Nurturing our true selves, acknowledging when our ego is in control, and accepting Gods love enables us to be lovingly caring of others. This is a challenge for adults to master in a material worldbut even harder for children. In My Loving Self and Me, author C. Beth Hoffman offers a collection of stories and poems that helps children understand this concept, and it gives them a jump start on their own spiritual path. The stories feature a brother and sister, Ike and Gabby, and their cousi...

“Eloquent and detailed…precise and well-thought-out...Read her book — and listen.” — Jane Smiley, The Washington Post.Beth Hoffman was living the good life: she had a successful career as a journalist and professor, a comfortable home in San Francisco, and plenty of close friends and family. Yet in her late 40s, she and her husband decided to leave the big city and move to his family ranch in Iowa—all for the dream of becoming a farmer, to put into practic...

Beth Hoffman was living the good life: she had a successful career as a journalist and professor, a comfortable home in San Francisco, and plenty of close friends and family. Yet in her late forties, she and her husband decided to leave the big city and move to his family ranch in Iowa—all for the dream of becoming a farmer. There was just one problem: money.Half of America's two million farms made less than $300 in 2019. Between rising land costs, ever-more expensive equipment, th...

Winner of the 2014 Ohioana Book Award for fiction.The latest New York Times bestseller by the beloved author of Saving CeeCee HoneycuttBeth Hoffman’s bestselling debut, Saving CeeCee Honeycutt, won admirers and acclaim with its heartwarming story and cast of unforgettably quirky characters. Now her flair for evocative settings and richly drawn Southern personalities shines again in her compelling second novel,

A beloved Little Golden Book Classic—with a funny, timeless school theme!This rollicking story explores just what would happen at school if elephants walked the balance beam, monkeys climbed all over the monkey bars, and tigers went up the rope! Some of the funniest scenes show the animals hitting the showers afterward—and hogging all the towels!

Supporting and challenging cooperating teachers to grow in their mentoring and coaching practices with preservice teachers and also in their own work as classroom teachers, this practical guide presents and illustrates the Coaching with CARE model—a framework for reflection and action that helps cultivate a perspective on teaching that puts students at the center of teacher preparation and places value on apprenticeship and participation in learning. The CARE model takes a turn away from t...

**From New York Times Bestsellingauthor Jessica Wood comes this STANDALONE full-length novel**I wake up to a life and a man that I can’t remember.He says his name is Connor Brady—the tall, sexy CEO of Brady Global, Inc.He says my name is Olivia Stuart, and that I was recently in an accident and lost my memory.Also, he says I’m his fiancé.Although I don’t remember Connor, or anything about my past, something about him seems f...

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

Two powerful shifters: one of feathers and one of flame.Hailey is torn. Everything she thought she knew about her life has been turned on its head, and she no longer knows where she belongs. Losing her job and possibly her best friend makes her desperate—as does the reality that everything she loves might be destroyed.Wyatt wants one thing more than anything else. Hailey. He has waited centuries to find his mate, and he will let nothing, not even an unimaginable evil, get i...

Literacy is a skill for all time, for all people. It is an integral part of our lives, whether we are students or adult professionals. Giving all educators the breadth of knowledge and practical tools that help students strengthen their literacy skills is the focus of Read, Write, Lead.Drawing on her experience as a mentor teacher, reading specialist, instructional coach, and staff developer, author Regie Routman offers time-tested advice on how to develop a schoolwide lea...

Developing an approach to professional learning that has motivated teachers and resulted in impressive improvements in student learning, particularly for students who traditionally underachieve in school.

In this book the seven-eyed supervision model is explored and developed to reflect its use in many professions and different parts of the world.