Product Description: Frustrated by her students' performance, her relationships with them, and her own daughter’s problems in school, Susan D. Blum, a professor of anthropology, set out to understand why her students found their educational experience at a top-tier institution so profoundly difficult and unsatisfying...read more

This is the most widely used calculus text in the United States. It has a reputation for having the clearest explanations of the subject matter, permitting more classroom time to be spent in problem solving, applications, or explanations of the most difficult points. The opening chapter contains review material on algebra and the closing chapters cover Stoke's theorem and second-order differential equations. Contains many examples and exercises.

Product Description: Your step-by-step handbook for results-based school counseling! This exciting new book by recognized school counseling experts describes a Construct-Based Approach (CBA) to school counseling that helps you: Design standards, deliver interventions, and evaluate year-long counseling strategies, action steps and measures within a CBA context Apply “research-based” standards to reflect student abilities, competencies, capabilities and skills  Accurately assess student progress, proficiency and achievement  Provide useful feedback to parents and students Includes in-depth analyses, a developmentally appropriate K–12 scope and sequence and essential tips and activities...read more

Product Description: As long as the free market has reigned, private sector firms have confronted a produce-or-perish existence. For a host of reasons, public organizations increasingly face these competitive pressures as well. But public organizations in the most unexpected of places have answered the call to evolve productively with fantastic success...read more

Product Description: Author and Educator Steve Barkley's second edition of this delightful book offers even more innovative ways to enliven your classroom and your school day. Learn how to create WOWs to draw attention and sink learning into memory. Discover how WOWs make lesson plans fun...read more

Product Description: This practical, easy-to-read guide explains how to raise the rigor for students with special needs so they can achieve higher levels of learning. Learn how to set clear goals and expectations establish a climate of success scaffold and model lessons use graphic organizers and "think-alouds" apply modifications and accommodations use rigorous questioning strategies differentiate instruction increase family involvement Get even more out of this book by discussing it with others! It’s ideal for study groups and the appendix features a detailed guide on how to make it work for your group! Bonus! You get a great variety of handy black line masters for use in your own classroom...read more

Product Description: Learn how to increase rigor so that all students can reach higher levels of learning! With this new edition of a teacher-tested best seller, you get practical ideas for increasing text complexity, providing scaffolding during reading instruction, creating open-ended projects, and much more...read more

Product Description: Why are some gifted children willing to tackle new challenges whereas others seem insecure or uninterested? Why do some gifted students achieve while others become caught in a cycle of underachievement? Are there strategies teachers and parents can implement that promote an achievement-oriented attitude? The Underachieving Gifted Child: Recognizing, Understanding, and Reversing Underachievement answers these important questions...read more

Product Description: During the past two decades, Chris Confer and Marco Ramirez have worked to deepen and improve mathematics instruction at schools around the country. Wherever they go, they find the raw ingredients for success already present: 'The potential for positive change lies within each school...read more

Product Description: For many students, making their way to higher education requires more than hard work and determination. Low-income minority students who overcome obstacles to achieve academic success have usually encountered at least one college-educated adult in their schooling who took the initiative to reach out to them and provide concrete academic guidance...read more

Product Description: Reduce your school’s dropout rate, help improve teaching and learning, and develop stronger relationships with parents and the community.This book showcases the collected efforts of dedicated educators from across the country, selected and presented by one of today’s leading experts in dropout prevention, Franklin Schargel...read more

Product Description: The Extreme Principle is to do what matters most and to do what works best. When educational decisions and actions are guided by The Extreme Principle, results improve. The Extreme Principle helps teachers, school administrators, superintendents, school board members, and politicians make decisions and take actions that improve schools because the decisions and actions are based on what matters most and what works best...read more

Product Description: From the moment they step into the classroom, boys begin to struggle. They get expelled from preschool nearly five times more often than girls; in elementary school, they’re diagnosed with learning disorders four times as often. By eighth grade huge numbers are reading below basic level...read more

Product Description: The activities in the guide will help you connect the suggestions and strategies in Classroom Motivation from A to Z to your real-life teaching experiences. For each of the 26 chapters in the book, you will find a series of three activities that will help you reflect on your current practices...read more

Analyzes the variety of reactions felt by different groups of Americans during a period of economic development and social conflict