Annie’s Plan: Taking Charge of Schoolwork and Homework. Jeanne Kraus, illustrated by Charles Beyl, $10.95

Annie knows that to do her best at school, she needs a plan for focusing on her work and for getting her homework completed and turned in on time. Annie's Plan presents a 10-Point Schoolwork Plan and a 10-Point Homework Plan that will help her—and her readers—master the organizational and study skills that spell school success.

Be a Super Test-Taker: the Ultimate Guide to Elementary School Standardized Tests. Laurie Rozakis, $9.99 (Grades 4 to 8)

Packed with easy-to-follow advice, helpful hints and lots of examples, Be a Super Test-Taker will help you learn how to ace any test question.

Beyond the Bake Sale: the Essential Guide to Family-School Partnerships. Anne Henderson, Karen Mapp, Vivian Johnson & Don Davies $31.50

Countless studies demonstrate that students with parents actively involved in their education at home and school are more likely to earn higher grades and test scores, enroll in higher-level programs, graduate from high school, and go on to postsecondary education. Beyond the Bake Sale shows how to form these essential partnerships and how to make them work.

Packed with tips from principals and teachers, checklists, and an invaluable resource section and written with candor, clarity, and humor, Beyond the Bake Sale is essential reading for teachers, parents, administrators and policy makers at all levels.

The Case Against Homework: How Homework Is Hurting Our Children and What We Can Do About It. Sara Bennett & Nancy Kalish, $17.95

Empowering, practical, and rigorously researched, The Case Against Homework shows how too much work is having a negative effect on our children’s achievement and development and gives us the tools and tactics we need to advocate for change.

College Without High School: a Teenager’s Guide to Skipping High School and Going to College. Blake Boles, $16.95

High school can be boring. High school curriculum can be frustrating and out of touch. So what is the answer for young people whose creativity, bright ideas, and boundless energy are being stifled in that over-scheduled and grade-driven environment?

College Without High School shows how independent teens can self-design their high school education by becoming unschooled. Boles shows how to fulfill college admission requirements by proving five preparatory results: intellectual passion, leadership, logical reasoning, background knowledge, and the capacity for structured learning. He then offers several suggestions for life-changing, confidence-building adventures that will demonstrate those results.

Complete Canadian Curriculum: Math / Language / Social Studies / Science. $19.95 each

Complete Canadian Curriculum covers the four key subject areas currently taught in Canadian schools: Math, Language, Social Studies and Science. These curriculum-based units are designed to ensure that your child understands the concepts and masters the necessary skills for grades 1 through 6. With vivid illustrations and interesting activities, your child will find working through Complete Canadian Curriculum both fun and rewarding.

Complete Canadian Curriculum: Grade One. $19.95
Complete Canadian Curriculum: Grade Two. $19.95
Complete Canadian Curriculum: Grade Three. $19.95
Complete Canadian Curriculum: Grade Four. $19.95
Complete Canadian Curriculum: Grade Five. $19.95
Complete Canadian Curriculum: Grade Six. $19.95

The End of Ignorance: Multiplying Our Human Potential. John Mighton, $29.95

The End of Ignorance conceives of a world in which no child is left behind–a world based on the assumption that each child has the potential to be successful in every subject. John Mighton argues that by recognizing the barriers that we have experienced in our own educational development, by identifying the moment that we became disenchanted with a certain subject and forever closed ourselves off to it, we will be able to eliminate these same barriers from standing in the way of our children.

A passionate examination of our present education system, The End of Ignorance shows how we all can work together to reinvent the way that we are taught.

A warm, funny tale about the surprises — and rewards — of going to school. (ages 3-5)

The Essential 55 is a collection of the amazingly effective rules that Ron Clark used to become an extraordinary teacher. Through trial and error, he has distilled ideas that have helped him take apathetic students and transform them into scholars. Covering all aspects of life, from the classroom to the real world, from daily human interactions to cafeteria and bathroom manners, Clark has captured the imagination of students, educators and parents alike with his wit, wisdom and humour.

Based on the bestseller The Essential 55, this workbook will provide the tools any parent or teacher needs to show a child how to act with consideration and respect… every one of Ron Clark's 55 rules is outlined here, with specific and fun suggestions to help kids understand why each one is important.

Exam Stress? No Worries! Su Dorland, $23.95 (Includes audio CD)

Psychologist Su Dorland gives frazzled high school and college/university students insights into  the causes of exam anxiety, why some people get anxious about exams and why others  don’t, steps for coping with the two Ps (perfectionism and procrastination) and ways to finally free oneself from exam stress.

• Includes a free CD with centering exercises, visualization techniques, and relaxation tracks
•  Offers advice for students mixing work or other commitments with study, as well as off-campus students, mature students, international students, or students from migrant worker families

An important guide not simply for test-takers but anyone facing a stressful situation such as a job interview, a driving test, or a public speaking engagement.

