A Mind at a Time
10 best books like A Mind at a Time (Mel Levine): Can We Talk about Race?: And Other Conversations in an Era of School Resegregation, Endangered Minds: Why Children Don’t Think and What We Can Do About It, Executive Skills in Children and Adolescents: A Practical Guide to Assessment and Intervention, Raising Resilient Children: Fostering Strength, Hope, and Optimism in Your Child, Late, Lost & Unprepared: A Parents' Guide to Helping Children with Executive Functioning, Touchpoints: Birth to 3 : Your Child's Emotional and Behavioral Development, A Fine Young Man, Wishes, Lies, and Dreams: Teaching Children to Write Poetry, How to Differentiate Instruction in Mixed-Ability Classrooms, Spaces Places: Designing Classrooms for Literacy
| Author | Beverly Daniel Tatum |
| ISBN | 0807032840 |
Beverly Daniel Tatum emerged on the national scene in 1997 with "Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?," a book that spoke to a wide audience about the psychological dynamics of race relations in America. Tatum's unique ability to get people talking about race captured the attention...
Endangered Minds: Why Children Don’t Think and What We Can Do About It
| Author | Jane M. Healy |
| ISBN | 0684856204 |
Is today's fast-paced media culture creating a toxic environment for our children's brains?
In this landmark, bestselling assessment tracing the roots of America's escalating crisis in education, Jane M. Healy, Ph.D., examines how television, video games, and other components of popular...
| Author | Peg Dawson |
| ISBN | 1572309288 |
Concise and practitioner friendly, this bestselling guide has helped put executive skills on the map for school&mdashbased clinicians and educators. The book explains how these critical congnitive processes develop and why they play such a key role in children's behavior and school preformance....
| Author | Robert B. Brooks |
| ISBN | 0809297655 |
TOP CHILD PSYCHOLOGISTS OFFER EXPERT INSIGHT AND PRACTICAL ADVICE FOR RAISING STRONG KIDS IN TODAY'S COMPLICATED WORLD
"Thoughtful and sound in its approach, practical and clear in its suggestions, direct and supportive in its tone, Raising Resilient Children is the perfect book for...
| Author | Joyce Cooper-Kahn |
| ISBN | 1890627844 |
(2009 National Parenting Publications Awards (NAPPA): Honors Award)
Executive functions are the cognitive skills that help us manage our lives and be successful. Children with weak executive skills, despite their best intentions, often do their homework but forget to turn it in, wait...
| Author | T. Berry Brazelton |
| ISBN | 0738210498 |
Brazelton is amazing. He's like the anti-Spock (Dr., not Mr.). His astounding insight into what kids are doing that's normative and necessary and developmentally important when what we see is "the terrible twos" or the like should be required reading for every parent and professional that works with...
| Author | Michael Gurian |
| ISBN | 0874779693 |
"The New York Times" bestseller that is teaching America how to understand the inner-lives of adolescent boys.
From depression to dropping grades, from incidents of violence to teen suicide, today's adolescent boys are one of the largest at-risk groups in America today. In this bracing and insightful...
| Author | Kenneth Koch |
| ISBN | 0060955090 |
The classic, inspiring account of a poet's experience teaching school children to write poetry
When Kenneth Koch entered the Manhattan classrooms of P.S. 61, the children, excited by the opportunity to work with an instructor able to inspire their talent and energy, would clap and shout...
How to Differentiate Instruction in Mixed-Ability Classrooms
| Author | Carol Ann Tomlinson |
| ISBN | 0871205122 |
In this 2nd edition of a book that has provided inspiration to countless teachers, Carol Ann Tomlinson offers three new chapters, extended examples and information in every chapter, and field-tested strategies that teachers can use in today's increasingly diverse classrooms. Tomlinson shows...
Spaces Places: Designing Classrooms for Literacy
| Author | Debbie Diller |
| ISBN | 1571107223 |
From Debbie Diller, author of numerous best-selling books and videos on literacy work stations and small group reading instruction, comes another practical resource filled with ideas you can use immediately to better manage your classroom and support student learning and independence.
