Home schooling / home education Books

Book SynopsisThe Learning Mentor Toolkit provides all of the resources necessary to recruit, train and supervise adult learning mentors looking to support children and young people within the school environment. Packed full of information, this book details all of the necessary training and uncovers how best to ensure that supervision meets the needs of the volunteers, the children and the school. Developed to enable a lead member of staff to find, co-create and train a range of adults from the school community and use these Volunteer Learning Mentors to support children and young people within their environment, the support offered is linked to the five key areas that create positive foundations for mental health and wellbeing: the ability to create and develop positive relationships emotional literacy self-awareness how our brains can affect learning and behaviour skills for learning Full of practical advice and resources, this book Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1: Thinking and Finding Out Chapter 2: Selection and Training: Creating Something Special Together Chapter 3: Supervision: Reflective Practice Chapter 4: Developing the Role of the Learning Mentors

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Book SynopsisFor effective use, this book should be purchased alongside the guidebook. Both books can be purchased together as a set, My Brilliant Brain: A Storybook and Guide for Understanding Anxiety and Implementing Self-Calming, 978-1-032-06903-6A-myg-da-la â Amygdala. But I just say Myg. I want to tell you about Myg. How Myg looks out for me, how Myg helps to keep me safe and why Myg is always there. And why sometimes Myg works too hard and I have to take charge! This charming storybook introduces Myg the Amygdala within the context of âmy brilliant brainâ â giving children usable knowledge to help them understand what happens when they feel worried or anxious.Alongside vibrant and engaging illustrations, this book: Teaches children what anxiety is, where it comes from and why it happens. Provides easy to understand and relatable context so that children can correctly identify and anticipate their emotions, helping them to understand that they can be in control of their feelings, their thoughts and their actions. Shares simple strategies and encouragement for children to manage their anxiety and self-calm, teaching them that they do not have to be controlled and limited by their fears and anxieties. Communicates that everyone feels anxiety and itâs OK to ask for help. Designed for use alongside the guidebook titled My Brilliant Brain: A Practical Resource for Understanding Anxiety and Implementing Self-Calming, this book will be an important tool for teachers, support staff, therapists and parents seeking to enhance childrenâs resilience, wellbeing and emotional health development.Table of ContentsMyg and Me: Understanding Anxiety and Implementing Self-Calming

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Book SynopsisArt and Design for Secondary Students with SEN is a valuable compilation of practical ideas, visual aids and lesson plans designed to engage students in developing their creative art skills. Made up of twelve lessons that each examine a particular theme, the book spans a wide variety of topics and different media in art, progressing from basic drawing and painting techniques in pencil, pastel, watercolour and acrylic and moving onto higher level creative design techniques of painting on glass and silk.FEATURES INCLUDE: Step by step, tried and tested lesson plans devised by an experienced and qualified art teacher. Helpful learning outcomes, timings, materials and recommended resources for each lesson. Useful tips and visual teaching aids for introducing new techniques. Full colour illustrations throughout, including examples of students' art work. All illustrations available to download as e-resources.WitTable of Contents1. Drawing with lines and symbols for creative patterns 2. Colour theory and 3D shapes 3. Circles and ellipses 4. Stone and sea shell studies in pencil and paint 5. Tonal Value – Still Life Studies 6. Composition techniques 7. Pastel portraits 8. Painting on glass 9. Acrylic still life painting 10. Watercolour painting 11. Painting on silk using gutta and salt 12. Painting on silk using faux-batik

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Book SynopsisTales from the Table is a practitioner's account of the successes and limitations of using Lovaas/ABA home education with five young boys on the autistic spectrum.The abilities and skills of these children before, during and after intervention are documented with a focus on the realities of undertaking Lovaas/ABA home education: the impact of a 35-hour learning week on both child and parents, changing tutors and issues of commitment to the approach. Each chapter includes a commentary on the programme from a different perspective, with the voices of parents, siblings and teachers providing the context to the individual children's learning processes.This book will help parents to make an informed decision about using Lovaas/ABA interventions and will give professionals and students practical insights and useful information on the approach.Trade ReviewThis book is a practitioner's account of how the Lovaas programme has worked for five young boys on the autistic spectrum.The Lovaas programme is an early intensive behavioural intervention with the purpose of enabling children to function optimally within their environment. It breaks down early skills into steps which are easily manageable by the child. -- Home education Advisory Service BulletinTable of Contents1. Introduction. 2. Contextualising Autism and Early Intensive Behavioural Intervention. 3. Sam's Tale - I Can Try. 4. Jack's Tale - Wavy Blue Cheese. 5. David's Tale - I'm Not David, I'm Woody. 6. Oli's Tale - Tip That Spoon. 7. John's Tale. 8. Moving Along - Autism and Rights. Subject Index. Author Index.

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Book SynopsisWhile some people look back on school as the 'best days of your life', for others the experience can be unpleasant and gruelling. Learning without School is a practical handbook for parents who want to educate their children at home but are unsure that they have the skills and know-how required to give their child the best education possible.This book explains what home education is; the advantages and disadvantages of choosing this route; how to begin home educating; what you need to do and how to help your child adjust; and how home education affects children's social skills and friendships. It also covers technical aspects, such as the curriculum, core subjects, exams and timetables. Ross Mountney also considers children with 'learning difficulties' or 'special needs' and how to approach home education differently for this group of children.Each chapter contains a summary of key points, useful websites, hints and tips and real-life case studies. This practical guide offers indispensible support for parents who are considering home education for their child, and includes a broad philosophy of education that will interest all parents and professionals involved in education and child welfare.Trade ReviewThe author writes in an engaging, easy to read style, with plenty of first-person stories about home-educated children; evidence is anecdotal rather than research-based... The author writes broadly about the range of personalised learning offered by the home educator; there are brief references to Jung and to Steiner-Waldorf but these are not developed. Useful websites and resources are given at the end of each chapter. -- British Psychological Society, DebateTable of ContentsIntroduction. Chapter 1: What is Home Education and why do people do it? Chapter 2: How do parents start Home Educating? Chapter 3: How do Home Educated children learn? Chapter 4: How do Home Educated children find friends and become socialised? Chapter 5: What about curriculum, subjects and timetables? Chapter 6: What about tests, exams and qualifications? Chapter 7: What is life like for a Home Educating family? Chapter 8: What about children with 'learning difficulties' and 'special needs'? Chapter 9: Where do Home Educated children end up? References. Index.

