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

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

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

Annie’s Plan: Taking Charge of Schoolwork and Homework. Jeanne Kraus, illustrated by Charles Beyl, $10.95

Annie knows that to do her best at school, she needs a plan for focusing on her work and for getting her homework completed and turned in on time. Annie's Plan presents a 10-Point Schoolwork Plan and a 10-Point Homework Plan that will help her—and her readers—master the organizational and study skills that spell school success.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

The Boy on the Beach: Building Community through Play. Vivian Gussin Paley, $18.95

What can the richly imagined, impressively adaptable fantasy world of these children tell us about childhood, development, education, and even life itself? For fifty years, teacher and writer Vivian Gussin Paley has been exploring the imagery, language, and lore of young children, asking the questions they ask of themselves.

In The Boy on the Beach she continues to do so, going deeper into the mystery of play, finding more answers and more questions. Rich with the words of children and teachers themselves, The Boy on the Beach is vintage Paley, a wise and provocative appreciation of the importance of play and enduring curiosity about the nature of childhood and the imagination.

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

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

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

Brain-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.

Breaking the Word Barrier: Stories of Adults Learning to Read. Marilyn Lerch & Angela Ranson, Editors, $16.95

Each success related in these stories has helped a dream come within reach — from helping a child with homework to landing a job with better pay. The stories in this collection are inspirational and demonstrate a generosity of spirit and hope for others in similar circumstances.

Building the Reading Brain, PreK -3. Pamela Nevills & Patricia Wolfe, $53.95

This updated edition of Building the Reading Brain examines brain theory and current research to give educators a clear picture of how children acquire and develop language skills in preparation for reading. Moving through skills acquisition from birth to age eight, this resource provides best teaching practices for fostering critical literacy skills for each age group. Building the Reading Brain sheds light on early childhood cognition and language development to help teachers provide all young learners with a strong foundation for reading success.

Can We Talk About Race and Other Conversations in an Era of School Resegregation. Beverly Daniel Tatum, $16.00

Beverly Daniel Tatum emerged on the scene in 1997 with Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria, a book that spoke to a wide audience about the psychological dynamics of race relations in America. Now, in Can We Talk About Race, Tatum starts with a warning call about the increasing but underreported re-segregation of America. Tatum sees our growing isolation from each other as deeply problematic, and she believes that schools can be key institutions for forging connections across the racial divide.

In this ambitious, accessible book, Tatum examines some of the most resonant issues in American education and race relations:

• The need of African-American students to see themselves reflected in curricula and institutions
• How unexamined racial attitudes can negatively affect minority-student achievement
• The possibilities—and complications—of intimate cross-racial friendships

Tatum approaches all these topics with the blend of analysis and storytelling that make her a most persuasive and engaging commentator on race.

The Canadian Student Financial Survival Guide: a Comprehensive Handbook on Financing Your Education, Managing Your Expenses & Planning for a Debt-Free Future. Graham McWaters & Winthrop Sheldon, $21.95

Students today are faced with ever-rising costs of tuition, and the decisions made as to how to pay for school can be some of the most important a young person makes. The costs for college or university are prohibitive to some and very intimidating to others. It is critical for students to have a handle on their finances, have a plan to eliminate these fears and embark on a life of financial freedom. The Canadian Student Financial Survival Guide will show them how to do this. Includes valuable information on:

• student loan applications and other means of financing post-secondary education
• credit-card issues
• car leasing vs. car buying
• accommodation
• budgeting for school and beyond
• and many other issues for students faced with their first major financial decisions

The Case Against Homework: How Homework Is Hurting Our Children and What We Can Do About It. Sara Bennett & Nancy Kalish, $17.95

Empowering, practical, and rigorously researched, The Case Against Homework shows how too much work is having a negative effect on our children’s achievement and development and gives us the tools and tactics we need to advocate for change.

The Challenges of Student Diversity in Canadian Schools: Essays on Building a Better Future for Exceptional Children. Judy Lupart, Editor, $44.95

The specially commissioned essays in this book address the complexity of contemporary schools and classrooms as well as our need as a Canadian society to challenge the beliefs and practices that underpin lack of full access to, and benefit from education. They acknowledge the important influences of social, cultural, linguistic, academic, behavioural, gender and sexuality differences on the lives of students and raise important questions about how this diversity is respected in educational policy and practice.

Taken as a whole the essays are no less than a critical assessment of the theory, practices and policies of inclusive education and the promise of new assessment and empirical approaches, including "best practice", to affect positive change in the education of exceptional children.

Child and Adolescent Development for Educators. Michael Pressley & Christine B. McCormic, $75.50

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

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

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

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 Assessment & Grading that Work. Robert Marzano, $34.95

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

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

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

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.

Come Out and Play: Count Around the World in 5 Languages. Diane Law, $11.50

Count along in English, Spanish, German, French and Chinese while enjoying the bright, playful illustrations of author and illustrator Diane Law.

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

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.

Constructing Meaning: Balancing Elementary Language Arts, 4th Edition. Joyce Bainbridge, Rachel Heydon & Grace Malicky, $122.95 (ages 6-10)

Constructing Meaning provides an understanding of the process of learning language, so that teachers can help students learn to construct meaning for themselves.

