Acting Out!  Combating Homophobia Through Teacher Activism. Mollie Blackburn, Caroline Clark, Lauren Kenney & Jill Smith, $29.95

In this volume, teachers from urban, suburban, and rural districts join together in a teacher inquiry group to challenge homophobia and heterosexism in schools and classrooms. To create safe learning environments for all students they address key topics, including seizing teachable moments, organizing faculty, deciding whether to come out in the classroom, using LGBTQ-inclusive texts, running a Gay-Straight Alliance, changing district policy to protect LGBTQ teachers and students, dealing with resistant students, and preparing preservice teachers to do anti-homophobia work.

After the Crisis: Using Storybooks to Help Children Cope. Cathy Grace & Elizabeth Shores, $12.50

When a crisis shakes a child’s life it is often up to teachers to recognize and identify signs that the child is suffering from continuing stress. Although teachers don’t provide therapy, they do have tools readily at-hand to help children cope: storybooks.

The literature-based activities in After the Crisis help children who have been through a trauma. With activities and exercises to use in conjunction with 50 selected children’s books, educators and support staff can help promote children’s ability to cope and heal from crises including:

•Earthquakes • Epidemics and mass casualty incidents • Fires and explosions • Floods • Hurricanes • Tornadoes and major storms • Shelter experiences • Volcanic eruptions

The Art of Classroom Inquiry: a Handbook for Teacher-Researchers. Ruth Shagoury Hubbard & Brenda Miller Power, $41.00

Thoroughly updated to reflect current thinking and technologies, this revised edition of The Art of Classroom Inquiry continues to show teachers how they can carefully and systematically ask and answer their own questions about learning. In crisp, jargon-free prose, Ruth Shagoury Hubbard and Brenda Miller Power present the nuts and bolts of classroom research strategies—interviewing and note-taking techniques, methods for categorizing data, online support, and hands-on activities for testing research methods and honing skills, plus much more.

Artful Teaching: Integrating the Arts for Understanding across the Curriculum K—8. David Donahue & Jennifer Stuart, Editors, $24.95

The authors in this volume share exemplary arts-integration practices across the K–8 curriculum. Rather than providing formulas or scripts to be followed, they carefully describe how the arts provide an entry point for gaining insight into why and how students learn. The book includes rich and lively examples of public school teachers integrating visual arts, music, drama, and dance with subject matter, including English, social studies, science, and mathematics. Readers will come away with a deeper understanding of why and how to use the arts every day, in every school, to reach every child. Both a practitioner's guide and a school reform model, this important book:

• Explains how arts integration across the K–8 curriculum contributes to student learning.
• Features examples of how integrated arts education functions in classrooms when it is done well.
• Explores intensive teacher-education and principal-training programs now underway in several higher education institutions.
• Offers concrete ideas for educators who are looking to strengthen their own skills.

Behavior Analysis for Effective Teaching. Julie Vargas, $87.95

Modern teachers increasingly encounter students who enter their classroom with low motivation, learning problems, or disruptive behavior. The mission of this book is to provide teachers and other human service professionals some specific tools they can use to teach more effectively without using the punitive methods that are too often part of educational practices. At the same time, the book explains the science on which behavioral practices are based.

This text is intended for undergraduate and graduate students in teacher education, special education, physical education, and educational psychology as well as for practicing teachers who would like to know what behavior analysis has to offer.

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.

Beyond the Label: a Guide to Unlocking a Child's Educational Potential. Karen Schlitz, $27.95

When a child is struggling with a learning disability or behavioral disorder, it can be overwhelming for their parents, who often do not know what to do or where to turn for help. This groundbreaking book is a "must have" for any parent, educator, or person who cares for and wants to help children who face challenges in school. It will help you to recognize the warning signs that may indicate a potential problem with a child and explain how to find the best help.

This superb guide shows you how to obtain the necessary assessment(s) that will help you to better understand a child's strengths and weaknesses. It also describes what an educational "accommodation" is and how it can serve as a bridge to learning. Every child has the legal right to fully access the learning environment and to show what they truly know when taking tests. The authors describe how accommodations specifically target a child's weaknesses in order to level the playing field in the classroom and during test taking situations. Accommodations can be as simple as giving the child extra time to finish a test or allowing them to take a test in a smaller group to minimize distractions. In addition, this handbook outlines the relevant research to help you understand the big picture of a child's learning and emotional needs.

The authors offer extensive discussion of issues such as attention and concentration, memory, executive functioning, language, visual perception and processing, emotional functioning, and social skills. Throughout, they stress that, by focusing on behaviors and not labels, you will be able to better understand the "what, why, and how" of a child's learning and emotional challenges.

The Biracial and Multiracial Student Experience. Bonnie Davis, $32.95

Through compelling student and teacher narratives, author Bonnie Davis gives voice to a frequently mislabeled and misunderstood segment of the population. Filled with research-based instructional strategies and reflective questions, the book supports readers in examining:

• The meaning of race, difference, and ethnicity
• How mixed-identity students develop racial identities
• How to adjust instruction to demonstrate cultural proficiency
• Complex questions to help deepen understanding of bi- and multiracial experiences, white privilege, and the history of race

This sensitively written yet practical guide fills a gap in the professional literature by examining the experiences of biracial/multiracial students in the context of today's classrooms. The author calls upon readers to take a transformational journey toward racial literacy and, ultimately, become empowered by a real understanding of what it means to be biracial or multiracial and enable all students to experience increased self-confidence and success.

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.

Change Leader: Learning to Do What Matters Most.  Michael Fullan, $33.95

In his previous best-selling books, Michael Fullan examined the concepts and processes of change. Now he turns his focus to the core practices of leadership that are so vital for leading in today's complex world. Fullan argues that powerful leaders have built bedrocks of credibility, have learned how to identify the few things that matter most, and know how to leverage their skills in ways that benefit their entire organization.

• Provides a much-needed leadership guide for today's turbulent climate
• Written by an internationally acclaimed authority on organizational change
• Includes illustrative examples from business, education, nonprofit, and government sectors
• Shows leaders how to eschew policies and strategies that focus on shallow and short-term goals and develop leadership skills for long-term success

Chi for Children: a Practical Guide to Teaching Tai Chi and Qigong in Schools and the Community. Betty Sutherland, $61.95 (includes instructional DVD)

Learning the Chinese arts of Tai Chi and Qigong is a great way for children to relax, have fun, and strengthen body and mind. This easy-to-use teacher training pack provides step-by-step instructions and simple techniques that enable anyone to teach Tai Chi and Qigong to children.

This interactive book and DVD set contains four tutorials that guide teachers through basic, intermediate and advanced exercises, as well as offering breathing and relaxation techniques to help create calm classrooms and beat exam stress. Proven to increase concentration levels, fitness and confidence, introducing children to Tai Chi and Qigong gives them the ideal foundation for a life of physical and mental well-being.

This exciting training programme will be an indispensible resource for anyone looking for a fresh and engaging way to improve children's focus, health and happiness, and will be a welcome addition to any classroom, gym class or youth group.

Childhood and Nature: Design Principles for Educators. David Sobel, $23.95

This leading voice in environmental education shows teachers how to build connections between the classroom and the real world. The book demonstrates the seven design principles for structuring projects that focus on the environment. These projects explore issues that students care about as they build skills in language arts, math, science, social studies, and problem-solving. An ideal resource for helping students appreciate the complexity and seriousness of our environmental issues.

Classroom Fitness Breaks to Help Kids Focus, Grades 1-5. Sarah Longhi, $16.99

Fun and easy exercises that boost concentration and get kids ready to learn!

College Without High School: a Teenager’s Guide to Skipping High School and Going to College. Blake Boles, $16.95

High school can be boring. High school curriculum can be frustrating and out of touch. So what is the answer for young people whose creativity, bright ideas, and boundless energy are being stifled in that over-scheduled and grade-driven environment?

College Without High School shows how independent teens can self-design their high school education by becoming unschooled. Boles shows how to fulfill college admission requirements by proving five preparatory results: intellectual passion, leadership, logical reasoning, background knowledge, and the capacity for structured learning. He then offers several suggestions for life-changing, confidence-building adventures that will demonstrate those results.

Complete Canadian Curriculum: Math / Language / Social Studies / Science. $19.95 each

Complete Canadian Curriculum covers the four key subject areas currently taught in Canadian schools: Math, Language, Social Studies and Science. These curriculum-based units are designed to ensure that your child understands the concepts and masters the necessary skills for grades 1 through 6. With vivid illustrations and interesting activities, your child will find working through Complete Canadian Curriculum both fun and rewarding.

Complete Canadian Curriculum: Grade One. $19.95
Complete Canadian Curriculum: Grade Two. $19.95
Complete Canadian Curriculum: Grade Three. $19.95
Complete Canadian Curriculum: Grade Four. $19.95
Complete Canadian Curriculum: Grade Five. $19.95
Complete Canadian Curriculum: Grade Six. $19.95

Complete Summer Smart, K to 1. $16.95
Complete Summer Smart, 1 to 2. $16.95
Complete Summer Smart, 2 to 3. $16.95
Complete Summer Smart, 3 to 4. $16.95
Complete Summer Smart, 4 to 5. $16.95
Complete Summer Smart, 5 to 6. $16.95

By reviewing the essentials covered in the previous academic year, Complete Summer Smart prepares your child for the grade ahead. Each book includes fun summer activities in English, math, science, social studies, arts & crafts and more.

