Social class on campus: Theories and manifestations
This is at once a playful text with a serious purpose: to provide the reader with the theoretical lenses to analyze the dynamics of social class.
Registered Nurse RN: Free NCLEX Review, Care Plans, RN Salary
Author: Registered Nurse RN Aspiring nurses can learn about the different types of nurses, education requirements, and nurse salary statistics. Nursing students can access care plan examples, nursing school study tips, NCLEX review lectures and quizzes, nursing skills, and more. New nurses can access job resources such as interview tips, nursing job resumes, and job […]
Rac(e)ing to class: Confronting poverty and race in schools and classrooms
In this incisive and practical book, H. Richard Milner IV provides educators with a crucial understanding of how to teach students of color who live in poverty.
Ninety feet under: What poverty does to people
Ninety Feet Under–What Poverty Does to People identifies ninety major impacts of poverty on people, stressors that strike in total and all the time.
Mindshift: Break Through Obstacles to Learning and Discover Your Hidden Potential
Author: Barbara Oakley At a time when we are constantly being asked to retrain and reinvent ourselves to adapt to new technologies and changing industries, this book shows us how we can uncover and develop talents we didn’t realize we had—no matter what our age or background. View Book
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
Author: Carol Dweck Dweck shows how success in school, work, sports, the arts, and almost every area of human endeavor can be dramatically influenced by how we approach our goals. People with a fixed mindset—those who believe that abilities are fixed—are far less likely to flourish than those with a growth mindset—those who believe that […]
Microaggressions in everyday life: Race, gender, and sexual orientation
Author: Derald Wing Sue The revised and updated second edition of Microaggressions in Everyday Life presents an introduction to the concept of microaggressions, classifies the various types of microaggressions, and offers solutions for ending microaggressions at the individual, group, and community levels. View Book
Make it stick: The science of successful learning
Drawing on recent discoveries in cognitive psychology and other disciplines, the authors of Make it Stick offer concrete techniques for becoming more productive learners.
Justice on both sides: Transforming education through restorative justice
Justice on Both Sides, provides an urgently needed, comprehensive account of the value of restorative justice and how contemporary schools can implement effective practices to address inequalities associated with race, class, and gender.
How we learn: The surprising truth about when, where, and why it happens
Author: Benedict Carey In How We Learn, award-winning science reporter Benedict Carey sifts through decades of education research and landmark studies to uncover the truth about how our brains absorb and retain information. By road testing many of the counterintuitive techniques described in this book, Carey shows how we can flex the neural muscles that […]
How Learning Happens: Seminal Works in Educational Psychology and What They Mean in Practice
How Learning Happens introduces 28 giants of educational research and their findings on how we learn and what we need to learn effectively, efficiently and enjoyably. Many of these works have inspired researchers and teachers all around the world and have left a mark on how we teach today.
Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors: Overcoming Internal Self-Alienation
Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors integrates a neurobiologically informed understanding of trauma, dissociation, and attachment with a practical approach to treatment, all communicated in straightforward language accessible to both client and therapist.