Angeles, the second largest school district in the nation with nearly 700,000 students. In this “exceptional work of investigative journalism…laced with compassion, insight, and humor” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) Jeff Hobbs stunningly captures the challenges and triumphs of being a young person confronting the future — both their own and the cultures in which they live — in contemporary America.

This book helps you be the biggest, boldest, and most powerful version of your teacher self. It reminds you why you became a teacher and coaches you to bring your unique gifts and talents into the classroom. The difference between a so-so lesson and one that leaves a lasting impact on students has everything to do with how confident and connected you feel to yourself and your students.

When Seconds Count is a comprehensive street smart self-defense book instructing law abiding citizens how to protect themselves against the mounting threat of violent crime. You can't learn this in a Karate class or mixed martial arts school. In fact, there are many instructors out there who are doing a lot more harm than good by making people believe they are trained to cope with vicious street criminals. Truth is, the martial arts techniques that score points and win trophies could get you killed in real-life self-defense encounters.