Best of
Education

2006

The Daily Five


Gail Boushey - 2006
    Based on literacy learning and motivation research, they created a structure called The Daily Five which has been practiced and refined in their own classrooms for ten years, and shared with thousands of teachers throughout the United States. The Daily Five is a series of literacy tasks (reading to self, reading with someone, writing, word work, and listening to reading) which students complete daily while the teacher meets with small groups or confers with individuals.This book not only explains the philosophy behind the structure, but shows you how to carefully and systematically train your students to participate in each of the five components.Explicit modeling practice, reflecting and refining take place during the launching phase, preparing the foundation for a year of meaningful content instruction tailored to meet the needs of each child.The Daily Five is more than a management system or a curriculum framework; it is a structure that will help students develop the habits that lead to a lifetime of independent literacy.

Teaching Adolescent Writers


Kelly Gallagher - 2006
    From the requirements of standardized tests to those of the wired workplace, the ability to write well, once a luxury, has become a necessity. Many students are leaving school without the necessary writing practice and skills needed to compete in a complex and fast-moving Information Age. Unless we teach them how to run with it, they are in danger of being run over by a stampede—a literacy stampede.In Teaching Adolescent Writers , Kelly Gallagher shows how students can be taught to write effectively. Gallagher shares a number of classroom-tested strategies that enable teachers to:Understand the importance of teaching writing and how to motivate young writersShow how modeling from both the teacher and real-world texts builds young writersProvide choice of what to write, which helps elevate adolescent writing, and how to fit it into a rigorous curriculumHelp students recognize the importance of purpose and audienceAssess essays in ways that drive better writing performance.Infused with humor and illuminating anecdotes, Gallagher draws on his classroom experiences and work as co-director of a regional writing project to offer teachers both practical ways to incorporate writing instruction into their day and compelling reasons to do so.

Letters to a Young Brother: Manifest Your Destiny


Hill Harper - 2006
    Based on the author’s motivational speaking at inner-city schools across the country, the letters deal with the tough issues that face young people today. Bombarded with messages from music and the media, Harper set out to dispel the stereotypical image of success that young people receive today and instead emphasizes alternative views of what it truly means to be a successful male, such as educational and community achievements and self-respect. Intended to provide this frequently regarded “lost generation” of young men with words of encouragement and guidance, Harper’s deep-rooted passion regarding the plight of today’s youth drove him to write this book, sure to change the lives of readers for years to come.

Heaven on Earth: A Handbook for Parents of Young Children


Sharifa Oppenheimer - 2006
    Although our cultural values and family structures may change, it is the atmosphere in the home that continues to form the foundation of a child's life. In Heaven on Earth, parent and educator Sharifa Oppenheimer reveals how parents can make the home environment warm, lively, loving, and consistent with their highest ideals.Heaven on Earth balances a theoretical understanding of child development with practical ideas, resources, and tips that can transform family life. Readers will learn how to create the regular life rhythms needed to establish a foundation for learning; how to design indoor play environments that allow children the broadest development of skills; and how to create outdoor play spaces that encourage vigorous movement and a wide sensory palette. Through art, storytelling, and the festival celebrations, this book is an invaluable guide to building a "family culture" based on the guiding principle of love--a culture that supports children and encourages the free development of each unique soul.Sharifa Oppenheimer offers a gift from the heart. Heaven on Earth is a practical, inspiring resource that brings the author's informed, intuitive understanding of young children into the heart of the home.CONTENTSHow to Use this Book1. How Our Young Children Learn2. The World of Rhythm3. Celebrating Festivals Together4. Indoor Play5. Outdoor Play6. The Wonder of Stories7. Artistic Experiences for Your Young Child8. Other Topics Parents Wonder About9. Creating Your Family Culture

Wrightslaw: From Emotions to Advocacy: The Special Education Survival Guide


Peter W.D. Wright - 2006
    In this comprehensive, easy-to-read book, you will learn your child's disability and educational needs, how to create a simple method for organizing your child's file and devising a master plan for your child's special education. You will understand parent-school conflict, how to create paper trails and effective letter writing. This book includes dozens of worksheets, forms and sample letters that you can tailor to your needs. Whether you are new to special education or an experienced advocate this book will provide a clear roadmap to effective advocacy for your child. You will use this book again and again.

The Three R's


Ruth Beechick - 2006
    The book is divided into three sections that are tabbed for easy reference. The READING section tells how and when to begin phonics, and how to develop comprehension skills. The LANGUAGE section shows how to develop written language skills naturally, in the same way children learn oral language. The ARITHMETIC section explains how to teach understanding of math concepts, and not just memorization of facts. Bonus: A removable 2-sided wall chart for phonics and arithmetic."

Sensational Kids: Hope and Help for Children with Sensory Processing Disorder


Lucy Jane Miller - 2006
    What may be typical activities for most people-eating, dressing, making friends, taking a spelling test, responding to a hug-are a struggle, often resulting in social, emotional, and academic problems. This is the bewildering and largely uncharted world of Sensory Processing Disorder-a complex brain disorder affecting one in twenty children. These children experience sensations- taste, touch, sound, sight, smell, movement and body awareness-vastly differently from other children their ages.They may feel attacked by the slightest touch, fail to register bumps and bruises, or be unable to figure out where they are in space without constantly touching others. While SPD is more widely recognized than it once was, parents of these sensational children have been searching for ways to help their children navigate in the world. Dr. Lucy Miller, the best-known SPD researcher in the world, is that voice: warm, clear, and upbeat, Dr. Miller identifies the disorder and its four major subtypes, provides insight into assessment and diagnosis, and suggests treatment options and strategies, including the importance of occupational therapy and parental involvement. Portraits of five children illustrate the different ways in which SPD may manifest itself as well as how families cope, while offering hope and advice to parents on how to be the best possible advocates for their children. Comprehensive and compassionate, "Sensational Children" is the book no parent, teacher, or caregiver of children with SPD should be without.

Black Ants and Buddhists: Thinking Critically and Teaching Differently in the Primary Grades


Mary Cowhey - 2006
    Her students learn to make connections between their lives, the books they read, the community leaders they meet, and the larger world. Black Ants and Buddhists  offers no easy answers, but it does include starting points for conversations about diversity and controversy in your classroom, as well as in the larger community. Students and teachers investigate problems and issues together, in a multicultural, antiracist classroom.

Study Driven: A Framework for Planning Units of Study in the Writing Workshop


Katie Wood Ray - 2006
    For Katie Wood Ray, this foundational idea is also the beginning of an important way of approaching rigorous writing instruction.In Study Driven Ray shows you that encouraging students to read closely can improve the effectiveness of your writing instruction. Detailing her own method for utilizing the popular mentor-texts approach, Ray helps you immerse children in a close study of published texts that supports their learning, leads them to a better understanding of the traits of good writing, and motivates them to become more accomplished writers.Ray shows you how to set up your writing workshop to facilitate close study. From grounded understandings to informed practice to supportive resources, she demonstrates:how to find a rich variety of texts that give students a clear vision of the writing you want them to do how to strategically select texts to support whole-class learning as well as individual choice how your teaching language gives structure to curriculum development and student learning how good planning turns curricular standards and objectives into sensible units of study why depth can be a more practical and effective curricular goal than breadth in writing instruction Study Driven also gives you the ideas and resources for thirty units of study, ranging from genres to punctuation and appropriate across grade levels.Get students into the habit of studying what they read to help them plan their writing. Give them examples of real-world texts as well as the structure, the space, the time, and the guidance to change and grow as writers. Give yourself Study Driven and find out how.

Shakespeare Set Free: Teaching A Midsummer Night's Dream, Romeo and Juliet, and Macbeth


Teaching Shakespeare Institute - 2006
    The Folger is dedicated to advancing knowledge and increasing understanding of Shakespeare and the early modern period; it is home to the world’s largest Shakespeare collection and one of the leading collections of books and materials of the entire early modern period (1500–1750). Combining a worldclass research library and scholarly programs; leadership in curriculum, training, and publishing for K–12 education; and award-winning performing arts, exhibitions, and lectures, the Folger is Shakespeare’s home in America. This volume of the Shakespeare Set Free series is written by institute faculty and participants, and includes the latest developments in recent scholarship. It bristles with the energy created by teaching and learning Shakespeare from the text and through active performance, and reflects the experience, wisdom, and wit of real classroom teachers in schools and colleges throughout the United States. In this book, you’ll find the following: · Clearly written essays by leading scholars to refresh teachers and challenge older students · Michael Tolaydo’s brilliant and accessible technique for classroom teaching through performance · Day-by-day teaching strategies that successfully and energetically immerse students of every grade and skill level in the language and in the plays themselves – created, taught, and written by real teachers

The Old Testament Made Easier Part 3: Selections from Ecclesiastes Through Malachi


David J. Ridges - 2006
    Ridges brings the books of Moses and Abraham, in the

The Old Testament Made Easier Part 2: Selections from Exodus Through Proverbs


David J. Ridges - 2006
    Ridges brings the books of Exodus through Ruth to life with his well-known teaching skills. In addition, he provides some direction and helps for understanding 1 Samuel through Proverbs. In-the-verse notes provide a highly effective, unique teaching tool. Notes between the verses provide additional insights and teach principles and doctrines. Join the tens of thousands of readers who have experienced spiritual growth from reading and pondering the books in this series.

