In recent years, the increasingly high stakes attached to norm-referenced reading tests have made it harder to hold onto what we believe about language arts education. Now, Lucy Calkins, Kate Montgomery, and Donna Santman meet us in the true trenches, offering companionship and guidance in the most lonely, complex, and sometimes heartbreaking area of our teaching: preparing students for standardized reading tests. 
 Written with the intimacy, inspiration, and classroom-based practicality we've come to expect from The Art of Teaching Writing, A Teacher's Guide to Standardized Reading Tests reflects the authors' belief that in order to be less victimized by tests, we need to be more knowledgeable about them. To that end, their book: 
<ul>
<li>provides a complete overview of tests, showing us how to use this information to be more powerful and more articulate participants in today's political conversations and in our interactions with colleagues, parents, and our students </li>
<li>demonstrates how the methods we've come to trust in the reading and writing workshop can be built upon and adapted as we do test-preparation work with our students </li>
<li>rethinks the reading workshop in light of standardized tests, describing predictable challenges children will face when taking tests and ways we can help children develop the capabilities to meet those challenges </li>
<li>provides guidelines for reading and interpreting test results, enabling us to minimize the damage caused by troubling scores. </li>
</ul> "If our students do well on tests," write the authors, "we are in a far stronger position to be critical of those same tests." With A Teacher's Guide to Standardized Reading Tests, educators can achieve these results, and advocate for and use forms of assessment that inform teaching and support student learning.

A Teacher's Guide to Standardized Reading Tests: Knowledge Is Power

Education & Teaching

CALKINS, LUCY

Montgomery, Katé

Santman, Donna

Falk, Beverly

Schools & Teaching

Heinemann

A funny and moving story told through the letters of two women nurturing a friendship as they are separated by distance, experience, and time. Close friends and former college roommates, Hilary Liftin and Kate Montgomery promised to write when Kate's Peace Corps assignment took her to Africa. Over the course of a single year, they exchanged an offbeat and moving series of letters from rural Kenya to New York City and back again. Kate, an idealistic teacher, meets unexpected realities ranging from poisonous snakes and vengeful cows to more serious hazards: a lack of money for education; a student body in revolt. Hilary, braving the singles scene in Manhattan, confronts her own realities, from unworthy suitors to job anxiety and first apartment woes. Their correspondence tells--with humor, warmth, and vivid personal detail--the story of two young women navigating their twenties in very different ways, and of the very special friendships we are sometimes lucky enough to find.

Dear Exile : The True Story of Two Friends Separated (for a Year) by an Ocean

Biographies & Memoirs

Liftin, Hilary

Community & Culture

Vintage

Presents a method, using stretches and exercises, to treat and prevent carpal tunnel syndrome

End Your Carpal Tunnel Pain Without Surgery: A Daily Program to Prevent and Treat Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Exercise & Fitness

Rutledge Hill Pr

The Athletic Ritual: The Secret Weapon

Sports Touch/Kate Montgomery

No matter what age you are 3-70+, from the cyber athlete playing games on mom's cell phone, portable and in-home game stations, to the person who puts in a 12-hour work day on a computer and many other occupations that perform repetitive work; you can be affected with repetitive strain injury of the arm, wrist and hand. In just fifteen minutes a day you can prevent and maintain healthy muscles, relieve pain and numbness using the Montgomery Method™. In this book Katé Montgomery teaches her twelve-step method for the alignment of the upper body, massage and acupressure techniques, stretches, and how to set up an ergonomic workstation so you can work safely and pain free. If practiced regularly, it will prevent the return of symptoms. This book and the Montgomery Method™ will show you how to: • Self-assess your symptoms • Improve your grip strength • Relieve muscle tension in the upper body • Increase your flexibility and mobility • Take control of your health now!

