Starting School

Big sister Arizona tells Tex and Indi that if they don't love their first day of kindergarten she'll eat her socks.

Following her retirement from Princeton University, celebrated historian Dr. Nell Irvin Painter surprised everyone in her life by returning to school—in her sixties—to earn a BFA and MFA in painting. In Old in Art School, she travels from her beloved Newark to the prestigious Rhode Island School of Design; finds meaning in the artists she loves, even as she comes to understand how they may be undervalued; and struggles with the unstable balance between the pursuit of art and the inevitable, sometimes painful demands of a life fully lived.

How are women and artists seen and judged by their age, looks, and race? What does it mean when someone says, "You will never be an artist?" Who defines what "An Artist" is and all that goes with such an identity, and how are these ideas tied to our shared conceptions of beauty, value, and difference?

Old in Art School is Nell Painter's ongoing exploration of those crucial questions. Bringing to bear incisive insights from two careers, Painter weaves a frank, funny, and often surprising tale of her move from academia to art.

Turning a passion for martial arts into a successful business has never been easier! How to Start a Martial Arts School outlines the basics of making your love for the martial arts into something that can be both fun and profitable. From marketing to thinking about how to pay yourself, this audiobook discusses aspects of owning a martial arts business that you need to know about if you're planning to start your own school.

If you've ever dreamed of owning your own martial arts school where you could teach your martial art to students in your own way, using your own ideas and methods, this is a great book to get you started. There are a number of different styles of martial arts. No matter what your style, you need to think carefully about designing a curriculum that will meet the needs of your students. 

How to Start a Martial Arts School helps you come up with a curriculum by briefly going over child developmental milestones that will be helpful when you design adults' and kids' classes. The eBook discusses special issues you may encounter when designing a curriculum for adults and the needs of children at different ages.

How to Start a Martial Arts School is all about balancing the business part of martial arts with instruction and curriculum design to develop a package that is appealing to a variety of individuals in your community.

Everyone knows that boys are falling behind in education. Largely left out of the discussion are parents of boys, who are most aware that their bright, eager sons hit an invisible wall somewhere near fourth grade, after which they become disengaged, discouraged, and disaffected. There are dozens of books on underachieving boys, but most parents brave enough to lift one off the shelf are instantly intimidated by the footnotes, graphs, case studies, and academic-speak addressed almost entirely to educators. What about the average guilt-ridden, frustrated mother or father of an underachieving boy?

Jump-Starting Boys is the first book on the market that empowers parents, helping them reclaim the duties and rewards of raising their children and navigate the influences of school and media. Filled with reassurance and support, the authors turn fear and guilt into can-do confidence. Through easy tips and action list sidebars, this is the most practical, readable book on the topic.

Law school is different. Incoming students, confronted with an entirely new vocabulary and unfamiliar with the discipline’s unique and demanding educational methods, are often disoriented. This book is designed to give these students a head start, both by introducing them to the fundamentals of the legal process and by helping them acquire the study skills necessary for success.
Starting Off Right in Law School introduces new law students to the practice and study of law by following a lawsuit from its inception through the appeals process, illustrating what lawyers actually do, how they prepare, how they interact with clients and in courtrooms, how a lawsuit proceeds, and how students can effectively read and analyze cases, outline, and apply what they have learned on the exams.
Widely used in law schools, the first edition of Starting Off Right in Law School prepared new law students to excel in doctrinal courses. The second edition has been updated to prepare students both for the broader demands of doctrinal courses and for the more distinct reading and writing demands of legal writing courses. This book is the perfect tool for pre-law students to read on their own or for law school orientation required reading.

Learn the ins and outs of managing a successful martial arts school with this practical business guide.

Do you dream of opening your own martial arts dojo some day? Are you in the process of planning and building a school? Do you have a school but struggle to run it efficiently and pay the bills? Then Starting and Running Your Own Martial Arts School is for you. This practical business guide teaches you the skills you need to ensure the success of your martial arts business. It includes advice on how to:Build a memorable identity for your schoolFind funding to get startedUnravel government red tapeCreate a realistic fee scheduleChoose a location that will bring students through your doorTurn potential students into paying studentsHold on to your current studentsHire and develop good employeesDevelop a feeling of financial securityBe ready for emergenciesCreate and run a profitable pro shopPinpoint and solve problemsStarting and Running Your Own Martial Arts School contains proven business advice to help you create the martial arts school you want. This small business book turns time-tested business practices into simple, practical solutions to the business challenges you face every day.