Boy Writers: Reclaiming Their Voices


Ralph Fletcher - 2006
    In general, boys don't enjoy writing as much as girls. What's wrong? How can we do a better of job of creating “boy-friendly” classrooms so their voices can be heard?In Boy Writers: Reclaiming Their Voices Ralph Fletcher draws upon his years of experience as staff developer, children's book author, and father of four boys. He also taps the insights from dozens of writing teachers around the US and abroad. Boy Writers asks teachers to imagine the writing classroom from a boy's perspective, and consider specific steps we might take to create stimulating classrooms for boys.Topic choice emerges as a crucial issue. The subjects many boys like to write about (war, weapons, outlandish fiction, zany or bathroom humor) often do not get a warm reception from teachers. Ralph argues that we must “widen the circle” and give boys more choice if we want to engage them as writers. How? We must begin by recognizing boys and the world in which they live. Boy Writers explores important questions such as:What subjects are boy writers passionate about, and what motivates them as writers?Why do boys like to incorporate violence into their stories, and how much should be allowed?Why do we so often misread and misunderstand the humor boys include in their stories?In addition, the book looks at: how handwriting can hamstring boy writers, and how drawing may help; welcoming boy-friendly writing genres in our classrooms; ways to improve our conferring with boys; and more.Each chapter begins with a thorough discussion of a topic and ends with a highly practical section titled: "What can I do in my classroom?" Boy Writers does not advocate promoting the interests of boys at the expense of girls. Rather, it argues that developing sensitivity to the unique facets of boy writers will help teachers better address the needs of all their students.

Teaching for Comprehending and Fluency: Thinking, Talking and Writing about Reading K-8


Irene C. Fountas - 2006
    Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell- DVD is enclosed- This is the next new breakthrough in teaching this subject.

Leaving Microsoft to Change the World: An Entrepreneur's Odyssey to Educate the World's Children


John Wood - 2006
    Wood felt trapped between an all-consuming career and a desire to do something lasting and significant. Stressed from the demands of his job, he took a vacation trekking in Nepal because a friend had told him, "If you get high enough in the mountains, you can't hear Steve Ballmer yelling at you anymore."Instead of being the antidote to the rat race, that trip convinced John Wood to divert the boundless energy he was devoting to Microsoft into a cause that desperately needed to be addressed. While visiting a remote Nepalese school, Wood learned that the students had few books in their library. When he offered to run a book drive to provide the school with books, his idea was met with polite skepticism. After all, no matter how well-intentioned, why would a successful software executive take valuable time out of his life and gather books for an impoverished school?But John Wood did return to that school and with thousands of books bundled on the back of a yak. And at that moment, Wood made the decision to walk away from Microsoft and create Room to Read—an organization that has donated more than 1.2 million books, established more than 2,600 libraries and 200 schools, and sent 1,700 girls to school on scholarship—ultimately touching the lives of 875,000 children with the lifelong gift of education.Leaving Microsoft to Change the World chronicles John Wood's struggle to find a meaningful outlet for his managerial talents and entrepreneurial zeal. For every high-achiever who has ever wondered what life might be like giving back, Wood offers a vivid, emotional, and absorbing tale of how to take the lessons learned at a hard-charging company like Microsoft and apply them to one of the world's most pressing problems: the lack of basic literacy.

Awakening the Dreamer: Clinical Journeys


Philip M. Bromberg - 2006
    Bromberg is among our most gifted clinical writers, especially in his unique ability to record peripheral variations in relatedness - those subtle, split-second changes that capture the powerful workings of dissociation and chart the changing self-states that analyst and patient bring to the moment.For Bromberg, a model of mind premised on the centrality of self-states and dissociation not only offers the optimal lens for comprehending and interpreting clinical data; it also provides maximum leverage for achieving true intersubjective relatedness. And this manner of looking at clinical data offers the best vantage point for integrating psychoanalytic experience with the burgeoning findings of contemporary neuroscience, cognitive and developmental psychology, and attachment research.Dreams are approached not as texts in need of deciphering but as means of contacting genuine but not yet fully conscious self-states. From here, he explores how the patient's "dreamer" and the analyst's "dreamer" can come together to turn the "real" into the "really real" of mutative therapeutic dialogue. The "difficult," frequently traumatized patient is newly appraised in terms of tensions within the therapeutic dyad. And then there is the "haunted" patient who carries a sense of preordained doom through years of otherwise productive work - until the analyst can finally feel the patient's doom as his or her own.Laced with Bromberg's characteristic honesty, humor, and thoughtfulness, these essays elegantly attest to the mind's reliance on dissociation, in both normal and pathological variants, in the ongoing effort to maintain self-organization. Awakening the Dreamer, no less than Standing in the Spaces, is destined to become a permanent part of the literature on therapeutic process and change.

Song: A Guide to Art Song Style and Literature, Revised Edition


Carol Kimball - 2006
    Now back in print after an absence of several years, this newly revised edition includes biographies and discussions of the work of 150 composers of various nationalities, as well as articles on styles of various schools of composition.

Reading Power: Teaching Students to Think While They Read


Adrienne Gear - 2006
    This practical book features chapters on the five powerful reading/thinking strategies — connecting, questioning, visualizing, inferring, and transforming. It offers techniques for helping children recognize what happens in their heads while they read, with simple applications that can be incorporated into any classroom routine. A valuable handbook that promotes reading independence with sequential lessons, teacher-modeling tips, and suggestions for guided practice.

Teaching Twelfth Night and Othello: Shakespeare Set Free


Teaching Shakespeare Institute - 2006
    At the Library's Teaching Shakespeare Institute, scholars, actors, and teachers from across the country work together at the business of teaching and learning Shakespeare. This third volume of the Shakespeare Set Free series is written by institute faculty and participants. The volume sparkles with fine recent scholarship and the wisdom and wit of real classroom teachers in all kinds of schools all over the United States. In this book, you'll find: Clear and provocative essays written by leading scholars to refresh the teacher and challenge older students Successful and plainly understandable techniques for teaching through performance Ways to teach Shakespeare that successfully engage students of every grade and ability level in exploring Shakespeare's language and the magical worlds of the plays Day-by-day teaching strategies for Twelfth Night and Othello -- created, taught, written, and edited by teachers with real voices in real classrooms.

CAPM Exam Prep: Rita's Course in a Book for Passing the CAPM Exam


Rita Mulcahy - 2006
    In addition to 12 comprehensive lessons, this innovative book includes games, exercises, Tricks of the Trade and common pitfalls and mistakes well as enough sample test questions for nearly a full CAPM exam. This book contains over 400 pages of material, including new exercises and sample questions never before in print. With critical time-saving tips, plus games and activities available nowhere else, this book will help you pass the CAPM exam on your FIRST try.

Memorize the Faith! (and Most Anything Else): Using the Methods of the Great Catholic Medieval Memory Masters


Kevin Vost - 2006
    Thomas memorized the Faith. St. Thomas Aquinas perfected an easy method for his students to memorize most any information, but especially the truths taught by Christ and His Church. Thanks to the delightful pages of Memorize the Faith!, you can easily learn the Faith by tapping into the power of the classical memory system that helped St. Thomas become the Church's preeminent theologian and made it easier for him to become one of its greatest saints.

