Choices In a Jar^®

Delightful dilemmas to spark conversation and thinking

Stay Positive In a Jar^®

101 tips and strategies to help kids stay positive.

Virtual Classroom Basics At Your Fingertips Set

Tackle virtual teaching head on! This bundle includes 3 guides designed to help teachers set up virtual classrooms, keep students engaged, and build welcoming classroom communities.

Mental Health Educator Resources, Elementary Expanded 11-Book Collection

This 11-book collection helps you reduce challenging behaviors and improve elementary student outcomes by increasing your skills to support students' mental health and social emotional learning.

Mental Health Educator Resources, Middle and High School Expanded 9-Book Collection

This nine-book collection helps you reduce challenging behaviors and improve secondary student outcomes by increasing your skills to support students' mental health.

Organizing Your Virtual Classroom

This 4-page guide will help teachers as they establish the rules and routines of their virtual classrooms. With exciting strategies on how to set up at-home classrooms, teachers can start the school year virtually with confidence.

Engaging Students in Your Virtual Classroom

This 4-page guide helps teachers implement traditional engagement strategies in a virtual setting. With these great tips on keeping students engaged, educators can tackle virtual teaching with confidence.

Building Community in Your Virtual Classroom

This 4-page guide has various tips for building a classroom community and getting to know your students. These exciting strategies promote social-emotional well-being in a fun, exciting way.

Culturally and Linguistically Responsive Teaching in Your Classroom

This 6-page AYF guide helps teachers validate students' unique home environments while delivering tools for success in mainstream culture. Learn the VABB technique to connect with diverse students in a way that boosts confidence and keeps them engaged!

Social-Emotional Learning in Your Classroom

What does SEL look like in the classroom? How should it be taught? Answer these and more questions with this 6-page AYF guide! Promote student mindfulness, foster emotional health, and teach essential life skills with these ready-to-implement activities.

Strategies for English Learners in Your Classroom

Help English learners thrive in your classroom! This 6-page guide offers research-based instructional strategies to promote oral and written language development. Includes ready-to-implement strategies that will empower ELL students.

Implementing Guided Math in Your Classroom

Help your students thrive using Guided Math! This 6-page guide offers instructional strategies that revolve around seven key instructional components. Promote an environment of numeracy with these easy-to-implement activities.

Strategies for Culturally and Linguistically Responsive Teaching and Learning

Provide teachers with concrete strategies to support instruction for students with culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds. Incorporate the tools and tips in this resource into daily instruction to educate students of diverse backgrounds.

It's Their World: Teens, Screens, and the Science of Adolescence

Parenting in the digital age brings unique challenges and opportunities. It's Their World: Teens, Screens, and the Science of Adolescence offers tools and insights to help parents build deeper relationships with teens as they navigate the complexities of growing up. This book provides a friendly, clear, research-based framework to guide parents through the crucial developmental stages of adolescence, both online and offline. By understanding what teens need as they grow, parents can nurture strong, supportive connections that last a lifetime.

Neurodiversity-Affirming Schools: Transforming Practices So All Students Feel Accepted & Supported

Written by leaders in the field of neurodiversity-affirming education, Neurodiversity-Affirming Schools empowers educators to help neurodivergent students thrive. It offers an accessible introduction to the history, context, science, and culture around neurodiversity and neurodivergence. Additionally, it contains concrete strategies for building school and classroom environments that support neurodivergent students.Chapters include tables and sidebars to help readers retain and reference important information. This book also provides real-world flavor in the form of vignettes of neurodivergent students and how educators support them. These features allow readers to contextualize what they've learned and feel confident as they implement change.

Strategies for Culturally and Linguistically Responsive Teaching and Learning, Second Edition

The Empathetic Classroom: How a Mental Health Mindset Supports Your Students-and You

The Empathetic Classroom goes beyond typical books on teacher well-being, focusing on holistic mindsets and strategies that support mental health in K-12 teachers and their students alike. Written by a teacher-turned-therapist, this approachable book uniquely offers a mental health perspective on classroom teaching. Maria Munro-Schuster shares tools for focusing on mental health in everyday practiceTeachers will benefit from sound advice on maintaining boundaries, confronting intrusive thoughts, responding to trauma, incorporating play into classrooms, and many other methods of remaining connected to themselves and their students. The conversational tone and relatable stories make this an easy, entertaining read.

Smithsonian STEAM Life Science Informational Text for Middle School 6-Book Set

Discover the wonders of science and nature with the Smithsonian's captivating life science 6- book collection for middle school students! Dive into the fascinating world of biology, explore photosynthesis, journey through Yellowstone, encounter thrilling tales of survival, unravel the mysteries of DNA, and meet a Megalodon. This engaging set brings science to life, sparking curiosity and a passion for learning in every young reader. Books in this set include, What Happens to Your Body When, All About Photosynthesis, Yellowstone's Ecosystem, Predators and Prey, Working with DNA and Genetics, and Meet the Megalodon.

Smithsonian STEAM Physical Science Informational Text for Middle School 6-Book Set

Explore the wonders of our world and beyond with the Smithsonian's exciting physical science book collection designed for middle schoolers! Books in this set include, All About Water, Wildfires, Sounds of the Universe, High-Speed Cards, Sonar and Submarine Technology, and Energy Reactions in the Kitchen.

Smithsonian STEAM Earth and Space Informational Text Middle School 6-Book Set

Embark on an extraordinary journey with the Smithsonian's intriguing earth and space 6 book collection for middle school students! Books in this set include, The Extreme Universe, Ocean Trenches and Deep-Sea Life, How Earth Tells Us Its Age, All About Clouds, All About Hurricanes, and Human Effects on Earth.

Smithsonian STEAM Complete Informational Text for Middle School 24-Book Set

Step into a world of discovery with the Smithsonian's comprehensive 24-book set, perfect for middle school students eager to explore science and nature! Books in this set include, What Happens to Your Body When, Amazing Tales of Plant Survival, Animal Health at the Zoo, All About Photosynthesis, Yellowstone's Ecosystem, Predators and Prey, Working with DNA and Genetics, Meet the Megalodon, All About the Periodic Table, All About Water, Wildfires, Gravitational Interactions, Energy Reactions in the Kitchen, High-Speed Cards, Sonar and Submarine Technology, Sounds of the Universe, The Extreme Universe, Space Technology, Ocean Trenches and Deep-Sea Life, How Earth Tells Us Its Age, How to Become a Fossil, All About Clouds, All About Hurricanes, and Human Effects on Earth.