Exploring Studio Materials: Teaching Creative Art Making to Children

Exploring Studio Materials: Teaching Creative Art Making to Children is a transformative approach to teaching art in elementary and secondary schools. Based on the model of how real artists

Jazz Day: The Making of a Famous Photograph

What happens when you invite as many jazz musicians as you can to pose for a photo in 1950s Harlem? Playful verse and glorious artwork capture an iconic moment

The Read-Aloud Family: Making Meaningful and Lasting Connections with Your Kids

Connecting deeply with our kids can be difficult in our busy, technology-driven lives. Reading aloud offers us a chance to be fully present with our children. It also increases

Making Children Mind without Losing Yours

We’ve seen the enemy, and they’re small . . . and unionized.If anyone understands why children behave the way they do, it’s internationally known psychologist and New York Times

The Art and Making of The Peanuts Movie

This in-depth book goes behind the scenes of the movie-making process and looks at how the movie continues the tradition and legacy of Peanuts. An unmissable experience.  For the first time

Mind in the Making: The Seven Essential Life Skills Every Child Needs

“Ellen Galinsky—already the go-to person on interaction between families and the workplace—draws on fresh research to explain what we ought to be teaching our children. This is must-reading for

Tinkering: Kids Learn by Making Stuff

After-school and out-of-school programs–as well as home schooling–have been growing steadily for nearly a decade, but instructors are still searching for high-interest content that ties into science standards without

The Making of Modern China: The Ming Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty (1368-1912) (Understanding China Through Comics)

“Does what it sets out to do and serves as a Chinese history text teenagers might actually read.” —Asian Review of Books on Division to Unification in Imperial China

Making Change (Professional Resources)

Build the foundation for a 21st century learning environment! This professional resource provides strategies, suggestions, lesson ideas, and helpful planning tools to create an innovative learning environment in the