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Professor. Pundit. Public nuisance. In his columns, books and on social media, Jonathan Jansen is prolific, and he likes to speak his mind about schools and universities, race, politics and our complex South African society.

Growing up, Reid was confused and disturbed by the different opportunities his best friend received. The gap widened as Reid's classes enabled him to pursue an elite college degree across the country studying educational opportunity and teaching. Then, Reid became a teacher at an under-resourced South Carolina high school where efforts to serve the incredible students were stymied by internal segregation and administrative ambivalence. After Reid assigned students a project to create a positive change, they pushed him to figure out how he, too, could make a bigger difference.

Discover the Heartfelt Journey of a Teacher Mom. You’ll embark on an adventure through the author’s candid reflections on life as a teacher and a mother, intertwined with Christian faith. This book offers an intimate glimpse into the experiences that have shaped her life and perspective. You’ll find authentic stories, faith-based reflections, practical advice, tips and encouragement for navigating your own life’s challenges inside, whether as a parent, educator, or in personal growth.

How can you love God when you can't see or hear Him? That was the question asked by a little girl many years ago when she was told by a godly teacher that she was to love God with all her heart and soul. This book is a collection of stories, written and compiled over the past 12 years, which tells how God answered that question throughout her life. In a myriad of different ways God intersected Marianne's life with His presence and His truth, and began to reveal His great love for her.

In The Assistant Principal 50, award-winning, four-time principal Baruti Kafele presents reflective questions that encompass the breadth and depth of the assistant principalship—from finding your leadership lane to thriving and being an asset to your principal.

From the #1 New York Times bestselling writer and author of How to Love an American Man comes a memoir that inspires us to remember the special teachers in our lives and reflect on the change we create when we share our stories. Mrs. Korthaus has always been ahead of her time—an educator who...

Instant New York Times Bestseller! Teachers deserve recognition every day, especially on National Teacher’s Day! This Teacher Appreciation Week and end of school year, express your gratitude with these heroic stories from the classroom trenches from the world’s #1 bestselling author James...

In Testing Education, Kathy Greeley recounts the impact of education reform from a teacher's point of view. Based on a teaching career ranging nearly forty years, Greeley details how schools went from learning communities infused with excitement, intellectual stimulation, and joy to sterile spaces of stress, intimidation, and fear. In this ultimately hopeful memoir, Greeley asks us to learn from the past to reimagine the future of public education.

When Dr. La'Tonya Rease Miles was in third grade, a homeroom teacher said: "You are smart, and you are going to college." A shy, nerdy, sports-loving, only child of a working-class, teenage single mom, she wondered next: "How does a smart Black girl get to college?" A pioneer of first-generation studies, long-time practitioner of university initiatives for first-generation students at several U. S. colleges, and dynamic advocate of first-generation representation on social media, in mass media, and within popular culture, "Dr.

Nestes trechos de "Opúsculo humanitário", Nísia Floresta apresenta um panorama crítico da educação brasileira até o século XIX, com base nos relatos de viajantes estrangeiros que percorreram o país. Os testemunhos revelam um cenário marcado pela ausência de escolas, pela precariedade das primeiras instituições de ensino e pelo uso da palmatória como prática recorrente de disciplina. A educação feminina, quando existente, era marcada pela superficialidade e pela ausência de estímulo ao pensamento crítico.

Terence Lester was born into a two-parent household that later separated due to family conflict. In search of safety and stability, his mother moved him and his sister from place to place. Carrying the weight of that early trauma, Lester turned to gangs, became a juvenile delinquent, experienced homelessness, and at one point lived out of his car. He dropped out of high school. But Lester's story doesn't end there. He eventually returned to school, graduated as a fifth-year senior, and defied the odds by earning five degrees, including a PhD in public policy.

In this definitive biography, James P. Cousins offers fresh perspectives on a seminal yet controversial figure in American religious history and educational life. The son of a prosperous New England merchant family, Holley studied at Yale University before serving as a minister. He achieved national acclaim as an intellectual and self-appointed critic of higher education before accepting the position at Transylvania. His clashes with political and community leaders, however, ultimately led him to resign in 1827, and his untimely death later that year cut short a promising career.

Als Tom Michell einen Pinguin mit ölverschmiertem Gefieder am Strand von Uruguay findet und beschließt, ihn mitzunehmen, um das Öl zu entfernen, ahnt er noch nicht, dass der watschelnde Zeitgenosse nicht nur sein Leben vollkommen auf den Kopf stellen wird. Der Pinguin zieht auf Tom Michells Terrasse ein. Für den Lehrer wird er ein treuer Freund, für seine Schüler zum Pinguin des Vertrauens.

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Funny, reflective and honest. Reading this book is like sitting down with your bestie for a proper mumlife debrief’ – Giovanna Fletcher ‘More demanding than ‘hell’, this is parenting purgatory for authentic women who’ve put their lives on hold to...

Im alten System bekam er aufgrund seines Engagements als Lehrer Berufsverbot und wurde so zum Systemgegner gemacht. Aber er sah die wunderbaren Chancen der Wende 1989 und war an der Neugründung der SPD in Thüringen maßgeblich beteiligt. In den neun Jahren als Landtagsabgeordneter konnte er den Neuanfang mitgestalten und war auch jahrzehntelang im Kreistag und Stadtrat von Gotha sowie in anderen Ehrenämtern aktiv. Mit 47 Jahren wird bei ihm schwarzer Hautkrebs diagnostiziert. Er fühlt das Ende seines Lebens. Hilfesuchend wendet er sich an einen ehemaligen Schüler, der jetzt Pastor ist.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER Teacher By Teacher traces the remarkable journey of the tenth U.S. Secretary of Education and is a deeply personal love letter to all the teachers in our lives. The story of John B. King Jr.’s inspiring path to President Obama’s Cabinet begins the day that his mother died...

A young teacher buys a one-way ticket to Shishmaref, Alaska. Within minutes of landing, she finds herself dealing with unexpected, rustic accommodations, and the culture shock of living in a remote Iñuit community. She relies on her courage, resilience, and wit while enduring freezing temperatures, power outages, loneliness, and first-year teacher anxieties and missteps, but eventually realizes that those challenges pale in comparison to the life lessons she learns about the heart of teaching.

In childhood, Amy Hallberg receives a dollhouse that—while given with love—carries steep expectations. Forty years later, Amy walks away from her teaching career to forge a new life as a writer. The dollhouse reemerges as a mirror on Minnesota Nice, that familiar culture Amy’s been afraid to examine too closely.

Confessions of an English Teacher: How High School and Community College English Departments Can Improve Instruction is designed to help English departments improve the instruction they deliver to students. It is a follow-up to the book Confessions of an English Teacher: A Memoir of My Teaching Years. In the memoir book, I discovered several vital things English departments can do to radically alter their approach to teaching English. Teaching English has fallen into patterns that research has indicated need to be revised.

This beautifully written biography charts the life of Dr. Cynthia J. MacKay, a wife, a mother, a surgeon, and a lifelong activist campaigning against the cruel, painful, damaging invasive corrective eye surgery LASIK. It is written with modesty. It is engaging, witty, and sometimes painful to listen to as it describes the discrimination, smear campaigns, and brutal conduct of her peers and others who have tried to ruin her in their own act of self-preservation. Cynthia battles through it all, with dignity, determination, and an abundance of wit, humor and humility.