In Geometry: An Interactive Journey to Mastery, Professor Tanton guides students as they build an understanding of geometry from the ground up. With this approach, the instruction focuses on the intellectual play of the subject and its beauty as much as its utility and function. Students begin with elementary building blocks like points, lines, and angles and observe how those basic units interact. From a clear understanding of the fundamental principles,...

This book provides a new origin-based study of kanji for students and teachers of the Japanese language at all levels, including high school, college, and heritage language programs, that will free students from rote memorization of kanji. Understanding that modern kanji is a "skeleton" of ancient writings, this book has restored the substance of the direct connection between a form and its meaning, something that had been lost over the course of...

Following six students over the course of a school year, we see Lincoln's staff try a new approach to discipline: one based on understanding and treatment rather than judgment and suspension. Using a combination of verite and revealing diary cam footage, a testament to what the latest development science is showing: that just one caring adult can help break the cycle of adversity in a young person's life.

Talking Texts is a guide for teachers to the steps and strategies of implementing text clubs in many forms-- fiction and nonfiction book clubs, textbook clubs, article clubs, and even poetry clubs--in the classroom. All strategies presented are applicable to any discipline so that text clubs can be employed across the curriculum in any grade level. -- Provided by publisher.