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Book SynopsisIn How to Homeschool the Kids You Have, three veteran home educators lead you through the process of creating a custom educational plan that works for your family's unique situation and your children's needs. You'll identify your own educational priorities and learn how to translate them into a strong academic program. You'll also learn about what science tells us about how humans- especially young humans-learn, and why that information is crucial for the success of your homeschooling plans. Along the way, the authors share their own experiences and those of other homeschoolers to help you avoid pitfalls so you can provide your children with the excellent education that is their birthright.

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Book SynopsisA structured curriculum of classroom-ready lessons, practices and worksheets for actualising a powerful new educational paradigm: student mindfulness.Trade Review"This beautiful workbook makes mindfulness accessible to any educator. Providing myriad ways to embed mindfulness in any classroom setting, it is full of incredibly helpful, insightful resources that will serve countless teachers and students worldwide. The "Mindfulness Literacies" offer an especially wonderful lens to help deepen one's practice and reinforce practical application." -- Meena Srinivasan, author of Teach, Breathe, Learn: Mindfulness In and Out of the Classroom "An inestimable book for every mindfulness practitioner and trainer! Filled with easy-to-follow exercises and tools, these pages translate the esoteric into the practical. It's a goldmine for every person who wishes to apply mindfulness in their lives and spread it to others. This book needs to be on every bookshelf-in every school and family!" -- Dr. Shefali Tsabary, psychologist, author of The Conscious Parent "Our school has for several years collaborated with Daniel Rechtschaffen to incorporate a mindfulness program. Students, teachers, and parents alike have embraced his work. The Mindful Education Workbook is an invaluable tool for educators and parents, illustrating how to teach mindfulness and enhance students' social and emotional well-being. This is a must-have resource written by a remarkable practitioner." -- Jeff Escabar, Head of School, Marin Preparatory School, and President of the Board of A.I.S.A.P.

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Book SynopsisUnderstanding resiliency and student success by studying people who succumbed to risk but later triumphed.

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Book SynopsisA practical how-to guide for promoting positive classroom cultures.

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Book SynopsisOne of the challenges in higher education is helping students to achieve academic success while ensuring their personal and vocational needs are fulfilled. In this updated edition more than thirty experts offer their knowledge in what has become the most comprehensive, classic reference on academic advising. They explore the critical aspects of academic advising and provide insights for full-time advisors, counselors, and those who oversee student advising or have daily contact with advisors and students. New chapters on advising administration and collaboration with other campus services A new section on perspectives on advising including those of CEOs, CAOs (chief academic officers), and CSAOs (chief student affairs officers) More emphasis on two-year colleges and the importance of research to the future of academic advising New case studies demonstrate howadvising practices have been put to use. Table of ContentsPreface ix Foreword xi The Authors xiii PART ONE: FOUNDATIONS OF ACADEMIC ADVISING 1 Introduction 1Thomas J. Grites 1. Historical Foundations of Academic Advising 3Terry L. Kuhn 2. Theoretical Foundations of Academic Advising 17Peter L. Hagen and Peggy Jordan 3. Ethical Foundations of Academic Advising 36Marc Lowenstein 4. Legal Foundations of Academic Advising 50Mary M. Richard 5. Advising for Student Success 68George D. Kuh 6. Advising as Teaching and Learning 85Drew C. Appleby 7. Advising for Career and Life Planning 103Paul A. Gore, Jr., and A. J. Metz PART TWO: STUDENT DIVERSITY AND STUDENT NEEDS 119Virginia N. Gordon 8. The Changing College Student 123Kirsten Kennedy and Jennifer Crissman Ishler 9. Moving into College 142Mary Stuart Hunter and Leah Kendall 10. Moving through College 157George E. Steele and Melinda L. McDonald 11. Moving on from College 178Jennifer Bloom 12. Students with Specifi c Advising Needs 189Blane Harding 13. Advising Students of Color and International Students 204Evette Castillo Clark and Jane Kalionzes PART THREE: ORGANIZATION AND DELIVERY OF ADVISING SERVICES 227Wesley R. Habley 14. Vision, Mission, Goals, and Program Objectives for Academic Advising Programs 229Susan M. Campbell 15. Organization of Academic Advising Services 242Margaret C. King 16. Advising Delivery: Faculty Advising 253Martha K. Hemwall 17. Advising Delivery: Professional Advisors, Counselors, and Other Staff 267Casey Self 18. Advising Delivery: Group Strategies 279Nancy S. King 19. Advising Delivery: Using Technology 292Michael J. Leonard PART FOUR: TRAINING, ASSESSMENT, RECOGNITION, AND REWARD 307 Introduction 307Wesley R. Habley 20. Critical Concepts in Advisor Training and Development 309Thomas Brown 21. Tools and Resources for Advisors 323Pat Folsom 22. Delivering One-to-One Advising: Skills and Competencies 342Rusty Fox 23. Assessing Student Learning 356John H. Schuh 24. Assessing Advisor Effectiveness 369Joe Cuseo 25. Assessing the Effectiveness of the Advising Program 386Wendy G. Troxel 26. Recognition and Reward for Academic Advising in Theory and in Practice 396Jayne K. Drake PART FIVE: PERSPECTIVES ON ADVISING 413 Introduction 413Thomas J. Grites 27. Campus Administrator Perspectives on Advising 415James E. Bultman, Faye N. Vowell, Jocelyn Y. Harney, and John Smarrelli with Susan Ames 28. Advising Administrator Perspectives on Advising 438Kathy J. Davis, Dick Vallandingham, and Philip D. Christman 29. Perspectives on the Future of Academic Advising 456Thomas J. Grites, Virginia N. Gordon, and Wesley R. Habley PART SIX: EXEMPLARY PRACTICES IN ACADEMIC ADVISING 473Virginia N. Gordon Appendix A. National Academic Advising Association 521 Concept of Academic Advising 523 Appendix B. The Statement of Core Values of Academic Advising 525 Appendix C. Council for the Advancement of Standards in Higher Education Standards and Guidelines for Academic Advising 533 Name Index 547 Subject Index 555

