Happy, Healthy Teens uses what we know about adolescent brain and social development to offer concrete, actionable ideas to parents and educators as they seek to support and guide teens through the challenges of the middle and high school years.
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.
Simply Notetaking and Speedwriting will teach the student how to record notes in various formats and how to utilize notetaking when studying or reviewing for an exam.
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.
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 ......
How the Landscape of Teaching Has Changed for Parents and Teachers
This book is designed to be a useful guide for all who work with gifted school-age children: parents, teachers, principals, and pre-service teachers in university settings.
Strategies for Families, Schools, and Community Organizations
Helping Teen Moms Graduate offers practical strategies families, schools, and community organizations can employ to support pregnant and parenting students as they strive to complete their education and reduce the 50% dropout rate.
This book will teach you how to support students to develop positive beliefs about their ability to learn math and how to create a desire to learn by fostering their curiosity and interests.
This book will teach you how to support students to develop positive beliefs about their ability to learn math and how to create a desire to learn by fostering their curiosity and interests.
Experiences from First Generation College Graduates
An inspiring and affordable first-hand look at the experiences of first-generation college students in their own voices, looking back after graduation at the rewards and challenges for them, and what a first-generation education means to families and communities.
Experiences from First Generation College Graduates
An inspiring and affordable first-hand look at the experiences of first-generation college students in their own voices, looking back after graduation at the rewards and challenges for them, and what a first-generation education means to families and communities.
A Field Manual for Teaching and Parenting in the Digital Arena
The key to preventing online child predation is Stakeholder Involvement. Parents and guardians need to place themselves in the forefront of their kids' minds when it comes to their devices. Educational professionals need to use their unique positions to educate their students and detect online predation and problems in their schools.
Parents, Teachers, and School Leaders Empowering Youth for Life Success
The theme of the book is about the importance of collaborating and partnering among parents, schools, and community stakeholders to empower youth for life success.
American higher education-historically and inherently-is a morally formative endeavor. Yet, in order to respond to America's moral pluralism, higher education has increasingly taken a reductionistic approach to moral formation. Consequently, it abandoned the effort to supply students with moral expertise. Current approaches help students learn how ......
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.
Children today are going through a lot-they are busy with school, involved in extracurricular activities, and trying to navigate the world of COVID and other concerns. Teachers and parents are busy too-with work, school, and parenting activities. How will they have the time to teach valuable skills such as manners and respect to children? These ......
A Framework for Meeting the Needs of Today's Students
This book provides an in-depth discussion of the aspects of a whole-child learner paradigm including how educator and school-based influences interrelate with personal and interpersonal demonstrations of learning to create a holistic learning system
Outcry Response informs and educates our educators about trauma-informed tools to promote compassion and confidence in addressing their responsibilities as mandated reporters of sexual abuse.
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 ......
This book provides six different strategies for teaching the fundamentals of reading with social-emotional learning in mind. With engaging lesson plans, there is a strategy for every learner, including the teaching of thinking with reciprocity among three Phases, and recognizing feelings with distinguishing thinking from feelings, as well as their ......
This book provides six different strategies for teaching the fundamentals of reading with social-emotional learning in mind. With engaging lesson plans, there is a strategy for every learner, including the teaching of thinking with reciprocity among three Phases, and recognizing feelings with distinguishing thinking from feelings, as well as their ......
A Handbook of Strategies, Examples, and Suggestions for Educators and Pa
Raising Great Kids in a Chaotic World: A Guide for Parents and Educators is a practical resource of tips that parents and educators can use to help kids acquire, practice and/or correct behaviors that are needed to become responsible and successful adults. Most examples are presented from a parent-child perspective, although by altering a few ......
A Handbook of Strategies, Examples, and Suggestions for Educators and Pa
Raising Great Kids in a Chaotic World: A Guide for Parents and Educators is a practical resource of tips that parents and educators can use to help kids acquire, practice and/or correct behaviors that are needed to become responsible and successful adults. Most examples are presented from a parent-child perspective, although by altering a few ......
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 ......