Anytime, Anywhere synthesizes existing research and practices in the emerging field of student-centered learning, and includes profiles of schools that have embraced this approach.Educators have argued that students should be at the center of learning, constructing new knowledge based on what is interesting to them, and receiving guidance in classrooms—or anywhere they may happen to be— from adults with whom they have positive relationships. Now, with the ...

Thirty years of real-world classroom experience define this comprehensive guide to competency-based education. Robert J. Marzano leads a group of pioneer educators and researchers who share lessons learned from decades of implementation. Each chapter provides practical strategies for proficiency scales, flexible pacing, and leadership lessons to help schools move beyond traditional grading, prioritize mastery, and increase student agency and success.K–12 teachers and school...

The chilling, hypnotically beautiful story of a girl whose coming of age is darkened by the secret history of her small New England town.Theo and Raquel Motherwell are the only newcomers to the sleepy town of Wick in fifteen-year-old Ginger Pritt's memory. Hampered by a lingering innocence while her best friend, Cherry, grows more and more embroiled with boys, Ginger is instantly attracted to the worldliness and sophistication of this dashing couple.But the...

"Wolff keeps company with Sylvia Plath, Sharon Olds, and Beth Ann Fennelly."—Publishers Weekly, starred reviewA bold, lyrical invention by an award-winning poet whose “gift for the gorgeous” won praise from Robert Pinsky. The King is a groundbreaking collection following a Self—a mother, lover, wife, thinker—in her fractured approach to the absolutes of pregnancy, postpartum depression, childrearing, belief, love, and epistemology. Here is a poten...

I took a moment to look her over. She was pretty with her bouncy blond hair. She wasn't a natural blond, and I wondered what her original hair color was. I found myself staring at her eyes though. Two shimmering pools of green blue. A girl could drown in them.I let my gaze travel down her body. She had to be around my age, but you would think that she was about 18 the way her body looked. She was slim, skinny even, but muscled from years of vault and balance beam. Her waist was tin...

Pricilla jumped to her feet and paced about the room, silently giving herself a frantic pep talk. I am not a lesbian. I am not a lesbian. I am not a lesbian. This was only a one-time fantasy! And I've never once acted on these desires. Never! I am not a lesbian. I am not a lesbian. I am not a lesbian.Once satisfied by the pep talk, she sat, calmer, less panicked...until a knock came to the door."Yes?" she asked, leaping back to the feet....WARNING - This story has h...

I looked at her. “Who are you? Are you some kind of an angel or something?” I was kind of kidding, but the bewilderment in my voice was real.She burst out laughing. “Hardly,” she said. “I just… I really wanted to do a good job for you tonight.”“What are you doing after we’re done here tonight?” I asked. “I mean, I guess nowhere is open…”“What are you thinking about?” she asked. She pulled her hair out of its ponytail and...

**#1 BESTSELLING COOKBOOK! The newest, gorgeous salad cookbook from the sisters behind Mandy's Gourmet Salads—and the perfect compaion title—because more is always more!This second sensational cookbook, following the runaway bestseller Mandy's Gourmet Salads, is packed with even more salads, more smoothies, more sweets—and now morning fuel and soups too! Mor eis always more! Indulge in and be inspired by these heartwarming recipes for cold-weather meals, ...

Emerald Tablet Six: The Key of Magic offers a groundbreaking, channeled revelation from Thoth the Atlantean, unlocking the ancient wisdom of one of the most cryptic and profound texts in history. Through direct communication with Thoth, the author has translated the difficult-to-understand Emerald Tablet Six into modern, accessible language, making it possible for readers to absorb its deep truths and apply them to their lives.This transformative work explores the ...

Rethinking Readiness offers a new set of competencies to replace the narrow learning goals of No Child Left Behind and, in chapters written by some of the nation’s most well-respected education scholars, explores their implications for schools.Today’s students must cultivate the full range of intellectual, interpersonal, and intrapersonal capacities that have been grouped together under the banner of “deeper learning.” Rethinking Readiness focuses...

Recorded live in Los AngelesPoet, novelist, and Fence founder Rebecca Wolff’s internal monologue made external in poetry is uncanny. Her musical and darkly funny fourth collection, One Morning—, spans language, culture, art history, love, passion, grief, consumerism, environmental devastation, and the ekphrastic experience of pop and high culture. She experiments with torque, energy, narrative—two steps ahead of herself with the reader on her heels.

An Alpha Bear Shifter With A Dangerous Side. Can You Handle The Heat?WARNING: 18+ Audiences Only due to several sizzlin' hot explicit scenes!While researching her end of year project on the local ecosystem, twenty something college student, Poppy, gets herself turned around. The snowy North Carolina woods are no place for a young girl, especially not when the sun is about to go down. Fortunately for her, Poppy runs across a beautiful log cabin. Although she finds the owner ...