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Achieving Aboriginal Student Success: a Guide for K
to 8 Classrooms. Pamela Rose Toulouse, $29.00 
ACHIEVING ABORIGINAL STUDENT SUCCESS
presents goals and strategies needed to support Aboriginal learners in the
classroom. This book is for all teachers of kindergarten to grade 8 who have
Aboriginal students in their classrooms or who are looking for ways to infuse
an Aboriginal worldview into their curriculum. Although the author’s primary
focus is the needs of Aboriginal students, the ideas are best practices that
can be applied in classroom-management techniques, assessment tools, suggestions
for connecting to the Aboriginal community, and much more. The strategies and
information in this resource are about building bridges between cultures that
foster respect, appreciation, and understanding. |
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Adventures in Risky Play: What is Your YES? Rusty Keeler, $49.50
"Rusty Keeler's terrific book will inspire parents and caregivers to raise courageous, resilient children and young adults — with a little help from nature."
- Richard Louv, author of Our Wild Calling and Last Child In the Woods
Adventures in Risky Play: What is Your Yes? goes to the heart of risk-taking and children. As parents and educators working with young children, we all have boundaries and feelings around what risky play is allowed. Rusty Keeler invites us to examine the cage of boundaries that we have created for ourselves and our children. He challenges us to rattle our cage and discover where the lines are movable. In our role as parents, educators, and caretakers, when we allow children to play and confront risk on their own terms, we see them develop, hold their locus of control and make choices on how to navigate the bumpy terrain of a situation. What better teaching tool for life is there? |
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All Things Being Equal: Why Math is the Key to a
Better World. John Mighton, $32.00 
From the award-winning founder of JUMP Math, All
Things Being Equal is a proven guide to succeeding in math, and a
passionate argument for why this success can and must be available to the
majority instead of the privileged few.
For two decades, John Mighton has developed strategies
for fostering intellectual potential in all children through learning math.
Math, Mighton says, provides us with mental tools of incredible power. When we
learn math we learn to see patterns, to think logically and systematically, to
draw analogies, to perceive risk, to understand cause and effect--among many other
critical skills. Yet we tolerate and in fact expect a vast performance gap in
math among students, and live in a world where many adults aren't equipped with
these crucial tools. This learning gap is unnecessary, dangerous and tragic, he
cautions, and it has led us to a problem of intellectual poverty which is
apparent everywhere — in fake news, political turmoil, floundering economies,
even in erroneous medical diagnoses.
In All Things Being Equal, Mighton argues
that math study is an ideal starting point to break down social inequality and
empower individuals to build a smarter, kinder, more equitable world. Bringing
together the latest cognitive research and incremental learning strategies,
Mighton goes deep into the classroom and beyond to offer a hopeful — and
urgent — vision for a numerate society. |
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Alternative Schooling and Student Engagement: Canadian
Stories of Democracy within Bureaucracy. Esther Sokolov Fine, Nina Bascia
& Malcolm Levin, Editors, $42.95 
This book explores the unique phenomenon of public
alternative schools in Toronto, Canada and other large urban areas. Although schools
of this kind have existed for more than a century, very little has been written
about the alternative school movement. These alternatives focus more on
child-centered instruction, give many students (and teachers) opportunities to
organize the school differently, provide a greater voice for teachers,
students, and parents, and engage students far more with experiential learning.
When traditional school structures are failing to meet the needs of many
children and youth, there is a rapidly growing need for information and
discussion about alternatives that will encourage their talents and serve their
needs. This book draws attention to the issue of alternative schooling to help
make it more accessible to a wider audience. |
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Anxiety and Depression in the Classroom: a Teacher's
Guide to Fostering Self-Regulation in Young Students. Nadja Reilly, $24.99
Anxiety and depression are two of the most common mental
health problems for young students, and can be particularly hard to detect and
support. In this book, the first of its kind for teachers, Nadja Reilly lays
out with richly detailed examples the signs to look for so educators can direct
their students to help and ensure emotional wellness in the classroom. Grounded
in recent psychological research and practical self-regulation tools, Reilly
opens her study out onto nourishing emotional wellness in all students,
communicating with parents, and school-wide mental health advocacy. |
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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. |
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The Art Teacher's Survival Guide for Elementary and
Middle Schools, 2nd Edition. Helen Hume, $37.95
With more than 110 creative art projects in varied types
of media — from drawing to digital plus tips, tools, and curricular
resources, THE ART TEACHER'S SURVIVAL GUIDE offers everything a
teacher needs to know to present an effective arts education program. Classroom
teachers who want to include art projects as part of the content curriculum and
art teachers looking for new ideas will all find fresh inspiration in this
exciting new edition. It features numerous new projects and draws on
multicultural traditions, includes reproducible pages, and provides detailed
instructions with illustrations, links to content learning, and modifications
for different ages. Authoritative, practical, and user-friendly, this
comprehensive guide is an invaluable addition to every K-8 teacher's basic
classroom tools. |
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Attachment-Based Teaching: Creating a Tribal Classroom. Louis Cozolino, $32.00
Human brains are social, and a student's ability to learn
is deeply influenced by the quality of his or her attachment to teachers and
peers. Secure attachment relationships not only ensure our overall well-being,
but also optimize learning by enhancing motivation, regulating anxiety, and
triggering neuroplasticity. This unique, important book presents a classroom
model of secure attachment, exploring how teacher-student rapport is central to
creating supportive, "tribal" classrooms and school communities. |
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Becoming an Adoption-Friendly School: a Whole-School
Resource for Supporting Children Who Have Experienced Trauma or Loss. Emma
Gore Langton & Katherine Boy, $45.95
Adopted children who have experienced loss, abuse or
neglect need additional support for their emotional development, and are more
likely to have special educational needs. This useful resource provides a
complete plan for creating adoption-friendly environments in primary, secondary
and specialist schools.
The book is grounded on new research which gathered
together testimonies from over 400 school staff members, adoptive parents and
adoption specialists. With realistic consideration of pressures and limitations
currently faced by schools, it gives advice on eight key areas for school
development, including communicating with parents, training staff, using
resources wisely and recognising children's individual needs. Completing the
toolkit is a broad selection of photocopiable and downloadable plans for
establishing adoption-friendly frameworks, and for demonstrating good practice
to staff, pupils, families and supervisors. |
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Becoming a Growth Mindset School: the Power of Mindset
to Transform Teaching, Leadership and Learning. Chris Hildrew, $37.70
Becoming a Growth Mindset School explores the
theories which underpin a growth mindset ethos and lays out how to embed them
into the culture of a school. It offers step-by-step guidance for school
leaders to help build an approach to teaching and learning that will encourage
children to embrace challenge, persist in the face of setback, and see effort
as the path to mastery. The book isn’t about quick fixes or miracle cures, but
an evidence-based transformation of the way we think and talk about teaching,
leading, and learning.
Drawing upon his own extensive experience and underpinned
by the groundbreaking scholarship of Carol Dweck, Angela Duckworth, and others,
Chris Hildrew navigates the difficulties, practicalities, and opportunities
presented by implementing a growth mindset, such as:
- forming a growth mindset curriculum
- launching a growth mindset with staff
- marking, assessing, and giving feedback with a growth mindset
- growth mindset misconceptions and potential mistakes
- family involvement with a growth mindset
Innovatively and accessibly written, this thoroughly
researched guide shows how a growth mindset ethos benefits the whole school
community, from its students and teachers to parents and governors. Becoming
A Growth Mindset School will be of invaluable use to all educational
leaders and practitioners. |
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Becoming the Teacher You Wish You'd Had: Ideas and
Strategies form Vibrant Classrooms. Tracy Johnston, $57.95 (Grades K-8)
While mathematicians describe mathematics as playful,
beautiful, creative, and captivating, many students describe math class as
boring, stressful, useless, and humiliating. In Becoming the Math Teacher You
Wish You’d Had, Tracy Zager helps teachers close this gap by making math class
more like mathematics.
Tracy spent years with highly skilled math teachers in a
diverse range of settings and grades. You’ll find this book jam-packed with new
thinking from these vibrant classrooms. You’ll grapple with big ideas: How is
taking risks inherent to mathematics? How do mathematicians balance intuition
and proof? How can teachers value both productive mistakes and precision?
You’ll also find dozens of practical teaching techniques you can try in your
classroom right away—strategies to stimulate students to connect ideas; rich
tasks that encourage students to wonder, generalize, conjecture, and persevere;
routines to teach students how to collaborate.
All teachers can move toward increasingly authentic,
delightful, robust mathematics teaching and learning for themselves and their
students. This important book helps us develop instructional techniques that
will make the math classes we teach so much better than the math classes we
took. |
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Blended: Using Disruptive Innovation to Improve
Schools. Michael Horn & Heather Staker, $31.95
Blended is the practical field guide for
implementing blended learning techniques in K-12 classrooms. A follow-up to the
bestseller Disrupting Class by Clayton Christensen, Michael Horn, and
Curtis Johnson, this hands-on guide expands upon the blended learning ideas
presented in that book to provide practical implementation guidance for
educators seeking to incorporate online learning with traditional classroom
time. Readers will find a step-by-step framework upon which to build a more
student-centered system, along with essential advice that provides the
expertise necessary to build the next generation of K-12 learning environments.
Leaders, teachers, and other stakeholders will gain valuable insight into the
process of using online learning to the greatest benefit of students, while
avoiding missteps and potential pitfalls.
If online learning has not already rocked your local
school, it will soon. Blended learning is one of the hottest trends in
education right now, and educators are clamoring for
""how-to"" guidance. Blended answers the call by
providing detailed information about the strategy, design, and implementation
of a successful blended learning program.
- Discover a useful framework for implementing blended learning
- Unlock the benefits and mitigate the risks of online learning
- Find answers to the most commonly asked questions surrounding
blended learning
- Create a more student-centered system that functions as a
positive force across grade levels
Educators who loved the ideas presented in Disrupting
Class now have a field guide to making it work in a real-world school, with
expert advice for making the transition smoother for students, parents, and
teachers alike. For educational leaders seeking more student-centered schools,
Blended provides the definitive roadmap. |
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Boost Emotional Intelligence in Students: 30 Flexible
Research-Based Activities to Build EQ Skills (Grades 5-9). Maurice Elias
& Steven Tobias, $57.99
Developing emotional intelligence (EQ) in students is
essential to preparing them for success in college, careers, and adult life.
This practical resource for educators explains what emotional intelligence is
and why it’s important for all students. The book lays out detailed yet
flexible guidelines for teaching fundamental EQ in an intentional and focused
way. The core of the book is a series of thirty hands-on lessons, each focusing
on critical EQ concepts and centered around productive and respectful
discussion. These research-based lessons are designed to take approximately
thirty-five minutes each, but they can easily be adapted to meet the specific
needs of a school or group. Digital content includes reproducible forms. |
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Boosting Executive Skills in the Classroom: a Practical
Guide for Educators, Grades K-12. Joyce Cooper-Kahn & Margaret
Foster, $35.95
Students with weak Executive Function
skills need strong support and specific strategies to help them learn in an
efficient manner, demonstrate what they know, and manage the daily demands of
school. This book shows teachers how to do exactly that, while also managing
the ebb and flow of their broader classroom needs. From the co-author of the
bestselling parenting book LATE, LOST, AND UNPREPARED, comes a compilation
of the most practical tools and strategies, designed to be equally useful for
children with EF problems as well as all other students in the general
education classroom.
Rooted in solid research and
classroom-tested experience, the book is organized to help teachers negotiate
the very fluid challenges they face every day; educators will find strategies
that improve their classroom "flow" and reduce the stress of
struggling to teach students with EF weaknesses. |
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Brain Boosters for Groups In a Jar®. Susan
Ragsdale & Ann Saylor, $16.99 (ages 12 & up)
101 active games to encourage brain development and team
building in classrooms, advisory groups, after-school programs, teams, and
youth groups. |
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The Brave Learner: Finding Everyday Magic in
Homeschool, Learning, and Life. Julie Bogart, $23.00
Parents who are deeply invested in their children's
education can be hard on themselves and their kids. When exhausted parents are
living the day-to-day grind, it can seem impossible to muster enough energy to
make learning fun or interesting. How do parents nurture a love of learning
amid childhood chaos, parental self-doubt, the flu, and state academic
standards?
The Brave Learner is a joyful and accessible
approach to homeschooling that harnesses children’s natural curiosity and makes
learning a part of everyday life, whether they’re in elementary or high school.
Bogart shows parents how to make room for surprise, mystery, risk, and
adventure in their family's routine, so they can create an environment that
naturally moves learning forward. If a child wants to pick up a new hobby or
explore a subject area that the parent knows little about, it's easy to simply
say "no" to end the discussion and the parental discomfort, while
dousing their child's curious spark. Bogart gently invites parents to model
brave learning for their kids so they, too, can approach life with curiosity,
joy, and the courage to take learning risks. |
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Breaking Through! Helping Girls Succeed in Science,
Technology, Engineering, and Math. Harriet Mosatche, Elizabeth Lawner &
Susan Matloff-Nieves, $23.95
Even with increased pressure to involve more girls in
STEM areas in education, parents are often left wondering what they can do to
keep their daughter's love of science, math, and technology from fading. In Breaking
Through! topics ranging from how role models can make a difference to
finding non-stereotypical toys and taking trips that inspire STEM discovery and
engagement are illustrated with research evidence and real-life examples from
girls and women. Regardless of a daughter's age (from birth to young
adulthood), parents will find tips they can immediately use to help combat the
gender imbalance in STEM areas. Whether they need to advocate for
gender-neutral, STEM-enriched classrooms or want to encourage creative problem
solving and persistence in their daughters, readers will find ideas to take
action to help the girls in their lives break through the barriers and achieve
success in STEM. |
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Bridging School & Home through Family Nights:
Ready-to-Use Plans for Grades K-8. Diane Kyle, Ellen McIntyre, Karen Miller
& Gayle Moore, $20.95
Research confirms the link between family involvement and
academic success. Yet, as student populations become increasingly diverse,
educators face a daunting challenge in establishing close connections with
families. Bridging School and Home Through Family Nights offers all
the information, materials, and resources for planning and implementing events
that build effective relationships. Drawing on their own experiences and
extensive research, the authors include information on adapting events for
special populations, issues around providing food and incentives, cost-saving
ideas, and additional resources.
Each of the book’s thirteen family night chapters is a self-contained unit that
provides event procedures, needed materials, connections with national
standards, and numerous reproducibles, including:
• Invitations
• Agendas
• Sign-in sheets
• Evaluation forms
• Activity worksheets
• Handouts
• Overheads
Productive family night experiences offer an enjoyable and meaningful way for
schools to reach out to families and get them involved. This book is
appropriate for K-8 teachers and principals or anyone in the school or district
responsible for family events. |
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Bringing the Forest School Approach to Your Early
Years Practice. Karen Constable, $41.90
Bringing the Forest School Approach to your Early
Years Practice provides an accessible introduction to Forest School
practice. It identifies the key issues involved in setting up, running and
managing a Forest School environment and offers clear guidance on resources,
staffing and space required for successful play and learning outdoors. Including
links to the Early Years Foundation Stage and a wide range of case studies, the
book covers:
- The beginnings of Forest School and how practice has developed
- Child centred play and learning that allows for risk taking and
challenge
- Planning for children’s individual needs, learning styles and
schemas
- The learning environment
- The role of the adult including health and safety and children’s
welfare
Full of practical advice, this convenient guide will help
practitioners to deliver new, exciting and inspiring opportunities for the
children they care for. |
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Building School 2.0: How to Create the Schools We Need.
Chris Lehmann & Zac Chase, $33.95
There is a growing desire to re-examine education and
learning. Educators use the phrase "school 2.0" to think about what
schools will look like in the future. Moving beyond a basic examination of
using technology for classroom instruction, Building School 2.0 is
a larger discussion of how education, learning, and our physical school spaces
can — and should — change because of the changing nature of our lives brought on by
these technologies.
Each section of Building School 2.0 presents
a thesis designed to help educators and administrators to examine specific
practices in their schools, and to then take their conclusions from theory to
practice. Collectively, the theses represent a new vision of school, built off
of the best of what has come before us, but with an eye toward a future we
cannot fully imagine. |
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Calm, Alert, and Learning:
Classroom Strategies for Self-Regulation. Stuart Shanker,
$62.30 
Recent research tells us that one of the
keys to student success is self-regulation — the ability to monitor and modify
emotions, to focus or shift attention, to control impulses, to tolerate
frustration or delay gratification. But can a child’s ability to self-regulate
be improved?
Canada’s leading expert on
self-regulation, Dr. Stuart Shanker, knows it can and that, as educators,
we have an important role to play in helping students’ develop this crucial
ability. Distinguished Research Professor at York University and Past President
of the Council for Early Child Development, Dr. Shanker leads us through an
exploration of the five major domains — what they are, how they work, what they look
like in the classroom, and what we can do to help students strengthen in that
domain. |
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Canadian Curriculum Advantage Grade 1: Ready for
Anything! Chalkboard Publishing, $17.99 
Canadian Curriculum Advantage Grade 2: Ready for Anything! Chalkboard Publishing, $17.99 
Canadian Curriculum Advantage Grade 3: Ready for
Anything! Chalkboard Publishing, $17.99 
Canadian Curriculum Advantage Grade 4: Ready for
Anything! Chalkboard Publishing, $17.99 
Canadian Curriculum Advantage Grade 5: Ready for
Anything! Chalkboard Publishing, $17.99 
Canadian Curriculum Advantage Grade 6: Ready for
Anything! Chalkboard Publishing, $17.99 
This must-have resource is ideal to supplement, enhance,
or enrich any education program. Designed to give students extra practice in
math, reading comprehension, science, and social studies while reinforcing key
grade concepts. These Canadian-based curriculum exercises are clear, practical,
and fun to use. For use at home or school. |
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Canadian STEM Grade 1: Ready for Anything! Chalkboard Publishing, $15.99 
Canadian STEM Grade 2: Ready for Anything! Chalkboard Publishing, $15.99 
Canadian STEM Grade 3: Ready for Anything! Chalkboard Publishing, $15.99 
Canadian STEM Grade 4: Ready for Anything! Chalkboard Publishing, $15.99 
Canadian STEM Grade 5: Ready for Anything! Chalkboard Publishing, $15.99 
Canadian STEM Grade 6: Ready for Anything! Chalkboard Publishing, $15.99 
An ideal resource to supplement, enhance or enrich
science learning. The books focus on concepts and skills to enable students to
become familiar with Science, Technology, Engineering and Math. Each volume includes
information, experiments, extension activities and Canadian-based curriculum
exercises that are clear, practical, and fun to use. For use at home or school,
the format lends itself to the lives of busy families and educators who want to
support children's learning. |
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Character Toolkit for Teachers: 100+ Classroom and
Whole School Character Education Activities for 5- to 11-Year-Olds. Frederika
Roberts & Elizabeth Wright, $33.95
This accessible and much-needed resource sets out advice
on how to develop character and encourage wellbeing in pupils aged 5-11.
Schools are increasingly aware of how beneficial positive
character skills can be, but resources on how to develop them are scarce. This
book gives teachers the means to promote gratitude, positive emotions,
character strengths, and positive relationships through 100+ easy-to-implement
activities such as student diaries, classroom displays and letter writing
campaigns. It also includes tools and strategies that go beyond the classroom,
helping to embed character education into the culture and ethos of the entire
school. Each chapter will include a short introduction to the relevant
theoretical background, and all activities are based on validated character
education and positive psychology interventions.
Bite-sized and practical, and full of ideas that can be
dipped in and out of in the classroom, this is an ideal book for busy teachers. |
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Child and Adolescent Development for Educators, 2nd
Edition. Christine McCormick & David Scherer, $83.50
This accessible text — now revised and updated — has given
thousands of future educators a solid grounding in developmental science to
inform their work in schools. The book reviews major theories of development
and their impact on educational practice. Chapters examine how teaching and learning
intersect with specific domains of child and adolescent development — language,
intelligence and intellectual diversity, motivation, family and peer
relationships, gender roles, and mental health. Pedagogical features include
chapter summaries, definitions of key terms, and boxes addressing topics of
special interest to educators. Instructors requesting a desk copy receive a
supplemental test bank with objective test items and essay questions for each
chapter. New to This Edition:
- Extensively revised to reflect a decade's worth of advances in
developmental research, neuroscience, and genetics
- Greatly expanded coverage of family and peer relationships, with
new content on social-emotional learning, social media, child care, and early
intervention
- Discussions of executive function, theory of mind, and
teacher-student relationships
- Increased attention to ethnic-racial, gender, and LGBT identity
development
- Many new and revised practical examples and topic boxes
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Child Health Across Cultures: the Health, Wellbeing
and Special Needs of Children from Diverse Backgrounds — a Resource for
Teachers and Others with an Interest in Strengthening the Health of Children
Experiencing More Than One Culture. Judith Colbert, $29.95 
Child Health Across Cultures focuses on the
critical importance of child health among diverse at-risk populations. By
drawing on international research in various fields, author Judith Colbert
explores global patterns of health and dis/ability, and recommendations for
responding to health issues.
The book invites educators, clinicians and others to take
steps toward providing the knowledge and support needed to promote the
physical, mental, and social health of all members of the community — including
vulnerable immigrant and newcomer children. |
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Children Who Fail at School But Succeed at Life:
Lessons from Lives Well-Lived. Mark Katz, $54.00
Many people who failed in school move on to enjoy
meaningful and successful lives. They include — though they are by no means
limited to — those with attention and executive function challenges, learning
disabilities, learning and behavioral challenges arising out of traumatic
events in their lives, and even those impacted by all of the above. Up until
recently, little attention was paid to successful people who did poorly in
school. So what did we miss? How can their life experiences help educators and
parents understand what schools can do better to support students who are
struggling today?
In his groundbreaking new book, Mark Katz draws on
research findings in clinical and social psychology, cognitive neuroscience,
education, and other fields of study — as well as stories of successful
individuals who overcame years of school failure — to answer these and other
questions. In the process, he shows how children who fail at school but succeed
at life can give teachers and schools, counselors and health care professionals,
parents and guardians — even those whose childhood struggles have persisted into
their adult years — new remedies for combating learning, behavioral, and
emotional challenges; reducing juvenile crime, school dropout, and substance
abuse; improving our health and well-being; and preventing medical problems
later in life. |
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Children with School Problems: a
Physician’s Manual. Debra Andrews & William
Mahoney, Editors, $60.00
Doctors must be able to identify,
diagnose, treat, and manage children who are struggling in school. The first
book specifically tailored for the needs of physicians working with kids with
learning disabilities, CHILDREN WITH SCHOOL PROBLEMS: A PHYSICIAN'S
MANUAL covers such important areas as child development, diagnosing
learning disabilities (including data gathering, screening and assessment, and
physical examinations), management (medication, behavioral management, and
educational interventions), and prevention (including literacy promotion).
Written by trusted experts from the
Canadian Paediatric Society, CHILDREN WITH SCHOOL PROBLEMS is filled
with practical tools and resources that physicians — including paediatricians,
family physicians, and paediatric learners — can use to diagnose and treat
children with learning disabilities. |
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Classroom Warm-Ups In a Jar®: Quick and Meaningful
Activities for All Grades. $14.99
Short, easy, fun classroom activities to get things going
in the morning or after a break. |
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Commonsense Methods for Children with Special
Educational Needs, 7th Edition. Peter Westwood, $62.95
This fully revised and updated seventh edition of Commonsense
Methods for Children with Special Educational Needs continues to offer
practical advice on evidence-based teaching methods and intervention strategies
for helping children with a wide range of disabilities or difficulties. The
advice the author provides is embedded within a clear theoretical context and
draws on the latest international research and literature from the field.
Coverage includes:
- learning difficulties and disabilities
- students with autism spectrum disorders, intellectual disability,
physical or health issues, and sensory impairments
- gifted and talented students
- developing social skills and self-management
- behaviour management
- teaching methods
- literacy and numeracycurriculum differentiation and adaptive teaching
- computer-based instruction and e-learning.
