A Compass for the Classroom: How Teachers (and Students) Can Find Their Way & Keep From Getting Lost - Brossura

BenShea, Noah; Di Giulio, Robert C.

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1412906253 ISBN 13: 9781412906258

Casa editrice: Corwin, 2004

Riassunto

In a sea of quick-fix reform fads and NCLB pressures, this powerful guide transcends the latest educational movements and political whims, providing an enduring new model for reflection.

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Recensione:

"This book helps us find our way back to a place where loving, caring adults nurture students to be their best. The authors help us recover schools as places of honesty, integrity, and hope." (Mara Sapon-Shevin, Professor of Inclusive Education)

L'autore:

Noah benShea is one of North America's most respected and beloved poet-philosophers, and a source of strength to millions around the world. He is the international best selling author of 20 books translated into 18 languages, including the famed Jacob the Baker series. He has spoken and taught at the best universities; served as a Dean at UCLA, visiting lecturer at MIT and The Fuqua Graduate Business School at Duke University, guest professor of Philosophy at the University of California, San Francisco Medical School, and a Fellow at several long range think tanks including USC's Center for the Humanities, and the esteemed Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions.

If you "Google" his name you find over 25,000 websites tied to his work. Noah benShea's inspirational thoughts are branded with some of North America's largest companies, dramatically impacting the workplace, and have appeared in hospitals, banks, on sugar packets, apparel, teddy bears and on over 30 million Starbucks Coffee Cups. His weekly columns on life were published for five years by the New York Times Regional Syndicate, and nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. He has spoken at the Library of Congress, is included in the Congressional Record, been published by Oxford University Press, and theWorld Bible Society in Jerusalem.

A highly sought after public speaker, he is also a private advisor to corporate and political leaders, serves as an Ethicist for the The Sansum Diabetes Research Institute, was nominated for the Grawemeyer Award for Ideas that Improve the World Order, and in 2007 his work in Russian translation won 1st Prize at the European Intellectual Book Fair in Moscow. Noah benShea is also the Nat ional Laureate for the ALS Association.

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• Editore: Corwin
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1412906253
• ISBN 13: 9781412906258
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 94