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The customer experience revolution has begun! Businesses that provide an extraordinary customer experience are more profitable and sustainable than their competition. They dominate industries and marginalize competing companies. In their innovative book, The Customer Experience Revolution: How Companies like Apple, Amazon, and Starbucks Have Changed Business Forever, authors Jeofrey Bean and Sean Van Tyne uncover valuable insights about leader...

Although teachers have been using the Reading Workshop approach successfully for years, until now there hasn't been a step-by-step guide for implementing the strategies in the upper elementary classroom. Laura Candler's Power Reading Workshop offers an easy classroom-tested method for using Reading Workshop in your own classroom. You'll learn how to motivate readers by providing time for independent reading and reading conferences. As a result...

This comprehensive program by Dr. Shirley Disseler contains strategies and activities to teach your grade 3 5 students to master Common Core Mathematics Standards. Your students will develop a solid understanding of math concepts, procedural skill and fluency, and be able to apply math in their everyday lives. Inside Part 2 Measurement & Data Geometry Mathematical Practices Across the Common Core Each chapter has doz¬ens of new activities that...

This comprehensive program by Dr. Shirley Disseler contains strategies and activities to teach your grade 3 5 students to master Common Core Mathematics Standards. Your students will develop a solid understanding of math concepts, procedural skill and fluency, and be able to apply math in their everyday lives. Inside Part 1 Operations & Algebraic Thinking Number & Operations in Base Ten Number & Operations Fractions Each chapter has doz¬ens of...

Animating Your Career is the exciting new book by filmmaker Steve Hickner, director of The Prince of Egypt and Bee Movie, who has been involved with the development of dozens of major animated motion pictures. Animating Your Career is your guide to navigating the journey of a career in the creative fields -- from getting your foot in the door to directing a project involving hundreds of artistic professionals. The book is filled with practical...

Laura Candler's Mastering Math Facts - Multiplication & Division: Aligned with the Common Core is a proven method for helping students achieve mastery of multiplication and division math facts. The program includes five components to help all your students become Math Facts Masters: - Alignment with the Common Core State Standards for Math Content and Practice - Lessons and activities to teach foundational multiplication and division concepts ...

Susannah begins to learn about slavery in the South and the Abolitionist movement in the North, but the issues soon become more than idle gossip. Her father hires Jacob, an escaped slave, to work as a farmhand and live in the Allen's spare room. When tensions explode in her town, Susannah must face how to stand up to prejudice when it's a matter of life or death. The Spare Room is a story appropriate for all readers, ages 10 and up. The Spare ...

What if your speeches and PowerPoint presentations and web copy could be as entertaining as a blockbuster film? Or as gripping as well-crafted television drama? Or as meaningful as a hit stage play? Here's a start: stop looking at other businesses for ideas and start looking at show business. Connect with your audience. Tell better stories. Express ideas visually. Appeal to emotion. These are just some of the important lessons from acting that...

Are You a Genuine Leader or a Pretender? Are you decisive or a procrastinator? Are you a positive influence with a ubiquitous physical presence, or are you a stealth bomber, seen only when some negative feedback needs to be dumped? Are you excited to develop your associates or are you threatened by their personal growth? In short, are you a Genuine Leader or only a Pretender? Am I The Leader I Need To Be?, a new book and DVD by Harold Lloyd, w...

We all know we waste time at work, but most of us don't know how much. Author Harold C. Lloyd is convinced we can reclaim at least 5 hours each week by using the ideas he presents in his brand-new book, "It's About Time." The book focuses on techniques to easily improve your time management skills at work: - Start your day with a Disappearing Act to get your schedule in order. - ZAP! the distractions that take you away from the task at hand. -...

Your students are using social media every day at home. Now, for the first time, you can bring an important Internet tool, WordPress, into your classroom. WordPress for Student Writing Projects by Erik Bean and Emily Waszak is your resource for incorporating blogs for student writing into your ELA instruction. Whether you are an experienced blogger or have not tried blogging, WordPress for Student Writing Projects includes all the information ...

Creating Characters using Writing Workshop by Christine DePetrillo is a complete program of instruction for teachers of grades 3 through 8 to help students learn how to create believable characters in their stories. The lessons in the book are designed to mesh with a Writing Workshop teaching model, although they can be used outside of that framework as well. Each teaching activity in the book is aligned with one or more specific Common Core S...

The Crawfords have developed hundreds of brand-new Math-tivities that combine math instruction with arts and crafts, games, puzzles, and outdoor play to make math the most fun part of the day! All the Math-tivities are aligned with specific Common Core Standards for grades K to 2 so teachers can track their students' progress toward mastering each Standard. Math-tivities includes a wealth of printable activities for students including: Mathboo...

The House of Comprehension is a complete guide for English Language Arts teachers to help teach students how to understand structure in litera-ture. The elements of literature character, plot/conflict, setting, theme, symbols, point of view, and tone are the building blocks of the house of comprehension. Each element contributes to the entire piece of literature, and students must learn what they all mean in order to fully comprehend the liter...

In 1880, Dr. William Osler of McGill University in Montreal published an article in a medical journal entitled, "Heredity in Progressive Muscular Atrophy as Illustrated in the Farr Family of Vermont." In that article he reported on the case of a farmer from Sutton, Vermont named Erastus Farr, and told the story of Erastus's father, an uncle and an aunt, and four cousins, all of whom had died young of this disease of muscle wasting, now known a...