Promote student self worth and engagement with these one-of-a-kind activities!Help your students reach their fullest potential. Create unique learning experiences adaptable to their needs and aspirations with this extraordinary activity book from internationally acclaimed experts Dr. Russell Quaglia, Michael Corso and Julie Hellerstein. A companion piece to Quaglia’s K-8 guide, the authors implement 3 Guiding Principles and 8 Behaviors and Conditions that ...

The ideal school is closer than you think.Welcome to Aspire High! The world’s best high school may be a dream, but it’s not out of reach. It’s a model drawn from research, observations, focus groups, and interviews, and each aspect of its success exists in a real school today.In this book, you’ll discover what makes Aspire High’s culture of aspiration work. Whether you’re a policymaker or district leader who can build a school from the ground up or...

Involve and inspire students with these one-of-a-kind activities!Help your students reach their fullest potential. Create unique learning experiences adaptable to their needs and aspirations with this extraordinary activity book from internationally acclaimed education experts Dr. Russell Quaglia, Michael Corso and Julie Hellerstein. Based on hundreds of teacher and student interviews, the authors implement 3 Guiding Principles and 8 Behaviors and Conditio...

Meaningful school reform starts with your most powerful partner—your students!Students have plenty of opinions when it comes to school, and they’re not all about free ice cream in the cafeteria. When you take time to listen, you’ll find that students’ aspirations can drive your school toward exciting new goals. And when students know they’re being heard, they develop self-worth, engage meaningfully in their own academic success, and become purposeful in th...

Meaningful school reform starts with your most powerful partner—your students!When you take time to listen, you’ll find that students’ aspirations can drive your school toward exciting new goals—and when students know they’re being heard, they engage meaningfully in their own academic success. Using examples drawn from student surveys, focus groups, observations, and interviews, this groundbreaking book presents a blueprint for a successful partnership bet...

L'esperto giornalista e storico ottomano Michael Rank vi porta in questo emozionante nuovo libro una breve storia di 2000 anni di guerra, pace, rivolte religiose e collassi sociali in Medio Oriente.Per la maggior parte degli occidentali, il Medio Oriente e il conflitto israeliano-palestinese sono del tutto sconcertanti. I palestinesi vogliono bombardare gli israeliani, che li costringono con la forza delle armi a vivere in alcune parti ristrette della nazione. I leader arabi sono f...

Faithen Kir has something on the inside. Usually when people say this they're implying potential, ambition, creativity, imagination. In Faithen's case, that something has a mind of its own.Plagued with panic attacks, nightmares, and the oppressive orphanage he calls home, his life has been less than ordinary. With no memory before age eleven, and enough scars to make a street fighter feel like a wuss, he slowly discovers a dark past that no one wanted him to remember. He never imagi...

In 1940's Manhattan, Jessie and Matt sat under the willow tree in Central Park. A refuge from daily life, they had spent many long hours beneath its boughs. When Matt learns Jessie will soon be moving away, he invites her to meet him one last time at the willow tree, but Jessie never came. Little did she know just what happened that night, or what she left behind. It wouldn't be until many years later when she discovered the true magic of that place and what happened to her childhood love....

Centuries ago, the land was separated from the water with the enacting of the Land Relocation Compact. Now a young professor has discovered the treacherous path on which that decision has taken the human race. With war raging between Terra and Oceanus, Malitech, the world's largest weapons manufacturer, has created a new machine that will wipe out the Oceanics for good. With tensions growing and mass genocide as a certain future, the young professor must seek out the Keeper of Gravity in o...

Hundreds of years have passed since the human race moved underground. SusCom and the S.S. Congress have been lying to the people. The world above is no longer desolate. Samuel Aldare is the only one who knows their secret. He knows it, because for the past two years, he has been living on the surface.***This is a short story, not a full length novel.***

How strong is love?Does it have the power to reach across the centuries and bring life where there was none? Does it have the power to bring together two unlikely people who have never spoken to each other?In this short story, the magic of unspoken love creates life where only stone had been before.