Random House New Releases - Education - Between June 20, 2012 and July 20, 2013.

Positive Discipline in the Classroom by H. Stephen Glenn

2013-07-16T00:30:00-05:00

Positive Discipline in the Classroom Developing Mutual Respect, Cooperation, and Responsibility in Your Classroom
Written by Jane Nelsen, Lynn Lott and H. Stephen Glenn

The Acclaimed Bestseller That Can Improve Your Classroom Experience Forever!

Over the years millions of parents and teachers have used the amazingly effective strategies of Positive Discipline to restore order and civility to their classrooms and homes. And in today's classroom, where teachers must compete with digital distractions for their students' attention while trying to satisfy increasingly demanding academic standards, it is more important than ever that educators be able to combat apathy, instill vital problem-solving skills, and create a climate that maximizes learning.

Now you too can use the time tested Positive Discipline strategies as a foundation for fostering cooperation, problem-solving skills, and mutual respect in children. This new edition of Positive Discipline in the Classroom is updated with essential tools for the modern teacher. Imagine, instead of controlling behavior, you can be teaching; instead of confronting apathy, you will enjoy motivated, eager students! Inside, you'll learn how to:
·Create a classroom climate that enhances academic learning
·Use encouragement rather than praise and rewards
·Instill valuable social skills and positive behavior through the use of class meetings
-Learn why involving students in solving problems is much more effective than punishment
·Understand the motivation behind students' behavior instead of looking for causes
·And much more!

“A must for every educator. The jargon-free concepts and strategies are easy to follow and have changed my life as a principal, as well as the lives of my teachers and students.” – Bill Scott, Principal of Birney Elementary, Marietta, Georgia

“This book should be standard operating procedure. I highly recommend it to anyone who seeks to teach young people!” – Robert W. Reasoner, president of the International Council for Self-Esteem

“Transforms the way teachers view themselves and their students. The activities in this book show how learning shifts from head to heart, where positive change can really take route.” – Dina Emser, M.A., former elementary school principal and education consultant

Positive Discipline in the Classroom by H. Stephen Glenn

2013-07-16T00:30:00-05:00

Positive Discipline in the Classroom Developing Mutual Respect, Cooperation, and Responsibility in Your Classroom
Written by Jane Nelsen, Lynn Lott and H. Stephen Glenn

What Your Kindergartner Needs to Know (Revised and updated) by E.D. Hirsch, Jr.

2013-07-16T00:30:00-05:00

What Your Kindergartner Needs to Know (Revised and updated) Preparing Your Child for a Lifetime of Learning
Written by E.D. Hirsch, Jr.

With its comprehensive curriculum providing a sound basis in the fundamentals of math, art, history, language arts, science, and technology, the phenomenally successful Core Knowledge series has become an esteemed tool for parents and teachers striving to better educate today's children. And since it is agreed that the first years of schooling are crucial to a child's lifetime educational achievements, it is no wonder that parents and teachers alike have been asking for a volume for kindergartners.

This primer for those just beginning their school careers was devised with the contributions of over 2,000 parents, educators and students, distilled into a user-friendly volume specifically designed for parents to use with their children. Eighty pages of four-color illustrations enliven the new, bold design of this latest title in a series adopted by hundreds of schools nationwide and appreciated by thousands of adults looking to instill in children a lifetime love of learning.

What Your Kindergartner Needs to Know (Revised and updated) by E.D. Hirsch, Jr.

2013-07-16T00:30:00-05:00

What Your Kindergartner Needs to Know (Revised and updated) Preparing Your Child for a Lifetime of Learning
Written by E.D. Hirsch, Jr.

