Power School

The School That Love Built is an audiobook about social/emotional learning specifically for educators who are seeking to improve the cultures of their schools and create positive learning environments. The SEL strategies in this book seek to enhance the social and emotional issues students are facing in this time of crisis in public education. It is the story of one school that was transformed by the unique strategies introduced in this book.

Her parents didn’t want her to do it. Her classmates refused to join her. Passersby expressed pity and bemusement at the sight of the pigtailed teenager who sat alone on the cobblestones in front of the Swedish Parliament with a hand-painted banner saying School Strike for Climate. Before she went on strike, fifteen-year-old Greta Thunberg refused to speak and eat. She had no friends and no purpose in life. But one day she decided to act. A year later, her strike sparked a global movement with millions of followers who shared a common goal: Save the planet. Now. Being Different is a ...

Nine-year-old Florence Williams’ parents are sitting behind bars for a crime they do not remember committing. When they are sentenced to prison, she is left with nowhere to belong. For four years after their arrest, Florence moves from house to house, getting shelter but missing a loving home. Her grandparents don’t want her. She even runs away to find her aunt, but she is found and returned to the Children’s Protective system. Finally, her Aunt Audrey is old enough to take her in and Florence, now thirteen, joins a special group of kids who call themselves The Wesley Club; full of ...

It’s been 18 months since the Raxter School for Girls was put in quarantine. The Tox turned the students strange and savage, the teachers died off one by one. Cut off from the mainland, the girls don’t dare wander past the school’s fence where the Tox has made the woods wild and dangerous. They wait for the cure as the Tox takes, their bodies becoming sick and foreign, things bursting out of them, bits missing.

In this compelling and heartfelt book, the author delves into a topic of utmost significance: the power and significance of prayer for children. Through its pages, readers are invited on a transformative journey that highlights the essential role of prayer in schools, homes, and workplaces when it comes to our beloved children. With great conviction, the book emphasizes that the act of prayer should extend beyond just our own children; it should encompass every child in our lives, be it a family member, a friend's child, or even a child we encounter in our professional settings. The author ...

Barbara's starting over. She's happy to leave high school behind, but now she has to make new friends when her bandmates leave town for college, and has to get control of her rage-fueled superpowers without her parents finding out. Just when an invitation for another band’s record release explodes into the gig of a lifetime, Barbara starts noticing weird circumstances around a cult-like megachurch. Guess Barbara has to make her own superteam! Look out, world: Here comes the Rage Brigade!

A lesson that everybody is special A 10-year-old socially awkward boy, Andy, who is obsessed with the Minecraft computer game, wakes up one evening to find a dragon from a faraway dragon country, Covonia, in his bedroom. He first thought it was one of his many Minecraft characters. However, he soon realises he is the only human who can see a real dragon and thus becomes Covonia's new Chosen One. Only a Chosen One can • find their missing music box which an evil dragon stole • help find the evil dragon hiding on Earth • bring back the peace in Covonia But what secret does the music box...

What's better than a good story? A story with a message! Being an educator is hard work, and it's easy to doubt whether we're making a difference in the lives of our students. In Stories of EduInfluence, veteran educator Brent Coley shares stories from more than two decades in the classroom and front office, stories illustrating the life-changing power we possess.

The First Amendment grants kids and every other citizen five monster privileges: freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of assembly, and the right to petition the government. If the First Amendment is everywhere in their lives, shouldn’t kids know more about it? Yes!

Millie is in her final year at a Catholic girls' school, subdued by the conformity of her life and her parents' quiet pain. But when her schoolmate Olive moves in next door, it marks the beginning of an intoxicating friendship that changes everything. In all the ways Millie feels unsure and half-formed, Olive, an aspiring actor from a devoutly Catholic family, seems at ease with her place in the world. On the precipice of freedom, the two young women seize nights out and a school retreat as opportunities to further their own increasingly uncertain ends

At secondary school in 1980s Dublin, a narrator recounts the story of his friend, Benny Breen who is terrorized by the vice principal known as Spitz. Over five years, about the halls and classrooms, Benny is made to trail the tyrant with unfettered power. He's subjected to humiliation and put-downs. When at last Benny reveals the true extent of the happenings, his confidante is so disturbed, he concludes there remains available but one option to end it. The pals hatch an astonishing plan so that Benny can live again, free from the torment he's suffered. A sensational, disturbing, yet ...