D'Aulaires' Greek Myths Student Guide


Cheryl Lowe - 2006
    Introduce your students to the kinds of characters they will surely meet in life through the entertaining and exaggerated stories of the Greek gods. Take advantage of the 85-page study guide that fully utilizes the detailed D'Aulaires stories and pictures through drill work, comprehension questions, vocabulary, and activities. To be used with the D'Aulaires' Greek Myths text. Grade: 3-6

Teaching Music with Purpose: Conducting, Rehearsing and Inspiring


Peter Loel Boonshaft - 2006
    Like his first critically acclaimed international bestseller Teaching Music with Passion, this new book from Peter Boonshaft is even more poignant and powerful. Called one of the most exciting and exhilarating voices in music education today, Boonshaft's latest work is both inspirational and instructional and will definitely warm your heart and transform your teaching. Click here for a YouTube video on Teaching Music with Purpose

Becoming a Literacy Leader: Supporting Learning and Change


Jennifer Allen - 2006
    The book is rooted in Jennifer's belief that teachers know what they need when it comes to professional development in literacy, and the best literacy leaders are those who listen to and respect the educators in their midst. Grounded in research but thoroughly practical, Jennifer shares advice on:organizing a literacy room with resources for classroom teachers, including book lists, bins of children's books tied to craft and strategy lessons, bulletin board ideas, and files with instructional materials;developing intervention classrooms for struggling readers and writers built on collaboration between teachers and literacy specialists;setting up assessment notebooks for teachers, and preparing new and veteran teachers for student assessments across grades;creating model programs for dealing with schoolwide problems like reading fluency, and then moving from the pilot to implementation in many classrooms;coaching new and veteran teachers in the latest literacy practices, without taking on the role of expert;analyzing and using books, videos and journals in professional development programs;infusing routine staff meetings with discussions of new literacy curricula;leading teacher study groups using a variety of formats;finding and budgeting money for professional development programs in literacy;protecting time and scheduling priorities, to ensure the literacy specialist position doesn't become a “catch-all” for the random needs of teachers or administrators.At a time when all administrators are urged to be literacy leaders, this insider's view helps to define what leadership looks like and shows how to create an environment that fosters professional development. Jennifer Allen shares the balance leaders struggle with, as they strive to support and honor the fine practices of teachers, even as they nudge colleagues to improve their literacy instruction. Ultimately, Becoming a Literacy Leader is a hopeful book, an optimistic and realistic portrait of life in schools among teachers committed to doing their jobs well.

Mindset: The New Psychology of Success


Carol S. Dweck - 2006
    Dweck, Ph.D., discovered a simple but groundbreaking idea: the power of mindset. In this brilliant book, she shows how success in school, work, sports, the arts, and almost every area of human endeavor can be dramatically influenced by how we think about our talents and abilities. People with a fixed mindset — those who believe that abilities are fixed — are less likely to flourish than those with a growth mindset — those who believe that abilities can be developed. Mindset reveals how great parents, teachers, managers, and athletes can put this idea to use to foster outstanding accomplishment.In this edition, Dweck offers new insights into her now famous and broadly embraced concept. She introduces a phenomenon she calls false growth mindset and guides people toward adopting a deeper, truer growth mindset. She also expands the mindset concept beyond the individual, applying it to the cultures of groups and organizations. With the right mindset, you can motivate those you lead, teach, and love — to transform their lives and your own.

Ladybugs, Tornadoes, and Swirling Galaxies: English Language Learners Discover Their World Through Inquiry


Brad Buhrow - 2006
    In Ladybugs, Tornadoes and Swirling Galaxies, you will see how they blend comprehension instruction and ELL best practices to explore inquiry as a literacy pathway for English language learners.As teachers and students engage in learning science and social studies content they also discover multiple ways to make meaning. The book is full of photographs of student artwork—including a color insert—that reveals the children's inquiry process, and demonstrates the important role of art as a sign system in ELL literacy and language acquisition.Brad and Anne provide explicit detail on the process they use as they move step-by-step with students from personal narrative through the independent inquiry process. They also discuss use of the Gradual Release Model, authentic assessment, and bilingual identities.Appendices in Spanish and English help to round out this informative and charming resource.

Books Kids Will Sit Still For 3: A Read-Aloud Guide


Judy Freeman - 2006
    The largest and most comprehensive book of its kind ever written, it's an indispensable treasure trove of 1,700 child-tested favorite read-aloud titles, published since 1995. Everything here--the text chapters (About Children's Books and Ways to Use Them), the Annotated Read-Aloud Lists for preschool through grade 6, the professional books bibliography, and the indexes--is 100 percent new!This is the definitive source for the best recent picture books, fiction, poetry, folklore, biography, and nonfiction books to share with children. The extensively annotated bibliography incorporates thousands of innovative and inspirational ideas for booktalking, book discussion, creative drama, storytelling, poetry, writing, library skills, and other literature-based teaching.Books Kids Will Sit Still For 3 by librarian and children's literature troubadour Judy Freeman is here at last. The largest and most comprehensive book of its kind ever written, it's an indispensable treasure trove of 1,700 child-tested favorite read-aloud titles, published since 1995. Everything here--the text chapters (About Children's Books and Ways to Use Them), the Annotated Read-Aloud Lists for preschool through grade 6, the professional books bibliography, and the indexes--is 100% new! This is the definitive source for the best recent picture books, fiction, poetry, folklore, biography, and nonfiction books to share with children. The extensively annotated bibliography incorporates thousands of innovative and inspirational ideas for booktalking, book discussion, creative drama, storytelling, poetry, writing, library skills, and other literature-based teaching.Books Kids Will Sit Still For 3: A Read-Aloud Guide is the latest all-new volume in the Books Kids Will Sit Still For series, which includes Books Kids Will Sit Still For: A Read-Aloud Guide, Second Edition and More Books Kids Will Sit Still For: A Read-Aloud Guide.The three books together constitute a tour of the best of children's literature and how to use it, with a total of more than 5,000 invaluable annotations of exemplary children's books.

Habits of a Successful Band Director: Pitfalls and Solutions/G6777


Scott Rush - 2006
    Signed in marked see pictures for details. Spiral paperback edge wear unmarked pages.

Shakespeare Set Free: Teaching Hamlet and Henry IV Part I (Folger Shakespeare Library)


Teaching Shakespeare Institute - 2006
    The volume sparkles with fine recent scholarship and the wisdom and wit of real classroom teachers in all kinds of schools all over the United States. In this book, you'll find:Clear and provocative essays written by leading scholars to refresh the teacher and challenge older studentsSuccessful and plainly understandable techniques for teaching through performanceWays to teach Shakespeare that successfully engage students of every grade and ability level in exploring Shakespeare's language and the magical worlds of the playsDay-by-day teaching strategies for "Twelfth Night" and "Othello"-- created, taught, written, and edited by teachers with real voices in real classrooms.

The Six Disciplines of Breakthrough Learning: How to Turn Training and Development Into Business Results


Calhoun W. Wick - 2006
    The Six Disciplines provides the definitive road map and tools for optimizing the business impact of leadership and management training, sales, quality, performance improvement, and individual development programs. This important book presents the theories and techniques behind the approach and includes expert advice for bridging the "learning-doing" gap. The authors' recommendations are illustrated with dozens of real-life examples from successful companies on the cutting edge of results-driven educational performance.

Discovering Voice: Voice Lessons for Middle and High School


Nancy Dean - 2006
    Each voice lesson takes only 10-20 minutes to complete and includes a quotation selected from a wide range of literature, two discussion questions, and an exercise that encourages students to practice what they have learned about the elements of voice. Discovering Voice also offers a collection of quotations students can use to create their own voice lessons. Discussion suggestions for each voice lesson and additional activities for teaching voice further promote critical analysis. Each of the seven packs on the elements of voice--diction, detail, figurative language 1 (metaphors, similes, and personification), figurative language 2 (hyperboles, symbols, and irony), imagery, syntax, and tone--include an introduction, lessons with discussion questions and an exercise, "write-your-own" voice lessons, a list of additional activities for teaching voice, and discussion suggestions.

Girls, Social Class, and Literacy: What Teachers Can Do to Make a Difference


Stephanie Jones - 2006
    This remarkable book is at once powerful and poetic, provocative and informative. Lucy Calkins Be prepared to have your heart examined, perhaps bruised, and ultimately strengthened for the social action that is the reason Stephanie teaches and writesand the reason every educator must read this book. Jo Beth Allen, author of Sociocultural Playgrounds: Teacher Research in the Writing Classroom A must-read for teacher study groups preparing to tackle the impact of poverty on elementary education. Barbara Comber, Centre for Studies in Literacy, Policy and Learning Cultures University of South Australia Girls, Social Class, and Literacy is a compelling and provocative look at the debilitating effects of classism on young girls, as well as a pragmatic and powerful examination of the transformative effects of sensitive, smart teaching on children whose lives and education are too often a reflection of their economic status. Stephanie Jones shares the insights of a five-year study that followed eight working-poor girls, offering you unusually sharp insight into what its like to be underprivileged in America. With critical literacy as her tool, Jones then helps you peel back your ideas of the poorand of your own studentsto see them, and your role in their lives, more clearly. Just as important, using reading and writing workshop as an instructional framework, she describes how to validate and honor all students realities while cultivating crucial critical literacy skills. Youll find out why giving children the option to find and talk openly about disconnections with childrens literature (as well as connections) and to write on topics of their choosing (even difficult ones) can have a large, positive impact on students as they speak and write about their reality without shame or fear of judgment.As the gap between rich and poor widens in America, more and more children from working-poor families enter schools. You can make a difference in their lives by rethinking how you look at social class and extending to all children the same opportunities to share their experiences through reading, speaking, and writing. Read Girls, Social Class, and Literacy and ensure that in your classroom the education every student receives is not proportionate to their financial worth, but rather to their human worth.

