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What's New?
​​​​​ New Book Releases
Don't Ditch that Tech
by Matt Miller, Nate Ridgway & Angelia Ridgway
Teach Me, Teacher
by Jacob Chastain
DBC Pirate Con 2020 Speakers:
1) Click each speaker's headshot and review their bio.
2) Click their book(s) within the bio and read the first few chapters for FREE! After selecting the book, scroll down to "Free Preview," and enjoy the first few chapters.
3) Click the circles below the carousel to manually advance through all DBC, Inc. Pirate Con speakers!
PS It might seem impossible, but there are MORE to come!
#DBCchallenge is BACK!
DBC Challenge Bonus Weeks
What does that mean?
Beginning the week of July 15th until the week of August 26, 2019, we will drop a #DBCchallenge to our Twitter account @dbc_inc.
To participate, comment with your answer, add the hashtags #dbcchallenge and #tlap, and retweet the post.
Each week, TWO winners will be chosen to select a DBC, Inc. book of choice and one of these winners will receive a Golden Treasure!
​That is 14 FREE books and 7 Golden Treasures, or 21 FREE Books to be given out, for FREE, during the #DBCchallenge Bonus Weeks!
Throw your hands in the air if you want a FREE book or TWO!!
Student Author
Have you met our student author, Ashley Savage?! Ashley is nineteen years old and a student at University of Central Arkansas.
The picture book, I Want to Be a Lot, is based on a true story! Ashley is showing the world that we CAN be a lot!
PS She is rockin' this published author life! Click the images to learn more about I Want to Be a Lot! You won't be disappointed!
Follow Ashley on Twitter @ashreadsnwrites
We loved seeing Ashley encourage students of all ages at her book signing this past week!
We are proud of YOU, Ashley!
Guest EdSurge Post
Reaching the Quiet Kids in Class by Stacey Roshan
As a student, my mindset was that everything needed to be perfect; anything less was unacceptable. Taking the risk to raise my hand in class, when I wanted to contribute my thoughts, was always a challenge for me. But none of my teachers ever seemed to recognize this; or if they did, they never acknowledged it.
The thing is, I really wanted to contribute to class discussions. I just didn’t always know how to. And on top of my perfectionism, I was slow. Because I did well in school, nobody was ever concerned. However, from the time I was in elementary school, it was difficult to complete assessments on time, and it always took me unreasonably long to finish homework in the evening.
When I was in grad school, I had a teacher who carried a stack of name cards around the room. As he lectured, he would randomly pick names from the stack to call on students. That class was a nightmare for me.
I understand the importance of engaging every student and...
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