Counseling Toward Solutions: a Practical Solution-Focused Program for Working with Students, Teachers and Parents, 2nd Edition. Linda Metcalf, $35.99 Grades K-12

Step by step, Counseling Toward Solutions shows how to help individual students begin their own change process by noticing when a problem does not occur rather than focusing on problems or what caused them. This revised and updated second edition presents a positive program for changing individual behavior that empowers students of all ages to deal with their won problems and gain self-esteem in the process.

New: The Field Guide to Counseling Toward Solutions: the Solution-Focused School. Linda Metcalf, $26.99 Grades K-12

Creating the Best Literacy Block Ever: a Framework for Successfully Managing, Teaching and Assessing in an Extended Literacy Block. Maryann Manning, Gayle Morrison & Deborah Camp, $42.99 Grades K-3

Top-notch activities, data, reproducible material and organizational techniques for developing a productive literacy block that works, day after day.

Creating Drama with 7-11 Year Olds: Lesson Ideas to Integrate Drama into the Primary Curriculum. Miles Tandy & Jo Howell, $43.95

This practical book gives you all the ideas you need to make drama a regular and integral part of your school’s curriculum, offering detailed suggestions of drama work for ages 7 to 11. The teaching units are arranged around drama for literacy; drama and the whole curriculum; drama film and media; and drama for performance. The authors provide a wealth of practical activities throughout.

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.

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.

Deron Goes to Nursery School. Ifeoma Onyefulu, $21.95

Deron has a lovely time doing all kinds of new things and makes some friends on his first day at nursery school.

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 Down Syndrome Transition Handbook: Charting Your Child’s Course to Adulthood.  JoAnn Simons, $30.95

The Down Syndrome Transition Handbook helps parents with the enormous and often overwhelming task of preparing a child with Down syndrome or other intellectual disability for adulthood. It is full of practical tips and step-by-step instructions for envisioning their child’s future, developing a transition plan and seeing it through.

Echoes of the Holocaust. Carol Ann Reed & Harold Lass, $18.95 (Grades 10 and up)

This powerful collection of readings will engage readers in an exploration of modern human rights issues: racism, sexism, homophobia and discrimination against people with disabilities. These issues are linked together and examined against the ultimate violation of human rights, the Holocaust. The anti-racist approach of this book is intended to lead students and other readers to a broader vision of equity for all people in our increasingly diverse society … As students read and participate in the discussions, they will not only come to recognize the signs and dangers of racism in their own experience, but they will also come to understand the importance of what links us together as human beings.

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

Engaging Learners Through Artmaking: Choice-Based Art Education in the Classroom. Katherine Douglas & Diane Jaquith, $28.95

This dynamic resource details the philosophy, rationale, and implementation of choice-based authentic art education in elementary and middle schools. To do the work of artists, children need opportunities to behave, think, and perform as artists. The heart of this curriculum is to facilitate independent learning in studio centers designed to support student choices in subject matter and media. The authors address theory, instruction, assessment and advocacy in a user-friendly format that includes color photos of classroom set-ups and student work, sample demonstrations, and reflections on activities.

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 ESL/ELL Teacher's Book of Lists, 2nd Edition. Jacqueline Kress, $35.95

This unique teacher time-saver includes scores of helpful, practical lists that may be reproduced for classroom use or referred to in the development of instructional materials and lessons. The material contained in this book helps K-12 teachers reinforce and enhance the learning of grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation, and writing skills in ESL students of all ability levels. For easy use and quick access, the lists are printed in a format that can be photocopied. A complete, thoroughly updated glossary at the end provides an indispensable guide to the specialized language of ESL instruction.

The Essential Guide to Talking with Teens: Ready-to-Use Discussions for School and Youth Groups. Jean Sunde Peterson, $46.95

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.

Exam Stress? No Worries! Su Dorland, $23.95 (Includes audio CD)

Psychologist Su Dorland gives frazzled high school and college/university students insights into  the causes of exam anxiety, why some people get anxious about exams and why others  don’t, steps for coping with the two Ps (perfectionism and procrastination) and ways to finally free oneself from exam stress.

• Includes a free CD with centering exercises, visualization techniques, and relaxation tracks
•  Offers advice for students mixing work or other commitments with study, as well as off-campus students, mature students, international students, or students from migrant worker families

An important guide not simply for test-takers but anyone facing a stressful situation such as a job interview, a driving test, or a public speaking engagement.

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

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

First Grade Stinks! Mary Ann Rodman, $11.95

Haley and her friend have been looking forward to the start of school, but first grade is not at all what Haley expected. Writing is hard work. And the day is sooooooo long!

The First-Year Teacher’s Checklist: a Quick Reference for Classroom Success, Grades K-12. Julia Thompson, $23.95

An easy-to-use reference, with hundreds of time (and classroom) tested answers, ideas, techniques and teaching tools that will help you on your way to a successful and productive first year.

First Year Teacher's Survival Guide: Ready-To-Use Strategies, Tools & Activities for Meeting the Challenges of Each School Day, 2nd Edition. Julia Thompson, $32.99

The best-selling First Year Teacher's Survival Kit gives new teachers a wide variety of tested strategies, activities, and tools for creating a positive and dynamic learning environment while meeting the challenges of each school day. Packed with valuable tips, the book helps new teachers with everything from becoming effective team players and connecting with students to handling behavior problems and working within diverse classrooms. The new edition is fully revised and updated to cover changes in the K-12 classroom over the past five years.

