Kiki Mosher

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

New Jersey

A brief biography of the woman whose concern for others led her to become a pioneer in the field of nursing.

Learning about Compassion from the Life of Florence Nightingale

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Spiral bound activity book in like new condition! #kids #elementary #school #education #science #activities 

North Dakota

These simple step-by-step activities combine hands-on fun and scientific investigation.

50 Science Things to Make and Do

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Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Texas

The Founding Fathers Volume 2

James Madison: A Biography in His Own Words 

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Young People’s Science Encyclopedia 

Volume 2 An-Az

#hardcover #children #nature #education #illustrations #beautiful

Arizona

With lyrical text, enchanting illustrations, and a beautiful fold-out scene to complete the story, this award-winning picture book takes you on a journey through the seasons and years as you follow a seed's transformation from a seedling to a sapling, then a young tree, until it becomes a large tree with its branches and roots filling the page.



As the tree grows, it is joined by well-loved woodland creatures--squirrels and rabbits, butterflies and owls--who make it their home. A rhyming poem builds page on page, echoing the rings of a growing tree. The story culminates with a foldout page showing a mature tree shedding seeds to continue the beautiful cycle of life. At the back, find the full poem and facts about the specific tree, a sycamore.



Beautiful and evocative, It Starts With a Seed is a factual story that will touch children with its simple, enchanting message of life and growth.



A 2018 Outstanding Science Trade Book for Students: K-12 (National Science Teachers Association and the Children's Book Council)

It Starts with a Seed

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Donald Crews

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

New York

From Donald Crews, the Caldecott Honor artist and award-winning creator of Truck, Freight Train, and many other classic picture books for young children, this picture book is a fun introduction to basic math concepts.

What can you do with ten black dots?



One dot can make a sun, two dots can make the eyes of a fox, and three dots can make a snowman's face.

And that's just the beginning in this unique counting book! Children will develop visual learning skills, explore creativity, and practice counting numbers, all in one deceptively simple--and fun!--picture book.

A proven favorite at home and in the preschool classroom.

Ten Black Dots

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Ron Clark

Pennsylvania

An Award-Winning Educator's Rules for Discovering the Successful Student in Every Child

The Essential 55

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E. Foley

B. Coates

California

Everything You Learnt at School... and Promptly Forgot

A nostalgic compendium of essential knowledge that can help you show the world that you're smarter than a ten-year-old after all!

Have you ever stared blankly at your kids when they've asked why the sky is blue? Or clumsily changed the subject when they've wanted to know why the wind blows? If you're done with school, it's likely you're also done knowing the difference between an isosceles and equilateral triangle, and you probably leave participles dangling all over the place. Well, not anymore! Thanks to professional know-it-alls Foley and Coates, you can now gain back your self-respect and actually show those kids a thing or two as you tell it to them straight (and not make it up from fragments of facts you kind of remember).

Packed with all the basic facts that have managed to free-fall from our heads over the years, Homework for Grown-ups is the ultimate grammar school refresher course in book form. In fact, there's even a quiz at the end of each chapter to ensure you've been paying attention! Written in the light, engaging style of a favorite teacher and featuring lessons in English, math, history, science, geography, art, and even home economics and recess, this fun and handy guide will help you stop hemming and hawing and start speaking with a lot more authority--and a little less shame.
E. FOLEY and B. COATES are editors at Vintage who both live in London.

Homework for Grown-Ups

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A Teacher's Guide to Effective Classroom Management

It's been a whole week made up of "one of those days." Your students are not listening. They are not doing their homework. And you can't even get them to sit still. Time to throw in the towel? No--it's time to batten down the hatches. Author Frederick C. Wootan is a teacher who brings business management into the classroom. His solutions to your problems help you get your class back under control. From seating strategies to disciplinary tactics, this user-friendly teaching guide covers it all, including tips on:

-Building a support network
-Communicating and enforcing rules
-Issuing a mission statement
-Identifying and dealing with problem students
-Managing the paperwork
-Modernizing your class

By following the guidance provided in Not in My Classroom, you can train your students to treat your classroom less like a playground and more like a workplace. A fresh take on classroom management, this practical book helps you put students in their seats, pencils in their hands, and a smile on your face.

