Mona Brookes

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

California

Art, music, drama/theater

A Creative Teaching and Learning Method That Works for Adults, Too

This book provides teachers and librarians a way to integrate art into the content area curriculum using the Monart Drawing method. Teachers and librarians do not need to have art training to use this method to teach students how to draw to express themselves.

Drawing with Children

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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

World Languages

Introducing Second Language Acquisition 

Group Diagram Staff

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Drawing

This progressive course enables even the complete novice to tap into the magic of drawing, to use art to discover the world, and to create significant personal responses to reality and ideas. 768 illustrations.

Complete Drawing Course

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Anthony D. Fredericks

English

How to Be an Effective and Successful Teacher

It is a challenge faced thousands of times by thousands of new teachers every year. In this captivating and highly practical book, (which builds on the success of the critically acclaimed Ace Your Teacher Interview and Ace Your Teacher Resume award-winning author and teacher, Anthony D. Fredericks offers real-world guidelines, fresh advice, and down-to-earth tips from numerous principals, superintendents, and teachers around the country. Most important, he provides you with useful and applicable tips and strategies that will make your first year go by smoothly. Discover where most first year teachers go wrong and avoid those problems. Ace Your First Year Teaching gives you proven strategies, winning guidelines, and scores of examples and tips. Also included are step-by-step evaluations that will help you rise to the top of the teacher pool and give you a distinctive advantage over the competitionan advantage that can result in the career of your dreams.

Ace Your First Year Teaching

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Rekha S. Rajan

Enhance the learning experience by integrating the performing arts Research documents that the arts boost learning, build confidence, and motivate students to participate in class. How do we keep the performing arts alive in this era of increased accountability and decreased funding? Rekha S. Rajan sets the stage for a creative and practical solution with detailed, concrete examples of how to integrate the performing arts into math, science, social studies, and language arts. Key features include: Step-by-step examples of how to include the performing arts in all aspects of the curriculum Ways to impact students′ learning in the cognitive, social, and artistic domains Activities that can be implemented immediately and easily Detailed lesson plans connected to the National Standards for Arts Education, National Standards for Early Childhood and Elementary Education, and Common Core Standards for Math and Language Arts Students in grades K-5 need creative venues that encourage self-confidence, self-expression, and collaboration. The performing arts provide opportunities to build personal and social skills that are an integral component of learning and development. This accessible resource provides all teachers with the tools to integrate the performing arts throughout their curriculum.

Integrating the Performing Arts in Grades K-5

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Maura A. Clarkin

Activity Book

National Gallery of Art

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Esmé Raji Codell

Diary of a Teacher's First Year

A first-year teacher in the Chicago public school system reveals her frustrations, achievements, and struggles to maintain her individuality in the face of administrators, abusive parents, gang members, and weary teachers.

Educating Esmé

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Ken Robinson

Lou Aronica

The Grassroots Revolution That's Transforming Education

At a time when standardized testing businesses are raking in huge profits, when many schools are struggling, and students and educators everywhere are suffering under the strain, Ken Robinson argues for an end to our outmoded industrial educational system. He proposes instead a highly personalized, organic approach that draws on today's unprecedented technological and professional resources to engage all students, develop their love of learning, and enable them to face the real challenges of the twenty-first century. Filled with anecdotes, observations, and recommendations from professionals on the front line of transformative education, case histories, and groundbreaking research, Creative Schools aims to inspire teachers, parents, and policy makers alike to rethink the real nature and purpose of education.

Creative Schools

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Arthur L. Costa

Art, Music, Drama/Theater

16 Essential Characteristics for Success

In Learning and Leading with Habits of Mind, noted educators Arthur L. Costa and Bena Kallick present a comprehensive guide to shaping schools around Habits of Mind. The habits are a repertoire of behaviors that help both students and teachers successfully navigate the various challenges and problems they encounter in the classroom and in everyday life. The Habits of Mind include:
 * Persisting.
 * Managing impulsivity.
 * Listening with understanding and empathy.
 * Thinking flexibly.
 * Thinking about thinking (metacognition).
 * Striving for accuracy.
 * Questioning and posing problems.
 * Applying past knowledge to new situations.
 * Thinking and communicating with clarity and precision.
 * Gathering data through all senses.
 * Creating, imagining, innovating.
 * Responding with wonderment and awe.
 * Taking responsible risks.
 * Finding humor.
 * Thinking interdependently.
 * Remaining open to continuous learning.



