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How to Survive When Disaster Strikes
Tips To Get Over the Worst Constructively
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
What is the first thing you do when something unexpected happens? For most people, the one word answer is “panic!” This is also the worst possible reaction you can give in the face of a calamity.
This eBook is all about surviving through the unknown and unusual in the most appropriate...
by Molly Potter
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2018
From Molly Potter, best-selling author of How Are You Feeling Today? and What's Worrying You?,comes a picture book for starting conversations with children about death, bereavement and what happens next.
When someone dies, we can feel a whole host of different emotions and explaining them to...
Easy Baby
Advice for New Dads
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
Easy Baby: Advice for New Dads The only guide 100% convenient, fast and easy to read for New Dads! A happy fatherhood starts here with Easy Baby Advice for New Dads! Easy Baby is a unique, easy to read guide filled with essential tips for new dads to make them feel confident and happy when they...
Changing the Course of Failure
How Schools and Parents Can Help Low-Achieving Students
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2018
The basic purpose of this book is to help policy makers at all levels of government understand that (1) widespread adolescent underachievement is not susceptible to solution by educational interventions no matter how much money is allocated to public education; and (2) there are unidentified educational...
Parents and Textbooks
Answers that Reveal Essential Steps for Improvement
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2019
Parents wondered exactly what was transpiring in classrooms. Although they asked their children, they did not have complete confidence in their responses. When they quizzed teachers, school administrators, school board members, and politicians, they realized that they sometimes had conflicting interests....
We Reap What We Sow
Modeling Positive Adulthood for Adolescents
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
As anyone who lives, works, or spends any time with teenagers knows, adolescence can be both the best of times and the worst of times. Teenagers are undergoing miraculous, world-altering shifts. In light of these changes, how can society help adolescents move safely from teen to adult? How can adults...
Promoting Your School
A Public Relations Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 1997
Schools today are experiencing pressures that have never been faced before. Very often members of the public do not know how their schools are doing, and as a result voters respond negatively. In Promoting Your School: A Public Relations Handbook, Irene Lober clearly describes various processes, methods,...
Support Your Child With Maths
In Their First Year at School
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
The first day at school is the day when an adventure of life-long learning begins and with a positive attitude your child will learn all the skills needed to equip them for adult life. The first year in school sets down the building blocks upon which all other learning takes place. Supporting your child...
Let's Play Math Sampler
Playful Math Singles
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
Do you want your children to enjoy learning math?
Teach them how to play!
In excerpts from author Denise Gaskins's most popular books, the Let's Play Math Sampler features ten kid-tested games covering math concepts from counting to prealgebra.
Math games meet children each at...
Is College a Lousy Investment?
Negotiating the Hidden Costs of Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
Is College a Lousy Investment?: Negotiating the Hidden Cost of Higher Education discusses many of the economic misconceptions about earning a college degree. While it is widely believed that attending college guarantees wealth and success, students, concerned parents, and higher education professionals...
Dyslexia in Adolescence
Global Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
Dyslexia in Adolescence: Global Perspectives presents international case studies on the psychosocial development and academic progress of adolescents with dyslexia to enhance understanding of adjustment factors, outcomes and support. The continuation of a qualitative longitudinal research project...
Home Advantage
Social Class and Parental Intervention in Elementary Education
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2000
This new edition contextualizes Lareau's original ethnography in a discussion of the most pressing issues facing educators at the beginning of the new millennium.
Unlocking the Schoolhouse Door
Essays on the Misunderstandings of Public Education
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2016
Reflective Playwork
For All Who Work with Children
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018
In a world where we are ever seeking to protect our children and to encourage their educational progress, it is often overlooked that the need for play is as important as the need for food and sleep. Drawing on playwork methodology, theory and practice, this extensively revised new edition of Reflective...