American political culture runs through civics classrooms, and the degraded dialogue and scorched-earth partisanship that has defined modern American politics is an indicator that all is not well in our nation's schools.
This book examines public policy in physical education and sport and provides insights into practices of school curriculum and after-school sport programs from a global context.
This book examines public policy in physical education and sport and provides insights into practices of school curriculum and after-school sport programs from a global context.
Based on the popular Slugs & Bugs songs, books, and show, this family devotional sets 52 Bible verses to music, helping children sing their way to learning and memorizing key Scripture throughout the year.
This book is designed to help children to understand and articulate the emotions they might experience - feelings of anxiety and worry, pride, joy and excitement, sadness, anger and jealousy - and provides simple strategies for managing their mental health.
This book is designed to help children to understand and articulate the emotions they might experience - feelings of anxiety and worry, pride, joy and excitement, sadness, anger and jealousy - and provides simple strategies for managing their mental health.
Grounded in research and theory, Sparking Joyful Learning: A Teacher's Guide to Connecting Play and Reader Response highlights the connections between play and literacy and provides teachers with resources for building upon children's playful reading responses in the PK-3 classroom.
Grounded in research and theory, Sparking Joyful Learning: A Teacher's Guide to Connecting Play and Reader Response highlights the connections between play and literacy and provides teachers with resources for building upon children's playful reading responses in the PK-3 classroom.
Packed with fun sessions and practical group activities, Working with Young Women presents a multitude of opportunities for young women to build self-esteem, confidence and assertiveness.
This volume provides a selection of primary documents from medieval England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales, thereby enabling readers to directly access information about life long ago in the region.
Engaging the Past: Action and Interaction in the History Classroom provides practical steps toward using engaging strategies in the classroom to teach students to think historically.
Very few PreK-12 teachers are adequately trained to address the gender identity and sexual identity of their students in a developmentally-appropriate and pedagogically-sound manner.
A critical question in social studies education is not whether teachers develop and teach units of study, but what is in the units of study teachers develop and teach.
Based on the highest levels of Bloom's taxonomy, The Social Studies Helper easily integrates technology into every core high school social studies course as well as two electives.
Just over 100 years ago Columbia's John Erskine started a General Honors program that was the precursor of the Great Books programs popularized by his student, Mortimer Adler.
Every upper-elementary and middle school educator can teach news literacy and connected literacies, including text, visual, graphic, and video literacy, using this book.
Engaging the Past: Action and Interaction in the History Classroom provides practical steps toward using engaging strategies in the classroom to teach students to think historically.
In this educational era of increasing emphasis on student performance, there is a definite shortage of high-interest resources through which teachers can effectively address the ten standards identified by the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS).