New Titles

Ready, set, science : putting research to work in K-8 science classrooms /

Michaels, Sarah, 1953-



Date Published:2008

Guide to Implementing the Next Generation Science Standards

National Research Council



Date Published:2015

Intentional neuroplasticity : moving our nervous systems and educational system toward post-traumatic growth /

Desautels, Lori L.,


Prologue -- Introduction -- Living inside the gap -- It begins with me-- How connections can heal trauma -- Building the nest -- Storytelling in our schools -- Resource section -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Endnotes -- The author. Educator fatigue and burnout are at an all-time high. Students are carrying their mental and emotional exhaustion into the classroom. Intentional Neuroplasticity explores the plasticity of the brain and nervous system, while learning how adversity and trauma impact a student's developing nervous system to affect behaviors--which ultimately changes the way educators approach discipline and engagement. When we empower and relieve our nervous systems with the language of science and deepened understanding of why we sense, feel, and behave the ways we do, we are preparing for a lifetime of possibility through the knowledge of brain and body architecture and plasticity.--From back cover.
Date Published:2023

Prologue -- Introduction -- Living inside the gap -- It begins with me-- How connections can heal trauma -- Building the nest -- Storytelling in our schools -- Resource section -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Endnotes -- The author. Educator fatigue and burnout are at an all-time high. Students are carrying their mental and emotional exhaustion into the classroom. Intentional Neuroplasticity explores the plasticity of the brain and nervous system, while learning how adversity and trauma impact a student's developing nervous system to affect behaviors--which ultimately changes the way educators approach discipline and engagement. When we empower and relieve our nervous systems with the language of science and deepened understanding of why we sense, feel, and behave the ways we do, we are preparing for a lifetime of possibility through the knowledge of brain and body architecture and plasticity.--From back cover.

Date Published:2023

The case for STEM education : challenges and opportunities /

Bybee, Rodger W.


What are the challenges for STEM education? -- What can we learn from the original Sputnik moment? -- Is STEM education a response to this generation's Sputnik moment? -- How is STEM education different from other education reforms? -- STEM seems to be the answer-what was the question? -- If STEM is an opportunity, what is the federal government's role? -- How can a state, district, or school develop a coherent strategy for STEM education? -- What is your perspective of STEM education? -- STEM education : where are you now, and where do you want to go? -- What is your action plan for STEM education?. "If you're an education leader concerned with science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) initiatives, this book will help you both understand and implement STEM action plans. The book starts by putting STEM in context, as the early chapters outline the challenges facing STEM education, draw lessons from the Sputnik moment of the 1950s and 1960s, and contrast contemporary STEM with other education reforms. The author then explores appropriate roles for the federal government as well as states, districts, and individual schools. Finally, the book offers several ideas you can use to develop actual action plans for STEM. Throughout the book, author Rodger W. Bybee puts an emphasis on both thinking and acting. That's why The Case for STEM Education is a must-read for leaders at all levels: national and state policy makers, state-level educators responsible for STEM initiatives, college and university faculty who educate future STEM teachers, local administrators who make decisions about district and school programs, and teachers who represent STEM disciplines." -- Publisher's description.
Date Published:2013

What are the challenges for STEM education? -- What can we learn from the original Sputnik moment? -- Is STEM education a response to this generation's Sputnik moment? -- How is STEM education different from other education reforms? -- STEM seems to be the answer-what was the question? -- If STEM is an opportunity, what is the federal government's role? -- How can a state, district, or school develop a coherent strategy for STEM education? -- What is your perspective of STEM education? -- STEM education : where are you now, and where do you want to go? -- What is your action plan for STEM education?. "If you're an education leader concerned with science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) initiatives, this book will help you both understand and implement STEM action plans. The book starts by putting STEM in context, as the early chapters outline the challenges facing STEM education, draw lessons from the Sputnik moment of the 1950s and 1960s, and contrast contemporary STEM with other education reforms. The author then explores appropriate roles for the federal government as well as states, districts, and individual schools. Finally, the book offers several ideas you can use to develop actual action plans for STEM. Throughout the book, author Rodger W. Bybee puts an emphasis on both thinking and acting. That's why The Case for STEM Education is a must-read for leaders at all levels: national and state policy makers, state-level educators responsible for STEM initiatives, college and university faculty who educate future STEM teachers, local administrators who make decisions about district and school programs, and teachers who represent STEM disciplines." -- Publisher's description.