FOCUS on the Test: Five Weekly Lessons Designed to Teach Test-Taking Skills. Mary Pat McCartney, $20.95 Grades 3-5

FOCUS on the Test is a five-lesson classroom or small-group program that packages effective test-taking strategies. The book includes posters, activities, and worksheets. Students are given opportunities to reflect on their comprehension of the concept presented and how they will incorporate it into their test-taking procedures.

FrenchSmart: Making Learning French Fun! Andrea Philp Berlin & Christine Chinpokoi, Grades 4 to 8, $12.95 each

FrenchSmart helps supplement and consolidate French language skills in a systematic way. The engaging activities cover the major areas in language learning: vocabulary building, grammar, reading and usage. Illustrations in English are included for reference. Each volume, grades four to eight, follows standard curriculum, $12.95 each.

Guided Imagery with Children: Successful Techniques to Improve School Performance and Self-Esteem. Sarah Berkovits, $31.50

A remarkable resource for parents and teachers. Guided visualization with children is a new approach that brings proven results. Children who see themselves as failures are guided to transform negative images into positive ones. In this way they can successfully reverse many years of discouragement and disillusionment. Guided visualization takes little time to learn, and results are seen almost immediately. Just minutes a day can make a major improvement in the classroom or at home.

The Homework Myth: Why Our Kids Get Too Much of a Bad Thing. Alfie Kohn, $18.00

A compelling exposé of homework — how it fails our children, why it’s so widely accepted, and what we can do about it.

In The Homework Myth, Alfie Kohn systematically examines the usual defenses of homework — that it promotes higher achievement, “reinforces” learning, teaches study skills and responsibility. None of these assumptions, he shows, actually passes the test of research, logic, or experience … Kohn’s incisive analysis reveals how a mistrust of children, a set of misconceptions about learning, and a misguided focus on competitiveness have all left our kids with less free time and our families with more conflict. Pointing to parents who have fought back — and schools that have proved educational excellence is possible without homework — Kohn shows how we can rethink what happens during and after school in order to rescue our families and our children’s love of learning.

Homework Talk! The Art of Effective Communication About Your Child's Homework. Cheli Cerra & Ruth Jacoby, $17.99

Homework Talk provides parents with simple and practical advice to help them deal with the many issues that can come up surrounding their children's homework with tips, strategies, and activities for handling each of them. This easy-to-use and practical book gives parents the tools they need to start working with their child and the child's teacher(s) and make homework a simple and productive process for everyone.

How Can My Kid Succeed in School? What Parents and Teachers Can Do to Conquer Learning Problems. Craig Pohlman, $23.95

This practical resource for parents and teachers explains how to understand a child's complete learning profile — an inventory of his or her unique strengths and weaknesses — and provides helpful strategies that can be used at school and at home to get the child on a path to success. The book walks readers through the process of gathering clues about the child's learning style and provides guidelines for selecting the most appropriate learning strategies that will help spell success in school and life. Pohlman shows how parents and teachers can collaborate to help kids become successful learners, and also guides readers through the process of getting an educational assessment, for those students with particularly challenging issues.

Intelligence and How to Get It: Why Schools and Cultures Count. Richard Nisbett, $22.50

Intelligence and How to Get It asserts that intellect is not primarily genetic but is principally determined by societal influences. Nisbett's commanding argument, superb marshaling of evidence and fearless discussions of the controversial carve out new and exciting terrain in this hotly debated field.

Light Up Your Child’s Mind. Joseph Renzulli  & Sally Reis, $28.99

Light Up Your Child’s Mind presents a practical program to help children fire up a love of learning to last a lifetime. The book helps parents uncover the hidden potential of daydreamers, rebels, and one-track minds, and argues that gifted behavior — basic smarts, high levels of task commitment and creativity — can be fostered in bright children, even unmotivated ones.

Lighting Their Fires: Raising Extraordinary Children. Rafe Esquith, $31.00

In his bestselling book, Teach Like Your Hair’s on Fire, readers were introduced to Rafe Esquith and his extraordinary students in Hobart Elementary School’s Room 56.

In his latest  book, Lighting Their Fires, Esquith shows that children aren’t born extraordinary; they become that way as a result of parents and teachers who instill values that serve them not just for school, but for the rest of their lives. Whether he is highlighting the importance of time management or offering a step-by-step discussion of how children can become good decision makers, Esquith shows how parents can equip their kids with all the tools they need to find success and have fun in the process. Using examples from classic films and great books, he stresses the value of sacrifice, the importance of staying true to oneself, and the danger that television can pose to growing young minds. Lighting Their Fires explains not just how to make our children great students, but how to make them thoughtful and honorable people.

From a well-known actress and math genius—a groundbreaking guide to mathematics for middle school girls, their parents, and educators.

