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Classroom management is traditionally a matter of encouraging good behavior and discouraging bad by doling out rewards and punishments. But studies show that when educators empower students to address and correct misbehavior among themselves, positive results are longer lasting and wider reaching. In Better Than Carrots or Sticks, longtime educators and best-selling authors Dominique Smith, Douglas Fisher, and Nancy Frey provide a practical blueprint for creating a cooperative and respectful classroom climate in which students and teachers work through behavioral issues together.

The award-winning, humorous true story of an animal-phobic, city robotics engineer who learns too late that his new bride's dream is to have a farm where she can rescue ex-racehorses. When the newlyweds take a Meyers-Briggs Personality Test for fun, they discover their marriage is doomed. There is only one problem: they took the test after the wedding. 

While social and emotional learning (SEL) is most familiar as compartmentalized programs separate from academics, the truth is, all learning is social and emotional. What teachers say, the values we express, the materials and activities we choose, and the skills we prioritize all influence how students think, see themselves, and interact with content and with others.

When Grief first arrives, it is an elephant—so big that there is hardly room for anything else. But over time, Grief becomes smaller and smaller—first a deer, a fox, then a mouse, and finally a flickering firefly in the darkness leading us down a path of loving remembrance.

Discover the transformative power of Divine Love Affair: An Akashic Journey, the award-winning and bestselling audiobook by Nancy Smith, expertly narrated by Lisa Daley. and published by Audiobook Publishing Services. This spiritual guide is your key to unlocking your soul’s purpose and living a life filled with divine love, fulfillment, and self-discovery. Are you feeling lost, overwhelmed, or disconnected from your true self? Divine Love Affair offers a profound journey into the Akashic Records—a timeless field of unconditional love—where you’ll uncover your soul’s pre-birth plan.

A Is for Aliens, the first audiobook in an epic series of 26 horror anthologies. Within these sections you will find a collection of 13 stories from some of the finest independent writers on the scene today, blending science fiction with horror. From the humorous to the terrifying, A Is for Aliens contains a diverse range of stories with each author taking a different approach to the theme.

The Distance Learning Playbook for School Leaders applies the wisdom and evidence of the VISIBLE LEARNING® research to understand what works best. Spanning topics from school climate at a distance, leader credibility, care for self and colleagues, instructional leadership teams, stakeholder advisory groups, and virtual visibility, this comprehensive playbook details the research- and evidence-based strategies school leaders can mobilize to lead the delivery of high-impact learning in an online, virtual, and distributed environment.

A Whale of a Tale is a faith tale, which is based on the story of Jonah in the Bible. It is the first in a series of Once upon a Truth tales. It is a wonderful way to introduce children to the fabulous, real-life characters and true stories the Bible provides.

Are you feeling a disconnect in your life? ANGELSCAPES Podcast is your direct connection to find your Soul’s power and wisdom. Join Dr. Rev. Nancy Smith, minister, certified medium, spirit artist and Akashic practitioner to learn tools and steps you can take to create calm and confidence in your life. Get ideas, tips, and lessons to help you receive Divine love and Soul Power! Learn simple spiritual practices that will change your life! Develop your intuition and build a fulfilling partnership with your Soul. It’s time to plug into your Soul’s power to be the powerful being you really ...

A podcast about living with High Functioning Anxiety and building self-loyalty. Join me, Nancy Jane Smith, as I talk about my journey with High Functioning Anxiety. Through my own experience and 20+ years of training as a licensed professional counselor and coach, I have discovered the #1 way to quiet anxiety is self-loyalty. We are so loyal to other people. It is time to learn how to be as loyal to yourself as you are to others. Listen to learn more about quieting your High Functioning Anxiety with self-loyalty.

Baby Boomers are reinventing retirement just as they have so many other aspects of their lives. They will live longer and be healthier than their parents and grandparents, and they plan to remain relevant, be fulfilled, and leave legacies. Many will continue to work well into their 70s and 80s, some because they want to, others because they need to.

Urban fantasy offers a diverse playground for some extremely powerful stories. Professional writer and editor Kerrie L. Hughes pulled some fantastic tales out of 14 top writers for this fifth installment of Fiction River. Set in urban lands from modern Portland, to a future Detroit, to a wild Washington, D.C., and ending the tour in London, these top writers take the idea of "Hex" and stretch and twist it into stories with a magickal grip on the imagination.

Divine Love Affair: Akashic Journey Meditations by Nancy Smith is a powerful spiritual audiobook designed to guide listeners into deeper states of healing, awareness, and inner peace. Based on the teachings from Divine Love Affair: An Akashic Journey, this audiobook presents a series of guided meditations and spiritual journeys that stand alone as tools for self-discovery and personal transformation.

The Complete Book of Grant Writing is the ultimate grant book that shows you how to write a grant proposal if you're seeking funding through government grants, foundation grants, and specialty grants. Grant proposal writing is an intricate process where any bits of misinformation or formatting errors can mean the difference between securing funding or not. Professional grant writer Nancy Burke Smith and philanthropy consultant and grant maker E. Gabriel Works unveil the secrets behind how to find and successfully apply for grants.