Mary Frances Stein

Implementing Standards-Based Mathematics Instruction

Interpreting Our Past: Folklife and Local History in Indiana Museums

Gurdjieff: Essays and Reflections on the Man and His Teaching

State Wildlife Laws Handbook

Reform As Learning

Reform As Learning: School Reform, Organizational Culture, And Community Politics in San Diego

Implementing Standards-Based Mathematics Instruction: A Casebook for Professional Development

Improving Instruction In Rational Numbers and Proportionality: Using Cases to Transform Mathematics Teaching and Learning

Reform as Learning: School Reform, Organizational Culture, and Community Politics in San Diego

Looking closelyat the recent reform efforts in San Diego, this book explores the full range of critical issues pertaining to urban school reform. Drawing on the systemic school reform initiative that was launched in San Diego in the 1990s, this book explores all layers of the school reform process -...

The Quickening: The First Year of My Death

Three people are accidentally linked in a blood brotherhood of the living and dead: John Court, paranormal investigator, his wife Claire, and Rick Mendoza, a suffering veteran of the Afghanistan conflict.When Mendoza rams his car into that of the Courts, John is killed, and in the chaotic aftermath ...

The Gift of Danger: Lessons from Aikido

Mary Stein took up aikido in her mid-fifties and quickly learned what it really means to face danger—both external and internal. In this powerful collection of short essays, she vividly describes learning an active and spirited defense on the mat, in the process uncovering a lifetime of habitual ten...

5 Practices for Orchestrating Task-Based Discussions in Science

Robust and effective classroom discussions are essential for providing students with opportunities to simultaneously engage in science practices while learning key science content. Using numerous examples and science learning tasks, the authors show how teachers can plan the lesson to encourage stud...

Implementing Standards-Based Mathematics Instruction: A Casebook for Professional Development, Second Edition

''The uncommon value of this book is found in the way it treats teaching as an object of study. It engages all teachers in studying and improving teaching. It focuses directly on the details of teaching and on the methods used to interact with students about the content.''-- From the Foreword by Jam...

Improving Instruction In Rational Numbers and Proportionality: Using Cases to Transform Mathematics Teaching and Learning (Ways of Knowing in Science and Mathematics (Paper))

Helping students develop an understanding of important mathematical ideas is a persistent challenge for teachers. In this book, one of a three-volume set, well-known mathematics educators Margaret Smith, Edward A. Silver, and Mary Kay Stein provide teachers of mathematics the support they need to im...

5 Practices for Orchestrating Productive Mathematics Discussions [NCTM]

Learn the 5 practices for facilitating effective inquiry-oriented classroomsAnticipating what students will do--what strategies they will use--in solving a problem Monitoring their work as they approach the problem in classSelecting students whose strategies are worth discussing in classSequencing t...

A Life in the Law, A Woman Lawyer's Life in Post-World War II Albuquerque, New Mexico

In 1949, when attorney Mary M. Dunlap moved her law practice and her young children from urban Denver, Colorado to their new home in Albuquerque, New Mexico she had no idea what was waiting for her, starting literally at the first stoplight in town. Her career would span more than forty years, bring...