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Book SynopsisThe EILS Development Guide is meant to be used as a companion to the EILS Inventory, which offers a valid and reliable, quantitative and qualitative, self assessment of emotionally intelligent leadership skills. The EILSDevelopment Guide contains guidance for students who want to develop each of the 21 capacities, including: definitions for each capacity, student quotes, suggested leadership development experiences and activities, suggested further reading and films to watch, other learning opportunities, notable quotes, and reflection questions.Trade Review“Students who master emotionally intelligent leadership will find the skills transferable to all future professional and personal endeavors. Emotionally Intelligent Leadership for Students: Development Guide is a one of a kind book which enables student leaders to have a variety of resources to develop their EIL skills.” —Allison St. Germain, Director of Educational Technologies, Delta Zeta Sorority “Simply put, Shankman and Allen’s work equips students for the immense challenge of leadership. Emotionally Intelligent Leadership for Students: Development Guide is chock full of useful ideas that can be applied immediately to increase leadership effectiveness.” —Ed O'Malley, President and CEO, Kansas Leadership Center “Finally! Shankman and Allen have pulled together the very best resources for focused leadership development from diverse and exhaustive sources. This book is the epitome of one-stop shopping.” —Don DiPaolo, Associate Professor, Detroit Mercy “Current events have caused us to reconsider the CEO-worshipping of the past two decades, encouraging us to invest in the potential of college students—our next generation of leaders. Shankman and Allen provide an intriguing model for developing emotionally intelligent leaders who understand the complexities of and champion the cause for authentic human relationships, thriving organizations, and vibrant communities.” —Tom Matthews, Director, Career Center Case Western Reserve University “Shankman and Allen have provided a strong theoretical framework on Emotionally Intelligent Leadership and the student development guide is a perfect complement to their work. It is easy to understand and allows for students to work at their own pace in strengthening their EI. The suggestions provided are relevant to today’s students and enhances the work of leadership educators.” —Mallory Anderson, director, The Center for Leadership, Elon University Table of ContentsAcknowledgments. About the Authors. Developing Emotionally Intelligent Leadership. Capacity 1: Environmental Awareness. Capacity 2: Group Savvy. Capacity 3: Emotional Self-Perception. Capacity 4: Honest Self-Understanding. Capacity 5: Healthy Self-Esteem. Capacity 6: Emotional Self-Control. Capacity 7: Authenticity. Capacity 8: Flexibility. Capacity 9: Achievement. Capacity 10: Optimism Capacity 11: Initiative. Capacity 12: Empathy. Capacity 13: Citizenship. Capacity 14: Inspiration. Capacity 15: Influence. Capacity 16: Coaching. Capacity 17: Change Agent. Capacity 18: Conflict Management. Capacity 19: Developing Relationships. Capacity 20: Teamwork. Capacity 21: Capitalizing on Difference. Appendix A: EIL Overview.

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Book SynopsisThis timesaving resource features: Treatment plan components for 33 behaviorally based presenting problems Over 1,000 prewritten treatment goals, objectives, and interventions?plus space to record your own treatment plan options A step-by-step guide to writing treatment plans that meet the requirements of most accrediting bodies, insurance companies, and third-party payors Includes Evidence-Based Practice Interventions as required by many public funding sources and private insurers PracticePlanners THE BESTSELLING TREATMENT PLANNING SYSTEM FOR MENTAL HEALTH PROFESSIONALS The School Counseling and School Social Work Treatment Planner, Second Edition provides all the elements necessary to quickly and easily develop formal treatment plans that satisfy the demands of HMOs, managed care companies, third-party payors, and state and federal agencies. New edition features empiriTable of ContentsPracticePlanners®Series Preface xi Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 Academic Motivation/Study and Organizational Skills 17 Anger Management/Aggression 28 Anxiety Reduction 40 Assessment for Mental Health Services 50 Attachment and Bonding Deficits 60 Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) 70 Attention-Seeking Behavior 81 Blended Family 92 Bullying Perpetrator 100 Career Planning 111 Conflict Management 122 Depression 133 Disruptive Classroom Behaviors 143 Diversity and Tolerance Training 153 Divorce 162 Grief and Loss 171 Learning Difficulties 180 Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD) 188 Parenting Skills/Discipline 199 Physical and Sexual Abuse 212 Physical Disabilities and Challenges 221 Poverty and Economic Factors 230 Responsible Behavior Training 239 School Refusal/Phobia 249 School Violence Perpetrator 259 Self-Esteem Building 269 Sexual Responsibility 279 Sibling Rivalry 290 Social Maladjustment (Conduct Disorder) 300 Social Skills/Peer Relationships 313 Substance Use and Abuse 325 Suicidal Ideation/Attempt 337 Teen Pregnancy 347 Appendix A: Bibliotherapy Suggestions 357 Appendix B: Professional References for Evidence-Based Chapters 377 Appendix C: Websites/Hotlines 393 Appendix D: Recovery Model Objectives and Interventions 399

