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Using simple items which can usually be found around your house, you and your child can create all kinds of experiments which demonstrate the wonders of physics and chemistry.

Using simple items which can usually be found around your house, you and your child can create all kinds of experiments which demonstrate the magical machine that is the human body.

Using simple items which can usually be found around the house, you and your child can create all kinds of experiments that demonstrate the wonders of meteorology. Not only will your child have fun working alone and with you to complete activities, he or she will also learn to understand and maybe even predict the weather.

99 multi-national and multi-cultural folk tales with familiar character and bullying prevention themes but encapsulated in wonderfully diverse stories. The author, a professional storyteller, provides the actual stories plus chapters on how to tell a story, not just read it; activities for students; and display board ideas. She also provides hints and tips for teaching kids the art of storytelling which encourages communication skills and classroom unity. Come and enter the world of storytelling. Watch your students become enchanted with a realm where character rules and the reign of bullies ceases.

Raising a child takes more than good parenting—it also takes a community. This new guide from Character Development Group is designed to help parents and members of the community teach character development lessons in the classroom. Teaching for character is made fun and easy with the simple lesson outlines and corresponding activity ideas. Recruiting parents and community members—businesses, youth organizations and members of the faith community—to teach monthly 30-minute lessons will increase the effectiveness of your school’s character education initiatives. Everyone wins—students, parents, and the community—when basic core values are supported.

This integrated character education system, focusing on 36 core character traits, has been compiled to help you educate your students both in mind and in character. Each chapter focuses on one desirable character trait, including a full definition; short lessons; objectives; student assignments; applications and display board ideas. Use ideas from Teaching Character every week to help fully realise the most positive attributes of your students character, modelling good behaviour and affecting change, no matter what age they are.

Now that you've established a character education program in your school, how do you measure its success? This resource offers practical strategies and assessment tools to inform and launch a plan of evaluation, including asking better questions to get the answers you need, establishing action research teams and beginning an action plan. It is filled with ideas, suggestions and examples of ways to evaluate specific elements of character, and focuses on self-evaluation using inventories, focus groups, questionnaires, scales, surveys and checklists.

Based on the book Transforming School Culture: How to Overcome Staff Division, Second Edition by Anthony Muhammad, this unscripted video workshop explores a powerful framework for understanding school culture and turning toxic cultures into healthy ones. In the video, Muhammad describes the underlying tensions that impact culture among four different groups of educators in a school: The Believers, the Tweeners, the Survivors and the Fundamentalists. It includes a 72-minute DVD, a 40-page facilitator's guide in print and on CD, and a copy of the book Transforming School Culture: How to Overcome Staff Division, Second Edition.

To address students’ behavior and academic challenges, Mike Mattos and Austin Buffum developed the pro-solve process. As seen in the video, the three tiers of response to intervention (RTI) best help students from falling behind in their learning. The thoughtfully adapted RTI at Work™ pyramid, aligned with the PLC at Work™ framework, makes individual students the focus of multi-tiered school interventions. RTI at Work™ is accomplished through the four Cs: collective responsibility, concentrated instruction, convergent assessment, and certain access.

Expanding on the book Deep Discourse, this video workshop shows real students and real classrooms in action. Ideal for K–12 teachers, principals, literacy leaders, and district administrators, the DVD explores the student-led discussion framework and demonstrates how to use it at any grade level to ensure learners develop critical-thinking, problem-solving, and self-directed learning skills.

The New Art and Science of Teaching by Robert J. Marzano is more than a revision of The Art and Science of Teaching. It is a greatly expanded volume, offering a framework for substantive change based on Marzano's fifty years of education research and observation. In The New Art and Science of Teaching, Marzano identifies ten design areas within three categories of teaching - (1) feedback, (2) content and (3) context - that form a road map for F-12 teachers' lesson and unit planning. Also included in the series are The New Art and Science of Classroom Assessment, The New Art and Science of Teaching Writing and The New Art and Science of Teaching Reading - companion books that focus on improving students' literacy skills and showing teachers how to make the most of feedback.

The best way to implement the professional learning community (PLC) process is to develop the solid foundation necessary to support it. The foundation rests on four pillars: (1) mission, (2) vision, (3) values and (4) goals. The ultimate success of a school's or district's PLC implementation depends largely on the staff considering and building consensus around its response to key questions the pillars pose. In this 47-minute video, Rebecca DuFour and Richard DuFour first examine the four pillars.