Product Description: Encourage a school culture of innovation and creativity. Innovation and creativity are imperative to educational success and require the contributions of teachers, students, administrators, and policymakers. Explore the four essentials for developing a creative, mistake-tolerant culture; investigate teaching and leadership beliefs and practices that undermine creativity; and discover strategies for successfully navigating challenges that your team may face along the way...read more

As the Civil War draws to a close, the divided Kent family branches off across the continent to conquer the West. Reissue.

Product Description: Provides a solid, foundational understanding of creativity that enables readers to elicit creative performance from their students.• Presents unique content from prominent, expert authors on the contemporary topic of fostering creativity • Challenges current practices in the quest to foster creative thinking • Provides access to additional resources for reader follow-up • Supplies practical how-tos for practitioner...read more

Product Description: The longest-running Western series in America!Chilling out...Slocum's under the weather during one of Nebraska's worst storms. A Sioux warrior has taken it upon himself to watch over Slocum while he heals--and protect him from the notorious One-eyed Jacks and his liquor-guzzling, troublemaking crew...read more

Product Description: This book will help pre-service and in-service teachers learn the new practices with which to teach the creative child. These practices are steeped in theory and also provide mechanisms to identify creative students. This book provides the methods with which to motivate and teach the creative child, with an understanding of the types of barriers that likely will stifle productivity in the educational environment...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Creativity is not just the gift of a select few-it can be tapped in all, as the Eberts demonstrate in this fascinating book. They offer an in-depth discussion of creative thinking and its role in science, along with more than 50 exciting, mind-stretching activities that integrate the processes of creativity and invention into the science curriculum...read more

Product Description: The design process can lead to a deep understanding of the abstract concepts taught in schools. It puts ideas to work in situations that allow students to test themselves and the value of learning in everyday life. When children are engaged in the process of designing--a product, a building, a city plan, or any object--they are learning to identify needs, frame problems, work collaboratively, explore and appreciate solutions, weigh alternatives, and communicate their ideas verbally, graphically, and in three dimensions...read more

Presents methods and exercises teachers can use to cultivate critical thinking in students (view table of contents)