Help your child exceed the Common Core standards with the revised and updated What Your Kindergartner Needs to Know

Designed for use by parents and teachers, this groundbreaking first volume in the Core Knowledge Series provides kindergartners with the fundamentals they need to prepare them for a lifetime of learning. It sets out the elements a parent or educator should look for in a good kindergarten program and introduces activities that help a child take the first steps in learning to read and write. Featuring a new Introduction and filled with age-appropriate questions and suggestions that stimulate thinking and build vocabulary, this revised and updated edition of What Your Kindergartner Needs to Know also includes

• Favorite poems—read and recite together from Mother Goose, A. A. Milne, Langston Hughes, and more, all beautifully illustrated
• Beloved stories and fables—read aloud from “The Three Little Pigs,” “The Ugly Duckling,” “Cinderella,” Winnie-the-Pooh, “The Velveteen Rabbit,” and many more, including multicultural folktales from African, Japanese, and Native American traditions
• Familiar sayings and phrases—impart traditional wisdom such as “Where there’s a will, there’s a way” and “Better safe than sorry”
• History and geography—a friendly introduction to our world, complete with simple questions and fun activities
• Visual arts—painting, drawing, cutting, and pasting go hand in hand with learning about color and helping a child look at and talk about great works of art
• Music—many musical experiences for parents and children to participate in, along with dozens of songs to sing and dance to
• Math—lively and interesting exposure to concepts and operations that provide a springboard to later mastery
• Science—activities that let children observe, experience, and get their hands dirty while exploring the wonders of nature

Conquering the College Admissions Essay in 10 Steps, Second Edition by Alan Gelb

2013-06-25T00:30:00-05:00

Conquering the College Admissions Essay in 10 Steps, Second Edition Crafting a Winning Personal Statement
Written by Alan Gelb

A guide to crafting a meaningful and polished college admissions essay that gets students into the school of their dreams by expressing their unique personality, strengths, and goals.

Writing a memorable personal statement can seem like an overwhelming project for a young college applicant, but college essay coach Alan Gelb's organized and encouraging step-by-step instructions take the intimidation out of the process. Gelb teaches students to identify an engaging topic and use creative writing techniques to compose a vivid statement that will reflect their individuality. This much-needed handbook will help students win over the admissions dean, while preparing them to write better papers once they've been accepted.

Conquering the College Admissions Essay in 10 Steps, Second Edition by Alan Gelb

2013-06-25T00:30:00-05:00

Conquering the College Admissions Essay in 10 Steps, Second Edition Crafting a Winning Personal Statement
Written by Alan Gelb

How to Teach Your Children Shakespeare by Ken Ludwig

2013-06-11T00:30:00-05:00

How to Teach Your Children Shakespeare
Written by Ken Ludwig

A foolproof, enormously fun method of teaching your children the classic works of William Shakespeare

Williams Shakespeare’s plays are among the great bedrocks of Western civilization and contain the finest writing of the past 450 years. Many of the best novels, plays, poetry, and films in the English language produced since Shakespeare’s death in 1616—from Jane Austen to The Godfather—are heavily influenced by Shakespeare’s stories, characters, language, and themes. In a sense, his works are a kind of Bible for the modern world, bringing us together intellectually and spiritually. Hamlet, Juliet, Macbeth, Ophelia, and a vast array of other singular Shakespearean characters have become the archetypes of our consciousness. To know some Shakespeare provides a head start in life. In How to Teach Your Children Shakespeare, acclaimed playwright Ken Ludwig provides the tools you need to instill an understanding, and a love, of Shakespeare’s works in your children, and to have fun together along the way.

Ken Ludwig devised his methods while teaching his own children, and his approach is friendly and easy to master. Beginning with memorizing short specific passages from Shakespeare's plays, this method then instills children with cultural references they will utilize for years to come. Ludwig’s approach includes understanding of the time period and implications of Shakespeare’s diction as well as the invaluable lessons behind his words and stories. Colorfully incorporating the history of Shakespearean theater and society, How to Teach Your Children Shakespeare guides readers on an informed and adventurous journey through the world in which the Bard wrote.

This book’s simple process allows anyone to impart to children the wisdom of plays like A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Twelfth Night, Macbeth, and Romeo and Juliet. And there’s fun to be had along the way. Shakespeare novices and experts, and readers of all ages, will each find something delightfully irresistible in How to Teach Your Children Shakespeare.

