Best Selling Books by Jason Kennedy

How can you shift from a focus on content to the creation of active learning experiences? In this practical resource, author Jason Kennedy provides a blueprint to help you stop "teaching" and start designing learning, so you can improve students’ critical thinking, decision making, problem solving, and collaboration with others, preparing them for their futures beyond school doors. The framework for learning design covers components of planning (learning targets), of instruction (the opening, learning task, skills, tools, and success criteria), and of the work session (choices, pathways, feedback, and assessment). Appropriate for teachers of any subject area, the book also offers wide variety of tools to help you implement the ideas in your own setting.

The story of a young woman haunted by spirits she doesn''t know and friends who won''t believe her. Who can she trust? Are new friends the ones to cling to in crisis? A tale of the supernatural in modern times and other times. A tapestry of teen angst and transgressions. A new novel of second chances and finding out who your true friends are.

Anthony Dominick Benedetto, known professionally as Tony Bennett, is an American singer of traditional pop standards, big band, show tunes, and jazz. Bennett has amassed many accolades throughout his career, including 20 Grammy Awards, a Lifetime Achievement Award, and two Primetime Emmy Awards.

Through the looking glass CC Carpenter¿s life looks great. She¿s rich, beautiful, the most popular girl at Parkhurst High. She seems to have it all, the perfect life¿Yeah Right! Except her brother has just come out of rehab and is still an addict, she¿s afraid to be alone with her own boyfriend, her high school clique is falling apart, everyone expects her to plan the Senior prom, her father is pushing her to excel at a sport she doesn¿t care about and oh, there¿s a certain drug pusher who just won¿t quit!Don¿t be fooled by looks, CC¿s about to be in deep, deep trouble.

Sarah Rodgers had always been a little different, no real family, no past, she''s not even really sure of her birthday. Now a young college student, strange things start to happen, she''s not sure what to make of the dreams that trouble her sleep, or her mysterious roommate Brianna Goodwin. You''re supposed to find yourself at college, well Sarah is about to find out there is much more to her than meets the eye...

Do you feel overwhelmed by the daily stresses of everyday life? Does stress and anxiety keep you up at nights? Do you wish there was a way to put an end to all this misery?Well, there is! It''s called meditation. Practicing meditation helps us to become more mindful and achieve a sense of calm thus reducing our mental stress and freeing up head space to deal with the pressures of everyday life.In this book, you will learn: - What meditation and mindfulness is about- How practicing meditation helps us become more mindful and achieve inner peace- How to take a calmer approach to stressful situations and keep your wits about youSo don''t suffer in agony a day longer! Grab your copy of How to Practice Mindfulness through Meditation and see how much better life can be

A need exists to develop realistic surfaces, with differing degrees of surface roughness, to standardize methods for sampling and cleaning of environmental contaminants. This study reports on development and characterization of a novel means to create reproducible wood surfaces that are approximately 7x10cm2 and have differing degree of surface roughness. Three unique specimens were prepared by creating 3-dimensional digital-scans of actual wood surfaces found in three St. Louis homes. These surfaces had distinct depressions that likely arose from tool marks. A reverse image die of each specimen was made from high density plastic. Replicates of the three specimens were created by placing a die and wood veneer section into a rolling-press leaving the original topographies gathered from the homes. These specimens were used in a separate study to evaluate cleaning leaded dust using wipe or vacuuming treatments. The separate cleaning studies found no difference in cleaning due to the effects of the different surfaces. An in-depth examination of the three specimens was held to determine if differences in surface roughness of the specimens explained removal of lead from its surface. A method using optical, 3-D laser profilometry was used to determine if there were statistical differences between the surface roughness of the three specimens and within the specimens themselves. Area-scale analyses were made to calculate relative areas as a function of scale as a way of characterizing the roughness. Statistical differences were found for surface roughness between each of three surface specimens at a scale where small particles, deposited in the cleaning studies may adhere to the wood. However, within the specimens, surface roughness, at the scale where fine particles may lodge, were not consistent inside or outside tool marks. Therefore, differences in surface roughness were found within and between surfaces but they may not be large enough or different enough for detection using simple cleaning methods. Specimens with larger differences in surface roughness may be needed to simulate differences in cleaning effectiveness. This work should be continued to understand the scales for the different interactions of particle deposition, adhesion, and removal toward development of standard reference surfaces with well-characterized textures.