"Mental hygiene tells the story of America's "social guidance" films, ten-minute celluloid treatise on proper dating, good table manners, the evils of dope, and what happens to teens who drive too fast on prom night. Thousands of these films were made between 1945 and 1970 and seen by millions of American baby boomers."--Cover (pages [4])

Improve core instruction to ensure learning for all. Created specifically for grades 612, this book provides proven response to intervention strategies to differentiate instruction, engage students, increase success, and avoid additional interventions. Discover how to identify essential power standards to include in Tier 1 instruction, create a brain-friendly learning environment, shift instructional processes to support collaboration, and more. ...

Harvard education expert Tony Wagner explores what parents, teachers, and employers must do to develop the capacities of young people to become innovators. In profiling compelling young American innovators such as Kirk Phelps, product manager for Apple's first iPhone, and Jodie Wu, who founded a company that builds bicycle-powered maize shellers in Tanzania, Wagner reveals how the adults in their lives nurtured their creativity and sparked their imaginations,...

"In Best Practices at Tier 3: Intensive Interventions for Remediation, Secondary, authors Paula Rogers, W. Richard Smith, Austin Buffum, and Mike Mattos provide grades 6-12 educators research-based response to intervention (RTI) at Work strategies to meet the needs of students who have fallen the furthest behind in the classroom. These students struggle with what is being taught currently in the classroom as well as the basic, foundational skills...

"The learning process works best when students are supported, encouraged, and accepted. The authors tell the story of a special school - Mountain View - that upholds a strong belief in the value of each student through smaller classes, experiential learning, and an awareness of community in and out of school. This book describes the journeys of students who were angry, unsure, or struggling with various labels of learning disabilities, as well as...

Whether a student possesses effective learning and study strategies makes the difference between academic success and discouraging failure. The Parents' Guide to Studying and Learning is an easy-to-use companion for parents to help their students truly learn and get better grades. For more than 40 years, Professor Saundra Yancy McGuire has worked to improve college students' study skills and helped professors adopt evidence-based strategies for improving...

A resource for teenagers who want to maximize their learning outside the classroom

Presents a collection of two hundred reproducible activity sheets, discussion questions, applied exercises, and suggestions forteaching social skills to students with special needs in grades six through twelve.

"Diane Tavenner, founder of Summit Public Schools, offers a blueprint for a better way to educate our children, based on the revolutionary lessons, insights, and methodology she and her faculty developed over 15 years at their famously successful charter schools in California and Washington, which she is now introducing to public school systems across the country that Summit is partnering with to transform education and better prepare our children...