A resource for preschool through middle school teachers, exploring the many facets of community building and social change and providing practical strategies for creating and maintaining classrooms that support diversity and help students learn to act powerfully. Each chapter begins with examples o View More...
Grades K–3 • The Classroom Helpers series offers a new spin on skill-specific learning. Based on Frank Schaffer’s Homework Helpers, these books challenge and engage young learners with fun activities that build basic skills in math and language arts. The content throughout the series represents the most requested topics from teachers. Use the activities for classroom work or for homework assignments and watch your students gain confidence from these grade-appropriate exercises. Reproducible. 8 1/2" x 11" (21.5cm x 28cm). 24 pp. View More...
This wonderful resource is filled with practical, classroom-tested ideas for teaching mathematics with a problem-solving approach. All lessons encourage children to work cooperatively; explain their ideas; listen and question one another; and agree on solutions. Classroom vignettes describe lessons in vivid detail, and samples of actual student work are included throughout. Most lessons implement the use of manipulative materials to help children think about and reflect on mathematical ideas. Lessons in this book provide experiences with sorting, number, graphing, geometry, measurement, logica... View More...
Whether you're embarking on an exciting new career in early childhood or have been teaching your children for several years, this is the one resource you'll treasure. It is the most complete guide to planning a developmentally appropriate curriculum for young children. This text focuses on the growth of the whole child and includes hundreds of activities that make education interesting and challenging for young children. You'll get 67 themes with goals, concepts, vocabulary words, music, finger plays, experiences in mathematics, art, and cooking, resources and much more. An introduction helps ... View More...
"This book merits every American's serious consideration" (Vice President Joe Biden): from the Secretary of Education under President Obama, an expos of the status quo that helps maintain a broken system at the expense of our kids' education, and threatens our nation's future. "Education runs on lies. That's probably not what you'd expect from a former Secretary of Education, but it's the truth." So opens Arne Duncan's How Schools Work, although the title could just as easily be How American Schools Work for Some, Not for Others, and Only Now and Then for Kids. Drawing on nearly three decade... View More...
This compliation provides teachers with a better understanding of culturally and linguistically diverse learners. Articles show how theory can be put to practice and demonstrates the need to embrace diversity. An annotated bibliography provides a list of multicultural childrens books. View More...
This anthology presents the recommendations of education leaders, and each chapter contributes to a sound conceptual framework and offers specific strategies for developing PLCs. These leaders have found common ground in expressing their belief in the power of PLCs although clear differences emerge regarding their perspectives on the most effective strategy for making PLCs the norm in North America. View More...
The "Classroom Helpers" series offers a new spin on skill-specific learning. Based on Frank Schaffer's highly successful "Homework Helpers," these books challenge and engage young learners with fun activities that build basic skills. The content in the "Classroom Helpers" series represents the most requested topics from teachers across the country. Use the reproducible pages for classroom work or for homework assignments and watch your students gain confidence from these grade-appropriate exercises. View More...
Planning math instruction is a demanding aspect of teaching. Teachers need to have an overall sense of the curriculum for the whole year, of what's going to be taught each month, and of what specifically to teach each day. Planning math instruction demands that teachers have an overall sense of the curriculum for the entire year, a focus for each month, and a specific plan for each day. The guides in this series make it easy to plan all three. In these all-in-one volumes, teachers get a wealth of ideas, organized by month, for the entire school year, covering everything from learning environme... View More...
It's original. It's fun. It's 450 terrific teaching ideas that are based upon the latest research on how young children become good readers. It connects 90 of the best children's books to early learning centers--science, nature, math, art, music, movement, cooking and circle time. Each book is "s-t-r-e-t-c-h-e-d" five ways with lively learning activities that heighten reading readiness and sharpen comprehension skills, too. And it's so easy to use View More...
In this global age of information, nothing should alarm American parents and leaders more than the failure of our public schools. As quality education of the young becomes the true international currency, that commodity--unfortunately--is in grievously short supply. American schoolchildren lag far behind students in most of the developed world, scoring nineteenth out of twenty-one countries in a recent math competition. On domestic exams, almost forty percent are reading at "below basic" levels. In this candid, provocative, and comprehensive study of the public school system, from kindergart... View More...
"Rife with heart-warming anecdotes and inspiring ideas . . . Educators and parents will find much to emulate in this passionate, motivating tool book." --Publishers Weekly "Inspirational, easy-to-follow insights on how to grow smarter, healthier children and communities . . . this timely resource can make school a motivational and fun community." --Kirkus Reviews Practical, innovative, and powerful methods to enliven classrooms and ignite a passion for learning in each and every child. It is time to "GET ON THE DESK" and make every school in America the absolute best it can be. I often say ... View More...