The ABCs of CBM: a Practical Guide to Curriculum-Based Measurement. Michelle Hosp, John Hosp & Kenneth Howell, $35.50

This pragmatic, accessible book presents an empirically supported conceptual framework and hands-on instructions for conducting curriculum-based measurement (CBM) in grades K-8. The authors provide everything needed to evaluate student learning in reading, spelling, writing, and math; graph the resulting data; and use this information to make sound instructional decisions, plan interventions, and monitor progress. The role of CBM within a response-to-intervention model is also explained. Every chapter includes helpful answers to frequently asked questions, and the appendices contain over 20 reproducible administration and scoring guides, forms, and planning checklists. The large-size format and lay-flat binding facilitate photocopying and day-to-day use.

Achieving Believing and Caring: Doing Whatever It Takes to Create Successful Schools. Christopher Spence, $24.95

Based on a deep belief in the potential of every child, this timely book encourages every educator to help students make better choices. It offers the "ABCs" of school partnerships that lead not just to more successful student learning, but stronger families and healthier communities. Achieving Believing and Caring explores ways that schools can give students the tools they need to surpass limitations, not just in school, but in the world beyond. Compelling examples of schools, programs, and teachers that make a difference in the lives of children complement this remarkable book.

The Best Schools: How Human Development Research Should Inform Educational Practice. Thomas Armstrong, $27.95

While most of the dialogue in education today is about accountability, standardized testing, and adequate yearly progress, the truth is that student success is deeply connected to the physical, emotional, and cognitive needs that they have at different ages. The best schools already know this and follow practices that are academically engaging and developmentally appropriate. Now here's a book that looks at these schools and highlights the similarities of their programs. Discover how these schools help their students reach their true potential by using an approach to education that includes:

• An emphasis on play for early childhood learning
• Theme- and project-based learning for elementary school students
• Active learning that recognizes the social, emotional, and cognitive needs of adolescents in middle schools
• Mentoring, apprenticeships, and cooperative education for high school students

Explore learning settings, pedagogical tools, and instructional approaches that any school can adopt to inspire students of all ages to discover their passion for learning.

Better Answers: Written Performance That Looks Good and Sounds Smart. Ardith Davis Cole, $27.95

A powerful alternative to test-prep workbooks, this easy to use resource features a gradual-release instructional process that begins with teacher modeling, invites increasing amounts of student participation, and eventually moves students into independent response writing. This new updated and expanded edition includes a resource-packed CD-ROM that contains everything teachers need to support their lessons. This refreshing and effective alternative to traditional test-prep engages students and gives them the skills they need on test day and beyond.

The Blackboard and the Bottom Line: Why Schools Can't Be Businesses. Larry Cuban, $20.50

In this provocative new book, Larry Cuban takes aim at the alluring cliché that schools should be more businesslike, and shows that in its long history in business-minded America, no one has shown that a business model can be successfully applied to education. Not only are schools by their nature not businesslike, Cuban argues, but the attempt to run them along business lines leads to dangerous over-standardization—of tests, and of goals for our children. Cuban suggests that the best business-inspired improvement for American education would be more consistent and sustained on-the-job worker training, tailored for the job to be done, and business leaders' encouragement—and adoption—of an ethic of civic engagement and public service.

Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and Other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms, 2nd Edition. Will Richardson, $35.95

Technology impacts every facet of students' lives and plays a significant role in how students receive and process information. The second edition of Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and Other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms shows educators at all levels and disciplines how to tap into the potential of digital tools for creating relevant, interactive learning experiences in the classroom.

With updated research on Web technology, a critical section on Internet safety, and a new emphasis on information literacy with related links, this resource equips teachers with:

• Definitions, explanations, and how-to's for using technology to enhance learning
• Applications for blogs, wikis, podcasts, Real Simple Syndication (RSS) feeds, aggregators, social bookmarking, and online photo galleries
• Real-world examples from K–12 teachers around the world

When teachers expand their knowledge of Web tools to build 21st-century learning skills, they can effectively prepare students for future success.

Boy Smarts: Mentoring Boys for Success at School. Barry MacDonald, $29.95

Educators and parents hoping to inspire boys of all ages to excel at school will be find imaginative and practical guidelines for authentic engagement in meeting boys’ varied learning needs.

Also available: Boy Smarts Action Study Guide. Barry MacDonald, $29.95

Brain Breaks for the Classroom, Grades K-5. Michelle Gay, $17.99

Quick and easy breathing and movement activities that help students re-energize, refocus and boost brain power – any time of the day!