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Book SynopsisDiscover effective strategies to help prevent youth suicide In Emotionally Naked: A Teacher's Guide to Preventing Suicide and Recognizing Students at Risk, trainer, speaker, and suicide loss survivor Anne Moss Rogers, and clinical social worker and researcher, Kimberly O'Brien, PhD, LICSW, empower middle and high school educators with the knowledge and skills to leverage their relationships with students to reduce this threat to life. The purpose of this book is not to turn teachers into therapists but given the pervasive public health problem of suicide in our youth, it's a critical conversation that all educators need to feel comfortable having. Educators will learn evidence-based concepts of suicide prevention, plus lesser known innovative strategies and small culture shifts for the classroom to facilitate connection and healthy coping strategies, the foundation of suicide prevention. Included is commentary from teachers, school psychologists, experts in youth suicidology, leaders from mental health nonprofits, program directors, and tudents. In addition, readers will find practical tips, and sample scripts, with innovative activities that can be incorporated into teaching curricula. You'll learn about: The teacher's role in suicide prevention, intervention, postvention, collaborationThe different and often cryptic ways students indicate suicidalityWhat to do/say when a student tells you they are thinking of suicideSmall shifts that can create a suicide-prevention classroom/school environmentHow to address a class of grieving students and the empty desk syndromeLink to a download of resources, worksheets, activities, scripts, quizzes, and more Who is it for: Middle/high school teachers and educators, school counselors, nurses, psychologists, coaches, and administrators, as well as parents who wish to better understand the complex subject of youth suicide.Table of ContentsAbout the Authors xv Preface xxiii Introduction xxxi Chapter 1: Why Are We Seeing More Mental Health Problems with Students? Chapter 2: Adolescent Suicide: Risk Factors, Protective Factors, and Warning Signs Chapter 3: Debunking Myths About Student Suicide Chapter 4: Suicide-Related School Policies Chapter 5: Prevention: The Educator’s Role in Creating a Culture for Suicide Prevention Chapter 6: Suicide Prevention Activities for Schools Chapter 7: Intervention: They’ve Told You They’re Thinking of Suicide. What Now? Chapter 8: Reintegrating a Student into School After a Suicide Attempt or Family Loss Chapter 9: Postvention: After a Student or Teacher Suicide Chapter 10: How Students Move Forward After a Suicidal Crisis Chapter 11: Resources Chapter 12: Quizzes, Worksheets, Handouts, Guides, and Scripts Glossary

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Book SynopsisThe most up-to-date version of the best-selling guide to college admissions for over twenty years Newly revised and thoroughly updated, the fifth edition of Admission Matters continues to be the go-to guide for students and families seeking help with the college admissions process. Higher education experts Sally P. Springer, Ph.D., Joyce Vining Morgan, Ph.D., Nancy Griesemer, M.A., and Jon Reider, Ph.D., deliver a practical and accessible roadmap for a successful admissions outcome, whether the student is a high school freshman or a senior about to apply to college. Reassuring and easy to read, Admission Matters provides deep insight into a process that has become increasingly complex and unpredictable with each passing year. In the fifth edition, readers will learn how to build a balanced college list, when to apply, what goes into crafting a compelling application, how colleges make decisions, how financial aid works, and more. Admission Matters offers real-world expert advice for all students, whether they're aiming for an Ivy or a state school close to home. The book provides practical guidance for students and families whether they come from an under-resourced background or one that has provided abundant opportunities. Admission Matters also includes much-needed information for students with special circumstances, including students with disabilities, international students, transfers, and non-traditional students. Athletes, artists and performers, and homeschoolers will also have many of their questions answered as they plan for and apply to college. Admission Matters also provides the latest information on: The shift to test-optional or test-free admissions at many schools and what that means for youThe transition to an adaptive, digital format for the SAT Changes to the federal process for financial aidWhat selective colleges are increasingly looking for when faced with growing numbers of applicationsDifferences among colleges and how to choose the best fit schoolsEarly decision and early action applications and when they make senseAnd much more... The latest edition of Admission Matters remains the gold standard in guides to the ever-changing and often intimidating process of college admissions.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments xi Introduction xiii Part 1 What You Need to Know Before You Begin 1 1 Why Has College Admissions Become So Competitive? 3 2 What Do Colleges Look for in an Applicant? 19 3 How Do Colleges Make Their Decisions? 45 4 How Colleges (and Students) Differ: Finding What Fits 58 Part 2 Making the Right Choices for You 95 5 Building Your College List 97 6 A New Look at Testing 124 7 Deciding About Early Decision and Other Early Options 145 8 Paying the Bill 159 Part 3 Tackling Your Applications 191 9 Applying Well, Part I: The Application and the Essay 193 10 Applying Well, Part II: Recommendations, Interviews, and Activities 209 11 Making the Most of Your Special Talents 229 12 Students with Special Circumstances 254 13 International Students Applying to Study in the U.S. and U.S. Students Applying to Study Internationally 277 Part 4 Bringing the Process to a Close 305 14 Making Your Decision After the Colleges Make Theirs 307 15 What Matters Most: Advice to Parents and Students 329 College Preparation Timeline 339 Resources 349 Notes 359 About the Authors 367 Index 369

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Book SynopsisA timely and insightful exploration of the vital relationships among effective communication, education, peace, and democracy Communication and Education: Promoting Peace and Democracy in Times of Crisis and Conflict explores the complexities of addressing divisive societal challenges, reducing conflicts, and building and sustaining peace and democracy around the world. Contributions by an international panel of experts provide evidence-based practices, findings from ongoing research projects, policy analyses, and cutting-edge theories, frameworks, and models for confronting global challenges to peace and democracy. Examining the crucial role of crisis communication and education on a global scale, this research-based compendium covers a broad range of key topics, such as democratizing education, promoting peace through complexity science, understanding how factionalism threatens democracy, encouraging citizen participation, and more. Throughout the text, the autTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix List of Contributors x 1 The Promise of Communication and Education for Peace and Democracy 1Mary John O'Hair and Philip A. Woods Part 1 Communicating and Educating for Peace and Democracy: Frameworks 17 2 Toward Schools as Sites of Radical Democratization: New Possibilities for Democratic Education 19Stewart Riddle 3 The Dynamic Patterning of Peace and Democracy: A Complexity Science Perspective 31Sharon Varney 4 How Factionalism and Conflicting Worldviews Threaten Classical Liberalism and Democracy: A Terror Management Theory Perspective 46Claude H. Miller Part 2 Tackling Challenges to Peace and Democracy through Communication and Education 65 5 The Educational Benefits of Diversity for Civic and Political Engagement: A Case for Facilitating Cross-Racial Interactions Through Counter-Storytelling 67Olivia Morales and Frank Fernandez 6 Teacher Discourses: Challenging or Perpetuating Hierarchical, Authoritarian, and Homophobic Social Institutions? 81Sanjay K. Nanwani 7 Education for Peace and Depeasantization: Challenges in Post-Conflict Societies 103Irene Giovanni 8 Let Freedom Ring: Music as a Means of Communicating and Promoting Democracy and Social Justice 114Thomas C. Rebstock Part 3 Communication and Technology in Building Peace and Democracy 123 9 Developing Democratic Classrooms in the Digital Age: Teaching and Learning in K-12 Schools 125Daniela Kruel DiGiacomo, Carly Muetterties, Caitlin Taylor, Sara Trapp-Isaacs, Ryan New, and Chris Isaacs 10 Where Technology Meets Empathy: Using Digital Storytelling, Gaming, and AI to Teach about Peace and Human Rights 148Nomisha Kurian and Caline Saad 11 Building Positive Peace Through Dialogue and Deliberation 164Laura W. Black, Carson S. Kay, Michael Rodrigue-Barnes, Sheyla Finkelshteyn, Timothy J. Shaffer, and Daniel A. Lahera Part 4 Communication Strategies and Practices for Fostering and Sustaining Democracy in Education 183 12 Reexamining the Democratic IDEALS and Best Practices in Education 185Scott N. Wilson, Lindsay A. Williams, Leslie A. Williams, Amy S. Goodin, and Ayanna M. Wheeler 13 Emotional Geographies of Teaching, Empathic Communication, Democratic School Climate, and Teacher Burnout 216Izhak Berkovich 14 Nurturing Participation in Teachers: The Case of Teachers in Sukma Bangsa Schools, Aceh, Indonesia 236Dody Wibowo, Mahyudin, and Susan Sovia Part 5 Transforming Educational Systems through Communication and Partnerships 255 15 Building "Glocal" Literacy to Develop Global Citizens 257Sarah Cummins 16 Flagship University Influences on Educational System Change: Kentucky and the Center for Next Generation Leadership 269Karen Perry, Justin M. Bathon, and Lu S. Young Index 287

