active learning

In Kids Deserve It!, Todd and Adam encourage you to think big and make learning fun and meaningful for students. While you're at it, you just might rediscover why you became an educator in the first place. Learn why you should be calling parents to praise your students (and employees). Discover ways to promote family interaction and improve relationships for kids at school and at home. Be inspired to take risks, shake up the status quo, and be a champion for your students. Offers strategies for making learning fun and meaningful through promotion of family interaction, taking risks, being a champion for students, and more.

Contains hands-on projects and "focus-theme" discussions that motivates students through open-inquiry learning.

Presents a practical guide for learning more effectively and actually putting that knowledge into use.

Presents eighty-five movement activities for the kindergarten through sixth-grade classroom, and includes a music CD.

"To close the achievement gap, all educators must understand that all students have the right to learn at high levels. Through the five E's of education: Exposure, Experience, Expectations, Enduring Understandings, and Enthusiasm, students are not left asking, 'What is it about me you can't teach?'" (enclosed flyer).

Offers teachers, curriculum developers, and administrators an overview of the basic concepts of Adventure Education and explains how the method can be used to engage learners and improve classroom experiences.