Moving a Puddle, and Other Essays


Sandra Dodd - 2006
    Essays on learning in a home without school, on living respectfully with children and of creating a nest in which learning flourishes.

The Life of the Mind: On the Joys and Travails of Thinking


James V. Schall - 2006
    Schall takes up the task of reminding us that, as human beings, we naturally take a special delight and pleasure in simply knowing. Because we have not only bodies but also minds, we are built to know what is. In this volume, Schall, author of On the Unseriousness of Human Affairs (ISI Books), among many other volumes of philosophical and political reflection, discusses the various ways of approaching the delight of thinking and the way that this delight begins in seeing and hearing and even in making and walking. We must be attentive to and cultivate the needs of the mind, argues Schall, for it is through our intellect that all that is not ourselves is finally returned to us, allowing us to live in the light of truth.

Math from Three to Seven: The Story of a Mathematical Circle for Preschoolers


Alexander Zvonkin - 2006
    As anyone who has taught or raised young children knows, mathematical education for little kids is a real mystery. What are they capable of? What should they learn first? How hard should they work? Should they even ``work'' at all? Should we push them, or just let them be? There are no correct answers to these questions, and the author deals with them in classic math-circle style: he doesn't ask and then answer a question, but shows us a problem--be it mathematical or pedagogical--and describes to us what happened. His book is a narrative about what he did, what he tried, what worked, what failed, but most important, what the kids experienced. This book does not purport to show you how to create precocious high achievers. It is just one person's story about things he tried with a half-dozen young children. Mathematicians, psychologists, educators, parents, and everybody interested in the intellectual development in young children will find this book to be an invaluable, inspiring resource.

How Smart Is Your Baby?: Develop and Nurture Your Newborn's Full Potential


Glenn Doman - 2006
    Yet parents do not have the information they need to make their baby's life as stimulating as it should be. How Smart Is Your Baby? provides parents with all the information required to help their baby achieve full potential. The authors first explain infant growth, and then guide parents in creating a home environment that enhances brain development. A developmental profile allows parents to track their child's progress, determine strengths, and recognize where additional stimulation is needed.

Exploratopia: More than 400 kid-friendly experiments and explorations for curious minds


The Exploratorium - 2006
    Kids will love these innovative activities and will have fun learning all at the same time.Book Details: Format: Hardcover Publication Date: 10/4/2006 Pages: 384 Reading Level: Age 8 and Up

Evidence Based Teaching: A Practical Approach


Geoff Petty - 2006
    Evidence Based Teaching will help practically demonstrate how we should teach from the following sources: School effectiveness and school improvement research; Best practice in University teaching; Best practice in FE teaching; Effect size studies carried out mainly in schools; Teaching Thinking skills; Multiple representations; and Constructivism. Together, these strategies, ideas and advice provide us with both general principles for teaching, and very specific methods, all of which can substantially improve teaching and few of which are in common use.

Explaining Creativity: The Science of Human Innovation


Robert Keith Sawyer - 2006
    In the last 50 yearss, psychologists, anthropologists, and sociologists have increasingly studied creativity, and we now know more about creativity that at any point in history. Explaining Creativity considers not only arts like painting and writing, but also science, stage performance, and business innovation. Until about a decade ago, creativity researchers tended to focus on highly valued activities like fine art painting and Nobel prize winning science. Sawyer brings this research up to date by including movies, music videos, cartoons, videogames, hypertext fiction, and computer technology. For example, this is the first book on creativity to include studies of performance and improvisation. Sawyer draws on the latest research findings to show the importance of collaboration and context in all of these creative activities.Today's science of creativity is interdisciplinary; in addition to psychological studies of creativity, Explaining Creativity includes research by anthropologists on creativity in non-Western cultures, and research by sociologists about the situations, contexts, and networks of creative activity. Explaining Creativity brings these approaches together within the sociocultural approach to creativity pioneered by Howard Becker, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and Howard Gardner. The sociocultural approach moves beyond the individual to consider the social and cultural contexts of creativity, emphasizing the role of collaboration and context in the creative process.

Upgrade: 10 Secrets to the Best Education for Your Child


Kevin Swanson - 2006
    He teaches the importance of healthy parent-child relationships and having a biblical foundation, regardless of whether or not a child is homeschooled. "My purpose is simply to inform, involve, and equip parents with a basic knowledge of the principles upon which a quality education must be built," Swanson says.

Strategic Writing: The Writing Process and Beyond in the Secondary English Classroom


Deborah Dean - 2006
    

Preach and Heal, A Biblical Model for Missions


Charles Fielding - 2006
    Obviously there have been those who have sought to proclaim the life-transforming message of the Gospel while ignoring the suffering and physical needs of their listeners. Likewise, there have been those who confined their witness to the good works they might do while never offering the recipients spiritual hope. Doctoring and church planting - Jesus practiced both. Preach and Heal explores the ideology and practical ways for balanced ministry so that you can effectively reach the lost.

Comprehension Through Conversation: The Power of Purposeful Talk in the Reading Workshop


Maria Nichols - 2006
    Here youll find no ivory-tower examples of what might be, but examples of what is already available in many classrooms. These are classrooms of the sort that we hope our children and grandchildren are lucky enough to encounternot once in a while but routinely. Richard L. Allington To say this is an exceptional book about teaching comprehension would be to trivialize it. With superb examples and flawless logic Nichols demonstrates how to orchestrate conversations that build literate habits of mind. Peter H. Johnston, author of Choice Words Comprehension Through Conversation captures the power and essence of purposeful, engaging instructionand reminds us of the real purpose for comprehension instruction: to understand the deeper issues in texts and discuss these ideas to construct meaning. Nancy L. Akhavan author of How to Align Literacy Instruction and Standards When it comes to reading comprehension, talk isnt cheap, its a valuable way to help children think, articulate their opinions about a text, and get the most from their reading experiences.Comprehension Through Conversation is a practical guide to comprehension, conversation, and collaboration. Maria Nichols invites you to listen in on reading workshops where purposeful book talk leads students to deeper understandings of fiction, nonfiction, and the world beyond. Moving forward from the widely understood concept that exchanging ideas builds students comprehension, Nichols shows you specific ways to use conversation as a scaffolding that bridges prior knowledge to more advanced reading skills and techniques as well as to big ideas such as themes. Her useful ideas for conversations begin with lesson designs that use read-alouds to spark discussions, lead to suggestions for units of study that support children as they read progressively more complex texts, and ultimately build toward fully independent reading and thinking.Start a new dialogue with your students about reading, thinking, and sharing. Open your curriculum to the types of smart book discussions in Comprehension Through Conversation. Youll discover that when it comes to increasing reading comprehension, encouraging critical thinking, and creating literate habits of mind, purposeful talk is priceless.

The Corpus Hermetica


Hermes Trismestigustus - 2006
    Through conversations between characters, the author has broached different subjects regarding faith. He successfully elaborates and answers all questions posed, thus removing many doubts. Inspiring!

Holy Bible: Girls Life Application Study Bible: New Living Translation (Kid's Life Application Bible)


Anonymous - 2006
    Discovering God's will for their lives has never been this much fun Features: "What Now?" Learn how to make good choices in tough times "I Survived " Personal survival stories from older teens about how they made it "Amazing Facts" Bible trivia "At a Glance"--the lives of famous women in the Bible--good and bad--become lessons for teens "Is It OK?" A reality check on what the Bible says about the questions that are really on your mind 2-color interior; 16 pages of full-color illustrations about Bible times Book introductions and timelines Charts and 3-dimensional maps

Home Recording Studio -- Build It Like the Pros


Rod Gervais - 2006
    Home Recording Construction: Build It Like the Pros presents a simple, step-by-step plan for constructing a home studio. Each step features visual aids to illustrate the underlying concept, as well as professional tips and examples of actual studios. The book covers everything from room design, electrical considerations, room treatments, and codes, permits, and special needs. The author offers over thirty years of experience and a comprehensive and cost-effective plan that will have even novices building-and recording-in no time.

Will Power: How to Act Shakespeare in 21 Days


John Basil - 2006
    ...his practical instructions should benefit both students and working actors." -Library Journal, starred review

A Thomas Jefferson Education Home Companion


Oliver DeMille - 2006
    As a result, the family is being restored to its rightful place as the basic unit of a prosperous and free society; and the prospects for American education are looking brighter than ever. These incredibly helpful articles read, at times, like a letter from a friend, at times like an entry in a journal of Education or Child Development, and even, at times, like we're overhearing a conversation. But in every case it is relevant, accessible, and empowering.