Connecting Emergent Curriculum and Standards in the Early Childhood Classroom: Strengthening Content and Teaching Practice. Sydney Schwartz & Sherry Copeland, $29.95

This book provides teachers with the resources to bring content alive and document it in every-day, action-based pre–K and Kindergarten classrooms. The book includes lists of key content ideas—coordinated with learning standards in science, mathematics, social studies, and the communication arts—to guide teacher observations of, and interactions with, young children. Chapters focus on ways to extend children’s emerging use of content in the block, manipulative, sand and water, drama, expressive arts, and literacy centers, as well as link to the development of themes.

Creating Caring Classrooms: How to Encourage Students to Communicate, Create and Be Compassionate Of Others. Kathleen Gould Lundy & Larry Swartz, $24.95

This passionate book is about community, compassion, and creativity; it is about caring for others. It is also about helping students care about their work. Teachers will learn how to establish inclusive classrooms where kindness and concern become crucial backdrops for critical conversations. They will be introduced to simple but profound strategies that initiate and maintain respectful dialogue, promote collaboration over competition, and confront difficult issues such as bullying and exclusion.

CREATING CARING CLASSROOMS is committed to building respectful relationships among students, teachers, and the school community. Through active, engaging, relevant, open-ended activities, students will be encouraged to explore events, ideas, themes, texts, stories, and relationships from different perspectives, and then represent those new understandings in innovative and creative ways.

The Creative Arts, 5th Edition: a Process Approach for Teachers and Children. Linda Carol Edwards, $85.00

This text emphasizes process over product in guiding preschoolers and primary-grade children in creatively expressing themselves in the arts: visual arts, dance and movement, and drama.  Key changes to this edition include a new feature on extending creativity into the home with families, more multicultural content and examples of multicultural art forms.

Curriculum Development Kit for Gifted and Advanced Learners. Sandra Kaplan & Michael Cannon, $47.95

A comprehensive kit for building curriculum that includes a teacher’s guide, 24 catalyst cards, 12 curriculum grids and instructions on Sandra Kaplan’s Depth and Complexity Model  for teaching gifted and advanced students.

Data Without Tears: How to Write Measurable Educational Goals and Collect Meaningful Data. Terri Chiara Johnston, $28.95

This valuable resource is designed to help educators collect and use data in creating measurable goals and objectives; and to communicate student progress to parents and team members with confidence.

DEPLOYMENT: Strategies for Working with Kids in Military Families. Karen Petty, $34.95 (Ages 1-12)

Military kids face many unique stressors and difficult transitions related to deployment, relocation, separation from loved ones and changes in family structure. Caring for these children requires a clear understanding of the challenges and triumphs military families deal with so that you can offer the best support possible.

Deployment: Strategies for Working with Kids in Military Families is a comprehensive handbook which includes theory-based, practice-driven strategies and curriculum suggestions to help children move forward living full lives. Includes information on how to enhance childcare programs using multiple intelligences theory and the Reggio Emila approach.

Different Speeds and Different Needs: How to Teach Sports to Every Kid. Gary Barber, $32.95

This appealing book demonstrates how practitioners can put excitement and inspiration into the learning process and to support the creative capacities of young children. Involvement in sports can be an empowering and enriching experience for all children. But how can children with different learning needs and physical abilities break through barriers and stereotypes on the playing field to find acceptance and success? This comprehensive guide shows K–12 teachers and coaches how to establish, revamp, and sustain inclusive sports programs that benefit students with a wide range of special needs and challenges.

With this positive, motivating book — written by an expert who's also the father of two children with autism — teachers and coaches will have the guidance they need to develop inclusive sports programs where all children join in the fun.

Chapters address many different needs and abilities including:  

• physical difficulties, coordination  and mobility challenges
• ADHD , intellectual challenges, learning disabilities, and giftedness
• behavioral challenges and bullying
• autism spectrum disorders
• Tourette syndrome
• visual or hearing impairments
• height and weight challenges, obesity, and eating disorders
• anxiety, stress, and depression

The Educator’s Guide to Emotional Intelligence and Academic Achievement: Social-Emotional Learning in the Classroom. Maurice Elias & Harriet Arnold, editors. $58.75

This comprehensive guide to emotional intelligence (EI) is a state-of-the-art collection of proven best practices from the field’s best and brightest minds … this guide creates a new gold standard for bringing social-emotional learning into every classroom … Key features cover:

• Theory and context for EI, including brain development, multiple intelligences, service and citizenship, school-to-work, and health
• Teacher preparation and professional development
• 17 best-practice programs in action, relevant to grades PreK-12
• An Application/Reflection Guide for note-taking, follow-up, contacts, and ideas for immediate implementation

The Effective Teacher's Guide to Behavioural and Emotional Disorders. Michael Farrell, $31.95

This comprehensive guide equips teachers with informed and practical strategies for working with children with a wide range of emotional behavioural disorders including:

• Disruptive behaviour disorders
• Anxiety disorders
• Depression
• ADD/ADHD

The Elementary Teacher’s Book of Lists, Grades K-5. Gary Robert Muscghla, Judy Muschla & Erin Muschla, $35.95

An essential reference for all elementary teachers, this comprehensive resource contains useful lists on all the subjects elementary teachers need - from core content to tips on classroom management to advice for students on study skills. The lists highlight vital areas of interest including reading, writing, mathematics, and science, social studies, developing social skills, developing effective study skills, and working with an inclusive classroom.

English Language Learners: the Essential Guide. David Freeman & Yvonne Freeman, $29.99

English Language Learners prepares teachers to work effectively with limited English proficient students by showing how to put current second language teaching theory into practice. Each key idea is clearly explained and illustrated with extended scenarios that demonstrate how teachers working at different grade levels meet the needs of all their students.

The Essential Guide to Talking with Teens: Ready-to-Use Discussions for School and Youth Groups. Jean Sunde Peterson, $43.99

All young people need a safe, supportive place to “just talk” with caring peers and an attentive adult … these guided discussions are proven ways to reach out to young people and address their social and emotional needs. Teens gain self-awareness and self-esteem, practice problem-solving and goal-setting, feel more in control of their lives, and learn they have much in common with each other—they are not alone. Each session is self-contained and step-by-step. Many include reproducible handouts. Introductory and background materials help even less-experienced group leaders feel prepared and secure in their role. For advising teachers, counselors, and youth workers in all kinds of school and group settings.

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 the Classroom. Christopher Kaufman, $38.95

Practical strategies for improving performance and enhancing skills for all students. This teacher-friendly guide lays a clear and simple path to stronger executive skills for all students and lasting academic and social success.

Feel-Bad Education and Other Contrarian Essays on Children and Schooling. Alfie Kohn, $17.00

A new book from one of the most outspoken and incisive thinkers in education, FEEL-BAD EDUCATION is a call to parents and educators to rethink our priorities and reconsider our practices. 

Alfie Kohn repeatedly invites us to think more deeply about the conventional wisdom. Is self-discipline always desirable he asks? Does academic cheating necessarily indicate a moral failing? Might inspirational posters commonly found on school walls reflect disturbing assumptions about children? Could the use of rubrics for evaluating student learning prove counterproductive?

Subjecting young children to homework, grades, or standardized tests-merely because these things will be required of them later-reminds Kohn of Monty Python's "getting hit on the head lessons." And, with tongue firmly in cheek, he declares that we should immediately begin teaching twenty-second-century skills.

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.

The Future of Education: Reimagining Our Schools from the Ground Up. Kieran Egan, $22.50

This engaging book presents a frontal attack on current forms of schooling and a radical rethinking of the whole education process. Kieran Egan, a prize-winning scholar and innovative thinker, does not rail against teachers, administrators, or politicians for the failures of the school. Instead he argues that education today is built on a set of mutually exclusive goals that are destined to defeat our best efforts.

Egan explores the three big ideas and aims of education — academic, social, and developmental growth — and exposes their flaws and fundamental incompatibility. He then proposes and describes a process called Imaginative Education that would dramatically change teaching and curriculum while delivering the skills and understanding that we all want our children to acquire. His speculative narrative of education from 2010 to 2060 — executed with wit and verve — shows how we might very well get there from here.

Get That Freak: Homophobia and Transphobia in High Schools.  Rebecca Haskell & Brian Burtch, $17.95

Bullying in schools has garnered significant attention recently, but despite this, little has been said about the occurrence of homophobic and transphobic bullying in Canadian high schools. GET THAT FREAK fills that gap by exploring the experiences of bullying among youth who identify or are identified as queer. Through interviews with recent high school graduates in British Columbia, Haskell and Burtch share stories of physical, verbal and emotional harassment, and offer important insights into the negative outcomes that result from the experience of being bullied. Challenging the familiar image of these youth as helpless victims, this book also recognizes positive outcomes: moments of resistance, friendship and inner strength. Finally, the authors make recommendations for challenging homophobic and transphobic bullying in high schools and supporting students who experience this form of harassment.

Go Green Rating Scale Handbook for Early Childhood Settings. Phil Boise, $37.50

This handbook provides a road map for improving the conditions in your facility and provides guidance as you work toward a greener, healthier environment.