Peter Westwood also provides additional information and
advice on transition from school to employment for students with disabilities,
lesson study, e-learning, and computer-aided instruction, and reflects on the
important changes made within the latest Diagnostic and Statistical Manual
of Mental Disorders (DSM-5). |
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Complete Canadian Curriculum: Math / English / Social
Studies / Science, Revised & Updated. $19.95 each 
Complete Canadian Curriculum covers the four
key subject areas currently taught in Canadian schools: Math, English, 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 8. With vivid illustrations and interesting activities, your child
will find working through Complete Canadian Curriculumboth
fun and rewarding.
Complete Canadian Curriculum: Grade One. $19.95
Complete Canadian Curriculum: Grade Two. $19.95
Complete Canadian Curriculum: Grade Three. $19.95
Complete Canadian Curriculum: Grade Four. $19.95
Complete Canadian Curriculum: Grade Five. $19.95
Complete Canadian Curriculum: Grade Six. $19.95
Complete Canadian Curriculum: Grade Seven. $19.95
Complete Canadian Curriculum: Grade Eight. $19.95 |
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Complete FrenchSmart: the Ultimate Workbook for
Mastering French, Grade 4. $19.95
Complete FrenchSmart: the Ultimate Workbook for
Mastering French, Grade 5. $19.95
Complete FrenchSmart: the Ultimate Workbook for
Mastering French, Grade 6. $19.95
Complete FrenchSmart: the Ultimate Workbook for
Mastering French, Grade 7. $19.95
Complete FrenchSmart provides ample practice for
learning and mastering French. Concise explanations with examples guide
children along and ensure that they learn with confidence. The
systematically-designed activities cover the key areas of learning — vocabulary
building, grammar, reading, and usage — grades four through seven. Working
through Complete FrenchSmart is a fun and rewarding experience! |
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Connecting Emergent
Curriculum and Standards in the Early Childhood Classroom:
Strengthening Content and Teaching Practice. Sydney Schwartz
& Sherry Copeland, $43.95
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. |
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Count Girls In: Empowering Girls to Combine Any
Interests with STEM to Open Up a World of Opportunity. Karen Panetta &
Katianne Williams, $22.99
Count Girls In asserts there is a place for all
girls and young women — not just the science fair winners and robotics club
members — in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields, if we can
keep their (and our) minds and options open and meet them where they are.
To succeed in STEM fields today, girls don’t have to change who they are. A
girl who combines her natural talents, interests, and dreams with STEM skills
has a greater shot than ever before at a career she loves and a salary she deserves. Count
Girls In encourages parents and other adults to raise authentic young
women who have the confidence to put STEM to work in a way that best serves
them and their passions. The authors, both STEM professionals, present
compelling research in a conversational, accessible style and provide specific
advice and takeaways for each stage of schooling, from elementary school
through college, followed by comprehensive STEM resources. This isn’t a book
about raising competitive, test-acing girls in lab coats; this is about raising
happy, confident girls who realize the world of opportunities before them. |
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Creating a Beautiful Mess: Ten Essential Play Experiences
for a Joyous Childhood. Ann Gadzikowski, $22.50
When children play, it can often create a mess, but what
a beautiful mess it is! Creating a Beautiful Mess provides adults
with the ten most important play experiences children need and show how they
represent a balance that support learning, provide physical activity, encourage
creative expression, and promote social and family connections. These broad
categories, include building with blocks, pretending and make believe, running
around like crazy, playing turn-taking games, finding and collecting things,
and more. This is a book that can be enjoyed by early childhood professionals
and families alike. |
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Creating Capable Kids: Twelve Skills That Will Help
Kids Succeed in School and Life. Bruce Howlett & Caitlin Howlett,
$21.95
Here is a compelling, thought provoking and practical
guide to parenting and educating today's children. It is derived from Amartya
Sen's Nobel Prize-winning approach to human development which has proven highly
effective at freeing people from the chains of poverty. Educators Bruce and
Caitlin Howlett apply Sen's approach to child development at home and in school
and offering fresh, effective ways to rescue parenting and revive education,
while providing parents, teachers and caregivers with a proven foundation for
creating rewarding childhoods, academic success and fulfilling lives.
By incorporating the twelve key capabilities, such as sensory awareness,
creative imagination, emotional and self-awareness, parents and educators can
promote the three most critical tools for children's survival and success:
continuous learning, problem solving, and increased knowledge and meaning.
Using stories of three different types of children — Zoe, Mia and Daniel — the
authors demonstrate the value of life and of the Capabilities Approach theory
on how to cultivate inquisitive, actively engaged, motivated, perceptive and
resilient children. |
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Creating Excellence in Primary School Playtimes: How
to Make 20% of the School Day 100% Better. Michael Follett, $29.95
Helping schools to develop a long-term playtime strategy,
this book shows how schools can overcome barriers to excellent play for child
development and wellbeing. With proven examples that are workable within
schools' playtime budgets, the strategies show how to tackle and improve upon
common issues including behaviour, staffing and facilities. |
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Cultivating Outdoor Classrooms:
Designing and Implementing Child-Centered Learning Environments. Eric Nelson, $68.95
Transform outdoor spaces into learning
environments where children can enjoy a full range of activities as they spend
quality time in nature. This book is filled with guidance to help you plan,
design, and create an outdoor learning program that is a rich, thoughtfully
equipped, natural extension of your indoor curriculum. Loaded with practical
and creative ideas, CULTIVATING OUTDOOR CLASSROOMS promotes the idea that
if you can do it indoors, you can probably do it outside as well. |
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Culturally Responsive Teaching & the Brain: Promoting Authentic Engagement and Rigor Among Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students. Zaretta Hammond, $62.45
The achievement gap remains a stubborn problem for educators of culturally and linguistically diverse students. Diverse classrooms need a proven framework for optimizing student engagement and facilitating deeper learning. Culturally responsive pedagogy has shown great promise in meeting this need, but many educators still struggle with its implementation. In this book, Zaretta Hammond draws on cutting-edge neuroscience research to offer an innovative approach for designing and implementing brain-compatible culturally responsive instruction. |
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Cyber Dilemmas In
a Jar®: Challenges for Teens. $14.99 (ages 12 & up)
Teens tackle challenges from Internet
safety to cyberbullying with these thought-provoking scenarios. This go-anywhere,
easy-to-use jar prompts interesting and practical discussions about a serious
issue. |
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Deep Diversity:
Overcoming Us vs. Them. Shakil
Choudhury, $22.95 
What if our interactions
with those different from us are strongly influenced by things happening below
the radar of awareness, hidden even from ourselves? Deep Diversity explores this question and argues that “us vs. them” is an unfortunate but
normal part of the human experience due to reasons of both nature and nurture.
To really work through
issues of racial difference and foster greater levels of fairness and
inclusion, argues Shakil Choudhury, requires an understanding of the human
mind? Its conscious and unconscious dimensions. Deep Diversity integrates Choudhury's twenty years of experience with interviews with
researchers in social neuroscience, implicit bias, psychology, and mindfulness.
Using a compassionate but challenging approach, Choudhury helps readers
identify their own bias and offers practical ways to break the “prejudice
habits” we have all learned, in order to tackle systemic discrimination. |
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The Design of Childhood: How the Material World Shapes
Independent Kids. Alexandra Lange, $26.99
Parents obsess over their children's playdates,
kindergarten curriculum, and every bump and bruise, but the toys, classrooms,
playgrounds, and neighborhoods little ones engage with are just as important.
These objects and spaces encode decades, even centuries of changing ideas about
what makes for good child-rearing — and what does not. Do you choose wooden toys,
or plastic, or, increasingly, digital? What do youngsters lose when seesaws are
deemed too dangerous and slides are designed primarily for safety? How can the
built environment help children cultivate self-reliance? In these debates,
parents, educators, and kids themselves are often caught in the middle.
Now, prominent design critic Alexandra Lange reveals the
surprising histories behind the human-made elements of our children's pint-size
landscape. Her fascinating investigation shows how the seemingly innocuous
universe of stuff affects kids' behavior, values, and health, often in subtle
ways. And she reveals how years of decisions by toymakers, architects, and
urban planners have helped — and hindered — American youngsters' journeys toward
independence. Seen through Lange's eyes, everything from the sandbox to the
street becomes vibrant with buried meaning. The Design of Childhood will
change the way you view your children's world, and your own. |
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Developing Memory Skills in the Primary Classroom: a
Complete Programme for All. Gill Davies, $54.95
The memory demands in the classroom for children are
high; they are constantly bombarded by new knowledge in multiple topic areas,
given series of instructions to complete and expected to both learn and
demonstrate their mastery of knowledge and skills on a daily basis. Developing
Memory Skills in the Primary Classroom is a highly practical book that
contains all the guidance and resources a school needs to boost their pupils’
working memory. Proven to have a positive impact on pupils, this tried and
tested complete programme combines teaching pupils memory strategies with
opportunities to practice those strategies within a small group, the classroom
and at home. The resources provided by this book include:
- a variety of photocopiable games and activities
- extensive teaching notes
- a range of sample letters to parents/carers
- essential information sheets
- bespoke baseline assessment tools
- a detailed programme that can be run by a teaching assistant
This text provides a clear link between working in the
classroom and with parents in the home, making it a one-stop resource for any
teacher, teaching assistant or parent wanting to help children develop their
working memory. |
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Difficult Students and Disruptive Behavior in the
Classroom: Teacher Responses That Work. Vance Austin & Daniel Sciarra,
$39.95
Difficult Students and Disruptive Behavior in the Classroom provides skills-based interventions for educators to address the most common
problem behaviors encountered in the classroom. Offering not just
problem-specific “best practices” but an attachment-based foundation of sound
pedagogical principles and strategies for reaching and teaching disruptive,
difficult, and emotionally challenged students, it empowers educators to act
wisely when problem behaviors occur, improve their relationships with students,
and teach with greater success and confidence. |
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Dignity for All: Safeguarding LGBT
Students. Peter DeWitt, $43.50
Students who identify as lesbian, gay,
bisexual, or transgendered are susceptible to harassment from their peers and
are at high risk of dropping out of school. This book provides professional
development ideas and real-life vignettes that will help educational leaders
foster a more caring school culture not only for LGBT students, but for all
students. |
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Direct Behavior Rating: Linking Assessment,
Communication, and Intervention. Amy Briesch, Sandra Chafouleas, T. Chris Riley-Tillman,
et al, $48.50
Grounded in state-of-the-art research, this practical
guide comprehensively shows how to harness the potential of direct behavior
rating (DBR) as a tool for assessment, intervention, and communication in
schools. DBR can be used rapidly and efficiently in PreK-12 classrooms to
support positive behavior and promote self-management. The authors and
contributors provide concrete examples of ways to implement DBR strategies
within multi-tiered systems of support (MTSS). The evidence base supporting
each strategy is reviewed. More than 30 reproducible checklists and forms include
step-by-step implementation blueprints, daily report cards, and more.
Purchasers get access to a Web page where they can download and print the
reproducible materials in a convenient 8½" x 11" size. |
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Discipline in the Secondary
Classroom: a Positive Approach to Behavior Management, 3rd Edition. Randall Sprick, $47.95
This third edition of DISCIPLINE IN
THE SECONDARY CLASSROOM is a treasure trove of practical advice: tips,
checklists, reproducibles, and ready-to-use activities that will save secondary
teachers time and help them become more effective educators. Both new and
seasoned teachers will find the book invaluable for designing a management plan
that prevents problems, motivates students, and teaches students to behave
responsibly.
- Offers a proven classroom management plan based
on Sprick's acclaimed STOIC framework for training teachers: Structure for
success, Teach expectations, Observe and monitor, Interact positively, and
Correct fluently
- Includes information on everything from creating
a vision for classroom behavior to addressing misbehavior and motivating
students
- Bonus DVD features video of Sprick explaining
core practices
This accessible, value-packed resource
shows educators how to work with students to create a well-managed classroom
where learning can flourish |
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Discovering the Culture of Childhood. Emily Plank,
$34.50
We often filter our interactions with children through
the lens of adulthood. View the culture of childhood through a whole new lens.
Identify age-based bias and expand your outlook on and understanding of early
childhood as a culture. Examine various elements of childhood culture:
language, the power of believing, artistic expressions, and social structure.
Filled with research and stories from around the world, this book offers a
multitude of different perspectives to relate to. Understanding children's
dispositions of questioning, wonder, engagement, and cooperation from the
inside changes everything. |
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Documenting Children's Meaning: Engaging in Design and
Creativity with Children and Families — Inspired by the Reggio Emilia
Experience. Jason Avery, Karyn Callaghan & Carol Anne Wien, Foreword by
Lella Gandini $60.95 
The amazing and complex work of children’s minds is made
visible in this groundbreaking new book from Together for Families in Hamilton,
Ontario. Inspired by the world-renowned Infant/Toddler and Preschool centers of
Reggio Emilia, Italy, artist Jason Avery and his colleagues use photography,
recording of children’s words and drawings, and reflective commentary to
document the investigations and emergent concepts taking place in this urban
drop-in center serving children and families from infancy onward.
In a welcome departure from the world of ‘make-and-take’
and rote learning, we see children’s authentic engagement with their curiosity
about the world honored and made visible. We see sustained, long-term
relationships that cultivate and reinforce a positive view of children and
families. We see the powerful results of an educational setting in which
children are supported in their investigations of the things that interest
them. |
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"Don't We Already Do Inclusion?" 100 Ideas
for Improving Inclusive Schools. Paula Kluth, $33.95
Are you trying to grow the inclusive schooling model in
your community? Do you feel like you have tried everything to create change in
your school? Do you want to “sharpen the saw” and become reenergized as an
advocate or educator? If you answered “yes” to any one of these questions, then
this is the book for you!
Don’t We Already Do Inclusion is not only filled
with ideas for teaching diverse learners, but is also focused on change itself
and, more specifically, on how those concerned about inclusion can create
change even when they are not in positions of power. The activities, examples,
and illustrations are designed to help participants refine their vision and
their skills when it comes to inclusion. The ideas are free or low cost, and
many can be achieved by any number of stakeholders — including students and
families. Learn tried and true techniques, as well as out-of-the box solutions
such as involving traditional and social media, “shrinking” the change, phoning
for help, advertising, and writing your way to progress. |
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Dreaming in Indian: Contemporary Native Voices.
Edited by Lisa Charleyboy & Mary Beth Leatherdale, $14.95 
A powerful and visually stunning anthology from some of
the most groundbreaking Native artists working in North America today. Truly
universal in its themes, Dreaming In Indian will shatter
commonly held stereotypes and challenge readers to rethink their own place in
the world. Emerging and established Native artists, including acclaimed author
Joseph Boyden, renowned visual artist Bunky Echo Hawk, and stand-up comedian Ryan
McMahon, contribute thoughtful and heartfelt pieces on their experiences
growing up Indigenous, expressing them through such mediums as art, food, the
written word, sport, dance, and fashion.
Whether addressing the effects of residential schools,
calling out bullies through personal manifestos, or simply citing hopes for the
future, Dreaming In Indian refuses to shy away from difficult
topics. Insightful, thought-provoking, and beautifully honest, this book will
to appeal to young adult readers. |
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The Drum Story. By the Ojibwe Anishinaabe People
of Manitoulin Island, $29.95
This beautiful and ancient story has been passed down
through many generations. It tells of a young girl given the gift of the first
drum, and how she used that drum to bring peace to her people. Told in the
traditional oral style, the teachings of the story are all about respect for
one another and how to live well and properly with Mother Earth.
This hard cover book is richly illustrated (60 pictures
and paintings) with 12 originally commissioned original artworks. The DVD is
included in a sleeve on the inside back cover. The combination of reading and
hearing the story told in the ages old traditional method is extraordinary. The
DVD also features traditional drumming and singing. The Drum Story book
with story-telling DVD includes English with OJibwe language translation —
selectable on DVD with opposing subtitle and teacher/educational aids in PDF
format included on DVD - printable as teacher resource. |
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Educating Children with Life-Limiting Conditions: a
Practical handbook for Teachers and School-Based Staff. Alison Ekins, Sally
Robinson, Ian Durant & Kathryn Summers, $60.10
Educating Children with Life-Limiting Conditions supports teachers who are working with children with life-limiting or
life-threatening conditions in mainstream schools by providing them with the
core knowledge and skills that underpin effective practice within a
whole-school and cross-agency approach.
Mainstream schools now include increasing numbers of
children with life-limiting or life-threatening conditions, and this accessible
book is written by a team comprised of both education and health professionals,
helping to bridge the gap between different services. Recognising the
complexity of individual cases, the authors communicate key principles relating
to the importance of communication, multi-professional understanding and
working and proactive planning for meeting the needs of any child with a life-limiting
or life-threatening condition that can be applied to a range of situations.
Reflective activities and practical resources are
provided and are also available to download. This book will be of interest to
teachers in mainstream schools, as well as teachers, and senior leaders in all
school settings, school nurses, children’s nurses and allied health
professionals. |
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Eight Essential Techniques for Teaching with
Intention: What Makes Reggio and Other Inspired Approaches Effective. Ann
Lewin-Benham, $50.95
In her latest book, bestselling author Ann Lewin-Benham
describes eight techniques that foster intentional and reflective classroom
practice. She presents over 70 novel exercises to help teachers learn to use
body, face, hands, voice, eyes, and word choices to precisely convey
meaning. Some exercises are for teachers to practice, while others build
intention and reflection in children. Dozens of scenarios from typical
classroom situations contrast unintentional and intentional teaching
behaviors. A self-assessment enables teachers to measure how intentional
and reflective they become as they learn to use the eight techniques. |
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The Embodied Teen: a Somatic Curriculum for Teaching
Body-Mind Awareness, Kinesthetic Intelligence, and Social and Emotional Skills. Susan Bauer, $33.95
Susan Bauer presents a groundbreaking curriculum for
teaching teens how to integrate body and mind, enhance kinesthetic
intelligence, and develop the inner resilience they need to thrive, now and
into adulthood. Designed for educators, therapists, counselors, and movement
practitioners, The Embodied Teen presents a pioneering introductory,
student-centered program in somatic movement education. Using the student's own
body as the lab through which to learn self-care, injury prevention, body
awareness, and emotional resilience, Bauer teaches basic embodiment practices
that establish the foundation for further skill development in sports, dance,
and leisure activities. Students learn the basics of anatomy and physiology,
and unlearn self-defeating habits that impact body image and self-esteem. By
examining their cultural perceptions, they discover their body prejudices,
helping them to both respect diversity and gain compassion for themselves and
others. Concise and accessible, the lessons presented in this book will empower
teens as they navigate the volatile physical and emotional challenges they face
during this vibrant, powerful stage of life. |
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Essential Listening Skills for Busy School Staff: What
to Say When You Don't Know What to Say. Nick Luxmore, $27.95
How do you listen effectively when you're already late
for a meeting? How do you respond to a girl who's so angry that she's
threatening to hit someone? Or to a boy who feels like giving up altogether?
How do you listen, not only to students, but also to parents and to colleagues?
Whatever your role in school, listening will be at the heart of what you do.
Your school will be measured, in part, by the quality of its daily
relationships and those relationships will depend on how confidently people are
able to listen to each other.
This book answers all the difficult questions
about how to listen, what to say, confidentiality and more. Helping with
particular issues such as bullying, relationship difficulties, depression and
self-harm is also covered. |
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Every Word Is a Bird We Teach to Sing: Encounters with
the Mysteries and Meanings of Language. Daniel Tammet, $35.00
A mind-expanding, deeply humane tour of language by the
bestselling author of Born on a Blue Day and Thinking in Numbers.
Is vocabulary destiny? Why do clocks “talk” to the Nahua
people of Mexico? Will A.I. researchers ever produce true human-machine
dialogue? In this mesmerizing collection of essays, Daniel Tammet goes back in time to London to explore the numeric
language of his autistic childhood; in Iceland, he learns why the name Blær
became a court case; in Canada, he meets one of the world’s most accomplished
lip readers. He chats with chatbots; contrives an “e”-less essay on lipograms;
studies the grammar of the telephone; contemplates the significance of
disappearing dialects; and corresponds with native Esperanto speakers — in
their mother tongue.
A joyous romp through the world of words, letters,
stories, and meanings, Every Word Is a Bird We Teach to Sing explores
the way communication shapes reality. From the art of translation to the
lyricism of sign language, these essays display the stunning range of Tammet’s
literary and polyglot talents. |
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Everyday Playfulness: a New Approach to Children's
Play and Adult Responses to It. Stuart Lester, $37.95
Seeing play as an important and vital element of life for
children and adults alike, this book addresses the ways in which practitioners
take account of and act responsibly with moments of children's play and
playfulness.
Working with the Playwork Principles, the book draws on
alternative concepts to traditional approaches, including ideas from
materialist and posthuman philosophy and human geography, to explore playing as
process rather than product. Topics covered include play and wellbeing, play
and space, and the micro-politics of playing, critical cartography and adult
account-ability and response-ability. It concludes by considering the
implications for professional practice and offering ways that professionals can
develop practices that maintain and co-create favourable conditions in which
children's play can flourish. |
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Executive
Function in the Classroom. Christopher
Kaufman, $46.50
Practical strategies for improving performance and enhancing skills for all students. This teacher-friendly guide lays a clear and simple path to stronger executive skills for all students and lasting academic and social success. |
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Fight to Learn: the Struggle to Go to School.
Laura Scandiffio, $16.95 (ages 10-14) 
In many countries around the world, universal access to
education is a seemingly unattainable dream; however, determined individuals
with vision and drive have made this dream come true for many.
Fight to Learn highlights people such as Okello, a
former child soldier in Uganda, who founded a school for children like him
whose education was derailed by war; Chicago teen Deonte Tanner, who changed
one high school’s culture from guns and gangs to talking and learning; Shannen
Koostachin, a feisty 13-year-old Cree whose fight for the right of First
Nations children to have proper schools endured even after her untimely death.
The uplifting stories of people who were undeterred in
their fight to bring education to children will leave young readers with excellent
models of how to mobilize support when fighting for a cause you believe in. |
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Finnish Lessons 2.0: What Can the World Learn from
Educational Change in Finland? Pasi Sahlberg, $33.50
With Finnish Lessons 2.0, Pasi Sahlberg has
thoroughly updated his groundbreaking account of how Finland built a
world-class education system during the past four decades. The author traces
the evolution of education policies in Finland and highlights how they differ
from the United States and other industrialized countries. Featuring
substantial additions throughout the text, Finnish Lessons 2.0 demonstrates
how systematically focusing on teacher and leader professionalism, building
trust between the society and its schools, and investing in educational equity
rather than competition, choice, and other market-based reforms make Finnish
schools an international model of success. This second edition details the
complexity of meaningful change by examining Finland’s educational performance
in light of the most recent international assessment data and domestic changes. |
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Five Big Ideas for Effective
Teaching: Connecting Mind, Brain, and Education Research to
Classroom Practice. Donna Wilson & Marcus Conyers,
$41.95
This seminal text, grounded in the
synergy of five big ideas for connecting mind, brain and education research to
classroom practice, empowers educators with an inspiring conceptual framework
for effective teaching. The practical application of the essential
ideas — neuroplasticity, potential, malleable intelligence, the Body-Brain
System, and metacognition — is supported by a wealth of vignettes, examples,
inspirational stories from teachers, strategies, reflective questions, and
connections between current research on how people learn and classroom
practice. |
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Flipped Learning: Gateway to Student Engagement. Jonathan
Bergmann & Aaron Sams, $31.50
Flipped classroom pioneers Jonathan Bergmann and Aaron
Sams take their revolutionary educational philosophy to the next level
in Flipped Learning. Building on the energy of the thousands of educators
inspired by the influential book Flip Your Classroom, this installment is
all about what happens next — when a classroom is truly student-centered
and teachers are free to engage with students on an individual level.
