Standards-based learning just got a lot easierIn this resource, Jim Burke provides indexes for all states implementing state-specific ELA standards. This index allows you to see and understand which page number to turn to for standards-based teaching ideas.Beyond that? It’s the same great go-to guide putting the standards into daily practice across English Language Arts, Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects.It’s all here, page by...

Standards-based learning just got a lot easierIn this resource, Jim Burke provides indexes for all states implementing state-specific ELA standards. This index allows you to see and understand which page number to turn to for standards-based teaching ideas.Beyond that? It’s the same great go-to guide putting the standards into daily practice across English Language Arts, Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects.It’s all here, page by...

Stonechild Volunteers:  In mid-March 1939 Russell Stonechild a temporary attendee at the Fort QuAppelle Indian Industrial School is presented with a recruitment ad for a private Scots Battalion.  He leaves for the recruitment office in Halifax, and, with no papers is assigned a birthplace and age of 20.  During a slow trans-Atlantic crossing on a coal hauling transport he gains both friends and enemies.  His next months are spent in frantic training as his regiment gear...

In the first major victory of World War 2, Britain helps drive Mussolini’s fascists from Ethiopia. The aftermath of victory leaves a great deal of war material in the hands of the conquerors. A British officer, Colonel Adams, gains the privilege of repurposing these spoils of war and moving them to point in the desolate sand and rock of the Libyan Desert where the borders of Egypt, Libya and the Sudan meet. Here he intends to block potential attacks on the Assuan dam by Italian and German ...

Action begins in Khartoum, Sudan where Russell Stonechild faces the complexities of service to Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia. The year 1940. Following a failed mission into the emperor's homeland (Stonechild, Emperor's Messenger) Russell receives new orders from the Emperor. Orders to train a special bodyguard for the Emperor. Orders to return into Ethiopia with a very small force for the purpose of spreading rumours of the Emperor's return. In addition he is to harass the It...

In a previous novel Russell Stonechild saves the Earl of Gall's son from Nazi saboteurs.  He receives an invitatiion to the earl's manor and attends a formal banquest in the company of several interesting guests.  These include Joseph Kennedy, US ambassador to England, and Alan Turing, a university mathematics instructor believed to be involved in cryptoanalysis. On September 3rd, 1939 Hitler’s murderous campaigns, internal excesses, cheating and lying culminate in an unp...

Near death, Russell Stonechild recuperates in a Scottish hospital and becomes recipient of a new antibiotic, penicillin. He recovers sufficiently in a debriefing process where he describes his insertion into a German military complex and his retrieval of a German encrypting machine . The Earl of Gall, making use of female cryptographers and linguists not accpted in the all-male military machine, evaluates the machine and passes it on to Bletchley Park, home to Alan Turing.Russell r...

Stonechild: Emperor’s Messenger: It is early July, 1940. In a single month the Germans have defeated the combined armies of Britain and France. After a desperate escape in which he leads a small group including a Polish cryptanalyst carrying a package destined to change the nature of the conflict, Russell Stonechild finds himself cast in the role of hero.Prime Minister Churchill and the British War Council are desperately seeking ways to keep Italy's Mussolini from allying with Hit...

Analyze, argue, compare/contrast, describe, determine, develop, evaluate, explain, imagine, integrate, interpret, organize, summarize, support, and transform . . .Can a mere fifteen words turn today’s youth into the innovative, ambitious thinkers we need? Yes, contend Jim Burke and Barry Gilmore, coauthors of Academic Moves for College and Career Readiness, because these are the moves that make the mind work and students must learn if they’re to achieve ac...

With the click of a mouse, anyone has access to the standards. So aligning our instruction should be a snap. If only it were that simple . . . Jim Burke anticipated the challenges and developed the Common Core Companion series for K-12. In his next smart move, he deferred to the talents of Leslie Blauman to be author of the 3-5 volume.What makes Leslie Blauman’s Common Core Companion "that version of the standards you wish you had"? It’s the way Leslie translates ...

"This is an era of extraordinary promise and support for addressing the needs of California’s English learners. That’s why this book, The California ELD Standards Companion***,*** is so important. It’s exactly the kind of bridge teachers need between standards and what it looks like in the classroom."—LAURIE OLSEN**, Strategic Adviser,**The Sobrato Early Academic Language (...

"This is an era of extraordinary promise and support for addressing the needs of California’s English learners. That’s why this book, The California ELD Standards Companion***,*** is so important. It’s exactly the kind of bridge teachers need between standards and what it looks like in the classroom."—LAURIE OLSEN**, Strategic Adviser,**The Sobrato Early Academic Language (...