The Classical Trivium: The Place of Thomas Nashe in the Learning of His Time


Marshall McLuhan - 2006
    Ideas that would ground McLuhan's media analysis of the 1960s and 70s are here in embryo, as he sets out in scrupulous detail the role of grammar (interpretation), dialectic, and rhetoric in classical learning. Under McLuhan's scholarly microscope, the internal dynamics of the trivium and its purpose are revealed. As is its indispensable role in giving full due to the rich prose of Thomas Nashe. In ranging over literature from Cicero to the sixteenth century, McLuhan discovers the source and significance of multiple traditions in Nashe's writings. Here, more than half a century after it was written, is a fresh, insightful, and richly coherent framework for studying Nashe and an unequivocal call for a program of education based on the ambitious and lofty ideal of reintegrating the classical trivium.

Simple Strategies That Work!: Helpful Hints for All Educators of Students with Asperger Syndrome, High-Functioning Autism, and Related Disabilities


Brenda Smith Myles - 2006
    This book provides ideas and suggestions that teachers can use to help a student with AS/HFA.

50 Essential Lessons: Tools and Techniques for Teaching English Language Arts


Jim Burke - 2006
    Anchored in standards shared by a range of national literacy documents, these lessons focus on the core cognitive and personal skills-reading, writing, speaking and listening, taking notes, taking tests, and managing oneself-required on state tests and college entrance exams. Whether used to enhance your English Language Arts curriculum or as a stand-alone resource, 50 Essential Lessons will help you teach your students the academic essentials.Components:50 Essential Lessons (book of lessons) presents 50 standards-based lessons organized around the cognitive and personal skills students need for success in school and beyond.Tools and Texts for 50 Essential Lessons provides a bank of teaching tools and lesson-related readings in a clear, reproducible format.Tools for 50 Essential Lessons CD-ROM organizes the charts, forms, and other teaching tools in an electronic format that is easy to scan and print. Key Features Lesson preview notes situate the lesson into your English Language Arts curriculum and provide the information needed to jump in and get started. The Teach section of each lesson offers Jim's teaching demonstration, chronicling his teaching moves and language in a model lesson. The Assess and Extend section of each lesson lists strategies for reinforcing or extending student learning and plans to help you tailor the lesson to the needs of your particular students.

Arabic Course for English-Speaking Students: Originally Devised and Taught at Madinah Islamic University (#1)


V. Abdur Rahim - 2006
    A tried and tested course over 40 years with proven track record of success, it is ideal in terms of the topics covered and short time taken to learn. It is suitable for schools and colleges in the UK and other Western English speaking countries. This course is a comprehensive and popular course for the teaching of the Qur'anic and Traditional Arabic, originally devised and taught at the renowned Islamic University of Madinah, catering for the non-Arabic speaking students from all over the world. Over the years, this course has enabled students to become competent in their use of the Arabic language and to participate and benefit from scholarly pursuits such as Qur'anic exegesis, Hadeeth, Fiqh, Seerah, History, and classical and modern Arabic literature.Whilst there are now several courses available on the market for the teaching of the Arabic language, the unique features of this particular one are: 1. It is very concise, consisting of only three books, all of which are short but extensive in their coverage. 2. It combines modern Arabic vocabulary with Islamic terminology as used in the Qur'an and the Sunnah. 3. It covers all the essential Arabic grammatical rules in such a way that the student is spared the monotonous task of memorizing them 4. The author presents Arabic as a living and vibrant language and takes examples from Arabic in everyday use, as also from the Qur'an and the Sunnah, so that as the student learns the languages, he also acquires an understanding of hundreds of Qur'anic verses, ahaadeeth, Arabic parables and poetry. This allows the student to become directly involved in the study of the Qur'an and the Sunnah while also acquiring a sound understanding of the Arabic language.

Trail Guide to the Body Flashcards Volume 2: Muscles of the Human Body


Andrew R. Biel - 2006
    

Becoming a Problem Solving Genius: A Handbook of Math Strategies


Edward Zaccaro - 2006
    In addition to many traditional strategies, this book includes new techniques such as Think 1, the 2-10 method, and others developed by math educator Edward Zaccaro. Each unit contains problems at five levels of difficulty to meet the needs of students who are average through highly gifted. Answer key and detailed solutions are included. Illustrated B/W throughout.

The Assessment of Basic Language and Learning Skills - Revised : ABLLS-R Protocol


James W. Partington - 2006
    Partington, the ABLLS®-R system is an assessment tool, curriculum guide, and skills-tracking system used to help guide the instruction of language and critical learner skills for children with autism or other developmental disabilities. This practical and parent-friendly tool can be used to facilitate the identification of skills needed by your child to effectively communicate and learn from everyday experiences. ABLLS-RThe ABLLS-R provides a comprehensive review of 544 skills from 25 skill areas including language, social interaction, self-help, academic and motor skills that most typically developing children acquire prior to entering kindergarten. The task items within each skill area are arranged from simpler to more complex tasks. Expressive language skills are assessed based upon the behavioral analysis of language as presented by Dr. B.F. Skinner in his book, Verbal Behavior (1957).The assessment results allow parents and professionals to pinpoint obstacles that have been preventing a child from acquiring new skills and to develop a comprehensive, highly personalized, language-based curriculum.The 2006 version of the ABLLS incorporates many new task items and provides a more specific sequence in the developmental order of items within the various skill areas. Significant changes were made in the revised version of the vocal imitation section with input from Denise Senick-Pirri, SLP-CCC. Additional improvements were made to incorporate items associated with social interaction skills, motor imitation and other joint attention skills, and to ensure the fluent use of established skills.The ABLLS-R is comprised of two documents:1. The ABLLS-R Protocol is used to score a child's performance on the task items and provides 15 appendices that allow for the tracking of a variety of specific skills that are included in the assessment. The Protocol includes a set of grids that comprise a skills-tracking system that makes it possible to observe and document a child's progress in the acquisition of critical skills. 2. The ABLLS-R Guide provides information about the features of the ABLLS-R, how to correctly score items, and how to develop Individualized Education Program (IEP) goals and objectives that clearly define and target the learning needs of a student.The ABLLS-R is sold as a set that includes the ABLLS-R Guide and a Protocol to ensure that parents and professionals have the instructions as to how to use the ABLLS-R. Additional protocols can be purchased separately by individuals who have already purchased a copy of the ABLLS-R Guide.Spanish, Italian and Norwegian translations of ABLLS-R are also available.WebABLLS is an electronic version of the assessment, allowing parents, teachers, speech pathologists, behavior analysts, and those who design, coordinate and/or supervise language or skill-acquisition programs to easily share information about a child.For more information, please contact us or call 925-210-9370.

The First 7 Years: Parenting with Strong Values and a Gentle Touch


Kay Kuzma - 2006
    The principles in this book will help you lay the foundation for you child's growing years. Known to countless parents as "Dr. Kay," child development specialist, broadcaster, and author Kay Kuzma has distilled the best of her life's work and research into The First 7 Years. In this ambitious book, Kay gives parents the information they must have for meeting children's needs in the critical areas of love, individuality, emotions, disipline, congnitive learning, moral character, and personal value. No parent of a preschool aged child will want to be without this guide to parenting that contains some of Dr. Kay's best-known and battle-tested child-rearing principles. Learn how to: - Fill your child's "love cup" and understand how it works - Discover your child's potential - Shrink your child's negative emotional "giants" like anger, jealousy, and fear - Teach love-based obedience - Control the TV and raise a brighter, more capable child - Shape your children's moral character, build their self-confidence, and more! Parenting is an incredible journey that you can never take again. Let The First 7 Years be your roadmap and travel guide to help you get where you want to go. With it, you can enjoy the parenting journey as your children grow into vibrant, loving, gentle people with strong values and principles who will love God, respect you, and bless humanity.

Lies Homeschooling Moms Believe


Todd Wilson - 2006
    Your 'get up and go' has 'gotten up and went'. You used to think homeschooling was the best thing since sliced bread, but now you're feeling like burnt toast. Take heart-- you're not alone! Most homeschooling moms are prone to believing lies that say, you're not good enough...you aren't qualified...and you are ruining your children. If you believe these lies, you will crumble under the weight of homeschooling and feel defeated and alone. But if you learn to recognize these lies and combat with the TRUTH, then you will experience peace, joy, and freedom. Look inside these pages to discover the steps to combat the lies homeschooling moms believe and to fill your mind and heart with the truth.