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Book SynopsisBoost your confidence in supporting the mental health of all students Educators can't always fix or change students' challenging situations, but with Dr. Hayley Watson''s Finding the Words, they can create compassionate, safe spaces to truly make a difference to student wellbeing. As educators, we are in a position where we can help students break out of cycles of anxiety, low mood, and peer struggles, without needing to be a mental health expert. This book shows you how to support students with issues like parental loss, low body image, bullying, addiction, and morewith practical language that you can use anytime you are on-the-spot with a struggling student. This language helps you set boundaries to protect your own wellbeing, by guiding your students towards self-reliance and resilience. In Finding the Words, author and clinical psychologist Hayley Watson offers practical advice with a personal, self-reflective, and relatable tone. In each chapter, you'

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Book SynopsisOn the interdependent relationship between health and academic achievement. Research indicates that healthy children are more likely to succeed in school and that individuals who attain higher levels of education are more likely to experience better health outcomes in adulthood. To promote and support children's academic success, educators must view student health as an education issue. At the same time, public health professionals must view students' academic success as a public health issue. In Leveraging the Education-Health Connection, David A. Birch explores this interdependent relationship and lays out strategies to improve outcomes for both education and health. Birch provides evidence and recommendations on the links between student health and academic success and between education attainment and adult health outcomes; the impacts of social injustice and early childhood experiences on health and education; strategies for minimizing absenteeism, promoting students' and theirTable of ContentsPreface1. Health and Education – An Interdependent Relationship2. Education and Health Disparities: The Connection to Social Justice3. Early Childhood4. High School Graduation – Attending, Connecting, Succeeding5. Quality School: Important Considerations6. The Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child Model: A Commitment to Health and Learning7. Moving Forward: Mobilizing a Social MovementAppendixReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisUsing international and cross-country comparative analysis, this book explores how governments influence international student welfare, and how students shape their own opportunities.Trade Review“Universities and governments want to attract international students, but rarely consider student wellbeing. This book's account of critical issues, with two national good practice case studies, is essential reading for international education policymakers.” Dean Forbes, Matthew Flinders Distinguished Professor, Flinders University, Australia“This is a welcome study of the regulatory problems associated with increased mobility by international students. It identifies different approaches for balancing the role of markets and forms of public regulation. The book shines a light on weaknesses in current methods of supporting students and ensuring that their welfare remains paramount and is not overshadowed by competitive pressures on host institutions.” Mark Considine, Professor of Political Science and Dean of Arts, University of Melbourne“In the fast moving push in international student recruitment, Ramia and his colleagues call for a necessary pause to consider quality over market share and conditions over enrolments. As a follow-up to International Student Security, based on their interviews of 270 international students in Australia and New Zealand, the authors provide an insightful analysis of the regulatory structures and conditions that impact international students' well being.” Jenny J. Lee, Associate Professor, Center for the Study of Higher Education, University of ArizonaTable of ContentsIntroduction: Global students and their discontents; Governing globalisation? National regulation and international student welfare; Fast growing, diverse: Mapping the business of international education; ‘There’s gold in them thar students!’ Australia and New Zealand in the global market; Much regulation, minimal protection: The Australian model; Pastoral care, minimal information: The New Zealand model; Different frameworks, similar outcomes: Comparing Australia and New Zealand; Doing it differently: National re-regulation and trans-national student citizens; Conclusion: Managing student mobility.

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Book Synopsis2023 C. Wright Mills Award FinalistHow race and racism shape middle-class families' decisions to homeschool their childrenWhile families of color make up 41 percent of homeschoolers in America, little is known about the racial dimensions of this alternate form of education. In The Color of Homeschooling, Mahala Dyer Stewart explores why this percentage has grown exponentially in the past twenty years, and reveals how families' schooling decisions are heavily shaped by race, class, and gender. Drawing from almost a hundred interviews with Black and white middle-class homeschooling and nonhomeschooling families, Stewart's findings contradict many commonly held beliefs about the rationales for homeschooling. Rather than choosing to homeschool based on religious or political beliefs, many middle-class Black mothers explain their schooling choices as motivated by their concerns of racial discrimination in public schools and the school-to-prison pipeline. Indeed, these mothers often voicedTrade Review"In this remarkable book, Mahala Dyer Stewart demystifies the increasingly popular option of homeschooling in the United States. Rather than arguing for or against this alternative to traditional schooling, Stewart situates her study at the crossroads of schools and families to show how Black and white mothers embrace homeschooling but with radically different political aims. Written with great clarity and empathy, The Color of Homeschooling shows how homeschooling emerges as a key site for protecting children and privilege, with many important lessons for families, educators, and researchers." * Freeden Blume Oeur, author of Black Boys Apart: Racial Uplift and Respectability in All-Male Public Schools *"The Color of Homeschooling is a careful and nuanced examination of the sometimes wrenching decisions mothers make to ensure their children receive a good education. This beautifully written book will shape future academic and policy discussions about the choices families make when attempting to navigate public education." * Victor Ray, author of On Critical Race Theory *"Applying an intersectional lens to the question of homeschooling, Stewart offers fresh insight into the at-once classed, gendered, and racialized processes shaping Black and white mothers’ schooling decisions. With careful attention to how power, privilege, and oppression shape the work of motherhood, The Color of Homeschooling is an essential contribution to the literature on race and school choice." * Kate Henley Averett, author of The Homeschool Choice: Parents and the Privatization of Education *"A fascinating read. Stewart shows how both race and class are critical in shaping parents’ decision-making with ‘class-advantaged’ Black parents, for example, often describing feeling pushed out of traditional schooling by racism while white parents describe being pulled into homeschooling in search of a more individualized educational experience. Set in the context of larger public and academic conversations about social class, race, and childrearing, The Color of Homeschooling captures the different priorities, constraints, and resources families are operating with in trying to raise children and navigate educational systems today" * Amanda E. Lewis, co-author of Despite the Best Intentions: How Racial Inequality Thrives in Good Schools *

