Student Learning

Awakening Brilliance is a two-time award winning, international best-seller. A must read for all who want children to succeed in school. Awakening Brilliance weaves true teacher-student experiences into an inspirational story that demonstrates how to build relationships with students, improve academics, prevent dropouts and create lifelong learners.

Skilled Trade Career Planning For Teens will provide you with the Trusted and Proven path to a successful and REWARDING career in one of many hands-on skilled trades that make BIG MONEY! Many high school students ponder their career and financial goals as they go through high school. Wouldn’t you like to know all of the options before making such a big life-changing decision?

Easy Reading for ESL Students: Book 3 is a comprehensive audiobook designed especially for intermediate and advanced students of English as a Second Language. The book was developed and tested by full-time teachers of English. There are 12 stories accompanied by comprehension, vocabulary, speaking, and writing exercises. The stories are short (400-500 words). Each story and its exercises can be completed in 60 minutes.

An easy-to-implement collection of creative ideas and new strategies that inspire students with the power of growth mindset. Students who harness the power of growth mindset can succeed beyond their wildest imagination. The key is having a growth-mindset teacher who provides support, guidance, and encouragement.

Unlock your academic dreams with "Funding Her Dreams: College Scholarships for Women" This essential resource offers insider tips, detailed application strategies, and inspiring success stories to help you navigate the world of scholarships. Whether you're a high school senior, a college student, or a non-traditional learner, this guide empowers you to secure the financial aid you need to achieve your educational goals. Discover the path to a debt-free education and transform your future today! Brought to you by Scholarship Success Center

"Online teaching and learning are here to stay. We are living in an exciting time, with the opportunity to educate the world at our fingertips. This book makes a case for the need to bring inspiration in the online learning environment, and it explores how far this can go to raise a new generation of students who will have a local and global impact. The flexibility, versatility, and dynamic nature of online learning holds the key to arriving at global solutions that have a regional signature. While students from all over the world are connected to world-class professors from around the ...

America is under attack. America has always been under attack. America will likely continue to be under attack. Our attackers are not those who threaten us with military force. Presently, we are well prepared to fend off an enemy who is seen - one who can be defeated on the battlefield. Our enemy is more insidious, and often supported by those within our government who are responsible for preventing that danger. Thomas Jefferson warned us of this danger early on, even while the U.S. Constitution was being written. One of his major concerns was that if citizens were not educated to recognize...

Life is hard, and we need all the help that we can get to live a meaningful life with as little negative stress as possible. Students, especially, struggle with this, while they are still on a process of self-discovery and skills development. What they learn, the coping strategies that they employ, and the friends that they choose will have to sustain them through life.

Applying to college can be competitive and complex. Admission Matters offers real-world expert advice for all students, whether you're aiming for an Ivy or the state school close to home. It also includes much needed guidance for students with special circumstances, including students with disabilities, international students, and transfer students. In addition, athletes, artists and performers, and homeschoolers will find valuable guidance as they plan for and apply to college.

Increase your IQ with good study skills. Why not be the best student you can be? School is a memorization contest; so get good at memorization. Study memory constest champions. Learn how to write so you can impress people, and so no one can mess with you. Peter Rogers MD was just an average student in high school. Then he learned study skills, and was student athlete of the year at Stanford, graduated 1st in his medical school class, with 99% medical school & residency board scores. Went on to become a Harvard trained imaging guided surgeon. He has written 20 books. This book teaches you ...

Have you ever felt overwhelmed by the complexity of implementing Artificial Intelligence (AI) into your curriculum? Worried about the ethical implications? Or maybe you feel that your lack of tech expertise leaves you lagging in the rapidly progressing digital age of education? You're not alone. The exponential growth of AI has left many educators feeling tossed in the deep end, their anxieties heightened by the rapid waves of technological change. So, where do you turn when you're navigating these uncharted waters?

"AI for Educators" will empower you to: 1) Navigate the ethical maze of AI with confidence and grace. 2) Prepare your students for jobs that don't even exist yet. 3) Become the cool teacher who "gets it" in the eyes of your tech-savvy students.

Although there has been significant exploration of the need for and importance of culturally responsive, sustaining, equitable and inclusive teaching and learning within the past several years, the focus is often on creating these environments and experiences for Black and Brown students. Open Windows, Open Minds builds from Rudine Sims Bishop's concept of Mirrors, Windows and Sliding Glass Doors to provide anti-bias, anti-racist, and allyship development for teachers, then to offer strategies for moving that work into classroom instruction through literacy practices

Upward mobility through the path of higher education has been an article of faith for generations of working-class, low-income, and immigrant college students. While we know this path usually entails financial sacrifices and hard work, very little attention has been paid to the deep personal compromises such students have to make as they enter worlds vastly different from their own.

Grief and grieving apply to anyone experiencing loss, even if that loss is not tied to a death. Though it may feel difficult to address the topics of grief and loss, as we return to school after an unprecedented year, it’s no longer a question of “if” or “should” but “when” and ”how.” Learning from Loss is your guide to getting started with grief work, providing a path that can help you determine the best course of action in the wake of a loss that impacts a student or school community.

Student-loan horror stories are a dime a dozen. But students today are faced with a seemingly insurmountable paradox: Research consistently shows that the clearest viable option to financial stability is a college degree. In Sunk Cost, journalist Jillian Berman explores how the nation's student loan program went from a well-intentioned initiative aimed at helping low and middle income students afford college to one that traps borrowers in long-term debt.

Amplify Learner Voice pushes back against traditional assessment and grading practices that continue to be an inequitable endeavor for our nation’s learners; traditional classroom practices continue to sort and label students by characterizing them by "what they need to work on" or ‘lack.' In this book, eight authors and The Core Collaborative’s partner schools reimagine formative assessment through an asset-based, cultural lens to make a greater impact on learning and our shared humanity. Presented in an easy-to-read, practical format, with video examples and practical resources ...

This audiobook contains proven steps and strategies on how to use guided reading for intermediate grade school learners. Whether you are a teacher who wants to use guided reading in the classroom or a parent who wishes to read to their children more often at night, you will find that this audio program can help you effectively support your children’s literacy development.

For ELA teachers, the danger of burnout is all too real. Inundated with seemingly insurmountable piles of papers to read, respond to, and grade, many teachers often find themselves struggling to balance differentiated, individualized feedback with the one resource they are already overextended on—time. Matthew Johnson offers classroom-tested solutions that not only alleviate the feedback-burnout cycle, but also lead to significant growth for students.

This expensive education reform would be financed without raising taxes. A new cryptocurrency would be created. The effects of such education reform would be felt at school, home, and all public interactions. Student Manifesto—The Power of Paying Kids to Learn is a book for interested parents, involved teachers, and policymakers. It is never too late to instigate deep changes for the benefit of all.