Ralph L Peterson

Grand Conversations

Life in a Crowded Place: Making a Learning Community

Grand Conversations: Literature Groups in Action

A Place for Caring and Celebration: The School Media Center

The Third Secretary

The Third Secretary

The Third Secretary

Ralph Peters Jr.

Ralph Peterson, Jr. (born May 20, 1962, Pleasantville, New Jersey) is an American jazz drummer and bandleader. Four of Peterson's uncles and his grandfather...

Grand Conversations (Updated Edition): Literature Groups in Action

This updated edition of a 1990 classic advocates the use of real books in a classroom context that places children's enjoyment and interpretation of literature at the center. New material includes a foreword by Shelley Harwayne and tributes to the book's influence by Stephanie Harvey, Lester Laminac...

Managing When No One Wants to Work: Leadership Lessons from an Executive Housekeeper

“How do you manage in a field where turn-over is high, motivation is low and no matter how much you try to smile and sugar coat it, at the end of the day you are still asking your staff to clean toilets?” Ralph Peterson has been hiring, promoting and training managers in one of the toughest manageme...

Life in a Crowded Place: Making a Learning Community

No one will deny that life in classrooms is an intense social experience. Crowded together with students for six or more hours a day in a space no bigger than a large living room, the immediate response of most teachers is to maintain control and enforce obedience. But creating a community - bringin...

Fly A Big Tin Bird

A collection of true stories about Peterson's experiences during WWII, from Air Cadet training on into combat flying. As told by a flyer of 32 missions in B-17s over Germany with the 379th Bomb Group of the 8th Army, the stories are told in 'barracks' language with humorous incidents throughout.

Grand Conversations: Literature Groups in Action (Bright Idea Scholastic Educational Paperbacks) (Grades 2-6)

Literature Groups in ActionTeach with real books in literature groups and watch your students read aloud and discuss books enthusiastically and learn together. Includes a rationale, grouping strategies and inspiring stories from the classroom.

Grand Conversations (Updated Edition): Literature Groups in Action [Paperback] [2007] (Author) Ralph Peterson, Maryann Eeds

Life in a Crowded Place: Making a Learning Community by Peterson, Ralph [1992]