Creating Time: The Key to Productivity and PeaceIf you've ever looked at your calendar, inbox, laundry pile, or responsibilities and thought, I'm doing everything I can-so why am I still falling behind? this book is for you.I wrote Creating Time for anyone overwhelmed by trying to be everything to everyone while wondering when their life became something to manage instead of something to live.This isn't another productivity book telling you to wake ...

Ever been so lost you didn’t know what to do? And then find yourself again, but in a foreign country? Nine year old Anna couldn’t believe her German parents would relocate to Austin, Texas, in the United States of America. Not speaking any English, Anna is forced to leave everything familiar behind including her grandma. It totally turns her world upside down! Lost and Found in Texas chronicles her challenges, mishaps, victories, and gradual adjustment to America while introducing the read...

Nurturing the Whole Student: Five Dimensions of Teaching and Learning begins with the assumption that education is at its best—healthiest, most engaging, and most effective—when it is holistic. By holistic , the authors mean that the various dimensions of the teacher and student are honored and nurtured throughout the education process. These dimensions are organic, psychodynamic, cultural, academic, and existential. Nurturing the Whole Student contends that any truly humane educational th...

TRIUMPH is an inspiring true-life story of a girl from a small town who became a world renowned legend. It begins in a time and place where women had few options and sports were a man's world. As a child Kay loved playing basketball but like many young women of that time she anticipated life as a teacher. Through the encouragement of her parents and principal, she changed her expectations and raised the bar on what women could accomplish. Kay defied these limitations to become a successful...

This unique, hands-on reference for school administrators offers guidelines for effective student engagement as well as reproducible action tools that will enable you to identify and share The Big Eight Student Engagement Strategies with your teachers, promote teacher growth and provide support for new and/or struggling teachers, collect data to help you consult and coach teachers effectively in student engagement, and provide direct assistance with skills and strategies to sharpen student...

In this powerful guide, Kingsbury and Williams equip readers with simple reflections, vignettes, and everyday analogies that they have successfully used with their own clients to counter destructive feelings and shatter distorted ideas of food and weight. Pithy and positive statements replace compulsive, perfectionist rules with new strategies to cope with blame, guilt, vulnerability, and self-criticism.Concrete activities help people with eating problems get off the scales, get in...

" In this captivating read, Herrick weaves a rich tapestry of family lore, dark secrets, and love." —Brunonia Barry, New York Times–bestselling author of The Lace Reader and The Fifth PetalEvery garden is a story, waiting to be told . . .At the nursery she runs with her sisters on the New England coast, Sorrel Sparrow has honed her rare gift for nurturing plants and flowers. Now that reputation lands Sorrel an unexpected opportuni...

Suspicion and rumor threaten the future for three unique sisters in a seaside town in this "haunting, magical, modern-day fairytale" (Sarah Addison Allen)."If you're looking for a read a la Elin Hilderbrand with a touch of magic, look no further than The Sparrow Sisters , Ellen Herrick's wicked and romantic debut." —Sarah Jio, New York Times and US...

Serena Williams is known as the greatest women's tennis player of all time. Learn about how she has smashed records and boundaries to become not only one of the world's greatest athletes, but also a respected businessperson and philanthropist. Features include author/illustrator biography, comprehension questions, educational front/back matter, full-color photographs, glossary of key words, index, informative sidebars, note to parents and educators, suggested websites, and table of content...

Feeling discouraged and need some encouragement?Read 31 Devotions for Writers, written by published authors who want to help encourage you in your writing through God’s written Word.Writing can often be discouraging. Some writers have spouses or children who don’t understand why they spend so much time on the computer. You may face a multitude of rejection from agents or publishers. Or you may not get encouragement in the form of reviews or be nominated for an award. So why...

Ellen La Motte: nurse, writer, activist, is a biography of La Motte that traces the arc of her life, from her birth in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1873 to her death in Washington, D.C. in 1961. It integrates original unexamined sources such as diaries, unpublished manuscripts, and publishing contracts along with primary sources—letters, newspaper articles, health department reports, and public records—with an examination of her prolific published writings, about topics as diverse as ...

Science and Religion is a record of the 2009 Building Bridges seminar, a dialogue between leading Christian and Muslim scholars convened annually by the Archbishop of Canterbury. The essays in this volume explore how both faith traditions have approached the interface between science and religion and throw light on the ongoing challenges posed by this issue today. The volume includes a selection of relevant texts together with commentary that illuminates the scriptures, the ideas of key re...