How to Teach Your Children Shakespeare by Ken Ludwig

2013-06-11T00:30:00-05:00

How to Teach Your Children Shakespeare
Written by Ken Ludwig

Rethinking America by Hedrick Smith

2013-05-08T00:30:00-05:00

Rethinking America A New Game Plan from the American Innovators: Schools, Business, People, Work
Written by Hedrick Smith

eBook, 480 pages | Random House | Social Science; Business & Economics; Education | $11.99 | May 8, 2013 | 978-0-307-82942-9 (0-307-82942-1)

The Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling author of The Russians, The Power Game, and The New Russians shows how America has lost ground, and reveals how innovators are creating new strategies to win in the new global game.

The Eastern Frontier by Charles Clark

2013-05-01T00:30:00-05:00

The Eastern Frontier
Written by Charles Clark

eBook, 432 pages | Knopf | History - United States - Colonial Period (1600-1775); History - United States - State & Local; Education - Reference | $24.99 | May 1, 2013 | 978-0-307-83086-9 (0-307-83086-1)

Light without Fire by Scott Korb

2013-04-16T00:30:00-05:00

Light without Fire The Making of America's First Muslim College
Written by Scott Korb

The story of America’s first Muslim institution of higher education, Zaytuna College

In the fall of 2010, anti-Muslim furor in the United States reached a breaking point, capping a decade in which such sentiment had surged. Loud, angry crowds gathered near New York’s Ground Zero to protest plans to build an Islamic cultural center, while a small-time Florida minister appeared on national television almost nightly promising to celebrate the anniversary of 9/11 with the burning of Korans. At the same time, fifteen devout Muslims quietly gathered in a basement in Berkeley, California, to execute a plan that had been coming together for over a decade: to found Zaytuna College, “Where Islam Meets America.” It would be the nation’s first four-year Muslim liberal arts college, its mission to establish a thoroughly American, academically rigorous, and traditional indigenous Islam.

In Light without Fire, Scott Korb tells the story of the school’s founders, Sheikh Hamza Yusuf and Imam Zaid Shakir, arguably the two most influential leaders in American Islam, “rock stars” who, tellingly, are little known outside their community. Korb also introduces us to Zaytuna’s students, young American Muslims of all stripes who admire—indeed, love—their teachers in ways college students typically don’t and whose stories, told for the first time, signal the future of Islam in this country.

From a heady theology classroom to a vibrant storefront mosque, from the run-down streets Oakland to grand ballrooms echoing with America’s most powerful Muslim voices, Korb follows Zaytuna’s students and teachers as they find their place and their voice. He ultimately creates an intimate portrait of the school and provides a new introduction to Islam as it is being lived and re-envisioned in America. It’s no exaggeration to say that here, at Zaytuna, are tomorrow’s Muslim leaders.

Light without Fire by Scott Korb

2013-04-16T00:30:00-05:00

Light without Fire The Making of America's First Muslim College
Written by Scott Korb

From the Hardcover edition.

Teaching Montessori In the Home by Elizabeth Hainstock

2013-04-10T00:30:00-05:00

Teaching Montessori In the Home
Written by Elizabeth Hainstock

Claim quality togetherness with your child and fully enjoy the sensitive and formative years from two to five by adopting proven teaching techniques in your own home. This acclaimed guide puts the entire range of the Montessori system within your reach, so you can make the most of your child's vital years. Teaching Montessori in the Home has already helped thousands of parents with the techniques, exercises, and easy-to-make Montessori materials that are essential for success.