Brain-Based Early Learning Activities: Connecting Theory and Practice, Birth to Age 8. Nikki Darling-Kuria, $37.50

Give children stronger, more meaningful learning experiences with 80 brain-based activities that engage both hemispheres of the brain. Each activity promotes learning in the areas of language, mathematics, science, art, music, and the environment and encourages physical, social, and emotional development. Included are materials lists, extension activities, variations for multi-sensory exploration, components for diversity, and an explanation of the brain connections being made. Brain-Based Early Learning Activities also provides a comprehensive overview of early brain development and key components necessary to create a brain-based early learning environment.

Brain-Based Learning: the New Paradigm of Teaching, 2nd Edition. Eric Jensen, $54.95

This comprehensive text demonstrates how brain-compatible learning environments can work to optimize learning in the classroom, reduce discipline problems, overcome learning difficulties and increase graduation rates.

Brain-Based Teaching with Adolescent Learning in Mind. Glenda Beamon Crawford, $46.20

In this second edition of Brain-Based Teaching With Adolescent Learning in Mind, Glenda Crawford shows you the newest research available on adolescent brain development and provides a structure for connecting the research to students' social, emotional, and cognitive needs. Crawford also presents how-to strategies for motivating teens with inquiry, relevance, and collaboration, as well as links to relevant Web sites.

Filling a tremendous need, this is the first graduate-level child development text written specifically for future educators. Child and Adolescent Development for Educators provides a solid understanding of major theories of development, focusing on how each has informed research and practice in educational contexts. Topics include:

• The impact of biology and early experiences on the developing mind
• The development of academic competence and motivation
• How learning is influenced by individual differences
• Socio-cultural factors, peers, and the family environment
• What educators need to know about child mental health
• And more …

Every chapter features a quick-reference outline, definitions of key terms, and boxes addressing special topics of interest to educators.

Classroom Assessment & Grading that Work. Robert Marzano, $34.95

If you've ever questioned the logic of reducing a student's entire academic performance to a single test score or a vague letter grade, then here's a book that will revolutionize the way you think about assessment and grading. Drawing from years of in-depth research, Robert J. Marzano provides you with guidelines and steps for designing a comprehensive assessment program that ensures assessments and grades lead to timely, accurate feedback on specific, standards-based learning goals. Discover how classroom assessments — from quizzes and projects to term papers and test — provide your school with the most powerful tool to boost achievement. Learn why point systems and score averaging are ineffective ways to grade students' progress. And get clear advice on how to immediately create better assessments for a single classroom or an entire system.

The Classrooms All Young Children Need: Lessons in Teaching from Vivian Paley. Patricia Cooper, $34.95

Teacher and author Vivian Paley is highly regarded for her original insights into such seemingly everyday issues as play, story, gender, and how young children think. She is also recognized for exposing racism and exclusion in the early childhood classroom. In The Classrooms All Young Children Need, Patricia Cooper takes a synoptic view of Paley’s many books and articles, charting the evolution of Paley’s thinking while revealing the seminal characteristics of her teaching philosophy. This careful analysis leads Cooper to identify a pedagogical model organized around two complementary principles: a curriculum that promotes play and imagination, and the idea of classrooms as fair places where young children of every color, ability, and disposition are welcome. With timely attention paid to debates about the reduction in time for play in the early childhood classroom, the role of race in education, and No Child Left Behind, The Classrooms All Young Children Need will be embraced by anyone tasked with teaching our youngest pupils.

Classrooms that Spark! Recharge and Revive Your Teaching, 2nd Edition. Emma McDonald & Dyan Hershman, $35.95

Authors Emma McDonald and Dyan Hershman offer a wealth of strategies, ideas, reproducible forms and classroom tools that will help you nurture the spark of learning in your classroom.

Collaborating with Parents for Early School Success: the Achieving-Behaving-Caring Program. S. McConaughy, P. Kay, J. Welkowitz, K. Hewitt & M. Fitzgerald, $33.50

The Achieving-Behaving-Caring (ABC) Program is an evidence-based approach to addressing the needs of elementary students at risk for emotional and behavioral difficulties and promoting successful home-school collaboration. This practical guide demonstrates how classroom teachers and parents can work together to boost individual children's strengths, reduce problems that interfere with learning, and provide class-wide social skills training.