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.

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

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

Gender, Bullying and Harassment: Strategies to End Sexism and Homophobia in Schools. Elizabeth Meyer, $31.50

Educator, researcher and author Elizabeth Meyers looks at the key gender issues related to bullying and harassment in schools and offers readers tangible and flexible suggestions to help positively transform the culture of their school and reduce the incidences of gendered harassment. The text features sections that speak specifically to administrators, teachers, counselors, student leaders and community and family members.

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.

Good Questions: Great Ways to Differentiate Mathematics Instruction. Marian Small, $49.95 (K–8)

We know that differentiated instruction helps all students to learn. Yet DI challenges teachers, and nowhere more than in mathematics. Now math education expert Marian Small cuts through the difficulties with two powerful and universal strategies that teachers can use across all math content: Open Questions and Parallel Tasks. Showing teachers how to get started and become expert with these strategies, Small also demonstrates more inclusive learning conversations that promote broader student participation.

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

Much more than "community service,” 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.

The Herb Kohl Reader: Awakening the Heart of Teaching.  Herbert Kohl, $24.95

In more than 40 books on subjects ranging from social justice to mathematics, morality to parenthood, Herb Kohl has earned a place as one of our foremost “educators who write.” With Marion Wright Edelman, Mike Rose, Lisa Delpit, and Vivian Paley among his fans, Kohl is “one of only a handful of writers,” as William Ayers says in his introduction, “to have had a serious impact on the practice of education over the past four decades.” Now, for the first time, readers can find collected in one place key essays and excerpts spanning the whole of Kohl’s career, including practical as well as theoretical writings.

The best writing from a lifetime in the trenches and at the typewriter, from the renowned and much-beloved National Book Award-winning educator, The Herb Kohl Reader is destined to become a major new resource for old fans and a new generation of teachers and parents.

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

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

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

Hot Issues Cool Choices: Facing Bullies, Peer Pressure, Popularity and Put Downs. Sandra McLeod Humphrey, $18.95

Did you know that there are kids out there who don’t even want to get out of bed in the morning because they know what going to school means for them?

• being teased and taunted
• being excluded and rejected
• being afraid that you’re going to be assaulted and possibly hurt

After reading this book, you may just possibly become a kinder, more compassionate human being, someone who treats others the way you want them to treat you. So come along and join the students at Emerson Elementary and help them make some cool choices!

How to Reach and Teach All Children Through Balanced Literacy. Sandra Rief & Julie Heimburge, $35.99 (Grades 3 to 8)

The balanced literacy method combines the best practices of phonics and other skill-based language instruction with the holistic, literature-based approach in order to help you teach reading, writing, and speaking in a clear and approachable format.

In Defense of Childhood: Protecting Kids' Inner Wildness. Chris Mercogliano, $17.95

As co-director of the Albany Free School, Chris Mercogliano has had remarkable success in helping a diverse population of youngsters find their way in the world. He regrets, however, that most kids' lives are subject to some form of control from dawn until dusk. Lamenting risk-averse parents, over-structured school days, and a lack of playtime and solitude, Mercogliano argues that we are robbing our young people of that precious, irreplaceable period in their lives that nature has set aside for exploration and innocent discovery, leaving them ill-equipped to face adulthood. The ‘domestication of childhood’ squeezes the adventure out of kids' lives and threatens to smother the spark that animates each child with talents, dreams, and inclinations.

There is plenty that those involved with children can do to protect their spontaneity and exuberance. We can address their desperate thirst for knowledge, give them space to learn from their mistakes, and let them explore what their place in the adult world might be.

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.

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

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.

The Kid’s Guide to Service Projects: Over 500 Service Ideas for Young People Who Want to Make a Difference, 2nd Edition. Barbara Lewis, $19.99

Are you looking for ways to connect kids with inspiring, high-quality community service projects? Do you want fresh ideas and suggestions for how to get kids involved in service learning? Then this new edition of Barbara Lewis’s classic youth service guide is for you.

The Kid’s Guide to Service Projects contains hundreds of up-to-date service projects and ideas presented in an engaging, kid-friendly format. This guide has something for everyone who wants to make a difference. Features and benefits include over 500 service project ideas, from simple to large scale and step-by-step instructions for creating flyers, petitions, press releases, and more.

The book’s 14 thematic chapters cover topics commonly selected for community service projects. Each chapter includes important facts and statistics related to each topic, a host of diverse service project ideas, and listings of service organization contact information.

Animals • Community Development  • Crime Fighting  • The Environment  • Health & Wellness  • Homelessness  • Hunger  • Literacy  • People with Special Needs  • Seniors  • Politics & Government  • Safety  • Transportation  • Friendship

With the current increased focus on community service, this book is sure to motivate an audience of eager young change-makers. National award-winning author Barbara Lewis provides the ideas, tips, resources, and information kids need to get out there and make a difference today!

Kindergarten Success is designed to help children develop essential skills and knowledge while honouring the play-based learning that is the hallmark of the kindergarten years. Parents and teachers can use this creative and practical book to support language and literacy development, early math and problem-solving skills, science, social studies and creative arts.

Lacey and the African Grandmothers. Sue Farrell Holler, $14.95 (ages 10-14)

Can a sewing project make a difference half-way across the world?

