Darling: 268 books

Teach for declarative and procedural knowledge and boost student achievement with these practical, research-proven strategies for incorporating state standards and benchmarks into lessons and assessments.

This book provides students and practitioners with a theoretical and methodological foundation for implementing client- and family-centered `partnership' approaches in human services. Unlike other texts in the field, the author integrates the principles and practices of sociology with applied work...

Teaching in the Flat World will help school systems improve their teacher workforce by drawing important lessons from nations with high-performing educational systems, as well as from successful state experiments in the United States.The authors examine common features and differences in the approaches...

The Bank Street College case is one of seven that form the basis for the arguments and analyses presented in Preparing Teachers for Deeper Learning. Each case outlines the context, vision, and practices guiding a particular program’s enactment, and includes sample curricula, assessment and feedback...

A forward-thinking look at performance assessment in the 21st century Next Generation Assessment: Moving Beyond the Bubble Test to Support 21st Century Learning provides needed answers to the nation's growing concerns about educational testing in America. Drawing on research and the experiences...

This book examines, through case studies of elementary and secondary schools, how five schools have developed “authentic,” performance-based assessments of students’ learning, and how this work has interacted with and influenced the teaching and learning experiences students encounter in school....

This book will likely induce tears as it transports you through reflections on the connections and losses in your own life -a process at once painful and glorious. This is a book that will speak directly to the non- conforming spirits of the baby-boom generation - especially as we navigate the mounting...

Gluten-Free made simple is an easy to read guide that provides you with the basic principles to support your gluten-free lifestyle. Were you diagnosed with Celiac disease? Or do you think you may be gluten-sensitive or gluten-intolerant? This guide will help you answers those questions. Did you know...

Save herself. Save the world. Humanity may be screwed. To say that Sophie Bloom is at the top of her game with one only week until Spring Equinox and the final showdown with Zeus and Hades would be, well, lying. The Goddess of Spring feels more like the Goddess of Bzzz,...

Magic and Mayhem in Manhattan Francesca Bellafiore comes from a nice Jewish family -- one that happens to have magical powers. Underneath her good-girl exterior, though, she’s a wannabe badass with dreams of becoming a paranormal detective. Party boy Rafael Muñoz does everything possible...

In Sins of the Father, book #2 in Sister Christian Series, Hannah Rice is recovering from emergency surgery. In order to make her time in the tiny house more bearable and to find out more about his sister, Doctor Richard Mason begins sending for Hannah's items that have been locked away in storage...

Story #3 in the Of War Series invites you to join, Ares, Alena, and Raven as Alena brings Yuletide and Christmas to barren Olympus in this very short holiday-themed story. Story contains graphic scenes of Christmas Sex! This short story is meant as an enhancement to the OF WAR Series. It takes place...

Calculated revenge, unexpected passion… Business magnate Luca Venancio is returning to Rio to pay his respects to his late brother, and to seduce his once fiancée, Daniella, back into his bed. Five years ago she left him without so much as a word, shunning him and the rich life he...