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Book SynopsisHow travelling the world allows new ways to educate children and perform family life on the move A growing number of families are selling their houses, quitting their jobs, and taking their children out of traditional school settings to educate them while traveling the globe. In The World is Our Classroom, Jennie Germann Molz explores the hopes and anxieties that drive these parents and children to leave their comfortable lives behind out of a desire to live the good life on the move.Drawing on interviews with parents and stories from the blogs they publish during their journeys, as well as her own experience traveling the world with her ten-year-old son, Germann Molz takes us inside a fascinating life spent on trains, boats, and planes. She shows why many parentsdisillusioned with standard public schoolingbelieve the world is a child's best classroom. Rebelling against convention, these parents combine technology and travel to pursue a different versTrade ReviewThe World Is Our Classroom goes the distance, literally. It is a marvelous book. From it, we learn why families are willing to shrug off the conventions of a tethered existence orbiting around home and school and instead forge global identities as they bring far -flung places within their reach. These worldschoolers embrace the idea of travel as education and lifestyle. They travel to parts unknown, imparting skills and sensibilities to their children that offer big dividends for an uncertain future world. Molz offers us good tools to think with, helping us to see up close how modern families navigate a world rattled by economic and social precarity and risk. She reminds us this is a world we must all weather, however. Though their mobile existence is not without emotional and social costs for them, worldschoolers are rich in resources, able to traverse a world in flux, the same world that leaves untold numbers of families insecure and largely left behind. -- Amy L. Best, author of Fast Food Kids: French Fries, Lunch Lines, and Social TiesThe World Is Our Classroom provides the first comprehensive examination of worldschooling families. This whirlwind of a book takes the reader on a journey through the lives of worldschooling families from Argentina to Thailand. With the use of mobile virtual ethnography, Germann Molz provides detailed insight into worldschooling as a way of life that emphasizes risk taking, resilience, and ultimately family as parents prepare their kids to be “future-proof” global citizens at the same time as holding family very close. Anyone interested in education, families, globalization, technology, or just a good read should pick up this book. -- Gayle Kaufman, author of Fixing Parental Leave: The Six Month SolutionJennie Germann Molz's investigation into "worldschooling" provides an important contribution to understanding homeschooling, unconventional education, and intensive mothering in response to an uncertain world. Privilege, social class, and global worldviews intersect in this rich ethnography of parenting in the twenty-first century. -- Jennifer Lois, author of Home Is Where the School Is: The Logic of Homeschooling and the Emotional Labor of Mothering

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Book SynopsisHonorable Mention, Sex & Gender Section Distinguished Book Award, given by the American Sociological AssociationThe surprising reasons parents are opting out of the public school system and homeschooling their kidsHomeschooling has skyrocketed in popularity in the United States: in 2019, a record-breaking 2.5 million children were being homeschooled. In The Homeschool Choice, Kate Henley Averett provides insight into this fascinating phenomenon, exploring the perspectives of parents who have chosen to homeschool their children. Drawing on in-depth interviews, Averett examines the reasons why these parents choose to homeschool, from those who disagree with sex education and LGBT content in schools, to others who want to protect their children's sexual and gender identities. With eye-opening detail, she shows us how homeschooling is a trend being chosen by an increasingly diverse subset of American families, at times in order to empoweror Trade ReviewHomeschooling used to be a fringe movement. But the number of homeschoolers has nearly doubled in the last two decades. Why are so many parents opting to homeschool their children? The Homeschool Choice offers fresh insight into how cultural beliefs about parenting, childhood, and the role of the state drive the choice to homeschool today. Not every parent who opts to homeschool is an ardent homeschooler. Some feel forced into this choice when public schools don’t provide what they want for their children, including the “right” lessons around gender and sexuality (whether more or less progressive). With income inequality at an all-time high, Averett offers much needed and thoughtful analysis of how and why some privileged parents divest from public education, and the consequences this has for social inequality. A terrific book, The Homeschool Choice is an urgent call to challenge the individualistic and intensive nature of parenting today, end the privatization of schools and other public services, and embrace the collective care of children. -- Sinikka Elliott, author of Not My Kid: What Parents Believe about the Sex Lives of Their TeenagersThrough powerful interviews and discerning prose, The Homeschool Choice examines why more and more U.S. parents decide to homeschool their children. In an era when the rhetoric of choice and individualism loom large, Kate Averett brilliantly shows how parents’ beliefs about childhood, gender, and sexuality lead a diverse group of families to decide that their children are best off “opting out” of public school. Averett astutely reveals what is at stake for society when the brunt of the labor of homeschooling and children’s moral upbringing falls largely on mothers. Thought-provoking and beautifully written, The Homeschool Choice is a must-read for anyone interested in the challenges of parenting, role of government, and future of public education. -- Caitlyn Collins, author of Making Motherhood Work: How Women Manage Careers and Caregiving