Date Published:2013

Specially Designed Instruction for Co-Teaching

Friend, Marilyn


This new book by co-teaching guru Marilyn Friend, author of Co-Teach!, focuses on ensuring that students with disabilities in co-taught classes are receiving the special education services to which they are entitled. It reflects the most recent research and recommendations of how to design, deliver, and evaluate specialized techniques students need to improve their learning outcomes. Specific topics include the basis in law and meaning of specially designed instruction (SDI), the process special educators use to select SDI and provide it as part of co-teaching, examples of SDI across subject areas and grade levels, SDI for student behavior, and technology-based resources to support co-teachers as they teach their students. Each chapter includes discussion questions and activities.
Date Published:2021

This new book by co-teaching guru Marilyn Friend, author of Co-Teach!, focuses on ensuring that students with disabilities in co-taught classes are receiving the special education services to which they are entitled. It reflects the most recent research and recommendations of how to design, deliver, and evaluate specialized techniques students need to improve their learning outcomes. Specific topics include the basis in law and meaning of specially designed instruction (SDI), the process special educators use to select SDI and provide it as part of co-teaching, examples of SDI across subject areas and grade levels, SDI for student behavior, and technology-based resources to support co-teachers as they teach their students. Each chapter includes discussion questions and activities.

Date Published:2021

Project-Based Learning in the Math Classroom

Francher, Chris and Telannie Norfar



Date Published:2019

English Learners in STEM Subjects : Transforming Classrooms, Schools, and Lives.

English



Date Published:2018

Hear Me Speak : Understanding Autism Through Our Voices

Autism Society of Iowa



Date Published:2025

The yellow bus

Long, Loren,


Booklist Starred Reviews, Horn Book Guide, Kirkus Review, Publishers Weekly, School Library Journal Starred, A forgotten school bus finds joy and purpose in the most unexpected places.
Date Published:2024

Wild wave

Philbrick, W. R. (W. Rodman),


Horn Book Guide, After an earthquake rocks the hometown of Nick Chase and Jess Hardy, they watch in terror as the water pulls back from the coastline, building into a towering wall of water. Nick and Jess find themselves on the run from the approaching tsunami, but when they make it to higher ground in the woods above the bay, they watch as the sea floods their whole town along the shore. The two must try to find their way to safety, but when they come across a stranded elderly couple, it's up to Nick and Jess to work together and get help so that they can all make it out alive.
Date Published:2024

Horn Book Guide, After an earthquake rocks the hometown of Nick Chase and Jess Hardy, they watch in terror as the water pulls back from the coastline, building into a towering wall of water. Nick and Jess find themselves on the run from the approaching tsunami, but when they make it to higher ground in the woods above the bay, they watch as the sea floods their whole town along the shore. The two must try to find their way to safety, but when they come across a stranded elderly couple, it's up to Nick and Jess to work together and get help so that they can all make it out alive.

Date Published:2024

Very bad at math

Larson, Hope,


Booklist, Horn Book Guide, Kirkus Review, Publishers Weekly, School Library Journal Starred, Verity "Very" Nelson is student body president, debate club whiz, and first chair clarinetist, and she's pretty much the best at everything except math. Despite her best efforts, math just doesn't make sense to Very, and soon she finds herself enrolled in a remedial math class. She worries that if she doesn't raise her math score, she's going to lose her presidency, but everything changes when Very discovers she has dyscalculia, a learning disability that causes her to mix up numbers. After learning there's nothing wrong with her, Very finds a way to be confident and realizes she doesn't have to be perfect at everything.
Date Published:2025

Booklist, Horn Book Guide, Kirkus Review, Publishers Weekly, School Library Journal Starred, Verity "Very" Nelson is student body president, debate club whiz, and first chair clarinetist, and she's pretty much the best at everything except math. Despite her best efforts, math just doesn't make sense to Very, and soon she finds herself enrolled in a remedial math class. She worries that if she doesn't raise her math score, she's going to lose her presidency, but everything changes when Very discovers she has dyscalculia, a learning disability that causes her to mix up numbers. After learning there's nothing wrong with her, Very finds a way to be confident and realizes she doesn't have to be perfect at everything.

Date Published:2025

Ursula upside down

Tabor, Corey R.,


Booklist Starred Reviews, Horn Book Guide, Kirkus Review, Publishers Weekly, School Library Journal Starred, Ursula the catfish has spent all her life swimming with the seaweeds flowing in the water above her and the sunny sky with its tasty insects shining beneath. Then one day another fish comes along and asks her why she always swims upside down. Readers and Ursula find their world flipped upside down--literally, readers must rotate the book and turn the pages right to left--until a friendly bat helps Ursula see that it is best to just be herself.
Date Published:2024

Booklist Starred Reviews, Horn Book Guide, Kirkus Review, Publishers Weekly, School Library Journal Starred, Ursula the catfish has spent all her life swimming with the seaweeds flowing in the water above her and the sunny sky with its tasty insects shining beneath. Then one day another fish comes along and asks her why she always swims upside down. Readers and Ursula find their world flipped upside down--literally, readers must rotate the book and turn the pages right to left--until a friendly bat helps Ursula see that it is best to just be herself.

