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"As you know, classroom management presents the most difficult - and most important - aspect of the teaching profession. Maintaining discipline and winning students' cooperation requires tremendous skill. Our book, "Classrooms That Work: A Teacher's Guide to Discipline Without Stress" and the resulting companion workshops for educators have been developed to provide teachers with the proven techniques and strategies they need to meet the challenges of today's teaching environment. These are based on theoretical and practical guidelines towards creating a democratic classroom based on mutual respect between teachers and students, as well as group problem solving. Thousands of teachers have already proven the worth of this book, using it every day in their classrooms."

Welcome to Grolier Online. Grolier Online is published by Scholastic Library Publishing, Inc., a division of Scholastic Inc. It includes eight encyclopedia databases: Encyclopedia Americana, Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia, The New Book of Knowledge, La Nueva Enciclopedia Cumbre, America the Beautiful, Lands and Peoples,Amazing Animals and The New Book of Popular Science. Click here for comprehensive information on the many features available within each of these encyclopedia databases.

The World Book Web is a suite of online research tools that includes encyclopedia articles, primary source collections, educator tools, student activities, pictures, audio, and video, complemented by current periodicals and related Web sites.

"Lendle. The easiest, fastest, fairest, and best way to lend and borrow Kindle™ books."

"Standards-Based Grading is a technique devoted to giving students formative control over their own progress (and grade). It requires, at least, a fundamental change in the behavior of your grade book, but I'll let you read about that. I've written about implementing SBG in specific disciplines."

Founded in 1994, the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History is a nonprofit organization supporting the study and love of American history through a wide range of programs and resources for students, teachers, scholars, and history enthusiasts throughout the nation. The Institute creates and works closely with history-focused schools; organizes summer seminars and development programs for teachers; produces print and digital publications and traveling exhibitions; hosts lectures by eminent historians; administers a History Teacher of the Year Award in every state and U.S. territory; and offers national book prizes and fellowships for scholars to work in the Gilder Lehrman Collection as well as other renowned archives. The Gilder Lehrman Institute's website, www.gilderlehrman.org, serves as a gateway to American history online with rich resources for educators, designed specifically for K-12 teachers and students.

Gaggle.Net works on any computer with Internet access and a browser. All controls are displayed in a standard web page. There are no additional windows, no special controls, and no outside programs to be accessed. The benefit of a completely web-based solution is that students (and the teacher) can access their email, respond, and even use their address book on any computer, with any browser in any location -- home, library, or the classroom. When students can read and respond to email at home, it saves valuable classroom time and extends the learning experience.

"Lit2Go is a free online collection of stories and poems in Mp3 (audiobook) format. You can: * Download the files to your Mp3 player and listen on the go, * Listen to the Mp3 files on your computer, * View the text on a webpage and read along as you listen, * Print out the stories and poems to make your own book."

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