Education/Classroom
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Eric Braun How to Take the GROAN Out of Grown-Ups (and Get Along!)
Communication skills for kids that help them build stronger relationships with adults. Whatever kinds of grown-ups kids have in their lives, one thing is for sure: Life is better (and a whole lot simpler) when kids and grown-ups get along. And while grown-ups want kids to be respectful and thoughtful—toward everybody, not just grown-ups!—kids also deserve to be respected and treated thoughtfully. How to Take the GROAN Out of Grown-Ups (and Get Along!) provides practical communication skills for kids and shows them how to build relationships, have difficult conversations, and know when to seek more trusting adults. Relationships with grown-ups can be fun and fulfilling. They can lead to good times and great memories. They can make life better in all kinds of ways. (Like getting to eat French toast nachos for dinner once in a while!) How to Take the GROAN Out of Grown-Ups (and Get Along!) provides communication skills for kids that will help them build positive relationships with the adults in their lives.
$16.95
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Trevor Romain How to Do Homework Without Throwing Up
Revised classic provides a humor-filled take on a sickening subject—homework—updated to address modern issues such as technology.Homework can be horrible! But homework isn’t going anywhere, and kids need to learn to do it—without throwing up. This updated classic provides specific tips for starting, doing, and finishing homework—and maybe even laughing while they learn. Kids will also learn how to make a homework schedule, when to do the hardest homework (first!), the benefits of doing homework, and more—serious suggestions delivered with wit and humor because laughter makes learning fun. Refreshed to address modern distractions like the Internet and electronic devices, this updated classic (with hilarious full-color illustrations) helps kids see that they can handle their homework and emphasizes how terrific it feels when they finish.
$16.95
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Lauren Brukner How to Be A Superhero Called Self-Control
Super Powers to Help Younger Children to Regulate their Emotions and Senses Meet Self-Control, a superhero who wants to teach young children his super powers of self-control! Anxiety, frustration, anger, and other difficult feelings won't stand a chance against their new-found powers. Self-Control teaches children with emotional and sensory regulation difficulties aged approximately 4-7 how to calm themselves using self-massage, deep pressure, breathing exercises, and activities such as making an imaginary list and finding their own peaceful place. This illustrated book also features an appendix with photocopiable super power charts, reinforcers, and reminder tools to ensure that parents, teachers, and other professionals can support children in upholding superhero strategies even after the book has been read.
$32.95
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How Rude! Teens Guide to Good Manners
Discussing etiquette and manners from common courtesies to cell-phone smarts to classroom decorum, Alex J. Packer blends outrageous humor with sound advice as he explains why etiquette and manners are important-because people who know how to handle themselves in social situations come out on top, get what they want, feel good about themselves, and enjoy life to the fullest.
$46.50
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How Little Coyote Found His Secret Strength
A Story About How to Get Through Hard Times In a deep dark forest, Little Coyote grows up with a tough gang of big strong coyotes. They are cruel, call him names, and order him about all day long. Little Coyote is too small to run away or stand up for himself, so he learns to do what he's told and makes his body small so nobody notices him. Then, one day he goes on an adventure and ends up discovering new hidden strengths that he never knew he had. This picture book helps children aged 4-10 talk about difficult experiences and explores how they can affect how your body feels and reacts to things. Includes advice for adults on how to help your child.
$29.95
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How Do You Doodle?: Drawing My Feelings and Emotions
Meet Otti, Ugga, and Flibb-They like to doodle. They doodle all the time! They doodle when they are mad, they doodle when they are glad, and they doodle when they are sad. They doodle just about anything they want! How Do You Doodle? is a drawing book for kids to help them get in touch with and learn to express their emotions.
$18.95
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How Do I Teach This Kid To Read? Teaching Literacy Skills to Young Children with Autism
For many young children with autism, reading is often a factual memorization of letters and words. The playful, imaginative qualities of reading may be missed in favor of the repetitive, predictable alphabet and visual appearance of words on a page. This book presents simple instructional strategies that can be used to help develop early literacy skills in young children with autism. Award-winning author Kimberly Henry provides dozens of fine-tuned, easily adaptable activities that teachers and parents can implement separately or in infinite combinations. Included are units on phonemic awareness, vocabulary, comprehension, and fluency.
