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Bad Kitty vs. Uncle Murray : AR 2.9 : the uproar at the front door

Bruel, Nick.


"A Neal Porter book." Kitty's owners are taking a week off and leaving Kitty and Puppy at home with Uncle Murray. It isn't long before Uncle Murray is driven to near madness by shenanigans of epic proportions.
Date Published:2010

Warriors: Omen of the Stars : The Fourth Apprentice

Hunter, Erin,


Includes adventure game based on the series. When Lionblaze discovers that his apprentice Dovepaw can see events happening far away, he organizes a patrol to investigate a vision about the river.
Date Published:2015

Best Enemies

Leverich, Kathleen.


Originally published: New York : Greenwillow Books, Â©1989. After Felicity trades her nasty tricks for friendship, Priscilla decides she'd rather have Felicity as an enemy.
Date Published:1998

Mr. Klutz is Nuts! / 4.4 : My Weird School #2

Gutman, Dan,


The flying principal -- Big trouble -- The principal is your pal -- The present -- My big mouth -- The chocolate party -- Teacher for a day -- Mr. Klutz puckers up -- I pledge allegiance to Mr. Klutz -- Mr. Klutz is getting weirder -- The last straw -- A hard bargain -- Poor Mr. Klutz. Principal Klutz was hanging upside down from the school flagpole. He kissed a pig on the lips and painted his bald head orange. And now he wants to bungee jump off the roof of the school dressed as Santa Claus!
Date Published:2004

The flying principal -- Big trouble -- The principal is your pal -- The present -- My big mouth -- The chocolate party -- Teacher for a day -- Mr. Klutz puckers up -- I pledge allegiance to Mr. Klutz -- Mr. Klutz is getting weirder -- The last straw -- A hard bargain -- Poor Mr. Klutz. Principal Klutz was hanging upside down from the school flagpole. He kissed a pig on the lips and painted his bald head orange. And now he wants to bungee jump off the roof of the school dressed as Santa Claus!

Date Published:2004

Ana and the Substitute Teacher

Cathi-Anne Cook



Date Published:

Smiley Shark / 2.4

Galloway, Ruth


Smiley Shark's toothy smile frightens the other sea animals but comes in handy when they are caught in a net.
Date Published:2003

The Mitten / 3.9

Brett, Jan, 1949-,


Copyright date 1989. Several animals sleep snugly in Nicki's lost mitten until the bear sneezes.
Date Published:2009

Nelson literacy 9b student book: Planet you/Turning points

MacKenzie, Jennette


Two Student Books per grade, two units in each book! High-impact topics and themes. Engaging selections at a variety of reading levels. Fresh, current design. Available in both print and digital format. Includes a variety of genres and text forms. . Nelson Literacy presents a rich variety of literature, informational articles, and media texts from Canada and around the world. Many of the selections offer tips to help you develop strategies in reading, writing, listening, speaking, and media literacy.
Date Published:2010

Two Student Books per grade, two units in each book! High-impact topics and themes. Engaging selections at a variety of reading levels. Fresh, current design. Available in both print and digital format. Includes a variety of genres and text forms. . Nelson Literacy presents a rich variety of literature, informational articles, and media texts from Canada and around the world. Many of the selections offer tips to help you develop strategies in reading, writing, listening, speaking, and media literacy.

Date Published:2010

The developing child : Teacher wraparound edition

Brisbane, Holly E.


The Developing Child is a comprehensive overview of the ages and stages of child development. This new major revision also gives teachers the tools they need to prepare assess, reteach, and enrich.
Date Published:2010

Endgame: The Secret Force 136

Little, Catherine., May 9, 2024.


Racism against the Chinese in Canada during World War 11. Chinese recruited to Force 136.
Date Published:2023