Tim, Hannah, Sunita, Joe and Polly are all off to school for the first time. Would you like to meet them and see how they go? There are new friends to make, fun ways to learn, and lots of different things to discover.
From Jane Godwin and Anna Walker comes this beautiful book focussing on the experiences and feelings of five very different children as they begin at school for the first time.
Jane's simple words and ideas combine with Anna's gentle and detailed illustrations to help children feel comfortable about taking this big step.

From Jane Godwin and Anna Walker comes this beautiful book focussing on the experiences and feelings of five very different children as they begin at school for the first time.
Jane's simple words and ideas combine with Anna's gentle and detailed illustrations to help children feel comfortable about taking this big step.

You just got a new job as a band director. The principal just shook your hand, and gave you the keys to the bandroom. What do you do now? Practical Techniques for Building the High School Marching Band is for band directors that are new to the profession, are going into a band program that is new or must be rebuilt, or just wants to improve their current program. The book is intended to be a practical source for directors, and covers topics that are not ordinarily covered in music education or instrumental methods classes.

In an elegant affirmation of human capacity and creativity, Patricia Carini counters high-stakes testing, the pathologizing of children, and the unrelenting critique of the public schools with a persuasive account of how children, all children, actively make sense of the world and their experience through the making of works such as drawings, constructions, and writings. This engaging and vivid account of the day-to-day possibilities of learning and teaching, and ultimately the remaking of the schools, is indispensable reading for anyone called to teach or committed to a liberating education for all children.

“This is a beautifully written book. I am inspired with each page.”
—Vito Perrone, Harvard University

"In this precious book by one of our most powerful thinkers, Pat Carini takes us deep, deep into the lives of children, into classrooms and schools, into the human heart of education at its best.”
—William Ayers, University of Illinois at Chicago

“A thoughtful book that challenges us to embrace an expansive vision of education. Throughout this powerful collection of essays, Pat Carini reminds us to place the value of each individual at the center of all we do in schools."
—Judy Buchanan, National Writing Project

“In this book, Carini draws on children’s and teachers’ stories, poetry, and philosophy as she attends to making visible for the reader the humanness of education."
—Ofelia García, Dean, School of Education, Long Island University

What every parent needs to know before your first child starts school.

Is your first child about to start school? Do you want to give your child the best start to their education and school life?  Are you nervous about dealing with other parents and teachers?

If you’re worried about how to prepare your child – and yourself - for school for the first time, The Starting School Survival Guide eases your worries and gives you all the gossip from the school gate telling you everything you need to know.  

Any idea what a number-line is?  Nervous of being told off by the lunch box police?  It’s okay, because Sarah Ebner, author of The Times popular blog School Gate and mother of two, is going to arm you with all the things people never tell you to prepare for when term time begins!

Packed with tons of personal advice and tips from parents who’ve been through it themselves, find out how to prepare yourself – and your child – for surviving the school system unscathed.  From help with choosing and applying to the right school in the first place, and preparing for your child's first day, to dealing with head lice, navigating school cliques (children as well as parents!) and interacting with teachers and other parents, you’ll find out all the best ways to cope and more, including:

Preparing your child: when to teach them to read, the perils of school uniform, tips to help them learn 
Gossip at the gate: dealing with school gate mums, the etiquette of birthday parties, and negotiating friendships 
Education: helping with homework, key stage exams and understanding the national curriculum 
Holidays: how many can you take, holidays in term-time, what to do with your child during the summer 
Problems at school: children with special needs, coping with shyness, what to do if your child is bullied or is the bully...)

From classroom to playground, and beyond the school gate, this is essential reading for every parent entering the school system for the very first time (since you left school yourself).

Book description

School starts for Martin, but he won´t go.

He prefers staying at home and play with his gaming console, with his stuffed animals and his remote radio control helicopter. In the end, Martin knows a lot of things: he knows how to count from one to ten and he even knows that, if you add one videogame to one videogame, the result are two videogames.

Hence, why should he go to school?

Martin refuses to get up on his first day of school. He grabs his bed´s headboard with all of his strength and his mother fails to detach him from the bed, so … Martin gets away with it!

He gets to stay home alone all morning!

But things are not as fun as he thinks…

A children´s book recommended for children ages 7 and up.

The purpose of this children's book is to promote imagination in both boys and girls and to enable reflection on the importance of going to school. With Martin´s adventures, children will learn to value school as a cornerstone in their education as well as their personal and social development.

