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Leading for Learning: How to Transform Schools into Learning Organizations
How do schools compete with television, computer games, and the Internet to engage the hearts and minds of their students? Phil Schlechty argues that we must develop schools where innovation is encouraged, and students are given work that is truly rigorous, relevant, and exciting. In making this transition, educators must move beyond some of the deeply ingrained and negative conceptions that guide so much of their practice.
The ideal hands–on reference for piano students who want to strengthen their skills and refine their technique––and the perfect companion and next step to the bestselling Piano For Dummies.
BulgariaPart of The Oxford History of Modern Europe series, the book traces the evolution of the Bulgarian state and its people, from the beginning of the Bulgarian national revival in the middle of the nineteenth century to the entry of the country into the European Union. Richard Crampton examines key political, social, and economic developments, revealing the history of a country which evolved from a backward and troublesome Balkan state to become a modern European nation.
Problem Solving in a Foreign Language: A Study in Content and Language Integrated Learning (Studies on Language Acquisition)This book re-examines the basis for CLIL from a cognitive perspective and investigates how the use of a foreign language as a working language influences the processing of content. It summarizes findings from cognitive psychology on thinking, problem solving and conceptual processing, and integrates them with models of language-specific mental activities such as speech processing and text composition.