Oligarchy is Scarlett Thomas' fierce and brilliant new novel about power, privilege and peer pressure. When Natasha, daughter of a Russian oligarch, arrives for her first day at an all-girl boarding school, she finds herself thrown into a world of fierce pecking orders, eating disorders and Instagram angst. Then her friend Bianca mysteriously vanishes, and the world of the school gets ever darker and even weirder. Scarlett Thomas' first adult fiction since 2015 is a major return.

After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven … “The chief thing we need for a life of prayer is to know that Jesus teaches us to pray … Jesus’ teaching takes us up into the fellowship of His own prayer life before the Father. This is how Jesus really teaches. It was the sight of Jesus praying that made the disciples ask to be taught to pray. The faith of Jesus’ continuous prayer truly teaches us to pray” (Andrew Murray). With Christ in the School of Prayer begins at the spiritual elementary level and takes us step by step to the heights of prayer in faith,...

Un perfecto análisis de la educación actual para animarnos a volver a una escuela en donde el conocimiento valioso y las prácticas soportadas por evidencias sean realmente el eje. Porque con la escuela no se juega.

If you love hauntng crime, psychic suspense and the occult, you'll love Maura Robichard psychic thrillers... Times Picayune-Advocate Investigative Reporter and psychic witch Maura Robichard knows her magic, psychic powers, and highly evolved intuition can torment, injure, and take her - and others - to the brink of death. Sad because her husband, the love of her life has left her, Maura is having trouble sleeping, She's troubled by recurring visions of a man who appears in the mist and steals women who are never heard of again. Her investigation has deadly consequences and even with the ...

The Wisdom of the Guides Retreat Series presents in-depth spiritual Readings given by Dr. Ron Scolastico at the “Annual Retreat With The Guides,” held in Malibu, California. Volume Two of the series, The Healing Power of Joy, contains transcripts of the ten Readings that were given at the 17th Retreat in November, 2001. The Guides’ teachings in the Retreat Series were given for sincere seekers of truth in the sacred atmosphere of a spiritual retreat setting. As you work with their teachings, you will find yourself quickly enveloped in a sense of holiness and timelessness that their ...

This is the seventh book in the HFS Core Curriculum. For best results, each book is meant to be gone through in the order they are listed as they build on the prior one. In this book, you will learn: how to gain confidence in writing custom incantations for anything. How to troubleshoot your incantation. Safety risks and mistakes. Failsafes for your incantations. And then we're going to go over some more advanced topics and best practices. A warning - this is a very fast-paced book. A year and a day? Nobody has time for that. The book is as long as it needs to be - and not a word extra. ...

Access God’s Unlimited Power • Unlock Your Unlimited Possibilities The Bible is filled with average, ordinary people who were called to do extraordinary things. They weren’t qualified in skill or perfect in performance. Yet, God placed a dream, a vision, a promise within them, driving them to press through their obstacles and move mountains of adversity. God qualified them, and He has qualified you! In Moving Mountains, Kevin Stevens shows you how to identify and move the obstacles that challenge you from reaching your full potential and fulfilling your destiny. What do mountain ...

In The Invisible Toolbox, Kim shares with parents the single most important thing they can do to foster their child's future-learning potential and nurture the parent-child bond that is the foundation for a child's motivation to learn. She is convinced that the simple act of reading aloud has a far-reaching impact that few of us fully understand and that the importance of that act has recently been further occluded by our nearly universal saturation in technology.

New Year, New Jane. With stylish blue contacts in her eyeballs and a boyfriend under her belt, Jane Grey is all set to nail the second half of freshman year, until an exotic freckle-faced boy tosses a wrench into the works. Jane's BFF Diana is still in desperate need of a fashion consult. Diana also needs the scales peeled from her eyes: Jane's brother just isn't that into her. Jane will need more than razor-sharp math skills to keep her world from falling apart like her bookshelf in wood shop.