Date Published:2024

Uprising

Nielsen, Jennifer A.,


Booklist, Kirkus Review, School Library Journal Starred, Twelve-year-old Lidia's life is forever changed by the Nazi occupation of Poland, leading her to join the resistance movement to fight against the Nazis and aid Jewish people in the Warsaw Ghetto during WWII.
Date Published:2024

Under the same stars

Bray, Libba,


Booklist Starred Reviews, Horn Book Guide, Kirkus Reviews Starred, Publishers Weekly, School Library Journal, The lives of six teenagers living in three different time periods link together in unexpected ways, beginning in 1940s Germany where best friends Sophie and Hannah regularly visit the Bridegroom's Oak in the Dodauer Forest, said to bring lasting love to those who write to it. Hopeless romantic Sophie brings her love letters to the tree, hoping for a response, but when the Nazi's invade Poland, Hannah gets involved in the resistance movement, and begins using the tree for a different purpose, that leads to the two girls' disappearances. In 1980s West Germany, American transplant Jenny meets rebellious punk rocker Lena, who shows her love, the Berlin underground scene, and the legacy left by World War II. In 2020 New York City, quarantined teens Miles and Chloe rifle through a box of mementos from Chloe's grandmother, and work to unravel the mysterious thread that ties Chloe to the women in her past.
Date Published:2025

Booklist Starred Reviews, Horn Book Guide, Kirkus Reviews Starred, Publishers Weekly, School Library Journal, The lives of six teenagers living in three different time periods link together in unexpected ways, beginning in 1940s Germany where best friends Sophie and Hannah regularly visit the Bridegroom's Oak in the Dodauer Forest, said to bring lasting love to those who write to it. Hopeless romantic Sophie brings her love letters to the tree, hoping for a response, but when the Nazi's invade Poland, Hannah gets involved in the resistance movement, and begins using the tree for a different purpose, that leads to the two girls' disappearances. In 1980s West Germany, American transplant Jenny meets rebellious punk rocker Lena, who shows her love, the Berlin underground scene, and the legacy left by World War II. In 2020 New York City, quarantined teens Miles and Chloe rifle through a box of mementos from Chloe's grandmother, and work to unravel the mysterious thread that ties Chloe to the women in her past.

Date Published:2025

Twenty-four seconds from now ... : a LOVE story /

Reynolds, Jason,


"A Caitlyn Dlouhy Book." Booklist Starred Reviews, Horn Book Guide Starred, Kirkus Reviews Starred, Publishers Weekly Starred, School Library Journal Starred, In a series of moments spanning two years, seventeen-year-old Neon navigates the progression of his relationship with Aria, culminating in a case of the jitters as the two intend to take the next big step in their relationship.
Date Published:2024

The trouble with heroes

Messner, Kate,


Booklist Starred Reviews, Horn Book Guide, Kirkus Reviews Starred, Publishers Weekly Starred, School Library Journal Starred, Wrestling with grief and anger since the loss of his father during the COVID-19 pandemic, thirteen-year-old Finn Connelly gets in trouble for vandalizing a local cemetery. The headstone he damaged is that of local climbing legend Edna Grace Thomas, who promoted the hiking of all forty-six Adirondack peaks. Edna's sympathetic daughter challenges Finn to complete the forty-six over the summer--with Edna's dog Seymour in tow--as restitution for the damage he caused. As Finn sets out to complete the hikes, he wrestles with his feelings for his famous father--a hockey legend, 9/11 hero, and paramedic--and works to complete an overdue poetry assignment on heroes that he couldn't bring himself to write during the school year. Each peak brings Finn closer to his father, himself, and to what it means to be a hero.
Date Published:2025

Booklist Starred Reviews, Horn Book Guide, Kirkus Reviews Starred, Publishers Weekly Starred, School Library Journal Starred, Wrestling with grief and anger since the loss of his father during the COVID-19 pandemic, thirteen-year-old Finn Connelly gets in trouble for vandalizing a local cemetery. The headstone he damaged is that of local climbing legend Edna Grace Thomas, who promoted the hiking of all forty-six Adirondack peaks. Edna's sympathetic daughter challenges Finn to complete the forty-six over the summer--with Edna's dog Seymour in tow--as restitution for the damage he caused. As Finn sets out to complete the hikes, he wrestles with his feelings for his famous father--a hockey legend, 9/11 hero, and paramedic--and works to complete an overdue poetry assignment on heroes that he couldn't bring himself to write during the school year. Each peak brings Finn closer to his father, himself, and to what it means to be a hero.

