Showing results for "Una" in Childhood Education

In The Formula: Unlocking the Secrets to Raising Highly Successful Children, Harvard economist Ronald Ferguson, named in a New York Times profile as the foremost expert on the US educational "achievement gap," along with award-winning journalist Tatsha Robertson, reveal an intriguing blueprint for helping children from all types of backgrounds become successful adults.

In this fresh new edition, Georgia Heard offers updated strategies, lessons, mentor texts, and examples from both professional and student writers that resonate with today’s kids. An impactful complement to any SEL program, Awakening the Heart’s lessons and exercises empower students to connect with their emotions, identities, and the world around them.

From the leader of the online army in America's parental rights movement comes the real story of how moms and dads across the country are turning the tide against radical activists in public schools. It’s no secret that our government-run public education system has held generations of...

In this three-book collection of historical fiction stories centered on life behind the Berlin Wall in East Germany between 1948 and 1989, middle school readers 8-12 can experience action-packed, suspenseful, and historically accurate stories that bring history to life from a kids’ perspective...

Since 1977, Communities In Schools (CIS) has reached more than one million students and their families annually approximately 3, American schools, surrounding them with a community of support and empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life.In The Last Dropout, CIS founder Bill Milliken...

For over fifteen years, researchers have described a crisis in our nations' early learning classrooms. Hundreds of children are expelled from childcare and preschool every day; a rate nearly three times that of kindergarten-twelfth grade students. Each child's expulsion is symptomatic of a larger crisis—an overburdened, underfunded, undervalued, and fragmented early education system. No Longer Welcome starts a critical conversation between and across sectors of the early childhood field.

A guide for families of all backgrounds to celebrate cultural heritage and embrace inclusivity in the home and beyond. Gone are the days when socially conscious parents felt comfortable teaching their children to merely tolerate others. Instead, they are looking for a way to authentically...

Join twins Mia and Maddie and their sidekick little sister, Lulu, as they travel the country finding adventure, mystery, and sometimes mischief along the way. Together with their famous mother, singer Gloria Glimmer, and their slightly wacky nanny Miss Julia, the sisters learn lessons about...

We are in a period of unknowns unlike any in a generation or more. As educators, we need new pathways and ideas that can help us educate children for the world to come. Reimagining the Classroom: Creating New Learning Spaces and Connecting with the World provides practical steps and examples that parents and educators can use to begin to create new learning spaces, approaches, and outcomes. Dr. Richards's provocative book asks us to reconsider some of our basic assumptions about teaching and learning.

Many people have become angry and frustrated with organized religion and evangelical Christianity, in particular. Too often the church has proven to be a source of pain rather than a place of hope. Forgive Us acknowledges the legitimacy of much of the anger toward the church. In truth...

March, 1914. When talented artist Isobel embarks on a journey to Egypt, it's to reunite her best friend, Alice, with her husband, Wilfred—and to use the stunning sights of Cairo as inspiration for her own paintings. A whirlwind romance was the last thing she expected, but when Isobel meets Wilfred's handsome brother, Edward, neither can deny the strong connection between them—especially when unexpected tragedy strikes, leaving them all reeling. Just as they get to grips with their grief, WW1 erupts, and the lovers are forced to separate. 

ALA Best Fiction for Young Adults * ALA Notable Children's Book * Horn Book Fanfare Book * Kirkus Reviews Editor’s Choice * SLJ Best Book of the Year By the beloved and bestselling grandmaster of fantasy, Sir Terry Pratchett, this is the first in a series of Discworld novels starring the young...

Dieses Hörbuch basiert auf einer einzigartigen Zusammenfassung bewährter Erziehungsratgeber und liefert dir sofort umsetzbare Tipps für den Alltag mit Kindern – klar, einfühlsam und praxiserprobt. Egal, ob du strengere oder freiere Erziehung bevorzugst – du wirst lernen, mit Liebe, Geduld und Cleverness eine starke Eltern-Kind-Bindung aufzubauen. Die erfahrene Pädagogin und Mutter Jasmin Zurbriggen teilt in diesem Werk wertvolle Erkenntnisse aus mehr als zwei Jahrzehnten Berufserfahrung.

Viele Eltern sind heute beruflich stark engagiert und eingebunden. Trotz dieser Belastungen bemühen sie sich, ihr Kind zu einem leistungsstarken und glücklichen Menschen zu erziehen. Jens Corssen und Thomas Fuchs warnen jedoch vor diesen zukunftsfokussierten Anstrengungen. Wichtiger als dieses "Später-im-Leben" ist den beiden erfahrenen Psychologen das Gelingen der gegenwärtigen Eltern- Kind-Beziehung.

In this profoundly significant book, author Michael Gurian synthesizes current knowledge and clearly demonstrates how this distinction in hard-wiring and socialized gender differences affects how boys and girls learn. Gurian presents a new way to educate our children based on brain science, neurological development, and chemical and hormonal disparities.

Now that they know their ABCs and 1-2-3s, are your children ready to start reading? The Picture That! Bible Storybook will help kids ages 6 and under feel like reading is easy-and fun too! This picture reader sprinkles over 90 full-color picture icons into more than 65 Bible stories. Noah and...

Uff the snail is always sulking. And, naturally, no likes a moody friend. But there is someone who cares. Who helps Uff forget his sulks. Listen to find out...

Describes the role of different adults in the school setting.

Prickles the porcupine is painfully shy. She can't bear to talk to anyone. But one day, her best friend, Woops the worm, decides to help her stop being so shy. What does Woops do? Listen to find out...

The inspiring stories of 6 people who changed history. Contents: Galileo who wanted to show that the earth went around the sun René Descartes, the Frenchman who famously said ‘I think, therefore I am’ Sir Isaac Newton who proved how gravity works Carl Friedrich Gauss, ‘the Prince of...