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Say goodbye to worrying about low engagement and ineffective learning: This guide has everything you need to level up your classroom management. Avoid low engagement, ineffective learning, and low-quality relationships inside your classroom by preparing for the differing needs of your students. This guide has everything you need to safely and successfully experiment with the different techniques that can create a positive classroom environment for you and your students.

What would it take to transform industrial-era schools into modern organizations capable of supporting deep learning for all? Jal Mehta and Sarah Fine's quest to answer this question took them inside some of America's most innovative schools and classrooms - places where educators are rethinking both what and how students should learn. The story they tell is alternately discouraging and hopeful. Drawing on hundreds of hours of observations and interviews at 30 different schools, Mehta and Fine reveal that deeper learning is more often the exception than the rule.

What child does not love to receive mail? What if your child could receive and read his or her own personal mail from God? Love Letters from God will invite them to do just that! With 18 of the most popular Bible stories, every story is accompanied by a special and encouraging letter. Love...

Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners. Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language. Now Collins has adapted her famous detective novels for English language learners. These carefully abridged versions are shorter...

Read by the author. This simple and practical guide to studying and understanding Scripture will help you see the Bible as a priceless treasure that reveals God's love for you and His relentless pursuit of a deeper relationship. How to Read the Bible is not just a book; it's an invitation to...

In this dazzling debut, Carla Shalaby, a former elementary school teacher, explores the everyday lives of four young "troublemakers", challenging the ways we identify and understand so-called problem children. Time and again, we make seemingly endless efforts to moderate, punish, and even medicate our children, when we should instead be concerned with transforming the very nature of our institutions, systems, and structures, large and small.

Are you a new parent who needs a guide on parenting, or are you already a parent and just want to ensure you are on the right parenting path? This audiobook covers topics that no one teaches and sets you on the right path to being a calm and patient parent.

“A thinking mind is an active mind” they say. This book is meant for general consumption, specifically for children and teenagers between the ages of seven to 16. This book was inspired by you, yes you! And it aims at clarifying and making their minds ready for the outside world as they grow. It is an avenue for youths of these ages to put on their thinking caps and questioning spirits so they can know more about the world they live in. This book has many benefits, resources, and qualities to add to their lives, as well as impact to make in their daily lives.

This book will teach you how to bring the magic of the Montessori Method into your home. We've condensed its most important concepts into a single workable framework with a 21st century slant aimed at new homeschooling parents.

Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners. Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language. Now Collins has adapted her famous detective novels for English language learners. These carefully abridged versions are shorter...

Young readers enjoying their first chapter books are sure to love this addition to the Living Lights series of Berenstain Bears books. Children will learn how important it is to care about and take care of nature and all of its creatures when the cubs learn about what could happen when one...

In a delightful and personal look at life in a large family, the four eldest daughters talk about their faith, their dreams for the future, and what it’s like growing up a Duggar. They share how their family walks through unexpected and difficult circumstances and how they manage to maintain...

Do you want to prepare your child for a secure financial future but feel overwhelmed by where to start? You’re not alone. Many parents share the same concern, juggling busy schedules and financial topics that seem too complex to teach. But here’s the good news: teaching kids about money can be simple, fun, and stress-free—even if you’re still learning yourself.

This audiobook focuses on the emotional and inspirational support gifted children need to accomplish the goals they or you have set. It’s not necessarily easy to be gifted, with all the high expectations and a brain that races at night when you are trying to sleep and are actually coming up with a million ideas to implement. The best ways to motivate your gifted children are here, as well as tactics to deal with bullies, which often target more sensitive and intelligent children.

Offering both a framework and a set of practices that are grounded in different nonviolence traditions, Heart at the Center asks listeners to consider what a pedagogy of nonviolence looks like, sounds like, and feels like in the classroom.

A practical resource to help you turn struggle into success and become the writing coach your kid needs—from the creator of the award-winning Brave Writer curriculum Writing is often hard—for kids and for adults. How can we help our children get past the difficulties and learn the writing...

Bust the math myths that are holding you and your kids back and learn the importance of numeracy with this one-of-a-kind resource for parents, educators, and policymakers Shalinee Sharma is one of the world’s top experts on math learning, but when she was in school, she sat in the back row...

Something is deeply wrong with school—and everybody knows it. Students forget nearly everything they learn within months of passing a test. Teachers burn out, crushed between impossible bureaucratic demands and classrooms full of children who would rather be anywhere else. Parents oscillate between guilt and helplessness, dimly aware that the system they entrust with their children's futures is failing spectacularly—yet unable to imagine an alternative.

Within hours of giving birth to her sixth child, Mary Kay Letourneau had her baby daughter whisked from her arms. She was then shackled and returned to her jail cell. Just years before, the pretty, personable Seattle schoolteacher was living a life many would envy - she had a handsome husband, four beautiful children, and a beloved following of students. Then she was accused of raping one of her students, and her whole world turned upside down.

The first thing every listener will want to know is whether Anne Shirley appears in these stories of Avonlea and Spencervale. She certainly does. As a matter of fact, page one starts off in this manner: "Anne Shirley was curled up on the window seat of Theodora Dix's sitting room one Saturday evening, looking dreamily afar at some fair starland beyond the hills of sunset. Anne was visiting for a fortnight of her vacation."