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If you teach students how to learn and give them simple, straightforward strategies to use, they can significantly increase their learning and performance. Find her expertise, practical advice, and instruction methods in Teach Students How to Learn.

In this no-nonsense guide, primary reading expert and classroom teacher Lindsay Kemeny shares seven ways K-3 teachers can modify what they are currently doing to transform their reading instruction.

Meet microlearning, a powerful instructional approach with roots in online learning that's making the jump to K–12 classrooms. Microlearning in the K–12 Classroom: Short Bursts of Instruction for Breakthrough Understanding is a concise, practical guide that educators and coaches can use...

In this newest edition of the best-selling text, Ethical Leadership and Decision Making in Education: Applying Theoretical Perspectives to Complex Dilemmas continues to address the increasing interest in ethics and assists educational leaders with complex dilemmas in today’s challenging, divided, and diverse societies.

One of the country's most popular parenting guides. Helps parents meet the challenges of raising a family today. The Parent's Handbook shows parents how they can become more knowledgeable, confident and successful in relating to their children. Discusses misbehavior, communication, encouragement...

Unfortunately, far too many people don’t like where they work. Some organizations are unhealthy and full of disrespectful behavior. Other workplaces are simply uninspiring. For various reasons, countless people feel trapped, indifferent, or bored at work. The authors of this book believe that people should be able to like where they work. When employees like the places they work, it’s not only good for their mental health and well-being, it’s also good for their organizations - both financially and otherwise.

A practical and systematic approach to deepening student engagement, promoting a growth mindset, and building a classroom culture that truly supports thinking and learning.

Across continents and thousands of years, humanity has told different stories about creation, morality, collapse, and renewal. Yet beneath every tradition lies one universal pattern, older than scripture and deeper than doctrine. A pattern that explains why civilizations rise and fall, why life tightens and breaks, and how renewal always returns.

Beginning in Paris in 1796, the saga continues as Josephine awakens to her new life as Mrs. Napoleon Bonaparte. Through her intimate diary entries and Napoleon's impassioned love letters, an astonishing portrait of an incredible woman emerges. Gulland transports us into the ballrooms and bedrooms of exquisite palaces and onto the blood-soaked fields of Napoleon's campaigns.

When It All Breaks Bad: 10 Things to Do (And Not Do) After Betrayal is designed to help you navigate the pivotal days following the discovery of betrayal by providing concrete guidance and support. Each chapter outlines the 10 steps to take to quickly move you toward healing and the ten pitfalls to avoid that can hijack your progress.

Presenting the latest iteration of the Framework for Teaching—the most comprehensive tool yet for teacher self-assessment and reflection, observation and feedback, and collaborative inquiry.

There’s a big difference between living a life trusting in the fake stability of the world and living a life of significance with an unshakeable God. We’ve all gotten the wind knocked out of our sails, but it's time to keep going forward.

Prepare to discover God’s vast and unmatched character as you journey through the provocative story of Ruth. You will meet an ordinary family who endures famine, exile, tragic loss, and grief during one of the darkest times in Israel’s history. You witness a providential God stepping into the messiness of life, offering hope and redemption to a shattered family on the brink of extinction.

Pregnancy, childbirth, and your baby’s first months are some of the most cherished parts of parenthood―but they can also be nerve-racking, especially for new parents. Carole Kramer Arsenault has spent the last two decades helping parents, both as a longtime pediatric nurse and as the founder of the most highly regarded baby-care service in New England. From the first trimester to the “fourth” (baby’s crucial first three months), Arsenault and her team of nurses and doulas have seen it all.

Arizona became the nation’s 48th state in 1912 and since that time the Arizona constitution has served as the template by which the state is governed. Toni McClory’s Understanding the Arizona Constitution has offered insight into the inner workings and interpretations of the document—and the government that it established—for almost a decade.

Pérsida Himmele and William Himmele bring a wealth of knowledge, from years of regularly working with preservice teachers and consulting with educators in U.S. and international schools. Here are 51 easy-to-use, classroom-tested alternatives to the “stand and deliver” teaching techniques that cause so many students to tune out or drop out. Teachers report that these techniques motivate students to participate in learning, as they build confidence and are supported by compelling and safe ways to demonstrate their knowledge and understanding of lessons.