Seeing With Magic Glasses

Launa Ellison
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Publisher: Great River Books

Launa Ellison provides the reader with a set of magic glasses to more powerfully see and know the whole child. She uses the latest brain-based models of learning as clarifying lenses that guider her choices and goals for each of her students. Ms. Ellison shows these new models in action as she presents an inviting picture of her own classroom and the human beings in it.

About Launa Ellison

A teacher in the Minneapolis public schools for over 30 years, Launa Ellison helped mold the Clara Barton School, a public K-8 school into one of the outstanding schools in the country (a school featured on the PBS television special, Why Do Kids Love These Schools?). She has trained teachers in Canada, Singapore, Bangladesh and South Africa.

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EDU009000 (EDUCATION / Educational Psychology)

Binding EAN ISBN-10 Pub Date PAGES Language Size Price
Paperback 9780915556229 0915556227 1997-03-15 176 0.00 x 7.25 x 10.00 in $14.95

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