Creating Standards-Based Integrated Curriculum: Aligning Curriculum, Content, Assessment and Instruction, 2nd Edition. Susan Drake, $49.95

A new approach to standards-based curriculum, instruction and assessment that helps educators to identify what students must know, do and be. This new edition offers a framework that allows for multidisciplinary approaches to curriculum integration.

Dilemmas In Classroom Assessment and What To Do About Them. Robert Wilson, Editor, $34.00

Teachers at all levels face certain dilemmas when they assess their students. They want to encourage them, to help them grow in their learning, but often the policies and practices they are required to follow contradict these wishes. Dilemmas in Classroom Assessment brings together a collaboration of experienced educators, each writing a chapter that relates directly to their experiences and understandings of a specific assessment issue.

Effective Study Strategies for Every Classroom, Grades 7-12. Jeanne Mach, et al, $35.95

29 lesson plans for teaching effective note-taking, summarizing, researching and test-taking skills. The book includes a CD-ROM with reproducible overheads, homework assignments, articles, worksheets and other support materials.

The End of Ignorance: Multiplying Our Human Potential. John Mighton, $19.95

The End of Ignorance conceives of a world in which no child is left behind–a world based on the assumption that each child has the potential to be successful in every subject. John Mighton argues that by recognizing the barriers that we have experienced in our own educational development, by identifying the moment that we became disenchanted with a certain subject and forever closed ourselves off to it, we will be able to eliminate these same barriers from standing in the way of our children.

A passionate examination of our present education system, The End of Ignorance shows how we all can work together to reinvent the way that we are taught.

Engaging the Eye Generation: Visual Literacy Strategies for the K-5 Classroom. Johanna Riddle, $24.95

Literacy in the twenty-first century means more than reading and writing — are you ready to discover how to update your curriculum to include both digital and print-based media, imagery, online applications, and audio and video, as well as traditional texts?

This timely book suggests curriculum enhancements ranging from low-tech to high-tech, and explains how teachers, even those with limited technology skills, can effectively guide students to proficiency. Each chapter — filled with meaningful and motivating activities — thoughtfully explains how to elevate traditional learning and add new layers to students` reading comprehension, critical thinking, and communication skills.

Enriching the Brain: How to Maximize Every Learner's Potential. Eric Jensen, $29.99

Drawing from a wide range of neuroscience research and related studies, Eric Jensen, a leading expert in the translation of brain research into education, offers a powerful new understanding of how the brain can be “enriched”. Enriching the Brain offers an inspiring and innovative set of practices for promoting enrichment in the home, the school, and the classroom that will maximize learning, memory, behavior and overall function. Enriching the Brain gives parents, teachers and policymakers the tools they need for taking their role as ‘brain shapers’ much more seriously.

Evaluating Students: How Teachers Justify and Defend Their Marks to Parents, Students and Principals. Alex Shirran, $24.95

Marks and letter grades are not simply assigned. In our high-stakes testing era, teachers need to be well-versed in the theory, practice, and politics of marking, and be able to justify and defend their evaluation and teaching practices … This timely book uses compelling case studies and suggests specific strategies for clarifying classroom assessment and advancing the teacher's relationship with students, parents, and administrators. The book explores all the involved aspects, from the basic conditions and criteria for marking to details on calculating grades. This teacher-friendly book also looks into the many issues around the role of standardized tests.

Executive Function in Education: from Theory to Practice. Lynn Meltzer, editor, $27.95

This uniquely integrative book brings together leading researchers and practitioners from education, neuroscience, and psychology. It presents a theoretical framework for understanding executive function difficulties together with a range of effective approaches to assessment and instruction. Scholarly and authoritative yet highly practical, the book provides guidelines for intervening at the level of the individual child, the classroom, and the entire school.

50 Graphic Organizers for the Interactive Whiteboard, Grades 2-5. Jennifer Jacobson & Dottie Raymer, $28.99

Whiteboard-ready graphic organizers for reading, writing, math and more — to make learning engaging and interactive.