End Your Carpal Tunnel Pain Without Surgery

Katé Montgomery

Carpal Tunnel Syndrome: Prevention and Treatment

Sports Touch

NEW REVISED SECOND EDITION 2004, End Your Carpal Tunnel Pain Without Surgery (Sports Touch Publishing, $24.95, paperback), with 198 pages, and 185 illustrations. 
Kate Montgomery, a Naturopathic Doctor and certified sports massage therapist, has developed a daily 15-minute program to prevent and treat repetitive strain injury of the arm, wrist and hand. Kate’s method, a definitive system that describes in detail how to rid yourself of most repetitive strain injuries, from carpal tunnel to tendinitis. 
Kate has updated and fine-tuned this second edition…with New self-care techniques! New resources! New information to make informed decisions regarding health options for repetitive strain injury! New insights into a child’s "at risk" to develop RSI! And New self-assessment sheets to help you chronicle your road to improved health! You are in the driver seat and in control of the outcome. Montgomery shares her revolutionary 12-step program that eliminates the carpal tunnel pain and tendinitis. She also discusses other repetitive strain injuries of the upper body, how using her program can reduce absenteeism in the workplace, and minimizes high medical bills. End Your Carpal Tunnel Pain Without Surgery, revised second edition, is still the only book of its kind, suggesting a comprehensive self-care program for prevention and relief from the pain associated with repetitive strain syndromes as well as providing ideas for setting up an ergonomically correct work environment. 
Montgomery explains that relief from CTS/RSI involves a process, not just a one-time visit to a health practitioner. 
This process includes the following steps: 
1. Utilizing the Montgomery Method, a daily 15-minute self-care program which is outlined in the book. 2. Incorporating chiropractic and therapeutic bodywork as maintenance programs into your normal healthcare regimen. 3. Instituting a safe work area with ergonomically correct equipment 
The Montgomery Method requires no expensive equipment and can be performed anywhere. It will increase mobility and flexibility in your joints, restore energy and strength to the muscles and increase tactile sensitivity of touch. The program is designed to allow you to support and stabilize the muscles and joints of the arm, wrist and hand. More than half a million people a year arrive at doctors’ offices complaining of carpal tunnel syndrome or other related repetitive strain injuries. In the 1990’s, carpal tunnel syndrome became the surgery of the decade. Moving into the 21st century, Carpal Tunnel Syndrome is the second most common type of surgery, with well over 230,000 procedures performed annually and is the #1 reported medical problem, accounting for about 50% of all work-related injuries. The U.S. Department of Labor has concluded that Carpal Tunnel Syndrome is the "chief occupational hazard…" disabling workers in epidemic proportions. Statistics from 1993 indicate that repetitive strain injuries accounted for $20 billion a year in workers’ compensation claims. Liberty Mutual Insurance workplace safety Index 2003 lists the top ten workplace injuries. In this top ten, #1 is overexertion (12.5 billion a year 27.3%), #3 is bodily reaction (4.7 billion a year 12.6%) and #6 repetitive motion (2.3 Billion a year 5.1%.) Doing repetitive motion can cause overexertion and bodily reaction time to decrease. So the total of these three is 19.5 billion and 45% of the pie. Almost half is attributed and contributes to RSI injuries. 
*Women are twice as likely to develop Carpal Tunnel Syndrome as opposed to their male counterparts. While women account for about 45% of all workers, they experience nearly 2/3’s of all work-related repetitive strain injuries. 
"…how does a 23% surgical success rate, warrant a $30,000 surgery?" 
Still in the Media… In 2004, The season finale of "Everwood," a popular Fox TV sitcom, ended its season with Efrem, a budding pianist just accepted to Juilliard making reference to his hoping he doesn’t develop carpal tunnel syndrome due to intense practicing and playing. (replayed 9/6/04). 
July, 2004, Willie Nelson, made news due to not being able to perform at his 4th of July concert due to having Carpal Tunnel Surgery. 
Don’t become a statistic! This disorder is not going away and more and more people are becoming affected by this problem each year. The need is even greater to instill effective prevention, treatment and maintenance programs for these upper body syndromes, which, when classed together are appropriately called work-related musculoskeletal disorders. End Your Carpal Tunnel Pain Without Surgery, revised second edition, will be the book that helps you to overcome the pain of these disorders and restore you to a functional and productive life. 
…whether you are a office worker, court reporter, a concert pianist, a dental hygienist, a golfer, Olympic Rower (Lisa Schlenker, world record holder), hair stylist, massage therapist, law enforcement officer, Nintendo junkie, fisherman, chef, graphic artist, sculptor, painter, glass blower, work with stained glass, musician, student, or assembly line worker, and the list can go on and on…Everyone has HANDS and they are your most valuable tool…and End Your Carpal Tunnel Pain Without Surgery provides you with the tools to be able to do your job or favorite hobby without pain and without giving up the things you love in life. Life is too short…to be stopped by something that is treatable and preventable. 
Get the help you need from End Your Carpal Tunnel Pain Without Surgery.

End Your Carpal Tunnel Pain without Surgery, Second Edition

Simplified and Easy to Follow! Fully illustrated. A Self-Help, How-To Book. Ages 7-70+. All Occupations musicians, artists, assembly workers, a surgeon, dentist, dental hygienist, glass blower, knitter/quilter/needlepoint, computer programmer, graphic designer, rock climber, baseball/basketball/volleyball, archer, secretarial...and the list goes on. We all have hands that need to remain strong and functional and without pain. The New 3rd Ed. focuses on techniques and exercises. It begins with what is carpal tunnel syndrome along with other upper body repetitive strain disorders, tendinitis, symtomology - loss of grip strength, and why the surgerical approach, drugs and artificial supports (wrist splints), fail to alleviate the symptoms. Montgomery describes a 7-step self-assessment protocol for symtomology; the 12-Step Montgomery MethodTM - designed to assist the reader change the structural misalignment and relieve muscle tension that causes the entrapment and compression of the median nerve from the neck, shoulder, elbow, wrist and hand. Described is correct posture and variations that affect nerve impingement and musculoskeletal strain; massage therapy of the arm to the hand; neurolymphatic massage; myofascial release; acupressure points; eye exercises; breathing and stress reduction; stretching, strengthening and range-of-motion exercises; nutritional recommendations; and the body s relationship to ergonomically correct workstation design and safety. Montgomery offers her expertise and insight into the physical healing of the body to create balance, and continued health and wellbeing. The book in all editions (Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, Prevention & Treatment 1992 and then in 1998 when the title was changed to End Your Carpal Tunnel Pain Without Surgery and published by Rutledge Hill Press) has been sold throughout Europe, United Kingdom, Italy, Germany, Croatia, Australia, South America, Scandinavia, Norway, Philippines, Japan, New Zealand, Canada and the Unit

End Your Carpal Tunnel Pain Without Surgery (3rd Edition)

Diseases & Physical Ailments

Offers corrective techniques, stretches, and exercises for treating and preventing carpal tunnel syndrome, and details specific acupressure points and massage therapy for the hands and arms, illustrated with b&amp;w photos and diagrams. Includes an overview of the lymphatic system, and advice for workplace ergonomics, plus numerous additional resources, support groups, and testimonials. No index. Published by Sports Touch Publishing, P.O. Box 221074, San Diego, CA 92192-1074. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Carpal Tunnel Syndrome : Prevention and Treatment : A Nonsurgical Drug Free Approach

Medical Books

Perhaps the only ethical alternative is to leave no stone unturned in finding solutions to chronic problems.  This tape developed to explain CTS and mediate repetitive stress by biomechanical manipulation is not the average tape or method, but worth a listen and a try.

Carpal Tunnel Syndrome: The Invisible Threat (The Work Habit Library)

Staywell

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