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Lenore Sandel

In this book 100 dynamic educators share some words that are important to them and what those words mean for teaching--here are the ideas that can start a teacher's day or stimulate new ideas for class activities. According to the book, each educator was asked to select a term that reflected an important idea for teaching; the terms appear in alphabetical order so it is easy to locate them. A recurring theme in the book is the need for teachers to see their personal strengths and skills as important contributions to their teaching. The following terms are addressed in the book: Adaptive; Age-Appropriate; Balance; Balanced Perspective; The Basics; Bonding; Caring; Collaboration; Community; Compassion; Cooperation; Crystallizing; Culturally Responsive Pedagogy; Curiosity; To Discover; Discussion; Ebullience; Emergent; Empathy; Encouraging; Energy; Engage; Enthusiasm; Ethical; Facilitator; Family Literacy; Flexibility; Formative Assessment; Friendship; A Good Teacher; Guide; Heart; Hidden; Honesty; Hope; Imagination; Imitative; Immersion; Incendiary; Inquiry; Inspiring; Integrity; Juggler; Kidwatching; Kindness; Laughter; Learner; Listener; Love; Metamorphosis; Motivation; Musing; "Obuchenie" (Russian); Open; Openness; Optimistic; Option; Partner; Passion; Performer; Perseverance; Perseverance and Reflection; Reflection; Respect; Rhetoric; Scholar Ethos; Self-Expression and Imagination; Self-Knowledge; Self-Renewal; Sensibility; Sensitivity; Spiritual Pedagogy; Struggle; Subversion; Support; Teach; Theory; Total Involvement and Total Commitment; Trust; Turbulence; Versatility; Vision; Visionary; Worldliness; and Yes and Solitude. (NKA).

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Jill Briscoe

Amazing things begin to happen to Caleb and his hard-headed donkey when Jesus Christ borrows the animal for his triumphant entry into Jerusalem.

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Andrea A. diSessa

"While written at a level that anyone with a good acquaintance with high school science can understand, the book reflects the depth and breadth of the issues surrounding technology in education. Rejecting the simplistic notion that the computer is merely a tool for more efficient instruction, diSessa shows how computers can be the basis for a new literacy that will change how people think and learn. He discusses the learning theory that explains why computers can be such powerful catalysts for change in education, in particular, how intuitive knowledge is the platform on which students build scientific understanding. He also discusses the material and social reasons for the computer's potential and argues for "two-way literacies," where everyone is a creator as well as consumer of dynamic and interactive expressive forms. DiSessa gives many examples from his work using the Boxer computer environment, an integrated software system designed to investigate computational literacies."--Jacket.

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Chris Guillebeau

A book that challenges each of us to take control--to make our lives be about something while at the same time remaining clear-eyed about the commitment--The Happiness of Pursuit will inspire readers of every age and aspiration. It's a playbook for making your life count.