Flipping, combined with practical project-based learning
pedagogy, changes everything. Loaded with powerful stories from teachers across
curriculum and grade levels, Flipped Learning will once again turn
your expectations upside-down and fuel your excitement for teaching and
learning. |
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For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood... and the Rest
of Y'all Too: Reality Pedagogy and Urban Education. Christopher Emdin,
$22.00
Drawing on his own experience of feeling undervalued and
invisible in classrooms as a young man of color and merging his experiences
with more than a decade of teaching and researching in urban America,
award-winning educator Christopher Emdin offers a new lens on an approach to
teaching and learning in urban schools. He begins by taking to task the
perception of urban youth of color as un-teachable, and he challenges educators
to embrace and respect each student’s culture and to re-imagine the classroom
as a site where roles are reversed and students become the experts in their own
learning.
Putting forth his theory of Reality Pedagogy, Emdin
provides practical tools to unleash the brilliance and eagerness of youth and
educators alike — both of whom have been typecast and stymied by outdated modes
of thinking about urban education. With this fresh and engaging new pedagogical
vision, Emdin demonstrates the importance of creating a family structure and
building communities within the classroom, using culturally relevant strategies
like hip-hop music and call-and-response, and connecting the experiences of
urban youth to indigenous populations globally. Merging real stories with
theory, research, and practice, Emdin demonstrates how by implementing the
“Seven C’s” of reality pedagogy in their own classrooms, urban youth of color
benefit from truly transformative education.
Lively, accessible, and revelatory, For White Folks
Who Teach in the Hood...and the Rest of Y’all Too is the much-needed
antidote to traditional top-down pedagogy and promises to radically reframe the
landscape of urban education for the better. |
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Freedom to Learn: Creating a Classroom Where Every Child Thrives. Art
Willans & Cari Williams, $19.95
Disinterested students and behavioral problems are all
too common in schools. Yet results show that behavior charts and other
reward-and-punishment systems simply don't work. Teachers are burning out and
students are failing. But what can be done?
The secret lies in a unique combination of behavioral
science, neuropsychology, and group dynamics. When teachers get the classroom
experience right, students want to succeed and achieve to their potential,
while behavioral problems largely vanish. For decades, it has been widely
accepted that children have motivating needs including the need to avoid pain,
a need for autonomy, and the need to belong. The authors harness these
motivations into a method of interactions that increases cooperation, and in which
children want to succeed and help others to thrive.
Packed with real classroom examples and practical
guidance for using the methods, this guide gives teachers the tools to
transform even difficult classrooms. Start teaching for universal success in
classroom management and academic accomplishments. |
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From Teaching to Thinking: a Pedagogy for Imagining
Our Work. Ann Pelo & Margie Carter, $51.95 (Reimagining Our Work (ROW) Collection)
From Teaching to Thinking offers a passionate and
thought-provoking alternative to standardized, scripted curriculum, giving
educators support and encouragement to re-imagine the beauty and wonder of what
education could be. Naturally, children are eager for connective
relationships, they are curious, they are thinkers. This foundational text is a
pedagogical companion for educators that strengthens their own development as
thinkers, researchers, innovators, and constructors of knowledge so that they
can pass on this way of being to the children in their care.
From Teaching to Thinking is the foundation of the Reimagining Our Work (ROW)
collection. Use the ROW collection to discover how early childhood educators in
the field are reimagining their work and thinking alongside children. |
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Gender Diversity and Inclusion in Early Years
Education. Kath Tayler & Deborah Price, $50.30
How can we support children to reach their full potential
and not be constrained by gender expectations? Are gender roles fixed at birth
or do they develop through experiences? Gender Diversity and Inclusion in
Early Years Education introduces practitioners to key aspects of gender in
the early years and explores how to ensure that children and staff teams are
supported in settings that have outstanding practice. |
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Getting Started with Coding: Get Creative with Code! Camille
McCue, $9.99
Getting Started with Coding is here to help kids
get started with the basics of coding. It walks young readers through fun
projects that were tested in the classroom. Each project has an end-goal to
instill confidence and a sense of achievement in young coders.
Steering clear of jargon and confusing terminology, Getting
Started with Coding is written in clear, instructive language. Plus, the
full-color design is heavy on eye-catching graphics and the format is focused
on the steps to completing a project, making it approachable for any young
person with an interest in exploring the wonderful world of coding.
- Introduces the basics of coding to create a drawing tool
- Teaches how to create graphics and apply code to make them do
things
- Shows how to make things that respond to motion and collision
commands
- Introduces score-keeping and timing into coding
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Girls Who Code: Learn to Code and Change the World.
Reshma Saujani, $23.99
Since 2012, the organization Girls Who Code has been
leading the charge to get girls interested in technology and coding. Now its
founder, Reshma Saujani, wants to inspire you to be a girl who codes!
Bursting with dynamic artwork, down-to-earth explanations
of coding principles, and real-life stories of girls and women working at
places like Pixar and NASA, this graphically animated book shows what a huge
role computer science plays in our lives and how much fun it can be. No matter
your interest — sports, the arts, baking, student government, social
justice — coding can help you do what you love and make your dreams come true.
Whether you’re a girl who’s never coded before, a girl
who codes, or a parent raising one, this entertaining book, printed in bold two-color
and featuring art on every page, will have you itching to create your own apps,
games, and robots to make the world a better place. |
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Giving Children a Voice: a Step-by-Step Guide to
Promoting Child-Centered Practice. Sam Frankel, $25.95
How do you ensure that children's voices and ideas are
heard and valued in relation to the settings that form part of their everyday
lives?
Presenting an easy to adopt step-by-step framework, this
book argues in favour of children's potential to advocate for themselves, in
contrast to the current model in which adults take full control and advocate on
the child's behalf. By honouring and harnessing the involvement and
contributions of children, social workers and education professionals will be
able to improve their daily practice and positively transform key spaces within
society to create environments where children experience a sense of belonging
and purpose, full of potential benefits for both adults and children. Practical
at its core, the book has wide applications, from examining the place of
children in legal matters, such as divorce, through to the child's engagement
in decisions about their education. International case studies reveal how the
model works in practice and encourages children's voices and their
participation. |
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Great Afterschool Programs and Spaces
that WOW! Linda Armstrong & Christine Schmidt,
$62.50
Create high quality, engaging
environments for school-age children to meet their developmental needs and
support their learning. GREAT AFTERSCHOOL PROGRAMS AND SPACES THAT WOW outlines
the many aspects — physical, temporal, and interactive environments — to consider
as you manage programs for children that are safe, nurturing, exciting, and
welcoming. Ideas, strategies, and realistic approaches that work within your
afterschool program's constraints and unique needs are included. |
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The Growth Mindset Coach: a Teacher's Month-by-Month
Handbook for Empowering Students to Achieve. Annie Brock & Heather
Hundley, $20.95
Many students feel they are “bad” in some areas, like
math or science, and “good” in others, like reading and writing. The Growth
Mindset Coach shows teachers how they can make any classroom a positive,
growth mindset environment. It’s a step-by-step guide for empowering students
to excel in all areas.
Based on decades of research, the psychology of mindset
is the hottest topic of discussion among educators everywhere. The Growth
Mindset Coach breaks down the research to offer an accessible, practical
tool for teachers to use immediately. From detailed lesson plans in various
subjects to crucial encouraging words and phrases, The Growth Mindset Coach outlines a new set of skills and strategies that helps students realize their
own potential, work harder, and accomplish more. |
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The Growth Mindset Playbook: a Teacher's Guide to
Promoting Student Success. Annie Brock & Heather Hundley, $21.50
Students who harness the power of growth mindset can
succeed beyond their wildest imagination. The key is having a growth-mindset
teacher who provides support, guidance, and encouragement. Packed with
research-based teaching methods, this approachable guide for applying the
growth mindset offers:
- Tips for overcoming challenges
- Strategies for inspiring students
- Ideas for constructive feedback
- Techniques for improving communication
- Examples of engaging lesson plans
The follow-up to the bestselling The Growth Mindset
Coach, this expert handbook highlights several best practices for helping
students realize their potential, explore new opportunities, and succeed
socially and academically. |
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A Guide to Documenting Learning: Making Thinking
Visible, Meaningful, Shareable, and Amplified. Silvia Rosenthal Tolisano
& Janet Hale, $44.95
Documenting learning is a process that makes thinking
about learning processes visible, meaningful, shareable, and amplified. It
facilitates student-driven learning, helping students reflect on and articulate
their own learning processes. It also helps teachers reflect on their own
learning and classroom practice. When teachers are co-creators with their
students, both gain valuable insights that inform future learning and empower
students as engaged learners. This unique how-to book
- Explains the purposes and different types of documentation
- Teaches different “Learning Flow” systems to help educators
integrate documentation throughout the curriculum
- Provides authentic examples of documentation in real classrooms
- Is accompanied by a robust companion website where readers can
find even more documentation examples and video tutorials
Written for educators of any grade level, this book
provides insights into contemporary learning and professional learning
environments, and emphasizes the power of technology to amplify teaching and
learning beyond school walls. |
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Healthy Mindsets for Super Kids: a
Resilience Programme for Children Ages 7-14. Stephanie
Azri , Illustrated by Sid Azri, $39.95
Self-esteem, communication skills,
positive thinking, healthy friendships, and dealing with anger, stress, anxiety
and grief are all crucial parts of being resilient and having strong life
skills.
Join forces with superheroes Steemy,
Link, Zen, KipKool, Holly and Hally, Beau and Angel in this 10 session
programme to boost resilience in children aged 7-14. Each session focuses on a
key theme, and a superhero character helps to teach each skill, from overcoming
anxiety to dealing with grief. A creative hands-on activity closes each
session, and session summaries and tips for parents encourage children to
continue learning and building their skills between sessions. An engaging comic
strip story about the superheroes runs throughout the program. Sessions are
flexible and easily adaptable for use in different settings and with younger or
older children, and include photocopiable worksheets. This imaginative resource
is a complete programme, ideal for teachers, counsellors, therapists, social
workers and youth workers. |
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Heart-Centered Teaching Inspired by Nature: Using
Nature's Wisdom to Bring More Joy and Effectiveness to Our Work with Children. Nancy Rosenow, $14.95
Nancy Rosenow believes that the natural world can provide
strength and inspiration for our personal journeys — adult and child alike.
This book offers a way of supporting children that comes from a place of love
for each other and a place of awe and appreciation for the wonders of the world
around us. |
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Helping Children Succeed: What Works and Why. Paul
Tough, $20.99
In How Children Succeed, Paul Tugh introduced
readers to research showing that personal qualities like perseverance,
self-control, and conscientiousness play a critical role in children's success.
Now, in Helping Children Succeed, Paul Tough takes
on a new set of pressing questions: What does growing up in poverty do to
children’s mental and physical development? How does adversity at home affect
their success in the classroom, from preschool to high school? And what
practical steps can the adults who are responsible for them — from parents and
teachers to policy makers and philanthropists — take to improve their chances
for a positive future?
Tough encourages us to think in a brand-new way about the
challenges of childhood. Rather than trying to “teach” skills like grit and
self-control, he argues, we should focus instead on creating the kinds of
environments, both at home and at school, in which those qualities are most
likely to flourish. Mining the latest research in psychology and neuroscience,
Tough provides us with insights and strategies for a new approach to childhood
adversity, one designed to help many more children succeed. |
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Helping Kids Help: Organizing Successful Charitable
Projects. Renée Heiss, $25.99
When children’s enthusiasm for helping others surpasses
their knowledge of how to help, parents, teachers, camp counselors, and group
leaders are often called on to give direction. Helping Kids Help provides adult mentors with answers to questions they face.
- How can kids evaluate and select the best charity for their
contributions?
- Should children perform a team-building exercise before they
begin a project?
- What parental permission issues are involved?
- For ongoing service projects, should the group write a mission
statement? Open a savings account?
Helping Kids Help contains dozens of real-life
examples of adults and children involved in service projects — the struggles they
overcame, the lessons they learned, and the benefits they enjoyed. It also
includes specific project ideas, Web sites, and additional resources to
explore. This valuable handbook will help you develop projects that benefit not
only those being served, but the children doing the service, developing life
skills such as commitment, sacrifice, cooperation, tolerance, and even valuable
career skills. Everyone wins! |
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Helping School Refusing Children and Their Parents: a
Guide for School-Based Professionals, 2nd Edition. Christopher Kearney, $40.95
Children who miss substantial amounts of school pose one
of the most vexing problems for school officials. In many cases, school
personnel must assess these students and successfully help them to return to
the academic setting. This can be difficult considering most school-based
professionals are pressed for time and do not have access to proper resources.
The information in this book can help school officials combat absenteeism and
reduce overall dropout rates.
Designed for guidance counselors, teachers, principals
and deans, school psychologists, school-based social workers, and other school
professionals, Helping School Refusing Children and Their Parents outlines various strategies for helping children get back to school with less
distress, all of which can be easily implemented in schools. This fully-updated
second edition provides recommendations for a multi-tiered approach to school
absenteeism that concentrates on prevention (Tier 1), early intervention for
emerging cases (Tier 2), and more extensive intervention and systemic
strategies for severe cases (Tier 3), with each tier based on empirically
supported strategies grounded in scientific research. A chapter on assessment
describes several methods for identifying school refusal behavior, including
time-limited techniques for school officials who have little opportunity to
conduct detailed evaluations. Worksheets for facilitating assessment are
included and can easily be photocopied from the book. Other chapters provide
advice for working collaboratively with parents, preventing relapse, and
special issues. Topics such as poverty, homelessness, teenage pregnancy,
violence, and school safety are also addressed, as are individualized education
plans and consultation with other clinicians. |
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Hey, Shorty!
A Guide to Combating Sexual Harassment and Violence in Schools
and On the Streets. Girls of Gender Equity (GGE),
$16.50
At every stage of education, sexual harassment is common, and often considered a rite of passage for young people. Girls for Gender Equity, a nonprofit organization based in New York City, has developed a model for teens to teach one another about sexual harassment. How do you define it? How does it affect your self-esteem? What do you do in response? Why is it so normalized in schools, and how can we as a society begin to address these causes? Geared toward students, parents, teachers, policy makers, and activists, this book is an excellent model for building awareness and creating change in any community. |
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The Home Education Handbook: a Comprehensive and
Practical Guide to Educating Children at Home. Gill Hines & Alison
Baverstock, $26.99
If you are thinking of home educating your child, your
initial surprise may be at how easy it is to turn intention into reality. Once
you have deregistered your child, you are largely left to get on with
delivering education from home, as you see best.
This book is full of practical guidance for parents,
based on the authors' long experience of working with children and young
people; their parents, teachers and schools. It will help you plan what is
taught, as well as when and how. The authors not only consider how to benefit
from the opportunities home education provides, but also suggest creative ways to
fill the potential gaps that might arise from not being part of the traditional
school system.
The Home Education Handbook covers everything from
the socialisation of home-educated children to advice on supporting the
motivation and resilience of all involved. This is a book that every parent who
is considering home education or flexi-schooling, or is simply keen to ensure that
their child gets the best education possible, needs to read. |
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Homophobia in the Hallways: Heterosexiam and
Transphobia in Canadian Catholic Schools. Tonya Callaghan, $27.95 
Section 15 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
ensures equality regarding sexual orientation and gender identity in Canada.
Despite this, gay, lesbian, and gender-nonconforming teachers in
publicly-funded Catholic schools in Ontario and Alberta are being fired for
living lives that Church leaders claim run contrary to Catholic doctrine about
non-heterosexuality; meanwhile, requests from students to establish
Gay/Straight Alliances are often denied.
In Homophobia in the Hallways, Tonya Callaghan
interrogates institutionalized homophobia and transphobia in the
publicly-funded Catholic school systems of Ontario and Alberta. Featuring
twenty interviews with students and teachers who have faced overt
discrimination in Catholic schools, the book blends theoretical inquiry and
real-world case study, making Callaghan’s study a unique insight into
religiously-inspired heterosexism and genderism. She uncovers the causes and
effects of the long-standing disconnect between Canadian Catholic schools and
the Charter by comparing the treatment of and attitudes towards lesbian, gay,
bisexual, transgender and queer teachers and students in these publicly-funded
systems. |
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HOT Skills: Developing Higher-Order Thinking in Young
Learners. Steffen Saifer, $55.50 (ages 4-8)
Young learners are capable
of a great deal of higher-order thinking, yet too many teaching and learning
activities require students to use only lower-order thinking. HOT Skills breaks down theory into practice so you won t miss an opportunity to help young
learners develop logical, critical, and creative thinking skills. Dr. Saifer
provides numerous strategies for infusing play-based activities and
interactions that promote higher-order thinking across all content areas and
throughout the day. Just as establishing good nutrition habits early sets the
foundation for a healthier life, developing basic-level HOT skills sets the
foundation for a more productive and purposeful life. |
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How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the
Hidden Power of Character. Paul Tough, $22.50
Why do some children succeed while
others fail? The story we usually tell about childhood and success is the one
about intelligence: success comes to those who score highest on tests, from
preschool admissions to SATs. But in HOW CHILDREN SUCCEED, Paul Tough
argues that the qualities that matter more have to do with character: skills
like perseverance, curiosity, optimism, and self-control.
HOW CHILDREN SUCCEED introduces us to a new generation of researchers and
educators, who, for the first time, are using the tools of science to peel back
the mysteries of character. Through their stories — and the stories of the
children they are trying to help — Tough reveals how this new knowledge can
transform young people’s lives. He uncovers the surprising ways in which
parents do — and do not — prepare their children for adulthood. And he provides us
with new insights into how to improve the lives of children growing up in
poverty. This provocative and profoundly hopeful book will not only inspire and
engage readers; it will also change our understanding of childhood itself. |
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How to Be a Peaceful School: Practical Ideas, Stories
and Inspiration. Edited by Anna Lubelska, $29.95
Peace is needed now more than ever in schools, by pupils
and teachers alike. This inspiring guide provides primary, secondary and
special schools with practical methods to improve pupil and teacher wellbeing,
combat bullying, and promote peace both inside and outside the school gates.
The founder of the Peaceful Schools Movement, Anna
Lubelska, has brought together ideas and stories from teachers and charity
workers to present a simple four step system for promoting positive peace in
individuals, relationships, the school community and the world. It covers how
to reduce stress, promote positive mental health, resolve conflict, nurture the
potential of each individual, and encourage children to develop peacemaking
skills and values. This holistic resource is equally beneficial for children
and staff, and transforms school environments for the better. |
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How to Do Restorative Peer Mediation in Your School. Bill
Hansberry & Christie-Lee Hansberry, $45.95
Developed for schools exploring the use of restorative
approaches to conflict resolution, this manual explains how to set up and run a
restorative peer mediation programme, to provide students with the skills
needed to nurture a climate of care and co-operation.
Peer mediation can help peers solve conflicts in the
classroom and schoolyard, providing both peer mediators and the children they
help with opportunities for responsibility, growth and learning, as well as
freeing up time for teachers to focus on other priorities. The guide includes
all the information you need on how restorative peer mediation works, and
includes an easy to implement training programme with sample scripts, handouts
and letter templates to train up peer mediators in your school.
With adapted materials for delivering training to
children aged 10-16, this handbook is accompanied by downloadable and adaptable
online materials to tailor training to specific settings. |
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How to Talk to Children about Art, 2nd Edition. Françoise
Barbe-Gall, $25.99
A must-have for adults who want their children to love
and understand art, this guide provides valuable tips for making your visit to
a museum or gallery with children a success. It anticipates how kids might
react to paintings by artists as diverse as Kandinsky, Hopper, Picasso, Van
Gogh, and Turner and then gives you the tools to have a meaningful discussion
about what they see. It doesn't matter if you only know a little about painting
or if you are more interested in sports or sciences; if you trust your own
eyes, you can help children "enter" a picture and feel comfortable in
the world it depicts.
You will learn how to help impatient ones express their
intuition and how to stimulate their imagination as well as their analytical
mind. Sample questions and answers about 30 artworks from the Renaissance to
the 21st century provide historical background, explain genres such as still
life and portrait, and demystify religious and mythological themes. This new
edition features all new paintings along with labeled sections for easy
reference according to the age of your child (5–7 years, 8–10 years, 11–13+
years). Full-color reproductions of all the paintings invite study at home
either before or after a museum visit. |
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How To Transform Your School Into an LGBT+ Friendly
Space: a Practical Guide for Nursery, Primary and Secondary Teachers. Elly
Barnes & Anna Carlile, $29.95
Currently teachers don't receive the training or
induction they need to make their school an LGBT+ inclusive environment. This
book will help transform your school into a safe and inclusive place for all
students. How To Transform Your School Into an LGBT+ Friendly Space gives
teachers and other staff the knowledge, strategies and confidence they need to
implement a curriculum that is inclusive for all. Actively promoting
acceptance, what language to use, case studies and much more, it is a must-have
guide for all schools. |
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Implementing Restorative Practices in Schools: a
Practical Guide to Transforming School Communities. Margaret Thorsborne
& Peta Blood, $49.95
Restorative practice is a proven approach to discipline
in schools that favours relationships over retribution, and has been shown to
improve behaviour and enhance teaching and learning outcomes. However, in order
for it to work, restorative practice needs a relational school culture. IMPLEMENTING
RESTORATIVE PRACTICE IN SCHOOLS explains what has to happen in a school in
order for it to become truly restorative. Featuring useful pro formas and
templates, this book will be an indispensable guide for educators,
administrators and school leaders in mainstream and specialist settings. |
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In Other Words: Phrases for Growth Mindset — a
Teacher's Guide to Empowering Students through Effective Praise and Feedback. Annie
Brock & Heather Hundley, $17.50
Infuse the powerful vocabulary of growth mindset into
your lesson plans, feedback and student guidance! From the authors of the
bestselling The Growth Mindset Coach, this handy companion is a
must-have if you want to empower students through purposeful praise and
feedback. Here are the key strategies, helpful tips and go-to phrases for
helping students transition thoughts, words and actions into the growth-mindset
zone.
Designed for ease of use and packed with over a hundred
specific examples, this book offers a “say this, not that” approach to
communication that will help you model and cultivate growth mindset in the
classroom. |
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Incredible Teachers: Nurturing Children’s Social,
Emotional, and Academic Competence. Carolyn Webster-Stratton, $42.95
Incredible Teachers is for day care providers
and teachers of young children ages 3-8 years. The book presents a variety of
creative classroom management strategies for teachers to use to meet children’s
developmental milestones and teach emotional literacy, friendship skills,
self-regulation and problem solving skills. Teachers are encouraged to set up
individualized programs for children who are at risk due to learning
difficulties, hyperactivity, impulsivity, attention deficit disorder, language
and reading delays, depressive or aggressive behavior. The author shows how teachers
can integrate individualized, culturally sensitive interventions for such
children in the mainstream classroom. The book also shows how to partner with
parents to promote their children’s social, emotional, language and academic
competence.
This book is the text for teachers using the Incredible
Years Teacher Classroom Management Program and the Child Dinosaur Emotional,
Social and Problem Solving Curriculum. It can be useful as a stand-alone guide
for teachers and caregivers. |
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Indigenous Peoples of Canada Grade 4-6. Colin
Turnbull, $15.99 
This book introduces students to Indigenous Peoples —
First Nations, the Inuit, and the Métis — past and present. Their cultures,
traditions, art, and interactions with Europeans as they arrived in what is now
Canada. |
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Inspiring Spaces
for Young Children. Jessica Deviney, et al, $45.95
The classroom environment is an essential component for maximizing learning experiences for young children. Inspiring Spaces for Young Children invites teachers to enhance children’s educational environment in a beautiful way by emphasizing aesthetic environmental qualities that are often overlooked in early childhood classrooms, such as nature, color, furnishings, textures, displays, lighting, and focal points. With easy-to-implement ideas that incorporate nature, children’s artwork, and everyday classroom materials, the photographs and ideas in this book promote creativity, learning, and simple beauty.