“I don´t want to go to school!” is a first lessons book, suitable to be read aloud to the youngest. It´s also useful for both boys and girls to become readers.

Martial Arts Instructors! Karate Teachers! MMA Coaches!

Are you thinking about starting a martial arts school?

Do you wonder if you could really start and run a successful martial arts school?

Curious about what it REALLY takes to start and run a profitable martial arts studio?

For years Small Dojo Big Profits author Mike Massie has been quietly coaching prospective martial arts school owners on how to start a school successfully while avoiding the deadly mistakes most small business owners make.

Much of this coaching is centered around applying the top 20% of martial arts business management skills that will provide you with 80% of your success in business.

Now, in this new book, The Best of Starting a Martial Arts School: What You Really Need to Know Before You Start a Martial Arts School, he reveals vital information that will help you identify just what those skills are... this is absolutely essential information that you MUST know before you open a martial arts school.

Here's just a small sample of what you'll discover when you read "The Best of Starting a Martial Arts School":

* The "martial arts business basics" that are the key to your success... find out what they are and how to apply them!

* Discover the essential steps you must take to grow your school from zero to 150 students or more...

* Find out the 7 Habits of Successful Martial Arts School Owners!

* Revealed: Your daily method of operation in running a martial arts school, and why it's so crucial to your success...

* How to run a low-stress martial arts school...

* How to implement systems so your martial arts school runs like clockwork...

* How to manage your time so you focus only on those essential tasks that will make you the most money!

* How big is TOO big?

* The "dead simple" enrollment procedure that beats the big school methods hands down...

* How to become a "hunter" instead of a "lazy grazer"... so you can gobble up your competition, even when times are tough!

"The Best of Starting a Martial Arts School" is written and compiled from an archive of exclusive essays and articles that up till now have only been available to my private coaching clients...

But now you can find out what you need to know before you start your martial arts school, so you can understand how to plan your school and run it the "Small Dojo Big Profits" way from the get-go.

Get your copy today!

One of O: The Oprah Magazine's Top Books of Summer

"Old in Art School is a glorious achievement—bighearted and critical, insightful and entertaining. This book is a cup of courage for everyone who wants to change their lives." —Tayari Jones, author of An American Marriage and Silver Sparrow

Following her retirement from Princeton University, celebrated historian Dr. Nell Irvin Painter surprised everyone in her life by returning to school—in her sixties—to earn a BFA and MFA in painting. In Old in Art School, she travels from her beloved Newark to the prestigious Rhode Island School of Design; finds meaning in the artists she loves, even as she comes to understand how they may be undervalued; and struggles with the unstable balance between the pursuit of art and the inevitable, sometimes painful demands of a life fully lived.

How are women and artists seen and judged by their age, looks, and race? What does it mean when someone says, “You will never be an artist”? Who defines what “An Artist” is and all that goes with such an identity, and how are these ideas tied to our shared conceptions of beauty, value, and difference?

Old in Art School is Nell Painter’s ongoing exploration of those crucial questions. Bringing to bear incisive insights from two careers, Painter weaves a frank, funny, and often surprising tale of her move from academia to art.

Middle schoolers are like no one else. They are not little adults; neither are they taller primary schoolers. Teaching middle school is the most difficult teaching assignment of all. It is also the most rewarding.This book was written to help parents and their middle schoolers successfully integrate into the wonderful world of middle school.

Starting school can be an anxious time for many children, but there are simple steps you can take to prepare yourself and your pre-school child.

Written by experienced child psychologists, Top Tips for Starting School will help you to:
- Encourage your child to develop good social skills and friendships
- Improve your child's use of language
- Develop preparatory reading, number and writing skills
- Promote emotional well-being

And much more!

An interactive ebook for children about to start school at Colonel Light Gardens Primary, SA

Packed with ideas for both new and veteran teachers of K–8 students, this book touches on a variety of topics that are especially relevant to the first week of school. The author provides critical information that includes arranging and navigating the classroom, setting basic expectations, communicating routines, and understanding your students’ needs. Plus, you’ll see how these efforts actually work in the classroom as the author shares experiences, anecdotes, and quick tips. You’ll gain new insight into how these fundamentals support an authentic, effective, and thorough plan for the first week of school and set the stage for a successful year for students, parents, and teachers.
Otis Kriegel is a 15-year veteran elementary and middle school teacher. He has taught dual language, monolingual, and integrated coteaching classrooms throughout the United States and Europe.

