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Margaret (Peggy) M Black is the director of the Center for Diverse Student Learning. Concentrating on the areas of integrating service delivery models with an emphasis on English language learner programs, Peggy works with schools to increase the efficiency of program development for sustained growth in student learning. Influencing effective teaching for the 21st century is the core of her consulting and professional development work.

Dr. Barbara Blackburn has dedicated her life to raising the level of rigor and motivation for professional educators and students alike. What differentiates Barbara’s 12 books are her easily executable concrete examples based on decades of experience as a teacher, professor and consultant. Barbara has taught early childhood, elementary, middle and high school students and has served as an educational consultant for three publishing companies. She holds a master’s degree in school administration and is certified as a school principal in North Carolina. She received her Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. In 2006, she received the award for Outstanding Junior Professor at Winthrop University. She recently left her position at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte to write and speak full-time.

Welcome to Mary Cowhey's Peace Class, where Year 1 and Year 2 students view the entire curriculum through the framework of understanding the world and trying to do their part to make it a better place. Woven through the book is Mary's unflinching and humorous account of her own roots in a struggling Irish Catholic family and her early career as a community activist. Her students learn to make connections between their lives, the books they read, the community leaders they meet and the larger world. If you find yourself limited by teach-to-the-test pressures, this is the book that will make you think hard about how you spend your time with students.

The Brigance Screens III offer developmental screening of children from infancy to year one. The Screens III support the efforts of early childhood educators and others working with children to identify potential developmental delays, as well as giftedness, and inform instruction and monitor child progress. This Brigance Screens III Box of Materials contains items needed for administering the F & 1 Screens III with children in the quickest and simplest fashion. It includes: Pencil, Identical objects (12) for sorting and manipulation, Shapes (circles and squares) of two colours (16). The Brigance Screens III Box of Materials is the handy toolkit containing all you need to administer these comprehensive and unique screening instruments with children in the easiest and most painless way possible. Please note as this product contains some items unsuitable for children under 3 years old, please do not give to children unsupervised.

The Brigance Screens III offer developmental screening of children from infancy to year one. The Screens III support the efforts of early childhood educators and others working with children to identify potential developmental delays, as well as giftedness, and inform instruction and monitor child progress. This Brigance Screens III Box of Materials contains items needed for administering the 3-5 Year Old Screens III with children in the quickest and simplest fashion. It includes: Pencil, Coloured blocks(10), Shapes (circles and squares) of two colours (16). The Brigance Screens III Box of Materials is the handy toolkit containing all you need to administer these comprehensive and unique screening instruments with children in the easiest and most painless way possible. Please note as this product contains some items unsuitable for children under 3 years old, please do not give to children unsupervised.

The Brigance: Screens III Bundle 3-5 Years is designed to be used by all persons engaged in Early Childhood Education from 3-5 years. If used correctly, screens and assessments will produce valid results, enabling identification of a child’s developmental age and suggest appropriate interventions to help improve skills across a wide range of domains, ensuring all children are ‘school ready’. This bundle contains: Brigance: Screens III: Screen 3-5 Years (CA14296),  Brigance: Screens III: Data Sheet 3-Year-Old (CA14308),  Brigance: Screens III: Data Sheet 4-Year-Old (CA14310),  Brigance: Screens III: Data Sheet 5-Year-Old (CA14312) and Brigance: Screens III: Technical Report (CA14300).

This comprehensive textbook introduces readers to the most influential theories and models of reading and literacy, ranging from behaviourism and early information-processing theories to social constructionist and critical theories. Focusing on how these theories connect with different curricular approaches to literacy instruction (preschool to Year 12), the author shows how they both shape and are shaped by everyday literacy practices in classrooms. Readers are invited to explore detailed vignettes that offer a practice-based view of theories as they are brought to life in the classroom. This book devotes substantial attention to linguistically and culturally diverse classrooms and 21st-century technologies.

You may be able to design creative, compelling lessons. But if your classroom is chaotic or its inhabitants are disrespectful, your students will not be learning well. And you will be anywhere from dissatisfied to miserable! Kim Campbell knows the ins and outs of classroom management. She's a real, live, practising middle years teacher with a great gift of humour, a straight-talking approach and a parade of 12- to 15-year-old culturally mixed students to keep her honest. This is her story of what works, what doesn’t and what she’s learned from her students, parents and colleagues. In the manner of a teacher having a chat with another teacher, Kim shares strategies, stories and ideas for how to stop creating behaviour and management problems yourself, and more.

Standards, curricula and assessment have been built and rebuilt to provide excellence and achievement. Now we're faced with the one variable that can turn all this effort into ash: the students. Navigate the hot topic of student engagement with a true expert. The author explores the many factors involved in bringing out the best in students, such as relationships, emotions, environment and expectations. Discover how to create an environment in which students feel confident and safe enough to take risks, make mistakes and immerse themselves in learning experiences. Above all, become empowered to demand an authentic joy for learning in your classroom.