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How to Make a Watercolor Paint Itself: Experimental Techniques for Achieving Realistic Effects
Award-winning artist Nita Engle’s breakthrough approach to watercolor shows readers how to combine spontaneity and control to produce glowing, realistic paintings. Her method begins with action-filled exercises that demonstrate how to play with paint, following no rules. Subsequent step-by-step projects add planning to the mix, demonstrating how to turn loose washes into light-filled watercolors with textural effects achieved by spraying, sprinkling, pouring, squirting, or stamping paint. Engle’s approach, and her results, are dramatic and dynamic; now watercolor artists can create their own exciting paintings with help from How to Make a Watercolor Paint Itself..
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Brain Gym (Teachers Edition: Revised)
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Classroom Instruction that Works: Research-Based Strategies for Increasing Student Achievement (ASCD)
This brief book presents research on the best strategies for raising student achievement through classroom instruction. Readers will find a wealth of research evidence, statistical data, and case studies. Nine categories of instructional strategies—Identifying Similarities and Differences; Summarizing and Note Taking; Reinforcing Effort and Providing Recognition; Homework and Practice; Nonlinguistic Representations; Cooperative Learning; Setting Objectives and Providing Feedback; Generating and Testing Hypotheses; and Cues, Questions, and Advance Organizers—that maximize student learning are introduced, along with the pertinent information to understand and synthesize each. For elementary school educators, administrators, and academic advisors and counselors. .
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Opening to Channel: How to Connect with Your Guide (Roman, Sanaya)
Suddenly , channeling has become nationwide news. With Shirley MacLaine's best-selling books Out on a Limb and Dancing in the Light, nationwide TV and radio programs and almost weekly articles in Sunday supplements, America has entered the age of channeling. What was once an isolated New Age phenomenon has become the subject of excited nationwide curiosity. Opening to Channel is a book with a startling message for the millions of curious Americans who are eager to learn more about this fascinating experience. The authors, Sanaya Roman and Duane Packer demonstrate that anyone can become a channel, connect at will with the universal mind, higher self or a spirit guide. This book takes the reader step-by-step into the experience of channeling. A frame of reference is provided by weaving in the story of how the authors become channels and then teachers of channeling. Experiences from students are included to encourage the reader and to point out the long-term benefits of channeling which include: heightened creativity healing of yourself and others clarifying life purpose developing of innate gifts spiritual unfoldment service to mankind You don't have to be a spiritual adept. You don't need any special talent. You don't have to go into a deep trance or take any risks. Anyone who follows the simple step-by-step instructions provided in this groundbreaking book can connect with a spirit guide of their own who can immeasurably enrich their lives and the lives of those around them. This is the definitive, inspirational, and easy-to-use guide to the art of channeling. Opening to Channel includes practical hands-on instruction in how to know if you are ready, how to attract a high-level guide, how to go into trance, how to channel for friends, how to use channeling to open to the higher dimension and much more..
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Learning by Doing: A Handbook for Professional Learning Communities at Work (Book & CD-ROM)
Learning by Doing: A Handbook for Professional Learning Communities at Work helps educators close the knowing-doing gap as they transform their schools into professional learning communities (PLCs). This handbook is a guide for action that will: · Help educators develop a common vocabulary and consistent understanding of key PLC concepts. · Present a compelling argument that the implementation of PLC concepts will benefit students and educators alike. · Help educators assess the current reality in their own schools and districts. · Convince educators to take purposeful steps to develop their capacity to function as PLCs..
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Home Learning Year by Year: How to Design a Homeschool Curriculum from Preschool Through High School
Finally, homeschoolers have a comprehensive guide to designing a homeschool curriculum, from one of the country's foremost homeschooling experts , Rebecca Rupp presents a structured plan to ensure that your children will learn what they need to know when they need to know it, from preschool through high school. Based on the traditional pre-K through 12th-grade structure, Home Learning Year by Year features: The integral subjects to be covered within each grade Standards for knowledge that should be acquired by your child at each level Recommended books to use as texts for every subject Guidelines for the importance of each topic: which knowledge is essential and which is best for more expansive study based on your child's personal interests Suggestions for how to sensitively approach less academic subjects, such as sex education and physical fitness .
Price: $8.00
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No Ordinary Moments: A Peaceful Warrior's Guide to Daily Life (Millman, Dan)
Every day, we face challenges in relationships, sexuality, money, work, and health. While there is a wealth of information and advice available on all of these subjects, we still have trouble turning knowing into doing. Here, Dan Millman presents a peaceful warrior's way to turn our intentions into action, our challenges into strength, and our life experiences into wisdom. Based on the premise that by changing ourselves we can change the world, No Ordinary Moments presents simple yet powerful ways to balance our body, liberate our mind, accept our emotions, and open our heart.:.
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