Leap Write In! by Karen Benke

2013-04-02T00:30:00-05:00

Leap Write In! Adventures in Creative Writing to Stretch and Surprise Your One-of-a-Kind Mind
Translated by Karen Benke

Invite your jittery mind into quiet slips of timed or untimed writing experiments that are designed to encourage your timid heart to forge forgotten feelings and entice your shy-self to make friends with emerging emotions. With a bounty of prompts to select from, you’ll be inspired to explore all the wacky, confusing, brave, soul-stirring wonderings and wanderings of your emerging life’s inner treasure in a way that’s sure to unleash what you most need to say. In this book you’ll find:

   • On-the-Spot Drops that offer quick “free-fall” prompts on different themes, such as short-winded poems and seven-line stories.
   • Mini Memoirs to unlock personal narrative to share, or not.
   • Suddenly a Story suggestions to explore feelings and states of being like fear, reluctance, compassion, kindness, anxiety, anger, jealousy, happiness, and more.
   • Surprise Yourself Surveys for those who think they know everything about themselves.
   • Untie-Your-Mind Word Lists to jump-start stalled imaginations.
   • Definition Decoders to introduce new ideas and styles of writing.

Created especially for tweens, teens, and other earthlings, this book provides you with a chance to create imaginative poems, stories, fragments, and real-life on-the-spot sketches. All that’s required is that you take a breath, relax, reset, and leap write in!

The Essential Writings of Rousseau by Leo Damrosch

2013-03-26T00:30:00-05:00

The Essential Writings of Rousseau
Written by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Edited by Leo Damrosch
Translated by Peter Constantine

Newly translated by Peter Constantine
Edited and with an Introduction by Leo Damrosch

The Essential Writings of Rousseau collects the best and most indispensable work of one of the world’s most influential writers. A towering figure of Enlightenment thought, Jean-Jacques Rousseau was also one of that movement’s most passionate and persuasive critics. His extraordinarily original observations on politics, education, and human nature were provocative in their day and remain resonant more than two hundred years after his death. Rousseau’s 1762 treatise The Social Contract laid intellectual groundwork for both the American and French Revolutions, influencing such figures as Thomas Jefferson. An eloquent writer with profound insight into human psychology, Rousseau also penned one of the most compelling autobiographies ever written—the magisterial Confessions. The entirety of the first three books of that masterpiece along with the complete Social Contract are included in this indispensable volume.

The Essential Writings of Rousseau by Leo Damrosch

2013-03-26T00:30:00-05:00

The Essential Writings of Rousseau
Written by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Edited by Leo Damrosch
Translated by Peter Constantine

Sticks and Stones by Emily Bazelon

2013-02-19T00:30:00-05:00

Sticks and Stones Defeating the Culture of Bullying and Rediscovering the Power of Character and Empathy
Written by Emily Bazelon

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

Being a teenager has never been easy, but in recent years, with the rise of the Internet and social media, it has become exponentially more challenging. Bullying, once thought of as the province of queen bees and goons, has taken on new, complex, and insidious forms, as parents and educators know all too well.

No writer is better poised to explore this territory than Emily Bazelon, who has established herself as a leading voice on the social and legal aspects of teenage drama. In Sticks and Stones, she brings readers on a deeply researched, clear-eyed journey into the ever-shifting landscape of teenage meanness and its sometimes devastating consequences. The result is an indispensable book that takes us from school cafeterias to courtrooms to the offices of Facebook, the website where so much teenage life, good and bad, now unfolds.

Along the way, Bazelon defines what bullying is and, just as important, what it is not. She explores when intervention is essential and when kids should be given the freedom to fend for themselves. She also dispels persistent myths: that girls bully more than boys, that online and in-person bullying are entirely distinct, that bullying is a common cause of suicide, and that harsh criminal penalties are an effective deterrent. Above all, she believes that to deal with the problem, we must first understand it.

Blending keen journalistic and narrative skills, Bazelon explores different facets of bullying through the stories of three young people who found themselves caught in the thick of it. Thirteen-year-old Monique endured months of harassment and exclusion before her mother finally pulled her out of school. Jacob was threatened and physically attacked over his sexuality in eighth grade—and then sued to protect himself and change the culture of his school. Flannery was one of six teens who faced criminal charges after a fellow student’s suicide was blamed on bullying and made international headlines. With grace and authority, Bazelon chronicles how these kids’ predicaments escalated, to no one’s benefit, into community-wide wars. Cutting through the noise, misinformation, and sensationalism, she takes us into schools that have succeeded in reducing bullying and examines their successful strategies. The result is a groundbreaking book that will help parents, educators, and teens themselves better understand what kids are going through today and what can be done to help them through it.

