Each of the chapters in this unique book wa written expressly for each major stakeholder group in your school, tailored to their varied needs and experiences. Each chapter contains a set of inter-related practical activities so that each group focuses on the same goals and supports the others. No other book on school improvement includes a chapter written exclusively for elementary students, printed in large type, illustrated with cartoons, and accompanied by step-by-step advice for educat...

This is the second edition of a highly successful book, previously titled Better Instruction Through Assessment: What Your Students Are Trying to Tell You. The revision was undertaken to respond to the No Child Left Behind legislation, which has changed the way we must look at students’ achievement data. This book shows you how to get the most out of your state’s high stakes standardized tests, use test results to make the right decisions about how to teach the students in your class, avoi...

The first book in a complete dark urban fantasy series with angels, assassins, and found family.What happens when a cold-blooded magical assassin finds her heart? To protect her found family, Night Sanchez must battle the forces of Heaven and Hell.When the Order of Assassins she betrayed tracks her down, Night braces for battle. She never expects a threat more dangerous than the Order to strike...Then the Angel of Death comes to town. To stop him, s...

A smart boy in search of a normal life. An enchanted girl with a golden voice. To save his family, he must discover the secrets hidden in a magical underworld.After his mother’s death, Kevin fights to build a new life on his own terms. When he begins to hear others’ thoughts, he fears losing his grip on reality. Until he meets a charmed girl who reveals the thriving Faery underground in the shadows of his city…Kevin’s rising magic threatens the fae, and the...

A class clown forced to lead the fight. A powerful girl who will do anything to belong. To save his city and his friends, he must prevent a demon from rising.Rude is everyone’s friend, the life of the party with uncanny luck, but only because no one has discovered his secret. He is a faery seer’s apprentice, training to enforce magical law, and magic is the only true family he has. When a troubled girl asks him for help, he realizes too late that she—and her supern...

A human boy changed forever by magic. An enchanted girl sworn to protect her people. To save Faery, they must defeat an ancient power.When evil corrupts Faery, Kevin vows to fight. With the help of his fae love, his magic might be strong enough to save the realm. But he fears the battle could destroy his humanity, cutting him off from the only life he knows…Assassins emerge from the shadows and friends become enemies. When a primal force older than time str...

When Chris Garcia reads the magical morning Metro section of the newspaper, one and only one article stands out: a girl named Alice must find something precious she’s lost before nightfall or go to Hell. Chris figures his newfound magical skill of finding the lost will save her. Instead, he walks straight into a trap. If he fails to find a way out before the sun sets, he dooms Alice—and himself—forever.

So today, your 3 year old decides that they don't want to eat the beautiful breakfast you made, he wants peanut butter and hotdogs, and that means, smear the hotdogs in peanut butter. Your 7 year old has decided that today is the day she wants to cry for absolutely no reason at all regardless of how much begging, bribing and reasoning you do and every time she cries it gets louder and more shrill. Oh, and your 14 year old has dyed her hair pink and made wings on her eyes and thinks she is ...

Second chances encouraged...In the shadows of the Bayou City, the unusual and bizarre snare the unwary. Enter the secret Faery underground.* * *Malek, the serpent from the Garden of Eden itself, will do anything to be left alone, but humans keep tempting him to join the world. When someone he loves steals his potent and dangerous blood, they hope for healing but risk a terrible death. Can Malek save them from himself?* * *Sassy high-...

Hope is worth fighting for.In the shadows of the Bayou City, the unusual and bizarre snare the unwary. Enter the secret Faery underground.* * *Brave Charlie Nobody fights to survive on dangerous streets. But losing means more than an empty belly or sleeping rough—each time a punch knocks him unconscious, he not only sees the future, he travels into it. There, he falls in love with the unusual wonders he experiences. No one tempts him more than the d...

Love. Murder. A deal with the devil.The charming Sebastian owns the bodies and souls of all his thieves and slaves. In his underground criminal cult, bodies, souls—and magic—are the only currency that matters.When Sebastian offers the adventurous Erynn his world, she accepts, not realizing that it will become her hell. More than anything, Sebastian wants her heart.Erynn’s only way out: a plan so dangerous it may cost her life—and in the process, change the face of t...

A war song. An enemy. Only one way out.A haunting magical melody draws Queen Simone out of the Faery Realm and into the human world. The song triggers violence in the streets, endangering innocents—including humans she loves. All signs point to a fae source.Can Simone find the source of the music? Can she stop it before it kills?A standalone story in the Faery Chronicles series, Street Song explores the depths of rage—and the mysteries of the heart.