Knowing his/her letters and numbers are not enough preparations for school. In most instances, it is also important that your child learns the social skills of relaxation, patience, and self-confidence. These are oftentimes acquired through prayers and the Word of God. This Christian Prayer Book is a great place to start learning these essential skills. Grab a copy now.

Abstract This paper focuses on effective transition-to-school programs. Using a framework of 10 guidelines developed through the Starting School Research Project, it provides examples of effective strategies and transition programs. In this context, the nature of some current transition programs is questioned, and the curriculum of transition is problematized. In particular, issues are raised around who has input into such programs and who decides on appropriate curriculum.

Seventy per cent of newly qualified secondary teachers say that they are well-prepared for certain aspects of teaching their specialist subject - such as planning, selecting resources and assessing their own teaching - and yet feel very much less prepared in other professional areas.
This second edition tackles all the issues that new teachers find difficult. It builds on the skills and knowledge they will have learned on their initial teacher education or PGCE course and offers a planned process of professional development and includes chapters on:
managing yourself and your workload working as part of a team developing teaching and learning strategies challenging behaviour in the classroom assessing, recording and reporting values and Citizenship Education the school sixth form and the growth of vocational qualifications continuing professional development.
The book can be used either as a stand alone companion for newly qualified teachers, or as a follow-on from the editors' successful text book, Learning to Teach in the Secondary School, also published by Routledge.

Introduction One of the sources of children's knowledge about school is popular culture, which can provide a resource for children to learn about specific communities (such as school) and their roles and relationships within these communities (Haas Dyson, 1997). Weber and Mitchell (1995, p. 2) note the pervasiveness of popular culture images of school: 'Even before children begin school, they have already been exposed to a myriad of images of teachers, classrooms and schools which have made strong and lasting impressions on them'. Once they start school, children's own experiences of education, along with those encountered through popular culture (Hickey & Austin, 2006) contribute to the public text of 'teacher' (Mockler, 2004).

Starting Up is a collection of first-person accounts by some of the best-known founders of new schools in America. Providing the kind of knowledge that only experience can teach, it is an invaluable resource for anyone in the process of or thinking about opening a new school, as well as those interested in the politics of today’s era of new school development. The authors share how they worked to make their educational aspirations a reality while wrestling with social and economic obstacles, such as the distressed state of the communities in which these schools operated and the constant competition for resources. Starting Up tells real stories that capture the rich sense of possibility that currently exists for urban education.

Book Features:

Behind the scenes accounts from the founders of innovative K–12 schools created to better serve primarily poor communities across the country.
Lessons learned from school leaders, including both the rewards and challenges associated with starting a new school.
An introduction by Pedro Noguera that situates start ups within current economic and political realities.

Lisa Arrastía is the middle school principal at United Nations International School in New York. Her work in the classroom is the focus of the Emmy-nominated PBS documentary Making the Grade. Marvin Hoffman is the founding director of The University of Chicago Charter School, North Kenwood/Oakland campus and the associate director of the University’s Urban Teacher Education Program.

“These are educators who recognize that although urban public schools are often deeply flawed and dysfunctional, they don’t have to be, and they are educators who act on the belief that it is possible to create schools that nurture and support the hopes and aspirations of those they serve.”

—From the Foreword by Pedro Noguera, New York University

“How might we reimagine our schools? This book offers a guide from those who have experienced firsthand the trials and tribulations of trying to create a school from the bottom up. It asks all the right questions, both the practical and the pedagogical. It feels like essential reading as we reconsider how our urban schools should look and function.” 

—Alex Kotlowitz, bestselling author of There Are No Children Here and The Other Side of the River

Everyone knows that boys are falling behind in education. Largely left out of the discussion are parents of boys, who are most aware that their bright, eager sons hit an invisible wall somewhere near fourth grade, after which they become disengaged, discouraged, and disaffected. There are dozens of books on underachieving boys, but most parents brave enough to lift one off the shelf are instantly intimidated by the footnotes, graphs, case studies, and academic-speak addressed almost entirely to educators. What about the average guilt-ridden, frustrated mother or father of an underachieving boy? Jump-Starting Boys is the first book on the market that empowers parents, helping them reclaim the duties and rewards of raising their children and navigate the influences of school and media. Filled with reassurance and support, the authors turn fear and guilt into can-do confidence. Through easy tips and action list sidebars, this is the most practical, readable book on the topic.