The Great Diversity Debate: Embracing Pluralism in School and Society. Kent Koppelman, $35.50

The Great Diversity Debate describes the presence and growth of diversity in the United States from its earliest years to the present. The author describes the evolution of the concept of pluralism from a philosophical term to a concept used in many disciplines and with global significance. Rather than assuming that diversity is a benefit, Koppelman investigates the ways in which diversity is actually experienced and debated across critical sectors of social experience, including immigration, affirmative action, education, and national identity, among others. Koppelman takes the sometimes complicated arguments for and against diversity in school and in society and lays out the benefits with great clarity and simplicity making this book accessible to a large audience.

Great Ideas: Using Service-Learning and Differentiated Instruction to Help Your Students Succeed. Pamela Gent, $41.95

Much more than community service, these service-learning activities help improve outcomes for all students when they're carefully linked to the curriculum and IEP goals. This book shows K-12 educators and administrators exactly how this approach promotes inclusion and differentiated instruction for students with and without disabilities. A fresh, hands-on guide to inclusion that goes beyond co-teaching, collaboration, or accommodations, this highly practical book will help educators make the most of every student's unique abilities—and build better communities inside and outside the classroom.

Handbook of Child Development and Early Education: Research to Practice. Edited by Oscar  Barbarin & Barbara Hanna Wasik, $93.50

How and what should young children be taught? What emphasis should be given to emotional learning? How do we involve families? Addressing these and other critical questions, this authoritative volume brings together developmentalists and early educators to discuss what an integrated, developmentally appropriate curriculum might look like across the preschool and early elementary years. State-of-the-science work is presented on brain development and the emergence of cognitive, socioemotional, language, and literacy skills in 3- to 8-year-olds. Drawing on experience in real-world classrooms, contributors describe novel, practical approaches to promoting school readiness, tailoring instruction to children's learning needs, and improving the teaching of language arts, math, and science.

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.

Inspiring Spaces for Young Children. Jessica Deviney, et al, $43.95.

The classroom environment is an essential component for maximizing learning experiences for young children. Inspiring Spaces for Young Children invites teachers to enhance children’s educational environment in a beautiful way by emphasizing aesthetic environmental qualities that are often overlooked in early childhood classrooms, such as nature, color, furnishings, textures, displays, lighting, and focal points.  With easy-to-implement ideas that incorporate nature, children’s artwork, and everyday classroom materials, the photographs and ideas in this book promote creativity, learning, and simple beauty.

Also available: Rating Observation Scale for Inspiring Environments. Jessica Deviney, et al, $24.95

An inspiring environment is essential for helping young children learn. The Rating Observation Scale for Inspiring Environments (ROSIE) is an observation rating scale that challenges teachers to examine classrooms in a totally new way. Looking through an aesthetic lens of nature, color, furnishings, textures, displays, lighting, and focal points, educators will learn to determine a classroom’s level of aesthetic beauty. ROSIE then provides images and examples to assist in turning learning spaces into inspirational environments in which children can grow and learn.

Intelligence and How to Get It: Why Schools and Cultures Count. Richard Nisbett, $22.50

Intelligence and How to Get It asserts that intellect is not primarily genetic but is principally determined by societal influences. Nisbett's commanding argument, superb marshaling of evidence and fearless discussions of the controversial carve out new and exciting terrain in this hotly debated field.

i-SAFE Internet Safety Activities: Reproducible Projects for Teachers and Parents, Grades K-8. i-SAFE, $35.95

Most school-age children use the Internet every day. However, many possess naive attitudes about their online safety and can inadvertently engage in a range of high-risk behaviors. Developed by i-SAFE™, the leading nonprofit organization dedicated to Internet safety education, this important resource offers a series of fun lessons and teachers' guides to help students in grades K-8 learn how to stay safe online.

Filled with activities, this easy-to-use guide helps elementary and middle school students develop their Internet skills while keeping safe.

Is Everybody Ready for Kindergarten? A Tool Kit for Preparing Children and Families. Angèle Sancho Passe, $30.95

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.

The Jossey Bass Reader on The Brain and Learning. Introduction by Kurt Fischer, Edited by Jossey-Bass Publishers, $33.50

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

Jump Start Health! Practical Ideas to Promote Wellness in Kids of All Ages.  David Campos, $52.00

This dynamic resource will help classroom teachers jump start their students on a path to a healthy lifestyle. The author helps us understand the obesity crisis and offers practical ideas for incorporating wellness initiatives into the elementary curriculum. Each idea presented has a clear learning objective, addresses federal health standards, and includes a step-by-step approach with activities for the classroom. This hands-on, comprehensive book provides a set of tools that will help teachers and health practitioners improve the eating habits and exercise patterns of youngsters nationwide.

Just the Right Words is a time-saving resource packed with ideas you can use as models when writing student report cards and assessments. Complete with sentence stems, word lists and report card writing tips, Just the Right Words makes narrative comments easier for educators to write and more meaningful for parents.

Learn Every Day about Colors: 100 Best Ideas from Teachers. Kathy Charmer, Editor, $18.95

Learn Every Day about Numbers: 100 Best Ideas from Teachers. Kathy Charmer, Editor, $18.95

Learn Every Day about Shapes: 100 Best Ideas from Teachers. Kathy Charmer, Editor, $18.95

Learning has never been so much fun!  The result of an innovative contest, teachers from around the globe have contributed their favorite classroom activities, all focused on topics that teachers use every day. Organized by curriculum area, the activities in each chapter begin with those that are appropriate for the youngest preschooler and end with activities that six-year-olds will enjoy. The Learn Every Day books have activities for children ages 3-6, providing teachers with innovative and fun ways to introduce and reinforce learning.

Learning centers can play an important part of literacy learning in any kindergarten classroom. They enhance children's cognitive and social development, self-regulation, and curiosity. This book suggests how to:

• set up learning centers
• arrange the room with appropriate furniture
• determine number of students at each center
• move in and between centers
• develop activities and find materials

Lift-Off for Early Literacy: Directed Reading Opportunities for Struggling Students. Charlene Iannone-Campbell & Susan Lloyd Lattimore, $48.95

As early as preschool, children who struggle with emergent literacy skills can benefit from effective response to intervention. Don't wait until later grades when they've already fallen behind—improve their literacy skills now with this evidence-based Tier 2 RTI curriculum, ready for any pre-K educator to pick up and use right away. Expertly organizing their lessons into one hands-on, step-by-step guide, the authors give teachers, SLPs, and paraprofessionals eleven complete units of small-group instruction.

Young children will love the engaging activity sets, filled with songs, stories, fingerplay, rhymes, and games that help increase their reading readiness while they have fun. And all adults involved in pre-K instruction—from teachers to classroom volunteers—will love how this curriculum helps them make the most of their classroom time and get real, measurable results. With this highly effective, teacher-friendly curriculum, pre-K educators will help struggling students achieve "literacy lift-off" as early as possible so they're ready for long-term reading success.

Lost at School: Why Our Kids with Behavioral Challenges Are Falling Through the Cracks and How We Can Help Them. Ross Greene, $18.99

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.

Made to Play! Handmade Toys & Crafts for Growing Imaginations. Joel Henriques, $18.95

From the creative mind of Joel Henriques come these small, simple-to-make projects with big results! These playful projects are sure to spark creative discovery, encourage open-ended play and delight the young people in your life.

Many Languages, One Classroom: Teaching Dual and English Language Learners. Karen Nemeth, $18.95

Many Languages, One Classroom applies the latest information about best practices to all aspects of a preschool program. From using lists of key words and visual aids to using body language and gestures, the strategies you will find in this book are adaptable and easy to put into practice.

Designed to fit any preschool curriculum, Many Languages, One Classroom addresses the benchmarks of standard quality programming. Organized by interest areas and times of the day, you’ll find everything you need to help English language learners during dramatic play, outdoor play, reading, science, blocks, and circle time.

More Bullies in More Books. C.J. Bott, $38.95

More Bullies in More Books covers more than 350 annotated titles — from picture books to high school books — dealing with bullying. Each chapter begins with a discussion of a specific bullying behavior, and then provides several titles focusing on that problem. For each of the suggested titles there are an in-depth summary, activities and discussion points.

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.

Multiple Intelligences: Pathways to Success. Thomas Hoerr, $12.95 (Laminated Reference Guide)

This valuable laminated reference guide presents a practical overview of MI that gives examples and suggestions on how MI can be used to help students learn and teachers succeed.

By incorporating MI into teaching, students' opportunities to learn are increased, and teachers find teaching more interesting and rewarding. Particular attention is given to assessment through PEP's (Projects, Exhibitions, Presentations), and to the personal intelligences. Use of student portfolios, the distributed intelligence, and ways to educate students' parents about MI are also addressed.

My School in the Rain Forest: How Children Attend School Around the World. Margriet Ruurs, $24.50 (ages 6-10)

From Afghanistan to Guatemala, this lovely photo essay chronicles the school day of children around the world.

Nasreen’s Secret School: a True Story from Afghanistan. Jeanette Winter,  $21.99

Young Nasreen has not spoken a word to anyone since her parents disappeared.

In despair, her grandmother risks everything to enroll Nasreen in a secret school for girls. Will a devoted teacher, a new friend, and the worlds she discovers in books be enough to draw Nasreen out of her shell of sadness?

Based on a true story from Afghanistan, this inspiring book will touch readers deeply as it affirms both the life-changing power of education and the healing power of love.