The ABC's of Education: A Primer For Schools to Come


Doug Goodkin - 2006
    Drawing from his teaching experience at one remarkable school and his work with teachers throughout the world, Goodkin reminds us that a school's worth lies not in its test scores or sports records, but in the health of its community and its ability to keep the unbridled curiosity of six-year-olds burning throughout their entire school experience. These essays range from practical advice (What to do when your preschool class takes off running down the hall) to biting satire (Xylophones mandated in every classroom!) to tender reflections (45 years later, an answer to a note his elementary school teacher wrote to him). Teachers, parents, administrators and students alike will find ample food for thought in this provocative look at the ways in which today's schools are failing our children, and what teachers can do to restore the promise of education.

Primal Healing: Access the Incredible Power of Feelings to Improve Your Health


Arthur Janov - 2006
    Noted psychotherapist Dr. Arthur Janov, author of the groundbreaking best-seller The Primal Scream, explains how, for true healing to occur, you must access the deepest levels of your brain, where imprinted memories and pain lie, and fully relive the primal experiences that drive your behavior. Utilizing compelling case studies. Dr. Janov shows how the brain and nervous system can be imprinted by trauma during birth and early childhood, and how these imprinted memories can cause physical and mental dysfunction. When you access these subconscious memories, you can liberate yourself and improve your health.

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English


Stephen Bullon - 2006
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The Nursing Assistant's Handbook


Hartman Publishing - 2006
    This brief new textbook to train nursing assistants teaches all state, federal, and safety requirements. It is beautifully illustrated and clearly photographed with color tabs for easy location of material. Organized around learning objectives, it contains rationales for procedural steps and an emphasis on resident's rights and passing the certification exam. Table of Contents 1 Long-Term Care and the Nursing Assistant's Role 2 Foundations of Resident Care 3 Understanding Your Residents 4 Body Systems 5 Personal Care Skills 6 Basic Nursing Skills 7 Nutrition and Hydration 8 Common,Chronic,and Acute Conditions 9 Rehabilitation and Restorative Services 10 Caring for Yourself

The Mark of Shame: Stigma of Mental Illness and an Agenda for Change


Stephen P. Hinshaw - 2006
    In recent years, we have begun to understand and develop a range of effective treatments for mental illness. Even with this shift from moralistic views to those emphasizing the biological and genetic origins of mental illness, punitive treatment and outright rejection remain strong. Public attitudes toward mental illness are still more negative than they were half a century ago, and the majority of those afflicted either do not receive or cannot afford adequate care. As a result of all of these troubling facts, applying the term stigma to mental illness is particularly appropriate because stigma conveys the mark of shame borne by those in any highly devalued group.Mental illness tops the list of stigmatized conditions in current society, generating the kinds of stereotypes, fear, and rejection that are reminiscent of longstanding attitudes toward leprosy. Mental disorders threaten stability and order, and media coverage exacerbates this situation by equating mental illness with violence. As a result, stigma is rampant, spurring family silence, discriminatory laws, and social isolation. The pain of mental illness is searing enough, but adding the layer of stigma affects personal well being, economic productivity, and public health, fueling a vicious cycle of lowered expectations, deep shame, and hopelessness.In this groundbreaking book, Stephen Hinshaw examines the longstanding tendency to stigmatize those with mental illness. He also provides practical strategies for overcoming this serious problem, including enlightened social policies that encourage, rather than discourage, contact with those afflicted, media coverage emphasizing their underlying humanity, family education, and responsive treatment.The Mark of Shame is a deeply inspiring and passionate work that is realistic and filled with hope. It combines personal accounts with information from social and evolutionary psychology, sociology, and public policy to provide messages that are essential for anyone afflicted or familiar with mental illness.

A Parent's Guide to Developmental Delays: Recognizing and Coping with Missed Milestones in Speech, Movement, Learning, and Other Areas


Laurie Fivozinsky LeComer - 2006
    In A Parent's Guide to Developmental Delays, special education expert and consultant Laurie LeComer, M.Ed., provides essential information for any parent with a child who might have cognitive, physical, or emotional delays. Easy to understand, reassuring, and up-to-date, the book covers everything concerned parents need to know. Using real-life examples and case studies along with checklists, exercises, and other hands-on advice, the book covers a range of delays and disorders that include autism, ADHD, learning disabilities, Sensory Processing Disorder, aggressive behavior, and motor-control problems. Topics include:Spotting the red flags of delayed development, for every age groupIdentifying your child's specific challengesActing swiftly in order to gain the advantages of early interventionGetting a diagnosis and treatment plan that fits your child's needsWorking with teachers, health professionals, and specialists for maximum resultsTracking your child's progressUnderstanding your rights and making the most of every available resourceTrusting your instincts in order to help your child learn, develop, and thrive

The American Dream and the Power of Wealth: Choosing Schools and Inheriting Inequality in the Land of Opportunity


Heather Beth Johnson - 2006
    Yet Americans continue to hold deep-rooted beliefs in the principles of individualism, equal opportunity, and meritocracy. Education, the "Great Equalizer," is supposed to level the playing field, ensuring that every child--regardless of family of origin--gets an equal chance at success. Drawing on in-depth interviews with 200 black and white families, The American Dream and the Power of Wealth starkly reveals the enormous extent to which parents defend their beliefs in the values that lie at the heart of the American Dream. Yet the way wealth is acquired and the way it is used categorically puts children from different families on vastly different educational trajectories, leaving them with uneven sets of opportunities.

Coping Cat Workbook


Philip C. Kendall - 2006
    This newest edition is a revision of the original Coping Cat Workbook by Philip Kendall that has been in use since 1992. Sixteen therapy sessions promote coping skills for dealing with anxiety. The program can be adapted for use with individual youth or with groups. Appendices include "situation cards" with three levels of difficulty, a "feelings barometer," as well as other cut-outs and a certificate of achievement

The Mislabeled Child: How Understanding Your Child's Unique Learning Style Can Open the Door to Success


Brock L. Eide - 2006
    In The Mislabeled Child, the authors describe how a proper understanding of a childs unique brain-based strengths can be used to overcome many different obstacles to learning. They show how children are often mislabeled with diagnoses that are too broad (ADHD, for instance) or are simply inaccurate. They also explain why medications are often not the best ways to help children who are struggling to learn. The authors guide readers through the morass of commonly used labels and treatments, offering specific suggestions that can be used to help children at school and at home. This book offers extremely empowering information for parents and professionals alike. The Mislabeled Child examines a full spectrum of learning disorders, from dyslexia to giftedness, clarifying the diagnoses and providing resources to help. The Eides explain how a learning disability encompasses more than a behavioral problem; it is also a brain dysfunction that should be treated differently.

Child Honoring: How to Turn This World Around


Raffi Cavoukian - 2006
    This remarkable anthology outlines the unprecedented threats to life at this defining moment in history, and offers a novel and systemic remedy for societal transformation based on honoring our youngest and "most valuable players." Contributors from across many disciplines include renowned child development author Penelope Leach, Nobel Prize nominee Lloyd Axworthy, celebrated cultural historian Riane Eisler, bestselling author Barbara Kingsolver, and ecological economist Ron Colman. Child Honoring is a corrective lens that, once we look through it, allows us to question everything from the way we measure economic progress to our stewardship of the planet; from our physical treatment of children to the corporate impact on their minds and bodies; from factory schooling to rampant consumerism. It offers a proactive developmental approach to creating healthy and sustainable societies. As a creed that crosses all faiths and cultures, Child Honoring is a unifying idea: a central organizing principle for a culture of peace. This book will inspire thought-and provoke action-by all who read it.

Rethinking Rubrics in Writing Assessment


Maja Wilson - 2006
    But sometimes it's better to be unconventional. In Rethinking Rubrics in Writing Assessment, Maja Wilson offers a new perspective on rubrics and argues for a better, more responsive way to think about assessing writers' progress.Though you may sense a disconnect between student-centered teaching and rubric-based assessment, you may still use rubrics for convenience or for want of better alternatives. Rethinking Rubrics in Writing Assessment gives you the impetus to make a change, demonstrating how rubrics can hurt kids and replace professional decision making with an inauthentic pigeonholing that stamps standardization onto a notably nonstandard process. With an emphasis on thoughtful planning and teaching, Wilson shows you how to reconsider writing assessment so that it aligns more closely with high-quality instruction and avoids the potentially damaging effects of rubrics.Stop listening to the conventional wisdom, and turn instead to a compelling new voice to find out why rubrics are often replaceable. Open Rethinking Rubrics in Writing Assessment and let Maja Wilson start you down the path to more sensitive, authentic style of writing assessment.

Duellists Companion: A Training Manual for 17th Century Italian Rapier


Guy Windsor - 2006
    Guy Windsor, author of the popular longsword text The Swordsmans' Companion, has triumphed in this work, which guides the beginner through the rapier, based on the world of Capo Ferro's 1610 masterpiece, Gran Simulacro.Italian rapier dominated Europe from the 17th - 19th centuries. This book demonstrates convincingly why it was so successful.

