Designed for total learning success by experts in elementary education, Everyday Success Kindergarten features a variety of essential early learning skills in a single volume. Specifically for kindergarten-aged children, this workbook reinforces concepts and promotes learning in three key areas: Basic Skills (colors, same and different, comparison, opposites, classifying, letter recognition, and rhyming), Math (numbers, sequencing, ordinal numbers, graphing, thinking skills, time, and money), Reading (consonants, vowels, picture clues, inferences, predications, and reading comprehension). --Take learning one step further! To support independent thinking and discovery, Everyday Success offers a suggestion for children to continue each worksheet with a learning activity on their own. This encourages children to take what theyÕve learned and apply it to everyday situations, reinforcing their comprehension of the activity while exploring the world around them. --The Everyday Success(TM) series includes 288 full-color pages that will provide hours of education entertainment and make your child want to come back for more! Each workbook is spiral bound so that pages lay flat, and each book includes a complete answer key.

Everyday Success(TM) Activities makes learning fun for kindergarten children. Make every day count during your childÕs developmental years. Packed with fun activities that support early learning, each title reinforces the basics of reading and writing with entertaining alphabet activities, number activities, puzzles, and games. Colorful pages feature ÒOne Step FurtherÓ activity ideas that encourage active learning while building the 21st century skills of communication, collaboration, creativity, and critical thinking.

Designed for total learning success by experts in elementary education, Everyday Success Preschool features a variety of essential early learning skills in a single volume. Specifically for preschool-aged children, this workbook reinforces concepts and promotes learning in three key areas:Basic Skills (shapes, comparisons, opposites, same and different, and writing)Math (numbers 0Ð10, ordinal numbers, patterns, time, and money)Reading (alphabet, letter recognition, and reading comprehension) --Take learning one step further! To support independent thinking and discovery, Everyday Success offers a suggestion for children to continue each worksheet with a learning activity on their own. This encourages children to take what theyÕve learned and apply it to everyday situations, reinforcing their comprehension of the activity while exploring the world around them. --The Everyday Success(TM) series includes 288 full-color pages that will provide hours of education entertainment and make your child want to come back for more! Each workbook is spiral bound so that pages lay flat, and each book includes a complete answer key.

Are you a parent concerned with your child's educational success? Or are you a teacher looking for practical suggestions for your student's family? In either case, this A to Z guide is for you. Based on nearly two decades of experience as a teacher and a principal, Shirley Dickinson has put together a succinct yet comprehensive primer for parenting. She covers important topics such as the Internet, parent-teacher conferences, gangs, and homework, in a way that parents and teachers will find eye-opening. With this book, you have a survival guide for kindergarten through high school.

This innovative book helps kindergarten teachers align learning-centered practices with state standards and offers classroom vignettes, practical strategies, lesson plans, and other essential resources.

The Daily 5, Second Edition retains the core literacy components that made the first edition one of the most widely read books in education and enhances these practices based on years of further experience in classrooms and compelling new brain research. The Daily 5 provides a way for any teacher to structure literacy (and now math) time to increase student independence and allow for individualized attention in small groups and one-on-one. Teachers and schools implementing the Daily 5 will do the following: Spend less time on classroom management and more time teaching Help students develop independence, stamina, and accountability Provide students with abundant time for practicing reading, writing, and math Increase the time teachers spend with students one-on-one and in small groups Improve schoolwide achievement and success in literacy and math. The Daily 5, Second Edition gives teachers everything they need to launch and sustain the Daily 5, including materials and setup, model behaviors, detailed lesson plans, specific tips for implementing each component, and solutions to common challenges. By following this simple and proven structure, teachers can move from a harried classroom toward one that hums with productive and engaged learners. What's new in the second edition: Detailed launch plans for the first three weeks Full color photos, figures, and charts Increased flexibility regarding when and how to introduce each Daily 5 choice New chapter on differentiating instruction by age and stamina Ideas about how to integrate the Daily 5 with the CAFE assessment system New chapter on the Math Daily 3 structure

Ensure a challenging mathematics experience for every learner, every day. This must-have resource offers support and encouragement for improved mathematics achievement across every grade level of your school. With an emphasis on Principles and Standards for School Mathematics and Common Core State Standards, this book covers the importance of mathematics content, learning and instruction, and mathematics assessment.

Children are already learning at birth, and they develop and learn at a rapid pace in their early years. This provides a critical foundation for lifelong progress, and the adults who provide for the care and the education of young children bear a great responsibility for their health, development, and learning. Despite the fact that they share the same objective - to nurture young children and secure their future success - the various practitioners who contribute to the care and the education of children from birth through age 8 are not acknowledged as a workforce unified by the common knowledge and competencies needed to do their jobs well. Transforming the Workforce for Children Birth Through Age 8 explores the science of child development, particularly looking at implications for the professionals who work with children. This report examines the current capacities and practices of the workforce, the settings in which they work, the policies and infrastructure that set qualifications and provide professional learning, and the government agencies and other funders who support and oversee these systems. This book then makes recommendations to improve the quality of professional practice and the practice environment for care and education professionals. These detailed recommendations create a blueprint for action that builds on a unifying foundation of child development and early learning, shared knowledge and competencies for care and education professionals, and principles for effective professional learning. Young children thrive and learn best when they have secure, positive relationships with adults who are knowledgeable about how to support their development and learning and are responsive to their individual progress. Transforming the Workforce for Children Birth Through Age 8 offers guidance on system changes to improve the quality of professional practice, specific actions to improve professional learning systems and workforce development, and research to continue to build the knowledge base in ways that will directly advance and inform future actions. The recommendations of this book provide an opportunity to improve the quality of the care and the education that children receive, and ultimately improve outcomes for children.

Improving Schools for African American Students is designed to provide educational leaders with a better understanding of how to recognize the diversity of strengths that Black students bring with them to school and how to use these strengths to improve achievement. The articles contained in this book discuss generic education issues such as policy reform, the importance of high quality teaching, and the improvement of schools from the perspective of the academic achievement of African American students. Part I explores institutional racism in the context of America's public schools and provides suggestions for educational leaders to eliminate harmful policies and practices within educational institutions and settings. Part II discusses the kinds of institutional and instructional changes that are needed to support successful schooling of African American children and youth. Part III focuses on the challenges presented to African American students by the current high stakes testing environment that surrounds standards, assessment, and accountability. A review of the literature on schools that have succeeded in improving achievement for African American students at the elementary, middle, and high school levels with districts moving towards narrowing the achievement gap is included. This text examines a wide variety of policies, programs, practices, and research that will provide valuable insight. The emphasis throughout the book is on the ability of educators to successfully restructure their schools, offer high quality teaching and learning standards for African American students and to make the kinds of changes that will result in high achievement for all students.