Five Minds for the Future. Howard Gardner, $26.95

In Five Minds for the Future, Howard Gardner defines the cognitive abilities that will command a premium in the years ahead:

• The Disciplinary mind - mastery of major schools of thought including science, mathematics, and history and of at least one professional craft
• The Synthesizing mind - ability to integrate ideas from different disciplines or spheres into a coherent whole and to communicate that integration to others
• The Creating mind - capacity to uncover and clarify new problems, questions, and phenomena
• The Respectful mind - awareness of and appreciation for differences among human beings and human groups
• The Ethical mind - fulfillment of one's responsibilities as a worker and citizen

World-renowned for his theory of multiple intelligences, Gardner takes that thinking to the next level in this book, drawing from a wealth of diverse examples to illuminate his ideas. Concise and engaging, Five Minds for the Future will inspire lifelong learning in any reader and provide valuable insights for those charged with training and developing organizational leaders - both today and tomorrow.

Five Standards for Effective Teaching: How to Succeed with All Learners, Grades K-8. Stephanie Stoll Dalton, $29.99

An ideal model for differentiating teaching for inclusive instruction in any classroom.

FOCUS on the Test: Five Weekly Lessons Designed to Teach Test-Taking Skills. Mary Pat McCartney, $20.95 Grades 3-5

FOCUS on the Test is a five-lesson classroom or small-group program that packages effective test-taking strategies. The book includes posters, activities, and worksheets. Students are given opportunities to reflect on their comprehension of the concept presented and how they will incorporate it into their test-taking procedures.

Focused Instruction: an Innovative Teaching Model for All Learners. Gwen Doty, $39.95

Focused Instruction explains how to differentiate learning content, course of action, and final student product while maintaining a student-centered classroom. Each of its 11 steps is based on practices proven to enhance student achievement. With specific tools and sample lessons for supporting diverse learners, this highly systematic process includes how to:

• Analyze standards to focus the learning
• Teach the vocabulary and concepts of a standard
• Scaffold and customize content.

Focused Assessment: Enriching the Instructional Cycle. Gwen Doty, $39.95

Focused Assessment provides customizations that enable all learners to demonstrate proficiency according to their readiness level. This book explains how assessment can become a natural part of learning. Using the same, step-by-step approach found in Focused Instruction: an Innovative Teaching Model for All Learners, this book provides research-based techniques for creating assessments that make sense to students and that enable teachers to continually refine the way they present lessons.

A Funny Thing about Teaching: Connecting with Kids through Laughter...and Other Pointers for New Teachers. Jack Rightmyer, $14.95

Jack Rightmyer tells the story of his journey as a new teacher and how he came to see the importance of humor in his classroom. The book teaches through personal narrative, engaging readers in a real-life story about what the author has learned in his 27-year teaching career, working in both urban and suburban schools and teaching at every level from 6th grade through college.

A Guide to Curriculum Mapping: Planning, Implementing and Sustaining the Process. Janet Hale, $58.95

While curriculum mapping is recognized as a highly effective method for serving students' ongoing instructional needs and creating systemic change, the means for putting this data-based decision-making process into practice may not always be clearly understood. This in-depth resource speaks to teachers and administrators with varying levels of curriculum-mapping experience and describes how teacher groups drive the process by engaging in collaborative inquiry as they review one another's curriculums for gaps, redundancies, and new learning. The collected data assist in designing month-to-month instructional plans for all grade levels and subjects, resulting in a curriculum that is coherent, consistent, and aligned with standards.

The Homework Myth: Why Our Kids Get Too Much of a Bad Thing. Alfie Kohn, $18.00

A compelling exposé of homework — how it fails our children, why it’s so widely accepted, and what we can do about it.

In The Homework Myth, Alfie Kohn systematically examines the usual defenses of homework — that it promotes higher achievement, “reinforces” learning, teaches study skills and responsibility. None of these assumptions, he shows, actually passes the test of research, logic, or experience … Kohn’s incisive analysis reveals how a mistrust of children, a set of misconceptions about learning, and a misguided focus on competitiveness have all left our kids with less free time and our families with more conflict. Pointing to parents who have fought back — and schools that have proved educational excellence is possible without homework — Kohn shows how we can rethink what happens during and after school in order to rescue our families and our children’s love of learning.

How the Brain Learns Mathematics. David Sousa, $54.95

Learn how the brain processes mathematical concepts and why some students develop math anxiety. Highly respected author and researcher David Sousa explains the latest neuro-scientific findings in practical, understandable terms and discusses the impact this information has for teaching mathematics at all grade levels. How the Brain Learns Mathematics covers the cognitive mechanisms for learning mathematics, the environmental and developmental factors that contribute to mathematics difficulties, and ways to differentiate mathematics instruction.

