Education

As featured in the New York Times Magazine, new teaching methods transforming education

Students today are flocking to leadership classes in big numbers. This trend, first reported in The Chronicle of Higher Education, highlights not only the “remarkable” rate at which leadership studies and programs have sprung up on college campuses across the country, it highlights the need for timely, relevant and respected educational resources to inspire, encourage, and develop the next generation of leaders. 

Students today are flocking to leadership classes in big numbers. This trend, first reported in The Chronicle of Higher Education, highlights not only the “remarkable” rate at which leadership studies and programs have sprung up on college campuses across the country, it highlights the need for timely, relevant and respected educational resources to inspire, encourage, and develop the next generation of leaders. 

If we really want to be great, we must first obsess about practice. Practice Perfect offers principles to make us better in virtually every performance of our lives. Filled with engaging anecdotes, research, strategic advice and tips, it also includes scrimmages, drills, and practices of all sorts.

From picky toddlers to overweight tweens to vegetarian teens, parents confront many types of issues when trying to get their children to eat healthy meals.  FEARLESS FEEDING written by pediatric nutrition experts helps parents understand how eating relates to their child's overall development and how they can help their children make good food choices.

Written by internationally recognized and award-winning young leaders, this is a fresh, witty, and practical leadership guide for young people who want to discover the causes that ignite their passion and engage in concrete activities that can result in broad social innovation and lasting change.

Stop the School Bus shows how to put education reform back on track.

From: Social Science Quarterly

In the following clip, Jessica Lisovicz uses hand signals to help students sound out a word.

Essentials of Cross-Battery Assessment author demonstrating Patterns of Strengths and Weaknesses Analyzer software

Let two experienced college professors give you the real scoop on what it takes to succeed in college with this fun, informative guide. A great resource for high school students and incoming freshmen.

A concise and practical guide to convening and sustaining formation mentoring groups that speak to the deeper questions of meaning and vocation in higher education.

Keith Sawyer reveals the surprising secrets of highly creative people and includes an eight-step method, 30 practices and more than 100 techniques that can be launched at any point in a creative journey.

From two go-to experts in the Special Education field, this is the most practical, comprehensive book available on the realities of working as a special education teacher.

Practical and winning strategies for supporting reading instruction based on exciting new findings from neuroscience.

Cost accounting is critical in supporting strategic business decisions and improving profitability. 

Using graphic organizers in the K-12 classroom to reinforce learning.

Introducing a new way to think about higher education, learning, and technology that prioritizes the benefits of the human dimension

The authors of the definitive work on higher education law have distilled their new two-volume edition into a single-volume text for graduate courses on the topic.