Spy Story

Literature & Fiction

Burke, Jim

United States

St Martins Pr

Need money to expand your program, train your staff, or create your project? Be assured, the money is out there. All you need to know is where the grant makers are, what they're looking for, and how to produce it. I'll Grant You That provides all three, presenting a complete course on obtaining grants. 
 Part book, part CD-ROM, I'll Grant You That is an all-in-one resource for finding funds, designing winning projects, and writing powerful proposals. The book itself offers everything you need to write a successful proposal. Not only does it walk you step by step through the process, it provides a series of workshops in those areas you might need a little help, including writing, organizing, presenting, and being creative. On the CD-ROM, you'll find annotated sample grants that explain what works-and what doesn't-in writing a winning grant, links to a host of Internet resources for grants and grant writing, and self-assessment tools to help you write the best grant possible. 
 Burke and Prater's own efforts have led not only to millions of dollars, but, more important, to improved education for their students, better communities, and richer professional lives. With I'll Grant You That, the authors grant you the same. 
The system requirements for the CD are: Windows/PC Windows 95 or Higher 90 mHZ Pentium Processor (or faster) 24 MB RAM (more recommended) CD-ROM Drive Adobe Acrobat 4.0 (included) Web Browser and Internet Connection (for use with online resources) Macintosh System 7.5 or Higher Power PC Processor 24 MB RAM Color Display capable of displaying 256 Colors CD-ROM drive Adobe Acrobat Reader 4.0 Web Browsers and Internet Connection

I'll Grant You That: A Step-by-Step Guide to Finding Funds, Designing Winning Projects, and Writing P owerful Grant Propos

Business & Money

Prater, Carol Ann

Finance

Heinemann

This is a book about success. A book about what effective learners do to succeed in school and how you can help all of your students achieve similar results. It's based upon a five-year study in which Jim Burke investigated the essential skills and abilities effective learners use to succeed in academic classes. His results are so groundbreaking, so powerful that they will forever change the way you view learning.

School Smarts: The Four Cs of Academic Success

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

With each annual version of the Daybook, you can create a smart archive of your teaching career, enabling you to thoughtfully plan, revise, and improve each year.

The Teacher's Daybook 2004-2005: Time to Teach, Time to Learn, Time to Live

This book, though focused on one teacher in one school with one group of students, shows all teachers what can be accomplished. While the collective voice gives us community, it is the individual voice that gives us strength. Jim's voice gives us much strength, much strength indeed. -Kylene Beers, author of When Kids Can't Read-What Teachers Can Do How can we make the tools and habits of academic literacy available to every student? Jim Burke answered this question by creating ACCESS, a program for struggling students he began five years ago at Burlingame High School-a program where seventy percent of incoming ninth graders go on to college. In ACCESSing School, Burke examines academic success initiatives around the country, identifying their key components, then detailing how their practices apply to ACCESS so that you can adapt its principles to meet your school's unique needs. ACCESSing School offers a reading-intensive alternative to ineffective remedial courses. It synthesizes the findings of recent studies with both the insight Jim has gleaned from teaching ACCESS classes and the "Four Cs of Academic Success" he identified in School Smarts. ACCESSing School offers a model for all schools, complete with: 
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<li>specific, practical elements of Jim's ACCESS program</li> <li>the actual documents he and his district use to select students for ACCESS</li> <li>the research that supports its principles and practices</li> <li>the ways in which ACCESS addresses specific challenges such as gender, reading problems, and chronic academic failure</li> <li>inspiring stories of the program's many successes and an honest examination of its challenges.</li> </ul> How can you help every student learn to "do school?" By providing an opportunity for them to acquire the habits, motivation, and language they need in a curriculum that is structured and experiential, guided but flexible, personally meaningful but academically effective. How do you take the first step? By reading ACCESSing School, and discovering more about the ideas and practices that can help your students succeed both in school and after graduation. For purchasers of the book, reproducibles can be downloaded at http://www.heinemann.com/accessingSchool.