The Nature Connection: an Outdoor Workbook for Kids, Families and Classrooms. Clare Walker Leslie, $18.95

This interactive workbook, packed with creative, year-round nature activities guides kids to observe and record what they see, hear, smell, and touch outdoors, whether they live in the country, the city, or somewhere in between. It offers dozens of fun things to do in every season: write a poem; make a sketch; tell a story; record daily sunrise and sunset times for a month; draw a local map and mark the locations of trees, rocks, animals; keep a moon journal; learn about the constellations; or collect leaves and bring them home to sketch and identify. Rediscover the world outside with The Nature Connection!

The New Bully Free Classroom: Proven Prevention and Intervention Strategies for Teachers K-8. Allan Beane, $43.99

THE NEW BULLY FREE CLASSROOM makes it easier than ever to stop and prevent bullying. With this book, educators can help build a sense of belonging in all students and create a peaceful, caring classroom.

This thorough update to the classic original takes a closer look at what bullying is and places renewed emphasis on the role (and power) of bystanders, including a new chapter focusing on empowering bystanders to be allies to targets of bullying. Because labels diminish people, Beane takes care in this update to say "kids who bully" instead of "bullies" and "targets of bullying" instead of "victims" or "victims of bullying."

Readers will find support for teachers, counselors, and supervisors, including a ready-to-use PowerPoint presentation for pre-service and in-service training. The CD-ROM includes all reproducible forms, surveys, handouts, and letters to parents and caregivers found in the book, including several bonus handouts geared for the youngest students. In addition to revising and updating existing activities, the author presents new activities including:

• Help Students Understand Cyberbullying
• Teach Cyberbullying Prevention
• Build Awareness about Relational Bullying
• Be Aware of Cliques
• Cope with Cliques
• Help Bystanders Understand Their Role
• Help Bystanders Develop Empathy
• Teach Bystanders Skills

The New Kids: Big Dreams and Brave Journeys at a High School for Immigrant Teens. Brooke Hauser, $29.99

Some walked across deserts and mountains. Others flew on planes. One arrived after escaping in a suitcase. And some won't say how they got here.

A singular work of narrative journalism, THE NEW KIDS chronicles a year in the life of a remarkable group of these teenage newcomers, who all attend the International High School at Prospect Heights in Brooklyn.  The unforgettable portraits of young people dealing with enormous obstacles, as they carve out new lives for themselves, will leave you rooting for these kids long after reading the stories of where they come from, how they got here and where they are going next.

No Contest: the Case against Competition, 20th Anniversary Edition. Alfie Kohn, $18.50

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

No Grades + No Homework = Better Learning. Two Lectures for Educators and Parents. Alfie Kohn, $34.50 DVD

In two entertaining and thought-provoking lectures, Alfie Kohn makes a compelling case that grades and homework are counterproductive. He argues that abandoning them in favour of more useful educational strategies is not only a realistic possibility but a change that is long overdue.

Not My Fault. Leif Kristiansson, illustrated by Dick Stenberg, $13.95

A simple book that stimulates thought on the matter of responsibility — who is responsible for stopping aggression?

Nowhere to Hide: Why Kids with ADHD & LD Hate School and What We Can Do about It. Jerome Schultz, $29.95

This groundbreaking book addresses the consequences of the unabated stress associated with Learning disabilities and ADHD and the toxic, deleterious impact of this stress on kids' academic learning, social skills, behavior, and efficient brain functioning. This book can help change the way parents and teachers think about why kids with LD and ADHD find school and homework so toxic. It will also offer an abundant supply of practical, understandable strategies that have been shown to reduce stress at school and at home.

100 Learning Games for Special Needs with Music, Movement, Sounds and...Silence. Johanne Hanko, $25.95

Games and activities are a great way for children with special needs to learn important skills. This book provides inspiration and guidance for special education teachers, teaching assistants, parents and carers on how to use lively and engaging play ideas to foster learning and development.

Targeting key skills including listening, self-awareness, movement, creative thinking and relaxation, each game has been developed with the capabilities of children with special needs in mind. The appropriate age group is clearly identified, and possible variations for different abilities are provided. All of the instructions are easy to follow and there are cheerful illustrations throughout. Using music, dance, art, word games and breathing exercises, this book is packed with creative and enjoyable games that make learning fun.

The Organized Teacher, 2nd Edition: a Hands-On Guide to Setting Up and Running a Terrific Classroom. Steve Springer, Kimberly Persiani-Becker, Brandy Alexander, $27.95

Everything you need to know to run an organized and flourishing classroom, even if it is your first year teaching! Now this classic bestseller has been revised with fresh ideas and comes with a CD-ROM bursting with printable checklists and templates. Inside you'll find:

• Reproducible pages ready for use, including charts, diagrams, guidelines, sample record pages, lesson plan sheets, and more
• Ideas for your classroom, including art projects and playground games
• More than 150 forms and checklists available on CD-ROM
• New and improved ideas to make your classroom work efficiently

In a radical analysis of contemporary classrooms, author Lisa Delpit develops ideas about ways teachers can be better “cultural transmitters” in the classroom — where prejudice, stereotypes, and cultural assumptions breed ineffective education. This anniversary paperback edition features a new introduction by Delpit as well as new framing essays by Herbert Kohl and Charles Payne.

Our New Home: Immigrant Children Speak. Edited by Emily Hearn & Marywinn Milne, $13.95

What is it like to leave home and arrive in a place where everything is new – language, weather, customs and people?

Every year families from around the world leave their homes to start a new life in a new place and they each have a story. In Our New Home, children use their writing and artwork to share these stories with us. Their words and pictures tell of the fear and sadness, the excitement and challenge of moving to a new country and starting a new life.

Our Teacher’s Having a Baby. Eve Bunting, illustrated by Diane de Groat, $9.50

This wonderful, warm and beautifully illustrated story is about a first-grade class and their year of excitement, anticipation and anxiety and joy over the pregnancy and birth of their beloved teacher’s baby.

Owning Up! Curriculum: Empowering Adolescents to Confront Social Cruelty, Bullying, and Injustice. Rosalind Wiseman, $74.95 (Grades 6-12)

The Owning Up Curriculum presents a unique and comprehensive approach to preventing youth violence by providing a structured program for teaching students to own up and take responsibility — as perpetrators, bystanders, and targets — for unethical behavior. Students learn to recognize that they have a responsibility to treat themselves and others with dignity and to speak out against injustice.

By targeting the root causes of bullying and other forms of social cruelty, Wiseman exposes the cultural expectations that teach young people to humiliate and dehumanize others as the way to achieve power and respect, then challenges them to transform this dynamic. The program also addresses the nuanced ways in which racism, classism, and homophobia are expressed in our culture and affect social cruelty and violence.

A CD-ROM of reproducible program forms and student handouts is included with the curriculum.

Parallel Curriculum Units for Language Arts, Grades 6-12. Jeanne Purcell & Jann Leppien, $58.95

Parallel Curriculum Units for Language Arts provides sample language arts units written by practicing teachers to demonstrate what high-quality curriculum looks like within a PCM framework. Covering a variety of topics—including narrative voice, literary criticism, and writing original pieces—these field-tested units help you to design your own units and deepen your understanding of how the PCM framework helps tailor curriculum to the abilities, interests, and learning preferences of each learner.

PeaceJam: a Billion Acts of Peace. Ivan Suvanjieff & Dawn Gifford Engle, $18.50

One organization (PeaceJam) + Eleven Nobel Laureates + Youth from all over the World = a Billion Simple Acts of Peace!  A global call to action for youth, this book offers firsthand accounts of work with the Laureates, and the tools and resources to inspire others to action.

Phonics Pathways: Clear Steps to Easy Reading and Perfect Spelling, 10th Edition.  Dolores Hiskes, $39.95

This tenth edition of the best-selling book teaches reading using sounds and spelling patterns. These sounds and patterns are introduced one at a time, and slowly built into words, syllables, phrases, and sentences. Simple step-by-step directions begin every lesson. Although originally designed for K-2 emergent readers, this award-winning book is also successfully being used with adolescent and adult learners, as well as second language learners and students with learning disabilities.

Picture Science explores the many ways to use digital photography to teach science in early childhood settings. This beautiful book, illustrated throughout with color photographs by author/educator Carla Neumann-Hinds, includes sample lessons, activities, games, and ideas for affordable materials created using digital photography. Throughout, the material is designed to meet to early learning science standards. This is a wonderful book for home as well, giving parents ideas to stimulate children’s natural curiosity about the world around them.

Piece by Piece: Stories About Fitting Into Canada. Teresa Toten, $20.00

This new anthology features stories by some of Canada's finest authors who were born in another country and who went through the experience of trying to "fit in." From the shock of first impressions to the first stirrings of "becoming Canadian" and what that meant to them, this collection speaks of a powerful desire to be accepted, to feel at home.

Play: The Pathway from Theory to Practice. Sandra Heidemann & Deborah Hewitt, $41.95

Play: The Pathway from Theory to Practice contains practical suggestions and theoretical information for helping children thrive with play-based learning. Chapters include an explanation of the functional "Play Checklist" to help you observe children's emerging skills and pinpoint areas for improvement, instructions for writing specific and attainable goals for children, and case studies from real classrooms.