Also available: Rating Observation Scale for Inspiring Environments. Jessica Deviney, et al, $25.95
An inspiring environment is essential for helping young children learn. The Rating Observation Scale for Inspiring Environments (ROSIE) is an observation rating scale that challenges teachers to examine classrooms in a totally new way. Looking through an aesthetic lens of nature, color, furnishings, textures, displays, lighting, and focal points, educators will learn to determine a classroom’s level of aesthetic beauty. ROSIE then provides images and examples to assist in turning learning spaces into inspirational environments in which children can grow and learn. |
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Introducing a School Dog: Our Adventures with Doodles
the Schnoodle. Cherryl Drabble, $31.95
A therapy dog can provide a range of benefits within
school settings, such as improving a child's social skills, decreasing anxiety
and improving cardiovascular health. This concise book covers everything staff
need to know about introducing a therapy animal into a school environment.
Giving the author's personal story of introducing her
school's therapy puppy, it explains the practical issues and finances
associated with doing so. By sharing what she has learnt and discovered, the
guide gives invaluable advice to teachers and other education professionals
interested in Assisted Animal Therapy, such as how to choose the best dog for
the setting, and how to introduce the puppy to staff, children and parents.
Various success stories are also given, depicting both expected and unexpected
benefits that can arise from introducing a therapy dog.
Suitable for both special education as well as mainstream
settings, Introducing a School Dog is a perfect guide for successfully
implementing a therapy dog into a school environment. |
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Is Everyone Really Equal? An Introduction to Key Concepts in Social Justice Education, 2nd Edition. Özlem Sensoy & Robin DiAngelo, $48.95
This is the new edition of the award-winning guide to social justice education. Based on the authors' extensive experience in a range of settings in the United States and Canada, the book addresses the most common stumbling blocks to understanding social justice. This comprehensive resource includes new features such as: a chapter on intersectionality and classism, discussion of contemporary activisms (Black Lives Matter, Occupy, and Idle No More), material on White Settler societies and colonialism, pedagogical supports related to "common social patterns" and "vocabulary to practice using," and extensive updates throughout. Accessible to students from high school through graduate school, Is Everyone Really Equal? is a detailed and engaging textbook and professional development resourcer presenting the key concepts in social justice education. The text includes many user-friendly features, examples, and vignettes to not just define but illustrate key concepts.
Book Features: Definition Boxes that define key terms; Stop Boxes to remind readers of previously explained ideas; Perspective Check Boxes to draw attention to alternative standpoints; Discussion Questions and Extension Activities for using the book in a class, workshop or study group; Glossary of terms and guide to language use. |
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It's More Than "Just Being In": Creating
Authentic Inclusion for Students with Complex Support Needs. Cheryl
Jorgensen, $48.50
For students with disabilities, including those with
complex support needs, inclusion means more than just physical presence in a
classroom — it means valued membership and full participation in a general
education classroom and the school community. This book is your school team's
practical blueprint for making authentic inclusion happen in K–12 classrooms.
Taking the stress and uncertainty out of inclusion,
Cheryl Jorgensen guides you step by step through her accessible approach to
creating inclusive learning environments for students with autism, Down
syndrome, intellectual disability, and multiple disabilities. You'll get a
clear rationale for meaningful inclusion and learn how to use strengths-based,
person-centered planning to meet the needs of each individual student.
Concrete, research-based examples show you what successful inclusion looks
like, and ready-to-use strategies help you implement each stage of inclusion,
from presuming competence to supporting the transition to adult life.
Especially helpful for new teachers—but a great source of
real-world ideas for any educator or parent—this essential guidebook will help
your school team develop fully inclusive classrooms where every student learns
and thrives. |
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Language at the Speed of Sight: How We Read, Why So
Many Can't, and What Can Be Done About It. Mark Seidenberg, $24.99
The way we teach reading is not working, and it cannot
continue. We have largely abandoned phones-based reading instruction, despite
research that supports its importance for word recognition. Rather than
treating Black English as a valid dialect and recognizing that speaking one
dialect can impact the ability to learn to read in another, teachers simply
dismiss it as "incorrect English." And while we press children to develop
large vocabularies because we think being a good reader means knowing more
words, studies have found that a large vocabulary is only an indication of
better pattern recognition.
Understanding the science of reading is more important
than ever — for us, and for our children. Seidenberg helps us do so by drawing
on cutting-edge research in machine learning, linguistics, and early childhood
development. Language at the Speed of Sight offers an erudite and
scathing examination of this most human of activities, and concrete proposals
for how our society can produce better readers. |
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Learning to Breathe: a Mindfulness
Curriculum for Adolescents to Cultivate Emotion Regulation, Attention, and
Performance. Patricia Broderick, $102.00
LEARNING TO BREATHE is a secular program
that tailors the teaching of mindfulness to the developmental needs of
adolescents to help them understand their thoughts and feelings and manage
distressing emotions. Students will be empowered by learning important
mindfulness meditation skills that help them improve emotion regulation, reduce
stress, improve overall performance, and, perhaps most importantly, develop
their attention. The book also includes a website link with student handouts
and homework assignments, making it an ideal classroom tool.
The book integrates certain themes of
mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR), developed by Jon Kabat-Zinn, into a
program that is shorter, more accessible to students, and compatible with
school curricula. Students will learn to pay attention in the moment, manage
emotions as they are perceived, and gain greater control over their own feelings
and actions. These mindfulness practices offer the opportunity to develop
hardiness in the face of uncomfortable feelings that otherwise might provoke a
response that could be harmful. This easy-to-use manual is designed to be used
by teachers, but can also be used by any mental health provider teaching
adolescents emotion regulation, stress reduction and mindfulness skills. |
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Learning Without Fear: a Practical Toolkit for
Developing Growth Mindset in the Early Years and Primary Classroom. Julia
Stead & Ruchi Sabharwal, $34.95
Having a growth mindset can really empower young learners
to take risks to extend and deepen their learning. There is, however, more to
it than simply adding 'yet' to 'I can't do this'. In Learning without Fear Julia and Ruchi tackle this misconception head-on, combining bite-sized theory
with the practical tools and techniques that will enable teachers to map out
their pupils' growth mindset journey from the early years up to their departure
for the challenges of secondary school. Together they share tried-and-tested
lesson ideas, questionnaires and examples of outstanding practice taken from
their own very successful classrooms — all colourfully packaged into a complete
toolkit that illustrates both the 'why' and the 'how' of successfully embedding
growth mindset in early years and primary settings.
The book begins with a discussion of the benefits of
instilling the traits and attitudes of a growth mindset early on in a learner's
life, and presents a selection of mini stories that serve as simple
springboards into exploring the mindset of young learners. The full-colour
illustrations that accompany the stories are also available as free downloads
for use in the classroom.
To help educators boost their pupils' engagement and
empower them to visualise a route to success, Julia and Ruchi advocate
employing the analogy of a learning journey from Stuck Island to Got-It City.
This involves navigating Challenge Ocean, and the authors make this voyage more
achievable by providing a survival kit of learning techniques — designed to
encourage pupils to take ownership in the face of struggle and to use
metacognitive devices when tackling tricky tasks.
The book's comprehensive series of 39 lesson ideas — one
for every week of the school year — are tagged with symbols to help teachers
seek out activities suitable for their desired lesson focus, pupil groupings,
time allocation and age range, and there is also a chapter dedicated to the
ways in which the children's progress can be assessed. Suitable for both newly
qualified and experienced teachers of learners aged 3-11. |
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Let the Children Play: How More Play Will Save Our
Schools and Help Children Thrive. Pasi Sahlberg & William Doyle, $30.95
Play is how children explore, discover, fail, succeed,
socialize, and flourish. It is a fundamental element of the human condition.
It's the key to giving schoolchildren skills they need to succeed — skills like
creativity, innovation, teamwork, focus, resilience, expressiveness, empathy,
concentration, and executive function. Expert organizations such as the
American Academy of Pediatrics, the National Academy of Sciences, and the
Centers for Disease Control agree that play and physical activity are critical
foundations of childhood, academics, and future skills — yet politicians are destroying play in childhood education and replacing it
with standardization, stress, and forcible physical restraint, which are
damaging to learning and corrosive to society.
But this is not the case for hundreds of thousands of
lucky children who are enjoying the power of play in schools in China, Texas,
Oklahoma, Long Island, Scotland, and in the entire nation of Finland. In Let
the Children Play, Pasi Sahlberg, Finnish educator and scholar, and
Fulbright Scholar William Doyle make the case for helping schools and children
thrive by unleashing the power of play and giving more physical and
intellectual play to all schoolchildren.
In the course of writing this book, Sahlberg and Doyle
traveled worldwide, reviewed over 700 research studies, and conducted
interviews with over 50 of the world's leading authorities on education. Most
intriguingly, Let the Children Play provides a glimpse into the
play-based experiments ongoing now all over the world, from rural China,
Singapore, and Scotland to North Texas and Oklahoma, as well as the promising
results of these bold new approaches. Readers will find the book to be both a
call for change and a guide for making that change happen in their own
communities. |
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Let Them Play: an (un)Curriculum. Jeff Johnson & Denita Dinger, $39.95 (ages 2-6)
Playtime is focused, purposeful, and
full of learning. As they play, children master motor development, learn
language and social skills, think creatively, and make cognitive leaps. This
(un)curriculum is all about fostering children's play, trusting children as
capable and engaged learners, and leaving behind boxed curriculums and
prescribed activities. Filled with information on the guiding principles that
make up an (un)curriculum, learning experience ideas, and suggestions for
building strong emotional and engaging physical environments, LET THEM
PLAY provides support to those who believe in the learning power of play. |
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LGBTQ Voices in Education: Changing the Culture of
Schooling. Edited by Veronica Bloomfield & Marni Fisher, $69.90
LGBTQ Voices in Education: Changing the Culture of
Schooling addresses the ways in which teachers can meet the needs of LGBTQ
students and improve the culture surrounding gender, sexuality, and identity
issues in formal learning environments. Written by experts from a variety of
backgrounds including educational foundations, leadership, cultural studies,
literacy, criminology, theology, media assessment, and more, these chapters are
designed to help educators find the inspiration and support they need to become
allies and advocates of queer students, whose safety, well-being, and academic
performance are regularly and often systemically threatened. Emphasizing
socially just curricula, supportive school climates, and transformative
educational practices, this innovative book is applicable to K-12,
college-level, and graduate settings, and beyond. |
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The Lockdown Drill. Becky Coyle, illustrated by J
Oliver, $16.99 (ages 4-9)
The Lockdown Drill teaches students the importance
of listening to their teacher and school resource officer during important
school drills. Using fun characters and engaging rhyme, The Lockdown Drill explains safe emergency practices to young children in a non-threatening
manner. In her work as a deputy sheriff Becky Coyle learned firsthand how
misinformation can affect student performance during emergency procedures and
was inspired to create this School Safety series to explain school safety to young
children in a fun and engaging way. Extension activities and questions for
further discussion are provided in the final spread. |
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Loose Parts: Inspiring Play in Young Children. Lisa
Daly & Miriam Beloglovsky, photographs by Jenna Daly, $41.50
Loose parts are natural or synthetic found, bought, or
upcycled materials — acorns, hardware, stones, aluminum foil, fabric scraps, for
example — that children can move, manipulate, control, and change within their
play. Loose parts are alluring and beautiful. They capture children's
curiosity, give free reign to their imagination, and encourage creativity. With
more than 550 color photographs of many kinds of loose parts in real early
childhood settings, classroom stories, and a dynamic overview, this book
provides inspiration and information about the ways loose parts support
open-ended learning, enhance play, and empower children. With loose parts, the
possibilities are endless. |
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Loose Parts 2: Inspiring Play with Infants and
Toddlers. Lisa Daly & Miriam Beloglovsky, $46.95
This follow-up to the wildly popular Loose Parts:
Inspiring Play in Young Children brings the fun of found objects to infants
and toddlers. A variety of new and innovative loose parts ideas are paired with
beautiful photography to inspire safe loose parts play in your infant-toddler
environment. Learn about the safety considerations of each age group and how to
appropriately select materials for your children. Captivating classroom stories
and proven science, provide the context for how this style of play supports
children's development and learning. Because the possibilities are endless,
each child can use the materials appropriate for their developmental level and
safely explore their world. |
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Loose Parts 3:
Inspiring Culturally Sustainable Environments. Lisa Daly & Miriam Beloglovsky, photographs
by Jenna Knight, $46.95
Loose Parts cross the boundaries of gender, age,
abilities, and socioeconomic challenges. Loose Parts 3, the newest
addition to the wildly popular Loose Parts series, helps teachers make a
conscious effort to create culturally sustainable environments that allow
children to grow and to conquer a dynamic world.
Over 400 full-color photographs beautifully illustrate
the ongoing need for educational pedagogy that creates a sense of belonging; supports
children's identities; and is culturally responsive and sustainable.
Loose Parts 3 contains inspiration and guidance on
how to create culturally sensitive and culturally sustainable early childhood
environments. Use your environment to promote a sense of wonder, curiosity and
joy, and allow children to explore their identities. |
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Loose Parts 4: Inspiring 21st Century Learning. Lisa Daly & Miriam Beloglovsky, photographs by Jenna Knight, $46.95
Inspire family engagement and 21st century life skills.
In the newest installment of the popular, award-winning Loose
Parts series, Lisa Daly and Miriam Beloglovsky focus on family engagement
and competency building. With inspiring full-color photographs Loose Parts 4 is organized around competencies and life skills children need for success in
the future: knowingness, engagement, risk, connections, leadership, innovative
thinking, and creativity. Lisa and Miriam explain the value of loose parts,
detail how to integrate loose parts into the environment and children’s play,
and specifically focus on loose parts for children in family
environments—helping educators engage families and extend learning beyond the
classroom. |
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Loris Malaguzzi
and the Schools of Reggio Emilia: a Selection of His Writings and Speeches, 1945-1993. Edited by Paola Cagliari, Marina Castagnetti, Claudia Giudici, Carlina
Rinaldi, Vea Vecchi & Peter Moss, $93.95
Loris Malaguzzi was one of the most important figures in
20th-century early childhood education, achieving world-wide recognition for
his educational ideas and his role in the creation of municipal schools for
young children in the Italian city of Reggio Emilia, the most successful
example ever of progressive, democratic and public education.
Despite Malaguzzi’s reputation, very little of what he
wrote or said about early childhood education has been available in English.
This book helps fill the gap, presenting for the first time in English,
writings and speeches spanning 1945 to 1993, selected by a group of his
colleagues from an archive established in Reggio Emilia. They range from short
poems, letters and newspaper articles to extended pieces about Malaguzzi’s
early life, the origins of the municipal schools and his ideas about children,
pedagogy and schools. The book provides a unique insight into the background,
thinking and work of Malaguzzi, revealing, in his own words, how his thinking
developed, how he moved between theory and practice, how he border-crossed many
disciplines and subjects, and how he combined many roles ranging from
administrator and campaigner to researcher and pedagogue. Academics, students
and practitioners alike will find this landmark publication provides rich
insights into his life and work. |
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Lost and Found: Helping Behaviorally Challenging
Students. Ross Greene, $32.95
Lost and Found is a follow-up to Dr. Ross Greene's
landmark works, The Explosive Child and Lost at School, providing
educators with highly practical, explicit guidance on implementing his
Collaborative & Proactive Solutions (CPS) Problem Solving model with
behaviorally-challenging students. While the first two books described Dr.
Greene's positive, constructive approach and described implementation on a
macro level, this useful guide provides the details of hands-on CPS
implementation by those who interact with these children every day. Readers
will learn how to incorporate students' input in understanding the factors
making it difficult for them to meet expectations and in generating mutually
satisfactory solutions. Specific strategies, sample dialogues, and time-tested
advice help educators implement these techniques immediately.
The groundbreaking CPS approach has been a revelation for
parents and educators of behaviorally-challenging children. This book gives
educators the concrete guidance they need to immediately begin working more
effectively with these students.
- Implement CPS one-on-one or with an entire class
- Work collaboratively with students to solve problems
- Study sample dialogues of CPS in action
- Change the way difficult students are treated
The discipline systems used in K-12 schools are obsolete,
and aren't working for the kids to whom they're most often applied — those with
behavioral challenges. Lost and Found provides a roadmap to a different
paradigm, helping educators radically transform the way they go about helping
their most challenging students. |
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Lost at School: Why Our Kids with Behavioral
Challenges Are Falling Through the Cracks and How We Can Help Them. Ross
Greene, $25.00
School discipline is broken. Too often, the kids who need
our help the most are viewed as disrespectful, out of control, and beyond help,
and are often the recipients of our most ineffective, most punitive
interventions. These students — and their parents, teachers, and
administrators — are frustrated and desperate for answers. Dr. Ross W. Greene,
author of the acclaimed book The Explosive Child, offers educators
and parents a different framework for understanding challenging behavior. Dr.
Greene’s Collaborative & Proactive Solutions (CPS) approach helps adults
focus on the true factors contributing to challenging classroom behaviors,
empowering educators to address these factors and create helping relationships
with their most at-risk kids.
This revised and updated edition of Lost at School contains
the latest refinements to Dr. Greene’s CPS model, including enhanced methods
for solving problems collaboratively, improving communication, and building
relationships with kids. Dr. Greene’s lively, compelling narrative includes:
- Tools to identify the problems and lagging skills causing challenging
behavior
- Explicit guidance on how to radically improve interactions with challenging
kids and reduce challenging episodes — along with many examples showing how it’s
done
- Practical guidance for successful planning and collaboration among educators,
parents, and kids
Backed by years of experience and research and written with a powerful sense of
hope and achievable change, Lost at School gives teachers and
parents the realistic strategies and information to impact the classroom
experience of every challenging kid (and their classmates).
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Maker-Centered Learning: Empowering Young People to
Shape Their World. Edward Clapp, Jessica Ross, Jennifer Ryan & Shari
Tisman, $39.95
Maker-Centered Learning provides both a
theoretical framework and practical resources for the educators, curriculum
developers, librarians, administrators, and parents navigating this burgeoning
field. Written by the expert team from the Agency by Design initiative at
Harvard's Project Zero, this book:
- Identifies a set of educational practices and ideas that define
maker-centered learning, and introduces the focal concepts of maker empowerment
and sensitivity to design
- Shares cutting edge research that provides evidence of the
benefits of maker-centered learning for students and education as a whole
- Presents a clear Project Zero-based framework for maker-centered
teaching and learning
- Includes valuable educator resources that can be applied in a
variety of design and maker-centered learning environments
- Describes unique thinking routines that foster the primary maker
capacities of looking closely, exploring complexity, and finding opportunity
A surge of voices from government, industry, and
education have argued that, in order to equip the next generation for life and
work in the decades ahead, it is vital to support maker-centered learning in
various educational environments. Maker-Centered Learning provides
insight into what that means, and offers tools and knowledge that can be
applied anywhere that learning takes place. |
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Making Curriculum POP: Developing Literacies in All
Content Areas. Pam Goble & Ryan Goble, $53.99
From comics to cathedrals, pie charts to power ballads,
fashion to Facebook... students need help navigating today’s media-rich
world. And educators need help teaching today’s new media literacy. To be
literate now means being able to read, write, listen, speak, view, and
represent across all media — including both print and non-print texts, such as
film, TV, podcasts, websites, visual art, fashion, architecture, landscape, and
music. This book offers secondary teachers in all content areas a flexible,
interdisciplinary approach to integrate these literacies into their curriculum.
Students form cooperative learning groups to evaluate media texts from various
perspectives (artist, producer, sociologist, sound mixer, economist, poet, set
designer, and more) and show their thinking using unique graphic organizers
aligned to the Common Core State Standards. Includes digital content. |
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Making Makers: Kids, Tools, and the Future of
Innovation. AnnMarie Thomas, $27.95
This is a book for parents and educators — both formal and
informal, who are curious about the intersections of learning and making.
Through stories, research, and data, it builds the case for why it is crucial
to encourage today’s youth to be makers — to see the world as something they are
actively helping to create. For those who are new to the Maker Movement, some
history and introduction is given as well as practical advice for getting kids
started in making. For those who are already familiar with the Maker Movement,
this book provides biographical information about many of the “big names” and
unsung heroes of the Maker Movement while also highlighting many of the
attributes that make this a movement that so many people are passionate about. |
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Making Thinking Visible: How to Promote Engagement, Understanding and Independence fo All Learners.Ron Ritchhart, Mark Church & Karin Morrison, $35.95
Visible Thinking is a research-based approach to teaching thinking, begun at Harvard's Project Zero, which develops students' thinking dispositions, while at the same time deepening their understanding of the topics they study.
Rather than a set of fixed lessons, Visible Thinking is a varied collection of practices, including thinking routines, small sets of questions or a short sequence of steps as well as the documentation of student thinking. Using this process thinking becomes visible as the students' different viewpoints are expressed, documented, discussed and reflected upon.
- Helps direct student thinking and structure classroom discussion
- Can be applied with students at all grade levels and in all content areas
- Includes easy-to-implement classroom strategies
The book also comes with a DVD of video clips featuring Visible Thinking in practice in different classrooms.
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Making Your Secondary School E-safe. Adrienne
Katz, $45.95
The internet and mobile devices play a huge role in
teenagers' home and school life, and it's becoming more and more important to
effectively address e-safety in secondary schools. This practical book provides
guidance on how to teach and promote e-safety and tackle cyberbullying with
real-life examples from schools of what works and what schools need to do.
The book explains how to set policy and procedures, how
to train staff and involve parents, and provides practical strategies and
ready-to-use activities for teaching e-safety.
Including up-to-the-minute information and advice that includes discussion of
new technologies, social media and online gaming sites, SRE in the smartphone
age, and recent school policy trends such as 'Bring Your Own Device', this book
provides all of the information that educational professionals need to
implement successful whole school e-safety strategies. |
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Managing School Absenteeism at Multiple Tiers: an
Evidence-Based and Practical Guide for Professionals. Christopher Kearney,
$43.50
Managing School Absenteeism at Multiple Tiers provides an integrative strategy for preventing, assessing, and addressing
cases of youth with school absenteeism at multiple levels of severity and
complexity. Dr. Christopher Kearney presents a multi-tiered framework based on
prevention (Tier 1), early intervention for emerging cases (Tier 2), and more
extensive intervention and systemic strategies for severe cases (Tier 3). Each
tier is based on empirically supported strategies from the literature, and
emphasis is placed on specific, implementable recommendations. This approach is
based on a Response to Intervention model that has emerged as a powerful guide
to prevention, assessment, and treatment of social and academic problems in
schools.
This user-friendly, practical guide will be useful to
mental health professionals, school administrators, guidance counselors, social
workers and psychologists, as well as others who address kids with problematic
absenteeism such as pediatricians and probation officers. |
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Many Languages,
One Classroom: Teaching Dual and English Language Learners.
Karen Nemeth, $13.95
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. |
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The Math Myth and Other STEM Delusions. Andrew
Hacker, $36.50
Andrew Hacker’s 2012 New York Times op-ed questioning our
current mathematics requirements instantly became one of the the paper’s most
widely circulated articles. Why, he wondered, do we inflict algebra, geometry,
trigonometry, and even calculus on all young Americans, regardless of their
interests or aptitudes?
The Math Myth expands Hacker’s scrutiny of many
widely held assumptions, such as the notion that mathematics broadens our
minds, that mastery of azimuths and asymptotes will be needed for most jobs,
that the entire Common Core syllabus should be required of every student. He
worries that a frenzied emphasis on STEM is diverting attention from other
pursuits and subverting the spirit of the country. Though Hacker honors
mathematics as a calling (he has been a professor of mathematics) and extols
its glories and its goals, he shows how mandating it for everyone prevents
other talents from being developed and acts as an irrational barrier to
graduation and careers. He proposes alternatives, including teaching facility
with figures, quantitative reasoning, and utilizing statistics.