Connecting with students online : strategies for remote teaching & learning

Serravallo, Jennifer,


[Covering grade levels: Kindergarten - 8th] --Heinemann website. Holding true to priorities as we move online. Connection and relationships ; Emotional well-being ; Engagement ; Clear, strategic, and focused direct instruction ; Guided practice ; Access ; Assessment ; Balance -- Partnering with adults at home. Strategies. Welcome caregivers to your online classroom ; Survey students and families to understand needs ; Share the weekly schedule ; Share notes on students' work and progress ; Record how-to videos for using technology ; Offer advice about setting up learning space(s) at home ; Encourage caregivers to develop a schedule and/or routines ; Help families know what to do when things get frustrating -- Planning and revising curriculum units for online instruction. Strategies. Step 1: Identify goals and skill progressions ; Step 2: Find anchor texts ; Step 3: Try out what you'll ask students to do ; Step 4: Design assessments ; Step 5a: Map out daily reading lessons with goals and strategies ; Step 5b: Map our daily writing lessons with process and strategies ; Streamline and simplify:connect goals across reading and writing ; Plan for a monthly focus: genre, content, independent projects, or a mix ; Organize your curriculum and resources in a learning management system ; Approach your planning and teaching with flexibility and feedback -- Managing your time across a day, across the week. Strategies. Understand the pros and cons of synchronous and asynchronous teaching ; Invite your students online with you for some time each day ; Plan and record short whole-class micro lessons ; Host "office hours" for student- and caregiver- initiated response time ; Make a schedule for conferences and small groups ; Preserve space for professional learning and collaboration ; Map out a weekly schedule and set boundaries -- Supporting students' independent practice at home. Strategies. Ask students to read every day ; Give students access to paper books ; Adapt strategies for students who are reading e-books ; Adapt strategies for students who are listening to audiobooks and/or podcasts ; Create short text packets for shared reading experiences ; Rethink what it means to match readers with "just-right" texts ; Ask students to write every day ; Decide how your students will compose their writing ; Give students access to writing materials and tools ; Hold on (tightly) to writer's notebooks ; Set up a system for students to share some of their writing with you ; Ask students to do math every day ; Ask students to engage with content study every day ; Plan for students to create and move and play every day -- Methods and structures for teaching online. Strategies. Develop community agreements and norms for participating online ; Set yourself and your students up for videoconferencing ; Convert your live mini lessons to recorded micro lessons ; Make your micro lessons more engaging ; Monitor and guide students' independent practice ; Read aloud (live!) to build community ; Record read-aloud to engage, support comprehension, and collect data ; Study a mentor text for writing craft ; Confer with students live ; Confer with students when your schedules don't align ; Set up and support reading and writing partnerships and clubs ; Engage reading partnerships and clubs with "written conversations" ; Engage writing partnerships and clubs with written feedback ; Engage partnerships and clubs with asynchronous video "conversation" ; Meet with a small group of students with the same goal (strategy lessons) ; Move your guided reading online ; Apply the tech tools and strategies you've learned to lead any type of group online. Holding True to Priorities as We Move Online -- Partnering with Adults at Home -- Planning and Revising Curriculum Units for Online Instruction -- Managing Your Time Across a Day, Across the Week -- Setting Up Students' Independent Practice at Home -- Methods and Structures for Teaching Online. "The professional development for online teaching and learning that you've been asking for. An unprecedented pandemic may take the teacher out of the classroom, but it doesn't take the classroom out of the teacher! Now that you're making the shift to online teaching, it's time to answer your biggest questions about remote, digitally based instruction: How do I build and nurture relationships with students and their at-home adults from afar? How do I adapt my best teaching to an online setting? How do I keep a focus on students and their needs when they aren't in front of me? Jennifer Serravallo's Connecting with Students Online gives you concise, doable answers based on her own experiences and those of the teachers, administrators, and coaches she has communicated with during the pandemic. Focusing on the vital importance of the teacher-student connection, Jen guides you to: Effectively prioritize what matters most during remote, online instruction schedule your day and your students' to maximize teaching and learning (and avoid burnout) ; Streamline curricular units and roll them out digitally ; Record highly engaging short lessons that students will enjoy and learn from ; Confer, working with small groups, and drive learning through independent practice ; Partner with the adults in a student's home to support your work with their child. Featuring simplified, commonsense suggestions, 55 step-by-step teaching strategies, and video examples of Jen conferring and working with small groups, Connecting with Students Online helps new teachers, teachers new to technology, or anyone who wants to better understand the essence of effective online instruction. Along the way Jen addresses crucial topics including assessment and progress monitoring, student engagement and accountability, using anchor charts and visuals, getting books into students' hands, teaching subject-area content, and avoiding teacher burnout. During this pandemic crisis turn to one of education's most trusted teaching voices to help you restart or maintain students' progress. Jennifer Serravallo's Connecting with Students Online is of-the-moment, grounded in important research, informed by experience, and designed to get you teaching well -- and confidently -- as quickly as possible."--
Date Published:2020

