Student Learning

My Backpack Is Heavier than Yours: The Plight of Marginalized Students is an award-winning, powerful, and eye-opening book that delves into some of the unique challenges faced by marginalized students in the pursuit of academic success. Best-selling author Dr. Edwin Garcia, Jr. analyzes the systemic barriers, biases, and inequities these students face daily, including underfunded schools, lack of resources, cultural insensitivity, implicit bias, and much more in the education system.

Treating Mathematics Anxiety is Dr. Nagrath's second book after his initial Amazon Best Seller, "Rethinking Math Learning." In Treating Mathematics Anxiety: Inclusive Strategies for Working with Students Exhibiting Mathematics Anxiety, Dr. Nagrath introduces the underlying belief system that is causing mathematics anxiety along with strategies and frameworks that can be used by any district, school, teacher, parent, or student.

The Career-Minded Student provides undergraduates with a complete tool kit for excelling in classes, researching their strengths/interests, finding a suitable major, and preparing to compete for jobs right after graduating from college. Unlike many similar books which are quite long-winded or focus specifically on either study skills or career guidance, The Career-Minded Student is a straightforward, memorable, and comprehensive guide on how to put yourself ahead of the competition.

Pharmacists often don’t feel like they’re ready upon graduation. Along with helping you handle insurance issues, prevent misfills, deal with the workload, and take care of yourself and your license, this book helps pharmacists build great relationships with their patients and their teams. Graduating from the University of Florida with his PharmD, Dr. Richard Waithe now has seven years of community pharmacy experience including Pharmacy Manager of a Target, CVS, and Publix Pharmacy. In his book, First Time Pharmacist, Dr. Waithe shares his best practices, keys to success, and biggest ...

Unlock the hidden secrets of AI in transforming your learning experience with the ChatGPT Bible (Student's Special Edition). Explore the uncharted world of AI-driven conversations and how they are revolutionizing the educational landscape in ways you've never known before.

Now, more than ever, we need to recognize HATS: Heartfelt Acts for Teachers, Students and Staff in our schools. Regardless of job title, you can implement these HATS—a wide array of strategies, programs, and events in your school to boost morale and make a positive impact on others. In HATS, Jay, Andrew, and Brian share real-life stories and experiences from their own schools that you can bring to yours.

In Future Driven, David Geurin describes how to conquer the status quo, create authentic learning, and help your students thrive in an unpredictable world. He shares how to simultaneously be more committed to your mission while being more flexible with your methods.

Let Al be your partner in bridging educational gaps, enhancing your students' learning opportunities, and preparing them to make the most of an Al-dominated future.

Elevate Your Essay Writing Skills covers how to unpack essay and report questions to find keywords for research materials, how to choose research topics and undertake research, how to overcome barriers with referencing, how to adapt one’s writing skills to the type of essay or report they are working on, and how to use case studies, to name but a few.

Lead with Truth is an interactive text that invites you to identify learning objectives and reflect on guided questions throughout the chapters, geared to help you make personal connections with the content. This engaging resource is for current and aspiring school leaders who aim to make lifelong impacts and transform their practice, while remaining true to their own beliefs.

Activate an assessment revolution with the Peer Power Feedback Framework! Formative assessment produces greater increases in student learning and is cheaper than other efforts to boost achievement. Peer Power gives teachers a practical 6-step framework for empowering students to take ownership of their learning through the self and peer assessment process. The Peer Power Framework: • expands feedback to learners • amplifies quality classroom discussion • expands student goal setting • infuses dispositional learning • strengthens metacognitive thinking • integrates SEL practices ...

In Learn, Don't Study, drawing on his experiences of over twenty-five years in the field of education, Pramath Raj Sinha has put together the best and most practical advice available for youngsters who are facing some of the most important and challenging choices of their professional lives.

Independent study programs aren't for the "best" students; they are populated by students at their best. Geraldine Woods offers a practical, step-by-step guide based on her experience designing and directing the much-admired independent study program at the Horace Mann School. Under the supervision of teachers, students embark on a remarkable variety of projects and become teachers themselves, conducting seminars with their peers along the way to preparing their final product—which could as easily be an interactive website or musical composition as a research paper.

Celebrated educators and authors Anna-Lisa Mackey and Melissa Ragan deliver an insightful, rigorous, and accessible treatment of social emotional learning in education. Using research from the Theory of Constructed Emotion, the authors highlight the relationship between the new view of neurobiology and Social Emotional Learning. Perfect for K-12 educators, principals, superintendents, and other education leaders, The Social Emotional Classroom will also earn a place in the libraries of parents and caregivers who are responsible for young people's day-to-day learning.

Engaging the Student Brain is your shortcut to listeners leaning in. Steven Northup is a 35-year classroom teacher and graduate-level teacher-of-teachers who shows you how to save time and effort with simple tweaks that are irresistible to the brain.

Transitioning from high school to college so tough. Not only are you on your own to figuring out this whole adult thing, but you’re also juggling educating yourself in a system that couldn’t care less if you pass or fail. On top of that, regardless if you even graduate, you’ll still have to find a way to pay for all of it. I’ll show you how to not suck at college. It doesn’t matter if you’re just starting out in college, whether you’re about to graduate wondering what comes next or somewhere in the middle, this audiobook has something for you.

Student Problems: Challenges and Solutions in Modern EducationIn today's educational landscape, students face a myriad of challenges that can significantly impact their academic performance and overall well-being. Lets explore some of the most common problems students encounter and offers potential solutions to address these issues. Time Management One of the most prevalent issues students face is poor time management[1]. Many students struggle to balance their academic responsibilities with extracurricular activities, part-time jobs, and social lives. This often leads to procrastination ...

The purpose of this research is to examine the ways in which mentoring affects black graduate students' completion of programs of study. Performance is measured by completion of their graduate program, length of time taken to complete the program, grade point average, and overall attitude about their graduate school experience. On average, over half of all black graduate students leave their programs of study before completion compared to 25 percent attrition (non-completion of program of study) of white students.

Through the voices of students themselves, Fires in the Mind brings a game-changing question to teachers of adolescents: What does it take to get really good at something? Starting with what they already know and do well, teenagers from widely diverse backgrounds join a cutting-edge dialogue with adults about the development of mastery in and out of school. Their insights frame motivation, practice, and academic challenge in a new light that galvanizes more powerful learning for all.

You are extraordinary in which you are effortlessly ordinary. If we look back and perceive how Leonardo Da Vinci became a true Polymath, & gathered knowledge, left thousands of journals and masterpieces like Mona Lisa, yet during his entire life, he found his work not as great as we appreciate and in search of true artistic perfection, he left most of his work unfinished yet the entire universe regard him as the greatest artist ever existed in the history. What makes him special or he was just an ordinary one? Even though Leonardo was a procrastinator and not disciplined, his idea for ...