5/12/2023 0 Comments John hattie's visible learning![]() ![]() ![]() The power of the Visible Learning research lies in helping educators understand, measure, and evaluate the impact they can have on student growth and achievement. Visible Learning+ professional learning enables schools and districts around the world to effectively implement the core findings of the Visible Learning research. Anything above 0.4 would have a greater positive effect on student learning. The average effect size was 0.4, a marker that represented a year’s growth per year of schooling for a student. Hattie set about calculating a score or “effect size” for each, according to its bearing on student learning and taking into account such aspects as its cost to implement. Although “almost everything we do improves learning,” why not prioritize the ones that will have the greatest effect? Hattie wanted to understand which variables were the most important. His research, Visible Learning, is the culmination of more than 25 years of examining and synthesizing more than 1,850 meta-analyses comprising more than 108,000 studies involving 300 million students around the world. ![]() ![]() Professor John Hattie of the University of Melbourne, Australia, has long researched performance indicators and evaluation in education. The world's largest evidence base on what works best in schools to accelerate student learning ![]()
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5/12/2023 0 Comments Pines by Blake Crouch![]() ![]() Here are the synopses for the three books: Pines ![]() Think Twin Peaks meets the X-Files and you won’t be far off. Unable to get straight answers about who has his identification, and why he can’t seem to raise his wife on the phone, Burke soon comes across one terrible secret after another.Īnd yes, it’s a paranormal thriller. He was T-boned by a truck, somehow surviving. The last thing Burke remembers was being sent to Wayward Pines to find two missing fellow agents who worked with him in Seattle (why were these secret service agents based in Seattle? No idea – but your disbelief will soon be suspended anyhow). Although he wakes in incredible pain, he’s quick to note that something in the idyllic little town seems a little weird. In the opening pages of Pines, the first book in Blake Crouch’s incredible Wayward Pines trilogy, secret service agent Ethan Burke has arrived in Wayward Pines, Idaho, three weeks earlier. Read it now before all you can imagine is Matt Dillon in the read role. ![]() The Bottom Line: A jaw-dropping paranormal thriller series that is clearly deserving of the TV deal it landed. ![]() ![]() Without their efforts, 18 of Shakespeare’s plays, including Macbeth, The Tempest and Twelfth Night, may have been lost forever. When Shakespeare’s friends and fellow actors John Heminges and Henry Condel put together the First Folio in 1623, they did history a great service. Now, on July 7, Sotheby’s will auction a rare 399-year-old copy of the book, which is estimated to sell for $1.5 to $2.5 million. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories & Tragedies-contain critical early records of the Bard’s work. Seven years after William Shakespeare’s death in 1616, two of the playwright’s friends gathered, edited and printed 36 of his texts into large, expensive keepsake books known as the First Folio.īecause many of Shakespeare’s original manuscripts have been lost throughout history, the printed editions of the First Folio-formally titled Mr. ![]() ![]() ![]() Soon I swoon with the liquor of ruins and overgrown walks and moonlit nights and melodrama. Women are subject to flights of emotion that control them but which are barely understood. Women are ruled by emotion, men by reason, the cultural perceptions of gothic and victorian society. Gothic elements are all here and they work their magic. A painting of a long ago countess looks much like Carmilla. She sees or dreams or imagines that Carmilla is in her room. Yes, it seems this vampire has a bit of a titty fetish. Laura has oppressive dreams in which a figure bites her on the breast. The two young women recognize each other from a dream they had when they were young and with this bond they become companions. ![]() ![]() The 19 year old Laura who lives there visits the guest and the horror seeps out: “What was it that, as I reached the bedside and had just begun my little greeting, struck me dumb in a moment, and made me recoil a step or two from before here? I will tell you.”Īnd tell us she does. 1972Ī carriage overturns and a young woman is taken to the family schloss in Styria to recuperate. ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments Night Watch by Terry Pratchett![]() What would run through the streets soon enough wouldn't be a revolution or a riot. And so the children of the revolution were faced with the age-old problem: it wasn't that you had the wrong kind of government, which was obvious, but that you had the wrong kind of people.Īs soon as you saw people as things to be measured, they didn't measure up. ![]() The People tended to be small-minded and conservative and not very clever and were even distrustful of cleverness. They found that The People tended not to be grateful or appreciative or forward-thinking or obedient. ![]() People on the side of The People always ended up disappointed, in any case. Vimes had spent his life on the streets, and had met decent men and fools and people who'd steal a penny from a blind beggar and people who performed silent miracles or desperate crimes every day behind the grubby windows of little houses, but he'd never met The People. And some had been idiots as mad as Swing, with a view of the world just as rigid and unreal, who were on the side of what they called 'the people'. ![]() Some were young people with no money who objected to the fact that the world was run by old people who were rich. ![]() Some had been ordinary people who'd had enough. “There were plotters, there was no doubt about