Spectrum Phonics, Grade 1 (Spectrum)


School Specialty Publishing - 2006
    Recently updated to current national testing standards, including nonfiction activities and a revised sequence for smooth transitioning between skills. This workbook for children ages 6 to 7 emphasizes phonics and word study as building blocks in reading proficiency. Phonics skills include: ~Beginning and ending consonant sounds ~Consonant blends ~Short and long vowel sounds ~Matching words and pictures ~Consonant and vowel pairs ~Rhyming sounds Our best-selling Spectrum Phonics series features age-appropriate workbooks for Kindergarten to grade 6. Developed with the latest standards-based teaching methods that provide targeted practice in fundamentals to ensure successful learning

50 Content Area Strategies For Adolescent Literacy


Douglas Fisher - 2006
    Examples from science, social studies, English, math, visual and performing arts, and core electives ensure that all middle and high school teachers will find useful ideas that they can implement immediately. This book provides readers with examples of fifty evidence-based instructional strategies that can be used across content areas to ensure that reading and writing occur in all classes.

The Intentional Teacher: Choosing the Best Strategies for Young Children's Learning


Ann S. Epstein - 2006
    adult-directed" learning reduces a complex question to two extremes, in which either the children, or the adults hold the power ina classroom. Here, finally, is a book thta recognizes there is a middle ground where children and adults share responsibility for learning, and that the most effective teachers make thoughtful, intentional use of both child-guided and adult-guided experience.

The Centrality of the Home in Evangelism and Discipleship


Voddie T. Baucham Jr. - 2006
    The response of the church at large has been a decidedly large focus on ''relevant'' and ''hip, '' family-fragmenting youth ministries. But is this the right response? Dr. Voddie Baucham says no. In this powerful message delivered at the 2006 Conference for Uniting Church and Family, Dr. Baucham presents the case that the home must be the central training ground for evangelism and discipleship. He charges parents to understand their role as shepherds by embracing the joy of their biblical duties and responsibilities. His exposition of Scripture is clear and his arguments unassailable.

Volcano


Yvonne Weekes - 2006
    This memoir that covers eight years dominated by the awakening, eruption, and still-grumbling aftermath of Montserrat's Soufriere volcano is an acutely written account of the impact of the eruption on the life and viability of this small Caribbean island.

A Textbook Of Electrical Technology AC And DC Machines


B.L. Theraja - 2006
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Knowing Knowledge


George Siemens - 2006
    Knowing Knowledge is an exploration of the change impacting both learning and knowledge, and recommends changes required in order to align corporations and educational institutions with developing trends.

Themes for English B: A Professor's Education In and Out of Class


J.D. Scrimgeour - 2006
    J. D. Scrimgeour contrasts his Ivy League education to the experiences of his students at a small public college in a faded, gritty New England city. What little Scrimgeour knows of the burdens his students bring to class--family crises, dead-end jobs, overdue bills--leaves him humbled. Fighting disenchantment with the ideals of higher education, Scrimgeour writes, "How much I owe these students, how much I have learned. They know the score; they know they are losing by a lot before the game even begins, and they shrug, as if to say, 'What am I supposed to do, cry?'"Scrimgeour's obligations to his students and his hopes for them glance off each other and sometimes collide with the realities of the classroom: the unread assignments and the empty desks. Is there too great a student-teacher divide? Can Richard Wright, Langston Hughes, or any other writer Scrimgeour teaches have something to say to a single mother with a full course load, two jobs, a sick kid, and a broken car? Yes, it turns out, and it is magic when it happens.The pupil inside the teacher emerges when Scrimgeour finds unexpected occasions for his own ongoing education. Pickup basketball games at a local park become exercises in improvisation, in finding new strengths to compensate for age and injury. His collaboration on a word-and-movement performance piece with a colleague, a dancer mourning the death of a beloved niece, leads him into unfamiliar creative terrain.A routine catch on a baseball field long ago, a challenged student in a grade school writing workshop, a yellowed statue of education pioneer Horace Mann: each memory, each encounter, forces revisions to a life's lesson plan. Scrimgeour's achingly honest, intimate essays offer clear-eyed yet compassionate accounts of the trials of learning.

Your Boy: Raising a Godly Son in an Ungodly World


Vicki Courtney - 2006
    After all, parents are seeking help to grow godly sons as well. And as the mother of two boys herself, Vicki rises to the occasion with this inspiring, tell-it-like-it-is new favorite.

The Line Between Us: Teaching about the Border and Mexican Immigration


Bill Bigelow - 2006
    government has taken extraordinary steps to stop immigration from Mexico: more walls, more Border Patrol agents, more technology. Yet every year, hundreds of thousands of undocumented migrants risk their lives crossing the border. Why? The Line Between Us explores the history of U.S.-Mexican relations and the roots of Mexican immigration, all in the context of the global economy. And it shows how teachers can help students understand the immigrant experience and the drama of border life. But The Line Between Us is about more than Mexican immigration and border issues. It's about imaginative and creative teaching that gets students to care about the world. Using roles plays, stories, poetry, improvisations, simulations, and video, Bill Bigelow demonstrates how to combine lively teaching with critical analysis. A book for teachers, adult educators, community organizers. Winner of the World Hunger Year Media award.

Conversational Latin for Oral Proficiency: Phrase Book and Dictionary, Classical and Neo-Latin


John Traupman - 2006
    Each chapter offers 3 conversations in varying degrees of difficulty supported by topical vocabulary. Latin as a living and vital language is showcased in this indispensable supplement to any standard Latin course of study. Traupman's book provides facing English translation; a comprehensive glossary; and appendices on "Yes and No in Latin," "Colors and Numbers," and "Sayings and Proverbs." A companion audio-cassette is available. Special Features Traupman's text enables students to engage in one of the most productive practices in the acquisition of language skills - conversing. Latin is the language that gave birth to the modern romance languages; it can and should be spoken to enhance the learning experience. Conversational Latin includes: Multi-level dialogs with authentic Roman expression Facing English translation Accent marks for all words over two syllables (new to 3rd edition) Macrons for all words (new to 3rd edition) A variety of contemporary and ancient topics (enlarged for 3rd edition: sports section and classroom commands), including 9 songs and The Pledge of Allegiance in Latin (new to 4th edition) Topical vocabulary for each chapter (expanded for 4th edition) A comprehensive glossary that includes the topical vocabularies for the chapters (extensive new entries added to 4th edition-ten new pages) Appendices on "Yes and No in Latin," "Colors and Numbers," and "Sayings and Proverbs" Comparison: This is the only conversational text for the study of Latin.

LOVE: Quotes and Passages from the Heart


B.C. Aronson - 2006
    It is not inherited, as with a family. It is not compelling, as with a child. And it has no means of physical pleasure, as with a mate. It is, therefore, an indescribable bond that brings with it a far deeper devotion than all the others.”—Frances Farmer, ActressWhether it's the love we feel for parents, significant others, or even pets, this treasury of quotes and passages offers a wonderfully diverse way to discover the meaning of love. Included are thoughts from talented minds such as George Bernard Shaw, Anna Quindlen, Woody Allen, and many more. This beautiful hardcover gift book, affordably priced at $14.95, is perfect for readers of any age who are in the mood for love.

Teaching Tai Chi Effectively


Paul Lam - 2006
    Using real life examples to illustrate his ideas, Dr Lam analyses what makes an effective teacher, what to look for in a teacher and how to find a teacher for the individual learning styles. He describes the easy to learn teaching system," Stepwise Progressive Teaching Method," t; That he has developed over the last 20 years, gives practical advice on how to format tai chi classes as well as how to teach tai chi safely. Many tai chi books have been written, but never has a Tai Chi Master written a book on how to teach Tai Chi; this is a first for the tai chi world and should be read by teacher and student alike !

How to Spell Like a Champ


Barrie Trinkle - 2006
    Learn the basic rules and all their annoying exceptions, plus 26 words of unknown origin, like curmudgeon. • Discover the four most commonly misspelled word types (#3: words with a schwa). • Don’t know what a schwa is? Aren’t sure about the difference between antonyms and eponyms? Discreet and discrete? Here’s your chance to learn all the tricks and tips that’ll make you a bee winner! • Oh, and did we mention the pages and pages of skill-building puzzles and games?

The Story Of Childhood: Growing Up In Modern Britain


Libby Brooks - 2006
    She talks to nine very different children between the ages of four and sixteen growing up in Britain today. The public schoolboy, the young offender, the teenage mum, the country lad, for example, talk about their own lives.