Education consultant Jane Pollock shows how making the right adjustments in four critical areas of practice — curriculum, instructional planning and delivery, assessment, and record keeping and reporting — can help any teacher improve student learning significantly. The book includes the perspectives of several educators who have used the author’s ‘Big Four’ approach. In their own words, these teachers share their experiences and those of their colleagues, relating tales of enthusiasm, reluctance, and change. Each illustrates the rewards transforming personal pedagogy, perspective and practice, and student performances . . . one teacher at a time.

Incredible Edible Science: Recipes for Developing Science and Literacy Skills. Liz Plaster & Rick Krustchinsky, $37.50

Incredible Edible Science provides everything you need to teach important science and literacy skills to children in exciting ways. Each of the more than 160 science-based activities encourages children’s investigative nature while incorporating concepts I mathematics, language and literacy. Each experience uses simple, inexpensive materials and includes vocabulary words and questions to ask children to encourage their interactions and learning.

Making the transition into kindergarten is a significant and exciting milestone in young children's lives. With proper coordination and planning, it can be a smooth process, benefiting children, families, and schools. This book provides information and practical advice to help you help children and their families prepare for the transition and then successfully begin kindergarten. Helpful activities, reproducible checklists and handouts, and planning templates are included.

This comprehensive reader presents an accessible overview of recent brain research and contains valuable insights into how students learn and how we should teach them. It includes articles from the top thinkers in both the brain science and K-12 education fields, such as Joseph LeDoux, Howard Gardner, Sally Shaywitz, and John Bransford. This rich and varied volume offers myriad perspectives on the brain, mind, and education, and features twenty-six chapters in seven primary areas of interest:

• An overview of the brain
• The brain-based learning debate
• Memory, cognition, and intelligence
• Emotional and social foundations
• Language, reading, and math
• The arts
• When the brain works differently

Leading with Passion and Purpose: Creating Schools the Help Teachers Teach and Students Learn. Christopher Spence, $24.95

This highly readable book is based on the premise that all students can learn, regardless of their social background and circumstances. It offers education leaders the information they need so they can find their voice and contribute in their unique way to a successful learning environment. This thorough explanation of the principles of education leadership and the characteristics of effective schools is full of personal insights and revealing anecdotes. It shows education leaders how to face a myriad of challenges — from the demands of accountability and generating community support to closing the achievement gap and promoting equity. The book offers a path to educational reform that can make a huge difference in the lives of all students.

Many educators and parents have encountered very bright students who simply don't perform well on traditional school assessments. This book offers practical strategies to help students learn how to learn and process information in ways that more closely match how they are being tested.

Lighting Their Fires: Raising Extraordinary Children. Rafe Esquith, $31.00

In his bestselling book, Teach Like Your Hair’s on Fire, readers were introduced to Rafe Esquith and his extraordinary students in Hobart Elementary School’s Room 56.

In his latest  book, Lighting Their Fires, Esquith shows that children aren’t born extraordinary; they become that way as a result of parents and teachers who instill values that serve them not just for school, but for the rest of their lives. Whether he is highlighting the importance of time management or offering a step-by-step discussion of how children can become good decision makers, Esquith shows how parents can equip their kids with all the tools they need to find success and have fun in the process. Using examples from classic films and great books, he stresses the value of sacrifice, the importance of staying true to oneself, and the danger that television can pose to growing young minds. Lighting Their Fires explains not just how to make our children great students, but how to make them thoughtful and honorable people.

Children are no strangers to cruelty and courage, to love and to loss, and in this unique book teacher and educational consultant Marietta McCarty reveals that they are, in fact, natural philosophers … Little Big Minds guides parents and educators in introducing philosophy to K-8 children in order to develop their critical thinking, deepen their appreciation for others, and brace them for the philosophical quandaries that lurk in all of our lives, young or old. Arranged according to themes including prejudice, compassion, and death and featuring the work of philosophers from Plato and Socrates to the Dalai Lama and Martin Luther King Jr., this step-by-step guide to teaching kids how to think philosophically is full of excellent discussion questions, teaching tips, and group exercises.

From a distinguished clinician, pioneer in working with behaviorally challenging kids, and author of the acclaimed The Explosive Child comes a groundbreaking approach for understanding and helping these kids and transforming school discipline.

