Winner of the 2015 Tillywig Toy Brain Child Award, the 2015 Mom's Choice Gold Award, and the 2015 National Parenting Publications Award! 
Science is easy! Observe. Explore. Analyze. Repeat. Children are natural scientists, drawn to wondering, exploration, discovery, and analysis. Science: Not Just for Scientists! gives you simple ideas to open up the world of discovery to young children. Through open-ended explorations, you will discover how to cultivate children s natural curiosity by asking simple questions: How? When? Where? And the most famous of all children s questions: Why? The hands-on activities will empower children to question, experiment, and develop abstract reasoning skills. Children will explore patterns, cause and effect, size and scale, change and growth, energy, and how things work. Easy to follow, step-by-step activities lead children and their caregivers through a new world of discovery. It's simple and fun to investigate: Patterns in Our Neighborhood; Who Can Live Here?; Big, Small, and In Between; Simple Machines; The Water Cycle; Energy Path; and so much more!

Science--Not Just for Scientists! Easy Explorations for Young Children

Science & Math

Leonisa Ardizzone

Experiments, Instruments & Measurement

Gryphon House, Inc.

You may know classroom environments are a complex interaction of physical elements, including sensory components, design and organization, aesthetics, nurturing attributes, and pedagogical resources. Did you know these elements are proven to work together to improve early learning, self-efficacy and higher-order thinking skills, and ultimately to achieve better child outcomes? Room to Learn presents the Assessing the Pillars of the Physical Environment for Academic Learning (APPEAL) environmental rating scale, a valid and reliable tool developed by Pamela Evanshen, EdD and Janet Faulk, EdD, to show you how to get the most out of your classroom environment.

Room to Learn: Elementary Classrooms Designed for Interactive Explorations

Education & Teaching

and Janet Faulk

EdD Pamela Evanshen

Schools & Teaching

What happens when aging parents can no longer care for their loved one with special needs? Both touching and humorous recollections are interspersed with sage advice for families who have children or adults with special needs. Look in to the life of Mark, a 53-year-old man with Down syndrome, to see how his aging parents struggled with his care amidst their own challenges. Parents of children with special needs face the daunting reality that there will come a time when they are physically unable to provide care. Last to Leave Home is a testament to the fact that your're not alone. One family's living tribute blends the warm personal story with some basic techinical reference material.

Last To Leave Home

Carolyn S. Baker

Politics & Social Sciences

Mark's Sunshine, LLC

Members of associations dedicate countless volunteer hours working on committees and task forces to advance their associations and the professions they represent. When they are elected to serve on an executive board, however, they may be unsure of what to expect in this new leadership position. Now in its 2nd edition, Mentoring the Stars: A Program for Volunteer Board Leaders, has proven success in helping new board members acclimate to their new roles and feel more fulfilled as board members. They will attain skills and competencies to function effectively on their association's leadership team. By combining a unique, self-study learning approach and a mentoring relationship with an experienced board member, new board members can excel. Mentoring the Stars provides: * 10 board responsibilities * 11 board member competencies * Tables, figures, and tool kits on mentoring, leadership, decision making, teamwork, strategic planning, and more * For new board members: Assess skills and knowledge, establish mentoring relationships * For experienced board members: Refresh knowledge and help new board members transition to their new roles

Mentoring the Stars: A Program for Volunteer Board Leaders

Cynthia Nowicki Hnatiuk

Anthony J. Jannetti, Inc.

Stress is a condition most people don't know much about and don't take seriously until its ravaging effects overcome them. Once the devastation occurs, it can manifest itself in various forms: mood disorders, addictions and physical illnesses. Using sound biblical teachings, Stress: Climbing Out of Its Pits with God examines stress and its impact as well as ways to handle it before it is too late. In addiction to finding ways to cope, you will also learn: How people react to stress and the many faces it wears. How addicitions intensify our reactions to stress. How religion can be a profound source of stess. How spirituality can combat the effects of stress. How anger, unforgiveness and sin contribute to stress. How God's love helps reduce our stress. How to use God's gifts to overcome the multiple levels of stress. Stress: Climbing Out of Its Pits with God is a must-read for anyone looking for a healthy way to deal with stress, which is an integral part of our daily lives. Share it with someone you love.

Stress: Climbing Out of Its Pits with God

Dr. Steven Haymon

Religion & Spirituality

Greater Insight Publishing, LLC

Navigate 2 Premier Access For Comprehensive Respiratory Therapy Exam Preparation Guide, Third Edition

PHD.

Craig L. Scanlan

Faarc; Al Heuer

Rpft; Narciso E. Rodriguez

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What Works for Special Education and At-Risk Learners: A Framework for General Education Teachers and Administrators

Fisher, Laura

Walters Ed.D., Genevra

Trafford Publishing

The fundamental elements of successful leadership succession in any organization are recognizing the inevitability of leadership change and the necessity of a plan for leadership succession. This book provides a rationale and planning guideline for board chairs, superintendents, and superiors of religious communities to use when the need arises to hire a new leader. The tools presented are an adaptation of typical leadership succession planning utilized in other professional educational models, non-profit organizations, and public and private businesses.

Leadership Succession Planning in Catholic Education

SSND

Anthony Sabatino

Mary FitzGerald

Business & Money

National Catholic Educational Association

The Acting Out Social Skills: Beyond the Basics Student Book is organized theatrically with acts and scenes, focusing on themes present in social situations. The seven acts reflect the universal character virtues: Responsibility, Respect, Fairness, Citizenship, Trustworhiness, Caring and Civic Responsibility. Each act has three scenes plus a wrap up. The scenes present social dilemmas from different character perspectives and engage the student through role play, analysis, and discussion. Throughout these activities the effect of behavior on emotions is stressed.

Acting Out Social Skills: Beyond the Basics

June Stride

Attainment Company, Inc and Wolfpack Multimedia, Inc.

A synopsis by the author: In this book, I summarize how science works, why it offers hope to educators, how science has been neglected and abused in education, and what I think science now tells us and doesn t tell us about several issues in education. In describing science, I necessarily describe pseudoscience or rogue science as well. Education and disciplines related to it, especially psychology, have too often, and for far too long, been characterized by rogue science rather than the real thing. It s disheartening to face up to the fact that education and psychology haven t usually been scientific. As educational researcher David Berliner says, a science of education, although possible, may well be the hardest science of all. Those of us who believe that science is the best hope for education mustn t be discouraged or intimidated by the naysayers and the difficulty of the task. We know that the insistence and persistence of many will be required. Consequently, I haven t written a book for educators only, but for a more general audience as well those who care about education and its improvement, which is a lot of us, if not most. Neither have I written a book for educational researchers, reviewing all relevant details of scientific (or nonscientific) studies and their conclusions on particular topics. My intention was to write a book about the general principles of a scientific approach to educational issues and provide readable summaries of what I think research and rational analysis, tell us about a few particular problems. Critiques of particular studies and the details of research design and statistical analysis are better left to purely academic publications.

Toward a Science of Education

James M. Kauffman

Attinment Company, Inc. Full Court Press

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