it. ![]() ![]() Published in 1931 in the immediate aftermath of D H Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover controversy, Mollie Panter-Downes's book explores the different echelons of the increasingly self-conscious middle class and the ways in which the tensions and nuances of vocabulary, dress, occupation, politics, taste and, ultimately, the literary world contribute to the incompatibility of a marriage. ![]() Wife or mistress? Nevis finds herself caught in a whirl of circumstances over which she has no control. They live this superficial existence for three years, until one day Nevis meets Marcus Chard, her American publisher, who has just arrived in London. Temperamentally unsuited, they are only kept together by a mutual physical attraction, in spite of innumerable quarrels. ![]() My Husband Simon tells the story of the married life of Nevis Falconer, a young woman novelist, and Simon Quinn. ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments Daniel keyes book![]() ![]() ![]() Will the same happen to Charlie?įrom the Back Cover When we first meet Charlie he is about to embark on a compelling but dangerous journey from retardation to genius. The experiment appears to be a scientific breakthrough of paramount importance, until Algernon suddenly deteriorates. ![]() As the treatment takes effect, Charlie's intelligence expands until it surpasses that of the doctors who engineered his metamorphosis. Born with an unusually low IQ, he has been chosen as the perfect subject for an experimental surgery that researchers hope will increase his intelligence-a procedure that has already been highly successful when tested on a lab mouse named Algernon. ![]() Charlie Gordon is about to embark upon an unprecedented journey. About the Book Winner of both the Hugo and Nebula Awards, the powerful, classic story about a man who receives an operation that turns him into a genius.and introduces him to heartache.īook Synopsis Winner of both the Hugo and Nebula Awards, the powerful, classic story about a man who receives an operation that turns him into a genius.and introduces him to heartache. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() His awareness that the life he once knew is over is represented by the recurring image running through his head of being trapped in a diving bell, an old-fashion underwater suit, sinking to the bottom of the ocean. Bauby hears everything-including the horrifyingly dire prognosis of his doctors about his fate to live in this "locked-in" syndrome indefinitely while his intellect and imagination remain indelibly sharp. The film tells the true story of Jean-Dominique Bauby, a fashion magazine editor in Paris who, after his stroke and subsequent coma at the age of 43, was totally paralyzed except for the muscles in his left eye.ĭirected by Julian Schnabel (whose work here netted him the top director award at Cannes), the film is shot from the point of view and through the eyes of Bauby, portrayed by Mathieu Amalric. ![]() However, you probably won't be prepared for the level of confinement meticulously described in The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. Strokes can cause varying degrees of disability. The film is a testament to the power of the imagination to transcend the confines of illness. Locked into the Meaning of The Diving Bell and the Butterfly ![]() 5/10/2023 0 Comments Ride On by Faith Erin Hicks![]() Some themes of Ride On are friendship, growing apart or growing closer, what it means to you to be around a good friend, working hard, competing. Ride On is set in middle school, and as far as romance goes, there is just the barest hint of a crush. I loved that Victoria's mom was an accountant, haha! Yeah accountants know better than to buy horses. In Ride On, this middle grade graphic novel from Faith Erin Hicks, twelve-year-old Victoria is burned out from the high-pressure world or riding competitions. Victoria's sweet older sister, Norrie's sweet older brother, even Sam's brother's eventually have some sweet moments. I loved all the positive sibling relationships in this book. What happened with Victoria to make her change stables? Even thought I didn't ever consider myself a horse girl, many sweet moments, some silliness, and some real conflicts made the book compelling. My dad loves horses and our family owned a few now and then (see the picture above). I was never super into horse books (it was all about the Babysitters Club, for me!) but that didn't stand in the way of my enjoyment of this book. ![]() Although the front cover has just one of the main characters on it, (kind of two, if you count the horse, I suppose!) there are a bunch of awesome characters in this book. Ride On is out TOMORROW To celebrate Im going to post about the development of this graphic novel, which I first saw. ![]() ![]() I really enjoyed this graphic novel! I picked it up from the library because it's by Faith Erin Hicks and I have liked her books in the past ( One Year at Ellsmere, and Friends with Boys especially!) There was a great ensemble cast to this book. ![]() 5/10/2023 0 Comments The Thessaliad by Bill Willingham![]() ![]() ![]() But the clever Snow attempts to charm the sultan instead by playing Scheherazade, telling him fantastic stories for a total of 1,001 nights. Kaluta, James Jean, Mark Buckingham, Jill Thompson and more, 1,001 NIGHTS OF SNOWFALL is both an entry point to the critically acclaimed series and an essential part of Willingham's enchanting and imaginative FABLES mythos.Traveling in Arabia as an Ambassador from the exiled FABLES community, Snow White is captured by the local sultan who wants to marry her (and then kill her). Don't miss a new softcover edition of the acclaimed hardcover graphic novel from FABLES creator Bill Willingham and a star-studded array of artists! This volume, set in the early days of Fabletown, long before the FABLES series began, featuring sequences illustrated by Charles Vess, Brian Bolland, John Bolton, Michael Wm. ![]() |