The Math Myth is sure to spark a heated and needed
national conversation not just about mathematics but about the kind of people
and society we want to be. |
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Mathematical Mindsets: Unleashing Students' Potential
through Creative Math, Inspiring Messages, and Innovative Teaching. Jo
Boaler, $25.95
Mathematical Mindsets provides practical
strategies and activities to help teachers and parents show all children, even
those who are convinced that they are bad at math, that they can enjoy and
succeed in math. There is a clear gap between what research has shown to work
in teaching math and what happens in schools and at home. This book bridges
that gap by turning research findings into practical activities and advice.
Boaler translates Carol Dweck's concept of 'mindset' into math teaching and
parenting strategies, showing how students can go from self-doubt to strong
self-confidence, which is so important to math learning. Boaler reveals the
steps that must be taken by schools and parents to improve math education for
all. Mathematical Mindsets:
- Explains how the brain processes mathematics learning
- Reveals how to turn mistakes and struggles into valuable learning
experiences
- Provides examples of rich mathematical activities to replace rote
learning
- Explains ways to give students a positive math mindset
- Gives examples of how assessment and grading policies need to
change to support real understanding
Scores of students hate and fear math, so they end up
leaving school without an understanding of basic mathematical concepts. Their
evasion and departure hinders math-related pathways and STEM career
opportunities. Research has shown very clear methods to change this phenomena,
but the information has been confined to research journals —until now. Mathematical
Mindsets provides a proven, practical roadmap to mathematics success for
any student at any age. |
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Meeting the Psychoeducational Needs
of Minority Students: Evidence-Based Guidelines for School Psychologists and
Other School Personnel. Craig Frisby, $85.00
This book is a practical, research-based
guide to facilitating educational outcomes for racial, ethnic, and language
minority students. |
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Men In Early Years Settings: Building a Mixed Gender
Workforce. David Wright & Simon Brownhill, $37.95
This book explores the role of male professionals in
early years settings and provides guidance for early years practitioners,
managers and policy makers on building a more mixed-gender workforce by
successfully attracting, recruiting, retaining and developing men in their
teams.
Men make up less than 2% of the early years workforce in
England. This book considers the reasons for the current situation, asks
whether there is a case for change and suggests ways of achieving a more
mixed-gender early years workforce. The voices of male and female
practitioners, providers and parents help to illustrate the barriers to men
entering and successfully working in the sector, whilst also suggesting ways
these barriers can be broken down. |
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Men, Masculinities and Teaching in Early Childhood
Education: International Perspectives on Gender and Care. Edited by Simon
Brownhill, Jo Warin & Inga Wernerson, $60.95
International contributors raise critical questions about
the construction of masculinities, the continuing reluctance of men to engage
in this type of work, and the influence of political and public debates on the
issue. Through this engaging discussion readers are asked to question whether
this is something that we should care about, with key topics including:
- The roles of men in education and care
- Teachers’ beliefs, norms and values of gender equality
- The construction of male identities
- Gendered ideals, and children’s interpretations of gender
Men, Masculinities and Teaching in Early Childhood
Education brings together a refreshing and critical set of
perspectives linked to an increasingly important educational debate and will be
a valuable text for practitioners, professionals, policy makers and
parents/carers. |
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Men Teaching Children 3-11: Dismantling Gender
Barriers. Elizabeth Burn & Simon Pratt-Adams, $49.95
Men Teaching Children 3-11 provides a
comprehensive exploration of work experiences of men who teach young children.
The authors draw on their own research as well as international studies to
provide realistic strategies to help to remove barriers in order to develop a
more gender-balanced teacher workforce. Burn and Pratt-Adams, former primary
school teachers who have both experienced these unfair gender practices, also
trace the historical roots of the gender barriers that have now become embedded
within the occupational culture. |
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Men Who Teach Young Children: an International
Perspective. David Brody, $50.50
This book fills a research gap, presenting the
biographies of six talented men from Britain, Norway, Holland, Switzerland,
Israel and the United States who have all been working with the youngest
children for many years. A cultural lens is used to understand their motivation
and reveal the difficulties they faced in choosing the profession, getting
trained, working with young children and their parents, and opting to remain in
the field. Their personal narratives will inspire other men to consider the
profession and will shed light on society's influence on cross gendered career
pathways. The scholarly analysis of the case studies aims to help early
childhood teacher educators to recognize and take account of what male degree
candidates in their programs uniquely have to offer. |
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Merrell's Strong Start—Pre-K: a Social and Emotional
Learning Curriculum, Second Edition. Sara Whitcomb & Danielle Parisi
Damico, $60.95 (Preschool to Kindergarten)
Merrell's Strong Start—Grades K-2: a Social and
Emotional Learning Curriculum, Second Edition. Sara Whitcomb & Danielle
Parisi Damico, $60.95
Merrell's Strong Kids—Grades 3-5: a Social and
Emotional Learning Curriculum, Second Edition. Dianna Carrizales-Engelmann,
Laura Feuerborn, Barbara Gueldner & Oanh Tran, $60.95
Merrell's Strong Kids—Grades 6-8: a Social and
Emotional Learning Curriculum, Second Edition. Dianna Carrizales-Engelmann,
Laura Feuerborn, Barbara Gueldner & Oanh Tran, $60.95
Merrell's Strong Teens—Grades 9-12: a Social
and Emotional Learning Curriculum, Second Edition. Dianna
Carrizales-Engelmann, Laura Feuerborn, Barbara Gueldner & Oanh Tran, $60.95
Teach social-emotional competence — the foundation of
school and social success — with the NEW editions of the Strong Kids curriculum!
Strong Kids is the fun and easy way to help your students develop the social-emotional
skills they need to manage their challenges and succeed in school and life.
Developed by a team of educational and mental health experts, this
evidence-based, age-appropriate curriculum is proven to help increase students'
knowledge of social and emotional concepts and decrease their emotional and
behavioral problems.
Through engaging, thought-provoking classroom activities,
students learn about emotions and the social-emotional skills they'll use for
the rest of their lives: managing anger, reducing stress, solving interpersonal
problems, and much more. This scientifically-based curriculum offers lessons
that are easy to fit into your existing schedule (especially with the new
options for breaking them into smaller chunks). Partially scripted lessons,
handouts, and worksheets are included — all photocopiable and available as
downloads — so teachers have everything they need to implement the program with
little added cost or preparation.
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The Mindful Education Workbook: Lessons for Teaching
Mindfulness to Students. Daniel Rechtschaffen, $33.95
A structured curriculum of classroom-ready lessons, practices,
and worksheets for actualizing a powerful new educational paradigm: student
mindfulness. This workbook offers a step-by-step curriculum of classroom-ready
mindfulness lessons for personal and professional development. It’s a trove of
fun, easy activities specially designed to help educators engage K-12 students
and cultivate mindful attributes like attention, compassion, and well-being.
Rich with simple and effective tips, techniques, worksheets, and guided
exercises developed through extensive on-the-ground experience with real
students and teachers, The Mindful Education Workbook empowers readers
with all the tools they need to integrate mindful education in the school day. |
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The Mindful School: Transforming School Culture
through Mindfulness and Compassion. Edited by Patricia Jennings, $45.50
Demonstrating the benefits of mindfulness for both educators
and students in PreK–12, this book presents flexible models for implementing
and sustaining school-wide initiatives. Compelling case studies show how
mindfulness practices can enhance students' academic and social–emotional
functioning as well as teacher effectiveness. Chapters review the evidence base
for available programs, reflect on lessons learned in real schools, and provide
guidance for planning and decision making. The roles of school leaders,
teachers, counselors, and parents in creating a more supportive and
compassionate school climate are discussed. Also described are innovative
approaches to professional development and pre-service teacher training. |
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Mindfulness for Teachers: Simple Skills for Peace and
Productivity in the Classroom. Patricia Jennings, $34.00
Mindful awareness practices to help teachers recognize
and regulate emotional reactivity in their classrooms. Teaching is one of the
most rewarding professions, but also one of the most demanding. This book
offers simple, ready-to-use, and evidence-proven mindfulness techniques to help
educators manage the stresses of the classroom, cultivate an exceptional
learning environment, and revitalize both their teaching and their students’
knowledge acquisition. Drawing on basic and applied research in the fields of
neuroscience, psychology, and education, as well as the author’s extensive
experience as a mindfulness practitioner, teacher, and scientist, it includes
exercises in mindfulness, emotional awareness, movement, listening, and more,
all with real-time classroom applications. |
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Motivating Black Males to Achieve In School & In
Life. Baruti Kafele, $25.50
One of the most vexing problems confronting educators
today is the chronic achievement gap between black male students and their
peers. In this inspiring and thought-provoking book, veteran educator Baruti
Kafele offers a blueprint for lifting black males up and ensuring their success
in the classroom and beyond.
Motivating Black Males to Achieve in School and in
Life offers proven strategies for getting black male students in middle
school and high school to value learning, improve their grades, and maintain
high standards for themselves. The author shows how simple but powerful
measures to instill self-worth in young black males can not only raise these
students' achievement, but also profoundly alter their lives for the better.
This book will help you to help students:
- Reverse the destructive effects of negative influences among
peers and in the popular culture
- Surmount adverse conditions at home or in their communities
- Participate in mentorship programs with successful black male
adults
- Take pride in their heritage by learning about great figures and
achievements in black history
Whether your school is urban or rural, all-black or
mixed, you'll find this book to be an insightful resource that addresses the
root causes of low achievement among young black males and offers a clear path
to overcoming them. |
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Motivational Interviewing in Schools: Conversations to
Improve Behavior and Learning. Stephen Rollnick, Sebastian Kaplan &
Richard Rutschman, $35.50
The first teacher's guide to the proven counseling
approach known as motivational interviewing (MI), this pragmatic book shows how
to use everyday interactions with students as powerful opportunities for
change. MI comprises skills and strategies that can make brief conversations about
any kind of behavioral, academic, or peer-related challenge more effective.
Extensive sample dialogues bring to life the "dos and don'ts" of
talking to K–12 students (and their parents) in ways that promote self-directed
problem solving and personal growth. The authors include the distinguished co-developer
of MI plus two former classroom teachers. User-friendly features include
learning exercises and reflection questions; additional helpful resources are
available at the companion website. Written for teachers, the book will be
recommended and/or used in teacher workshops by school psychologists,
counselors, and social workers. |
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Multiple Pathways to the Student Brain: Energizing and
Enhancing Instruction. Janet Nay Zadina, $33.95
Multiple Pathways to the Student Brain uses
educator-friendly language to explain how the brain learns. Steering clear of
“neuro-myths,” Dr. Janet Zadina discusses multiple brain pathways for
learning and provides practical advice for creating a brain-compatible
classroom. While there are an abundance of books and workshops that aim to
integrate education and brain science, educators are seldom given concrete,
actionable advice that makes a difference in the classroom. Multiple
Pathways to the Student Brain bridges that divide by providing
examples of strategies for day-to-day instruction aligned with the
latest brain science. The book explains not only the sensory/motor pathways
that are familiar to most educators (visual, auditory, and kinesthetic), it
also explores the lesser known pathways — reward/survival, language, social,
emotional, frontal lobe, and memory/attention — and how they can be tapped to
energize and enhance instruction.
Educators are forever searching for new and improved ways
to convey information and inspire curiosity, and research suggests that
exploiting different pathways may have a major effect on learning. Multiple
Pathways to the Student Brain allows readers to see brain science
through the eyes of a teacher — and teaching through the eyes of a brain
scientist. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Natural Curiosity: the
Importance of Indigenous Perspectives in Children's Environmental Inquiry, 2nd
Edition. Doug Anderson,
Julie Comay & Lorriane Chiarotto, $50.00
The second edition
of Natural Curiosity supports a stronger basic awareness of
Indigenous perspectives and their importance to environmental education. The
driving motivation for a second edition was the burning need, in the wake of
strong and unequivocal recommendations by the Truth and Reconciliation
Commission, to situate Indigenous perspectives into the heart of Canadian educational
settings and curricula, most notably in connection with environmental issues.
The Indigenous lens in this edition represents a cross-cultural encounter
supporting what can become an ongoing dialogue and evolution of practice in
environmental inquiry. Some important questions are raised that challenge us to
think in very different ways about things as fundamental as the meaning of
knowledge.
French Edition now
available:
Curiosité
naturelle, 2e édition: Ressource pour l’enseignante ou l’enseignant: L’importance
du point de vue autochtone dans l’enquête dans
l’environnement de l’enfant. Doug Anderson, Julie
Comay & Lorriane Chiarotto, $50.00 |
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The Nature Connection: an
Outdoor Workbook for Kids, Families and Classrooms. Clare
Walker Leslie, $23.95
This interactive workbook, packed with creative, year-round nature activities guides kids to observe and record what they see, hear, smell, and touch outdoors, whether they live in the country, the city, or somewhere in between. It offers dozens of fun things to do in every season: write a poem; make a sketch; tell a story; record daily sunrise and sunset times for a month; draw a local map and mark the locations of trees, rocks, animals; keep a moon journal; learn about the constellations; or collect leaves and bring them home to sketch and identify. Rediscover the world outside with The Nature Connection! |
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Nature Preschools and Forest Kindergartens: the
Handbook for Outdoor Learning. David Sobel, $55.50
Nature Preschools and Forest Kindergartens is
the latest from environmental education expert David Sobel. Joined by a variety
of colleagues to share their experiences and steps for creating a successful
forest kindergarten program, Nature Preschools and Forest Kindergartens walks
you through the European roots of the concept to the recent resurgence of these
kinds of programs in North America.
Going well beyond a history lesson, these experts provide the framework to
understand the concepts and build a learning community that stimulates
curiosity and inquisitiveness in a natural environment. This helpful guide
provides the curriculum ideas and guidance needed to foster special gifts in
children. It also gives you the nuts and bolts of running a successful nature
preschool business:
- Potential obstacles and concerns
- Staff and curriculum design
- Best practices for success
- Site and facility assessment
- Business planning and how to successfully market your program
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The New Kids:
Big Dreams and Brave Journeys at a High School for Immigrant
Teens. Brooke Hauser, $20.00 (includes a reading group
guide)
Some walked across deserts and
mountains. Others flew on planes. One arrived after escaping in a suitcase. And
some won't say how they got here.
A singular work of narrative journalism,
THE NEW KIDS chronicles a year in the life of a remarkable group of these
teenage newcomers, who all attend the International High School at Prospect
Heights in Brooklyn. The unforgettable
portraits of young people dealing with enormous obstacles, as they carve out
new lives for themselves, will leave you rooting for these kids long after
reading the stories of where they come from, how they got here and where they
are going next. |
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The New Meaning of Educational Change, 5th Edition. Michael
Fullan, $49.95
The New Meaning of Educational Change is the
definitive textbook on the study of educational change. Based on practical and
fundamental work with education systems in several countries, the text captured
the dilemmas and leading ideas for successful large-scale systemic reform. This
updated edition includes decision-makers at all levels — from the local school
community to the national level — and introduces many new and powerful ideas for
formulating strategies and implementing solutions that will improve educational
systems. Widely used by university professors, policymakers, and practitioners
throughout North America and in many other countries, this perennial bestseller
shows us how to:
- Develop collaborative cultures at the school level, while
avoiding superficial versions of professional learning communities.
- Foster district-wide success in all schools, illustrating how
state and national systems can achieve total system transformation based on
identifying and fostering meaning for educators at every level.
- Integrate individual and systemic success, a rare feat in today’s
school reform efforts.
- Be a powerful resource for everyone involved in school reform.
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The New Smart: How Nurturing Creativity Will Help Children
Thrive. Terry Roberts, $23.95
The New Smart is a riveting study of the kinds of
minds that will succeed in the 21st century. As it turns out, the key
ingredient for all aspects of life is not traditional IQ but creativity. In Dr.
Terry Roberts’ newest book he presents readers with a 21st century exploration
into intelligence and creativity. The New Smart argues that the old
notion of intelligence as a static quotient has ceased to mean much of value.
Being smart, especially as it’s related to test scores and school grades, has
less and less to do with success in contemporary life. Both these words and the
ideas they represent are worn out. This book provides a clear roadmap away from
standardized schools producing standardized minds and describes in detail why
creative is the key to the future. |
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Nunavummi Reading Series. InHabit Education
The Nunavummi reading series is a unique Nunavut-made
levelled reading series that aligns the reading expectations of Inuktut
(Inuktitut and Inuinnaqtun), English, and French. The reading series
corresponds closely to the reading levels and expectations developed by the
Department of Education in Nunavut. This approach to literacy provides
educators and parents with the tools they need to ensure that children are
equally challenged and successful in all the languages represented in Nunavut.
For southern educators, this series represents an
opportunity to infuse their levelled reading programs with authentic Northern
perspectives and knowledge. Canada is a country of cultural, geographic, and
linguistic diversity, and the Nunavummi reading series helps educators create a
literacy program that reflects this diversity.
- Big Animals in the Arctic. Nunavummi Reading Series Level
3, Fountas & Pinnell Text Level: LB, $7.95 (ages 3-6)
- Food I Like to Eat. Nunavummi Reading Series Level 4,
Fountas & Pinnell Text Level: A, $7.95 (ages 3-6)
- Little Animals in the Arctic. Nunavummi Reading Series
Level 3, Fountas & Pinnell Text Level: LB, $7.95 (ages 3-6)
- One Ulu, Two Kamik. Nunavummi Reading Series Level 3,
Fountas & Pinnell Text Level: LB, $7.95 (ages 3-6)
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Observing Adolescents with Attachment Difficulties in
Educational Settings: a Tool for Identifying and Supporting Emotional and
Social Difficulties in Young People Ages 11-16. Kim Golding, Mary Turner,
Helen Worrall, Jennifer Roberts & Ann Cadman, $40.95
An observational tool designed to help structure
observations of children 11+ with attachment issues in school. Simple
checklists and diagrams help to identify emotional and behavioural problems,
and hand-outs with activities are provided to provide emotional support and
identify appropriate interventions. Behavioural responses are categorised
within clearly outlined topics, including:
- behaviour and relationship with peers
- attachment behaviours
- emotional state in the classroom
- attitude to attendance
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Observing Children with Attachment
Difficulties in Preschool Settings: a Tool for Identifying and Supporting
Emotional and Social Difficulties. Kim Golding,
Jane Fain, Ann Frost, Sian Templeton & Eleanor Durrant, $39.95
For preschool children with emotional
difficulties arising from difficulties in attachment, standard observations
used in early years settings are not always helpful in identifying their
problems and providing guidance on how they can be helped.
Combining an accessible introduction to
attachment and child development with a child observation tool for identifying
behaviour, and the emotional needs underlying this behaviour, this book enables
ECE professionals to identify problems and provide appropriate support. 'Case
study' boxes help to illustrate typical patterns of attachment, and all aspects
of behaviour are covered including play, interaction with peers, neediness and
aggression. Suitable for use with children aged 2-5, this will be an invaluable
resource for early years professionals, as well as clinicians, teachers and
learning support staff. |
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One Teacher in Ten in the New Millennium: LGBT
Educators Speak Out about What's Gotten Better... and What Hasn't. Edited
by Kevin Jennings, $20.00
For more than twenty years, the One Teacher in Ten series has served as an invaluable source of strength and inspiration for
lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender educators. This all-new edition brings
together stories from across America — and around the world — resulting in a rich
tapestry of varied experiences. From a teacher who feels he must remain
closeted in the comparative safety of New York City public schools to teachers
who are out in places as far afield as South Africa and China, the teachers and
school administrators in One Teacher in Ten in the New Millennium prove
that LGBT educators are as diverse and complex as humanity itself.
Voices
largely absent from the first two editions — including transgender people, people
of color, teachers working in rural districts, and educators from outside the
United States — feature prominently in this new collection, providing a fuller
and deeper understanding of the triumphs and challenges of being an LGBT
teacher today. |
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The One World School House: Education Reimagined. Salman
Khan, $21.00
A free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere: this
is the goal of the Khan Academy, a passion project that grew from an
ex-engineer and hedge funder's online tutoring sessions with his niece, who was
struggling with algebra, into a worldwide phenomenon. Today millions of
students, parents, and teachers use the Khan Academy's free videos and
software, which have expanded to encompass nearly every conceivable subject,
and Academy techniques are being employed with exciting results in a growing
number of classrooms around the globe.
Like many innovators, Khan rethinks existing assumptions
and imagines what education could be if freed from them. Schools seek his
advice about connecting to students in a digital age, and people of all ages
and backgrounds flock to the site to utilize this fresh approach to learning. In The One World School House, Khan presents his radical vision for the
future of education, as well as his own remarkable story, for the first time.
In these pages, you will discover, among other things:
- How both students and teachers are being bound by a broken
top-down model invented in Prussia two centuries ago
- Why technology will make classrooms more human and teachers more
important
- How and why we can afford to pay educators the same as other
professionals
- How we can bring creativity and true human interactivity back to
learning
- Why we should be very optimistic about the future of learning
Parents and politicians routinely bemoan the state of our
education system. With a shrewd reading of history, Khan explains how this
crisis presented itself, and why a return to "mastery learning,"
abandoned in the twentieth century and ingeniously revived by tools like the
Khan Academy, could offer the best opportunity to level the playing field, and
to give all of our children a world-class education now.
More than just a solution, The One World School House serves as a call for free, universal, global education, and an explanation of
how Khan's simple yet revolutionary thinking can help achieve this inspiring
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The Organized Teacher's Guide to Being a Creative
Teacher: an Encyclopedia of Ideas to Energize Your Curriculum (K-6), 3rd
Edition. Steve Springer, Kimberly Persiani & Brandy Alexander, $25.95
To keep your students engaged in the classroom, you have
to get them excited about learning. This award-winning resource offers hundreds
of creative ideas to reenergize your lesson plans for any subject across grades
K-6. You’ll find inspiration to help you wake up tired book reports and make
math more fun. There’s a host of reproducible content such as worksheets,
project ideas, templates for journal pages included in the book and available
online. From submarine sandwich book reports to graphic organizers to help
incorporate writing into math curriculum, The Organized Teacher's Guide to
Being a Creative Teacher, Third Edition features:
- Content that aligns with Common Core standards
- Reproducible, ready-to-use pages in the book and online
- Prompts and tools to keep students motivated and engaged
- Hundreds of creative ideas to liven up your lessons, and more
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The Organized Teacher's Guide to Classroom Management:
Proven Ideas and Strategies to Expand Your Skills and Enhance Your Students'
Learning Experience (K-8), 2nd Edition. Steve Springer & Kimberly
Persiani, $25.95
Classroom management can be challenging even for experienced
teachers. Written by two award-winning educators, this practical guide is
filled with tips and protocols to help you manage your classroom more
efficiently. There’s advice on setting up your classroom, establishing rules,
dealing with difficult students, meeting with parents, and much more. The
authors also examine teaching theories from leading educators and offer
guidance to help you determine the best teaching style for every situation.
The book includes dozens of useful documents such as charts,
rewards certificates, child-teacher or parent-teacher contracts for homework,
attendance or discipline, and more. The documents can also be accessed online
and sent directly to a printer, saving you valuable time. The Organized
Teacher’s Guide to Classroom Management, Second Edition will help you:
- Find strategies to keep your classroom running smoothly
- Determine which teaching style is most appropriate for you
- Establish rules, consequences, and procedures
- Manage student behavior in the classroom
- Create more inspired lesson plans and curricula
- Get organized with reproducible charts, checklists, and more
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The Organized Teacher's Guide to Substitute Teaching:
an Encyclopedia of Information to Help You Survive Without a Lesson Plan (K-8),
2nd Edition. Steve Springer & Kimberly Persiani, $25.95
As a substitute teacher, you have the powers of a
superhero. Who else could teach sixth grade math one day and then transform
into a sub for the kindergarten gym instructor the next? What other educator
bravely goes into work not knowing what subject or grade he or she will teach
that day and still manages a smile? But even superheroes need a little
help — that is where this book comes in. The Organized Teacher’s Guide to
Substitute Teaching is the only guide that gives you the tips and
strategies to not only survive a day of strangers but actually create an impact
in the classroom.