Accessing School: Teaching Struggling Readers to Achieve Academic and Personal Success

Reference

Beers, Kylene

Words, Language & Grammar

50 Essential Lessons is the result of the lessons Jim Burke learned while asking himself how to teach his students the skills they needed to succeed in school and in the larger world. Anchored in standards shared by a range of national literacy documents, these lessons focus on the core cognitive and personal skills-reading, writing, speaking and listening, taking notes, taking tests, and managing oneself-required on state tests and college entrance exams. Whether used to enhance your English Language Arts curriculum or as a stand-alone resource, 50 Essential Lessons will help you teach your students the academic essentials. Components: <ul>
<li>50 Essential Lessons (book of lessons) presents 50 standards-based lessons organized around the cognitive and personal skills students need for success in school and beyond.</li> <li>Tools and Texts for 50 Essential Lessons provides a bank of teaching tools and lesson-related readings in a clear, reproducible format.</li> <li>Tools for 50 Essential Lessons CD-ROM organizes the charts, forms, and other teaching tools in an electronic format that is easy to scan and print.</li> </ul> Key Features <ul>
<li>Lesson preview notes situate the lesson into your English Language Arts curriculum and provide the information needed to jump in and get started.</li> <li>The Teach section of each lesson offers Jim's teaching demonstration, chronicling his teaching moves and language in a model lesson.</li> <li>The Assess and Extend section of each lesson lists strategies for reinforcing or extending student learning and plans to help you tailor the lesson to the needs of your particular students.</li> </ul>

50 Essential Lessons: Tools and Techniques for Teaching English Language Arts (Firsthand)

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

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Joy's questions and Jim's responses evoke in us an appreciation for what it means to do the work called teaching with the "living intensity of soul." May such soulful teaching flourish among us: here is a book that can help it be so. - Parker Palmer and Sam Intrator </ul> Every new teacher needs a mentor, someone smart, experienced, compassionate, and reliable to give advice, share strategies, and lend a supportive ear. What if every new English teacher could have one the nation's most-recognized master teachers as their mentor? Now they can. Letters to a New Teacher is the chance of a professional lifetime, an opportunity to read the letters and emails Jim Burke exchanged with novice teacher Joy Krajicek - letters in which Jim opens his practice, his mind, and his heart to guide Joy through her first year in the classroom. Jim fields the whole gamut of questions - from typical classroom-management matters to challenging instructional situations to sensitive topics like the boundaries of student-teacher relationships. His answers open the classroom experience up for novices to understand how to organize their space and time, how to plan instruction yet maintain flexibility, how to communicate effectively with the two-hundred personalities they encounter each day, and how to maintain professionalism under pressure. As gentle, humorous, and supportive as they are practical, Jim's responses to Joy's questions are immediately useful and are presented in chronological order. From August through June, you'll watch as her questions become increasingly complex and see how Jim's answers build upon one another to create a considered, consistent, and disciplined way of thinking about the teaching of English. Start a your career the right way. Read Letters to a New Teacher and put the thoughts of a master mentor to work in your classroom. Or give Letters to a New Teacher to a novice so they can discover a wellspring of ideas, a source for emotional sustenance, and a buoy for their spirits during difficult moments.

Letters to a New Teacher: A Month-by-Month Guide to the Year Ahead

Krajicek, Joy

Essays & Correspondence

    Jim Burke's Teacher's Daybook was an instant hit, helping tens of thousands of educators stay organized, professional, and sane. But all along, Jim has been collecting suggestions on how to improve the Daybook's usability, and now he's combined your feedback with some new ideas of his own to create the ultimate tool for managing your time. Using The Teacher's Daybook, 2006-2007 is like having Jim down the hall for daily professional development, and this revised edition has more of everything:  more room for on-the-go notes during your daily activities more space for long- and short-term professional reflection and planning more options for organizing yourself, your job, and your life more helpful worksheets and forms that maximize your efficiency.

The Teacher's Daybook, 2006-2007, Revised Edition: Time to Teach, Time to Learn, Time to Live

Master teacher, planner, and organizer Jim Burke has created a daybook for teachers thats much more than a calendar. Its a reference and professional development resource equivalent to having Jim down the hall for daily help in planning.

The Teacher's Daybook, 2007-2008: Time to Teach, Time to Learn, Time to Live

The English Teacher's Companion, Third Edition: A Complete Guide to Classroom, Curriculum, and the Profession

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