Positive Strategies for Students with Behavior Problems. Daniel Crimmins, Anne Farrell, Philip Smith & Alison Bailey, $33.95

This research-based and practical manual has effective solutions for educators from grades K–12. Developed specifically for use with children with persistent or severe behavior problems, this book introduces educators to the systematic Positive Strategies method, which helps teachers understand why behaviors persist, prevent problem behavior, and replace challenging behaviors with better alternatives.

Preparing for Disaster: What Every Childhood Director Needs to Know. Cathy Grace & Elizabeth Shores, $12.50

This director’s companion to After the Crisis provides practical advice and information on preparing for and responding to disasters like fires, explosions, epidemics, earthquakes, tornadoes, mass casualty incidents and more. Learn how to:

• Create a Disaster Readiness Master Plan and implement it
• Train teachers and administrators on how to react in a catastrophic event
• Reeducate parents about your plan and help to reduce panic
• Complete insurance, inventory, records back-up and other relevant forms

This groundbreaking guide is filled with practical advice for every program director on the steps they can take to insure the safety of their program and the children they care for.

The Pressures of Teaching: How Teachers Cope with Classroom Stress. Maureen Picard Robins, Editor, $16.95

In this insightful, fascinating collection of stories from the trenches of teaching, teachers confront the many challenges of choosing this path. The pressures of teaching may be great, but the rewards can be even greater.

Projects & Presentations for K-6 Students: Preparing Kids to Be Confident, Effective Communicators. Phil Schlemmer & Dori Schlemmer, $45.99 (Grades K-6)

This practical and unique resource presents classroom-tested projects, called "openings," in core curricular areas (language arts, social studies, science, and math). Students research topics and present what they have learned to their peers with this kids-teaching-kids approach to differentiated, project-based learning.

Promoting Resilience in the Classroom: a Guide to Developing Pupils’ Emotional and Cognitive Skills. Carmel Cefai, $24.95

Resilience is a set of qualities that enable children to adapt and transform, to overcome risk and adversity, and to develop social competence, problem-solving skills, autonomy and a sense of purpose. For children and young people it is as vital to possess these qualities in school environments as in the family and the community at large. This handbook for teachers and educators explores ways of nurturing resilience in vulnerable students. It proposes a new, positive way of thinking about schools as institutions that can foster cognitive and socio-emotional competence in all students.

Reaching and Teaching Children Who Hurt: Strategies for Your Classroom. Susan Craig, $27.50

This practical, strategy-filled book that shows educators how to help students exposed to trauma. Through clear and readable explanations of current research and enlightening vignettes, educators will understand how violence and other forms of trauma affect the key elements of a child's school and social success, including behavior, attention, memory, and language.

Reaching and Teaching Stressed and Anxious Learners in Grades 4-8: Strategies for Relieving Distress and Trauma in Schools and Classrooms. Barbara E. Oehlberg, $42.95

Not all children cope equally well with the stresses and traumas life throws their way, and every educator recognizes that "deer in the headlights" look some children get when current events and past traumas combine to trigger a fight-or-flight stress response. No matter how safe the classroom may be in reality, trauma deactivates cognitive skills, and learning cannot resume until the child’s equilibrium has been restored. This important new resource helps educators understand how trauma and stress interfere with cognitive skills, and how classroom and school activities can be used to restore feelings of safety, empowerment, and well-being.

The Redemption Approach: 5 Timeless Principles for Re-Engaging Tough Kids in School. Ed Orszulak, $22.95 (Grades 6 to 12)

Using elements of forgiveness, restitution, recovery, humour and inspiration to reach and teach students whoa re habitual offenders.

The Resilient Practitioner: Burnout Prevention and Self-Care Strategies for Counselors, Therapists, Teachers and Health Professionals, 2nd Edition. Thomas Skovholt & Michelle Trotter-Mathison, $43.95

Therapists and other helping professionals, such as teachers, doctors and nurses, social workers, and clergy, work in highly demanding fields and can suffer from burnout, compassion fatigue, and secondary stress. This happens when they give more attention to their clients’ well being than their own.

The authors describe the joys and hazards of the work, the long road from novice to senior practitioner, the essence of burnout, ways to maintain the professional and personal self, methods experts use to maintain vitality, and a self-care action plan. Vivid real-life examples and self-reflection questions will engage and motivate readers to think about their own work and ways to enhance their own resilience. Eloquently written and supported by extensive research, helping professionals will find this a valuable resource.

Rethinking Mathematics: Teaching Social Justice by the Numbers. Eric Gutstein & Bob Peterson, Editors, $18.95

This unique collection of more than 30 articles shows teachers how to weave social-justice principles throughout the math curriculum, and how to integrate social-justice math into other curricular areas as well.

Rethinking Mathematics presents teaching ideas, lesson plans and reflections by practicing classroom teachers and distinguished mathematics educators. This is real-world math — math that helps students analyze problems as they gain essential academic skills. Rethinking Mathematics will help teachers develop students' understanding of society and prepare them to be critical, active participants in a democracy.

The Same Thing Over and Over: How School Reformers Get Stuck in Yesterday’s Ideas. Frederick Hess, $30.95

In this genial and challenging overview of endless debates over school reform, Rick Hess shows that even bitter opponents in debates about how to improve schools agree on much more than they realize — and that much of it must change radically.

Most educators and advocates take many things for granted. The one-teacher–one-classroom model. The professional full-time teacher. Students grouped in age-defined grades. The nine-month calendar. Top-down local district control. All were innovative and exciting — in the nineteenth century. As Hess shows, the system hasn’t changed since most Americans lived on farms and in villages, since school taught you to read, write, and do arithmetic, and since only the elite went to high school, let alone college.

Arguing that a fundamentally nineteenth century system can’t be right for a twenty-first century world, Hess suggests that uniformity gets in the way of quality, and urges us to create a much wider variety of schools, to meet a greater range of needs for different kinds of talents, needed by a vastly more complex and demanding society.

Scholastic Dictionary of Idioms: More than 700 Sayings and Expressions. Marvin Terban, $10.99

Cat got your tongue? Penny for your thoughts?

Every day, idioms bring color to our speech. But for some people, idioms are difficult to comprehend. This essential resource offers explanations for everyday idioms that will make understanding them as easy as pie!

The Second City Guide to Improv in the Classroom: Using Improvisation to Teach Skills and Boost Learning. Katherine McKnight & Mary Scruggs, $26.99

Most people know The Second City as an innovative school for improvisation that has turned out leading talents such as Alan Arkin, Bill Murray, Stephen Colbert, and Tina Fey. This groundbreaking company has also trained thousands of educators and students through its Improvisation for Creative Pedagogy program, which uses improv exercises to teach a wide variety of content areas, and boost skills that are crucial for student learning: listening, teamwork, communication, idea-generation, vocabulary, and more.

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.

Self-Regulation for Kids K-12: Strategies for Calming Minds and Behavior.  Patricia Tollison, Katherine Synatschk & Gaea Logan, $48.95

Organized as both a text about self-regulation and a step-by-step, practical guide to developing a program for helping children and adolescents, this text is a valuable resource for counselors, teachers, and behavior specialists.

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.

Seven Secrets of the Savvy School Leader: a Guide to Surviving and Thriving. Robert Evans, $33.95

Economic and educational trends of recent years have been hard on educators. Seven Secrets of The Savvy School Leader hopes to counteract these discouraging  facts by giving both aspiring and experienced school leaders important survival tools, and encouraging long-term leaders to renew their faith in their own abilities. Seven Secrets of the Savvy School Leader will encourage anyone serving as or considering becoming a school administrator to make change by making meaning.

Shannen and the Dream for a School. Janet Wilson, $14.95

This is the true story of Shannen Koostachin and the people of Attawapiskat, a Cree community in Northern Ontario, who have been fighting for a new school since 1979, when a fuel spill contaminated their original school building.

It is 2008, and thirteen-year-old Shannen and the other students at J.R. Nakogee Elementary are tired of attending class in portables that smell and don't keep out the freezing cold winter air. They make a YouTube video describing the poor conditions, and their plea for a decent school gains them attention and support from community leaders and children across the country. Inspired, the students decide to turn their grade-eight class trip into a visit to Ottawa, to speak to the Canadian government. Once there, Shannen speaks passionately to the politicians about the need to give Native children the opportunity to succeed. The following summer, Shannen is nominated for the International Children's Peace Prize. Her passion and that of the other students makes politicians stand up and take notice, and becomes a rallying point for the community and for the country.

Shannen will never see her dream fulfilled. Tragically, she was killed in a car crash in 2010. Her family, friends, and supporters are continuing to fight and to honor her memory as they work for equality for children in communities everywhere.

Find out about the Shannen's Dream Campaign. Read the Canadian Geographic story on the children of Attawapiskat and their wait for a new school, "Still Waiting in Attawapiskat".

Six Healing Sounds with Lisa and Ted: Qigong for Children. Lisa Spillane, $16.95

Six Healing Sounds with Lisa and Ted teaches young children how to transform negative feelings into positive ones by using simple breathing techniques that are based on ancient Chinese Qigong exercises. Using a special sound for different parts of the body, Lisa and Ted show that a “haaaww” can heal the heart and blow away impatience, and a “whooooooo” can steady the stomach and chase away worries. These reassuring meditative stories are ideal for bedtime as they calm and settle children by soothing away the troubles of the day.