Appropriate for grades kindergarten through eight, this
bible for substitute teachers will get you through the entire school day, even
if the regular teacher did not leave lesson plans! Among hundreds of valuable
ideas, The Organized Teacher’s Guide to Substitute Teaching offers:
- A guide to making your own Substitute Teacher Tool Kit, filled
with items you will need throughout your day
- In-depth information about each grade level so you know what to
expect, no matter what class you're assigned
- Core curriculum activities, writing assignments, and projects
specifically targeted to each grade level
- Sponge activities, games, and fillers designed to help you fill
the time until class transitions or before the end of the day
- Advice on how to keep calm and in control even if students try to
test your limits
- Accessible interactive online content with ready-to-print
templates and worksheets
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The Organized Teacher's Guide to Your First Year of
Teaching: a Quick Reference Guide to Navigating Your New Classroom (K-6), 2nd
Edition. Steve Springer, Kimberly Persiani & Brandy Alexander, $25.95
Make your first year — and every year — a success with this
essential guide! As a new teacher, you can be completely overwhelmed-feeling
lost and not knowing where to start when you receive the keys for the first
time. The Organized Teacher's Guide to Your First Year of Teaching, Second
Edition will be your guide during these first few days and weeks and put
you on the road to success.
This practical guide will help you successfully navigate
your new role. You’ll find a series of checklists, charts, and diagrams and
guidelines you can use to organize your lessons, schedule, and classroom.
There’s a ton of reproducible content in the book and an additional 50 pages of
content can accessed online. This essential resource will help you thrive in
your first year and beyond. The Organized Teacher's Guide to Your First Year
of Teaching, Second Edition features:
- All-in-one resource and checklist for teachers of grades K-6
- Expert advice on organizing your classroom
- Suggestions for planning lessons and creating schedules
- Reproducible content (in the book and available online) ready for
you to use
- Charts, diagrams and checklists for organizing a new classroom
- Tips on increasing productivity, and more
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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. |
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The Outdoor Classroom Ages 3-7: Using
Ideas from Forest Schools to Enrich Learning. Karen
Constable, $38.50
This book clearly explains the learning
potential of the outdoor environment and practically demonstrates how the
‘Outdoor Classroom’ can be developed in ECE settings and schools. Drawing on
the Forest School approach, it aims to inspire practitioners to think
creatively about their outside area and how they can provide rich play
opportunities for children that will further their learning regardless of any
time, space or financial restraints.
Emphasizing the importance of continuity
for young children, the book shows how good practice in the early years can be
built on in Reception and Key Stage 1 and covers:
- What is the outdoor classroom and how does it
enhance children’s learning?
- How experiences in the Outdoor Classroom can
support the early years and Key Stage 1 curricula
- The implications for schools using the outdoor
classroom including resources, timetabling, space, parental and staff
opposition
- Guidance on planning
- Activities and ideas for using the Outdoor Classroom
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Owning Up Curriculum:
Empowering Adolescents to Confront Social Cruelty, Bullying,
and Injustice. Rosalind Wiseman, $79.95 (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
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Pathways for Remembering and Recognizing Indigenous
Thought in Education: Philosophies of Iethi'nihsténha Ohwentsia'kékha (Land).
Sandra Styres, $28.95
Indigenous scholars have been gathering, speaking, and
writing about Indigenous knowledge for decades. These knowledges are grounded
in ancient traditions and very old pedagogies that have been woven with the tangled
strings and chipped beads of colonial relations.
Pathways for Remembering and Recognizing Indigenous
Thought in Education is an exploration into some of the shared
cross-cultural themes that inform and shape Indigenous thought and Indigenous
educational philosophy. These philosophies generate tensions, challenges, and
contradictions that can become very tangled and messy when considered within
the context of current educational systems that reinforce colonial power
relations. Sandra Styres shows how Indigenous thought can inform decolonizing
approaches in education as well as the possibilities for truly transformative
teaching practices. This book offers new pathways for remembering,
conceptualizing and understanding these ancient knowledges and philosophies
within a twenty-first century educational context. |
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The PBIS Team Handbook: Setting Expectations and
Building Positive Behavior, Revised Edition. Beth Baker & Char Ryan,
$59.99
PBIS (positive behavior interventions and supports) is
the most important tool educators have to deal with disruptive student
behaviors. This revised and updated handbook provides detailed guidelines for
implementing and sustaining PBIS for schools and teams. New in this edition is
a chapter addressing inequity and bias in behavior referrals and discipline; a
tiered fidelity inventory (TFI) to evaluate adherence to PBIS practices;
different methods of data collection; and new research on sustainability.
Positive school climates are not achieved through expulsions, suspensions, or
detentions, but instead through collective analysis and data-driven
decision-making. Downloadable digital content offers a PDF presentation to aid
staff buy-in and customizable forms to help manage data and assess progress
with ease. |
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Pedagogical Documentation in Early Childhood: Sharing
Children's Learning and Teachers' Thinking. Susan Stacey, $49.95
North American educators were first introduced to the
idea of pedagogical documentation through work of the preschools of Reggio
Emilia, Italy. Canadian and U.S. educators have responded with an eager desire
to try the process within their own practices. Nevertheless, producing
documentation that is thoughtful, meaningful, and aesthetically pleasing is a
challenge. Pedagogical Documentation — filled with examples from the author
as well as new and seasoned educators from across North America — will guide you
through the process. Pedagogical documentation is an examination of the
learning taking place in children and supports reflective practice and
decision-making in teachers. Pedagogical documentation is a powerful tool for
communicating a child's learning to families. |
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The PEERS Curriculum for School-Based
Professionals: Social Skills Training for Adolescents with Autism Spectrum
Disorders. Elizabeth Laugeson, $96.50
The PEERS® Curriculum for School-Based
Professionals brings UCLA's highly acclaimed and widely popular PEERS
program into the school setting. This sixteen-week program, clinically proven
to significantly improve social skills and social interactions among teens with
autism spectrum disorder, is now customized for the needs of psychologists,
counselors, speech pathologists, administrators, and teachers. The manual is
broken down into clearly divided lesson plans, each of which have concrete
rules and steps, corresponding homework assignments, plans for review, and
unique, fun activities to ensure that teens are comfortable incorporating what
they've learned. The curriculum also includes parent handouts, tips for
preparing for each lesson, strategies for overcoming potential pitfalls, and
the research underlying this transformative program. |
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Play Like a Girl: How a Soccer School In Kenya's Slums
Started a Revolution. Ellie Roscher, $24.95
Growing up and living in Kibera, Kenya, Abdul Kassim was
well aware of the disproportionate number of challenges faced by women due to
the extreme gender inequalities that persist in the slums. After being raised
by his aunts, mother, and grandmother and having a daughter himself, he felt
that he needed to make a difference.
In 2002, Abdul started a soccer team for girls called
Girls Soccer in Kibera (GSK), with the hope of fostering a supportive community
and providing emotional and mental support for the young women in the town. The
soccer program was a success, but the looming dangers of slum life persisted,
and the young women continued to fall victim to the worst kinds of human
atrocities. In 2006, after much work, the Kibera Girls Soccer Academy (KGSA)
was established with their first class of 11 girls and 2 volunteer teachers.
Today, KGSA is composed of 20 full-time staff, provides a host of artistic and
athletic programs for more than 130 students annually, and continues to expand.
By providing academics inside and outside of the classroom along with artistic
and athletic opportunities, KGSA inspires the young women of Kibera to become
advocates for change within their own communities and for Kenya as a whole.
Play Like a Girl tells the KGSA story through
Abdul’s voice and vision and the stories of key staff and students. It is
written by Ellie Roscher who spent 2 summers doing research at KGSA. |
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Positive Alternatives to Suspension: Procedures,
Vignettes, Checklists, and Tools to Increase Teaching and Reduce Suspensions. Catherine
DeSalvo, Mike Meeks & Matthew Buckman, $46.95
This book provides all the guidance you need to decrease
the frequency, severity and duration of disruptive behaviors and avoid harsh
and ineffective disciplinary practices. It provides a blueprint for creating an
in-school alternative to suspension by giving students the best opportunity to
overcome their challenges and find success. The authors explain how to create
structure, use motivation and teach social skills so students remain engaged
and connected to school. Worksheets, writing samples, and an index of social
skills with their behavioral steps are included on a CD. |
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Positive Discipline Tools for Teachers: Effective
Classroom Management for Social, Emotional, and Academic Success. Jane
Nelsen & Kelly Gfroerer, $23.00
The Positive Discipline method has proved to be an
invaluable resource for teachers who want to foster creative problem-solving
within their students, giving them the behavioral skills they need to
understand and process what they learn. In Positive Discipline Tools for
Teachers, you will learn how to successfully incorporate respectful,
solution-oriented approaches to ensure a cooperative and productive classroom.
Using tools like "Connection Before Correction," "Four
Problem-Solving Steps," and "Focusing on Solutions," teachers
will be able to focus on student-centered learning, rather than wasting time
trying to control their students' behavior. Each tool is specifically tailored
for the modern classroom, with examples and positive solutions to each and every
roadblock that stands in the way of cooperative learning.
Complete with the most up-to-date research on classroom
management and the effectiveness of the Positive Discipline method, this
comprehensive guide also includes helpful teacher stories and testimonials from
around the world. |
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The Power Card Strategy 2.0: an Evidence-Based
Practice Using Special Interests to Motivate Children and Youth with Autism
Spectrum Disorder. Elisa Gagnon & Brenda Smith Myles, $30.95
Many researchers, parents, and autistics themselves have
long understood the role of special interests in teaching and motivating
individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), yet these intense areas of
knowledge have not been widely integrated into the learning activities of
children on the spectrum. It was author Elisa Gagnon’s insightful and
innovative first edition of Power Cards that helped move the use of
special interests forward, promoting classroom-based research on the deep areas
of knowledge and learners on the spectrum. The authors are hopeful that the
second edition of this book will further inspire professionals and parents to
incorporate special interests into the lives of learners on the spectrum. |
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Powering Up Children: the Learning Power Approach to
Primary Teaching. Guy Claxton & Becky Carlzon, $29.95
In Powering Up Children, Guy Claxton and Becky
Carlzon harness the design principles of the Learning Power Approach to provide
a rich resource of effective teaching strategies for use in the primary school
classroom. The Learning Power Approach (LPA) is a pedagogical formula which
aims to develop all pupils as confident and capable learners — ready, willing and
able to choose, design, research, pursue, troubleshoot and evaluate learning
for themselves, alone and with others, in school and out. This approach
therefore empowers teachers to complement their delivery of content, knowledge
and skills with the nurturing of positive habits of mind that will better
prepare students to flourish in later life.
Guy and Becky offer a thorough explanation of how the
LPA's core components apply to this level of education and, by presenting a
wide range of classroom examples, illustrate how they can be put into practice
with different age groups (from the early years through to age 11) and in
different curricular areas — especially relating to literacy and numeracy, but
also in specific subjects such as science, history, art and PE. |
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The Project Approach for All Learners: a Hands-On
Guide for Inclusive Early Childhood Classrooms. Sallee Beneke, Michaelene
Ostosky & Lilian Katz, $55.50
A proven and popular teaching method, the Project
Approach engages the natural curiosity of children through in-depth
investigations of topics that capture their interest. Now there's a guidebook
that helps you use this child-centered approach to reach and teach all learners
in your early childhood classroom — regardless of background or ability.
You'll discover how to support diverse groups of students
as they study real world topics that fascinate them, play detective with peers
to find answers to questions, and show what they've learned in interesting and
creative ways. You'll also get practical, start-to-finish guidance on how to
apply the Project Approach, including a complete package of training materials,
examples of successful projects from real inclusive classrooms, and a Project
Approach Implementation Checklist that helps you use the approach effectively. |
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Pushing the Limits: How Schools Can Prepare Our
Children Today for the Challenges of Tomorrow. Kelly Gallagher-Mackay &
Nancy Steinhauer, $32.95 
Across Canada, a debate swirls around what our children
will need to know in the face of huge technological, economic, social and
political change. The question has become an ideological battleground, and
there is a hunger for a deeper understanding of what we should be doing to
prepare children now for the challenges of the future. This timely, important
book is an answer to that call.
In Pushing the Limits, Kelly Gallagher-Mackay and
Nancy Steinhauer draw on their experiences as educational leaders to reveal
that the schools of the future exist in the here and now. They introduce us to
extraordinary Canadian public schools, deeply rooted in their communities, that
are fostering innovators, nimble problem-solvers and engaged citizens, boosting
math comprehension, cultivating creativity and using technology to broaden the
parameters of learning. And they explore why the role of schools is expanding
to nurture students' social-emotional skills and growth mindsets, and how vital
this broader definition of education is to children's long-term health,
happiness and success. This book provides a vision of what schooling can and
should look like in our rapidly shifting world and explores how we — parents and
teachers — can realize this vision together. |
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Quick Answers for Busy Teachers: Solutions to 60
Common Challenges. Annette Breaux & Todd Whitaker, $35.95
Quick Answers for Busy Teachers presents some
of the most common challenges teachers encounter in the classroom, and provides
expert help toward solving those problems. This easy-to-read guide is organized
into short, discreet chapters, making it an ideal quick reference for
on-the-spot answers, with practical advice and concise, actionable solutions.
Readers will develop systems for dealing with issues that repeatedly crop up,
from handling the out-of-control class to falling out of love with the job. The
book offers innovative methods and techniques that improve student achievement
and behavior while minimizing stress on the teacher. Recover from challenging
situations with parents, students, coworkers, or administrators, implement a
system that keeps those challenges from happening again, and learn to relax and
enjoy this richly rewarding profession.
Teaching is difficult. Educators must grapple with a
roomful of diverse students, an evolving curriculum, massive organization of
books, papers, and supplies, and ever-changing technology. They must deal with
challenges from uninvolved parents, over-involved parents, administrators, and
fellow educators. This book helps teachers avoid some of the frustration by
providing solutions for the sixty most common challenges teachers face.
As a teacher, igniting young minds is only a small part
of the battle – it's usually everything else that makes teachers occasionally
reconsider their career choice. With solutions and systems in place ahead of
time, readers can handle challenges swiftly and skillfully with Quick
Answers for Busy Teachers. |
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Quiet at School: an Educator's Guide to Shy Children. Robert
Coplan & Kathleen Moritz Rudasill, $48.95
Compared to their more sociable counterparts, shy
children are at greater risk for a variety of difficulties in elementary
school, including internalizing problems, difficulties with peer relationships,
and poorer academic performance.
Written by a developmental and an educational
psychologist with decades of experience between them, this book demystifies the
latest research on shyness. It offers a comprehensive and accessible guide to
everything teachers should know about shy children. Topics covered include how
shyness develops in childhood, the unique challenges faced by shy children at
school, and general strategies and specific techniques for improving shy
children's social, emotional, and academic functioning at school. Despite and
increase in research on shyness, shy children are still not well understood by
teachers and other school personnel. Quiet at School offers
research-based practices for creating safe and inclusive learning environments
that will help shy students thrive. |
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Racialized Schools: Understanding and
Addressing Racism in Schools. Jesse Brinson &
Shannon Smith, $44.95
While racism continues to be a
persistent and pervasive issue in our schools nationwide, the professionals
charged with creating safe and nurturing educational environments have few
resources available to address racism directly. RACIALIZED SCHOOLS is
on the leading edge of books that do just that and includes the latest research
and praxis to help school personnel confront racism in a professional manner. A
national qualitative survey of students, school counselors, teachers, and
administrators sets the stage by providing readers with a 360-degree picture of
today's schools and the many ways racism creeps into the lives of our students.
The authors present a number of different models and perspectives on
understanding and addressing racism, beginning with their own personal and
professional experiences. Significant attention is also given to empowering
school personnel and students to become racially aware, sensitive, and
competent to address racism and racial conflicts in schools. RACIALIZED
SCHOOLS is not only a comprehensive look at racism within our schools; it is
also a practical tool for use by teachers, school counselors, administrators,
etc., for implementing preventative measures to combat racism directly. |
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Raising Peacemakers. Esther Sokolov Fine, $23.95
Raising Peacemakers tells a 22-year story of
kids growing up with peacemaking as their foundation. At Downtown Alternative
School (DAS), a small public elementary school in Toronto, child-to-child
conflicts were understood as opportunities. Children and adults worked hard to
create a warm inclusive community where differing viewpoints and disagreements
could be handled fairly and safely.
While the book includes documentation and transcripts,
it’s a narrative rather than an academic text. It’s a trail of re-thinking,
negotiating and re-negotiating, solving and re-solving (occasionally resolving)
teaching and learning dilemmas. It’s a tale of one school’s brave and
optimistic effort to create and sustain healthy, safe, equitable, and
academically relevant conditions for and with people whose lives were and are
at stake in public education. It’s about children and adults growing together
as they discover more about what it means (and what it takes) to become
responsible citizens who care about each other, about their community, and
about the world.
The DAS community was dedicated to the serious work, and
to the joy, of respectful relationships and power sharing. This book invites
you to step back more than twenty years to learn about how this began and what
keeps it alive to this day. |
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The Reading Strategies Book: Your Everything Guide to
Developing Skilled Readers. Jennifer Serravallo, $58.25
“Strategies make the often invisible work of reading
actionable and visible,” and in The Reading Strategies Book, author
Jennifer Serravallo collects 300 strategies to share with readers in support of
thirteen goals — everything from fluency to literary analysis. Each strategy is
cross-linked to skills, genres, and Fountas & Pinnell reading levels to
give you just-right teaching, just in time. With Jen’s help you’ll:
- develop goals for every reader
- give students step-by-step strategies for skilled reading
- guide readers with prompts aligned to the strategies
- adjust instruction to meet individual needs with Jen’s Teaching
Tips
- craft demonstrations and explanations with her Lesson Language
- learn more with Hat Tips to the work of influential
teacher-authors.
The Reading Strategies Book will complement and
extend your teaching. Rely on it to plan and implement goal-directed,
differentiated instruction for individuals, small groups, and whole classes. |
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Reframed: Self-Reg for a Just Society. Stuart
Shanker, $34.95 
For Stuart Shanker, the possibility of a truly just and
free society begins with how we see and nurture our children. Shanker is
renowned for using cutting-edge neuroscience to help children feel happy and
think clearly by better regulating themselves. In Reframed, Shanker
explores self-regulation in wider, social terms. Whereas his two previous
books, Calm, Alert, and Learning and Self-Reg, were written for
educators and parents, Reframed, the final book in the trilogy, unpacks
the unique science and conceptual practices that are the very lifeblood of
Self-Reg. Reframed is grounded in the three basic principles of Shanker
Self-Reg®:
- There is no such thing as a bad, lazy, or stupid kid
- All people can learn to self-regulate in ways that promote rather
than constrict growth
- There is no such thing as a "fixed outcome":
trajectories can always be changed, at any point in the lifespan, if only we
have the right knowledge and tools
Only a society that embraces these principles and strives
to practice them, argues Shanker, can become a truly just society. The paradigm
revolution presented in Reframed not only helps us understand the
harrowing time we are living through, but inspires a profound sense of hope for
the future. Shanker shows us how to build a compassionate society, one mind at
a time. |
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Residential Schools: with Words and Images of
Survivors. Larry Loyie, with Wayne Spear & Constance Brissenden, $35.95 
This book explains the hidden history of the residential
school system. Award-winning author and former residential school student Larry
Loyie delves into how Canada, for over a century, removed more than 150,000
Aboriginal children from their families to attend these church-run residential
schools. It explains in a comprehensive, yet accessible, way the history of not
only First Nations people but also the Métis and Inuit peoples of Canada.
Residential Schools speaks with the voice of more
than 70 former students and family members. There are more than 125 images —
many from the personal collections of survivors, a map of Canada’s residential
schools, a “key dates” timeline, five myths associated with Residential School
and a glossary of terms. The book involved over 20 years of research, 200
interviews and took three years to write. “It is a historical narrative and
national history that needs to be told,” said author Larry Loyie. |
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Restore the Respect: How to Mediate School Conflicts
& Keep Students Learning. Ondine Gross, $48.50
Unresolved conflicts in schools build barriers to
learning, including low motivation, lack of focus, and disruptive behaviors
that remove students from the classroom. When teacher-student conflicts occur,
the negative effects can be long-lasting without a safe and structured way to
repair the relationship.
This reader-friendly guidebook has a concrete,
evidence-based solution: an easy and effective 50-minute mediation technique
for teachers and students in Grades K-12. School psychologist Ondine Gross
guides you through the whole process of starting a teacher-student mediation
program, conducting successful mediations, and collecting and monitoring data
to measure the effectiveness of the program. You'll also learn how to use the
technique to mediate conflicts between students and between adults in schools,
including staff members and parents.
Highly successful as a Tier II intervention, this
common-sense solution will help your school leave ineffective discipline
techniques behind — and embrace more supportive approaches that model social and
problem solving skills, reduce suspensions, and keep students learning. |
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Reversing Suspension: Tools for Implementing
Innovative Alternatives to Home Suspension. Catherine Pardue & Ed
Orszulak, $43.50 (GR 3-8)
The habitual suspension of some students is a pervasive
problem in schools... often with little or no impact on changing these
students’ behaviors. Some students become suspension “frequent flyers” and seem
to be sent home from school on a routine basis. Reversing Suspension explores insights and strategies used in exemplary schools where home
suspensions have been dramatically reduced. The primary goal of the authors is
to share what has worked best for turning around habitually suspended students’
attitudes and choices so they can become more successful in school. The CD
contains ready-to-print forms, surveys, assessments, and homework sheets that
can be used with your school staff, parents and students. Examples of printable
pages you can modify to your needs include:
Scenario-based student activities to build school success
through:
- Performance: (Learning to self-assess behaviors)
- Responsibility: (Exploring consequences to different choices)
- Conflict-Resolution: (Resolving interpersonal conflict)
- Reflection: (Exploring the student choices and outcomes)
- School staff strategy-builders for challenges of different
intensities
- Forms for students & school staff
- Recommendations and take-home sheets for parents/guardians
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Righting Canada's Wrongs: Residential Schools — the
Devastating Impact on Canada's Indigenous Peoples and the Truth and
Reconciliation Commission's Findings and Calls for Action. Melanie Florence,
$34.95 (Ages 13-18+) 
Canada's residential school system for aboriginal young
people is now recognized as a grievous historic wrong committed against First
Nations, Metis, and Inuit peoples. This book documents this subject in a format
that will give all young people access to this painful part of Canadian
history.
Over a period of close 150 years, about 150,000
aboriginal children went to 130 residential schools across Canada. The last
federally funded residential school closed in 1996 in Saskatchewan. The horrors
that many children endured at residential schools did not go away. It took
decades for people to speak out, but with the support of the Assembly of First
Nations and Inuit organizations, former residential school students took the
federal government and the churches to court. Their cases led to the Indian
Residential Schools Settlement Agreement, the largest class-action settlement
in Canadian history. In 2008, Prime Minister Harper formally apologized to
former native residential school students for the atrocities they suffered and
the role the government played in setting up the school system. The agreement
included the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which has since worked to
document this experience and toward reconciliation.
Through historical photographs, documents, and
first-person narratives from First Nations, Inuit, and Metis people who
survived residential schools, this book offers an account of the injustice of
this period in Canadian history. It documents how this official racism was
confronted and finally acknowledged. |
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Risk, Challenge and Adventure in the Early Years: a
Practical Guide to Exploring and Extending Learning Outdoors. Kathryn
Solly, $48.50
What is the difference between ‘risk’ and ‘danger’? What
can children learn from taking risks? How can you provide key experiences for
children and ensure their safety outdoors? Young children will naturally seek
out challenges and take risks and this is crucial to their overall development.
This book clearly explains why children should be given the freedom to take
risks and provides practical guidance on how to offer stimulating and
challenging outdoor experiences that will extend all areas of children’s
learning.