Relying on research from the neurosciences, Dr. Greene offers a new conceptual framework for understanding the difficulties of kids with behavioral challenges and explains why traditional discipline isn't effective at addressing these difficulties. Emphasizing the revolutionarily simple and positive notion that kids do well if they can, he persuasively argues that kids with behavioral challenges are not attention-seeking, manipulative, limit-testing, coercive, or unmotivated, but that they lack the skills to behave adaptively. And when adults recognize the true factors underlying difficult behavior and teach kids the skills in increments they can handle, the results are astounding: the kids overcome their obstacles; the frustration of teachers, parents, and classmates diminishes; and the well-being and learning of all students are enhanced.

In Lost at School, Dr. Greene describes how his road-tested, evidence-based approach — called Collaborative Problem Solving — can help challenging kids at school.

Multiple Intelligences Around the World. Edited by Jie-Qi Chen, Seana Moran & Howard Gardner, $36.00

Multiple intelligences (MI) theory has been introduced and implemented successfully in numerous countries around the world. This is the first collection to review, synthesize, and reflect on this unique cross-cultural and educational phenomenon. Through this synthesis and reflection, the book's authors provide a fresh and fuller understanding of MI theory. In addition, they develop more specific knowledge about why MI theory has been welcomed in so many countries, how its use can be appropriate in diverse cultures, and what has supported and fueled travel of the MI meme.

The Neuropsychology of Mathematics: Diagnosis and Intervention. Steven Feifer & Philip De Fina, $59.95

The Neuropsychology of Mathematics explores how young children learn and acquire basic mathematical skills from a brain-based educational perspective. There are discussions on three primary ways in which numbers are formatted in the brain, as well as the relationship between anxiety and mathematical performance during classroom learning situations.

The Neuropsychology of Reading Disorders: Diagnosis and Intervention. Steven Feifer & Philip De Fina, $42.95

The Neuropsychology of Reading Disorders discusses the various subtypes of dyslexia from a brain-behavioral perspective as opposed to the traditional discrepancy model. It includes in-depth material on:

• Neural Circuitry of Reading
• Subtypes of Dyslexia
• The 90 Minute Dyslexia Evaluation
• Remediation Techniques
• Case Studies, Teacher Checklists, Sample Tests

The Neuropsychology of Written Language Disorders: Diagnosis and Intervention. Steven Feifer & Philip De Fina, $47.95

The Neuropsychology of Written Language Disorders discusses both language based and non-language based written language disorders from a brain-based education model of learning. It is intended for school psychologists, occupational therapists, speech pathologists, special educators and school administrators.

Also available as a set — all three titles by Steven Feifer & Philip De Fina, $122.95

The Neuropsychology of Mathematics: Diagnosis and Intervention / The Neuropsychology of Reading Disorders: Diagnosis and Intervention / The Neuropsychology of Written Language Disorders: Diagnosis and Intervention

The New Meaning of Educational Change, 4th Edition. Michael Fullan, $32.95

When Michael Fullan published the first edition of this seminal work in 1982, he revolutionized the theory and practice of education reform. Now, a quarter of a century later, his new fourth edition promises to be equally influential for radical reform in the 21st century. The New Meaning of Educational Change is your definitive compendium to all aspects of the management of educational change—a powerful resource for everyone involved in school reform.

The New Science of Teaching and Learning: Using the Best of Mind, Brain and Education Science in the Classroom. Tracey Tokuhama-Espinosa, $34.95

This book offers a definitive, scientifically grounded guide for better teaching and learning practices. Drawing from thousands of documents and the opinions of recognized experts worldwide, it explains in straight talk the new Mind, Brain, and Education Science—a field that has grown out of the intersection of neuroscience, education, and psychology. This book distinguishes true, applicable neuroscience from the popular “neuromyths” that have gained currency in education. Each instructional guideline presented in the book is accompanied by real-life classroom examples to help teachers envision the direct application of the information in their own schools.

No Contest, which has been stirring up controversy since its publication in 1986, stands as the definitive critique of competition. Drawing from hundreds of studies, Alfie Kohn eloquently argues that our struggle to defeat each other — at work, at school, at play, and at home — turns all of us into losers.

Not in Our Classrooms: Why Intelligent Design is Wrong for Our Schools. Eugenie Scott & Glenn Branch, $17.95

Where did the concept of intelligent design originate? How does it connect with, and conflict with, various religious beliefs? Should we teach the controversy itself in our science classrooms? In clear and lively essays, a team of experts answers these questions and many more, describing the history of the intelligent design movement and the lack of scientific support for its claims. Most importantly, the contributors speak specifically to teachers and parents about the need to defend the integrity of science education by keeping intelligent design out of science curriculums. A concluding chapter offers concrete advice for those seeking to defend the teaching of evolution in their own communities.

