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"Speaking to the growing national trend, The Call of the Wild and Free equips families to provide quality homeschool education, and encourages all parents and caregivers to raise kids to experience the adventure, freedom, and wonder of childhood"-- Provided by publisher.
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"Esther Wojcicki--"Woj" to her many friends and admirers--is famous for three things: teaching a high school class that has changed the lives of thousands of kids, inspiring Silicon Valley legends like Steve Jobs, and raising three daughters who have each become famously successful. What do these three accomplishments have in common? They're the result of TRICK, Woj's secret to raising successful people: Trust, Respect, Independence, Collaboration,...
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"A best-selling expert on education shows how to make the school system work for your child. Our K-12 school system is an artificial product of market forces. It isn't a good fit for all--or even most--students. It prioritizes a single way of understanding the world over all others, pushes children into a rigid set of grades with little regard for individual maturity, and slaps "disability" labels over differences in learning style. Caught in this...
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The #1 bestselling author and nationally recognized education specialist.
Parenting teenagers is hard enough without feeling locked out of knowing how to apply to and pay for college. With the right information to turn the key, moms and dads can open the gate so their sons and daughters enter successfully into the futures they deserve. Join Pamela Donnelly-founder and CEO of GATE College System-in her humorous, informative trainings on the four...
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Viking
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[2016]
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""Teach your children well. It's easier to sing than do. Erika Christakis wants to foment a revolution in early childhood education, and with this deeply insightful, scientifically grounded, and utterly original book, she may just get her way." --Dan Gilbert, author of Stumbling on Happiness A bold challenge to the conventional wisdom about early childhood, with a pragmatic program to encourage parents and teachers to rethink how and where young children...
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"This book provides parents with practical tools to teach and engage their children at home. By focusing on their children's strengths and passions, rather than on their limitations, parents can foster a love of learning that will last a lifetime. Kessler encourages both new and experienced homeschooling parents, caregivers, and educators through strengths-based, child-centric practices and anecdotes designed to help children thrive. With a conversational...
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Viking
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2018.
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"An essential book for parents to help their children get the education they need to live happy, productive lives from The New York Times bestselling author of The Element and Creative Schools. Parents everywhere are deeply concerned about the education of their children, especially now, when education has become a minefield of politics and controversy. One of the world's most influential educators, Robinson has had countless conversations with parents...
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What can parents do to help their youngest children in their task of self-formation? How does the Montessori method of hands-on learning and self-discovery relate to the youngest infants? This authoritative and accessible book answers these and many other questions. Illustrations.
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Ai hai zi ai zi ji de qi tang ke volume 1
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Ai hai zi ai zi ji gong zuo shi
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2013.
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Amalia Press
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[2018]
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From birth to age six, children have an extraordinary capacity to learn. EDUCATION BEGINS AT BIRTH offers advice to parents on how to maximize potential and raise smart kids. If you are a parent of an infant, toddler, or preschooler, this is the perfect book to help you foster your little one's intellectual, physical, emotional, and social development. It includes essential tips, strategies, and practical things you can do to: (1) create early educational...
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Tras el gran éxito de "Cuentos sanadores" (ING Edicions, 2016), Susan Perrow presenta "101 cuentos sanadores". 101 cuentos organizados por categorías, según el tipo de comportamiento, a fin de facilitar su consulta. Además de los temas más comunes (el enfado, la agresividad, la timidez, cómo acompañar la muerte o la enfermedad, la queja, la falta de confianza, etc.), esta recopilación incluye cuentos para trabajar situaciones tan comunes en...
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El libro aborda la relación entre la escuela y la familia en tanto instituciones sociales que comparten la misión de acompañar y generar aprendizajes en las nuevas generaciones. Los sujetos de la educación están en la intersección de ambas: son los hijos/as para una, y alumnos/as para la otra.
Hasta hace pocos años, las familias contaban con elementos de solidez propios, que les permitían acompañar a sus hijos a través de la escolaridad....
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With so many discussions and theories on reading and how children learn to read, it can be very confusing for parents to know the best way to get their kids to read. In Raising a Reader, Bonnie Schwartz lays out simple, researched and practice proven approaches that a parent can do to promote literacy in the home and encourage children to explore the great adventures to be found in books. The first step in fostering literacy and good reading strategies...
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Building a Professional Learning Community at WorkTM: A Guide to the First Year addresses the real-world critical questions that arise when schools begin their work to become professional learning communities. How can administrators and teachers take the promise of a PLC and turn it into reality? How can school leaders transform theories of collaboration into highly effective nuts-and-bolts practices? This book is set in the context of one year in...
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Being a responsible parent and raising children in today's world is no easy walk in the park. Some parents, guardians, families and caretakers from all walk-of-life are finding it challenging to raise their children in today's world. In communities across the country, the "village" that it takes to raise a child is broken! So how can a broken village help parents to raise their children?
Through this eye opening, personal account of an entire documented...
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In a PLC, every student, teacher, staff member, parent, and family member is vital to the success of the school. With an emphasis on transparency, mutual trust, and clarity of purpose, this resource provides a road map to growing community engagement and involvement. Learn step by step how to establish deep-rooted relationships that lead to the lasting betterment of your school or district.
Use this resource to make students and families feel welcome,...
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