$29.95
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How Beautiful the Ordinary: Twelve Stories of Identity
A girl thought to be a boy steals her sister's skirt, while a boy thought to be a girl refuses to wear a cornflower blue dress. One boy's love of a soldier leads to the death of a stranger. The present takes a bittersweet journey into the past when a man revisits the summer school where he had "an accidental romance." In non-traditional narratives, short stories, and brief graphics, tales of anticipation and regret, eagerness and confusion present distinctively modern views of love, sexuality, and gender identification. Together, they reflect the vibrant possibilities available for young people learning to love others-and themselves-in today's multifaceted and quickly changing world.
$29.95
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Helen Lester Hooway For Wodney Wat
Read along with Wodney as he surprises himself and his classmates by single-handedly saving the whole class from the big bad bully. Children will delight as shy Rodney Rat triumphs over all and his tiny voice decides the day, R's or no R's.
$10.95
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Hidden Curriculum and Other Everyday Challenges for Elementary-Age Children With High-Functioning Autism
In this 2nd expanded edition, previously entitled "Practical Solutions to Everyday Challenges for Children with Asperger Syndrome", authors Haley Myles and Annellise Kolar give simple, no-nonsense advice on how to handle everyday occurrences that can be challenging for children on the autism spectrum. This reader-friendly book provides social rules that help children with peer relationships, school and everyday activities. New hidden curriculum tips, including tips on Internet safety, provide children essential social rules for succeeding in an ever-changing interactive world.
$35.95
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Cara Bea Here I Am, I Am Me: An Illustrated Guide to Mental Health
This colorful graphic adventure through the brain demystifies emotional and mental health for children using accessible language and lessons. Nine chapters explore different aspects of mental health, from the brain and the mind through to feelings and emotions. Illustrated characters represent parts of the brain to explain what is really going on inside the human brain. Each chapter includes a "question map" that gives context to and helps frame the pages that follow as well as a "Bean Memory," which shares a first-person true story that illustrates the chapter's subject matter as it has played out in the author's life. The book doesn't pretend teens are immune to mental health struggles. Crucial topics like depression, substance use and addiction, and suicide are covered along with tips for coping. This book destigmatizes mental health by reframing it, teaching how to use conscious language, and learning how to help weather mental health dilemmas.
$23.99
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Helping Your Child With PDA Live a Happier Life
Drawing on the author's personal experience of parenting a child with PDA, this insightful and informative guide offers strategies and tips for all aspects of daily life, including sensory issues, education and negotiation. Full of advice and support, this book is not intended to provide information on how to change your children. Rather, it is focused on creating the type of environment that will allow children to be authentically themselves, thereby enabling them to flourish and thrive.
$32.95
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Helping Teens Who Cut (2nd Edition)
Using DBT® Skills to End Self-Injury Dr. Hollander has written this book with the worried parent in mind, hoping to provide them with advice and guidance needed to address adolescent self-harm. An expert in DBT (dialectical behavior therapy), Hollander maintains that it is the foremost treatment for cutting and explains how DBT can help your loved one. Also, included: strategies for discussion about self-harm, how to teach coping skills, and other helpful advice.
$23.95
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Helping Students Take Control of Everyday Executive Functions
The Attention Fix This book presents an innovative model for supporting executive function in students with attention, memory, organization, planning, inhibition, initiative, and flexibility difficulties, including those with ADHD, ADD, autism spectrum disorders and related conditions. The author advocates a student-centered approach in which educators first explore 8 key 'ingredients' with the student: relationships; strengths and weaknesses; self-advocacy and responsibility; review and preview; motivation and incentive; synthesis and analysis; rhythm and routine; and practice and repetition. She provides a step-by-step explanation of how these 'ingredients' can then be used in different ways and in different combinations to successfully address particular areas of difficulty. The approach is clearly explained, and the book contains many useful examples, practical tips and strategies, suggested conversation starters, sample time management plans and other tools that can be adapted to meet the particular needs of individual students.
$47.95
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Jack A. Naglieri & Eric B. Pickering Helping Children Learn (2nd Edition)
Intervention Handouts for Use in School and at Home. Applying their expert knowledge of how children learn, the authors developed more than 75 highly effective intervention handouts -ideal for teachers to use in the classroom and share with parents for use at home. This second edition is set up like the first: A short questionnaire helps school psychologists pinpoint students' strengths and needs, and teachers use the handouts to address the areas that need work. Photocopiable and easy to print from the convenient new CD-ROM, the handouts in this edition: * fit perfectly with RTI * improve skills in specific academic areas such as reading, writing, spelling, and math * build foundational skills such as attention, self-control, memory, and good listening * help students with a wide range of learning challenges, including learning disabilities, sensory issues, and emotional or behavioral problems, and more!