[Covering grade levels: Kindergarten - 8th] --Heinemann website. Holding true to priorities as we move online. Connection and relationships ; Emotional well-being ; Engagement ; Clear, strategic, and focused direct instruction ; Guided practice ; Access ; Assessment ; Balance -- Partnering with adults at home. Strategies. Welcome caregivers to your online classroom ; Survey students and families to understand needs ; Share the weekly schedule ; Share notes on students' work and progress ; Record how-to videos for using technology ; Offer advice about setting up learning space(s) at home ; Encourage caregivers to develop a schedule and/or routines ; Help families know what to do when things get frustrating -- Planning and revising curriculum units for online instruction. Strategies. Step 1: Identify goals and skill progressions ; Step 2: Find anchor texts ; Step 3: Try out what you'll ask students to do ; Step 4: Design assessments ; Step 5a: Map out daily reading lessons with goals and strategies ; Step 5b: Map our daily writing lessons with process and strategies ; Streamline and simplify:connect goals across reading and writing ; Plan for a monthly focus: genre, content, independent projects, or a mix ; Organize your curriculum and resources in a learning management system ; Approach your planning and teaching with flexibility and feedback -- Managing your time across a day, across the week. Strategies. Understand the pros and cons of synchronous and asynchronous teaching ; Invite your students online with you for some time each day ; Plan and record short whole-class micro lessons ; Host "office hours" for student- and caregiver- initiated response time ; Make a schedule for conferences and small groups ; Preserve space for professional learning and collaboration ; Map out a weekly schedule and set boundaries -- Supporting students' independent practice at home. Strategies. Ask students to read every day ; Give students access to paper books ; Adapt strategies for students who are reading e-books ; Adapt strategies for students who are listening to audiobooks and/or podcasts ; Create short text packets for shared reading experiences ; Rethink what it means to match readers with "just-right" texts ; Ask students to write every day ; Decide how your students will compose their writing ; Give students access to writing materials and tools ; Hold on (tightly) to writer's notebooks ; Set up a system for students to share some of their writing with you ; Ask students to do math every day ; Ask students to engage with content study every day ; Plan for students to create and move and play every day -- Methods and structures for teaching online. Strategies. Develop community agreements and norms for participating online ; Set yourself and your students up for videoconferencing ; Convert your live mini lessons to recorded micro lessons ; Make your micro lessons more engaging ; Monitor and guide students' independent practice ; Read aloud (live!) to build community ; Record read-aloud to engage, support comprehension, and collect data ; Study a mentor text for writing craft ; Confer with students live ; Confer with students when your schedules don't align ; Set up and support reading and writing partnerships and clubs ; Engage reading partnerships and clubs with "written conversations" ; Engage writing partnerships and clubs with written feedback ; Engage partnerships and clubs with asynchronous video "conversation" ; Meet with a small group of students with the same goal (strategy lessons) ; Move your guided reading online ; Apply the tech tools and strategies you've learned to lead any type of group online. Holding True to Priorities as We Move Online -- Partnering with Adults at Home -- Planning and Revising Curriculum Units for Online Instruction -- Managing Your Time Across a Day, Across the Week -- Setting Up Students' Independent Practice at Home -- Methods and Structures for Teaching Online. "The professional development for online teaching and learning that you've been asking for. An unprecedented pandemic may take the teacher out of the classroom, but it doesn't take the classroom out of the teacher! Now that you're making the shift to online teaching, it's time to answer your biggest questions about remote, digitally based instruction: How do I build and nurture relationships with students and their at-home adults from afar? How do I adapt my best teaching to an online setting? How do I keep a focus on students and their needs when they aren't in front of me? Jennifer Serravallo's Connecting with Students Online gives you concise, doable answers based on her own experiences and those of the teachers, administrators, and coaches she has communicated with during the pandemic. Focusing on the vital importance of the teacher-student connection, Jen guides you to: Effectively prioritize what matters most during remote, online instruction schedule your day and your students' to maximize teaching and learning (and avoid burnout) ; Streamline curricular units and roll them out digitally ; Record highly engaging short lessons that students will enjoy and learn from ; Confer, working with small groups, and drive learning through independent practice ; Partner with the adults in a student's home to support your work with their child. Featuring simplified, commonsense suggestions, 55 step-by-step teaching strategies, and video examples of Jen conferring and working with small groups, Connecting with Students Online helps new teachers, teachers new to technology, or anyone who wants to better understand the essence of effective online instruction. Along the way Jen addresses crucial topics including assessment and progress monitoring, student engagement and accountability, using anchor charts and visuals, getting books into students' hands, teaching subject-area content, and avoiding teacher burnout. During this pandemic crisis turn to one of education's most trusted teaching voices to help you restart or maintain students' progress. Jennifer Serravallo's Connecting with Students Online is of-the-moment, grounded in important research, informed by experience, and designed to get you teaching well -- and confidently -- as quickly as possible."--