Not in My Classroom!

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Greg Mortenson

Promoting Peace with Books, Not Bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan

A follow-up to the best-selling Three Cups of Tea continues Mortenson's story of his humanitarian efforts to bring education into disadvantaged Middle East regions, describing such events as the 2005 earthquake and a tense eight-day abduction by the Taliban.

Stones into Schools

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Henry Cloud

Results, Relationships, and Being Ridiculously in Charge

The coauthor of the classic bestseller Boundaries, with over 2 million copies sold, and an expert on the psychology of business and leadership performance explains the behavioral reasons why some people get great results and others don't. In Boundaries for Leaders, Dr. Henry Cloud gives leaders the tools and techniques they need to achieve the performance they desire—in their organizations and in themselves. Drawing on the latest findings from neuroscience, Dr. Cloud shows why it's critical for leaders to set the conditions that make people's brains perform at their highest levels. How do great leaders do this? One way is through the creation of "boundaries"—structures that determine what will exist and what will not. Here you will learn seven leadership boundaries that set the stage, tone, and culture for a results-driven organization, including how to help people focus their attention on the things that matter most; build the emotional climate that drives brain functioning; facilitate connections that boost energy and momentum; create organizational thought patterns that limit negativity and helplessness; identify paths for people to take control of the activities that drive results; create high-performance teams organized around the behaviors that drive results; and lead yourself in a manner that protects the vision. The strong call to action in this book is that leaders are ridiculously in charge of all these elements, and they must own what they either create or allow to exist. Filled with inspiring and practical examples from Dr. Cloud's coaching practice, Boundaries for Leaders is essential reading for everyone who aspires to lead companies, teams, and cultures defined by high performance and healthy relationships.

Boundaries for Leaders

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Provides answers to commonly asked questions such as "Why does my skin wrinkle in the tub?" and "Why do we see a rainbow?"

National Geographic Little Kids First Big Book of Why

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National Geographic Kids Sight Words Reading Program

#hardcover #nonfiction #China #lenorachu #chineseeducationsystem #education #worldeducation

Georgia

An American Boy, a Chinese School, and the Global Race to Achieve

New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice; Real Simple Best of the Month; Library Journal Editors’ Pick In the spirit of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, Bringing up Bébé, and The Smartest Kids in the World, a hard-hitting exploration of China’s widely acclaimed yet insular education system—held up as a model of academic and behavioral excellence—that raises important questions for the future of American parenting and education. When students in Shanghai rose to the top of international rankings in 2009, Americans feared that they were being "out-educated" by the rising super power. An American journalist of Chinese descent raising a young family in Shanghai, Lenora Chu noticed how well-behaved Chinese children were compared to her boisterous toddler. How did the Chinese create their academic super-achievers? Would their little boy benefit from Chinese school? Chu and her husband decided to enroll three-year-old Rainer in China’s state-run public school system. The results were positive—her son quickly settled down, became fluent in Mandarin, and enjoyed his friends—but she also began to notice troubling new behaviors. Wondering what was happening behind closed classroom doors, she embarked on an exploratory journey, interviewing Chinese parents, teachers and education professors, and following students at all stages of their education. What she discovered is a military-like education system driven by high-stakes testing, with teachers posting rankings in public, using bribes to reward students who comply, and shaming to isolate those who do not. At the same time, she uncovered a years-long desire by government to alleviate its students’ crushing academic burden and make education friendlier for all. The more she learns, the more she wonders: Are Chinese children—and her son—paying too high a price for their obedience and the promise of future academic prowess? Is there a way to appropriate the excellence of the system but dispense with the bad? What, if anything, could Westerners learn from China’s education journey? Chu’s eye-opening investigation challenges our assumptions and asks us to consider the true value and purpose of education.