$44.95
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Healthy Relationships Bingo for Teens
Explore what to look for in a healthy relationship, obstacles to a healthy relationship, red flags, green flags, and skills to building a healthy relationship. Includes laminated cards, chips, calling cards, reproducible handouts, and instructions. For up to 16 players. Ages 12-18.
$62.95
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Healthy Habits Bingo For Teens
Using the Bingo format this game provides ready-made prompts that will generate lively discussion to get teens thinking about their attitudes and behaviors. Helps teens learn how to make healthy choices for themselves physically mentally and spiritually. Grades 5-12 Includes 16 laminated Bingo cards 75 calling cards and reproducible handouts. Part of the Middle School Bingo Games Set. For more information on our Bingo games go to search and type in Bingo.
$62.95
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Healthy Body Healthy Mind Cards
This card deck is designed for people who want to explore the connection between having a healthy body and healthy mind, and related issues. A wide variety of topics are explored including eating, values regarding health, faith, relaxation, exercise and activities, substances, anxiety, depression, risk-taking, healthcare teams, etc. Players can be anyone who wants to explore this interesting topic. 4-14 players.
$29.95
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Melanie Siebert, Belle Wuthrich Heads Up: Changing Minds on Mental Health
Featuring real-life stories of people who have found hope and meaning in the midst of life's struggles, this is the go-to guide for teenagers who want to know about mental health, mental illness, trauma and recovery. For too long, mental health problems have been kept in the shadows, leaving people to suffer in silence, or worse, to be feared, bullied or pushed to the margins of society where survival is difficult. The book explores how mental health is more than just "in our heads" and includes the voices of Indigenous people who share a more holistic way of thinking about wellness, balancing mind, body, heart and spirit. Highlighting innovative approaches such as trauma-informed activities like yoga and hip-hop, police mental health teams, and peer support for youth, Heads Up shares the stories of people who are sparking change.
$24.95
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Christianne Jones Harrison P. Spader, Personal Space Invader
Harrison P. Spader sat a little too close. Shook hands a little too long. High-fived a little too hard. And hugged a little too much. Harrison P. Spader was a personal space invader. But that all changes when he learns the Space Saver rhyme: Arms out front, then out real wide. Now place your arms back by your sides. Author Christianne Jones uses humor and relatable situations to teach early learners about self awareness. This entertaining picture book in the Little Boost series will tackle a much-needed topic for teachers, parents, and librarians.
$21.95
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Thich Nhat Hanh A Handful of Quiet: Happiness in Four Pebbles
Pebble meditation is a unique technique to introduce children to the calming practice of meditation. Developed by Zen master, best selling author, and peace Nobel Prize nominee Thich Nhat Hanh, this book contains complete instructions for pebble meditation designed to involve children in a hands-on and creative way that touches on their interconnection with nature. Whether practiced alone or with the whole family, pebble meditation can help relieve stress, increase concentration, nourish gratitude, and can help children deal with difficult emotions.
$19.95
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Handbook of Social and Emotional Learning
Research & Practice The burgeoning multidisciplinary field of social and emotional learning (SEL) now has a comprehensive and definitive handbook covering all aspects of research, practice, and policy. The prominent editors and contributors describe state-of-the-art intervention and prevention programs designed to build students' skills for managing emotions, showing concern for others, making responsible decisions, and forming positive relationships. Conceptual and scientific underpinnings of SEL are explored and its relationship to children's and adolescents' academic success and mental health examined. Issues in implementing and assessing SEL programs in diverse educational settings are analyzed in depth, including the roles of school- and district-level leadership, teacher training, and school-family partnerships.
$72.95
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Hacking School Culture: Designing Compassionate Classrooms
The co-authors guide us on a journey of connected themes to create and sustain compassionate classrooms that are motivational and educational for each student. Each theme provides a comprehensive description and alignment with positive student development, strategies based on evidence, and immediate and long-term actions and strategies to overcome challenges. The themes are augmented with quotes and personal stories bringing to life the need for compassion as both a personal attribute and a characteristic of the school's environment.
$39.50
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Growth Mindset Workbook for Kids
A growth mindset can help you develop your abilities to tackle just about anything. Growth Mindset Workbook for Kids is a fun and engaging activity book, for ages 8 to 12, that can help you train your brain and develop creative problem-solving skills through practice and perseverance. You'll learn how to foster a "can-do" attitude and celebrate your mistakes as a path to ultimate success.
$22.50
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