Including examples of activities for all weather
conditions across all areas of learning, the book covers:
- The pedagogical history of adventure, risk and challenge
- Health, wellbeing and keeping safe
- The adult role
- Risk assessment
- Supporting individual children with different needs
- Environments that enable challenging and adventurous play
- Working with parents and addressing concerns
- Observation, planning and assessment
This book is essential reading for practitioners and
students that wish to provide rich experiences for children that will enable
them to become confident and adventurous learners. |
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Safe and Fun Playgrounds: a Handbook. Heather
Olsen, Susan Hudson & Donna Thompson, $42.95
Play is important for the cognitive, emotional, and
physical development of children. Whether you're creating a new playgrounds, or
maintaining an existing one, this handbook is designed to help you move through
the many details and stages of making safe — yet challenging — playgrounds and
play areas a reality. Use the four components that experts have identified for
safety:
- Supervision by appropriate individuals
- Age-appropriate design
- Fall-surfacing that contains approved materials
- Equipment maintenance
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The School of Wellbeing: 12 Extraordinary Projects
Promoting Children and Young People's Mental Health and Happiness. Jenny
Hulme, $27.95
As rates of depression, anxiety, self-harm and eating
disorders are on the up among young people, how can schools provide appropriate
information and support for the young people in their classrooms? How can they
bridge the gap between what they know matters — the impact of these issues on
learning and life-long health — and the mounting day-to-day priorities and
pressures of school life?
This book provides unique insight into 12 projects that
are helping to answer these questions and supporting teachers to make mental
health and emotional wellbeing a key player in the school day. With a mix of
longer-term initiatives and simple strategies that schools can put in place
immediately, it explores mentoring and mindfulness, social action and sport,
Lego play and poetry, the power of parents and the role of PSHE. It describes
how these projects work practically and shares the impact they are having,
increasing resilience and raising the aspirations and emotional wellbeing of
the whole school community. This book is a source of inspiration for teachers,
leadership teams, pastoral care teams, school counsellors and psychologists. |
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Seasons of Play: Natural Environments of Wonder. Rusty
Keeler, $27.95
Recent research has drawn the link between children’s
brain development and time spent in the natural environment. Every child
deserves a safe play to play, supportive adults to watch him grow, and an
environment that offers her endless possibilities. In Seasons of Play,
Rusty Keeler takes readers on a photographic journey through real child care
centers that have embraced his philosophy that natural play environments create
new opportunities for children to explore and grow.
Seasons of Play promotes play among natural
elements. Using the author’s own photos, the book illustrates how to design
natural play environments that encourage exploration and creativity in all
seasons of the year. Keeler’s own drawings complement the photos with
renderings of how the play spaces were designed. Interviews with center
directors add a personal touch to how the spaces improve learning at the
centers. |
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Self-Reg Schools: a Handbook for Educators. Stuart
Shanker & Susan Hopkins, $58.75 
When people want to learn how to make self-regulation a
part of their teaching practice they often ask one question: How?
Self-Reg Schools: a Handbook for Educators answers
that question by detailing how four models, or streams, of self-regulation
environments develop in our classrooms and schools. Each stream is outlined with
practical tools and strategies you can use to enhance your classroom so that it
reflects and embodies the theory and practice of self-regulation for the
benefit of all–you, your students, parents, and the community at large. This
includes:
- a description of each stream — What does it look like? sound like?
feel like?
- cenarios based on real classrooms and real teachers that
exemplify the stream
- n easy-to-implement model that can be used with students,
parents, and other practitioners, along with application tips
- stories from the field, written by practising educators, that
explore one or more stream characteristics
- strategies to help you begin or extend the stream in your
classroom
- an accompanying website that features videos, line masters and
additional hands-on support
Where Calm, Alert and Learning answered the what
and why of self-regulation, this handbook answers that all-important question
of how to do it and, more importantly, gives you the tools you need to make it
happen! |
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Skillstreaming the Adolescent: a
Guide for Teaching Prosocial Skills, 3rd Edition. Ellen McGinnis, et al, $71.95
Skillstreaming in Early Childhood: a
Guide for Teaching Prosocial Skills, 3rd Edition. Ellen McGinnis, $67.95
Skillstreaming the Elementary School
Child: a Guide for Teaching Prosocial Skills, 3rd Edition. Ellen McGinnis, et al, $67.95
SKILLSTREAMING employs a four-part
training approach — modeling, role-playing, performance feedback, and
generalization — to teach essential prosocial skills to children from preschool
through adolescence. Each book provides a complete description of the
Skillstreaming program, with instructions for teaching age-appropriate prosocial
skills.
Each volume of this widely acclaimed
approach developed by Dr. Arnold Goldstein and colleagues is now in 8½×11
format with reproducible skill outlines, skill homework reports, and program
forms and includes forms CD. |
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The Social Neuroscience of Education:
Optimizing Attachment & Learning in the Classroom. Louis Cozolino, $50.00
This book explains how the brain, as a
social organism, learns best throughout the lifespan, from our early schooling
through late life. Positioning the brain as distinctly social, Louis Cozolino
helps teachers make connections to neurobiological principles, with the goal of
creating classrooms that nurture healthy attachment patterns and resilient
psyches. Cozolino investigates what good teachers do to stimulate minds and
brains to learn, especially when they succeed with difficult or “unteachable”
students. He explores classroom teaching from the perspectives of social
neuroscience and interpersonal neurobiology, showing how we can use the
findings from these fields to maximize learning and stimulate the brain to
grow. The book will have relevance to anyone concerned with twenty-first
century learners and the social and emotional development of children. |
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Special Education Case Studies for Ontario Classrooms.
Kimberly Maich & Randy Hill, $49.95 
Special Education Case Studies is an exciting new
resource for teacher-candidates as well as fully certified teachers preparing
to teach in inclusive classrooms in Ontario. Each chapter is composed of five original
cases demonstrating the practices and processes of Special Education. Spanning
kindergarten to high school graduation, these well-written stories provide a
practical and realistic snapshot of what teaching in an inclusive classroom in
Ontario really looks like.
This book is a supplemental text for special education
courses at universities in Ontario, either through education departments or
through additional qualification courses. |
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Special Education in Ontario Schools, 8th Edition. Sheila Bennett & Don Dworet with Ken Weber, $52.95 
Special Education in Ontario Schools has been used
extensively in Teacher Education and Educational Assistants programs as a
primary text to prepare educational professionals to work with students with
special needs. We are excited to announce that while upholding the outstanding
quality of the original text this new 8th edition has added a new chapter on
Mental Health. This terrific resource has been fully updated to reflect the
changes and continuing issues in Ontario's special education system. An
indispensable guide for all educators in Ontario schools, this is a hugely
practical, insightful and inspiring look at identifying and developing the
strengths of children with differing abilities and needs. |
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Stand Up and Teach. Kathleen Gould Lundy, $24.95 
What do you need for a well-run classroom full of engaged
students? Kathy Lundy takes you step-by-step through the nitty-gritty details
of creating a classroom that works for you and your students. Based on
extensive classroom experience, strategies throughout the book will help you
become the teacher you want to be. From building a safe and inclusive
classroom, to teaching with imagination and innovation, to engaging the school
community, Stand Up and Teach has it all. |
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Start Making! A Guide to Engaging Young People in
Maker Activities. Danielle Martin & Alisha Panjwani, $26.95
Start Making! is a program developed by the
Clubhouse Network to engage young people all over the world in Maker-inspired
activities. With this guide, you will discover how to plan and coordinate
projects in your home, school, library, community center, after-school club, or
makerspace. You'll learn strategies for engaging young people in creative
thinking, developing individual and team projects, and sharing and reflecting
on their creations.
Each session includes a list of the supplies you'll need,
step-by-step instructions for completing the projects, and prompts for
stimulating discussion, curiosity, and confidence. These fun do-it-yourself
(and do-it-together) projects teach fundamental STEAM concepts — science,
technology, engineering, art, and math — while introducing young people to the
basics of circuitry, design, coding, crafting, and construction. They'll make
paper cards and creations that light up, play music using a MaKey MaKey
keyboard and Scratch programming, join together to make paintings with light, design
and construct 3D sculptures, build a vibrating art-bot that makes drawings, and
sew fabric creations with wearable circuits.
Dip into the activities once a week, run them as a
week-long summer activity, or go through the guide in any way that works for
you. By offering your own Start Making! program, you can inspire young people
in your community to develop creative ideas, learn new skills, and share their
creations. |
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STEM Learning with Young Children: Inquiry Teaching
with Ramps and Pathways. Shelly Counsell, Lawrence Escalada et al, $45.95
(ages 3-8)
This teacher’s guide provides the background information,
STEM concepts, and strategies needed to successfully implement an early STEM
curriculum (Ramps and Pathways) with young children, ages 3-8. R&P actively
engages young children in designing and building ramp structures using wooden cove
molding, releasing marbles on the structures, and observing what happens.
Children use logical-mathematical thinking and problem-solving skills as they
explore science concepts related to motion, force, and energy. This guide helps
teachers to:
- Structure and organize an engaging STEM learning environment
- Understand and promote logical-mathematical and scientific
thinking during investigations
- Promote social settings that enhance communication, cooperation,
and collaboration
- Make the necessary accommodations and modifications for diverse
- Integrate STEM concepts and skills with other content areas
- Assess STEM learning using formative and summative
- Establish adult learning communities to support ongoing
professional development
- Help children develop habits and behaviors that contribute to
positive attitudes toward STEM
This one-of-a-kind resource uses a newly created Inquiry
Teaching Model (ITM) as the conceptual framework and devotes specific attention
to the importance of an inclusive, social, STEM learning environment in which
children are free to collaborate, take risks, and investigate within the
context of exploratory and constructive play. |
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STEM Starters for Kids Series (ages 6-10)
The acronym “STEM” stands for (S)cience, (T)echnology,
(E)ngineering, and (M)ath. These subjects are closely related to one another
and are sometimes overlooked as critical subjects in education, often dismissed
by students and teachers after primary education is completed. However, the
need for these subjects in our society is crucial. The books in this series aim
to pique the interest of children in these areas of study, stress the
importance of these subjects, and help encourage children who are interested to
continue within these fields as they grow and learn.
STEM Starters For Kids Art Activity Book: Packed with Activities
and Art Facts. Jenny Jacoby, Illustrated by Vicky Barker, $8.99
STEM Starters for Kids Engineering Activity Book: Packed
with Activities and Engineering Facts. Jenny Jacoby, Illustrated by Vicky
Barker, $8.99
STEM Starters For Kids Math Activity Book: Packed with
Activities and Math Facts. Jenny Jacoby, Illustrated by Vicky Barker, $8.99
STEM Starters For Kids Physics Activity Book: Packed
with Activities and Physics Facts. Jenny Jacoby, Illustrated by Vicky
Barker, $8.99
STEM Starters for Kids Science Activity Book: Packed
with Activities and Science Facts. Sam Hutchinson, Illustrated by Vicky
Barker, $8.99
STEM Starters for Kids Science Experiments at Home:
Discover the Science In Everyday Life. Susan Martineau, Illustrated by Vicky Barker, $11.99
STEM Starters for Kids Technology Activity Book:
Packed with Activities and Technology Facts. Catherine Bruzzone,
Illustrated by Vicky Barker, $8.99 |
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Stop The Stress In Schools: Mental Health Strategies
Teachers Can Use to Build a Kinder Gentler Classroom. Joey Mandel, $24.95
This timely book explores the stresses exerted on today's
students, and shows teachers how to reduce the atmosphere of tension and pressure
in their classrooms. It emphasizes the power teachers have in building a
positive environment, through kindness and stress reduction.
Committed to fostering a healthier classroom, Stop
the Stress in Schools provides explicit ways to build healthy relationships
and handle problems so that negative interactions, such as bullying, are
reduced. It features calming strategies that include slowing the pace;
increasing positive engagement and interaction, considering the perspective of
the student; and celebrating process rather than product. Instead of
targeting the symptoms of stress, this thoughtful book focuses on the
social-emotional traits that are instrumental in helping children experience
stress and navigate through it constructively. A comprehensive approach to
reducing stress and frustration for teachers and students, the book includes
practical examples, activities, and samples of student work. |
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Stormy Seas: Stories of Young Boat Refugees. Mary
Beth Leatherdale & Eleanor Shakespeare, $14.95 (grades 5-8)
The plight of refugees risking their lives at sea has,
unfortunately, made the headlines all too often in the past few years. This
book presents five true stories, from 1939 to today, about young people who
lived through the harrowing experience of setting sail in search of asylum:
Ruth and her family board the St. Louis to escape Nazism; Phu sets out alone
from war-torn Vietnam; José tries to reach the United States from Cuba; Najeeba
flees Afghanistan and the Taliban; and after losing his family, Mohamed abandons
his village on the Ivory Coast in search of a new life.
Stormy Seas combines a vivid and contemporary
collage-based design with dramatic storytelling to produce a book that makes
for riveting reading as well as a source of timely information. These
remarkable accounts will give readers a keen appreciation of the devastating
effects of war and poverty on youth like themselves, and helps put the mounting
current refugee crisis into stark context. |
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The Story of Canada. Janet Lunn & Christopher
Moore, Illustrated by Alan Daniel, $39.99 
Award-winning writer Janet Lunn and historian Christopher
Moore tell our country’s story through rich narrative, recreations of daily
life, folk tales and intriguing facts. Coupled with Alan Daniel’s evocative
original paintings, as well as dozens of historical photographs, maps,
paintings, documents and cartoons, The Story of Canada is as splendid to
look at as it is fascinating to read. Includes new material to bring us to the
150th anniversary of Confederation. |
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Supporting Successful Interventions in School: Tools
to Plan, Evaluate, and Sustain Effective Implementation. Lisa Hagermoser
Sanetti & Melissa Collier-Meek, $48.50
Evidence-based interventions benefit learners only when
they are implemented fully. Yet many educators struggle with successful
implementation. This unique book gives practitioners a research-based framework
for working with PreK–12 educators to support the effective delivery of
academic, behavioral, and social–emotional interventions. Step-by-step
procedures are presented for assessing existing implementation efforts and
using a menu of support strategies to promote intervention fidelity. In a
large-size format with lay-flat binding for easy photocopying, the book
includes 28 reproducible worksheets, strategy guides, and fidelity assessment
tools. Purchasers get access to a Web page where they can download and print
the reproducible materials. |
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Teach Like a Champion 2.0: 62 Techniques That Put
Students on the Path to College. Doug Lemov, $37.95
This teaching guide is a must-have for new and
experienced teachers alike. Over 700,000 teachers around the world already know
how the techniques in this book turn educators into classroom champions. With
ideas for everything from classroom management to inspiring student engagement,
you will be able to perfect your teaching practice right away. With the sample
lesson plans, videos, and teachlikeachampion.com online community, you will be
teaching like a champion in no time. The classroom techniques you'll learn in
this book can be adapted to suit any context. Find out why Teach Like a
Champion is a "teaching Bible" for so many educators
worldwide. |
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Teach Like Finland: 33 Simple Strategies for Joyful
Classrooms. Timothy Walker, $34.95
How does Finnish education — with short school days, light
homework loads, and little standardized testing — produce students who match the
PISA scores of high-powered, stressed-out kids in Asia?
When Timothy Walker started teaching fifth graders at a
Helsinki public school, he began a search for the secrets behind the successes
of Finland’s schools. Walker wrote about several of those discoveries, and his
Atlantic articles on this subject became hot topics of conversation. Here, he
gathers all he learned and reveals how any teacher can implement many of
Finland's best practices. Remarkably, Finland is prioritizing the joy of
learning in its newest core curricula and Walker carefully highlights specific
strategies that support joyful K-12 classrooms and integrate seamlessly with
educational standards in the United States.
From incorporating brain breaks to offering a peaceful
learning environment, this book pulls back the curtain on the joyful teaching
practices of the world's most lauded school system. His message is simple but
profound: these Finland-inspired strategies can be used in the U.S. and other
countries. No educator — or parent of a school-aged child — will want to miss out
on the message of joy and change conveyed in this book. |
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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. |
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The Teacher's Introduction to Attachment: Practical
Essentials for Teachers, Carers and School Support Staff. Nicola Marshall,
$24.95
Simple and concise, The Teacher's Introduction to
Attachment offers an easy way to understand children with attachment issues
and how they can be supported.
Author Nicola Marshall combines her expertise as an
adoptive parent and schools-trainer to describe in plain English what
attachment is, how children develop attachment problems and how these problems
affect a child's social, emotional and neurological development. She addresses
some of the difficulties in identifying attachment issues in children — common
among children who are in care or adopted, but which are sometimes mistaken for
symptoms of ADHD or Autism Spectrum Disorder. Nicola also describes a range of
helpful principles and practical strategies which will help children flourish —
from simple tips for the individual on how to improve their communication to
the changes a school can make to reduce a child's anxiety about changes and
transitions.
Ideal for teachers and support staff to pick up and use,
this book is an essential addition to any school's staff library. |
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Teaching in the Digital Age: Smart
Tools for Age 3 to Grade 3. Brian Puerling, $49.95
Technology is rapidly changing the ways
we live our lives and interact with the world. It's also changing how you
teach. Technology can enhance your classroom's complete curriculum and
assessment and help you create and capture meaningful experiences, support
inquiry, and expand your classroom's walls. TEACHING IN THE DIGITAL
AGE is a comprehensive framework that will help you select and use a
variety of technology and interactive media tools in your classroom — including
digital cameras, audio recorders, webcams, publication and presentation tools,
and multi-touch mobile devices. |
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Teaching
Kids with Mental Health & Learning Disorders in the Regular
Classroom: How to Recognize, Understand, and Help Challenged
(and Challenging) Students Succeed. Myles Cooley, $51.99
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. |
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Teaching Mindfulness Skills to Kids and Teens. Edited
by Christopher Willard & Amy Saltzman, $99.50
Packed with creative, effective ideas for bringing
mindfulness into the classroom, child therapy office, or community, this book
features sample lesson plans and scripts, case studies, vignettes, and more.
Leading experts describe how to harness the unique benefits of present-focused
awareness for preschoolers, school-age kids, and teens, including at-risk youth
and those with special needs. Strategies for overcoming common obstacles and
engaging kids with different learning styles are explored. Chapters also share
ways to incorporate mindfulness into a broad range of children's activities,
such as movement, sports, music, games, writing, and art. Giving clinicians and
educators practices they can use immediately, the book includes clear
explanations of relevant research findings. |
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Teaching Smarter: an Unconventional Guide to Boosting
Student Success. Patrick Kelley, $29.99
This refreshingly frank handbook shows teachers how to
close the achievement gap in their classrooms by teaching students innovative
paths to academic success. Drawing on over 20 years’ experience, Kelley
presents straightforward strategies for helping learners improve their grades
and test scores and experience greater school engagement — all while streamlining
the teacher’s work to yield maximum efficiency. Strategies include team-grading
essays, using Socratic seminars and sworn statements, allowing for re-dos, and
ruthlessly pruning assignments, among others. Often humorous and irreverent in
tone, this guide will be the talk of the break room. Includes online digital
content. |
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Teaching Tenacity, Resilience, and a Drive for Excellence:
Lessons for Social-Emotional Learning for Grades 4-8. Emily Mofield &
Megan Parker Peters, $42.95
What does it take to really succeed? Talent alone does
not lead to success, but ability grows from perseverance, tenacity, and
sustained effort over time. On the path to pursue high levels of achievement,
students will undoubtedly encounter setbacks, criticism, fierce competition,
and challenges. This book equips teachers to deliberately cultivate
psychosocial skills that prepare students to tackle challenges, take
intellectual risks, and develop a diligence to achieve. Students learn to be
mindful of their talents and passions, beliefs about their abilities, and how
their thoughts and emotions influence behaviors and relationships with others.
Lessons include engaging activities to support approach-oriented coping,
mastery goals, emotional regulation, interpersonal skills, and
cognitive-behavioral approaches to channel thoughts and behaviors into a
tenacious drive for learning and excellence. |
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Teaching with Poverty in Mind: What Being Poor Does to
Kids' Brains and What Schools Can Do about It. Eric Jensen, $38.95
Although every educator knows firsthand about the effects
that poverty can have on students, here at last is a book that makes it crystal
clear why and how the effects of poverty have to be addressed in classroom
teaching and school and district policy. Veteran educator and brain expert Eric
Jensen helps you understand what poverty does to children’s brains and why
students raised in poverty are especially subject to stressors that undermine
school behavior and performance. The book explores how the effects of poverty
can be reversed when educators employ the practices of turn-around schools and
schools that have a history of high performance among students raised in
poverty. Drawing from research, experience, and real school success stories,
Jensen explains what educators everywhere can do to improve the achievement of
economically disadvantaged students:
- How to recognize the signs of chronic stress caused by poverty.
- Why to assess low performing students for core skills that are
affected by poverty, such as attention, focus, and problem solving.
- How to change school and classroom environments to alleviate the
stress caused by chronic poverty.
- Ways to empower students and increase their perception of control
over their environments.
- Which school-wide factors lead to success and which are always
achievement killers.
- How enriching learning environments that include the arts and
highly engaging instruction can change students’ brains and improve their
lives.
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The Teen's Guide to Debating and Public Speaking. Claire
Duffy, $19.99
Everything students, parents, and teachers need to know
about debating and public speaking the best training ground for developing
self-esteem and learning to look critically at big issues. Speaking well builds
confidence and opens up a world of opportunity, in education, leadership,
careers, and community and political engagement. In an increasingly competitive
world, being a convincing, passionate, and persuasive speaker is essential to
standing out from the crowd.
Claire Duffy not only demystifies the process but makes
it fun. Learn all about the best ways to prepare for a debate or speech, the
persuasive power of reason, the art of argument and rebuttal, and, when worse
comes to worst, how to be gracious in defeat. Including practical tips from the
pros and helpful step-by-step examples, this is the essential handbook for
making every spoken word count. |
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Ten Things
Your Student with Autism Wishes You Knew. Ellen Notbohm,
$20.50
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”. |
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The Thinking Teacher: a Framework for Intentional
Teaching in the Early Childhood Classroom. Sandra Heidemann, Beth Menninga,
& Claire Chang, in partnership with Redleaf Press, $42.99
This essential professional development resource provides
advice for early childhood teachers who are navigating demands and changes in
their careers, helping them see these challenges as growth opportunities.
Through in-depth self-assessment and reflection, educators re-examine their
teaching philosophy, integrate new knowledge and strategies into their
practice, and strengthen the impact of their teaching on students. In the midst
of a constantly changing education landscape, educators will learn to teach
with intention and rediscover their unique purpose and passion for teaching
young children. Digital content includes customizable forms from the book. |
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Tips to Avoid Teacher Burnout In a Jar®: Helping You
Stay Focused, Fresh, & Happy at Work. $11.99
Let’s face it: teacher burnout happens. Stay fresh with
these tips and strategies! |
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To Look Closely: Science and Literacy
in the Natural World. Laurie Rubin, $28.95
Discover how nature study can help
students become careful, intentional observers of all they see, growing into
stronger readers, writers, mathematicians, and scientists in the process. From
setting a tone of inquiry-based thinking in the classroom to suggesting
specific units of study for reading, writing, and science, this book will guide
you step by step through the basics of integrating the skills acquired during
nature study into every subject. You will also discover all the ways that this
purposeful work nurtures "green" citizens who become determined to
respect and protect the natural environment. |
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To This Day: For the Bullied and Beautiful. Shane
Koyczan, illustrated by various artists, $19.95 
In February 2013, Shane Koyczan’s passionate
anti-bullying poem “To This Day” electrified the world. An animated video of
the lyric narrative went viral, racking up over 12 million hits to date and
inspiring an international movement against bullying in schools. Shane later
performed the piece to sustained applause on the stage of the 2013 annual TED
Conference. Now this extraordinary work has been adapted into an equally moving
and visually arresting book. Thirty international artists, as diverse as they
are talented, have been inspired to create exceptional art to accompany “To
This Day.” Each page is a vibrant collage of images, colors and words that will
resonate powerfully with anyone who has experienced bullying themselves,
whether as a victim, observer, or participant.