These breeze-to-learn, laugh-inducing games energize the school day by being both fun and educational. Created by award-winning educators, these games painlessly teach your children reading, logic, measuring, listening, science, math, and other subjects. The best part: Games are also ranked for noise levels!

Asking questions is a pivotal skill in learning how to learn. It helps children to clarify their understanding, and make new connections. This straightforward guide outlines the main purposes behind asking questions. It explores numerous different types of question, and how to use purpose to determine what and how to ask.

PowerPoint for Teachers is written for teachers who want to use PowerPoint in the classroom to enhance presentations, teach students how to use the application, and create interactive educational projects.

No matter what your level of expertise, PowerPoint for Teachers gives the step-by-step information needed to introduce PowerPoint into the classroom and offers a great selection of creative projects for students. In addition, this handy resource includes sample customizable presentations and interactive games and activities that are available for free from the companion website.

Make the most of every moment in the classroom. These brief, enjoyable activities are perfect for 15- to 20-minute periods during the school day-advisory, homeroom, or between times too short to start something big and too long to waste. Start the day off right, cure the midday blahs, or end on a positive note.

Research-Based Strategies to Ignite Student Learning: Insights from a Neurologist and Classroom Teacher. Judy Willis, $26.95

Author Judy Willis is an author who is both a neurologist and a classroom teacher. In Research-Based Strategies to Ignite Student Learning, Dr. Willis combs through brain research and pulls out the information that is most valid and relevant to classroom teaching. Find out how to enhance your students' memory and test-taking abilities and discover ways to captivate and hold students' attention and encourage their participation and progress.

Rethinking Homework: Best Practices that Support Diverse Needs. Cathy Vatterott, $28.95

Rethinking Homework examines the role homework has played in the past and how changes in education theory, schools and family life have all influenced the growing suspicion that there is something fundamentally wrong with homework. Author Cathy Vatterott suggests a shift in the way we look at this controversial topic and illustrates a new paradigm that is supported by what research and educators’ common sense tell us about homework and student learning.

The Rose that Grew from Concrete: Teaching and Learning with Disenfranchised Youth. Diane Wishart, $24.95

Quality of education is a topic as important to Canadians as national health care, but what happens when students start to fall between the cracks in the system? Diane Wishart interviewed many at-risk students in an urban high school, including a number of aboriginal students. What Wishart discovered weren’t statistics, but teens and their experiences, needs, and personalities. The qualitative analysis that comes from these interviews doesn’t supply a blueprint to fix the educational system. It does give a fresh, objective viewpoint for policy makers, scholars, teachers, and the general public to consider.

Same, Different, Equal: Rethinking Single-Sex Schooling. Rosemary Salomone, $26.95

In this timely book, Rosemary Salomone offers a reasoned educational and legal argument supporting single-sex education as an alternative to coeducation, particularly in the case of disadvantaged minority students.

Schools for All Kinds of Minds: Boosting Student Success by Embracing Learning Variation. Mary-Dean Barringer, Craig Pohlman & Michele Robinson, $33.95

This book shows how schools can develop expertise in "learning variation" (understanding how different kinds of minds learn) and apply this knowledge to classroom instruction in order to address the chronic learning challenges and achievement gap faced by millions of students. Schools for All Kinds of Minds shows how using what we know about learning variation with a focus on discovering learning strengths, not just deficits, can help schools create plans for success for those students who often find it elusive.

Secrets of the Teenage Brain: Research Based Strategies for Reaching and Teaching Today’s Adolescents. Sheryl Feinstein, $57.50

Organized around specific areas of adolescent development, this resource is packed with fresh instructional strategies that can be modified and adapted to various content areas. Secrets of the Teenage Brain helps unlock the secrets of the biological and neurological changes happening in the teenage brain. Educators can use these insights to help students reach their full potential.

A Sense of Belonging: Sustaining and Retaining New Teachers. Jennifer Allen, $26.95

This inspiring book provides research-based, practical ideas on how to support new teachers while honoring the innovation, idealism, and optimistic enthusiasm that they bring to the classroom. It shares strategies on everything from supporting new teachers early in the year, to offering ongoing help with curriculum planning and facilitating professional development opportunities. The book demonstrates that when schools embrace, encourage, and celebrate the work of new teachers, they establish a supportive community that fosters excellence and improves retention.