Capital and Interest


Frédéric Bastiat - 2006
    He coined the important economic concept of opportunity cost. His ideas have become the foundation for libertarian and the Austrian schools of thought.Most of Bastiat’s political writings were done during the years just before and immediately after the Revolution of February 1848 when France was rapidly turning to complete socialism. As a Deputy to the Legislative Assembly, Bastiat explained each socialist fallacy as it appeared and how socialism must inevitably degenerate into communism that it must fail.The same situation exists in China today as in the France of 1848 after China became the second power house by GDP. The China Model and the China Specialized Socialism and planed economy that were then adopted in France are now sweeping China with a peak confidence.In this essay, Mr. Bastiat explained how the interest on capital declines as it becomes more plentiful. His key contribution to Austrian capital theory is his explanation how the accumulation of capital results in the enrichment of the workers by raising marginal productivity of workers. Capital accumulation would also result in cheaper and better quality consumer goods and raise real wages. Thus, the interests of capitalists and labor are aligned together.Bastiat also explained in the essay why in a free market no one can accumulate capital unless he uses it in a way that benefits others.The Essay is already read more than a hundred years and it will still be read for another century due to its truths.

First Steps In Music For Preschool And Beyond: The Curriculum


John M. Feierabend - 2006
    

Public Education Against America: The Hidden Agenda


Marlin Maddoux - 2006
    This manipulation of the values and beliefs of the next generation is not an accident or due to incompetence. It is a deliberate assault on the spiritual and moral compass of America’s children. This book exposes:  How the radical academic left has outlawed student expressions of patriotism and faith—but only in the case of Christianity.How “political correctness” has replaced freedom of speech on American campuses.How schools utilize techniques to “reprogram” children as early as kindergarten!The lies being taught to children under the guise of “Sex Education.”How schools willfully manipulate the religious and moral beliefs of children—without the knowledge or consent of their parents—in order to create a new society based on “secular humanism.”Why you should seriously consider removing your children from the public school system.The one book every parent, taxpayer and college student MUST READ!

SOAR Study Skills


Susan Kruger Woodcock - 2006
    All strategies are easy to integrate into an immediate routine. The four-step program builds upon each strategy to increase students' understanding and retention, while decreasing their homework and study time. This book is appropriate for students in sixth grade and older, parents of all school-aged children, and educators of middle-school thru college.

Play = Learning: How Play Motivates and Enhances Children's Cognitive and Social-Emotional Growth


Dorothy G. Singer - 2006
    Presenting a powerful argument about the pervasive and long-term effects of play, Singer, Golinkoff, and Hirsh-Pasek urge researchers and practitioners to reconsider the ways play facilitates development across domains. Over forty years of developmental research indicates that play has enormous benefits to offer children, not the least of which is physical activity in this era of obesity and hypertension. Play provides children with the opportunity to maximize their attention spans, learn to get along with peers, cultivate their creativity, work through their emotions, and gain the academic skills that are the foundation for later learning. Using a variety of methods and studying a wide range of populations, the contributors to this volume demonstrate the powerful effects of play in the intellectual, social, and emotional spheres.Play=Learning will be an important resource for students and researchers in developmental psychology. Its research-based policy recommendations will be valuable to teachers, counselors, and school psychologists in their quest to reintroduce play and joyful learning into our school rooms and living rooms.

The Foxfire 40th Anniversary Book: Faith, Family, and the Land


Eliot Wigginton - 2006
    Named Foxfire after a local phosphorescent lichen, the magazine became one of the most beloved publications in American culture.For four decades, Foxfire has brought the philosophy of simple living to readers, teaching creative self-sufficiency, home crafts, and the art of natural remedies, and preserving the stories of Appalachia. This anniversary edition brings us generations of voices and lessons about the three essential Appalachian values of faith, family, and the land. We listen to elders share their own memories of how things used to be, and to the new generations eager to preserve traditional values in a more complicated world. There are descriptions of old church services, of popular Appalachian games and pastimes, and of family recipes. Rich with memories and useful lessons, this is a fitting tribute to this inspiring and practical publication that has become a classic American institution.

Critical Lessons: What Our Schools Should Teach


Nel Noddings - 2006
    How can schools prepare students for real life? What should students learn in high school that is rarely addressed today? Critical Lessons recommends sharing highly controversial issues with high school students, including "hot" questions on war, gender, advertising, and religion.

Killer Energy And Shocking Electricity (Horrible Science)


Nick Arnold - 2006
    Science with twice the squishy bits! Want to know: which scientist gave electric shocks to his eyeballs? Which chilling chemical can preserve your pets? What happens when you touch an electric eel? "Killer Energy" will leave you jumping for more! Find out how stodgy dinners power your body and why steaming manure can warm you up. "Shocking Electricity" will blow your fuse! Discover why magnets help birds fly and get to grips with the electric wobbling toilet seat. With fantastic fact files and quirky quizzes, teacher tests and crazy cartoons, this terrible twosome is sizzling with info! Science has never been so horrible!

The Whole Movement Of Life Is Learning: J. Krishnamurti's Letters To His Schools


Jiddu Krishnamurti - 2006
    

Spanish Among Amigos Phrasebook: Conversation for the Socially Adventurous


Nuria Agullo - 2006
    It avoids slang and focuses on the informal Spanish used in most Spanish-speaking countries, showing how native speakers really talk.

A Home in the Coral Reef


Christine Taylor-Butler - 2006
    From previewing to reviewing words, these books contain elements that help reinforce and build word knowledge. In the Habitats subset, exciting, brilliant photography affords readers a fascinating introductory peek at plants and animals in their home environments. Each title will cover a different habitat.

John Dewey, Robert Pirsig, and the Art of Living: Revisioning Aesthetic Education


David A. Granger - 2006
    Robert Pirsig's best-selling book, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, provides concrete examples of this compelling yet unconventional vision.

The Way toward Wisdom: An Interdisciplinary and Intercultural Introduction to Metaphysics


Benedict M. Ashley - 2006
    Any attempt to share wisdom, he insists, must derive from a context that is both interdisciplinary and intercultural.Ashley offers an ambitious analysis and synthesis of major historical contributions to the unification of knowledge, including non-Western traditions. Beginning with the question "Metaphysics: Nonsense or Wisdom?" Ashley moves from a critical examination of the foundations of modern science to quantum physics and the Big Bang; from Aristotle's theory of being and change, through Aquinas's five ways, to a critical analysis of modern and postmodern thought. Ashley is able to interweave the approaches of the great philosophers by demonstrating their contributions to philosophical thought in a concrete, specific manner. In the process, he accounts for a contemporary culture overwhelmed by the fragmentation of data and thirsting for an utterly transcendent yet personal God."This is an impressive, well-researched book, of great value. It offers the wider philosophical community a point of entrance, by a proponent of a certain type of Thomism, into a domain that all philosophers think they already understand. The result is the creation of a 'big picture' of human knowledge." -- Mark Johnson, Marquette University

The School Services Sourcebook: A Guide for School-Based Professionals


Cynthia Franklin - 2006
    The second edition has been significantly revised with a new structure including 73 chapters divided into five Parts across thirteenSections, with an additional six chapters included in an online section found on the book's companion website. Fifteen new chapters cover key topics such as implementing an RTI framework, positive behavioral supports, school climate, functional behavioral assessment, the integration of ethics, Autism and suicide, school engagement, military families, Latino immigrant families, classroom management, transition planning and several chapters that speak to assessment and accountability. Each chapter serves as a detailed intervention map, quickly summarizing the problem area before presentingstep-by-step instructions on how to implement an evidence-based program with clear goals in mind and methods to measure the outcome.The concise, user-friendly format from the first edition has been retained, orienting readers to each issue with a Getting Started section, then moves smoothly into What We Know, What We Can Do, Tools and Practice Examples, and Key Points to Remember. A new section, Applying Interventions withinResponse-to-Intervention Framework, has been added to each chapter to facilitate the implementation of an RTI model. Quick-reference tables and charts highlight the most important information needed for daily reference, and annotated lists of further reading and Web resources guide readers ingathering additional information to tailor their practice to suit their students' needs. Each chapter has been specifically crafted by leaders in their fields with the ultimate goal of giving school-based practitioners the tools they need to deliver the best mental health and social servicespossible to students, families, and communities.This sourcebook is an invaluable reference for all school-based social workers, psychologists, counselors, mental health professionals, educators, and administrators.Visit the companion website for more information and to access additional book content: [URL]

Visual Perception Problems in Children with AD/HD, Autism, and Other Learning Disabilities: A Guide for Parents and Professionals


Lisa A. Kurtz - 2006
    Lisa Kurtz outlines a range of activities for strengthening children's functional vision and perceptual skills using simple, homemade materials that are readily available in the home or classroom.This is an excellent practical companion for parents of children with visual perception problems and the professionals who work with them.

Coaching Classroom Management: A Toolkit for Administrators and Coaches


Randall S. Sprick - 2006
    240 pages A toolkit for Administrators and Coaches