In...
| Author | Esmé Raji Codell |
| ISBN | 1565123085 |
Are children reading enough? Not according to most parents and teachers, who know that reading aloud with children fosters a lifelong love of books, ensures better standardized test scores, promotes greater success in school, and helps instill the values we most want to pass on.
Esmé Raji...
| Author | Richard L. Allington |
| ISBN | 0205443249 |
Have you noticed that every new educational method, material and program is "research based" or "scientific"? Everything these days is the new miracle that will transform your classroom into the model learning environment. Thank God for Richard Allington! He sorts through years and years of research...
| Author | Richard Lavoie |
| ISBN | 0743289609 |
Richard Lavoie is very knowledgeable about teaching kids who have a learning disability. If you are a teacher and haven't seen his F.A.T City Workshop DVD, then you should. It will give you some new insight into what children with ADD, ADHD, and other learning disabilities go through in classrooms all...
| Author | Stephanie Harvey |
| ISBN | 1571103104 |
Places visualization, a comprehension technique I use in my work with kids as the centerpiece of a spectrum of increasingly complex strategies for understanding: Making Connections, Questioning, Visualizing, Inferring, Determining Importance and Synthesizing. While there's almost too much...
Written by two Ivy League graduates who struggled with learning disabilities and ADHD, Learning Outside the Lines teaches students how to take control of their education and find true success with brilliant and easy study suggestions and tips.
Every day, your school, your teachers, and...
Children with Sensory Integration (SI) Dysfunction--a condition that does not allow the body to properly process sensations--often display delayed mother, speech, and social skills. Now as awareness of this condition reaches an all-time high, this comprehensive guidebook offers cutting-edge...
The Challenging Child: Understanding, Raising, and Enjoying the Five "Difficult" Types of Children
| Author | Stanley I. Greenspan |
| ISBN | 0201441934 |
The book that helps parents match the child care to the child
Most children fall into five basic personality types that stem from inborn physical characteristics: the sensitive child, the self-absorbed child, the defiant child, the inattentive child, and the active/aggressive child....
| Author | Jane Nelsen |
| ISBN | 0761511288 |
Bestselling authors H. Stephen Glenn and Jane Nelsen have helped hundreds of thousands of parents raise capable, independent children with
Raising Self-Reliant Children in a Self-Indulgent World.
On its tenth anniversary, this parenting classic returns with fresh, up-to-date information...
| Author | Lucy Jane Miller |
| ISBN | 0399153373 |
Imagine, for a moment, that you are a parent of a child with no visible disability, but whose experiences of everyday life present constant challenges. What may be typical activities for most people-eating, dressing, making friends, taking a spelling test, responding to a hug-are a struggle, often...
| Author | Rafe Esquith |
| ISBN | 0670021083 |
One of America's most celebrated educators teaches parents how to create extraordinary children-in the classroom and beyond
In his bestselling book, Teach Like Your Hair's on Fire, readers were introduced to Rafe Esquith and his extraordinary students in Hobart Elementary School's Room...
| Author | Carol Stock Kranowitz |
| ISBN | 0399532714 |
The revised and updated edition of a groundbreaking special-needs activity guide
This revised edition of the companion volume to The Out-of-Sync Child includes new activities that parents of kids with Sensory Processing Disorder can do at home with their child, along with updated information...
Quirky Kids: Understanding and Helping Your Child Who Doesn't Fit In- When to Worry and When Not to Worry
| Author | Eileen Costello |
| ISBN | 0345451430 |
From the fourth-grade girl who never gets invited to a birthday party because classmates think she’s “weird” to the geek who is terrific at math but is failing every other subject, quirky children are different from other kids in ways that they–and their parents–have a hard time understanding....
| Author | Lucy Calkins |
| ISBN | 0738200247 |
Here the nationally acclaimed educator who transformed the way our children learn to read and write in school shows us how to nurture our children's imagination at home, from the earliest days of babytalk to the time when we see them off to school. Drawing upon her influential philosophy of active learning,...
| Author | Cathy Vatterott |
| ISBN | 1416608257 |
At last, a book that forever solves the debate over whether homework is an essential component of rigorous schooling or a harmful practice. Veteran teacher, trainer, professor, consultant, and author Cathy Vatterott distills her years of experience with all kinds of schools into a balanced approach...