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Book SynopsisHonorable Mention, Sex & Gender Section Distinguished Book Award, given by the American Sociological AssociationThe surprising reasons parents are opting out of the public school system and homeschooling their kidsHomeschooling has skyrocketed in popularity in the United States: in 2019, a record-breaking 2.5 million children were being homeschooled. In The Homeschool Choice, Kate Henley Averett provides insight into this fascinating phenomenon, exploring the perspectives of parents who have chosen to homeschool their children. Drawing on in-depth interviews, Averett examines the reasons why these parents choose to homeschool, from those who disagree with sex education and LGBT content in schools, to others who want to protect their children's sexual and gender identities. With eye-opening detail, she shows us how homeschooling is a trend being chosen by an increasingly diverse subset of American families, at times in order to empoweror Trade ReviewHomeschooling used to be a fringe movement. But the number of homeschoolers has nearly doubled in the last two decades. Why are so many parents opting to homeschool their children? The Homeschool Choice offers fresh insight into how cultural beliefs about parenting, childhood, and the role of the state drive the choice to homeschool today. Not every parent who opts to homeschool is an ardent homeschooler. Some feel forced into this choice when public schools don’t provide what they want for their children, including the “right” lessons around gender and sexuality (whether more or less progressive). With income inequality at an all-time high, Averett offers much needed and thoughtful analysis of how and why some privileged parents divest from public education, and the consequences this has for social inequality. A terrific book, The Homeschool Choice is an urgent call to challenge the individualistic and intensive nature of parenting today, end the privatization of schools and other public services, and embrace the collective care of children. -- Sinikka Elliott, author of Not My Kid: What Parents Believe about the Sex Lives of Their TeenagersThrough powerful interviews and discerning prose, The Homeschool Choice examines why more and more U.S. parents decide to homeschool their children. In an era when the rhetoric of choice and individualism loom large, Kate Averett brilliantly shows how parents’ beliefs about childhood, gender, and sexuality lead a diverse group of families to decide that their children are best off “opting out” of public school. Averett astutely reveals what is at stake for society when the brunt of the labor of homeschooling and children’s moral upbringing falls largely on mothers. Thought-provoking and beautifully written, The Homeschool Choice is a must-read for anyone interested in the challenges of parenting, role of government, and future of public education. -- Caitlyn Collins, author of Making Motherhood Work: How Women Manage Careers and Caregiving

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Book SynopsisHow travelling the world allows new ways to educate children and perform family life on the move A growing number of families are selling their houses, quitting their jobs, and taking their children out of traditional school settings to educate them while traveling the globe. In The World is Our Classroom, Jennie Germann Molz explores the hopes and anxieties that drive these parents and children to leave their comfortable lives behind out of a desire to live the good life on the move.Drawing on interviews with parents and stories from the blogs they publish during their journeys, as well as her own experience traveling the world with her ten-year-old son, Germann Molz takes us inside a fascinating life spent on trains, boats, and planes. She shows why many parentsdisillusioned with standard public schoolingbelieve the world is a child's best classroom. Rebelling against convention, these parents combine technology and travel to pursue a different versTrade ReviewThe World Is Our Classroom goes the distance, literally. It is a marvelous book. From it, we learn why families are willing to shrug off the conventions of a tethered existence orbiting around home and school and instead forge global identities as they bring far -flung places within their reach. These worldschoolers embrace the idea of travel as education and lifestyle. They travel to parts unknown, imparting skills and sensibilities to their children that offer big dividends for an uncertain future world. Molz offers us good tools to think with, helping us to see up close how modern families navigate a world rattled by economic and social precarity and risk. She reminds us this is a world we must all weather, however. Though their mobile existence is not without emotional and social costs for them, worldschoolers are rich in resources, able to traverse a world in flux, the same world that leaves untold numbers of families insecure and largely left behind. -- Amy L. Best, author of Fast Food Kids: French Fries, Lunch Lines, and Social TiesThe World Is Our Classroom provides the first comprehensive examination of worldschooling families. This whirlwind of a book takes the reader on a journey through the lives of worldschooling families from Argentina to Thailand. With the use of mobile virtual ethnography, Germann Molz provides detailed insight into worldschooling as a way of life that emphasizes risk taking, resilience, and ultimately family as parents prepare their kids to be “future-proof” global citizens at the same time as holding family very close. Anyone interested in education, families, globalization, technology, or just a good read should pick up this book. -- Gayle Kaufman, author of Fixing Parental Leave: The Six Month SolutionJennie Germann Molz's investigation into "worldschooling" provides an important contribution to understanding homeschooling, unconventional education, and intensive mothering in response to an uncertain world. Privilege, social class, and global worldviews intersect in this rich ethnography of parenting in the twenty-first century. -- Jennifer Lois, author of Home Is Where the School Is: The Logic of Homeschooling and the Emotional Labor of Mothering

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Book SynopsisIn March of 2019, our daily lives were upended by the COVID pandemic and subsequent school closures. With work and school shifting online, a new and ongoing set of demands has been placed on parents as school moved to online, virtual and hybrid models of learning. Families need to balance professional responsibilities with parenting and supporting their children's education. As education professors, we find ourselves in a particular position as our expertise collides with the reality of schooling our own children in our homes during a global pandemic. This book focuses on the experiences of education faculty who navigate this relationship as pandemic professionals and pandemic parents.In this collection of personal essays, we explore parenting in the pandemic among education professors. Through our stories, we share our perspectives on this moment of upheaval, as we find ourselves confronting practical (and impractical) aspects of long held theories about what school could be, seeing up close and personally the pedagogy our children endure online, watching education policy go awry in our own living rooms (and kitchens and bathrooms), making high-stakes decisions about our children's (and other children's) access to opportunity, and trying to maintain our careers at the same time. In this collision of personal and professional identities, we find ourselves reflecting on fundamental questions about the purpose and design of schooling, the value of our work as education professors, and the precious relationships we hope to maintain with our children through this difficult time.Trade ReviewLowenhaupt and Theoharis have curated a magnificent collection of essays that captures the hopes, fears, tensions, and possibilities of parenting in a time of crisis. A gift to parents and educators everywhere as we continue to process and reflect on what the pandemic has taught us about what it means to educate others, and perhaps through a renewed imagination, our very own children."" — Sonya Douglass Horsford, Teachers College, Columbia University""In this powerful collection of essays, we have a rare window into how the personal and professional worlds of academics collided during the COVID-19 pandemic. What emerges from these reflections is an intimate portrait of the longstanding tensions in our lives as public intellectuals and parents that have long burned as embers, but are now set ablaze by the public health, economic, and educational crisis we have lived through during the last year. Reading these essays will help us to see questions of education policy and practice in a new, more personal light."" — Matthew Kraft, Brown University

