Creative Education

Knowing what to buy when you're a photography beginner is tough! Everyone knows that lighting makes or breaks a great photo, but how do you set up your own home studio for excellent photography composition ? This book will answer those questions!

Are you ready to take control of your family's finances and achieve financial freedom? Budgeting for Families: Practical Tips for Managing Household Finances is your ultimate guide to mastering money management, saving money, and reaching your financial goals. This comprehensive book breaks down the complexities of household budgeting into easy-to-understand, actionable steps that any family can follow. Discover the essential techniques for creating a family budget that works for everyone. Learn how to assess your income and expenses, categorize them effectively, and prioritize your ...

Every writer struggles with writer's block at some point. It is frustrating, and it prevents many writers from becoming professional authors. In this new guide you will learn how to destroy writer's block and unleash your creativity. Through a concise series of exercises you'll learn to never get "stuck" in your writing again. You will discover how to branch into new writing styles, surprise yourself, and unlock your inner genius.

Making Room: How to Create Soul & Style in Your Home will help you design a home that runs smoothly, looks authentically beautiful and promotes peace. Lucy Jo Bowman outlines how to create a solid foundation for home life by pointing you toward: Cleaning, decluttering and organizing methods to get your space working for you and principles of a happy home to cultivate your important relationships.

In the tradition of Julia Cameron's Artist's Way series, and the writings of Elizabeth Gilbert, Birdlight is easily in a class all its own thanks to Robin Blackburn McBride's deep, intuitive understanding of the creative process and how to spark it into life. Weaving memoir, folklore, drama, and poetry with the power of brain science to shed light on the creative process, this warm and friendly guide is essential listening for budding artists, innovators, and decision makers in any field at any age and from any walk of life.

Even the youngest listeners and writers need to learn about plagiarism. Give listeners and writers the tools they need to evaluate and understand ownership of work.

In the fractured environment of the 21st century, true success will be unique and unexpected - the result of a creative response to complex, shifting challenges. In light of that, how do we prepare? How do we educate ourselves and our children for life in 2050? In the world our children will face, neither static definitions of intelligence nor traditional ideas of training will be good enough. To prepare them, parents and educators need to reframe the question of how we educate and come up with an answer that uses different terms than we are accustomed to.

Dopo anni trascorsi tra letture per gli editori, valutazione di manoscritti, scrittura di articoli, racconti, recensioni e critiche, Dorothea Brande ha cominciato a insegnare scrittura creativa partendo dal fatto che le difficoltà dello studente medio o dello scrittore dilettante iniziano molto prima che egli arrivi al punto di poter beneficiare delle tecniche vere e proprie dell'arte dello scrivere.

Do you feel trapped by the walls of your urban living space? Are you tired of feeling disconnected from nature? Do you dream of escaping the city sprawl to a haven of greenery? You're not the only one - and you don't have to settle for a second longer. The time has come to transform your environment and, with it, your life!

TEACHING FROM THE HEART captures the experience and practice of teaching at international schools abroad. Michael Hogan who has worked as an educator and administrator overseas for three decades provides the reader with insights into the lives of students, teachers and parents in the overseas communities served by American and international schools abroad." His enthusiasm is contagious and his intellectual curiosity creates an atmosphere of joy and wonder in the classroom." Richard Shelton, Regents Professor, University of Arizona. "Michael Hogan has become a legend in American schools ...

International Emmy nominated writer Mark Boutros offers a guide to creating characters who are engaging, emotionally driven, and memorable. With experience writing comedy, drama, and novels, Mark shares a mixture of theory, exercises, and pitfalls, getting you thinking about the questions you should always have in your mind during character creation. This is an invaluable tool for beginner and experienced writers.

Award-winning writer Dan Wakefield reveals how writers, artists, musicians, and creative people of all kinds can unleash the principle of creativity within so that it can infuse every aspect of our lives. Wakefield challenges the belief that to be creative, one must be alienated, neurotic, irresponsible, and a failure at relationships. Drawing on examples from religion, philosophy, and literature Creating from the Spirit teaches us that the key to creation is clarity of body, mind, and spirit.

Science fiction is all about exploration. We want to know more about the known world, but especially the unknown. It is in that idea of unlimited potential that the sci-fi genre was born. Whether you are a novice or writing professional, the prompts contained in this book are designed to give you more food for thought when crafting your creative works. The book is also segmented in order to give you the most common science fiction themes and concepts.

Discover the power of mind mapping as a versatile tool for organizing thoughts, fostering creativity, and enhancing productivity in various personal and professional endeavors. In this eBook, we will explore the fundamentals of mind mapping, including its origins, principles, and applications across different domains. Learn how mind maps can help streamline project management, boost learning and retention, and facilitate problem-solving and decision-making. Explore practical tips and strategies for creating effective mind maps, collaborating with others, and leveraging digital tools for ...

Small Habits Create Big Change is a collection of micro-habits that educators can use to reclaim their mental health and love for their jobs. This book helps you identify your unique personality type, so you can find the hacks and tweaks that will actually work as you strive to manage stress and reignite your passion for working with students. Many educators feel overwhelmed, frustrated, and on the verge of burnout, but it's never too late to turn things around.

Brave Leadership Is a Choice: An Inclusive Guide to Creating Belonging is for leaders who care deeply about cultivating inclusive, human-focused environments to support greater connection, creativity, and collaboration.

When people are kept from moving - whether they're sitting through a presentation or stuck behind a desk - they become restless, and their attention waivers. Yet most training ignores the innate human desire for motion, resulting in participants learning less.

We are in a period of unknowns unlike any in a generation or more. As educators, we need new pathways and ideas that can help us educate children for the world to come. Reimagining the Classroom: Creating New Learning Spaces and Connecting with the World provides practical steps and examples that parents and educators can use to begin to create new learning spaces, approaches, and outcomes. Dr. Richards's provocative book asks us to reconsider some of our basic assumptions about teaching and learning.

In Woven Together: How Unpacking Your Teacher Identity Creates a Stronger Learning Community, expert educator Dr. Courtney E. Rose delivers a student-driven approach to teaching that demonstrates how to bring your full self to the classroom. You'll learn to create space for your students to do the same thing, de-standardizing the current norms of the classroom while embracing their unique experiences, perspectives, and understandings to create more meaningful learning experiences.

Learning to create a unique, immersive place one podcast episode at a time. World building strategist Randy Ellefson turned his successful book series, The Art of World Building, into a popular podcast of the same name, with episodes loosely drawn from each book in the series...Ellefson breaks out in new directions while expanding on how to invent planets, continents, sovereign powers, settlements, history, maps, and more...Build better, faster.