Celebrate 20 years of Writers Express with a brand new edition!
Writers Express is a writing handbook for students in grades 4 and 5. It overflows with writing guidelines, models, checklists, tips, and much more. Writers Express also helps students become better readers, test takers, and learners. Click to learn more!
Now Available! Shifting to the Common Core English/Language Arts and Mathematics
Shifting to the Common Core is a teacher resource that helps students to reach deeper levels of knowledge. It features . . .
- classroom strategies and activities for analyzing, evaluating, and synthesizing;
- standards correlations, rubrics, and model answers;
- recommendations for remediation.
Inquire
A Student Handbook for 21st Century Learning
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Inquire is a complete learning guide, covering 21st century skills, traditional study skills, the inquiry process, and project-based instruction. This handbook works in any class across the curriculum, helping students think and learn. It also works well as the main resource in a media-literacy or research course.
In addition to the student handbook, the program includes the Inquire Teacher's Guide. This guide describes the pedagogy behind Inquire, helps you use the handbook in any setting, and includes chapter-by-chapter lesson plans. Both the student and teacher editions are available in print and online versions.
Winner of the 2012 Staff Development for Educators "Favorite Things" Award.
Inquire (978-1-932436-34-1)
Inquire Online (978-1-932436-38-9)
Inquire TG (978-1-932436-36-5)
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In Focus
Improving Social and Emotional Intelligence, One Day at a Time
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In Focus helps students develop social and emotional intelligence, critical to success in school and beyond. This book provides daily lessons that focus on safety (the brain stem), emotion and motivation (the limbic system), and thinking (the cortex). In just minutes a day, you can help your students to . . .
- feel safe and ready to learn,
- behave in positive and constructive ways,
- manage and express emotions responsibly,
- gain focus and improve attention,
- reduce stress and calm themselves,
- eliminate bullying and impulsive behavior,
- elevate their self-esteem and confidence,
- improve teamwork and collaboration,
- become healthier and more responsible,
- develop intellectually and academically, and
- gain the social skills that employers seek.
In Focus Middle (Grades 6-8)
(978-1-932436-48-8)
In Focus Intermediate (Grades 3-5)
(978-1-932436-47-1)
In Focus Elementary (Grades K-2)
(978-1-932436-49-5)
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Writers Express 2016 Edition
Writers Express is a writing handbook for students in grades 4 and 5. It overflows with writing guidelines, models, checklists, tips, and much more. Writers Express also helps students become better readers, test takers, and learners. Click to learn more!
Shifting to the Common Core English/Language Arts and Mathematics
Shifting to the Common Core is a teacher resource that helps students to reach deeper levels of knowledge.
In the News
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Shifting to the Common Core is a teacher resource that helps students to reach deeper levels of knowledge.
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Larry Jacobs of Education Talk Radio recently conducted a discussion of 21st century learning with Rob King, author of Inquire, and Oliver Schinkten, co-founder of the Communities problem-based program at Oshkosh North High School.
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“On Point” host Tom Ashbrook leads a discussion on the importance of teaching social emotional intelligence in schools.
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In Focus: Improving Social and Emotional Intelligence, One Day at a Time is a teacher resource filled with daily lessons to help the whole child.