Jumpstart your students’ minds with daily warm-ups that get them thinking mathematically and ready for instruction. Daily Math Stretches offers practice in algebraic thinking, geometry, measurement, and data for grades 3-5 to provide an early foundation for mastering mathematical learning. Written by Guided Math author Laney Sammons and with well-known, research-based approaches, this product provides step-by-step lessons, assessment information, and a snapshot of how to facilitate these m...

Apply familiar reading comprehension strategies and relevant research to mathematics instruction to aid in building students' comprehension in mathematics. This resource demonstrates how to facilitate student learning to build schema and make connections among concepts. In addition, it provides clear strategies to help students ask good questions, visualize mathematics, and synthesize their understanding. This resource is aligned to College and Career Readiness Standards.

This professional resource provides teachers with suggestions, tips, management, and implementation methods for using effective conferencing with students within the Guided Math framework. Templates, planning tools, and other resources are provided to help teachers stay organized and effective while conferring.

Halloween, a time for laughing children in white bedsheets and superhero costumes. A time for chocolate candy, and pumpkins, and Trick-or-Treat.... a time for dark things everywhere to slink out of the shadows and into our lives, reminding those unlucky few that our charades of Halloween cannot erase the centuries of history and pain behind the facade…What October Brings celebrates the dark traditions of the autumn rituals, of Halloween and Samhain, in homage to the uniquel...

God's right to judge humanity is written on the very fabric of human existenceThe doctrine of reprobation—that is, the eternal, unconditional decree of God for the non-elect—is frequently misconstrued in both pastoral and theological literature. In Reprobation and God's Sovereignty, Peter Sammons reintroduces this oft-misunderstood doctrine, revealing its relationship to divine sovereignty. With Romans 9 as a guiding text, Sammons presents a thoroughly res...

Does the concept of agile project management leave you confused and lost? Do you want to know how Scrum can help you build an agile, profit-focused business? Are you interested in implementing its key principles successfully?Scrum focuses on delivering high-quality products at a lower cost within a shorter period. Simply put, it is all about being efficient and effective while making the most of your team's resources.Sounds too good to be true? Organizations such as LEGO, C...

What if the reason your work feels overwhelming isn't the workload, but the tools you are using to manage it?You would not open a can with a pair of scissors, yet that is exactly how most people run their projects, forcing the wrong method onto work it was never built for. The result is stress, missed deadlines, and the constant feeling of pushing a boulder uphill.You want to lead projects that flow, where the team knows what to do next and nothing slips ...

Claudia just landed a cozy office job, the only worries she had were deciding on getting a cat and finishing her paperwork.That was until she ended up meeting a mysterious man from upper management. His etiquette was as perfect as his God like body. Claudia couldn't help developing a crush.But things go wrong as she's being invited by her Best Friend's love interest. She can't seem to shake the guy, and it costs Claudia her friendship.Without the support of her frie...

The essential guide to enjoying and photographing the Mother Road“Rick Sammon has a super power: he makes any photographic technique or concept simple to understand.” — PhotoFocus.comFrom legendary photographer Rick Sammon and his wife, Susan, The Route 66 Photo Road Trip is the perfect companion to enjoying and photographing everything that the country’s most famous highway has to offer, whether you’re hauling professional gear or just your phone!...

Ask any teacher why they went into teaching, and they'll invariably refer to students or their subject. Yet, modern educators are faced with a dilemma: the industry judges us primarily on outcomes, offering the justification that grades improve life chances. Grades improve life chances as much as money buys happiness: it's no more than a prop or a poor substitute. Unless the profession starts to get to the heart of its reason for being, we might as well all pack up and go home. Education h...

From a corpus of Greek epics known in antiquity as the "Epic Cycle," six poems dealt with the same Trojan War mythology as the Homeric poems. Though they are now lost, these poems were much read and much discussed in ancient times, not only for their content but for their mysterious relationship with the more famous works attributed to Homer. In Device and Composition in the Greek Epic Cycle, Benjamin Sammons shows that these lost poems belonged, compositionally, to essentially the same tr...

Improve your photography with more than 200 lighting tips from a top photographerWritten by Canon Explorer of Light Rick Sammon and leading fashion and studio photographer Vered Koshlano, this guide is packed with professional advice on the essential element of photography: lighting. It provides detailed information and insider secrets that are bound to make you a better photographer.You'll learn the basics of studio lighting as well as how to achieve special effects. A 90-...