This is a true story of radical obedience in the face of the impossible. I found myself immersed in the post cold war Soviet Union during a time of tremendous brokenness and dire spiritual need. God had called me to do something about the desperate condition of the young people in this hurting area of the world but the challenges were insurmountable. I was traveling on a one way ticket to Russia and a five dollar bill in my pocket, not sure that I would even find a way home much less succe...

It started with a simple observation: Students need their teachers present to answer questions or to provide help if they get stuck on an assignment; they dont need their teachers present to listen to a lecture or review content.From there, Jonathan Bergmann and Aaron Sams began the flipped classroom: Students watched recorded lectures for homework and completed their assignments, labs, and tests in class with their teacher available. What Bergmann and Sams found was that their students de...

"Rarely has an author painted the great American West in strokes so bold, vivid, and true." --Ralph ComptonOrphaned by a brutal attack, Cody Hunter was raised by Crow Indians in Yellowstone, Montana, and became the master tracker, Crazy Wolf. His exceptional skills earned him a place as a scout for the U.S. Army, but the deadly shadows of his past never stopped haunting him.Now, after fifteen years, Cody returns to Montana's blood-soaked mountains to confront the tragedy th...

From Spur Award-winner Charles G. West comes the gripping first novel in an epic new series. Set in 19th-century Yellowstone, Montana and forged in blood, survival, and legend. This is the story of Crazy Wolf.Duncan Hunter set out to build a better life for his sons in Washington Territory, but before they reached Hell Gate, the wagon train was ambushed by Blackfoot warriors. Only young Cody survived. Taken in by the Crow and renamed Crazy Wolf, he grew into a master hunter, fearle...

One writer, one editor, one hot summer... A romance for the books?Ciara Sheridan's father has left her with three things: a sprawling and distinctly ramshackle estate on the Irish coast, the outline for the finale to his bestselling epic fantasy series that he wanted her to finish - and writer's block.Enter Sam Avery: Frank-Sheridan-fanboy and hotshot editor, sent from the New York publishing house direct to her doorstep - ...

It is impossible to think outside your vocabulary. So what happens when your vocabulary is wrong? Crabgrass and Oaktrees is a book about how we have viewed the Church, the language we use, the way we live it, and the change we need. Perhaps the church shouldn't be seen as a giant, majestic, Oak Tree but instead it should look more like despised Crabgrass.

Learn what a flipped classroom is and why it works, and get the information you need to flip a classroom. You’ll also learn the flipped mastery model, where students learn at their own pace, furthering opportunities for personalized education. This simple concept is easily replicable in any classroom, doesn’t cost much to implement, and helps foster self-directed learning. Once you flip, you won’t want to go back!

This revised edition of the groundbreaking book shares innovators Jonathan Bergmann and Aaron Sams’s insights on how to successfully flip a classroom and covers new advances in the field.It started with a simple observation: Students need their teachers present to answer questions or to provide help if they get stuck on an assignment; they don’t need their teachers present to listen to a lecture or review content. From there, Jon Bergmann and Aaron Sams began the f...

Building on their best-selling book Flip Your Classroom: Reach Every Student in Every Class Every Day, flipped education innovators Jonathan Bergmann and Aaron Sams return with a book series that supports flipped learning in the four topic areas of science, math, English and social studies as well as the elementary classroom. In this volume the authors address how flipping your classroom can support elementary instruction.

Flipped classroom pioneers Jonathan Bergmann and Aaron Sams take their revolutionary educational philosophy to the next level in Flipped Learning. Building on the energy of the thousands of educators inspired by the influential book Flip Your Classroom, this installment is all about what happens next -- when a classroom is truly student-centered and teachers are free to engage with students on an individual level.

It's the game you never asked to play.A one-way bus ticket to Florida offers Rodney Corso the chance at a fresh start from his dead-end life in South Carolina.Unfortunately, he'd never reach his final destination.During the ten-hour trek to Miami, Rodney and the rest of the passengers awaken to find themselves duct-taped to their seats; stranded in the middle of nowhere. Their captor reveals himself, informing them that they are participants in a ga...

Building on their best-selling book Flip Your Classroom: Reach Every Student in Every Class Every Day, flipped education innovators Jonathan Bergmann and Aaron Sams return with a book series that supports flipped learning in the four topic areas of science, math, English and social studies as well as the elementary classroom.