A Student’s Brain: the Parent/Teacher Manual. Kathie Nunley, $36.95

A delightful look at the latest research on the human brain, A Student’s Brain is also a practical guide to reducing the frustrations and increasing the rewards of learning.

This entirely reproducible student activity book is designed to build a base of understanding and skill development in the broad spectrum of learning, studying, and test-taking; provide opportunities for students to apply this knowledge to their own lives; and to provide opportunities to practice and discuss new information and skills so students are better prepared to apply these techniques and skills in all subject areas.

Supporting Boys’ Learning: Strategies for Teacher Practice, Pre-K to Grade 3. Barbara Sprung, Merle Froschl & Nancy Gropper, $26.50

There is a growing body of research that has raised concerns about boys’ vulnerability in terms of social-emotional development, referral to special education, and academic success in school, with African-American and Latino boys most at risk. Responding to these concerns, this user-friendly guide provides strategies to improve teaching practice. Supporting Boys’ Learning will help teachers develop knowledge and strategies for teaching boys in ways that build on their strengths, respect their individual development levels, and adhere to principles of child development.

A Teacher’s Guide to Classroom Assessment is a comprehensive guide that shows step-by-step how to effectively integrate assessment into the classroom. Written for both new and seasoned teachers, this important book offers a practical aid for developing assessment skills and strategies, building assessment literacy, and ultimately improving student learning.

Teaching the Female Brain: How Girls Learn Math and Science. Abigail Norfleet James, $58.95

This engaging, practical guide examines how girls' unique sensory, physical, cognitive, and emotional characteristics affect their performance in the classroom, and shows you how to adapt classroom experiences to assist girls' learning, particularly in math and science. Abigail Norfleet James provides research-based findings to build your understanding of how females learn differently, whether in coed or single-sex settings, and clarifies assumptions held by both teachers and students about themselves.

Teaching NLP in the Classroom. Kate Spohrer, $24.95

NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) is a very effective tool in helping students overcome fears, anxieties and limitations — which in turn can help them to achieve more in school and become more fulfilled as individuals. NLP techniques are a useful addition to every classroom, but are especially useful when working with children with special needs or behavioral difficulties.

Teaching with Wikis, Blogs, Podcasts & More. Kathleen Fitzgibbon, $13.99 Grades 3 and Up

Dozens of easy ideas for using technology to get kids excited about learning.

Teaching Writing to Visual, Auditory, and Kinesthetic Learners. Donovan R. Walling, $37.95

Are your picture-smart, music-smart, and body-smart learners lagging behind their word-smart and number-smart peers? Donovan Walling offers innovative new ways to help these learners become effective writers! With an emphasis on matching teaching method to learning style and developing both basic writing competencies and higher-level thinking skills, this resource offers instructional strategies, sample lessons, a learning styles self-assessment. This is an essential resource for teachers, literacy coaches, and curriculum designers who want to expand writing curriculum and incorporate more non-linear methods into their instructional repertoires.

3-Minute Motivators: More than 100 Simple Ways To Reach, Teach, And Achieve More Than Ever Imagined. Kathy Paterson, $24.95

More than just busy work, these short, playful activities will help frazzled teachers to refocus a group, release excess energy, or start class with a bang! Organized around common classroom challenges, the book offers a wide variety of activities that turn potential problems into opportunities, from relaxing activities to stimulate the imagination to lively motivators and activities that mix talk with action to getting involved and working together towards a common goal.

Transformative Assessment. W. James Popham, $28.95

W. James Popham clarifies what formative assessment really is, why it’s right for your school or classroom, and how to use this approach to improve teaching, learning, classroom climate, teacher professional development, and school performance. Whether you’re already using formative assessments, just considering them, or wondering why the ones you’re using aren’t working, this foundational guide gives you a clear pathway and steps to using formative assessments the right way.

What Does it Mean to be Well Educated? And More Essays on Standards, Grading and Other Follies. Alfie Kohn, $23.95

In this new collection of 18 articles, Kohn explores some of the most important topics in education. He argues that we systematically ignore the real goals of schooling while lavishing attention on misguided models of learning and motivation.

Why Don’t Students Like School? Daniel Willingham, $22.95

A cognitive scientist answers questions about how the mind works and what it means for the classroom.

Winning Strategies for Test Taking, Grades 3-8. Linda Denstaedt, Judy Cova Kelly & Kathleen Kryza, $49.95

A practical guide for teaching test preparation and essential skills for lifelong learning.