Date Published:2020

Monkey See, Doggy Do

Dower, Laura


Mojo Jojo turns all the people of Townsville into obedient dogs, and it's up to the Powerpuff Girls--or rather Pups--Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup, to figure out a way to stop him before the whole world goes to the dogs.
Date Published:2000

The Girl who could fly

Forester, Victoria


Piper McCloud can fly. Just like that. Easy as pie. Sure, she hasn't mastered reverse propulsion and her turns are kind of sloppy, but she's real good at loop-the-loops. Problem is, the good folk of Lowland County are afraid of Piper. And her ma's at her wit's end. So it seems only fitting that she leave her parents' farm to attend a top-secret, maximum-security school for kids with exceptional abilities. School is great at first with a bunch of new firends whose skills range from super-strength to super-genius. (Plus all the homemade apple pie she can eat!) But Piper is special, even among the special. And there are consequences. Piper McCloud can fly. Just like that. Easy as pie. Sure, she hasn't mastered reverse propulsion and her turns are kind of sloppy, but she's real good at loop-the-loops. Problem is, the good folk of Lowland County are afraid of Piper. And her ma's at her wit's end. So it seems only fitting that she leave her parents' farm to attend a top-secret, maximum-security school for kids with exceptional abilities. School is great at first with a bunch of new firends whose skills range from super-strength to super-genius. (Plus all the homemade apple pie she can eat!) But Piper is special, even among the special. And there are consequences. Consequences too dire to talk about. Too crazy to consider. And too dangerous to ignore. .
Date Published:2008

Piper McCloud can fly. Just like that. Easy as pie. Sure, she hasn't mastered reverse propulsion and her turns are kind of sloppy, but she's real good at loop-the-loops. Problem is, the good folk of Lowland County are afraid of Piper. And her ma's at her wit's end. So it seems only fitting that she leave her parents' farm to attend a top-secret, maximum-security school for kids with exceptional abilities. School is great at first with a bunch of new firends whose skills range from super-strength to super-genius. (Plus all the homemade apple pie she can eat!) But Piper is special, even among the special. And there are consequences. Piper McCloud can fly. Just like that. Easy as pie. Sure, she hasn't mastered reverse propulsion and her turns are kind of sloppy, but she's real good at loop-the-loops. Problem is, the good folk of Lowland County are afraid of Piper. And her ma's at her wit's end. So it seems only fitting that she leave her parents' farm to attend a top-secret, maximum-security school for kids with exceptional abilities. School is great at first with a bunch of new firends whose skills range from super-strength to super-genius. (Plus all the homemade apple pie she can eat!) But Piper is special, even among the special. And there are consequences. Consequences too dire to talk about. Too crazy to consider. And too dangerous to ignore. .

Date Published:2008

Leaders eat last : Why some teams pull together and others don't

Sinek, Simon


" The highly anticipated follow-up to the acclaimed bestseller Start With Why Simon Sinek's mission is to help people wake up every day inspired to go to work and return home every night fulfilled by their work. His first book, Start With Why, offered the essential starting point, explaining the power of focusing on WHY we do what we do, before getting into the details of WHAT and HOW. Start With Why became an instant classic, with a loyal following among Fortune 500 companies, entrepreneurs, nonprofits, governments, and the highest levels of the U.S. Military. Now Sinek is back to reveal the next step in creating happier and healthier organizations. He helps us understand, in simple terms, the biology of trust and cooperation and why they're essential to our success and fulfillment. Organizations that create environments in which trust and cooperation thrive vastly out perform their competition. And, not coincidentally, their employees love working there. But "truly human" cultures don't just happen; they are intentionally created by great leaders. Leaders who, in hard times, would sooner sacrifice their numbers to protect their people, rather than sacrifice people to protect their numbers, are rewarded with deeply loyal teams that consistently contribute their best efforts, ideas and passion. As he did in Start With Why, Sinek illustrates his points with fascinating true stories from many fields. He implores us to act sooner rather than later, because our stressful jobs are literally killing us. And he offers surprisingly simple steps for building a truly human organization"--.
Date Published:2017

