Outlines three four-week, cross-curricular thematic units focusing primarily on phonic skills, structural analysis, punctuation and capitalization, poetry, and comprehension; along with math, science, social studies, music, and art lessons.

This comprehensive art curriculum easily integrates into any teacher's existing instruction and provides thrilling and rewarding projects for elementary art students, including printmaking techniques, tessellations, watercolors, calligraphic lines, organic form sculptures, and value collages. Detailed lessons developed and tested in classrooms over many years build on one another in a logical progression and explore the elements of texture, color,...

What if a getting into top four-year college is no longer the holy grail of success that it once seemed to be? What if the key to kids achieving their potential in life has less to do with grades or test scores and more with critical skills overlooked in schools? Erasing the Finish Line directly addresses those points by highlighting a reality about our education system that we seem to hear about more and more these days-college acceptance is a faulty...