Reaching for the Reins

Reaching for the Reins
Stories of At-Risk Students Empowered by Serving Others through Equine Therapy
By Tara Carlsen

Published: 10/27/2013
Format: E-Book (available as ePub, Mobi, and PDF files) What's This
Pages: 226
ISBN: 978-1-49170-729-6
Print Type: B/W

Overview:

Tara Carlsen wanted to help at-risk students learn without relying on stale, clinical teaching methods. Instead of trying to find solutions in the classroom, the mathematics teacher transplanted failing students from an alternative high school to a horse ranch. There, she encouraged them to reach for the reins, and she witnessed dramatic results.

Students who could not relate to their peers or teachers could relate to horses—and suddenly their futures looked a whole lot brighter. Carlsen and her students proceeded to take an inspiring journey, learning the basics of horsemanship through equine-assisted learning—a therapeutic approach to interpersonal development using horse-related activities.

After learning the basics, the students taught peers with special needs what they’d learned, drawing upon their own struggles and triumphs to help them achieve success. Punctuated with humor, heartbreak, and hard-won triumph, Reaching for the Reins chronicles the struggles and successes of these students over five years.

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Algebra 1 Activities

Algebra 1 Activities
By James H. Smith

Published: 12/6/2012
Format: E-Book (available as ePub, Mobi, and PDF files) What's This
Pages: 262
ISBN: 978-1-46973-696-9
Print Type: B/W

Overview:

Welcome to the wonderful world of algebraic computation!

This activity book offers puzzles, games, and activities suitable for students who want to have fun while becoming more adept in mathematical skill and ability. Algebra provides many of the core foundations for a large number of career paths. Algebra 1 Activities provides students with a practical, useful, and fun way to learn while preparing for studies in medicine, architecture, computer science, meteorology, media, statistics, accounting, engineering, industry, and parenting.

Designed with both the instructor and students in mind, Algebra 1 Activities facilitates meaningful teaching and learning opportunities. It covers various mathematics topics that may be used as follow-up or supplementary activities to guided instruction at the teacher’s discretion. Several activities are included for extended practice if required. They are logically arranged for a smooth progression through mastery of mathematics skills and can be adapted to fit the students’ needs, abilities, and learning styles.

Algebra 1 Activities allows for creativity, flexibility, and the enhancement of learning experiences in mathematics. Equip your students or yourself for the careers and challenges of the future.

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Mentoring Human Potential

Mentoring Human Potential
Student Peer Mentors as Catalysts for Academic Success
By Scott Seldin

Published: 10/12/2011
Format: E-Book
Pages: 176
ISBN: 978-1-46204-020-9
Print Type: B/W

Overview:

Mentoring Human Potential is a cutting edge manual for creating dynamic, holistic student peer mentoring programs. This is a revolutionary book. While giving practical information about how to train mentors and supervise a mentoring program, Scott Seldin asserts that spirit, personally defined, is an ally in waiting for every student—a powerful resource for academic achievement. Therein lies the revolution. Mentoring Human Potential provides the reader with a field-tested way to use holistic peer mentoring and spirit as powerful resources for increasing student retention, persistence, and wellbeing. “Scott Seldin will lead you toward the ways that mentor and mentee can open themselves to being moved by Spirit. He will courageously point the way to the greater mysteries that bless those who dare enter with an open heart. In Spirit, we find the soulful life and the path worth living and dying for. I encourage you to trust his guiding voice.” Dr. Bradford Keeney, author, psychologist

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Instructional Design—Step by Step

Instructional Design—Step by Step
Nine Easy Steps for Designing Lean, Effective, and Motivational Instruction
By John S. Hoffman, PhD

Published: 5/1/2013
Format: Perfect Bound Softcover(B/W)
Pages: 566
Size: 7.5x9.25
ISBN: 978-1-47598-671-6
Print Type: B/W

Overview:

Learn a simple, proven, step-by-step method for designing lean, eff ective, and motivational education and training from author Dr. John S. Hoff man, a thirty-year training veteran. A practitioner’s guide geared toward the newcomer to professional instructional design, Instructional Design—Step by Step presents an easy-to-understand process that includes these features:

• A primer on understanding how humans learn and the twelve principles of adult learning
• Ten key teaching principles and twenty common training mistakes
• Instruction on how to design computer application training complete with numerous examples illustrating new concepts and techniques
• Simple principles and practical advice laid out in bulleted lists and tables that can be immediately applied to training projects
• Follow-up questions at the end of every chapter with answers to test understanding of key concepts
• A broad range of examples across subject areas gathered by assessing real-life situations
• Sidebars containing recommendations for further reading
• A bibliography and extensive index for locating specific information Instructional Design—Step by Step and its companion volume, Instructional Development—Step by Step, provide a complete A-to-Z guide on how to design and develop instructional and educational materials—from short presentations to entire courses and curricula.

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The Day I Was Sent to the Principal’s Office

The Day I Was Sent to the Principal’s Office
By Steve Russo

Published: 5/1/2013
Format: Perfect Bound Softcover(B/W)
Pages: 326
Size: 6x9
ISBN: 978-1-47598-734-8
Print Type: B/W

Overview:

From the time he was a child, Steve Russo knew that he wanted to be an educator. It was his dream to be a teacher, to influence and shape young lives and minds, and he has lived that dream for twenty-eight years.

As with many teachers, he didn’t get into the field for money, but his rewards have been many and rich over his career. As an administrator, he encouraged his teachers to remember the daily opportunity to influence and inspire their students—and to make those influences powerfully positive ones. It’s a rule he tries to live by every day.

He starts with the story of his first trip to the principal’s office as a young student. In a deliciously ironic turn, he has returned to that same office—this time, behind the desk, as the principal.

Now he shares some of his favorite memories from a life lived as a public school administrator. These stories are not only a representation of his career in education but also a reflection of his life. All the stories are true, with no details exaggerated to enhance the stories—because in the life of an administrator, fact can be more amusing than fiction.

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