Meaningful school reform starts with your most powerful partner—your students!When you take time to listen, you’ll find that students’ aspirations can drive your school toward exciting new goals—and when students know they’re being heard, they engage meaningfully in their own academic success. Using examples drawn from student surveys, focus groups, observations, and interviews, this groundbreaking book presents a blueprint for a successful partnership bet...

Involve and inspire students with these one-of-a-kind activities!Help your students reach their fullest potential. Create unique learning experiences adaptable to their needs and aspirations with this extraordinary activity book from internationally acclaimed education experts Dr. Russell Quaglia, Michael Corso and Julie Hellerstein. Based on hundreds of teacher and student interviews, the authors implement 3 Guiding Principles and 8 Behaviors and Conditio...

How did Earl Campbell prove that he was worthy of the Heisman? How did a Snickers bar help convince Ricky Williams to return to Texas for his senior year? What was Vince Young really thinking just before the 2006 Rose Bowl? In Game of My Life Texas Longhorns, fans will find the answers to these questions and many more as twenty of the greatest players relive the moment that shaped their college football career. Within these pages, Texas fans will finally get the chance to step int...

Meaningful school reform starts with your most powerful partner—your students!Students have plenty of opinions when it comes to school, and they’re not all about free ice cream in the cafeteria. When you take time to listen, you’ll find that students’ aspirations can drive your school toward exciting new goals. And when students know they’re being heard, they develop self-worth, engage meaningfully in their own academic success, and become purposeful in th...

In 1940's Manhattan, Jessie and Matt sat under the willow tree in Central Park. A refuge from daily life, they had spent many long hours beneath its boughs. When Matt learns Jessie will soon be moving away, he invites her to meet him one last time at the willow tree, but Jessie never came. Little did she know just what happened that night, or what she left behind. It wouldn't be until many years later when she discovered the true magic of that place and what happened to her childhood love....

Promote student self worth and engagement with these one-of-a-kind activities!Help your students reach their fullest potential. Create unique learning experiences adaptable to their needs and aspirations with this extraordinary activity book from internationally acclaimed experts Dr. Russell Quaglia, Michael Corso and Julie Hellerstein. A companion piece to Quaglia’s K-8 guide, the authors implement 3 Guiding Principles and 8 Behaviors and Conditions that ...

The ideal school is closer than you think.Welcome to Aspire High! The world’s best high school may be a dream, but it’s not out of reach. It’s a model drawn from research, observations, focus groups, and interviews, and each aspect of its success exists in a real school today.In this book, you’ll discover what makes Aspire High’s culture of aspiration work. Whether you’re a policymaker or district leader who can build a school from the ground up or...

Faithen Kir has something on the inside. Usually when people say this they're implying potential, ambition, creativity, imagination. In Faithen's case, that something has a mind of its own.Plagued with panic attacks, nightmares, and the oppressive orphanage he calls home, his life has been less than ordinary. With no memory before age eleven, and enough scars to make a street fighter feel like a wuss, he slowly discovers a dark past that no one wanted him to remember. He never imagi...

In Game of My Life Texas Longhorns, prominent Texas players of the past and coach Darrell Royal share their fondest experiences and game-day memories of the games they remember the most, largely in their own words, with authors Michael Pearle and Bill Frisbie. Longhorn greats take the reader on a journey back to some of the greatest games in Texas history. How did Earl Campbell prove that he was worthy of the Heisman? How did a Snickers bar help convince Ricky Williams to return t...

Who are the best quarterbacks in NFL history? How about running backs? Wide receivers? How can we objectively rate the performance of individual defensive players? And how can we make reasonable judgments about players at different positions and from different eras? Who is the greatest football player of all time? Jerry Rice? Lawrence Taylor? Jim Brown?Such are the questions pondered by pro football writer Steve Silverman late at night (and during the day). As statistician Elliott ...

In the second book in her Three Sisters Island Trilogy, #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts returns to the haunting shores of New England—and to the lives of three passionate, powerful women…Ripley Todd's job as a sheriff’s deputy keeps her busy and happy, and she has no trouble finding men when she wants them—which, lately, isn’t all that often. She’s perfectly content, except for one thing: she has special powers that both frighten and conf...

Super Season celebrates the Green Bay Packers Super Bowl XLV-winning season in a commemorative publication that covers the memorable season and the people who made it happen. We recap each game of the 2010-11 season with stats, highlights and commentary from those involved, with a special look at the Super Bowl itself. We also have exclsusive features on Super Bowl MVP Aaron Rodgers, general manager Ted Thompson and many other star players on the team. Plus, we take a look back at the 12 o...