Educators
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Shakespeare Saved My Life
$19.99 Read moreA female professor, a super maximum security prisoner, and how Shakespeare saved them both
Shakespeare professor and prison volunteer Laura Bates thought she had seen it all. That is, until she decided
- Author: Bates, Laura
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 02 2013
- ISBN10: 1402273142
- Language: English
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Academically Speaking: Lessons from a Life in Christian Higher Education
$25.99 Read moreA personal odyssey through the world of Christian higher education, narrated by a professional who has worked on both sides of the faculty-administrative divide.
What is the world of Christian highe- Author: Ostrander, Rick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: February 01 2024
- ISBN10: 0802883397
- Language: English
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The Child Is the Teacher: A Life of Maria Montessori
$28.99 Read moreA fresh, comprehensive biography of the pioneering educator and activist who changed the way we look at children’s minds, from the author of Oriana Fallaci.
Born in 1870 in Chiaravalle, Italy, Maria M- Author: de Stefano, Cristina
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 08 2022
- ISBN10: 1635420849
- Language: English
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Front of the Class: How Tourette Syndrome Made Me the Teacher I Never Had
$19.00 Add to cartNow a Hallmark Hall of Fame Movie Event available on streaming platforms. Front of the Class is now in paperback for the first time and includes a new epilogue.
As a child with Tourette syndrome, Br- Author: Cohen, Brad
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 25 2008
- ISBN10: 0312571399
- Language: English
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Seeing Eye Girl: A Memoir of Madness, Resilience, and Hope
$17.95 Add to cartAs the “Seeing Eye Girl” for her blind, artistic, and mentally ill mother, Beverly Armento was intimately connected with and responsible for her, even though her mother physically and emotionally abus… [more below]
- Author: Armento, Beverly J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 286
- Publish Date: July 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1647423910
- Language: English
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Suzuki: The Man and His Dream to Teach the Children of the World
$29.95 Read moreA New Yorker Best Book of the Year
The remarkable life of violinist and teacher Shinichi Suzuki, who pioneered an innovative but often-misunderstood philosophy of early childhood education–now known- Author: Hotta, Eri
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 0674238230
- Language: English
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Glimpses of a Public Ivy: 50 Years at William & Mary
$24.99 Read moreThis behind-the-scenes collection of vignettes, as told by a professor of four decades, shares the story of life at America’s second-oldest college from 1950 to 2000.
Learn about the remarkable stud… [more below]
- Author: Holmes, David L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 0764364448
- Language: English
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Higher Ground: My American Dreams and Nightmares in the Hidden Halls of Academia
$28.00 Read moreWhen Linda Katehi was six years old, growing up in war-ravaged Greece, she turned to her mother and said, “I do not want to be poor!” Her mother replied: “Then go to school and be a good student. This
- Author: Katehi, Linda
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 08 2023
- ISBN10: 1684017238
- Language: English
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Dancing with History: A Life for Peace and Justice
$22.95 Read moreA memoir of a Quaker activist and master storyteller on his involvement in struggles for peace, civil rights, LGBTQ rights, labor justice, and the environment, whose life will be the subject of a new … [more below]
- Author: Lakey, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1644212358
- Language: English
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Home in the World: A Memoir
$19.95 Read moreA towering figure in the field of economics, Amartya Sen is perhaps best known for his work on poverty and famine, as inspired by events in his boyhood home of West Bengal, India. But Sen has, in fact… [more below]
- Author: Sen, Amartya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: February 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1324092920
- Language: English
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Shakespeare Saved My Life
$19.99 Add to cartA female professor, a super maximum security prisoner, and how Shakespeare saved them both
Shakespeare professor and prison volunteer Laura Bates thought she had seen it all. That is, until she decided
- Author: Bates, Laura
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 02 2013
- ISBN10: 1402273142
- Language: English
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Bright Eyes: Surviving Our Monsters and Learning to Live Without Them – A Memoir
$17.99 Add to cartFans of Jennette McCurdy’s I’m Glad My Mom Died will root for Bridey Thelen-Heidel as she struggles to unshackle herself from her mother’s chaos in this triumphant debut memoir.
Bridey is tethered to- Author: Thelen-Heidel, Bridey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 164742738X
- Language: English
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Winter Light: The Memoir of a Child of Holocaust Survivors
$18.95 Add to cart“Feuerverger’s search for a “place of inner solace” is profoundly inspiring … often rendered in poetically stirring prose. With affecting clarity, the author meditates on the ways in which trauma is
- Series: Holocaust Heritage
- Author: Feuerverger, Grace
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 302
- Publish Date: September 08 2024
- ISBN10: 9493322602
- Language: English
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My Homecoming Dance: Reflections on Teaching in Wisconsin
$24.99 Add to cartIn her memoir My Homecoming Dance: Reflections on Teaching in Wisconsin, Sue Leamy Kies returns to her alma mater to teach high school English. What’s changed in the twenty years since graduation? Wha
- Author: Kies, Sue Leamy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 290
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 9798986336541
- Language: English
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A Teacher’s Journey
$14.95 Add to cartA Teacher’s Journey explores the many successes and a few failures that I experienced during my years of teaching. While it is a book that offers teaching ideas, it is more than that. When I hesitated
- Author: Wickersham, Brigid
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: February 26 2024
- ISBN10: 9798891577633
- Language: English
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The Boy Who Promised Me Horses
$24.95 Add to cart“He tried to outrun a train,” Theodore Blindwoman told David Joseph Charpentier the night they found out about Maurice Prairie Chief’s death. When Charpentier was a new teacher at St. Labre Indian Sch… [more below]
- Author: Charpentier, David Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 324
- Publish Date: May 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1496238079
- Language: English
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The Principal Chronicles
$18.99 Add to cartThe Principal Chronicles is a collection of funny and poignant short stories that follow the arc of one man’s life and career in education. These works of creative non-fiction-or, to be precise, of se… [more below]
- Author: Garlick, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 246
- Publish Date: December 08 2021
- ISBN10: 1039125735
- Language: English
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The Tiger’s Child: What Ever Happened to Sheila?
$18.99 Add to cartFrom the bestselling author of One Child comes this incredible, true story of the six-year-old girl who touched the hearts of millions–and the courage of one teacher who would not give up on her.
What
- Author: Hayden, Torey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: December 13 2016
- ISBN10: 0062662880
- Language: English
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Live As If: A teacher’s love story
$14.99 Add to cartIn the most deeply personal writing of his long career, award-winning author Frye Gaillard reflects on the life and work of his wife Nancy, who died of leukemia in 2018. Partly the memoir of a vibrant
- Author: Gaillard, Frye
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: November 26 2020
- ISBN10: 1734590211
- Language: English
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Renegade Teacher: Inside School Walls with Standards and the Test
$15.95 Add to cartUS public schools can do better. Post-pandemic, Harvard researcher Martin West states, “We’ve had the greatest decline in student achievement in US history. We have to have strategies to address this.
- Author: Scheidler, Katherine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: June 05 2023
- ISBN10: 9798886792614
- Language: English
