"Save 15% with our Book Study Bundle! "Love brings us in close, leads us to study the details of a thing, and asks us to return again and again. These are the motivations and ideas that built this book." -Chris Lehman and Kate Roberts You and your students will fall for close reading. In Falling in Love with Close Reading, Christopher Lehman and Kate Roberts show us that it can be rigorous, meaningful, and joyous. You'll empower student ..."
""As challenging as it must have been to write and finesse the adoption of the Common Core State Standards, that accomplishment is nothing compared to the work of teaching in ways that bring all students to these ambitious expectations. The goal is clear. The pathway is not." -Lucy Calkins, Mary Ehrenworth, and Christopher Lehman The Common Core is written, but the plan for implementing the Common Core is not. Lucy Calkins and her colle ..."
Energize Research Reading and Writing Fresh Strategies to Spark Interest, Develop Independence, and Meet Key Common Core Standards, Grades 4-8 by ChristopherLehman, Lucy Calkins Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 2012 by Heinemann ISBN-13: 978-0-325-04357-9, ISBN: 0-325-04357-4
""When we embrace the messy excitement of the [research] process and the drive to inspire others, we can energize our students, our instruction, and ourselves." Christopher Lehman Sit down with Christopher Lehman as he shares the strategies he has used to make research reading and writing real and motivating for students. Chris draws on his experience with the Reading and Writing Project and as co-author of Pathways to the Common Core to ..."
" Middle schoolers can be the masters of disengagement. Recognizing that all students, adept and struggling writers alike, lose steam at times and need a revitalizing jump start, Christopher Lehman offers effective, developmentally-appropriate fixes for addressing situations that frequently sidetrack or distract adolescent writers. Organized as a practical on-the-go teaching reference, the first four chapters offer strategies for counter ..."
"Stop Being Invisible - Overcoming Communication Barriers comes to us from Dr. William Lane, global educational consultant. He has spent over 35 years providing educational services, first working in public education as an elementary, middle and high school teacher and school administrator; and then later as a university professor and department chair of special education programs. He has dedicated his life’s work to educating students a ..."
Crafting Digital Writing(1st Edition) Composing Texts Across Media and Genres by Troy Hicks, ChristopherLehman Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 2013 by Heinemann ISBN-13: 978-0-325-04696-9, ISBN: 0-325-04696-4
"Written for teachers of writing by a teacher of writing, Crafting Digital Writing is both an introduction for teachers new to digital writing and a menu of ideas for those who are tech-savvy. Troy Hicks explores the questions of how to teach digital writing by examining author's craft, demonstrating how intentional thinking about author's craft in digital texts engages students in writing that is grounded in their digital lives. Troy ..."
" When teachers talk about what they want for students, “a love for reading” is inevitably near the top of the list. Even as they work to ensure students’ continuing progress as readers, what ignites passion more than anything is the chance to instill confidence, curiosity, and joy in students. In Reading Wellness, Jan Burkins and Kim Yaris will remind you why you became a teacher in the first place. They want children and teachers to th ..."
Slavery's Reach Southern Slaveholders in the North Star State by Christopher P. Lehman Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2019 by Minnesota Historical Society Press ISBN-13: 978-1-68134-135-4, ISBN: 1-68134-135-2
"From the 1840s through the end of the Civil War, leading Minnesotans invited slaveholders and their wealth into the free territory and free state of Minnesota, enriching the area's communities and residents. Dozens of southern slaveholders and people raised in slaveholding families purchased land and backed Minnesota businesses. Slaveholders' wealth was invested in some of the state's most significant institutions and provided a financi ..."
"The book examines how the coalition among the national African American civil rights organizations disintegrated between 1967 and 1973 as a result of the factionalism that splintered the groups from within as well as the federal government's sabotage of the Civil Rights Movement.Focusing on four major civil rights groups, Power, Politics, and the Decline of the Civil Rights Movement: A Fragile Coalition, 1967–1973 documents how factions ..."
The Colored Cartoon Black Presentation in American Animated Short Films, 1907-1954 by Christopher P. Lehman Paperback, 156 Pages, Published 2009 by University Of Massachusetts Press ISBN-13: 978-1-55849-779-5, ISBN: 1-55849-779-X
"From the introduction of animated film in the early 1900s to the 1950s, ethnic humor was a staple of American-made cartoons. Yet as Christopher Lehman shows in this revealing study, the depiction of African Americans in particular became so inextricably linked to the cartoon medium as to influence its evolution through those five decades. He argues that what is in many ways most distinctive about American animation reflects white animat ..."
"In the first four years of U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War (1961-64), Hollywood did not dramatize the current military conflict but rather romanticized earlier ones. Cartoons reflected only previous trends in U.S. culture, and animators comically but patriotically remembered the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, and both World Wars. In the early years of military escalation in Vietnam, Hollywood was simply not ready to illustrate Am ..."
"Ordinance in 1787 banned African American slavery in the Upper Mississippi River Valley, making the new territory officially "free," slavery in fact persisted in the region through the end of the Civil War. Slaves accompanied presidential appointees serving as soldiers or federal officials in the Upper Mississippi, worked in federally supported mines, and openly accompanied southern travelers. Entrepreneurs from the East Coast started ..."
"As a wildly popular local dance show, Soul Train provided a venue for Chicago's soul singers and political activists and gave African American teenagers their first significant chance to see and identify with their peers on television. The subsequent national series garnered even more popularity, establishing producer and host Don Cornelius as one of the most successful pioneers of African American television production. This work discu ..."
The Colored Cartoon Black Presentation in American Animated Short Films, 1907-1954 by Christopher P. Lehman Hardcover, 152 Pages, Published 2007 by University Of Massachusetts Press ISBN-13: 978-1-55849-613-2, ISBN: 1-55849-613-0
"From the introduction of animated film in the early 1900s to the 1950s, ethnic humor was a staple of American-made cartoons. Yet as Christopher Lehman shows in this revealing study, the depiction of African Americans in particular became so inextricably linked to the cartoon medium as to influence its evolution through those five decades. He argues that what is in many ways most distinctive about American animation reflects white animat ..."
"When identifying himself to Woody through song, the hippie brags about avoiding
both work and responsibility. In addition, the film presents a generation gap and
sides ... for the feature film The Aristocats (1970). In contrast, Ward Kimball
capitalized on the success of It's Tough to Be a Bird (1969) by producing and
directing the short film Dad, Can IBorrow the Car (1970) and the television series
The Mouse Factory in a similar p ..."
It Took Courage Eliza Winstonâs Quest for Freedom by Lehman, Christopher P. Softcover, Published 2024 by Minnesota Historical Society Pre ISBN-13: 978-1-68134-282-5, ISBN: 1-68134-282-0
"Fred is a little boy who tried to learn to play the tuba, but only made bad noises. Homer was an owl who couldn't hoot - nothing came out. Homer came down and became friends with Fred, and actually began to play the tuba, himself, even though Fred still couldn't. But then Fred wandered through the woods, and found that he could hoot like the owls, who came down from the trees to be with him, and then learned to speak their language. Fre ..."
"This work discusses Cornelius's role in the evolution of his groundbreaking series from a small, all-black 1970s television show to a lucrative brand name applying not only to the program, but also to awards and various merchandise in the ..."