Praise for Sticks and Stones

“A humane and closely reported exploration of the way that hurtful power relationships play out in the contemporary public-school setting . . . As a parent herself, [Emily Bazelon] brings clear, kind analysis to complex and upsetting circumstances.”—The Wall Street Journal

“Intelligent, rigorous . . . [Bazelon] is a compassionate champion for justice in the domain of childhood’s essential unfairness.”—Andrew Solomon, The New York Times Book Review

“Bullying is misunderstood. Not all conflict between kids is bullying. It isn’t always clear who is the bully and who is the victim. Not all—or even most—kids are involved in bullying. And bullying isn’t the only factor in a child’s suicide, ever. Emily Bazelon, who wrote about the subject for Slate in 2010, here expands her reporting in an important, provocative book about what we can—and can’t—do about the problem.”—The Boston Globe

“Immersive storytelling with a sturdy base of science underneath, [Sticks and Stones] draws its authority and power from both.”—New York

Sticks and Stones by Emily Bazelon

2013-02-19T00:30:00-05:00

Sticks and Stones Defeating the Culture of Bullying and Rediscovering the Power of Character and Empathy
Written by Emily Bazelon

Sticks and Stones by Rebecca Lowman

2013-02-19T00:30:00-05:00

Sticks and Stones Defeating the Culture of Bullying and Rediscovering the Power of Character and Empathy
Written by Emily Bazelon
Read by Rebecca Lowman

Sticks and Stones by Rebecca Lowman

2013-02-19T00:30:00-05:00

Sticks and Stones Defeating the Culture of Bullying and Rediscovering the Power of Character and Empathy
Written by Emily Bazelon
Read by Rebecca Lowman

Random House New Releases - Education - Between June 20, 2012 and July 20, 2013.

Positive Discipline in the Classroom by H. Stephen Glenn

Positive Discipline in the Classroom Developing Mutual Respect, Cooperation, and Responsibility in Your ClassroomWritten by Jane Nelsen, Lynn Lott and H. Stephen Glenn

Positive Discipline in the Classroom by H. Stephen Glenn

Positive Discipline in the Classroom Developing Mutual Respect, Cooperation, and Responsibility in Your ClassroomWritten by Jane Nelsen, Lynn Lott and H. Stephen Glenn

What Your Kindergartner Needs to Know (Revised and updated) by E.D. Hirsch, Jr.

What Your Kindergartner Needs to Know (Revised and updated) Preparing Your Child for a Lifetime of LearningWritten by E.D. Hirsch, Jr.

What Your Kindergartner Needs to Know (Revised and updated) by E.D. Hirsch, Jr.

What Your Kindergartner Needs to Know (Revised and updated) Preparing Your Child for a Lifetime of LearningWritten by E.D. Hirsch, Jr.

Conquering the College Admissions Essay in 10 Steps, Second Edition by Alan Gelb

Conquering the College Admissions Essay in 10 Steps, Second Edition Crafting a Winning Personal StatementWritten by Alan Gelb

Conquering the College Admissions Essay in 10 Steps, Second Edition by Alan Gelb

Conquering the College Admissions Essay in 10 Steps, Second Edition Crafting a Winning Personal StatementWritten by Alan Gelb

How to Teach Your Children Shakespeare by Ken Ludwig

How to Teach Your Children Shakespeare Written by Ken Ludwig

How to Teach Your Children Shakespeare by Ken Ludwig

How to Teach Your Children Shakespeare Written by Ken Ludwig

Rethinking America by Hedrick Smith

Rethinking America A New Game Plan from the American Innovators: Schools, Business, People, WorkWritten by Hedrick Smith

The Eastern Frontier by Charles Clark

The Eastern Frontier Written by Charles Clark

Light without Fire by Scott Korb

Light without Fire The Making of America's First Muslim CollegeWritten by Scott Korb

