Parent Participation category: 664 books
How Math Works
A Guide to Grade School Arithmetic for Parents and Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
We hear all the time how American children are falling behind their global peers in various basic subjects, but particularly in math. Is it our fear of math that constrains us? Or our inability to understand math’s place in relation to our everyday lives? How can we help our children better understand...
Homework for Grown-ups
Everything You Learnt at School...and Promptly Forgot
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2009
A nostalgic compendium of essential knowledge that can help you show the world that you’re smarter than a ten-year-old after all!
Have you ever stared blankly at your kids when they’ve asked why the sky is blue? Or clumsily changed the subject when they’ve wanted to know why the wind...
by Susan Wise Bauer, Jessie Wise
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2009
"Outstanding ... should be on every home educator's reference bookshelf." —Homeschooling Today
This educational bestseller has dominated its field for the last decade, sparking a homeschooling movement that has only continued to grow. It will instruct you, step by step, on how to...
Inside the Teenage Brain
Parenting a Work in Progress
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2010
Teenagers are perplexing, intriguing, and spirited creatures. In an attempt to discover the secrets to their thoughts and actions, parents have tried talking, cajoling, and begging them for answers. The result has usually been just more confusion. But new and exciting light is being shed on these...
Beyond Intelligence
Secrets for Raising Happily Productive Kids
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2014
From two internationally recognized experts in the field of gifted education comes this timely exploration of how best to nurture a child’s unique gifts, and set them on a path to a happily productive life — in school and beyond.
What is intelligence? Is it really a have or have not proposition,...
by Lynn West, Athletic Scholarship Info
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2014
How are college Athletic Scholarships offered? Contrary to what you may think, college sports recruiting is a process that you can easily implement. However, it is a system that very few high school athletes or their parents know about.
The truth is, if your dream is playing college sports,...
by Molly Potter
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2018
What makes us a good friend? And what might make us a not-so-good friend?
What can friends do together? And how do we make friends?
Best-selling author Molly Potter presents practical advice on helping children understand how to be a true friend and what helps and what hinders friendships....
More Than a Lemonade Stand
The Complete Guide for Planning, Implementing & Running a Successful Youth Entrepreneur Camp
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2015
What if there was an opportunity to teach the youth in our society the fundamental concepts of growing and developing into amazing entrepreneurs? Or how about educating the next generation on what it really takes to run the companies and grow into the decision-makers and game-changers?
"More...
VentureGirls
Raising Girls to Be Tomorrow’s Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
From an engineer and entrepreneur, a conversation-changing parenting book about how to engage young women in science, technology, engineering, and math, filled with practical advice for both parents and educators.
As the female CEO of a tech startup, Dr. Cristal Glangchai was outnumbered...
What is Unschooling?
Living and Learning without School
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2016
Children are born curious, creative, and wired to learn—and we value those traits in adults! Still, as our children grow up, we often insist they change to fit into the education system, where curiosity is replaced by curricula, creativity by conformity, and learning by memorizing.
But if...
Schools That Learn (Updated and Revised)
A Fifth Discipline Fieldbook for Educators, Parents, and Everyone Who Cares About Education
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
"A rich, much-needed remedy for the standardized institutions that comprise too much of our school system today… ideal for teachers and parents intent on resurrecting and fostering students' inherent drive to learn…An essential resource."
-Daniel H. Pink, author of DRIVE and A WHOLE...
Working Workbooks
Spelling Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2012
Educational eBooks with spreadsheet formulas that help with school work
#ePatterns & support for making spreadsheets to practice spelling or plan and track studies with a homework diary.
Published as eBooks consisting of simple formulas to be copied into applications such as...
Addition & Subtraction
Math You Can Play, #2
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
Prevent math anxiety — by playing games!
You'll love these math games because they give your child a sturdy foundation for understanding addition and subtraction.
Help your child learn mental flexibility by playing with numbers, from basic math facts to the hundreds and thousands....
Multiplication & Fractions
Math You Can Play, #3
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2016
Rescue your child from math phobia — by playing games!
You'll love these math games because they give your child a sturdy foundation for understanding multiplication and fractions.
Help your child master the times tables and build mental math skills. Play with advanced concepts such...