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Ready to dive deep into the world of Inquiry-Based Learning (IBL)? Here’s a simple, user-friendly guide to help you design your unit(s) using the IBL approach and to reflect on your learning. Remember, the essence of IBL is to promote curiosity, investigation, and deeper understanding among students. Let’s get started!

“Below-level Learners Can Excel in School” provides a research based educational framework for teachers, administrators, and parents designed to transition the struggling learner to perform at grade level and remain on level. Students who begin school with weak academic skills will have difficulty learning. These students will struggle and become below-level learners. Literacy skills are essential for children to learn language arts, mathematics, science and social studies concepts. If a below-level learner is struggling with reading, the struggle will continue in other subjects. Improve reading performance and performance in remaining subjects will improve. Their confidence will i ...

Blue Bear Finds a Home is a children's picture book telling a story of a little bear who thought no one would ever want him because of his differences. He continues to hope through disappointment after disappointment until one day someone accepts him as the perfect bear. Blue Bear Finds a Home has a message of love and acceptance for children and adults alike. Written by an early childhood educator, Blue Bear is a comforting story for one-on-one reading or for a class lesson on diversity, acceptance, tolerance and love.

Written by Darwin Nelson, co-author of Emotional Intelligence: Achieving Academic and Career Excellence in College and Life (Pearson Education, 2004, 2011). Let Bodacious The Wonder Truck, a beautifully color-illustrated book, help teach your child about emotions in an age appropriate way!

Charlie the Dragon is a children's book series that focuses on how to nurture creativity in children and re-discover it in adults. This is the first book of the series. Take an adventure into the magical land where Charlie the Dragon lives. Charlie the Dragon is a fun, whimsical story with vivid imagery and secretly teaches how to nurture the different aspects of creativity. Stay tuned for Charlie the Adult Dragon available summer of 2012. Charlie the Adult Dragon is intended for the adults in children's lives. The book provides an easy, fun read with stories, ideas how to nurture children's creative minds and helps the adult find their creativity that is lost as we grow older. Lin ...

If you love Wisconsin and your child is learning how to write, this book combines both! Your mini-Wisconsinite can practice learning how to write every letter, from A to Z, upper and lowercase. Get lost in the intriguing trivia as you flip from page to page. Tracing letters and exploring Wisconsin animals, critters, trees, and flowers along the way. With this workbook, you will both learn about new Wisconsin words (and wonders!).

Once there were four Little Kingdom Kings who lived their whole lives learning, living and applying the Keys of the Kingdom. Because of this, they had good success and traveled the world changing the lives of millions. This book is inspired by our Mentor, Dr. Myles Munroe, Dr. Richard Pinder, Lavard "Manifest" Parks and King Diego DeSantiago. Together they traveled the world and visited over 130 countries and inspired millions to discover, plan for and fulfill their destinies. We honor them in this book as they lost their lives in November of 2014 when the private plane they were flying on suddenly crashed. They were on their way to a Global Leadership Forum and were doing what they ...