Little Soldiers

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Oregon

Secretary’s Index to English 

#paperback #business #economics #education #best #dreambig

Florida

Finding the Courage to Follow Your Dreams and Laugh at Your Nightmares

When author Lisa Hammond followed her passion, she founded her own company, Femail Creations a womanoriented catalog company that grew into a huge success. Lisa loved shopping, thus the mailorder catalog. Because she's passionate about women making their way in the world, Femail Creations features only items crafted by women artisans. In Dream Big Hammond details how she and her sister entrepreneurs followed their dreams and managed their fears to become happy and successful. Lisa shares the lessons they learned, the mistakes they made, and the fulfillment they attained. Dream Big reflects Lisa's inspirational personality and drive, as well as her belief in the power of women connecting with women from the artists whose products appear in Femail Creations to the women who buy those products. Dream Big is a virtual meeting place for women who want to live and work their dreams. By sharing parts of their stories and tips, the women who've done it lend a hand to those who still dream that "maybe someday..." Readers will find inspiration, as well as hardnosed advice, about how to pursue their passion whether for business, creativity, family, or anything else in spite of fear and inevitable missteps. Chapters include: "Permission to Dream," "Facing Fears," "Attempting the Impossible," "Owning Our Power," "Trusting Our Guts," "Persistence is Omnipotent," and "Never Too Late." Dream Big shows women that the first step isn't writing a business plan it's listening to yourself and taking your turn/ it's managing your life from the heart with a "femail" touch. Hammond, who's known to her thousands of customers, friends, and family as the Barefoot CEO, didn't do things conventionally. That makes for hilarious stories, heartstopping inspiration, and rollupyour sleeves tips a blueprint in action for their dreams.

Dream Big

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Dave F. Brown

Trudy Knowles

James Beane

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

New Hampshire

Offers middle school teachers practical advice on how they can adapt their instruction methods to meet the needs of diverse students and cope with the emotional challenges they face in the classroom.

What Every Middle School Teacher Should Know, Second Edition

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Michigan

A Workbook for Educators

In his best-selling classic Boys and Girls Learn Differently, Michael Gurian explained the origin and nature of gender differences in the classroom. His important book explored the behavior teachers observed and the challenges they faced with both boys and girls in their classrooms. Taking the next step, Strategies for Teaching Boys?Elementary Level: A Workbook for Educators and Girls offers teachers a hands-on resource that draws on the Gurian Institute's research and training with elementary schools and school districts. The workbook presents practical strategies, lessons, and activities that have been field-tested in real classrooms and developed to harness boys' and girls' unique strengths.

The workbook is designed to help teachers build a solid foundation of learning and study habits that their students can use in the classroom and at home. It covers the key curricular areas and offers proven techniques to make learning, no matter what the subject, more engaging for all students.

The workbook is an essential resource for all teachers who want to improve their practice and get the most from all students'whatever their gender.

Strategies for Teaching Boys and Girls -- Elementary Level

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Rhonda Lucas Donald

Ex-library copy with torn out front page and internal markings/stamps

Text and color photos present the causes and effects of water pollution, covering pesticides, airborne pollutants, wetland conservation, and other related topics.

Water Pollution

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Roseanne Greenfield Thong

Lively picture book enumerates the joys of counting in both English and Spanish Boisterous illustrations and rhyming text: One is a rainbow. One is a cake. One is a piñata that's ready to break! In this lively picture book, a companion to the Pura Belpré–honored Green Is a Chile Pepper, children discover a fiesta of numbers in the world around them, all the way from one to ten. Many of the featured objects are Latino in origin and all are universal in appeal. With rich, boisterous illustrations, a fun-to-read rhyming text, and an informative glossary, this vibrant book enumerates the joys of counting and the wonders that abound in every child's day! Filled with bright and colorful images that makes counting objects a party. Includes numbers 1 through 10 in English and Spanish and incorporates Spanish words into the rhyming text. Roseanne Greenfield Thong is the author of more than a dozen award-winning children's books, including Round Is a Tortilla, Wish, 'Twas Nochebuena, Día de Los Muertos, and Green Is a Chile Pepper. John Parra is an award-winning illustrator who has received three Pura Belpré Illustrator Honor awards. Fans of Round is a Tortilla: A Book of Shapes and Green is a Chile Pepper: A Book of Colors will love this lively companion book, One Is a Piñata: A Book of Numbers. Perfect for preschoolers and early readers working on counting skills and learning basic Spanish vocabulary. Books for kids ages 4-7 Engaging children's picture book that teaches counting skills and is a basic Spanish-language learning tool Fun book to read aloud for families or elementary schools

