What if financial freedom isn't determined by where you start, but by the decisions you make next?In $15 to Freedom, Cassandra Smith shares her extraordinary journey from eviction, heartbreak, and uncertainty to building a multi-million-dollar business that has empowered thousands of entrepreneurs to change their lives.More than a memoir, this book introduces the C-to-Freedom™ Framework, a practical, step-by-step system designed to help readers dis...

The authors father was a man who had an angry, sinister soul inside of him, which she called the foul beast within him. How the author and her siblings survived all the tragedies bestowed upon them is unimaginable. They were starved, beaten, and in winter left with frostbite; their summers were filled with extreme dehydration and long, exhausting days. Even though police and social services agencies in two states were called hundreds of times, they were unable to catch the perpetrator. To ...

This book covers ethical behaviour in the online classroom. Written for distance education students in higher education worldwide, the book serves as a guide for students in the e-classroom in examining ethical theories and behaviour. A number of salient questions are addressed: What is ethical? What does ethical behaviour consists of in an e-classroom? What are violations of ethics in the e-classroom? Students will have the opportunity to review real-life ethical dilemmas in the online cl...

The McBrides of Fallbrook return with reformed bad boy, Owen, who will do whatever it takes to protect the woman who has captured his heart, from New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Ryan.Attorney by day, rancher by night Owen McBride conquered his dark past and made it his mission to help the innocent—even at the expense of a love life. But when a client's abusive ex-husband targets Owen and his gorgeous neighbor Claire gets caught in the crossfire,...

Interrupt the status quo of activity-based PD to enable real professional learning by focusing on learning, collaborative inquiry, and instructional leadership in schools.

Don’t miss the Freeform TV series, Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionists!From Sara Shepard, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Pretty Little Liars series, comes a series that’s perfect for fans of One of Us Is Lying and We Were Liars.Ava, Caitlin, Mackenzie, Julie, and Parker are all driven to be perfect—no matter the cost.At first the girls think they have nothing in common, until they discover that they all hate the same person: handsome womanizer Nolan...

THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING SERIES WITH OVER 80 MILLION COPIES SOLD • Junie B. Jones has a loose tooth in the hit chapter book series that keeps kids laughing and “makes reading fun” (Dav Pilkey, author of Dog Man).“Junie B. is the darling of the young-reader set.”—USA TodayMeet the World’s Funniest First Grader—Junie B. Jones! One of Junie B.’s front teeth is loose! Everyone in Room One has lots to say abou...

"What year are you preparing your students for? 1973? 1995? Can you honestly say that your school's curriculum and the program you use are preparing your students for 2015 or 2020? Are you even preparing them for today?"With those provocative questions, author and educator Heidi Hayes Jacobs launches a powerful case for overhauling, updating, and injecting life into the K-12 curriculum. Sharing her expertise as a world-renowned curriculum designer and calling upon the collective wi...

Go beyond traditional paper-and-pencil tests!The Common Core State Standards clearly define the skills students need for success in college and the 21st century workplace. The question is, how can you measure student mastery of skills like creativity, problem solving, and use of technology? Laura Greenstein demonstrates how teachers can teach and assess 21st century skills using authentic learning experiences and rigorous, varied assessment strategies. Bas...

School improvement begins with self-examination and honest dialogue about socialization, bias, discrimination, and cultural insensitivity. The authors acknowledge both the structural and sociological issues that contribute to low-performing schools, and offer multiple tools and strategies to assess and improve classroom management, increase literacy, establish academic vocabulary, and contribute to a healthier school culture.

Teaching high school in a small town is not always easy, and running off those last fifteen pounds of baby fat, in purple spandex leggings, when every cinnamon bun knows your name... well, that's no easy feat either. Cosy LeFevre is happily divorced, happily romancing the Man of her Dreams, and not so happily trying to avoid her mother’s bi-polar hysterics. It’s a good life in a small town, with laughter and cinnamon buns and good friends.But when tragedy strikes, La Coste High Sch...

What, Jane Delaney asks herself, could be better than skating on a frozen lake with sexy Martin McAuliffe? After all, Martin's thought of everything:• Yummy picnic lunch, complete with the requisite hot chocolate? Check.• Adorable, if slightly neurotic, canine sidekick? Check.• Chainsaw (don't ask)? Check.• Frozen corpse? Dang! And just when things were starting to get romantic!The authorities deci...