All Products by Jim Burke

The Six Academic Writing Assignments (eBook)

Jim Burke

Pub Date: 10/26/2018
Product Type: eBook
Grade: 9th-12th

Writing assignments are road maps—or they should be. They guide the writer on a journey. They lay out a process, envision a destination.  They are designed. As Jim Burke explains it:  “What we are really doing when we create a year’s worth of writing assignments, of experiences, is designing a story.  Each day’s class a sentence,... more

The Six Academic Writing Assignments (Print eBook Bundle)

Jim Burke

Pub Date: 10/26/2018
Product Type: Print + eBook
Grade: 9th-12th

Writing assignments are road maps—or they should be. They guide the writer on a journey. They lay out a process, envision a destination.  They are designed. As Jim Burke explains it:  “What we are really doing when we create a year’s worth of writing assignments, of experiences, is designing a story.  Each day’s class a sentence,... more

The Six Academic Writing Assignments

Jim Burke

Pub Date: 10/23/2018
Product Type: Paperback
Grade: 9th-12th

Writing assignments are road maps—or they should be. They guide the writer on a journey. They lay out a process, envision a destination.  They are designed. As Jim Burke explains it:  “What we are really doing when we create a year’s worth of writing assignments, of experiences, is designing a story.  Each day’s class a sentence,... more

The English Teacher's Companion, Fourth Edition (eBook)

Jim Burke

Pub Date: 1/22/2013
Product Type: eBook
Grade: 6th-12th

A new companion for every English teacher “Why have I written an entirely new English Teacher’s Companion? Because to offer you anything less would suggest I had not grown, changed, or evolved these past fifteen years. I am not the same teacher I was when I wrote the first edition.” Jim Burke The fourth edition of English Teacher’s... more

The English Teacher's Companion, Fourth Edition

Jim Burke

Pub Date: 11/1/2012
Product Type: Paperback
Grade: 6th-12th

A new companion for every English teacher “Why have I written an entirely new English Teacher’s Companion? Because to offer you anything less would suggest I had not grown, changed, or evolved these past fifteen years. I am not the same teacher I was when I wrote the first edition.” Jim Burke The fourth edition of English Teacher’s... more

The English Teacher's Companion, Fourth Edition (Print eBook Bundle)

Jim Burke

Pub Date: 11/1/2012
Product Type: Print + eBook
Grade: 6th-12th

A new companion for every English teacher “Why have I written an entirely new English Teacher’s Companion? Because to offer you anything less would suggest I had not grown, changed, or evolved these past fifteen years. I am not the same teacher I was when I wrote the first edition.” Jim Burke The fourth edition of English Teacher’s... more

Whats the Big Idea? (eBook)

Jim Burke

Pub Date: 8/6/2010 1
Product Type: eBook
Grade: 6th-12th

Many people have written about how theory (or research) relates to practice; Jim is one of those rare professionals who live the relationship. Arthur Applebee NAEP advisor, Validation committee member for Common Core, Author of Curriculum as Conversation Why a book about questions? “Because when students’ instruction is organized... more

What's the Big Idea? (Print eBook Bundle)

Jim Burke

Pub Date: 2/2/2010 1
Product Type: Print + eBook
Grade: 6th-12th

Many people have written about how theory (or research) relates to practice; Jim is one of those rare professionals who live the relationship. Arthur Applebee NAEP advisor, Validation committee member for Common Core, Curriculum as Conversation Why a book about questions? “Because when students’ instruction is organized around... more

What's the Big Idea?

Jim Burke

Pub Date: 2/2/2010 1
Product Type: Paperback
Grade: 6th-12th

Many people have written about how theory (or research) relates to practice; Jim is one of those rare professionals who live the relationship. —Arthur Applebee NAEP advisor, Validation committee member for Common Core, Author of Curriculum as Conversation Why a book about questions? “Because when students’ instruction... more

50 Essential Lessons

Jim Burke

Pub Date: 11/20/2006
Product Type: Bundle
Grade: 9th-12th

50 Essential Lessons is the result of the lessons Jim Burke learned while asking himself how to teach his students the skills they needed to succeed in school and in the larger world. Anchored in standards shared by a range of national literacy documents, these lessons focus on the core cognitive and personal skills—reading, writing,... more