Focus on What You Want to Have Happen: Back to School Planner


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This Kids planner notebook: Encourage your child to keep a planner where they can record their schedules and how their day went. It simple effective time management system for busy parent. - 120 pages - Premium matte cover design - Printed on high quality interior stock - Perfectly Large Print Size 8.5" x 11" (22cm x 28cm) pages - Light weight. Easy to carry around - Made in the USA




Project Me for Busy Mothers


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Do the demands of motherhood tip you out of balance, leaving some parts of your life brushed aside? Are you pulled in all directions - never sure if anything you're doing is 'good enough'? Project Me for Busy Mothers is the essential go-to guide for modern mothers who want to take control of their lives. Become the expert of you and your family by doing the Project Me Life Wheel® assessment, then head straight to the life area chapter that needs your focus first - family, love, health, money, personal growth, productivity, work or fun. You'll soon gain a fresh perspective and become proactive about your own happiness. Filled with practical strategies, guiding questions, inspirational accounts, and a treasure trove of recommended resources, this workbook and guide will motivate you to become the project manager of your life.




The Schools Our Children Deserve


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Arguing against the tougher standards rhetoric that marks the current education debate, the author of No Contest and Punished by Rewards writes that such tactics squeeze the pleasure out of learning. Reprint.




How to Get Your Teacher Ready


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Learn how to get your teacher ready for back to school…from the first dayl to graduation! The kids are in charge in this hilarious classroom adventure--from the creators of the New York Times bestseller How to Babysit a Grandpa. This humorous new book in the beloved HOW TO . . . series takes readers through a fun and busy school year. Written in tongue-in-cheek instructional style, a class of adorable students gives tips and tricks for getting a teacher ready—for the first day of school, and all the events and milestones that will follow (picture day, holiday concert, the 100th day of school, field day!). And along the way, children will see that getting their teacher ready is really getting themselves ready. Filled with charming role-reversal humor, this is a playful and heartwarming celebration of teachers and students. A fun read-a-loud to prepare for first day jitters, back-to-school readiness or end of year celebrations.. The fun doesn't stop! Check out more HOW TO... picture books: How to Babysit a Grandpa How to Babysit a Grandma How to Catch Santa How to Get Your Teacher Ready How to Raise a Mom How to Read to a Grandma or Grandpa




Full Focus Planner for Kids


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Understanding by Design


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What is understanding and how does it differ from knowledge? How can we determine the big ideas worth understanding? Why is understanding an important teaching goal, and how do we know when students have attained it? How can we create a rigorous and engaging curriculum that focuses on understanding and leads to improved student performance in today's high-stakes, standards-based environment? Authors Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe answer these and many other questions in this second edition of Understanding by Design. Drawing on feedback from thousands of educators around the world who have used the UbD framework since its introduction in 1998, the authors have greatly revised and expanded their original work to guide educators across the K-16 spectrum in the design of curriculum, assessment, and instruction. With an improved UbD Template at its core, the book explains the rationale of backward design and explores in greater depth the meaning of such key ideas as essential questions and transfer tasks. Readers will learn why the familiar coverage- and activity-based approaches to curriculum design fall short, and how a focus on the six facets of understanding can enrich student learning. With an expanded array of practical strategies, tools, and examples from all subject areas, the book demonstrates how the research-based principles of Understanding by Design apply to district frameworks as well as to individual units of curriculum. Combining provocative ideas, thoughtful analysis, and tested approaches, this new edition of Understanding by Design offers teacher-designers a clear path to the creation of curriculum that ensures better learning and a more stimulating experience for students and teachers alike.




Grown and Flown


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PARENTING NEVER ENDS. From the founders of the #1 site for parents of teens and young adults comes an essential guide for building strong relationships with your teens and preparing them to successfully launch into adulthood The high school and college years: an extended roller coaster of academics, friends, first loves, first break-ups, driver’s ed, jobs, and everything in between. Kids are constantly changing and how we parent them must change, too. But how do we stay close as a family as our lives move apart? Enter the co-founders of Grown and Flown, Lisa Heffernan and Mary Dell Harrington. In the midst of guiding their own kids through this transition, they launched what has become the largest website and online community for parents of fifteen to twenty-five year olds. Now they’ve compiled new takeaways and fresh insights from all that they’ve learned into this handy, must-have guide. Grown and Flown is a one-stop resource for parenting teenagers, leading up to—and through—high school and those first years of independence. It covers everything from the monumental (how to let your kids go) to the mundane (how to shop for a dorm room). Organized by topic—such as academics, anxiety and mental health, college life—it features a combination of stories, advice from professionals, and practical sidebars. Consider this your parenting lifeline: an easy-to-use manual that offers support and perspective. Grown and Flown is required reading for anyone looking to raise an adult with whom you have an enduring, profound connection.




