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Science Safaris in New York City: Informal Science Expeditions for Children, Parents, and Teacher

Author(s): Eleanor Miele, Jennifer Adams

New York City is home to numerous museums, science centers, zoos, botanical gardens, and beautiful urban parks – with woodlands, marshes, lakes, and ponds – and nearly 27,000 acres of natural coastal habitat. This wealth of resources provides for and supports science learning for children. Science S...

Legal Issues for Texas Teachers

Author(s): Mark Littleton

Legal Issues for Texas Teachers provides a general understanding of legal issues that face Texas teachers. This text focuses on areas of school law that are most relevant to the classroom teacher and will reveal that teachers have more legal freedom than is often portrayed by the media. Legal Iss...

Teaching Content to Latino Bilingual-Dual Language Learners: Maximizing Their Learning

Author(s): Isela Almaguer, Zulmaris Diaz, Leticia De Leon, Jennifer Joy Esquierdo, Jaime B. Curts

Excellent teaching can make a positive difference for students. The growing population and diversity of students in our schools is of great interest and concern to educators. The increase in the number of students who speak a language other than English has been dramatic and is expected to con...

Essential Piano Techniques: A Guide to Practice and Performance

Author(s): Polli Chambers-Salazar

Essential Piano Techniques: A Guide to Practice and Performance focuses on developing the skills essential to a successful pianist: one’s physical approach to the instrument; effective practice techniques; tools for mastering sight reading; and a thorough approach to memorization. It acts as a s...

Thoughtful Writing

Author(s): Eugene Hammond

Thoughtful Writing, through its advice and through its muscle-memory-developing exercises, teaches students how to succeed at any kind of investigative or argumentative writing. Its training in how to find and use telling details solves the mystifying problem of how to write enough words to fill you...