Date Published:2025

Tree. Table. Book.

Lowry, Lois,


Booklist, Horn Book Guide Starred, Kirkus Review, Publishers Weekly, School Library Journal, Eleven-year-old Sophia endeavors to prevent her increasingly forgetful eighty-eight-year-old neighbor and best friend Sophie from entering assisted living, and in the process, uncovers unexpected stories of war, loss, and hope.
Date Published:2024

The Thrashers : a novel /

Soto, Julie, 1988-,


"Content warning: This work's content includes themes of suicide, bullying, references to rape, alcoholism, and body image issues"--Preliminary page. Booklist, Kirkus Reviews Starred, Publishers Weekly Starred, School Library Journal Starred, Seventeen-year-old Jodi Dillon, the outsider in an exclusive high school group, is caught between loyalty and self-preservation after the mysterious death of a former friend, as strange events and unsettling truths begin to unravel about the group's dark secrets.
Date Published:2025

"Content warning: This work's content includes themes of suicide, bullying, references to rape, alcoholism, and body image issues"--Preliminary page. Booklist, Kirkus Reviews Starred, Publishers Weekly Starred, School Library Journal Starred, Seventeen-year-old Jodi Dillon, the outsider in an exclusive high school group, is caught between loyalty and self-preservation after the mysterious death of a former friend, as strange events and unsettling truths begin to unravel about the group's dark secrets.

Date Published:2025

This book won't burn

Ahmed, Samira, (Fiction writer),


Booklist, Kirkus Review, Publishers Weekly Starred, School Library Journal Starred, Noor Khan's life is turned upside down when her dad abruptly abandons her family and her mom moves them a million miles from their Chicago home. Forced to start the last quarter of her senior year at a new school, away from everything and everyone she knows and loves, Noor tries to just get through the end of the year and graduate, but she finds it impossible when she learns hundreds of books have been labeled "obscene" or "pornographic" and are being removed from the library in accordance with a new school board policy. Noor gets even more upset when she discovers virtually all the banned books are by queer and BIPOC authors, and she knows she can't stay silent.
Date Published:2024

Booklist, Kirkus Review, Publishers Weekly Starred, School Library Journal Starred, Noor Khan's life is turned upside down when her dad abruptly abandons her family and her mom moves them a million miles from their Chicago home. Forced to start the last quarter of her senior year at a new school, away from everything and everyone she knows and loves, Noor tries to just get through the end of the year and graduate, but she finds it impossible when she learns hundreds of books have been labeled "obscene" or "pornographic" and are being removed from the library in accordance with a new school board policy. Noor gets even more upset when she discovers virtually all the banned books are by queer and BIPOC authors, and she knows she can't stay silent.

Date Published:2024

The tenth mistake of Hank Hooperman

Choldenko, Gennifer, 1957-,


"This is a Borzoi book"--Title page verso. Booklist Starred Reviews, Kirkus Reviews Starred, Publishers Weekly, School Library Journal Starred, Eleven-year-old Hank Hooperman takes care of his toddler sister, Boo, when their mother goes out and never returns. After a week, the power goes off, they run out of food, and they face eviction. Desperate, Hank shows up on the doorstep of his late grandmother's friend Lou Ann Adler but asking for help has consequences. Now the children become involved with social workers and Hank is forced to enroll in a new school. Hank worries that if his mother doesn't return soon, he and Boo could end up in different foster homes. Over the course of several months, Hank grows close to an adult neighbor, Ray, and makes new friends. But his search for his mother triggers unexpected consequences.
Date Published:2024

"This is a Borzoi book"--Title page verso. Booklist Starred Reviews, Kirkus Reviews Starred, Publishers Weekly, School Library Journal Starred, Eleven-year-old Hank Hooperman takes care of his toddler sister, Boo, when their mother goes out and never returns. After a week, the power goes off, they run out of food, and they face eviction. Desperate, Hank shows up on the doorstep of his late grandmother's friend Lou Ann Adler but asking for help has consequences. Now the children become involved with social workers and Hank is forced to enroll in a new school. Hank worries that if his mother doesn't return soon, he and Boo could end up in different foster homes. Over the course of several months, Hank grows close to an adult neighbor, Ray, and makes new friends. But his search for his mother triggers unexpected consequences.

Date Published:2024