Lacey Little Bird loves spending time with Kahasi, an elder on her reserve who is like a grandmother to her. Then Lacey hears about a project to help grandmothers in Africa who are raising their grandchildren because their parents have died from AIDS. Even though Africa is far, far away, Lacey wants to help and emails the grandmothers with a plan to raise money by selling beaded purses.

What difference can a young Blackfoot girl from North America make in the lives of grandmothers in Africa? A lot, as Lacey discovers. Her decision to help will bring about amazing changes in her life and her community.

Lacey and the African Grandmothers is based on true events, real people, and the Stephen Lewis Foundation’s Grandmothers to Grandmothers campaign.

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

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

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

Learning from the Past: Historical Voices in Early Childhood Education. Jennifer Wolfe, $46.95

Imagine yourself at a conference where the presenter’s list is a ‘who’s who’ of the most influential thinkers in the field of early education. Imagine an opportunity to listen to their discussions on how to nurture and develop children’s natural curiosity and inclination to discover.

From ancient Greece to modern times, from Plato to Rousseau, from Montessori to Dewey and beyond, Learning from the Past: Historical Voices in Early Childhood Education gives the reader a front row seat at a historical discussion that has been going on for centuries.

Literacy Instruction for English Language Learners Pre-K-2. Diane Barone & Shelley Hong Xu, $29.50

Summarizing current research and weaving it into practical instructional strategies that teachers can immediately use with young English language learners (ELLs), covers all aspects of effective instruction for ELLs: oral language development and instruction, materials, word study, vocabulary, comprehension, writing, home-school connections and assessment. The volume is packed with realistic examples, lesson planning ideas, book lists, online resources, and reproducibles.

Lost at School: Why Our Kids with Behavioral Challenges Are Falling Through the Cracks and How We Can Help Them. Ross Greene, $19.50

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.

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.

Math Dictionary for Kids: the Essential Guide to Math Terms, Strategies and Tables. Theresa Fitzgerald, $14.95 (Grades 4-9)

A must-have for parents and students alike, this comprehensive resource provides definitions, descriptions and illustrations in all areas of elementary and middle school mathematics. It is designed to offer the language and concepts of mathematics in easily understood terms for school and home use.

Math Teacher’s Survival Guide, Grades 5-12. Judith Muschla, Gary Robert Muschla & Erin Muschla, $39.95

Practical strategies, management techniques and reproducible forms on a CD-ROM, designed to help new and experienced teachers manage daily classroom demands.

Maus: a Survivor’s Tale. Volume I, My Father Bleeds History. Art Spiegelman, $15.95

Maus: a Survivor’s Tale. Volume II, And Here My Troubles Began. Art Spiegelman, $15.95

This is the story of Vladek Spiegelman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler’s Europe, and his son, a cartoonist coming to terms with his father’s story. Maus approaches the unspeakable through the diminutive. Its form, the cartoon (the Nazis are cats, the Jews mice), shocks us out of any lingering sense of familiarity and succeeds in “drawing us closer to the bleak heart of the Holocaust” (The New York Times).

Maus is a haunting tale within a tale. Vladek’s harrowing story of survival is woven into the author’s account of his tortured relationship with his aging father. Against the backdrop of guilt brought by survival, they stage a normal life of small arguments and unhappy visits. This astonishing retelling of our century’s grisliest news is a story of survival, not only of Vladek but of the children who survive even the survivors. Maus studies the bloody pawprints of history and tracks its meaning for all of us.

Mindful Teaching and Teaching Mindfulness: a Guide for Anyone Who Teaches Anything. Deborah Schoeberlein, $21.50

Mindfulness has gone mainstream, and author Deborah Schoeberlein pioneers its practical application in education. Mindful Teaching and Teaching Mindfulness emphasizes how the teacher's personal familiarity with mindfulness plants the seed for an education infused with attention, awareness, kindness, empathy, compassion, and gratitude. This book is perfect for teachers of all kinds: schoolteachers, adult educators, coaches, and parents – in short, anyone who teaches anything.

Misreading Masculinity: Boys, Literacy and Popular Culture. Thomas Newkirk, $28.25

In Misreading Masculinity, Tom Newkirk takes an up-close and personal look at elementary boys and their relationship to sports, movies, video games, and other venues of popular culture. He sees these media not as enemies of literacy, but as resources for literacy … Using a mixture of memoir, research project, cultural analysis, and critique of published findings, Newkirk encourages schools to ask questions about what counts as literacy in boys and what doesn't, to allow in their literacy programs boys' diverse tastes, values, and learning styles. In other words, if we want boys to join "the literacy club," then we have to invite them in with genres of their own choosing.

Misunderstood Minds: Searching for Success in School.  PBS DVD, $31.95 (DVD format, 90 minutes)

Misunderstood Minds is a deeply moving and personal look into the lives of five children and their families as they deal with the puzzling mysteries presented by their children’s unique learning differences. As many as one in five families are coping with children who struggle to learn. Many of these children don't fit any clinical diagnosis, but for some reason, they aren't learning. Though these children may be suffering from debilitating learning problems, they are often mistakenly called "lazy" or "stupid" by teachers, classmates, and even by their families.