" The highly anticipated follow-up to the acclaimed bestseller Start With Why Simon Sinek's mission is to help people wake up every day inspired to go to work and return home every night fulfilled by their work. His first book, Start With Why, offered the essential starting point, explaining the power of focusing on WHY we do what we do, before getting into the details of WHAT and HOW. Start With Why became an instant classic, with a loyal following among Fortune 500 companies, entrepreneurs, nonprofits, governments, and the highest levels of the U.S. Military. Now Sinek is back to reveal the next step in creating happier and healthier organizations. He helps us understand, in simple terms, the biology of trust and cooperation and why they're essential to our success and fulfillment. Organizations that create environments in which trust and cooperation thrive vastly out perform their competition. And, not coincidentally, their employees love working there. But "truly human" cultures don't just happen; they are intentionally created by great leaders. Leaders who, in hard times, would sooner sacrifice their numbers to protect their people, rather than sacrifice people to protect their numbers, are rewarded with deeply loyal teams that consistently contribute their best efforts, ideas and passion. As he did in Start With Why, Sinek illustrates his points with fascinating true stories from many fields. He implores us to act sooner rather than later, because our stressful jobs are literally killing us. And he offers surprisingly simple steps for building a truly human organization"--.

Date Published:2017

Being a leader

Nelson, Robin,


Includes index. An introduction to leadership at school, at home, with friends, and in the community, with specific examples of how to be a leader at home and school.
Date Published:2003

10 Greatest Canadian Political Leaders, The

Matheson, Hughena



Date Published:

If I Could Drive a Tow truck

Teitelbaum, Michael


A young boy imagines all the things he could do if he operated a tow truck.
Date Published:2002

Brain-Based Learning With Class

Politano, Colleen


In this book, the authors have adapted Eric Jensen’s 10 principles that need to be implemented in the classroom for a brain-compatible approach to teaching and learning. These principles include uniqueness, emotions, nutrition, and elimination of threat. The book also provides basic information about the brain, ways to teach students about the brain, and dozens of practical brain-based activities for students of every age.
Date Published:2000

In this book, the authors have adapted Eric Jensen’s 10 principles that need to be implemented in the classroom for a brain-compatible approach to teaching and learning. These principles include uniqueness, emotions, nutrition, and elimination of threat. The book also provides basic information about the brain, ways to teach students about the brain, and dozens of practical brain-based activities for students of every age.

Date Published:2000

Inquiry into life

Mader, Sylvia S.


Inquiry into Life covers the whole field of basic biology and emphasizes the application of this knowledge to human concerns. Along with this approach, concepts and principles are stressed, rather than detailed, high-level scientific data and terminology. Dr. Sylvia Mader's text, Inquiry into Life, was originally developed to reach out to science-shy students. The text now represents one of the cornerstones of introductory biology education. Inquiry into Life was founded on the belief that teaching science from a human perspective, coupled with human applications, would make the material more relevant to the student. This text, along with the Inquiry Into Life 15.1 edition, represent an ongoing project in the development of a continuously-updated textbook. As scientists and educators, the authors of this text are well aware that scientific discovery is a dynamic process. Fortunately, the advances in digital publishing are allowing authors to update content on an ongoing basis, which in turn is promoting the ability to update content on a regular basis. This text represents the prototype of those efforts.
Date Published:2020

Inquiry into Life covers the whole field of basic biology and emphasizes the application of this knowledge to human concerns. Along with this approach, concepts and principles are stressed, rather than detailed, high-level scientific data and terminology. Dr. Sylvia Mader's text, Inquiry into Life, was originally developed to reach out to science-shy students. The text now represents one of the cornerstones of introductory biology education. Inquiry into Life was founded on the belief that teaching science from a human perspective, coupled with human applications, would make the material more relevant to the student. This text, along with the Inquiry Into Life 15.1 edition, represent an ongoing project in the development of a continuously-updated textbook. As scientists and educators, the authors of this text are well aware that scientific discovery is a dynamic process. Fortunately, the advances in digital publishing are allowing authors to update content on an ongoing basis, which in turn is promoting the ability to update content on a regular basis. This text represents the prototype of those efforts.

Date Published:2020

The girl with the dragon tattoo

Larsson, Stieg


Hacker Lisbeth Salander and journalist Mikael Blomkvist investigate the disappearance of teenage Harriet Vanger decades earlier, uncovering the dark world of a Swedish family. The plot contains explicit sexual situations and graphic violence. Book #1 .
Date Published:2009