Singled Out for Preparation


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What if singleness is exactly what you need? God, why am I still single? When will I find the man or woman of my dreams? How come everyone else is married and I am not? The pressure to get married is real. You long to find that special someone you imagine will change your life and bring you perpetual bliss. But what if singleness isn’t as bad as it seems? What if singleness isn’t failure? Singled Out for Preparation is a captivating guide to wholehearted single living. It will change your perspective on singleness and free you from the stressful obsession with marriage. You will understand the importance of your single season and how it paves the way for every situation in your life. As you read this book, you will cultivate feelings of self-worth, acceptance, and self-love. Don’t be a prisoner to the opinions and expectations of family, friends, and church folks. Now, more than ever, discover the joys of single living! Step into a new and exciting journey as you embrace your life in preparation for God’s purpose. Also discover… · The dangers of being in love with the idea of love · How to find healing in the healer · How to focus on your focus · Why you have been purposely singled out




School Planner 2019-2020


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Be the proud owner of a School Planner that is not only easy and helpful to use but will also bring a daily smile to your face and help you to flourish. Beautiful ballerinas brighten up the pages. They can be colored in or doodled over to help you to focus or relax (and who couldn't use some help with both at school). Each week has 2 pages with plenty of room for assignments, homework and anything else to help organize your busy school week, with space for either a weekly goal or affirmation. Use the weekly goal to bring focus to what is important and so help make it happen. Imagine what it will be like to look back over the year and see all the goals that have been reached. There are ballerina decorated pages at the end of the book - maybe use these to write and reflect about how it is to have achieved so much (or what it is like to not yet have achieved some things). The weekly affirmation will help bring strength, growth and encouragement in the areas most needed- social, educational, emotional, physical - your choice. Use these affirmations to get a positive voice in your head and so help your life improve. Includes class schedule and exam timetable pages with lots of room for notes so that every need is covered. High quality pages with a soft, glossy cover. Composition size to stack up nicely with your other books - see listings under author's name for matching or complementary books. So, all bases covered, plenty of space to write, weekly goals and affirmations, and graceful companions. What's not to like?: )




Learning to Teach in the Secondary School


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Learning to teach involves hard work and careful preparation. To become an effective teacher requires pedagogical and subject knowledge, an understanding of your pupils and how they learn, and the confidence to respond to dynamic classroom situations. Learning to Teach in the Secondary School is the market leading text for all undergraduate, postgraduate and school-based routes to qualified teacher status. It offers an in-depth and practical introduction to the knowledge, skills and understanding needed to become a confident and effective teacher. With a focus on evidence-based practice, the book includes a wealth of examples to demonstrate how to successfully apply theory to practice, and how to critically analyse your practice to maximise pupil learning. This 7th edition is fully updated in light of the latest initiatives, evidence and research in the field, offering comprehensive coverage, unit by unit, of the key concepts and skills addressed on initial teacher education courses in preparation for work in schools. The wide range of pedagogical features support both university based work - including that up to Masters Level - and school-based initial teacher education, and are designed to help you develop those qualities that lead to good practice and a successful future in education. Written by expert practitioners, thirty-six essential units include: • adopting a positive approach to managing behaviour to support learning • ways pupils learn • planning lessons, units of work and schemes of work • motivating pupils • assessment • inclusion and special educational needs • using ICT and digital technologies • pupil grouping, progression and differentiation • managing time, workload and stress • getting your first teaching post. Learning to Teach in the Secondary School provides practical help and guidance for many of the situations and potential challenges you are faced with in school. Supported by the Learning to Teach Subjects in the Secondary School Series, it is an essential purchase for every aspiring secondary school teacher.