Learning specialists now believe that each mind works differently and has its own unique strengths and weaknesses. Misunderstood Minds illustrates the emerging view that specific identification and customized management of learning problems is the key to success for the millions of children struggling in school. Misunderstood Minds features leading experts in the field of learning problems, including Mel Levine, M.D., G. Reid Lyon, Ph.D., Edward M. Hallowell, M.D. and Richard D. Lavoie, M.A. M.Ed.

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.

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

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

No Contest: the Case against Competition, 20th Anniversary Edition. Alfie Kohn, $19.50

“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 Girls Allowed. Susan Hughes, illustrated by Willow Dawson, $8.95

Tales of daring women, dressed as men — for love, freedom and adventure!

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.

No Standing Around In My Gym: Lesson Plans, Games and Teaching Tips For Elementary Physical Education. J.D. Hughes, $27.95

If you’re looking for fresh ways to teach children ages 4 to 11 basic fitness concepts, movement skills, and games that emphasize creative thinking and cooperation, No Standing Around in My Gym is an incredible source of ideas and solutions to help you:

• Increase the time students are active in class
• Minimize discipline problems
• Develop healthy attitudes that lead to a lifetime of activity
• Save valuable lesson preparation time
• Keep students motivated and challenged

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

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

Nurturing the Spirit in Non-Sectarian Classrooms. Aline Wolf, $17.95

The fundamental purpose of Maria Montessori's work was to bring about a more peaceful world by nurturing the spirit of the child. This book shares many practical suggestions for non-sectarian classrooms from Montessori teachers around the United States. Topics include: Cultivating Stillness, Nourishing Awe and Wonder, Cosmic Education, Care of the Earth, Children's Inner Peace and Love, Peace in the Classroom Community, School as a Family/Global Community, Spirituality and the Arts, and What About God? Ideal for teachers, parents, training courses, workshops, and in-service.

Off to First Grade. Louise Borden, $19.99

It’s the first day of first grade and everyone is getting ready!

101 Great Classroom Games. Alexis Ludewig, Amy Swan, $23.95 (K-5)

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

121 Strategies for Bully Proofing Your School! Erika Karres, $34.95

Insights, tips, stories activities and reproducible worksheets for grades 6 to 10.

One Peace: True Stories of Young Activists. Janet Wilson, $19.95

One Peace celebrates the accomplishments of children and youth from around the globe who have worked to promote world peace.

One Well. Rochelle Strauss, illustrated by Rosemary Woods, $19.95 (Grades 3 and up)

Almost 70 percent of Earth’s surface is covered with water. And all that water is connected — every raindrop, lake, underground river and glacier is part of a single global well. A single splash can sprout a seed, quench a thirst, provide a habitat, generate energy and sustain life. How we treat the water in the well will affect every species on the planet, now and for years to come. One Well shows how every one of us has the power to conserve and protect our global well — and why we need to pay attention.

Organizing the Disorganized Child: Simple Strategies to Succeed in School. Martin Kutscher & Marcella Moran, $16.99

Is your child disorganized? Is it making you crazy? This book is your new best friend.

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, $77.95 (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.

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.

A Place for Wonder: Reading and Writing Nonfiction in the Primary Grades. Georgia Heard & Jennifer McDonough, $26.95

Discover the wonder of a primary classroom where curiosity, engagement, imagination, creativity, and exploration are facts of everyday learning. For it is these characteristics that will develop intelligent, inquiring, lifelong learners.

This thoughtful book provides teachers with numerous practical ways — setting up "wonder centers," gathering data through senses, teaching nonfiction craft — they can create a classroom environment where students` questions and observations are a part of daily work. A Place for Wonder will help teachers reclaim their classrooms as a place where true learning is the norm.

In light of recent standards-based and testing movements, the issue of play in childhood has taken on increased meaning for educational professionals and social scientists. This second edition of Play from Birth to Twelve offers comprehensive coverage of what we now know about play, its guiding principles, its dynamics, and its importance in early learning.

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.

Playful Reading: Positive, Fun Ways to Build the Bond between Preschoolers, Books, and You. Carolyn Munson-Benson, $39.95

Want to boost a child’s love of reading while making your time together more fun and meaningful? Playful Reading takes readers on a joyful romp through asset-rich children's picture books, emphasizing early literacy skills, reading for pleasure, and the eight asset categories. This collection is a terrific resource for teachers, daycare providers, parents, grandparents—anyone who spends time with children. Playful Reading comes full of activities, discussion topics, and ways to create memorable moments between children and the adults who read to them.

Positive Strategies for Students with Behavior Problems. Daniel Crimmins, Anne Farrell, Philip Smith & Alison Bailey, $34.50

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.

Practical Approaches to Early Childhood Professional Development: Evidence, Strategies, and Resources. Pamela Winton, Jeanette McCollum & Camille Catlett $88.95

The key to improving the early education of all young children, including those with special needs, is the effective preparation and development of the professionals who work with them. The authors rely on evidence-based practices and their many years of experience to present an organized and accessible format for building quality into professional training and development programs. CD-ROM includes course handouts, outlines, activities, and syllabi, and lists hundreds of additional resources (video, print, and on-line).

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.

Professor, May I Bring My Baby to Class? A Student Mother’s Guide to College. Sherrill Mosee, $18.95

Author Sherrill Mosee encourages young mothers to take control of their destiny by completing their education. She guides them through the process and shows why higher education is important for both moms and their children. Whether you’re a mom in high school, one returning to school after an absence or a pregnant college student, you can still achieve your academic goals and your life’s dreams.

