School Development

A beginning to end guide to emotional intelligence throughout your life. Have you ever wondered how much more you could achieve if you took control over your emotions? Did you ever wonder how someone could remain calm and collected in a situation where you would have lost your head?

Despite ongoing professional development for urban educators, many inner-city school students are still not performing on high levels or even grade level. This book is a practical guide to helping educators understand the innate difficulties of transferring expertise from the experts, through the teachers, and into the students in a meaningful way that demonstrates student learning.

Children are born curious, creative, and wired to learn - and we value those traits in adults! Still, as our children grow up, we often insist they change to fit into the education system, where curiosity is replaced by curricula, creativity by conformity, and learning by memorizing. But if you’d rather nurture your children’s curiosity, creativity, and love of learning, let me introduce you to the world of unschooling.

Is your child struggling with self-doubt and insecurity? Do you wish they could navigate life's challenges with confidence and resilience?Introducing The Power of Kids’ Self-Esteem - a revolutionary book to help parents nurture unshakable confidence in their children. Discover proven techniques to shift perceptions, release anxiety, foster healthier habits, and celebrate unique strengths.

Do you feel stuck in your current career? Have your career aspirations changed since becoming a parent? Are you wondering if you can juggle being a full- time parent and full-time student? 50 Things to Know About Going Back to School by author, Renee Jones, offers an approach to finding academic success while raising children. I am here to tell you that you can in fact, be present for your ambitions and your parental obligations. You'll discover helpful strategies that allowed me to successfully complete my second graduate program while raising four small children.

Life spills out of books—giving you plenty to talk about! But Honey for a Teen’s Heart will do more than strengthen the bonds between you and your son or daughter. You’ll also learn how to help your teen catch the reading habit and become a lover of good books. Gladys Hunt’s insights on how to read a book, what to look for in a book, and how to question what you read will challenge you and your teenager alike. It’s training for life! And it’s fabulous preparation for teens entering college.

Every year, tens of thousands of children write to Highlights magazine, sharing their hopes and dreams, worries and concerns, as if they were writing to a trusted friend. From the beginning, the editors at Highlights have answered every child individually. Longtime editor in chief Christine French Cully has curated a collection of this remarkable correspondence (letters, emails, and poems) in Dear Highlights - revealing an intimate and inspiring 75-year conversation between America’s children and its leading children’s magazine.

Raising the perfect child...it's our dream as parents. But the reality is: the perfect child doesn't exist. Yet parents everywhere are putting the full-court press on their kids to be perfect, fixating on raising them to be smarter, faster, more successful, and more popular than their peers. And that's making today's parents and their children crazy. In Untying Parent Anxiety, nationally syndicated humor columnist and author Lisa Sugarman reminds us that our kids aren't supposed to be perfect.

One would think that sleep would be the easiest thing in the world for a baby. After all, sleep is natural. But anyone with a new baby knows that it’s anything but simple. Between waking up at all hours and failing to go to sleep at bedtime, babies and school-aged children alike experience a spectrum of sleep troubles.

As a six-year-old walks the block home from school, a car pulls to the curb beside him. The man driving asks the boy if he wants a ride, and begins to get out of his car... If this happened, would your child know what to do? You may remember a time when you played outdoors until dark. In many parts of our country, many children still do. However, for those parents, schools, and teachers feeling unsure about the safety of their neighborhoods or towns, empowerment goes a long way.

This essential book will help prepare your children with techniques for an amazing tomorrow. Essential Life Skills Every 9 Year Old Needs to Know is an indispensable book for parents dedicated to their children's development. This guide equips 8-10 year old boys and girls with the tools required to grasp practical techniques, foster independence, and enable successful decision making.

Give your 8 to 12 year old a head start in life with Essential Life Skills Every 8 Year Old Needs to Know: A Guide to Help Young Boys and Girls Succeed in Life. This essential resource helps parents equip their children with vital skills for success.

In I Was Loved: 10 Statements I Hope My Child Can Say About Their Childhood, Dr. Roderick Logan provides a thoughtful guide for parents seeking to nurture a close, loving, and flourishing family. The book's ten statements serve as guiding principles that lead to children in their adult years reflecting and saying, I felt safe and secure, I was encouraged to explore and learn, I was listened to, and my feelings were respected.

Most parents want to help their children develop critical thinking skills in order to understand truth and avoid being deceived. Yet this desire doesn’t help someone learn how to actually make it happen. How can parents—how can you—actually raise a critical thinker? Sometimes the best way to learn a truth is to explore its antithesis. Just as darkness helps us better comprehend light, perhaps we can better understand how to raise critical thinkers by considering how we might do the opposite.

Hendrika de Vries is a protected “daddy’s girl”, until her father is deported from Nazi-occupied Amsterdam to a POW camp in Germany and her mother joins the resistance and hides a Jewish girl in their home. As she and her mother experience escalating brutality at the hands of men with swastika armbands who aim to exterminate those they deem “inferior” and those who do not obey, Hendrika learns about moral choice, forced silence and female strength, and through it all discovers the woman she wants to become.

The latest research shows that children can be taught - at very early ages - the tools they need to become successful and connected to others. This new book offers parents and teachers the information they need to teach children the most effective ways to engage peers and make social interactions easier and more meaningful.

Do you feel anxious about sending your child to kindergarten? Are you looking for ideas on how to prepare your child for kindergarten? If so, this book will replace such worries with wisdom and confidence. It does so by defining what school readiness means and why it is such a big deal, both socially and politically. It also examines what is known about sending children to kindergarten and what occurs if parents decide to hold their children out of kindergarten for a year.

Emotional intelligence is a fundamental part of your child’s development, and it’s never too early to plant those seeds of empathy, kindness, and security. Start with this handy guide filled with tried and tested parenting tips to develop your child’s emotional superpowers and unleash their full potential.

To Stephanie, Andrew Simmons seemed like the perfect man. He was smart, handsome, tall, and athletic. And best of all, he was interested in her. As their romance begins to blossom, the truth about Andrew's past comes to light. A misguided choice made many years before hung over him. When they start a family together, Andrew tries to move on from the past and enjoy his family life, but the past still haunts him.

In meiner Familie hat Rassismus keinen Platz - darin sind sich fast alle Eltern einig. Doch vielen fällt es schwer, Vorurteile in der Erziehung anzugehen. Offen, persönlich und durchaus verständnisvoll für Rassismusfallen im Alltag zeigen Olaolu Fajembola und Tebogo Nimindé-Dundadengar, was zählt, um Rassismen im Kopf von Kindern gar nicht erst entstehen zu lassen. Zugleich stärken sie Eltern von Kindern of Color, die unter Diskriminierung leiden.