This delightful and brightly illustrated picture book will be an enjoyable read for children aged four to eight and will teach them effective healing techniques to overcome unpleasant emotions so they can live happier and healthier lives.

The 6 Success Factors for Children with Learning Disabilities: Ready-to-Use Activities to Help Kids with Learning Disabilities Succeed in School and in Life. The Frostig Center, foreword by Richard Lavoie, $35.95

Based on a 20-year study conducted by researchers at the Frostig Center, this book identifies the six attributes that lead to success for children with learning disabilities: and presents structured activities that foster these traits in students:

• self-awareness
• pro-activity
• Perseverance
• goal-setting
• social support systems
• and emotional coping strategies

Each of the 60 fun, ready-to-use activities contains a lesson plan and reproducible student worksheet, complete with modifications, accommodations, and helpful teaching tips. This easy-to-use resource helps children with LD develop skills to be successful in school and beyond.

Skillstreaming the Adolescent: a Guide for Teaching Prosocial Skills, 3rd Edition. Ellen McGinnis, et al, $50.95

Skillstreaming in Early Childhood: a Guide for Teaching Prosocial Skills, 3rd Edition. Ellen McGinnis, , $50.95

Skillstreaming the Elementary School Child: a Guide for Teaching Prosocial Skills, 3rd Edition. Ellen McGinnis, et al, $50.95

SKILLSTREAMING employs a four-part training approach — modeling, role-playing, performance feedback, and generalization — to teach essential prosocial skills to children from preschool through adolescence. Each book provides a complete description of the Skillstreaming program, with instructions for teaching age-appropriate prosocial skills.

Each volume of this widely acclaimed approach developed by Dr. Arnold Goldstein and colleagues is now in 8½×11 format with reproducible skill outlines, skill homework reports, and program forms and includes forms CD.

The Skin That We Speak: Thoughts on Language and Culture in the Classroom. Edited by Lisa Delpit, $19.95

The Skin That We Speak takes the discussion of language in the classroom beyond the highly charged war of idioms and presents today’s teachers with a thoughtful exploration of the varieties of English that we speak. At a time when children are written off in our schools because they do not speak formal English, and when the class- and race-biased language used to describe those children determines their fate, The Skin That We Speak offers a cutting-edge look at crucial educational issues.

Social Pedagogy and Working with Children and Young People: Where Care and Education Meet. Edited by Claire Cameron & Peter Moss, $43.95

Social pedagogy is an innovative discipline that supports children's upbringing and overall development by focusing on the child as a whole person. It has been described as where education and care meet or as 'education in its broadest sense'.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the theory, principles and practice of social pedagogy and the profession of social pedagogue. With chapters from leading international contributors, it outlines the roots of social pedagogy and its development in Europe, and its role in relation to individuals, groups, communities and societies. Also covered is how it applies in practice to working with children and young people in a variety of settings, including children in care and in need of family support, and its potential future applications.

The Special Educator's Comprehensive Guide to 301 Diagnostic Tests, Revised and Expanded Edition. Roger Pierangelo & George Giuliani, $35.99

This important resource is an update of the best-selling book The Special Educator's Resource Guide to 109 Diagnostic Tests. This greatly expanded edition contains 301 new and enhanced tests, vital to understanding assessment in special education. Designed as an easy-to-use, hands-on resource, the book is filled with practical tools, information, and suggestions. Step-by-step, this practical guide explores the various stages of evaluation, interpretation, diagnosis, prescription, and remediation.

Story Play: Building Language and Literacy One Story at a Time. Mary Jo Huff, $19.95

With stories, poems, songs, chants and fingerplays, as well as ideas for working with puppets and props, Story Play brings all the fun of storytelling into the classroom in new ways. These easy-to-follow ideas focus on literacy skills and are perfect for engaged, active learning.

Strong Staff, Strong Students: Professional Development in Schools and Youth Programs.  Angela Jerabek & Nancy Tellett-Royce, $32.95

High quality programs begin with motivated and empowered staff. The thoughtful positive approach in  Strong Staff, Strong Students will help you transform your workplace so that you can transform young lives.

Strong Start—Grades Pre-K: a Social and Emotional Learning Curriculum. Kenneth Merrell, Danielle Parisi, & Sara Whitcomb, $44.50

Strong Start—Grades K–2: a Social and Emotional Learning Curriculum. Kenneth Merrell, Danielle Parisi, & Sara Whitcomb, $41.95

Strong Kids—Grades 3–5: a Social and Emotional Learning Curriculum. Kenneth Merrell, et al $41.95

Strong Kids—Grades 6–8: a Social and Emotional Learning Curriculum. Kenneth Merrell, et al, $45.95

Strong Teens—Grades 9–12: a Social and Emotional Learning Curriculum. Kenneth Merrell, et al, $41.95

Social-emotional competence is a critical part of every child's school success, and just like any academic subject, children need instruction in it. These proven curricula will help promote the social-emotional competence and resilience of children and adolescents.

Divided into five age levels from preschool through high school, these innovative social and emotional learning curricula are filled with engaging, thought-provoking class activities that help students develop vital skills they'll use for the rest of their lives: understanding emotions, managing anger, relieving stress, solving interpersonal problems, and much more.

Studying, Test Taking, and Getting Good Grades: Reproducible Activities for Kids Grades 5-9. Susanna Palomares & Dianne Schilling, $29.50

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.

Stupidity and Tears: Teaching and Learning in Troubled Times. Herbert Kohl, $19.50

In Stupidity and Tears, renowned educator and National Book Award winner Herbert Kohl offers us a thoughtful and ultimately optimistic meditation on the forces that conspire to keep teachers and students "stupid" — i.e., frustrated and unable to excel in an education system that is clearly failing them.

Among the topics explored by Kohl are the pressures of standards-based assessments and harrowing sink-or-swim policies, the pain teachers feel when asked to teach against their pedagogical conscience, the development of a capacity to sense how students perceive the world, and the importance of hope and creativity in strengthening the social imagination of both students and teachers.

The Substitute Teaching Survival Guide: Emergency Lesson Plans and Essential Advice, Grades 6-12. John Dellinger, $21.99

When substitute teachers are assigned to a classroom, they often have no directions, no lessons plans, no information and little hope of success. The Substitute Teaching Survival Guide offers substitute (and regular) teachers of grades 6-12 a welcome resource for planning and implementing a productive day of student learning. The Substitute Teaching Survival Guide is filled with helpful suggestions and tips for maintaining order in the classroom and includes 67 ready-to-use emergency lesson plans for language arts, mathematics, social studies, and science targeted for students in grades 6-12. Written for both the experienced and novice substitute teacher, the book also includes 152 suggestions and a daily outline of activities. The book can also be used by regular classroom teachers and principals who want to plan ahead for classroom absences, or by anyone who has to quickly cover a class.

Also available: The Substitute Teaching Survival Guide: Emergency Lesson Plans and Essential Advice, Grades K-5. John Dellinger, $21.99

Superheroes Unmasked: an Amazing Approach to Helping Children Learn Social/Emotional Insights and Skills Grades 2-6. Steven Hitt & Ellen Greene Stewart, $29.95

70 unforgettable lessons on self esteem, team-building, bullying, conflict resolution and leadership.

The Teachable Moment: Seizing the Instants When Children Learn. Rebecca Branstetter, Editor, $16.95

The “aha” moment — the moment you know a student really gets it — that’s what many teachers live for. But these moments are not easy to come by and are the product of long hours in and out of the classroom.

From the poignant to the hilarious, these essays take us into the classroom and offer hope that the next teachable moment is out there — just waiting for the “aha” to happen.

The Teacher’s Concise Guide to Functional Behavioral Assessment. Raymond Waller, $28.95

Functional Behavioral Assessment (FBA) is a highly effective, student-centered approach to improving challenging behavior. The method helps educators figure out why students act the way they do and then make the appropriate environmental or instructional adjustments.

Ideal for general and special educators new to FBAs, this concise, accessible guidebook offers a practical overview of how to use classroom and behavioral assessment data to make the learning environment enjoyable for all—including the teacher.

A Teacher’s Guide to Classroom Assessment: Understanding and Using Assessment to Improve Student Learning. Susan Butler & Nancy McMunn, $38.99

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 Boys Who Struggle In School: Strategies That Turn Underachievers Into Successful Learners. Kathleen Palmer Cleveland, $31.50

This book responds to growing concerns about a crisis in boys' academic achievement, from Kindergarten through grade 12. Looking at who is struggling and why, Kathleen Palmer Cleveland offers insight into how boys learn best and into the ongoing social and learning-style factors that affect classroom learning. This practical and informative book includes lesson plans and as anecdotes from teachers working across all grade levels and subject areas.

Teaching Disability Sport, 2nd Edition. Ronald Davis, $54.95

This book and DVD package guides readers through the stages of program planning, implementation, teaching assessment and evaluation of a disability sports curriculum. Teachers can choose from more than 150 games and activities in seven sports, all cross-referenced to functional profiles. The DVD contains video clips of activities as well as assessment forms and other reproducible materials.

When students have mental health issues and learning problems, how can educators recognize the symptoms, respond appropriately, and meet students’ learning needs while preventing or addressing disruptive behaviors?