One Is a Piñata: a Book of Numbers (Learn to Count Books, Numbers Books for Kids, Preschool Numbers Book)

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#nonfiction #education #teaching #stonesintoschools #peace #middleeast #paperback #teacher 

Promoting Peace with Education in Afghanistan and Pakistan

A follow-up to the best-selling Three Cups of Tea continues Mortenson's story of his humanitarian efforts to bring education into disadvantaged Middle East regions, describing such events as the 2005 earthquake and a tense eight-day abduction by the Taliban. Reprint.

Jenifer Fox

Jenifer Fox M.Ed.

An essential book for parents and teachers that explores how children’s individual strengths create success 

With this groundbreaking work, educator Jenifer Fox is poised to change the conversation about education in this country. For too long, parents and teachers have focused on identifying and “fixing” kids’ weaknesses to improve academic performance. Passionately written and informed by Fox’s twenty-five years of experience, Your Child’s Strengths turns that flawed paradigm on its head. Fox’s strengths-based philosophy provides the tools to prepare kids for the future in a world that demands greater adaptability and creative thinking than ever before. 

Your Child’s Strengths will give parents and teachers the tools to discover strengths in three main areas: Activity Strengths, the tasks that make you feel engaged and energized; Relationship Strengths, the things you do for and with others that make you feel valued and competent; and Learning Strengths, the unique ways we approachand understand new information. All three strengths work in tandem. 

Pairing inspiring firsthand accounts of success with practical workbook tools and an outline of the award- winning Affinities Program Fox has implemented at her own school, this much- needed book is a user- friendly guide for parents, teachers, and administrators that will improve individual performance and an indispensable road map for young people and society to a future that plays to strengths.

Arkansas

Discover Them, Develop Them, Use Them

A book for parents and teachers that explores how children's individual strengths create success. Educator Fox is poised to change the conversation about education in this country. For too long, parents and teachers have focused on identifying and "fixing

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Kiki Mosher

Learning about Compassion from the Life of Florence Nightingale

Kate Knighton

50 Science Things to Make and Do

Merrill D. Peterson

James Madison: A Biography in His Own Words

The National College of Education

Young People’s Science Encyclopedia

The National College of Education

Young People’s Science Encyclopedia

Laura Knowles; Jennie Webber (Illustrator)

It Starts with a Seed

Donald Crews

Ten Black Dots

Ron Clark

The Essential 55

E. Foley; B. Coates

Homework for Grown-Ups

Frederick C. Wootan; Catherine H. Mulligan

Not in My Classroom!

Greg Mortenson

Stones into Schools

Henry Cloud

Boundaries for Leaders

Amy Shields

National Geographic Little Kids First Big Book of Why

National Geographic

National Geographic Kids Sight Words Reading Program

Lenora Chu

Little Soldiers

Jean C. Vermes

Secretary’s Index to English

Lisa Hammond; Sark (Foreword by)

Dream Big

Dave F. Brown; Trudy Knowles; James Beane

What Every Middle School Teacher Should Know, Second Edition

Michael Gurian; Kathy Stevens; Kelley King

Strategies for Teaching Boys and Girls -- Elementary Level

Rhonda Lucas Donald

Water Pollution

Roseanne Greenfield Thong

One Is a Piñata: a Book of Numbers (Learn to Count Books, Numbers Books for Kids, Preschool Numbers Book)

Greg Mortenson; Khaled Hosseini (Foreword by)

Stones into Schools

Jenifer Fox; Jenifer Fox M.Ed.

Your Child's Strengths

Malala Yousafzai; Christina Lamb

I Am Malala (Large Print)