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Adolescents on the Edge

Releah Lent , Jimmy Santiago Baca

Pub Date: 3/29/2010
Product Type: BOOK WITH DVD
Grade: 6th - Adult

 “Literacy is freedom and everyone has something significant to say.” —Jimmy Santiago Baca Fusing Jimmy Santiago Baca’s talents as a writer of memoir with ReLeah Cossett Lent’s expertise in building and empowering classroom communities, Adolescents on the Edge offers a completely new approach to reaching at-risk adolescents.... more

Stories from the Edge

Jimmy Santiago Baca

Pub Date: 3/26/2010
Product Type: Paperback
Grade: 6th - Adult

“I paced my cell with a book in one hand and a knife under my mattress. I knew I could have a long and happy life with a book in my hand or I could have a miserable short life with the shank that was in the mattress.”—Jimmy Santiago Baca Stories from the Edge enriches and extends Jimmy Santiago Baca’s critically acclaimed memoir,... more

Reading and Writing for Resiliency (DVD)

Alfred Tatum

Pub Date: 3/26/2010
Product Type: DVD
Grade: 6th - 12th

In his staff development companion to Reading for Their Life, Alfred Tatum demonstrates the power enabling texts can have to change the life of African American adolescent males—and every student in the class. Click here to preview Reading and Writing for Resiliency at Heinemann.com. Literacy coaches and staff developers,... more

Reading for Their Life Staff Development Bundle

Alfred Tatum

Pub Date: 3/26/2010
Product Type: bundle
Grade: 6th - 12th

Literacy coaches and staff developers, save when you order the Reading for Their Life Staff Development Bundle­­. Get 10 copies of Reading for Their Life and 1 copy of Reading & Writing for Resiliency for 1 low price. A $335 value for $284.75—SAVE $50.25. Click here for more information on Reading for Their Life, including a sample... more

Stuck in the Middle

Donna Topping , Roberta McManus

Pub Date: 3/10/2010
Product Type: Paperback
Grade: 5th - 10th

Don’t get stuck when students struggle in the content areas. Get Stuck in the Middle. "Over the past thirty years, we have been developing and implementing teacher-friendly, student-oriented strategies to help all students learn through reading and writing—especially those who struggle. In these pages, we share with you ways to... more

Clock Watchers

Stevi Quate , John McDermott

Pub Date: 8/3/2009 1
Product Type: Paperback
Grade: 6th - 12th

Book study groups and professional learning communities, click here to save 15% when you order 15 copies of Clock Watchers. A $315 value for $267.75.  Listen to a podcast with Stevi Quate, John McDermott, and two teachers who have used their framework to get all students engaged and motivated.   “Instead of cringing the next... more

English Learners, Academic Literacy, and Thinking

Pauline Gibbons

Pub Date: 4/16/2009
Product Type: Paperback
Grade: 4th - 8th

Special PLC discount when you buy 15 copies of English Learners, Academic Literacy, and Thinking. A $352 value for $282. For educators individually and collectively who aspire to implement a curriculum based on intellectual quality, and who recognize the importance of infusing the teaching of academic literacy across the curriculum,... more

English Learners, Academic Literacy, and Thinking PLC Bundle Pack

Pauline Gibbons

Pub Date: 4/16/2009
Product Type: PREPACK
Grade: 4th - 8th

Professional Learning Communities, save 20% when you order 15 copies of English Learners, Academic Literacy, and Thinking. A $352 value for $282. “All teachers are teachers of English, and so this book is intended not only for EL specialists but also for content teachers who have EL learners in their classes…. Making mainstream... more

Catching Up on Conventions

Elisa Zonana , Chantal Francois

Pub Date: 2/19/2009
Product Type: Paperback
Grade: 6th - 9th

  Chantal and Elisa show us the teaching and learning of conventions as part of a personal and collective striving toward proficiency, power, and independence. They help us conceive the daily work of learning language as part of more mythic work, which is that of becoming greater than we were. —Mary Ehrenworth Author... more

Academic Language for English Language Learners and Struggling Readers

Yvonne Freeman , David Freeman

Pub Date: 10/31/2008
Product Type: Paperback
Grade: 6th - 12th

Teaching secondary students in the content areas is hard enough under the best of circumstances. When students are not well prepared academically and also lack academic literacy skills, the challenge can seem overwhelming. Fortunately, the Freemans help secondary content-area teachers provide these students with the academic support... more