Written by a clinical psychologist, this user-friendly guide describes mental health and learning disorders often observed in school children, explains how each might be exhibited in the classroom, and offers expert suggestions on what to do (and sometimes what not to do). The book looks at students with:

• Anxiety Disorders including Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD); Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD); Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and School Refusal
• Depression and Bipolar Disorder
• Communication Disorders including difficulties with articulation; Receptive and Expressive Language Disorder; stuttering and social communication problems (also known as Pragmatic Language Disorder)
• Learning Disabilities including reading, math and writing
• ADHD
• Disruptive Behavior Disorders
• Asperger’s Syndrome
• Tourette Syndrome
• Eating Disorders
• Self-Injury

Teaching Kids with Mental Health & Learning Disorders in the Regular Classroom is an essential tool for teachers, special education professionals, school counselors and psychologists, administrators, and teacher aides.

Teaching Meditation to Children: the Practical Guide to the Use and Benefits of Meditation Techniques. David Fontana & Ingrid Slack, $16.95

This practical and instructive approach to meditation for young people makes clear the benefits of this powerful approach to self-realization in areas as diverse as relaxation, concentration, creativity, self-esteem and behaviour. It gives even very young children power over their thinking and their emotions and is valuable in helping teens navigate the emotional transition from childhood to adulthood.

Teaching the Moving Child: OT Insights that Will Transform Your K-3 Classroom. Sybil Berkey, $34.50

Because sensorimotor and environmental factors have a profound effect on children's learning, every teacher should know how to weave strategies from occupational therapy into their everyday instruction so all students can achieve their full potential.

A clear and reader-friendly guide from an OT with nearly 35 years of classroom experience, Teaching the Moving Child gives elementary educators the solid foundation of knowledge they need to:

• maximize the link between movement and learning
• meet the needs of students with sensory processing issues by modifying the classroom environment and task demands
• improve students' writing skills (includes an easy-to-use, five-step process for handwriting instruction)
• facilitate children's fine motor ability, including using pencils and scissors and drawing lines and shapes
• optimize learning through strategic use of classroom seating, space, lighting, and visual and auditory stimuli
• promote imaginative play as essential to every part of the learning process
• recognize and minimize students' stress, especially during transitions and waiting times
• decrease restlessness and increase attention through environmental planning strategies
• collaborate skillfully with OTs to address sensorimotor issues before they become a barrier to learning

Teaching the 3 Cs: Creativity, Curiosity and Courtesy. Patricia Dischler, $49.95

The development of affective skills can make a critical difference in a child’s future yet the emphasis for many parents and educators is on early exposure to academic content. Teaching the 3 Cs bridges this gap and demonstrates how incorporating creativity, curiosity and courtesy into classroom instruction can support the development of lifelong learning.

Teaching Writing in Mixed-Language Classrooms, Grades K-5. Joanne Yatvin, $24.99

Powerful writing strategies to help all students develop the skills they need to write with confidence.

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.

Teen Aggression & Bullying Workbook. Ester Leutenberg & John Liptak, $54.95

Facilitator reproducible self-assessments, exercises and educational handouts.

10 Things New Teachers Need to Succeed. Robin Fogarty, $29.95

In this second edition of 10 Things Teachers Need to Succeed, international educator Robin Fogarty distills a wealth of teaching and consulting experience into ten high-impact strategies to help novice and experienced instructors succeed and thrive. This guidebook's unique format also makes it an ideal professional development tool to help teams of new and experienced teachers grow together by discussing and applying one chapter each month.

Ten Things Your Student with Autism Wishes You Knew. Ellen Notbohm, $15.95

Ellen Notbohm’s first book, Ten Things Every Child with Autism Wishes You Knew was an instant hit with parents, educators and service providers. Now the unique perspective of the autistic child is back to:

• Help us understand the thinking patterns that guide the child’s learning
• See how we can create an environment conducive to their learning style
• Communicate in meaningful ways

Ten Things Your Student with Autism Wishes You Knew is an affirming and compassionate look at how to take the most of every “teachable moment”.

The Total Teacher Book & Planner, Grades K-12. Lorraine Milark, $33.95 (includes CD-ROM)

The all-in-one system that gets you organized, empowered and inspired to teach your best.

The Tough Kid® Book: Practical Classroom Management Strategies, 2nd Edition. Ginger Rhode, William Jenson & H. Kenton Reavis, $38.95 Grades 1-8

Constant and intense aggression, arguing, tantrums, noncompliance, and poor academic progress—these are characteristic of the Tough Kid. You can't "cure" Tough Kids, but you can use proactive, positive techniques to manage and motivate them. Effective management will help your Tough Kids succeed in school and make life in your classroom easier for you and for the other students.

THE TOUGH KID BOOK is for regular and special education teachers, counselors, instructional coaches, and any educator who wants effective and positively focused classrooms. Learn how to structure your classroom to ensure success for Tough Kids and use practical techniques for managing difficult students.

The Tough Kid® Tool Box: Straightforward, Classroom Tested Ready-to-Use Materials for Managing and Motivating Tough-to-Teach Students. Ginger Rhode, William Jenson & H. Kenton Reavis, $38.95 Grades K-12

THE TOUGH KID® TOOL BOX, companion to THE TOUGH KID® BOOK, supplies ready-to-use, classroom-tested materials to help motivate and manage even the toughest-to-teach students. Together in one convenient place, you will find forms, reproducibles, hints, and explanations to help you implement effective behavior management strategies. Includes CD with reproducible tools.

Tuned In and Fired Up: How Teaching Can Inspire Real Learning in the Classroom. Sam Intrator, $20.95

In this compelling book, author Sam Intrator provides detailed portraits of powerful learning episodes in a high school classroom and suggests numerous practical ideas to help teachers cultivate their own magical learning moments.

12 Brain/Mind Learning Principles in Action: Developing Executive Functions of the Human Brain. Renate Caine, Geoffrey Caine, Carol McClintic & Karl Klimek, $61.20

This guidebook builds the bridge from brain research to classroom practice. Ideal for teachers and school leaders, this indispensable volume provides an accessible framework based on how the brain learns, and shows how to use that knowledge to help both teachers and students reach higher performance levels.

Twins and Supertwins: a Handbook for Early Childhood Professionals. Eve-Marie Arce, $37.50

This practical handbook helps educators to support the unique needs of multiples in their physical, social, language and emotional development. Based on current research and observations in preschool settings, this book helps educators foster relationships with parents and create guidelines within your setting for working with twins, triplets and higher multiples.

Understanding Black Male Learning Styles. Jawanza Kunjufu, $17.95

Starting with a look at the culture of young black males, educational consultant Dr. Jawanza Kunjufu examines learning styles, peer learning and gender differences as well as educator’s perceptions. Understanding Black Male Learning Styles challenges educators to teach the way children learn — and shows teachers how to discover the ideal learning environment for some of their most challenged students.

Understanding Infant Development. Margaret Puckett, Janet Black & Joseph Moriarity, $22.95

Understanding Toddler Development. Margaret Puckett, Janet Black & Joseph Moriarity, $22.95

Understanding Preschooler Development. Margaret Puckett, Janet Black & Joseph Moriarity, $22.95

Learn how to support children's physical, cognitive, emotional, and social development with this series of three practical handbooks, adapted from The Young Child, a textbook used in academic programs nationwide. The Understanding Child Development Series provides a comprehensive overview of the most relevant theories and research on child development. Each book focuses on a specific age group and explains:

• the impact and long-term effects of biology and environment on early brain development
• how children learn
• important theories of child development
• how early life experiences lay the ground work for evolving language and thinking
• the effects of nurturing care on emotional development and stability in later life
• milestones and windows of opportunity for children's development

Understanding Pathological Demand Avoidance Syndrome in Children: a Guide for Parents, Teachers and Other Professionals. Phil Christie, Margaret Duncan, Ruth Fidler & Zara Healy, $25.95

Pathological Demand Avoidance Syndrome (PDA) is a developmental disorder that is being increasingly recognized as part of the autism spectrum. The main characteristic is a continued resistance to the ordinary demands of life through strategies of social manipulation, which originates from an anxiety-driven need to be in control.

This straightforward guide is written collaboratively by professionals and parents to give a complete overview of PDA. Starting with an exploration into the syndrome, it goes on to answer the immediate questions triggered when a child is first diagnosed, and uses case examples throughout to illustrate the impact of the condition on different areas of the child's life. Early intervention options and workable strategies for managing PDA positively will make day-to-day life easier for the child, their family and peers. New problems faced in the teenage years and how to assist a successful transition from adolescence to adulthood are also tackled. The book concludes with a valuable resources list.

Understanding Teenage Girls: Culture, Identity and Schooling. Horace Hall & Andrea Brown-Thirston, $19.95

UNDERSTANDING TEENAGE GIRLS: CULTURE, IDENTITY AND SCHOOLING focuses on a range of social phenomenon that impact the lives of adolescent females of color, with respect to peer and family influences, media stereotyping, body image, community violence, pregnancy, and education. The authors also emphasize the incredible resiliency that young women possess in countering many of the social barriers confronting them.

This work attempts to communicate the often hushed voices of girls of color, for the purpose of understanding their views on life experiences and how they negotiate social and cultural mores. In company with their perspectives are the authors' analyses guided by their years of teaching and mentoring experiences, as well as contemporary research literature from the fields of education, counseling, psychology, nursing, and anthropology.