Born of Shane’s own experiences of being bullied as a child, To This
Day expresses the profound and lasting effect of bullying on an
individual, while affirming the strength and inner resources that allow people
to move beyond the experience. A heartfelt preface and afterword, along with
resources for kids affected by bullying, make this book an invaluable
centerpiece of the anti-bullying movement. |
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The Together Teacher: Plan Ahead, Get
Organized and Save Time. Maia Heyck-Merlin, $27.95
This practical resource shows teachers
how to be effective and have a life! Author and educator Maia Heyck-Merlin
explores the key habits of Together Teachers—how they plan ahead, organize work
and their classrooms, and how they spend their limited free time. The end goal
is always strong outcomes for their students.
In six parts, the book clearly lays out
these essential skills:
- How to establish simple yet successful
organizational systems.
- Contains templates and tutorials to create and
customize a personal organizational system and includes a companion website: www.thetogetherteacher.com
- Recommends various electronic or online tools to
make a teacher's school day (and life!) more efficient and productive
- Includes a Reader's Guide, a great professional
development resource; teachers will answer reflection questions, make notes
about habits, and select tools that best match individual needs and preferences
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Twice Exceptional: Supporting and Educating Bright and
Creative Students with Learning Difficulties. Edited by Scott Barry
Kaufman, $54.95
In an educational system founded on rigid standards and
categories, students who demonstrate a very specific manifestation of
intelligence flourish, while those who deviate tend to fall between the cracks.
Too often, talents and interests that do not align with classroom conventions
are left unrecognized and unexplored in children with extraordinary potential
but little opportunity. For twice-exceptional (2e) children, who have
extraordinary strengths coupled with learning difficulties, the problem is
compounded by the paradoxical nature of their intellect and an unbending
system, ill-equipped to cater to their unique learning needs.
Twice Exceptional provides cutting-edge,
evidence-based approaches to creating an environment where twice-exceptional
students can thrive. Viewing the 2e student as neither exclusively disabled nor
exclusively gifted, but, as a dynamic interaction of both, leading experts
offer holistic insight into identification, social-emotional development,
advocacy, and support for 2e students.
With chapters focusing on special populations (including
autism, dyslexia, and ADHD) as well as the intersection of race and 2e, this book
highlights practical recommendations for school and social contexts. In
expounding the unique challenges faced by the 2e population, Twice
Exceptional makes a case for greater flexibility in our approach to
education and a wider notion of what it means to be academically successful. |
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Turnaround Tools for the Teenage
Brain: Helping Underperforming Students Become Lifelong Learners. Eric Jensen & Carole Snider, $31.95
The achievement gap is widening and more
teens than ever are struggling in school. The latest research shows not only
that brains can change, but that teachers and other providers have the power to
boost students' effort, focus, attitude, and even IQs. Drawing on cutting-edge
science, this breakthrough book reveals core tools to increase student effort,
build attitudes, and improve behaviors. |
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Understanding Pathological Demand
Avoidance Syndrome in Children: a Guide for Parents, Teachers and Other
Professionals. Phil Christie, Margaret Duncan, Ruth
Fidler & Zara Healy, $25.95
Pathological Demand Avoidance Syndrome
(PDA) is a developmental disorder that is being increasingly recognized as part
of the autism spectrum. The main characteristic is a continued resistance to
the ordinary demands of life through strategies of social manipulation, which
originates from an anxiety-driven need to be in control.
This straightforward guide is written
collaboratively by professionals and parents to give a complete overview of
PDA. Starting with an exploration into the syndrome, it goes on to answer the
immediate questions triggered when a child is first diagnosed, and uses case
examples throughout to illustrate the impact of the condition on different
areas of the child's life. Early intervention options and workable strategies
for managing PDA positively will make day-to-day life easier for the child,
their family and peers. New problems faced in the teenage years and how to
assist a successful transition from adolescence to adulthood are also tackled.
The book concludes with a valuable resources list. |
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Understanding School Choice in Canada. Lynn
Bosetti & Dianne Gereluk, $39.95 
Understanding School Choice in Canada provides a
nuanced and theoretical overview of the formation and rise of school choice
policies in Canada. Drawing on twenty years of work, Lynn Bosetti and Dianne
Gereluk analyze the philosophical, historical, political, and social principles
that underpin the formation and implementation of school choice policies in the
provinces and territories. This robust overview successfully shifts the debate
away from ideology in order to facilitate an understanding that the spectrum of
school choice policy in Canada is a response to the varying political
challenges in society at large. This book is essential reading for those who
desire a deeper understanding of school choice policies in Canada. |
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Ungifted: Intelligence Redefined. Scott Barry Kaufman, $34.50
In UNGIFTED, cognitive psychologist
Scott Barry Kaufman — who was relegated to special education as a child — sets out
to show that the way we interpret traditional metrics of intelligence is
misguided. Kaufman explores the latest research in genetics and neuroscience, as
well as evolutionary, developmental, social, positive, and cognitive
psychology, to challenge the conventional wisdom about the childhood predictors
of adult success. He reveals that there are many paths to greatness, and argues
for a more holistic approach to achievement that takes into account each young
person’s personal goals, individual psychology, and developmental trajectory.
In so doing, he increases our appreciation for the intelligence and diverse
strengths of prodigies, savants, and late bloomers, as well as those with
dyslexia, autism, schizophrenia, and ADHD. Combining original research,
anecdotes, and a singular compassion, UNGIFTED proves that anyone — even those
without readily observable gifts at any single moment in time — can become great. |
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UNIKKAAQATIGIIT: Arctic Weather and
Climate through the Eyes of Nunavut’s Children. Edited
by David Natcher, Mary Ellen Thomas & Neil Christopher, $12.95 
Compiled from writing, poetry, and
illustrations created by young Nunavummiut, this anthology explores diverse
aspects of the theme of weather — from Inuit mythology to traditional
knowledge, climate change, and daily survival. Through full-colour illustrations
and engaging stories and poetry written both in Inuktituit and English, learn
more about the vital force of Arctic weather as seen through the eyes of
children. |
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Universal Design for Learning in Action: 100 Ways to
Teach All Learners. Whitney Rapp, $50.95
Need creative ideas for moving UDL from theory to
practice? Get this must-have quick guide, ready for any teacher to pick up and
start using now. Whitney Rapp, co-author of the acclaimed Teaching Everyone,
walks you step by step through 100 UDL strategies that strengthen student engagement,
learning, and assessment. Based on the latest research (but still practical and
fun!), these highly effective ideas will help you address diverse learning
needs and increase all students' access to the general curriculum. Essential
for every educator who wants to know what UDL really looks like, sounds like,
and feels like — and how to use this proven approach to teach and reach all
learners.
100 UDL STRATEGIES FOR:
- Classroom space and materials: The best uses of seating,
lighting, bulletin boards, and more
- Classroom management: From smoother schedules and meetings to
effective transition areas
- Technologies: Fresh ways to use blogs, videoconferencing,
e-books, and more
- Content instruction: Teach academic content with tools like
music, drawing, mnemonics, and humor
- Social interaction: Creative games and small-group activities
that sharpen all kids’ social skills
- Executive functions: Great ideas for templates, rubrics, graphic
organizers, timers, and web-based materials
- Transition to adulthood: Prepare students for the real world with
charts, goal plans, and more
- Assessment: New ways kids can show what they know — from adapted
tests to family projects
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Ursula Franklin Speaks: Thoughts and Afterthoughts. Ursula
Martius Franklin, with Sarah Jane Freeman, $24.95 
As a distinguished scientist, pacifist, and feminist,
Ursula Franklin has been regularly invited by diverse groups to share her
insights into the social and political impacts of science and technology. This collection contains twenty-two of Franklin's speeches and five interviews
from 1986 to 2012 that have been retrieved and restored from audio and visual
recordings with the help of her collaborator, Jane Freeman. These speeches and
interviews, available here in print for the first time, stress the increased need
for discernment and principled dialogue among Canadians.
Addressing practices
of education, research, and civic life, Franklin looks to the past as well as
the future to suggest collective ways of cultivating discernment and of
advancing human betterment. As a whole, the collection reveals the evolution of
Franklin's perspective: a perspective that is further elaborated in her
afterthoughts that form the book's introduction and conclusion. Although her
speeches and interviews are often critical of the status quo, Ursula Franklin
Speaks is a fundamentally optimistic book, grounded in the conviction of the
human capacity for compassion and understanding. |
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Using Restorative Circles in Schools: How to Build
Strong Learning Communities and Foster Student Wellbeing. Berit Follestad
& Nina Wroldsen, $23.95
Restorative circles are an effective way of implementing
restorative justice, through starting a conversation wider than just the victim
and the offender. Proven to be an effective way of healing and building
relationships, tackling bullying within schools and providing a sense of
community, this book gives everything needed for a school to start implementing
restorative circles.
Accompanied by illustrations, interviews and case studies
to show how to start using restorative circles, this practical guide is the
perfect introduction for schools looking to improve their methods of conflict
resolution. |
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Visible Learners: Promoting
Reggio-Inspired Approaches in All Schools, PreK-12. Mara Krechevsky, Ben Mardell, Melissa Rivard & Damiel Wilson, $35.95
Based on the Reggio Emilia approach to
learning, VISIBLE LEARNERS highlights learning through interpreting
objects and artifacts, group learning, and documentation to make students'
learning evident to teachers. Visible classrooms are committed to five key
principles: that learning is purposeful, social, emotional, empowering, and
representational. The book includes visual essays, key practices, classroom and
examples.
- Show how to make learning happen in relation to
others, spark emotional connections, give students power over their learning,
and express ideas in multiple ways
- Illustrate Reggio-inspired principles and
approaches via quotes, photos, student and teacher reflections, and examples of
student work
- Offer a new way to enhance learning using
progressive, research-based practices for increasing collaboration and critical
thinking in and outside the classroom
- Look beyond surface-level to understand who
students are, what they come to know, and how they come to know it.
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Visible Learning and the Science of
How We Learn. John Hattie & Gregory Yates,
$90.90
VISIBLE LEARNING AND THE SCIENCE OF HOW
WE LEARN explains the major principles and strategies of learning,
outlining why it can be so hard sometimes, and yet easy on other occasions.
Aimed at teachers and students, it is written in an accessible and engaging
style and can be read cover to cover, or used on a chapter-by-chapter basis for
essay writing or staff development.
The book is structured in three parts —
‘learning within classrooms’, ‘learning foundations’, which explains the
cognitive building blocks of knowledge acquisition and ‘know thyself’ which
explores, confidence and self-knowledge. It also features extensive interactive
appendices containing study guide questions to encourage critical thinking,
annotated bibliographic entries with recommendations for further reading, links
to relevant websites and YouTube clips. Throughout, the authors draw upon the
latest international research into how the learning process works and how to
maximize impact on students, covering such topics as:
- Teacher personality
- Expertise and teacher-student relationships
- How knowledge is stored and the impact of
cognitive load
- Thinking fast and thinking slow
- The psychology of self-control
- The role of conversation at school and at home
- Invisible gorillas and the IKEA effect
- Digital native theory
- Myths and fallacies about how people learn.
This fascinating book is aimed at any
student, teacher or parent requiring an up-to-date commentary on how research
into human learning processes can inform our teaching and what goes on in our
schools. It takes a broad sweep through findings stemming mainly from social
and cognitive psychology and presents them in a useable format for students and
teachers at all levels, from preschool to tertiary training institutes. |
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Visual Guide to Grammar and Punctuation: a First
Reference for Young Writers and Readers. Sheila Dignen, $21.99
A clear, precise, and comprehensive book that will give
children the tools to build confidence in reading, writing, and comprehension
through visual explanation. From when to use a preposition or pronoun to how to
use a comma or colon, Visual Guide to Grammar and Punctuation covers all the
most important grammar topics in DK's signature style. Each example provided is
supported by a picture, making it accessible and comprehensible, and clear and
simple text and repetition help to solidify knowledge and understanding.
Visual Guide to Grammar and Punctuation will
improve a child's confidence in using the building blocks of reading and
writing, and is a book they will refer to again and again. |
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Visual Learning and Teaching: an Essential Guide for
Educators K-8. Susan Daniels, $61.99
Emojis... avatars... icons... Our world is becoming
increasingly reliant on visual communication. Yet our classrooms still heavily
focus on traditional oral and written instruction. In this first-of-its-kind
resource, Dr. Susan Daniels channels over twenty years of research and
experience into a comprehensive guide of visual learning strategies that enable
educators to rise to the challenges of 21st century education.
This hands-on resource helps educators create a 'visual
toolbox' of tools that promote visual literacy across the curriculum and offers
interactive activities to encourage visual learning and communication in all
students. Digital content includes customizable forms and a PDF presentation. A
free online PLC/Book Study Guide is also available with book purchase. |
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Visual Note-Taking for Educators: a Teacher's Guide to
Student Creativity. Wendi Pillars, $23.50
We've come a long way from teachers admonishing students
to put away their drawings and take traditional long-form notes. Let's be
honest: note-taking is boring and it isn't always the most effective way to
retain information. This book is a guide for teachers about getting your
students drawing and sketching to learn visually. Whether in elementary school
or high school, neuroscience has shown that visual learning is a very effective
way to retain information. The techniques in this book will help you work with
your students in novel ways to retain information. Visual note-taking can be
used with diverse learners; all ages; and those who have no drawing experience.
Teachers are provided with a library of images and concepts to steal, tweak,
and use in any way in their classrooms. The book is liberally illustrated with
student examples from elementary and high school students alike. |
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The Way of Mindful Education: Cultivating Well-Being
In Teachers and Students. Daniel Rechtschaffen, $33.95
The Way of Mindful Education is a practical guide
for cultivating attention, compassion, and well-being not only in these
students, but also in teachers themselves. Packed with lesson plans, exercises,
and considerations for specific age groups and students with special needs,
this working manual demonstrates the real world application of mindfulness
practices in K-12 classrooms.
Decades of research indicate the impressive benefits of
mindfulness in social, emotional, and cognitive development, and as an antidote
to emotional dysregulation, attention deficits, and social difficulties. This
book invites teachers, administrators, and anyone else involved in education to
take advantage of this vital tool and become purveyors of a mindful,
compassionate, ethical, and effective way of teaching. |
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We
Want You to Know: Kids Talk About Bullying. Deborah Ellis,
$14.95 
Through her association with a community anti-bullying campaign launched in Haldimand, Norfolk, and neighboring communities in Southern Ontario, children’s author Deborah Ellis asked students from the ages of nine to nineteen to talk about their experiences with bullying. The results are thoughtful, candid, and often harrowing accounts of “business as usual” in and around today’s schools. The kids in this book raise questions about the way parents, teachers, and school administrators cope with bullies. They talk about which methods have helped and which ones, with the best of intentions, have failed to protect them. And some kids reveal how they have been able to overcome their fear and anger to become strong advocates for the rights of others.
This is a book for reading and sharing. Each interview is followed by questions that will encourage open discussion about the nature of bullying and the ways in which individuals and schools could deal more effectively with bullies and their victims. And additional comments from international students reveal how much kids the world over have in common in the way they experience and deal with bullies.
These kids have something to say. It’s time we listened. |
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Welcoming Newcomer Children: the Settlement of Young
Immigrants and Refugees - a Resource for Teachers and Others with an Interest
in Supporting Young Newcomers from Birth though Kindergarten. Judith
Colbert, $29.95 
Welcoming Newcomer Children offers a new and
comprehensive perspective on child settlement. Drawing on international
research in various fields, the book examines values and beliefs from a non-western
point of view, questioning accepted practices, priorities & standards. Author
Judith Colbert suggests new strategies for working with children from birth
through kindergarten. The book invites reader reflection, and supports
teachers with:
- Implications for Practice
- 10 Mainstream Benchmarks of Quality
- Fully referenced Bibliography & Index
- Professional practices that sustain program quality
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What Is a "Good" Teacher? David Both
& Richard Coles, $24.95 
Based on the experience of real teachers who make a
difference, this book offers valuable insights on being the best teacher you
can be for your students. Grounded in the latest research, you will find
real-life examples of professional excellence in practice. Beginning with
developing your teacher identity and getting to know your students, the book
goes on to show you how to implement effective strategies and techniques in
your classroom and gain a better understanding of how effective schools work.
35 compelling characteristics of "good" teachers offer inspiration
and guidance along with tangible way to continue to grow and develop into your
own best teacher. |
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What Would You Do? In a Jar®: Daily
Dilemmas for Young Children. $14.99 (ages 4-8)
These “What would you do?” scenarios
help preschool and primary-age kids develop decision-making skills with this
go-anywhere and easy-to-use jar. |
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What Are You Staring At? A Comic about Restorative
Justice in Schools. Pete Wallis & Joseph Wilkins, $25.95
Designed for use in schools, this comic teaches children
about restorative justice through the story of Jake and Ryan. After a
misunderstanding between Jake and Ryan leads to a fight in the playground, both
boys are left feeling angry and fearful about what might happen when they see
each other again. Rather than keeping Jake and Ryan apart, their teacher
arranges a restorative meeting to allow the boys to understand the situation
from the other's perspective and transform their negative emotions into
positive ones.
This comic is a key resource in helping children aged 8-13 to understand
restorative justice and prepare for a restorative meeting. The comic also
features a resource section for teachers, explaining more about restorative
practices and how they can be used in schools to foster respect and emotional
literacy among students. |
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What is Terrorism? A Book to Help Parents, Teachers,
and Other Grown-ups Talk with Kids about Terror. Atle Dyregrov, Magne
Raundalen & William Yule, $16.95
Recent terrorist acts, and the media they have generated,
means that children are more exposed to hearing about terrorism than ever
before. Using simple language suited to children aged seven and up, this book
is designed for an adult to read along with a child to help ease their
misunderstanding and fear. The authors, child psychologists, tackle a broad
range of important but difficult questions, including: Why do some people and
groups use terrorism? What are adults doing to prevent societies being hurt by
terrorism? And what can we do when we feel worried and afraid? An honest and
helpful guide to talking about terrorism, this reassuring book helps adults
address children's questions and concerns. |
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When Gifted Kids Don't Have All the Answers: How to
Meet Their Social and Emotional Needs, 2nd Edition. Judy Galbraith &
Jim Delisle, $32.50
Gifted kids are so much more than test scores and grades.
Still, it’s sometimes difficult to see past the potential to the child who may
be anxious, lonely, confused, or unsure of what the future might bring. This
book, now fully revised with updated information and new survey quotes, offers
practical suggestions for addressing the social and emotional needs of gifted
students. The authors present ways to advocate for gifted education; help
gifted underachievers, perfectionists, and twice-exceptional students; and
provide all gifted kids with a safe, supportive learning environment.
Complete
with engaging stories, strategies, Q&As, essays, activities, resources, and
discussions of ADHD, Asperger’s, and the Common Core, this book is for anyone
committed to helping gifted students thrive. Online digital content includes
reproducible forms from the book. |
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When Kids are Grieving: Addressing Grief and Loss
in School. Donna Burns, $36.95
WHEN KIDS ARE GRIEVING offers strategies to help
students affected by divorce; the death of a parent;, relative, friend, or pet;
violence; chronic illness; suicide; and more. The author examines grief
experiences from different developmental levels, underscoring the importance of
understanding how children experience grief. Serving both as a resource and a
workbook, this reader-friendly primer will help educators and school counselors
understand and respond to the extraordinary challenges that children and
adolescents may face when dealing with loss and grief. |
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When Kids Rule the School: the Power and Promise of
Democratic Education. Jim Rietmulder, $19.99
Education is ripe for democratic disruption. Students in
most schools are denied fundamental social ideals such as personal freedom,
public government, rule of law, and free enterprise. In our increasingly
authoritarian post-truth world, self-directed democratic schooling offers a
timely alternative: educating children in civilized society and showing that
self-motivation outperforms coercion in its power to educate and fulfill.
When Kids Rule the School is the first
comprehensive guide to democratic schooling, where kids practice life in a
self-governed society — empowered as voters, bound by laws, challenged by choice,
supported by community, and driven by nature. Through heartwarming stories and
hard-headed details, this book covers:
- Democratic schooling philosophy, theory, and practice
- School governance by students and staff together
- Student self-direction and day-to-day life
- Deep play, cognitive development, and critical thinking
- Why democratic schooling is morally right and effective
- Model bylaws and guidance for starting a democratic school
Created for educators, parents, and scholars, When Kids
Rule the School will immerse you, heart and mind, in a promising new approach
to education, and stretch your thinking about what school can be. |
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Why Don’t Students Like School? Daniel Willingham, $24.95
A cognitive scientist answers questions about how the mind works and what it means for the classroom. |
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Why Neuroscience Matters in the Classroom: Principles
of Brain-based Instructional Design for Teachers. Kathleen Scalise &
Marie Felde, $51.15
This text provides the means for every teacher to build a
base of understanding in three essential learning sciences — neuroscience,
cognitive psychology, and educational research — as a foundation that they will
use throughout their careers. By combining all three fields of the learning
sciences, it puts the pieces together, makes them relevant to the work of every
teacher and learner, and fills a gap in teacher education texts. The
brain-based principles presented show how the brain and mind work in relation
to what we know of behavior and learning in the classroom.
Concise, accessible, and structured especially for
teacher education, the work is understandable and relevant to all teachers,
even those who say they are science shy. Learning points introduce the reader
to what’s to come and Scenarios summarize the material that’s covered,
including such topics as neural plasticity and the basics of physical change;
how nutrition, exercise, and sleep may affect learning; the major roles that
emotion, attitude, and stress play in brain function; and more. |
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Wisdom from Our First Nations: a First Nations Book
for Young Readers. Kim Sigafus & Lyle Ernst, $10.95 
In Indigenous cultures, elders serve as a bridge across
time: they are connected to the past, they live in the present and they offer
wisdom for the future. In these fascinating biographical essays, twelve First
Nation and Native American elders share stories from their lives and tell what
it was like to live in a time before television, cell phones and video games.
Their stories explain how their humble childhoods shaped the adults they became
and the lessons they share as elders. All the elders profiled work to ensure
that their Native culture is passed down to members of their tribe. Settle in
with this book and “listen” to the stories of these elders’ lives. As you take
in their history, you just might gain wisdom that could make a difference in
your own life. |
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World Issues Series. Harriet Brundle, $26.99 each
(K-2)
Immigration. Harriet Brundle
- What does it mean to be an immigrant?
- Why do people move to a new home?
- How does it feel when they get there?
This informative title answers all the big questions on
immigration and helps children to understand this topical issue from a range of
perspectives. Modern images and accessible text make each page engaging for
young readers.
Racism. Harriet Brundle
- What is racism?
- How does racism happen?
- What can we do to stop racism?
This informative title answers all the big questions
about racism and helps children to understand this topical issue from a range
of perspectives. Modern images and accessible text make each page engaging for
young readers.
Refugees. Harriet Brundle
- Why do people become refugees?
- How does it feel to be a refugee?
- How do refugees travel to a new home?
This informative title answers all the big questions on
refugees and helps children to understand this topical issue from a range of
perspectives. Modern images and accessible text make each page engaging for
young readers.
Staying Safe Online. Harriet Brundle
This informative title answers all the big questions to
Staying Safe Online and helps children to understand this topical issue from a
range of perspectives. Modern images and accessible text make each page
engaging for young readers. |
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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. |
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You're Smarter Than You Think: a Kid's Guide to
Multiple Intelligences. Thomas Armstrong, $22.99
Howard Gardner’s theory of multiple intelligences has
revolutionized the way we think about being smart. Written by an award-winning
expert on the topic, this book introduces the theory, explains the different
types of intelligences (like Word Smart, Self Smart, Body Smart), and helps
kids identify their own learning strengths and use their special skills at
school, at home, and in life. As kids read the book, they stop asking “How
smart am I?” and start asking “How am I smart?” This powerful learning tool is
recommended for all kids — and all adults committed to helping young people do
and be their best. Resources describe related books, software, games, and
organizations. This revised and updated edition includes information on a newly
researched ninth intelligence, Life Smart — thinking about and asking questions
about life, the universe, and spirituality. |
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