Danica McKellar’s mission is to be a math role model and demonstrate on a large scale that math doesn’t suck. In this fun and accessible guide, McKellar—dubbed a “math superstar” by The New York Times—gives girls and their parents the tools they need to master the math concepts that confuse middle-schoolers most, including fractions, percentages, pre-algebra, and more … ultimately revealing why math is easier and cooler than readers think.

It’s back to school time for Max and Mo. This time they are in a different classroom and they are both nervous. Now they need to make new friends — but will anyone remember their names?

Megaskills: Building Our Children’s Character and Achievement for School and Life, 5th Edition.  Dorothy Rich, $12.35

Specially designed for school-aged children, this cornerstone guide provides you with hands-on techniques and kid-friendly activities to teach children the MegaSkills that are essential to success in school and life. Along with the age-specific activities, this guide contains academic objectives for each MegaSkill; tips for getting the best from technology; research notes, and a wealth of additional resources.

Motivation is the key to learning. But very few parents and teachers have an effective arsenal of techniques at their disposal. Acclaimed author Rick Lavoie arms all those who deal with children with proven, effective tools and strategies they can use to encourage any child to learn and achieve success. Lavoie explores motivational styles, presenting proven techniques, strategies, and scripts that can be used in the classroom and at home to break through a child's apathy and discouragement and inspire him/her to succeed and achieve. Along the way, Lavoie explodes some common myths about motivation: for instance, he demonstrates that rewards, punishment, and competition are not effective motivational tools. He gives specific advice throughout for parents and teachers of children with learning disabilities and provides detailed instructions for how to create a motivated classroom.

No Grades + No Homework = Better Learning. Two Lectures for Educators and Parents. Alfie Kohn, $34.50 DVD

In two entertaining and thought-provoking lectures, Alfie Kohn makes a compelling case that grades and homework are counterproductive. He argues that abandoning them in favour of more useful educational strategies is not only a realistic possibility but a change that is long overdue.

Not in Our Classrooms: Why Intelligent Design is Wrong for Our Schools. Eugenie Scott & Glenn Branch, $17.95

Where did the concept of intelligent design originate? How does it connect with, and conflict with, various religious beliefs? Should we teach the controversy itself in our science classrooms? In clear and lively essays, a team of experts answers these questions and many more, describing the history of the intelligent design movement and the lack of scientific support for its claims. Most importantly, the contributors speak specifically to teachers and parents about the need to defend the integrity of science education by keeping intelligent design out of science curriculums. A concluding chapter offers concrete advice for those seeking to defend the teaching of evolution in their own communities.

It’s the first day of first grade and everyone is getting ready!

Organizing the Disorganized Child: Simple Strategies to Succeed in School. Martin Kutscher & Marcella Moran, $16.99

Is your child disorganized? Is it making you crazy? This book is your new best friend.

• Understanding your child's learning style—visual, auditory, or kinesthetic—and how it affects the way your child learns and processes information
• Dozens of easy-to-do activities designed to help your child meet specific learning requirements
• Environmental learning sections that identify learning opportunities in the everyday world
• The developmental and social changes expected of your preschooler as well as information on how to determine readiness to move up to kindergarten
• Recommendations of age-appropriate books and software that will enhance learning

Rethinking Homework: Best Practices that Support Diverse Needs. Cathy Vatterott, $28.95

Rethinking Homework examines the role homework has played in the past and how changes in education theory, schools and family life have all influenced the growing suspicion that there is something fundamentally wrong with homework. Author Cathy Vatterott suggests a shift in the way we look at this controversial topic and illustrates a new paradigm that is supported by what research and educators’ common sense tell us about homework and student learning.

Same, Different, Equal: Rethinking Single-Sex Schooling. Rosemary Salomone, $26.95

“In this timely book, Rosemary Salomone offers a reasoned educational and legal argument supporting single-sex education as an alternative to coeducation, particularly in the case of disadvantaged minority students.”

The Sandbox Investment: the Preschool Movement and Kids-First Politics. David. Kirp, $31.95

The Sandbox Investment explores the growing call for universal preschool education by concerned parents, educators and researchers. David Kirp makes the ideal guide to this quiet movement as observes classrooms where committed teachers engage lively three and four-year-olds, and reveals the findings of an extraordinary longitudinal study that shows the life-changing impact of preschool. He talks with cutting-edge researchers from neuroscience and genetics to economics, whose findings increasingly show how powerfully early childhood shapes the arc of children's lives. For anyone who is interested in politics or the social uses of research — for anyone who's interested in the children's futures — it's a compelling read.