This volume brings together-in a revised and expanded format-concepts from the four books in Costa and Kallick's earlier work Habits of Mind: A Developmental Series. Along with other highly respected scholars and practitioners, the authors explain how the 16 Habits of Mind dovetail with up-to-date concepts of what constitutes intelligence; present instructional strategies for activating the habits and creating a ""thought-full"" classroom environment; offer assessment and reporting strategies that incorporate the habits; and provide real-life examples of how communities, school districts, building administrators, and teachers can integrate the habits into their school culture. Drawing upon their research and work over many years, in many countries, Costa and Kallick present a compelling rationale for using the Habits of Mind as a foundation for leading, teaching, learning, and living well in a complex world.

Learning and Leading with Habits of Mind

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Carol S. Dweck

The New Psychology of Success

Reveals how established attitudes affect all aspects of one's life, explains the differences between fixed and growth mindsets, and stresses the need to be open to change in order to achieve fulfillment and success.

Mindset

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Katie Novak

David H. Rose

A Teacher's Guide to Applying Universal Design for Learning in Today's Classrooms

In this revised and expanded edition of UDL Now! Katie Novak provides practical insights and savvy strategies for helping all learners meet high standards using the principles of Universal Design for Learning (UDL). UDL is a framework for inclusive education that aims to lower barriers to learning and optimize each individual's opportunity to learn. Novak shows how to use the UDL Guidelines to plan lessons, choose materials, assess learning, and improve instructional practice. Novak discusses key concepts such as scaffolding, vocabulary-building, and using student feedback to inform instruction. She also provides tips on recruiting students as partners in the teaching process, engaging their interest in how they learn. UDL Now! is a fun and effective Monday-morning playbook for great teaching.

UDL Now!

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Robert J. Marzano

Debra Pickering

Jane E. Pollock

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Research-Based Strategies for Increasing Student Achievement

How do you bring research findings into the classroom and how do you find the time to research the research? In this valuable resource, the authors have examined decades of research findings to distill the results into nine categories of teaching strategies that have positive effects on student learning.

Classroom Instruction That Works

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Helen D. Hume

Easy ways to infuse art into classroom learning

One of the most popular books in the Jossey-Bass Teacher series is now available in a completely updated and expanded version. With more than 110 creative art projects in varied types of media--from drawing to digital--plus tips, tools, and curricular resources, The Art Teacher's Survival Guide for Elementary and Middle Schools offers everything a teacher needs to know to present an effective arts education program. Classroom teachers who want to include art projects as part of the content curriculum and art teachers looking for new ideas will all find fresh inspiration in this exciting new edition. It features numerous new projects and draws on multicultural traditions, includes reproducible pages, and provides detailed instructions with illustrations, links to content learning, and modifications for different ages. Authoritative, practical, and user-friendly, this comprehensive guide is an invaluable addition to every K-8 teacher's basic classroom tools.

The Art Teacher's Survival Guide for Elementary and Middle Schools

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Aaron Rosen

Oversized Hardcover (4 to 6 lbs)

A fresh approach to the connection between art and religion that seeks to redefine their relationship in the contemporary age The relationship between art and religion has been long, complex, and often conflicted, and it has given rise to many of the greatest works in the history of art. Artists today continue to reflect seriously upon religious traditions, themes, and institutions, suggesting a new approach to spirituality that is more considered than confrontational. Art & Religion in the 21st Century is the first in-depth study to survey an international roster of artists who use their work to explore religion’s cultural, social, political, and psychological impact on today’s world. An introduction outlines the debates and controversies that the art/religion connection has precipitated throughout history. Each of the book’s ten chapters introduces a theme—ideas of the Creation, the figure of Jesus, the sublime, wonder, diaspora and exile, religious and political conflict, ritual practice, mourning and monumentalizing, and spiritual “dwelling” in the body and in space—followed by a selection of works of art that illustrates that theme. Artists discussed include Vanessa Beecroft, Maurizio Cattelan, Makoto Fujimura, David LaChapelle, Annette Messager, Jason Rhoades, Andres Serrano, and Zeng Fanzhi.

Art and Religion in the 21st Century

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Harry K. Wong

Rosemary T. Wong

How to Be an Effective Teacher

A guide for teachers at any level shares ideas on classroom management and designing lessons for academic success.

The First Days of School

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Roslyn Ann Duffy

Debbie Owen-Sohocki

Jane Nelsen

Linda Escobar

Kate Ortolano

Hundreds of Solutions for Almost Every Classroom Behavior Problem!

