Yong Zhao Book order

A book in two halves, Kissing Other People or the House of Fame opens with a sequence of poems that roam the grotty, sublime streets: patting rats, reading pamphlets, enduring labour, acquiring falafel, waving to friends. Then the book flips on a seam and invokes Chaucer as an unlikely guide through a series of dream-blocks, each autonomous yet resonant with attachments and perversions as they come and go, repeat and echo. The book is as staunch as it is warm - one arm extended in a hug and the other cupped over the mouth to shield a secret (weapon).

An epistolary sequence about sex, exchange and social space set along the Northeast Corridor. In A Queen in Bucks County, our protagonist Turner, who both is and is not the writer, makes his pleasurable way through miserable space. Men "buy him things," lovers drive across state lines, users down volatile cocktails to see what happens, landlords turn tenants out, and Turner writes poetic tracts to friends about it. Part pornography, part novel, all love letter, A Queen in Bucks County is an experiment in turning language upside down to see what falls out.

Presents convincing evidence-based arguments about the necessity and possibility for breaking the traditional boundaries that limit learning.

In the second edition of Leading Modern Learning, A Blueprint for Vision Driven Schools authors Jay McTighe and Greg Curtis offer the reader a fully rethought version of their blueprint for major education reform. More than a simple refresh, this new edition incorporates new insights, thinking, and experiences to refine approaches to, and tools for, implementing effective modern learning practices in a department, school, or district. With new Notes From the Field elements, McTighe and Curtis highlight key observations from their work with schools, including how to avoid potential missteps, misunderstandings, and time wasters that inhibit progress when implementing reform.

Immer wieder träumt Mae den gleichen Albtraum, der scheinbar keine Verbindung zu ihrem Leben hat. Und trotzdem lassen sie die Traumbilder und Gefühle nicht los. Wenig später tauchen Sam und Konrad auf - zwei rätselhafte Brüder. Mae spürt vom ersten Augenblick eine Anziehung zu Sam, die sie sich nicht erklären kann. Noch ahnt sie nicht, dass die Brüder ein dunkles Geheimnis umgibt, das mit ihr verbunden ist. Ein Schicksal, das nicht gebrochen werden kann. Eine Liebe gegen jede Vernunft. Denn sie zerstört die Menschen, die Mae liebt.

Yong Zhao, a distinguished professor at Michigan State University who was born and raised in China, offers a compelling argument for what schools can--and must--do to meet the challenges and opportunities brought about by globalization and technology.