Getting Started with Latin: Beginning Latin for Homeschoolers and Self-Taught Students of Any Age
What’s preventing you from teaching Latin in your homeschool or learning it on your own? If you’re intimidated because you’ve never studied Latin, bewildered by traditional Latin books that move too fast, or just don’t know where to begin, then Getting Started with Latin is for you! Specifically designed to overcome these types of obstacles, Getting Started with …
Getting Started with littleBits: Prototyping and Inventing with Modular Electronics
littleBits are electronic building blocks with over 60 modules and trillions of combinations. With littleBits, anyone can harness the power of electronics, microcontrollers, and the cloud–regardless of age, gender, technical ability, or educational background. You can combine these simple, snap-together, magnetic bricks to make simple electronic circuits, or build robots and devices that combine sensors, microcontrollers, and cloud …
Words Their Way: Word Sorts for Within Word Pattern Spellers (2nd Edition)
Words Their Way ® companion volumes, 2e We believe that the hands-on word sorting approach to word study is invaluable to you and your students. These stage-specific companion volumes to Words Their Way ® : Word Study for Phonics, Vocabulary, and Spelling Instruction provide a complete curriculum of reproducible sorts and detailed …
Ethical, Legal, and Professional Issues in Counseling (5th Edition)
Note: This is the bound book only and does not include access to the Enhanced Pearson eText. To order the Enhanced Pearson eText packaged with a bound book, use ISBN 0134379101. This authoritative resource, written by two counseling professors—one an attorney and the other an expert in ethics—explores the most difficult ethical, …
Visible Learning: A Synthesis of Over 800 Meta-Analyses Relating to Achievement
This unique and ground-breaking book is the result of 15 years research and synthesises over 800 meta-analyses on the influences on achievement in school-aged students. It builds a story about the power of teachers, feedback, and a model of learning and understanding. The research involves many millions of students and represents the largest ever evidence based research into …
Leverage Leadership: A Practical Guide to Building Exceptional Schools
Paul Bambrick-Santoyo (Managing Director of Uncommon Schools) shows leaders how they can raise their schools to greatness by following a core set of principles. These seven principles, or “levers,” allow for consistent, transformational, and replicable growth. With intentional focus on these areas, leaders will leverage much more learning from the same amount of time investment. Fundamentally, each of …
“By far the best college guide in America” —Thomas Sowell“Easily the best of the college guides” —American Spectator“Indispensable” —First Things“An essential reference” —Homeschool Magazine“A godsend” —National Catholic RegisterOver the past decade, Choosing the Right College has established itself as the indispensable resource for students—and parents—who want the unvarnished truth about America’s top colleges and universities. It is the …
The Well-Educated Mind: A Guide to the Classical Education You Never Had (Updated and Expanded)
The enduring and engaging guide to educating yourself in the classical tradition.Have you lost the art of reading for pleasure? Are there books you know you should read but haven’t because they seem too daunting? In The Well-Educated Mind, Susan Wise Bauer provides a welcome and encouraging antidote to the distractions of our age, electronic and otherwise.Newly expanded …
What Great Principals Do Differently: Eighteen Things That Matter Most
Inspire yourself and others with the second edition of this best-selling book. With heartfelt advice, practical wisdom, and examples from the field, Todd Whitaker explains the qualities and practices that distinguish great principals. New features include: Developing an accurate sense of self Understanding the dynamics of change Dealing with negative or ineffective staff members One of the …
Writing Pathways: Performance Assessments and Learning Progressions, Grades K-8
“These assessment tools make progress in writing as transparent, concrete, and obtainable as possible and put ownership for this progress into the hands of learners, allowing students and teachers to work toward a very clear image of what good writing entails.” -Lucy Calkins, Writing Pathways Lucy Calkins’ groundbreaking performance assessments offer instructional tools to support …