Light without Fire by Scott Korb

Light without Fire The Making of America's First Muslim CollegeWritten by Scott Korb

Teaching Montessori In the Home by Elizabeth Hainstock

Teaching Montessori In the Home Written by Elizabeth Hainstock

Leap Write In! by Karen Benke

Leap Write In! Adventures in Creative Writing to Stretch and Surprise Your One-of-a-Kind MindTranslated by Karen Benke

The Essential Writings of Rousseau by Leo Damrosch

The Essential Writings of Rousseau Written by Jean-Jacques Rousseau Edited by Leo Damrosch Translated by Peter Constantine

The Essential Writings of Rousseau by Leo Damrosch

The Essential Writings of Rousseau Written by Jean-Jacques Rousseau Edited by Leo Damrosch Translated by Peter Constantine

Sticks and Stones by Emily Bazelon

Sticks and Stones Defeating the Culture of Bullying and Rediscovering the Power of Character and EmpathyWritten by Emily Bazelon

Sticks and Stones by Emily Bazelon

Sticks and Stones Defeating the Culture of Bullying and Rediscovering the Power of Character and EmpathyWritten by Emily Bazelon

Sticks and Stones by Rebecca Lowman

Sticks and Stones Defeating the Culture of Bullying and Rediscovering the Power of Character and EmpathyWritten by Emily Bazelon Read by Rebecca Lowman

Sticks and Stones by Rebecca Lowman

Sticks and Stones Defeating the Culture of Bullying and Rediscovering the Power of Character and EmpathyWritten by Emily Bazelon Read by Rebecca Lowman

Positive Discipline in the Classroom Developing Mutual Respect, Cooperation, and Responsibility in Your Classroom
Written by Jane Nelsen, Lynn Lott and H. Stephen Glenn

Positive Discipline in the Classroom Developing Mutual Respect, Cooperation, and Responsibility in Your Classroom
Written by Jane Nelsen, Lynn Lott and H. Stephen Glenn

What Your Kindergartner Needs to Know (Revised and updated) Preparing Your Child for a Lifetime of Learning
Written by E.D. Hirsch, Jr.

What Your Kindergartner Needs to Know (Revised and updated) Preparing Your Child for a Lifetime of Learning
Written by E.D. Hirsch, Jr.

Conquering the College Admissions Essay in 10 Steps, Second Edition Crafting a Winning Personal Statement
Written by Alan Gelb

Conquering the College Admissions Essay in 10 Steps, Second Edition Crafting a Winning Personal Statement
Written by Alan Gelb

How to Teach Your Children Shakespeare
Written by Ken Ludwig

How to Teach Your Children Shakespeare
Written by Ken Ludwig

Rethinking America A New Game Plan from the American Innovators: Schools, Business, People, Work
Written by Hedrick Smith

The Eastern Frontier
Written by Charles Clark

Light without Fire The Making of America's First Muslim College
Written by Scott Korb

Light without Fire The Making of America's First Muslim College
Written by Scott Korb

Teaching Montessori In the Home
Written by Elizabeth Hainstock

Leap Write In! Adventures in Creative Writing to Stretch and Surprise Your One-of-a-Kind Mind
Translated by Karen Benke

The Essential Writings of Rousseau
Written by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Edited by Leo Damrosch
Translated by Peter Constantine

The Essential Writings of Rousseau
Written by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Edited by Leo Damrosch
Translated by Peter Constantine

Sticks and Stones Defeating the Culture of Bullying and Rediscovering the Power of Character and Empathy
Written by Emily Bazelon

Sticks and Stones Defeating the Culture of Bullying and Rediscovering the Power of Character and Empathy
Written by Emily Bazelon

Sticks and Stones Defeating the Culture of Bullying and Rediscovering the Power of Character and Empathy
Written by Emily Bazelon
Read by Rebecca Lowman

Sticks and Stones Defeating the Culture of Bullying and Rediscovering the Power of Character and Empathy
Written by Emily Bazelon
Read by Rebecca Lowman