Parent Education

Written by a 20-year veteran of college admissions at three different colleges and a homeschooling dad, The Homeschool College Planner provides a unique, experienced perspective with all the tools you need to help your student make a successful launch to college - all in a condensed, easy-to-reference format.

As the female CEO of a tech startup, Dr. Cristal Glangchai was outnumbered 20 to one. At Google, Twitter, and Facebook, women currently fill just 10 to 20 percent of technical jobs. While career opportunities in science, technology, engineering, and math have increased dramatically in the past 20 years, the achievement gap between men and women has only grown wider. In VentureGirls, Glangchai offers a unique solution based on her own experience as an engineer and entrepreneur as well as the founder of the VentureLab, an academy of entrepreneurship and technology for girls.

Through the voices of students themselves, Fires in the Mind brings a game-changing question to teachers of adolescents: What does it take to get really good at something? Starting with what they already know and do well, teenagers from widely diverse backgrounds join a cutting-edge dialogue with adults about the development of mastery in and out of school. Their insights frame motivation, practice, and academic challenge in a new light that galvanizes more powerful learning for all.

Community leaders and activists Gómez and Arroyo worked with children, teenagers, and parents - both the victims and the bullies - to put together this searing anthology of original essays, poetry, plays, and commentary on how bullying has affected their lives.

AutoPilot Your Math Skills will teach the educator concepts of math. Major parts of teaching math to young children are certain philosophies to consider. This book will show and explain how to use these concepts in hands-on and cognitive activities. Furthermore, it will contain grades one to five of descriptive learning for the user to implement into his/her teaching.

Many single moms find themselves wondering, "Should I go back to school? How much will it cost? How will I pay for it and make the time to do it?" There is a lot of misinformation out there for single moms, and that's why we wrote The Successful Single Mom Gets an Education.

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Teach Your Child to Be Successful at Anything, Even Math teaches the five principles you need to change your child's perspective on learning, viewed specifically through the eyes of math. Applying these principles can save you hundreds of dollars and hours on tutors, and can prepare your child for a lifetime of learning new things!

Do you want your child to get the very best start in their education, even before they go to school? Have you considered Montessori as the way forward and want to implement it at home? This audiobook is an essential guide to get you started! The Montessori approach to child development has been tried and tested for over 100 years and the results speak for themselves. Children are naturally engaged, thoughtful, resilient, and curious about the world around them and the Montessori method taps into that in ways that other methods cannot.

Schluss mit Ängsten und Blockaden: Lernen kann und muss Spaß machen! Schlechte Noten, Frust bei den Hausaufgaben, hoher Leistungsdruck: Für viele Familien sind Schule und Lernen ein rotes Tuch. Wie bekommen Kinder wieder Freude am Lernen, Neugierde auf Neues? Wie überwindet man Stagnation und Resignation? Caroline von St. Ange hat die Lösung und kombiniert dafür verschiedene Ansätze und Lernmethoden. Sie gibt zahlreiche fantasievolle und praxisnahe Tipps und entfernt dabei eine Menge Staub von festgefahrenen Lernstrategien und altmodischen Annahmen.

Taking the Stress out of Homework breaks down for parents exactly when and how to offer homework support. Whether your child's stress point is executive functioning - the ability to plan or organize - or a subject-specific struggle in math, reading, writing, or standardized test-preparation, Abby and Brian use real-life stories to provide individualized, actionable advice.

Hello kids and parents. Are you looking for an interactive book to help your child with spelling? You have come to the right place. The lessons attached include more than 460 five-letter words and sentences that will help sharpen your child’s thinking skills and help you and your child have some fun together. They are broken up into six different chapters. Words to do with sports, words with an N in them, words to do with work, words with an A in them, and two chapters of miscellaneous five-letter words.

Admissions by Design is a poignant, unorthodox, and thorough guide that upends the traditional paradigm of college admissions. Incorporating the latest research in brain science and human development and using stories from her nearly 20 years of work with students, Lisa Fisher offers students practical tools to reframe the college admissions process to one of an inspired and authentic journey toward self-discovery.

The world has entered an era of the most profound and challenging change in human history. Most of our children are not prepared, and we know it.Parents around the world see the change and know that the traditional three R's - reading, writing, and arithmetic - are necessary, but not enough. Their children need to become far more responsible, creative, and tolerant of differences. They need to increase their ability to think for themselves, take initiative, get along with others, and solve problems.

This book helps parents who consider homeschooling their children, but don't know how to take the first approach. We will walk you through the steps, and even answer some questions you may have but can't find the answers to.

Do you have a child that needs help with math? If you do, please keep reading. According to The National Assessment of Educational Progress, in 2017, only 40 percent of fourth-grade students were at or above proficient in mathematics, up from 25 percent in 2000. Sixty percent of students were not proficient in math. Is your child one of that 60 percent? Additional resources help and this audiobook is one of those resources. Even if you struggled with math in school, you can use this audiobook to help your child.

“With education and exercise, man can attain perfection.” The words of Plato are still as pertinent today as they were when he was alive, almost 2500 years ago, and as we enter an era where we are less physically active than ever before, it’s time to look again at his insightful thoughts on the matter. In this new book, Plato’s Insight: How Physical Exercise Boosts Mental Excellence, you will discover the links between IQ and physical fitness, and why: Physically active students perform better at school People who regularly exercise have better memories Those who are physically ...

Alyson Franz suffered a painful loss and didn’t know how she could ever get past it. Being a therapist herself at the time, she tried many traditional approaches with no success. This led her to a journey of healing, transformation, and a complete change in her professional work. She has now rebuilt both her life and her professional practice based on what she has learned on this journey which includes extensive training in transformative healing and coaching modalities. She specializes in helping others heal from grief and loss.

Why shouldn't growing older be rewarding? Johann Christoph Arnold, whose books have helped over a million people through life's challenges, shows us the spiritual riches that age has to offer. Now in his 70s, Arnold finds himself personally facing the challenges of aging with grace. Rich in Years covers the significant topics facing the aging, the elderly, and their family and caregivers: accepting changes, combatting loneliness, and continuing on with purpose and hope.

Elements of Discipline is a timely and helpful book for teachers, parents, and day-care professionals that provides a simple set of rules for managing - successfully and humanely - a wide range of discipline situations and challenges. A well-respected child development specialist, Stephen Greenspan outlines his "ABC Theory of Discipline".