Sharing the Secrets: Teach Your Child to Spell. Ruth McQuirter Scott & Sharon Siamon, $28.95

Sharing the Secrets is designed for parents who are concerned about their child’s progress in spelling. This popular learn-to-spell program is designed to help spellers from grade 3 to Junior High in just 15 minutes a day. These short, easy-to-manage sessions help children learn to recognize common spelling patterns that often baffle students and to gain a skill that will last a lifetime.

The Smart Parenting Revolution: a Powerful New Approach to Unleashing Your Child's Potential. Dawna Markova, $33.95

"Dawna Markova is revolutionizing the way parents approach their children's education. A leading educator and psychologist, she has noticed that parents tend to focus on correcting their children's weaknesses. But in this groundbreaking book … Dr. Markova demonstrates a more effective strategy that centers on building a child's strengths. This approach not only helps children discover their passion and purpose in life, but it also instills in them a strong sense of self-worth-which in turn makes them highly motivated to learn."

The Smarter Preschooler: Unlocking Your Child’s Intellectual Potential. Renee Mosiman & Mike Mosiman, $16.95

The Smarter Preschooler will show you how to develop an intellectually stimulating environment for your child while preserving the innocence of childhood.

A Student’s Brain: the Parent/Teacher Manual. Kathie Nunley, $36.95

A delightful look at the latest research on the human brain, A Student’s Brain is also a practical guide to reducing the frustrations and increasing the rewards of learning.

Study Smarter, Not Harder, 3rd Edition. Kevin Paul, $22.95

Become the confident, super-learner you’ve always wanted to be:

• Use the genius inside of you
• Learn HOW to learn
• Expand your memory capacity
• Energize your brain

Summer Bridge Activities: Reading, Writing, Math and Language Skills, Pre-K to K. $16.95

Build confidence self-esteem with activities that prepare students for kindergarten.

Summer Bridge Activities: Preparing Students for the Year Ahead, Canadian Edition(s)

Bridge the gap between spring and fall! Developed to help children maintain and enhance scholastic skills while away from school, this award-winning series consists of daily activities in reading, writing, mathematics, and language arts with bonus activities in science and geography as well as a new section, "Building Better Bodies and Behavior," which contains interactive prompts and activities on character and fitness.

Summer Bridge Activities: Preparing Students for the Year Ahead, Kindergarten to 1. $15.95
Summer Bridge Activities: Preparing Students for the Year Ahead, Grade 1 to 2. $15.95
Summer Bridge Activities: Preparing Students for the Year Ahead, Grade 2 to 3. $15.95
Summer Bridge Activities: Preparing Students for the Year Ahead, Grade 3 to 4. $15.95
Summer Bridge Activities: Preparing Students for the Year Ahead, Grade 4 to 5. $15.95
Summer Bridge Activities: Preparing Students for the Year Ahead, Grade 5 to 6. $15.95

Summer Bridge Math, Grades 4-5. Edited by Sandra Toland, $9.95

Summer Bridge Math, Grades 5-6. Edited by Sandra Toland, $9.95

School stops for the summer — learning never should! Bring the classroom home for the summer and build confidence with focused practice.

Test Success: Test-Taking and Study Strategies for All Students, Including Those with ADD and LD. Blythe Grossberg, $24.95

Test Success provides sure-fire ways to improve study strategies and test performance of students in middle school, high school, and first-year college students.

Test Talk! Understanding the Stakes and Helping Your Children Do Their Best. Cheli Cerra & Ruth Jacoby, $17.99

Learn how to become a ‘test savvy’ parent and how to help your child by making studying and testing a simpler, calmer and more productive process.

That Crumpled Paper Was Due Last Week: Helping Disorganized and Distracted Boys Succeed in School and Life. Ana Homayoun, $20.00

Top academic counselor Ana Homayoun has helped turn even the most disorganized, scattered and unfocused boys into successful young people who consistently meet their personal and academic challenges. She does this by getting back to basics, starting with a simple fact: most boys need to be taught how to get organized, how to study, and how to visualize, embrace and meet their own goals.

Much more than a study guide, this insightful, user-friendly book provides a roadmap for the success.

Join Tim as he visits his future kindergarten and learns what he will be doing during his first year of school …the classroom may look a little too big at first, but after finding out about all the fun ahead, it doesn't seem too big at all. In fact, it's just the right size! (ages 3-5)

Your Child’s Strengths: a Guide for Parents and Teachers. Jenifer Fox, $16.50

Educator Jenifer Fox argues against the flawed and maddening paradigm that fixing kids’ weaknesses is the way to achieve success. Rather, Fox promotes focusing on kids’ natural inclinations in three interdependent areas: Activity Strengths, Relationship Strengths, and Learning Strengths. Pairing inspiring firsthand accounts of success with practical workbook tools, alongside an outline of the award-winning strengths-based Affinities curriculum Fox has implemented in her own school, Your Child’s Strengths is a user-friendly and indispensable guide for parents, teachers, and administrators alike.