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Book SynopsisIn March of 2019, our daily lives were upended by the COVID pandemic and subsequent school closures. With work and school shifting online, a new and ongoing set of demands has been placed on parents as school moved to online, virtual and hybrid models of learning. Families need to balance professional responsibilities with parenting and supporting their children's education. As education professors, we find ourselves in a particular position as our expertise collides with the reality of schooling our own children in our homes during a global pandemic. This book focuses on the experiences of education faculty who navigate this relationship as pandemic professionals and pandemic parents.In this collection of personal essays, we explore parenting in the pandemic among education professors. Through our stories, we share our perspectives on this moment of upheaval, as we find ourselves confronting practical (and impractical) aspects of long held theories about what school could be, seeing up close and personally the pedagogy our children endure online, watching education policy go awry in our own living rooms (and kitchens and bathrooms), making high-stakes decisions about our children's (and other children's) access to opportunity, and trying to maintain our careers at the same time. In this collision of personal and professional identities, we find ourselves reflecting on fundamental questions about the purpose and design of schooling, the value of our work as education professors, and the precious relationships we hope to maintain with our children through this difficult time.Trade ReviewLowenhaupt and Theoharis have curated a magnificent collection of essays that captures the hopes, fears, tensions, and possibilities of parenting in a time of crisis. A gift to parents and educators everywhere as we continue to process and reflect on what the pandemic has taught us about what it means to educate others, and perhaps through a renewed imagination, our very own children."" — Sonya Douglass Horsford, Teachers College, Columbia University""In this powerful collection of essays, we have a rare window into how the personal and professional worlds of academics collided during the COVID-19 pandemic. What emerges from these reflections is an intimate portrait of the longstanding tensions in our lives as public intellectuals and parents that have long burned as embers, but are now set ablaze by the public health, economic, and educational crisis we have lived through during the last year. Reading these essays will help us to see questions of education policy and practice in a new, more personal light."" — Matthew Kraft, Brown University

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Book SynopsisIn 2021, the United States Census Bureau reported that in 2020, during the rise of the global health pandemic COVID-19, homeschooling among Black families increased five-fold. However, Black families had begun choosing to homeschool even before COVID-19 led to school closures and disrupted traditional school spaces. Homeschooling Black Children in the US: Theory, Practice and Popular Culture offers an insightful look at the growing practice of homeschooling by Black families through this timely collection of articles by education practitioners, researchers, homeschooling parents and homeschooled children.Homeschooling Black Children in the US: Theory, Practice and Popular Culture honestly presents how systemic racism and other factors influence the decision of Black families to homeschool. In addition, the book chapters illustrate in different ways how self-determination manifests within the homeschooling practice. Researchers Khadijah Ali-Coleman and Cheryl Fields-Smith have edited a compilation of work that explores the varied experiences of parents homeschooling Black children before, during and after COVID-19. From veteran homeschooling parents sharing their practice to researchers reporting their data collected pre-COVID, this anthology of work presents an overview that gives substantive insight into what the practice of homeschooling looks like for many Black families in the United States.

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Book SynopsisIn 2021, the United States Census Bureau reported that in 2020, during the rise of the global health pandemic COVID-19, homeschooling among Black families increased five-fold. However, Black families had begun choosing to homeschool even before COVID-19 led to school closures and disrupted traditional school spaces. Homeschooling Black Children in the US: Theory, Practice and Popular Culture offers an insightful look at the growing practice of homeschooling by Black families through this timely collection of articles by education practitioners, researchers, homeschooling parents and homeschooled children.Homeschooling Black Children in the US: Theory, Practice and Popular Culture honestly presents how systemic racism and other factors influence the decision of Black families to homeschool. In addition, the book chapters illustrate in different ways how self-determination manifests within the homeschooling practice. Researchers Khadijah Ali-Coleman and Cheryl Fields-Smith have edited a compilation of work that explores the varied experiences of parents homeschooling Black children before, during and after COVID-19. From veteran homeschooling parents sharing their practice to researchers reporting their data collected pre-COVID, this anthology of work presents an overview that gives substantive insight into what the practice of homeschooling looks like for many Black families in the United States.

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Book SynopsisNow more than ever, our children need to learn about the people who live all around the world. This engaging guide to other lands weaves world history into a storybook format. Designed as a read-aloud project for parents and children to share (or for older readers to enjoy alone), this book covers the major historical events in the years 1600-1850 on each continent, with maps, illustrations, and tales from each culture. Over 1.3 million copies of The Story of the World have been sold. Newly revised and updated, THE STORY OF THE WORLD, VOLUME 3 includes a new timeline, 40 brand-new illustrations, and a pronunciation guide for unfamiliar names, places, and terms.

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Book SynopsisNew to the Revised Edition, this Student Book contains all the text your child will need for the lessons in The Ordinary Parent’s Guide to Teaching Reading, Revised Edition. Created and designed based on feedback from parents and teachers over the past 20 years, the Student Book allows children to focus only on the material they are using, without being distracted by additional text in the Instructor Book. From “a” to “supercalifragilisticexpialidocious,” these pages are the doorway to a whole lifetime of reading.

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Book SynopsisThis bundle gives parents everything they need to teach their children to read, from the simplest letter sounds up to a fourth grade level. The Instructor Book, featuring a new introduction by Dr. Susan Wise Bauer, guides parents step by step through each lesson, with easy-to-follow, scripted text. The Student Book gives students clear examples of each letter, word, and sentence in their own book, building their confidence from the very beginning. This classic phonics program has taught millions of children to read, and now it’s even easier to use. The Ordinary Parent’s Guide to Teaching Reading lets any parent give their children the gift of lifelong literacy. The program is easily expandable to include multiple students in a home or school setting.

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