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.

Proud to Be Inuvialuit. James Pokiak & Mindy Willett, $16.95

James Popiak grew up on the land, near the shores of the Arctic Sea. Join James and his family and learn about how the beluga whale is interlinked with Inuvialuit culture and history and learn about the traditional values and skills of his people.

Race to Equity: Disrupting Educational Inequality. Tim McCaskell, $26.95

Race to Equity is a dazzling, detailed view of the experiments, successes, and mistakes in the Toronto Board of Education's quest to provide truly equitable education for a diverse student body.

For almost three decades McCaskell and his colleagues fought to reshape the system. Their attempts to deliver anti-racism, anti-sexism, and anti-homophobia education garnered national and international attention. McCaskell's astute blend of personal reflection and political theory illuminates a time of significant social struggle, cultural transformation, and deep learning. Drawing on a number of sources — his own memories, interviews with key participants, Board minutes, academic theory on different aspects of the work, and the wealth of documents produced along the way — McCaskell traces narrative threads through the "booming buzzing confusion" of institutional and social transformation. The result is a magical blend of personal reflections and political theory.

Reaching and Teaching Children Who Hurt: Strategies for Your Classroom. Susan Craig, $28.50

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.

Recess Success: Sharing and Caring on the Playground. Stacy How, $24.99

Designed to help children make creative use of unstructured time, Recess Success is a fun collection of games, songs and activities for school-age children. While the kids are having fun playing these games, they are also learning skills and strategies for dealing with social situations, bullying and conflict resolution. Written for teachers and school staff, this is a thoughtful guide to helping kids enjoy their school social experience.

The Redemption Approach: 5 Timeless Principles for Re-Engaging Tough Kids in School. Ed Orszulak, $24.95 (Grades 6 to 12)

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

Relational Aggression in Girls: a Prevention and Intervention Curriculum with Activities & Lessons for Small Groups and Classrooms. Jamie Kupkovits, $33.95

A ten-session curriculum for addressing girl bullying issues in the school setting

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

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

Rethinking Mathematics: Teaching Social Justice by the Numbers. Eric Gutstein & Bob Peterson, Editors, $20.95

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.

Roots of Empathy: Changing the World Child by Child. Mary Gordon, $19.95

With violence, anti-social behaviour, bullying, and aggression among young children escalating at a frightening rate, it is clear that we need to develop a new understanding of childhood. Mary Gordon, an educator who has worked for more than two decades with children from all kinds of backgrounds, has discovered that the solution to bullying and other anti-social behaviour lies within each child's innate sense of caring and compassion. She believes that infusing children with empathy constitutes nothing less than a new paradigm in our approach to child-raising.

Through the Roots of Empathy, her highly successful organization, Mary Gordon creates a rich, rewarding classroom experience that fosters empathy within children. The program brings babies and students together in a symbiotic loving environment that has been proven to reduce aggression and increase tolerance and emotional understanding in children. Currently, the Roots of Empathy has more than 1,100 programs in Canada and is reaching more than 28,000 students in eight Canadian provinces. It is also piloted for programs in Japan and Australia.

In Roots of Empathy: Changing the World Child by Child, the innovative and inspired book based on her groundbreaking research and successful classroom program, Mary Gordon shares her vision of a nation of compassionate and caring children who will pass on their legacy of empathy to their own children.

All of the royalties from this book go back into the Roots of Empathy program.

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

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

RTI in the Classroom: Guidelines and Recipes for Success, K-5. Rachel Brown-Chidsey, Louise Bronaugh & Kelly McGraw, $40.95

Written expressly for teachers, this book is jam-packed with tools and strategies for integrating response to intervention (RTI) into everyday instruction in grades K-5. Numerous real-world examples connect RTI concepts to what teachers already know to help them provide effective instruction for all students, including struggling learners. Drawing on extensive classroom experience, the authors:

• Explain the core features of RTI and what they look like in action
• Describe evidence-based instructional methods for reading, writing, math, and behavior
• Show how to fit assessment and progress monitoring into the busy school day
• Present color-coded intervention recipes for all three tiers of RTI implementation
• Provide hands-on tools and 50 reproducibles, with a large format and sturdy wire binding for ease of use

The Secure Child: Timeless Lessons In Parenting and Childhood Education. Edited by Richard Volpe, $45.95

Just as ideas in child psychology shifted in the 1960s from a focus on behavior to cognitive stages, we are currently seeing a shift away from stages of development toward an emphasis on the interplay between children and the world around them. The Secure Child offers practical insights into how children can be helped to cope with their changing worlds. These insights emerged in the 1930s, a time of social and economic upheaval much like today. This collection of original papers by former students and colleagues of William E. Blatz, the renowned psychologist and pediatrician, makes a vital contribution by bringing forward and examining his work in the context of contemporary ideas about human development, parenting, and education. The collection forms a prologue to an included guide written by Blatz and colleagues, The Expanding World of the Child. The previously unpublished work articulates a comprehensive functional approach to parenting and childhood education. The unique format of this book will make it useful for courses in parenting, childhood education as well scholarship in child psychology, personality theory, and socialization.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Solution-Focused RTI: a Positive and Personalized Approach to Response to Intervention, Grades K-8.  Linda Metcalf, $39.95

Linda Metcalf provides an effective approach to Response-to-Intervention using a "solution-focused" method, which emphasizes a student's strengths rather than his or her weaknesses. This important book guides educators to identify exceptions to students' learning problems and design personalized interventions that can help those students succeed. This book provides teachers with the basic building blocks of the solution-focused approach and offers step-by-step guidelines for identifying exceptions, designing interventions, and implementing a three-tiered Response-to-Intervention process.

