As a former teacher, school board chair, and state legislator, Kristen J. Amundson has spent decades answering parents' questions about school. This book highlights 81 questions, covering a child's school journey from preschool to postsecondary education. It includes some of the school secrets parents need to know-the often unwritten rules that ......
As a former teacher, school board chair, and state legislator, Kristen J. Amundson has spent decades answering parents' questions about school. 81 Questions for Parents: Helping Your Kids Succeed in School highlights the most important of these questions, covering a child's school journey from preschool to postsecondary education. It includes some ......
A Guide to Writing College Admissions Essays provides practical advice and helpful suggestions for students writing their college admissions essays, primarily the 650-word Common App essay and supplementary essays that many schools require as part of their admission applications. With more students applying to college-and those students applying ......
Dr. Matt Townsley and Dr. Chad Lang have written a practical guide aimed at helping parents understand the ins and outs of grading and assessment in the 21st century.
Dr. Matt Townsley and Dr. Chad Lang have written a practical guide aimed at helping parents understand the ins and outs of grading and assessment in the 21st century.
Understanding the Antecedents, Realities, and Consequences of Absenteeis
The notion of class attendance has largely been ignored, where students, faculty, and administrators substitute assumptions for empirical evidence. The data is clear: attendance matters, more so than any other known contributor to student success. Yet, policies and practices often overlook these data. Attending Student Success is a ......
Kids grow up today in a media-saturated environment. Even as they are first discovering who they are and learning about the greater world, they are nudged and swayed by messaging like young trees blown by invisible winds. To help empower children to be resilient and have more self-guidance in their own development, we have written a two-book ......
Kids grow up today in a media-saturated environment. Even as they are first discovering who they are and learning about the greater world, they are nudged and swayed by messaging like young trees blown by invisible winds. To help empower children to be resilient and have more self-guidance in their own development, we have written a two-book ......
Interacting with Students and Shaping the Classroom Dynamic
This book is essential reading for novice instructors, for those wishing to shift from lecturing to active learning, and for experienced educators wishing to examine their teaching practice.
Interacting with Students and Shaping the Classroom Dynamic
This book is essential reading for novice instructors, for those wishing to shift from lecturing to active learning, and for experienced educators wishing to examine their teaching practice.
Mindfulness, Meditation, and Other Strategies to Reduce Anxiety and Enha
Research shows that a highly stressed brain does not absorb or remember information, causing learning to essentially shut down. Today's students are more stressed and anxious than ever and classrooms have become tense places. Educators require knowledge and skills to facilitate and teach students stress-management techniques and find creative ways ......
Mindfulness, Meditation, and Other Strategies to Reduce Anxiety and Enha
Research shows that a highly stressed brain does not absorb or remember information, causing learning to essentially shut down. Today's students are more stressed and anxious than ever and classrooms have become tense places. Educators require knowledge and skills to facilitate and teach students stress-management techniques and find creative ways ......
The eight essays in Campus Conversations provide some of the best scholarly work emerging from individual faculty learning communities in a statewide program called the Chancellor's Learning Scholar (CLS) program.
The eight essays in Campus Conversations provide some of the best scholarly work emerging from individual faculty learning communities in a statewide program called the Chancellor's Learning Scholar (CLS) program.
Prepares readers to meet the needs of an increasingly diverse college student population. This is a timely and comprehensive overview of key theories of student development that illustrates their application across a range of student services with diverse student populations.
A Guide to What America's Top Schools Can Do for You
Unlike existing college guidebooks, which contain easy-to-Google admissions statistics and anecdotal generalizations about campus life, Colleges Worth Your Money reveals where graduates work, salaries, grad school acceptances, internships and research opportunities, career services ratings, and data-rich, school-specific admissions strategies.
A Guide to What America's Top Schools Can Do for You
Unlike existing college guidebooks, which contain easy-to-Google admissions statistics and anecdotal generalizations about campus life, Colleges Worth Your Money reveals where graduates work, salaries, grad school acceptances, internships and research opportunities, career services ratings, and data-rich, school-specific admissions strategies.
Teaching Universal Themes Through Young Adult Novels
This book offers readers opportunities to explore the most common universal themes taught in secondary English Language Arts classrooms using contemporary young adult literature. Authors discuss adolescence and adolescent readers, young adult literature and its possibilities in the classroom, and ways to teach thematic analysis. The book provides ......
Teaching Universal Themes Through Young Adult Novels
This book offers readers opportunities to explore the most common universal themes taught in secondary English Language Arts classrooms using contemporary young adult literature. Authors discuss adolescence and adolescent readers, young adult literature and its possibilities in the classroom, and ways to teach thematic analysis. The book provides ......
This book will help you design and create the best version of yourself. It will give you the chance to shape the kind of person you want to be, and to articulate the goals you want to achieve in your life, both professionally and personally.
A Deep Dive into Proactive Wellness for Grades 7-12
A robust and powerful set of wellness activities (42) for grade 7-12 classrooms of all subjects, organized across ten evidence-based domains of well-being, rooted in positive psychology.
A Deep Dive into Proactive Wellness for Grades 7-12
A robust and powerful set of wellness activities (42) for grade 7-12 classrooms of all subjects, organized across ten evidence-based domains of well-being, rooted in positive psychology.
Understanding the Needs of Military-Connected Adolescents
Forgotten Conscripts looks deeper into the perceptions, beliefs, and experiences of military-connected adolescents to better inform teaching and learning among members of this culture so they might no longer be forgotten.
Understanding the Needs of Military-Connected Adolescents
Forgotten Conscripts looks deeper into the perceptions, beliefs, and experiences of military-connected adolescents to better inform teaching and learning among members of this culture so they might no longer be forgotten.
Thousands of children in schools across the country suffer from low self-esteem and this book will explain how we can improve a child's opinion of themselves.