Take back the classroom and make a positive difference in your students' lives.

Many teachers today are facing problems and discipline issues they never dreamed of when they decided to become teachers. Combine violence, behavioral disorders, and downright defiant attitudes from students with the age-old problems of bullying, poor attendance, and more, and the mix is positively lethal. However, there are effective, positive strategies for restoring order and turning the teacher-student relationship into one of mutual respect.

Applicable to all grade levels, this comprehensive A to Z guide addresses modern-day problems and practical solutions for establishing an effective learning environment. Inside, you'll discover:

* The 17 fundamental tools of positive discipline
* Real-life stories of proven positive discipline strategies
* Suggestions for establishing and maintaining respectful, nurturing relationships with students
* And much more!

"Overcome obstacles and get back to why you became a teacher in the first place: to empower students with confidence, self-respect, and resourcefulness."
--Bill Scott, principal, Birney Elementary School, Murietta, Georgia

"An inspiring, information-packed book. All teachers--from those just beginning to those with many years of experience--will find the tools of positive discipline easy to use."
--Phillip Harris, Ed.D., director, Center for Professional Development and Services, Phi Delta Kappa International

Positive Discipline: a Teacher's a-Z Guide

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Frederic H. Jones

In "Tools for Teaching," Dr. Jones describes the skills by which exceptional teachers make the classroom a place of success and enjoyment for both themselves and their students. Tools for Teaching integrates the management of discipline, instruction and motivation into a system that allows you to reduce the stress of teaching by preventing most management headaches. These skills are made accessable through practical, down-to-earth language and detailed examples and illustrations.

Fred Jones' Tools for Teaching - Discipline - Instruction - Motivation

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Fredric H. Jones

Patrick Jones

Jo Lynne Jones

Discipline, Instruction, Motivation

This extended special edition of Mark Lewisohn's magisterial book Tune In is a true collector's item, featuring hundreds of thousands of words of extra material, as well as many extra photographs. It is the complete, uncut and definitive biography of the Beatles' early years, from their family backgrounds through to the moment they're on the cusp of their immense breakthrough at the end of 1962.

Designed, printed and bound in Great Britain, this high-quality edition consists of two beautifully produced individual hardbacks printed on New Langely Antique Wove woodfree paper, with red-and-white head and tail bands and red ribbon marker. The two books will sit within a specially designed box and lid featuring soft touch and varnish finishes. The whole product comes shrinkwrapped for extra protection.

Mark Lewisohn's biography is the first true and accurate account of the Beatles, a contextual history built upon impeccable research and written with energy, style, objectivity and insight. This extended special edition is for anyone who wishes to own the complete story in all its stunning and extraordinary detail. This is genuinely, and without question, the lasting word from the world-acknowledged authority.

Fred Jones Tools for Teaching

Joe Wittmer

Diane W. Thompson

Larry C. Loesch

A Sourcebook for Elementary School Counselors

Classroom guidance provides unlimited opportunities for you to get to know your elementary school students, while delivering a service based on three universally-accepted areas of student development: (a) personal and social development, (b) academic development, and (c) career development. These structured, large-group activities can provide the core for your developmental guidance program. Integrate these activities into your affective education curriculum or draw upon them when specific guidance situations arise.

Classroom Guidance Activities

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Pentagram Partnership Staff

An Eye-Opening Collection of Optical Illusions and Visual Magic

In 150 cleverly conceived and designed full-color illustrations, the creators of Pentagames and Pentagrams present visual illusions that will mock the eye's perceptions, sleight-of-hand tricks that will astonish an audience, and diverting and unusual pencil and paper-folding games.

Pentamagic

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Jill Mizra

Nick Harris

Great for learning color mixing with acrylic paint.

An Artist's Guide to Successful Color Mixing

Acrylic is a popular medium, and it's not hard to see whyùit is both versatile and user-friendly, and its vibrant colors have long-lasting intensity. Mix Your Own Acrylics provides a basic introduction to getting the most out of your acrylic colors, starting with explanations of color theory and topics including hue, value, and saturation. You will learn the exact ratios for mixing dozens of blues, greens, yellows, oranges, reds, and purples. You will also learn about color complements and how to use them to mix a range of neutral browns and grays. Experimenting with acrylic can be a lot of fun, and this valuable resource is your definitive guide for mixing your own brilliant colors!

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