The Sound of Kwanzaa. Dimitrea Tokunbo, illustrated by Lisa Cohen, $21.99

Discover what Kwanzaa is all about as you travel through each night of the festive holiday!

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.

Stories to Solve: Folktales from Around the World. George Shannon, illustrated by Peter Sís, $6.50 (ages 8-12)

Fourteen mind-bending mysteries and logic problems from the world of folklore. Use your smarts and savvy to solve them!

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.

Study Smarter, Not Harder, 3rd Edition. Kevin Paul, $22.95

Become the confident, super-learner you’ve always wanted to be:

• Use the genius inside of you
• Learn HOW to learn
• Expand your memory capacity
• Energize your brain

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.

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.

Supporting Children’s Creativity through Music, Dance, Drama and Art: Creative Conversations in the Early Years. Edited by Fleur Griffiths, $43.95

This appealing book demonstrates how practitioners can put excitement and inspiration into the learning process and to support the creative capacities of young children.

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 Children Who Struggle with Mathematics: a Systematic Approach to Analysis and Correction. Helene Sherman, Lloyd Richardson & George Yard, $38.95

Rich with case studies and assorted examples, this brief, targeted text is dedicated to helping teachers address the cognitive needs of children in Grades 1-6 who do not understand mathematical concepts and/or are not as skillful as they should be with those concepts. The authors present a systematic, three-step approach to assess students' math strengths and weaknesses and plan instruction accordingly.

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

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

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 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 New Literacies in Grades K-3: Resources for 21st Century Classrooms. Edited by Barbara Moss & Diane Lapp, $34.50

Teaching New Literacies in Grades 4-6: Resources for 21st Century Classrooms. Edited by Barbara Moss & Diane Lapp, $34.50

These teacher-friendly handbooks are packed with creative strategies for introducing students to fiction, poetry and plays; informational texts; graphic novels; digital storytelling; Web-based and multimodal texts; hip-hop; advertisements; math problems; and many other types of texts. Prominent authorities explain the research base underlying the books’ lessons and provide practical activities and assessments for promoting decoding, fluency, comprehension, and other key literacy skills. Snapshots of diverse classrooms bring the material to life; helpful reproducibles are included.

Teaching NLP in the Classroom. Kate Spohrer, $24.95

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

Teaching 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 Tough Kids: Simple and Proven Strategies for Student Success. Mark le Messurier, $51.95

Teaching Tough Kids delivers a refreshing collection of realistic ideas to sustain the organizational and behavioural transformations of all students, particularly those who 'do it tough'; who learn and react differently. They are complex kids who find life tougher than most.

Teaching Tough Kids pays particularly close focus on students identified with executive functioning difficulties including Learning Disabilities, ADD/ADHD, Oppositional Defiant Disorder and Asperger Syndrome. ‘Tough Kids’ may also be those students who have endured neglect or too much stress and uncertainty in their lives and as a result display classic symptoms of hyperactivity, hyper vigilance and impulsivity.

The book focuses on building improved relationships, structures and behaviours, rather than seeing the student as a problem that must be fixed. Highlighting the value of promoting positive connections, the author presents ways to incorporate inclusive ideas into everyday practice and construct pathways for students to become engaged in their learning and achieve success.

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.

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, $16.50

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”.

Test Success: Test-Taking and Study Strategies for All Students, Including Those with ADD and LD. Blythe Grossberg, $24.95

Test Success provides sure-fire ways to improve study strategies and test performance of students in middle school, high school, and first-year college students.

Test Talk: Integrating Test Preparation into Reading Workshop. Amy Greene & Glennon Doyle Melton, $21.95

This compelling book shows that teachers don't have to choose between best practice teaching and test preparation; effective test-taking strategies can be integrated into authentic reading instruction, in ways that are simpler for teachers and more meaningful for students.

The Theatre of Urban: Youth and Schooling in Dangerous Times. Kathleen Gallagher, $24.95

Because of its powerful socializing effects, the school has always been a site of cultural, political, and academic conflict … Using theatre and drama education as a special window into school life in four urban secondary schools in Toronto and New York City, The Theatre of Urban examines the ways in which these schools reflect the cultural and political shifts in big city North American schooling policies, politics, and practices of the early twenty-first century.

“Resisting facile comparisons of Canadian and American schooling systems, Kathleen Gallagher opts instead for a rigorous analysis of the context-specific features, both the differences and similarities, between urban cultures and urban schools in the two countries … By using theatre as a sociological lens, The Theatre of Urban not only explores the very notion of performance in a novel and interesting way, it also provides new insights into the conflicts that often erupt in these highly charged school spaces.

That Book Woman. Heather Henson, illustrated by David Small, $19.99

That Book Woman is a rare and moving tale that honors a special part of American history — the Pack Horse Librarians, who helped untold numbers of children see the stories amid the chicken scratch, and thus made them into lifetime readers.