Undoing Homophobia in Primary Schools. The No Outsiders Project Team, $29.95

This book is a celebration of recognition, affirmation and inclusion. Primary teachers tell the story of how they have challenged the taken-for-granted norms and silences in primary schools around sexual orientation and gender expression. These norms and silences have left lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people and their families marginalized, unrepresented and subject to multiple discrimination, and have allowed embedded homophobia and transphobia to go largely unchallenged. Through their accounts of practice, reflections and interpretations, vignettes and images, the teachers describe how they have challenged this unaddressed area of inclusion across sites across England ranging from a tiny village church school to urban and suburban settings. Working within and beyond the curriculum, teachers have broken boundaries in primary practice for sexualities and gender equality.

This book shows it is not only through planned innovations and policy developments that change happens but also, and crucially, in the day-to-day moments where new thinking leads to new action for equality and social justice.

Using Skilled Dialogue to Transform Challenging Interactions: Honoring Identity, Voice, and Connection. Isaura Barrera & Lucinda Kramer, $34.95

Responding to the challenges posed by diverse behavior in early childhood settings depends on a deep understanding of the experiences, values, perceptions, and beliefs that shape it. This book shows how to interpret behavior in the context of culture—and use that knowledge to improve even the most challenging interactions.

This positive and practical guide works because it transforms the behavior of everyone: young children with special needs, early childhood professionals, and families. A must for every professional who works with young children and families, this book will help readers change the way they think about behavior—and resolve challenges in ways that honor diverse cultures and perspectives.

Visual Tools for Differentiating Content Area Instruction, Grades 3-8. Roger Essley, $24.99

Strategies that make concepts in math, science and social studies accessible and support all learners across the curriculum.

The Vocabulary Teacher's Book of Lists. Edward Fry, $42.99

The Vocabulary Teacher’s Book of Lists offers content for literally hundreds of vocabulary improvement lessons for elementary and secondary teachers, self-improving adults, home-schoolers, and students studying for their SATs. While there are dozens of shorter high interest lists of words, the core of the book is based on Latin and Greek roots and prefixes. But the largest list is Homophones. In fact it is one of the largest lists of homophones you will ever use. This list, like many others, is appropriate for spelling lessons or writer s reference as well as vocabulary improvement. There are two dozen teaching methods in the Methods chapter and teaching suggestions to help improve reading and writing are scattered throughout the book. The lessons can be as short as a word-a-day or as long as a school year. The range of difficulty can go from upper elementary to college freshman classes, and be as diverse as adult education to English language learners.

We Are All Born Free: the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Pictures. $22.95

This unique picture book is published in association with Amnesty International to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Human Rights, with introductions by David Tennant and John Boyne. Each of the thirty articles has been illustrated by a major children’s artist. All royalties from the sale of this book are donated to Amnesty International.

We Want You to Know: Kids Talk About Bullying. Deborah Ellis, $14.95

Through her association with a community anti-bullying campaign launched in Haldimand, Norfolk, and neighboring communities in Southern Ontario, children’s author Deborah Ellis asked students from the ages of nine to nineteen to talk about their experiences with bullying. The results are thoughtful, candid, and often harrowing accounts of “business as usual” in and around today’s schools. The kids in this book raise questions about the way parents, teachers, and school administrators cope with bullies. They talk about which methods have helped and which ones, with the best of intentions, have failed to protect them. And some kids reveal how they have been able to overcome their fear and anger to become strong advocates for the rights of others.

This is a book for reading and sharing. Each interview is followed by questions that will encourage open discussion about the nature of bullying and the ways in which individuals and schools could deal more effectively with bullies and their victims. And additional comments from international students reveal how much kids the world over have in common in the way they experience and deal with bullies. 

These kids have something to say. It’s time we listened.

What is Friendship? Games and Activities to Help Children to Understand Friendship. Pamela Day, $31.95

Friendship is a vital part of achieving emotional well-being, but some children experience difficulties both initiating and maintaining friendships. This fun and accessible programme contains detailed instructions and photocopiable handouts for teaching children about friendship. The book combines group activities, individual work, homework exercises and games, and will be especially useful for groups containing children with developmental and social difficulties, such as ADHD and autism. Developed in an inclusive classroom, this programme will arm children with useful strategies to deal with difficult situations such as negative peer pressure and conflict.

What is Friendship is ideally suited for use with children aged 7-11, but can be adapted for younger children or older children with developmental difficulties.

When Children are Abused is an invaluable resource for educators who are concerned about how to recognize and intervene effectively in situations of child abuse and neglect. This book will be essential to novice, as well as experienced educators who need current and easy-to-apply information in this difficult area.

Whispers from the Ghettos. Kathy Kacer & Sharon McKay, $13.99 (Ages 9+)

The stories in this book come from behind the walls and barbed wire of Europe's ghettos during the Nazi regime. We hear the voices of young boys and girls as they live with the fear that they might be deported to the death camps at any moment. Theirs are stories of courage and determination, of struggle and resistance. They speak for those who, like them, managed to survive the war. And they speak for those who did not.

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.

Why Our Schools Need the Arts. Jessica Hoffmann Davis, $28.50

This inspiring book leads the way to a new kind of advocacy — one that stops justifying the arts as useful to learning other subjects, and argues instead for the powerful lessons that the arts, like no other subject, teach our kids. Jessica Hoffmann Davis, a leading voice in the field of arts education, offers a set of principles and tools that will be invaluable to advocates already working hard to make the case and secure a strong place for the arts in education. She also reaches out to those who care deeply about education but have yet to consider what the arts uniquely provide. This book is for anyone willing to brave a new terrain in which the arts are finally embraced without apology.

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.

The Words Came Down! English Language Learners Read, Write, and Talk Across the Curriculum. Emelie Parker & Tess Pardini, $27.95

This timely guide emphasizes a workshop structure for literacy studies that allows teachers to differentiate instruction to include all students, and affords students ample opportunity to collaborate with others as they learn to speak, read, writer, and comprehend. The book emphasizes oral language and communication as critical to successful teaching and learning.

The World is Open: How Web Technology is Revolutionizing Education. Curtis Bonk, $27.95

Web-based technology has opened up education around the world to the point where anyone can learn anything from anyone else at any time. To help educators and others understand what's possible, Curt Bonk employs his groundbreaking "WE-ALL-LEARN" model to outline ten key technology and learning trends, demonstrating how technology has transformed educational opportunities for learners of every age in every corner of the globe.

The World is Open captures the global nature of open education from those who are creating and using new learning technologies.  Filled with inspiring stories of ordinary learners as well as interviews with technology and education leaders, this book reveals the power of this new way of learning.

Yoga for the Brain helps writers of all ages, 12 through adult, learn to write more freely, take risks, and experiment and play with language. Far too many people have come to look at writing as a chore, something to be graded or picked apart. Yoga for the Brain quickly helps dispel that notion with 365 daily writing prompts that are interesting, playful, lighthearted, challenging, quirky — or all of the above! Yoga for the Brain can be used by writers on their own or in a classroom setting. Either way, they will sharpen their minds — and their creativity.

Yoga Planet: 50 Fun Activities for a Greener World. Tara Guber & Leah Kalish, $16.99 (all ages)

Whether you are seven or fifty-seven, whether you already practice yoga or want to learn, these informative and attractive cards are the ideal answer. They give detailed step-by-step instructions on how to perform the poses, but also increase environmental awareness with tips on how to reduce our impact on the fragile planet. Each of the cards in this fun and interactive deck is connected to one of the planet’s natural elements. Try the scorpion pose to feel the fire inside you or the swan pose to flow like water.

Yoga in Your School: Exercises for Classroom, Gym and Playground. Teressa Asencia, $26.95

Yoga in Your School presents a series of short “Yoga breaks” designed for teachers to easily insert into their daily classroom schedule. Each posture or breathing technique may be practiced in less than three minutes, so that they may be used regularly or as needed, when attention or energy begins to wane. The short segments may also be combined to create longer sequences for physical education classes, playgrounds, athletic and recreation centers, camps and dance schools … These simple movement exercises are designed to develop concentration, improve motor skills and physical fitness, develop strength, flexibility and balance. By simply taking a few moments to stop between activities to breathe and stretch, teachers may create a harmonious classroom with calm alert children who are receptive and eager to learn.

Young Learners, Diverse Children: Celebrating Diversity in Early Childhood. Virginia Gonzalez, $53.95

Nurture young children’s self-esteem and boost learning by integrating family culture with instruction!

For the increasing number of diverse young learners, academic and social success can hinge on a teacher’s ability to bridge home and school by making emotional connections with students and their families. This book demonstrates how combining teaching methods with an authentic appreciation of children’s backgrounds builds the confidence they need to succeed.

Your Child’s Strengths: a Guide for Parents and Teachers. Jenifer Fox, $16.50

Educator Jenifer Fox argues against the flawed and maddening paradigm that fixing kids’ weaknesses is the way to achieve success. Rather, Fox promotes focusing on kids’ natural inclinations in three interdependent areas: Activity Strengths, Relationship Strengths, and Learning Strengths. Pairing inspiring firsthand accounts of success with practical workbook tools, alongside an outline of the award-winning strengths-based Affinities curriculum Fox has implemented in her own school, Your Child’s Strengths is a user-friendly and indispensable guide for parents, teachers, and administrators alike.