Educators

Ready to dive deep into the world of Inquiry-Based Learning (IBL)? Here’s a simple, user-friendly guide to help you design your unit(s) using the IBL approach and to reflect on your learning. Remember, the essence of IBL is to promote curiosity, investigation, and deeper understanding among students. Let’s get started!

Blue Bear Finds a Home is a children's picture book telling a story of a little bear who thought no one would ever want him because of his differences. He continues to hope through disappointment after disappointment until one day someone accepts him as the perfect bear. Blue Bear Finds a Home has a message of love and acceptance for children and adults alike. Written by an early childhood educator, Blue Bear is a comforting story for one-on-one reading or for a class lesson on diversity, acceptance, tolerance and love.

There is no official "American Grading System" for high school students. As a result, most American high school students get burned along the way by unfair or unfounded grades. In fact, America's 200-year-old grading process is outdated, haphazard, and subjective and has been eroding American education. Yet grades are still commonly used to control students' access to so many of the best educational and career opportunities. This book, by one of America's foremost educational strategists, provides a guide for students and involved parents wanting to help their kids to navigate their schools' outdated reliance on grading to make sure that their kids are not denied opportunities a ...

This book contains very specific skills and processes to be used when dealing effectively will all parents including techniques for conferencing, telephone, and more.

Anne Graham Striff was a very successful classroom teacher for over 20 years, 14 of which were in low-performing urban schools where she helped her students progress from 3 years below grade level up to and above grade level to far exceed standards on all the tests. Her exciting lessons and classroom management skills made learning fun. She worked with struggling students in small groups daily to help them master all the curriculum standards and skills for their grade level subjects. Striff taught in all grades from 1st through 7th, as well as subbing for several years in high school and middle school. She also wrote several awesome nonfiction children's books that should be available in ...

For years many complained about various issues in the current education system such as over-crowded classrooms, obvious disparity in school resources, school violence, low graduation rates, and bullying to name a few. However, most employees within the school system are reluctant to voice their opinion(s) due to the risk of getting fired or blackballed. School systems too often rely on the opinions of outside entities to prescribe remedies for solutions to its problems instead of relying on invaluable resources from within. It is set to a realistic, debatable format and a prologue to pertinent topics within the school systems. The diverse and passionate collection of memoirs offers a ...

If you love Wisconsin and your child is learning how to write, this book combines both! Your mini-Wisconsinite can practice learning how to write every letter, from A to Z, upper and lowercase. Get lost in the intriguing trivia as you flip from page to page. Tracing letters and exploring Wisconsin animals, critters, trees, and flowers along the way. With this workbook, you will both learn about new Wisconsin words (and wonders!).