That Crumpled Paper Was Due Last Week: Helping Disorganized and Distracted Boys Succeed in School and Life. Ana Homayoun, $20.00

Top academic counselor Ana Homayoun has helped turn even the most disorganized, scattered and unfocused boys into successful young people who consistently meet their personal and academic challenges. She does this by getting back to basics, starting with a simple fact: most boys need to be taught how to get organized, how to study, and how to visualize, embrace and meet their own goals.

Much more than a study guide, this insightful, user-friendly book provides a roadmap for the success.

Think Again.  JonArno Lawson, illustrated by Julie Morstad, $18.95

This collection of quietly beautiful and surprisingly humorous short poems reveals first love’s uncertainties, frustrations and joys.

This Is My Faith Series. $5.99 each

Find out all about the faiths of young people around the world. Each book in the This is My Faith Series explores a different world faith through the eyes of a child. In his or her own words, each child speaks about their beliefs, their families, everyday life and the rituals and traditions that are important to them and the festivals and special days they celebrate.

This is My Faith: Buddhism

This is My Faith: Christianity

This is My Faith: Hinduism

This is My Faith: Islam

This is My Faith: Judaism

This is My Faith: Sikhism

This Is My Planet: the Kids’ Guide to Global Warming. Jan Thornhill, $12.95

This Is My Planet offers a clear and fascinating view of our world’s interconnections. By seeing how we all fit in, readers will discover how even small actions can add up to big changes.

1000 Best New Teacher Survival Secrets. Kandace Martin & Kathleen Brenny, $15.95

Two experienced educators show you how to:

• organize your classroom
• survive your first week
• document student progress and assessment
• deal with teacher-parent conferences
• manage stress and stay healthy
• create a safe school environment
• and enjoy your career as a teacher across all grade levels

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.

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.

Tutoring Adolescent Readers. Deborah Berrill, Laura Doucette & Dirk Verhulst, $24.95

A comprehensive, hands-on manual for teachers and peer tutors working with struggling readers from ages 12 to 18. The book offers simple solutions for a variety of student needs, from students who are turned off or learning English for the first time to students who have a learning problem or a different learning style. This practical book promotes fluency and word recognition with innovative suggestions for all phases of reading — setting up a tutoring program, techniques to use while reading, and meaningful follow-up activities. Reproducible resources explain the essentials of reading instruction and investigate a variety of effective reading strategies.

Understanding Girls’ Friendships, Fights and Feuds: a Practical Approach to Girls’ Bullying. Valerie Besag, $48.95

Girls’ bullying is more subtle and less physical than that perpetrated by boys; however, it can be just as powerful and the emotional repercussions of bullying among girls can be more destructive and longer lasting than the effects of more obvious forms of bullying. Teachers report that quarrels between girls are far more time-consuming and difficult to resolve than the disputes of boys, yet not enough information is available to guide them on dealing with girls’ fighting and unhappiness caused by their relationships with other girls, many of whom may have been their closest friends.

Val Besag provides an in-depth understanding of girls’ bullying, exploring the mechanisms and language that girls use to entice some into their groups and exclude others. The book offers detailed practical advice for dealing with girls’ bullying, which will help both students and teachers to understand and combat different kinds of bullying, as well as comprehensive guidance for preventing or reducing bullying activities among girls, including:

• Whole school approaches
• Programs for developing emotional literacy and resilience
• Approaches for dealing with gangs
• Using methods such as art and drama
• Developing conflict resolution skills
• Student/parent programs
• Peer support programs

This is key reading for teachers, trainee teachers, educational psychologists and social workers, academics and researchers in the field, and others who have an interest in creating bully-free schools and societies.

Understanding Infant Development. Margaret Puckett, Janet Black & Joseph Moriarity, $25.95

Understanding Toddler Development. Margaret Puckett, Janet Black & Joseph Moriarity, $25.95

Understanding Preschooler Development. Margaret Puckett, Janet Black & Joseph Moriarity, $25.95

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

Undoing Homophobia in Primary Schools. The No Outsiders Project Team, $31.95

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, $21.95

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, $27.95

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.

Where Should I Sit at Lunch? The Ultimate Guide to Surviving the High School Years. Harriet Mosatche & Karen Unger, $19.95

Everything teenagers need to know about surviving the four most dramatic and difficult years of their lives, written especially for teens aged 13-17. This is the ultimate all-in-one survival guide for today's high-schoolers. The authors are sought-after speakers who talk to teens all the time - and they tell it like it is, dishing up the no-nonsense advice that teenagers are looking for. They set the record straight on peer groups, part-time jobs, colleges, homework, family, friends, and rivals. Where Should I Sit at Lunch offers real-life stories from teens who've ‘been there, done that’ and tips from teen-friendly experts. And yes, they tell them where to sit at lunch, too.

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.

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.

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.

Z is for Zamboni: a Hockey Alphabet. Matt Napier, illustrated by Melanie Rose, $9.95

Z is for Zamboni is an ode to hockey fans young and old across North America. Matt Napier's ‘breakaway’ rhymes and ‘hard-checking’ expository text team up with the top-shelf illustrations of Melanie Rose to elucidate this increasingly popular game for every beginning hockey aficionado. Highlighting rules, players, coaches, teams, and the history of the game, it is both fun and educational.