Our thought lives have incredible power over our mental, emotional, and even physical well-being. In fact, our thoughts can either limit us to what we believe we can do or release us to experience abilities well beyond our expectations. When we choose a mindset that extends our abilities rather than placing limits on ourselves, we will experience greater intellectual satisfaction, emotional control, and physical health. The only question is . . . how?

Backed by up-to-date scientific research and biblical insight, Dr. Caroline Leaf empowers readers to take control of their thoughts in order to take control of their lives. In this practical book, readers will learn to use

• The 5-step Switch on Your Brain Learning Program, to build memory and learn effectively
• The Gift Profile, to discover the unique way they process information
• The Mindfulness Guide, to optimize their thought life and find their inner resilience

Dr. Leaf shows readers how to combine these powerful tools in order to improve memory, learning, cognitive and intellectual performance, work performance, physical performance, relationships, emotional health, and most importantly a meaningful life well lived.

Each of us has significant psychological resources at our fingertips that we can use in order to improve our overall well-being. Dr. Leaf shows us how to harness those resources to unlock our hidden potential.

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The Audio CDs contain audio recordings for all of the listening exercises in the Pathways Listening, Speaking, and Critical Thinking Student Books.

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Daily journal for kids aged 8-11. This is the 'big brother' of the best selling Happy Confident Me Journal: it includes different daily questions and quotes, as well as age appropriate explanations of 10 essential life skills and it comes in Hardback. Based on the latest research on happiness, emotional development and neuroscience and developed by Psychotherapist Annabel Rosenhead and Parenting Expert Nadim Saad. This beautifully illustrated, full colour journal takes children on a ten-week journey, instilling 10 essential life skills that will develop positive daily habits and build their confidence and happiness. The 10 essential life skills are: 1. Knowing Yourself; 2. Feeling your Feelings; 3. Positive Thinking; 4. Building your Growth Mindset; 5. Learning from mistakes; 6. Resilience; 7. Boosting your Confidence; 8. Being Mindful; 9. Kindness and Empathy; 10. Self-acceptance This journal explains these 10 skills in a fun and engaging way. Children then have 5 minutes of daily journaling each day which consist of a daily quote and daily questions which are different each day. They also get a weekly activity as well as a family activity. These are all focussed around the theme of the week, and they are written in a way that your child begins to put the lesson into practice and can see the positive effects immediately. There is no other journal on the market that takes this approach, and it also includes additional pages each week to give them space to further write doodle or draw and Worry Box pages at the back of the journal that they can use to write out and work around worries (and then tear out once they have resolved them).

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Higher-order thinking skills Book 4 focuses on the critical and creative thinking skills that learners need in their daily life. The language and skills taught are perfect for students age 9-10.

The unique activities stimulate learners and promote them to 'think outside the box'. In the fast-paced and ever-changing world we live in, never has there been a more important time to develop critical thinking skills—but how do you fit this into an already-packed schedule? R.I.C. Publications has the answer with our latest release, Higher-order thinking skills.

Through a range of engaging and challenging activities designed to test and strengthen problem-solving skills, this series helps learners make deeper connections by integrating their learning across key curriculum areas.

The Flixies gather at the seaside, where a big variety of plants and animals can be found. They having a brainstorming session – a think-tank – to discuss the different reasons why biodiversity is so significant and the use shells and leaves to make posters so that they can what they’ve learnt with others.

The Teacher’s Guide includes:

• An explanation of the teaching strategy used
• An explanation of which comprehension strategy is used and which step of the teaching strategy should be applied in that specific book.
• Highlights in the text, with a side-panel modelling the teaching strategy and highlighting key points in the text for application.
• Key words are provided to display and use in the introductory discussion.
• Worksheets with comprehension activities based on the story are added to the end of the guide

A Focus on Multiplication and Division is a groundbreaking effort to make mathematics education research readily accessible and understandable to pre- and in-service K-6 mathematics educators. Revealing students' thought processes with extensive annotated samples of student work and vignettes characteristic of teachers' experiences, this book is sure to equip educators with the knowledge and tools needed to modify their lessons and to improve student learning of multiplication and division. Special Features: Looking Back Questions at the end of each chapter allow teachers to analyze student thinking and to consider instructional strategies for their own students. Instructional Links help teachers relate concepts from each chapter to their own instructional materials and programs. Big Ideas frame the chapters and provide a platform for meaningful exploration of the teaching of multiplication and division. Answer Key posted online offers extensive explanations of in-chapter questions. Each chapter includes sections on the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics and integrates the Ongoing Assessment Project (OGAP) Multiplicative Reasoning Progression for formative assessment purposes. Centered on the question of how students develop their understanding of mathematical concepts, this innovative book places math teachers in the mode of ongoing action researchers.

Think Second edition is the English course that develops your students as learners and challenges them to consider global issues such as climate change and important scientific discoveries. With inspirational topics and texts from around the world, pages dedicated to life competencies and focused Cambridge English exam practice, this course encourages students to think big - in English. The Student's Book comes with access to the Interactive Workbook and Digital Pack on Cambridge One.

Think Second edition is the English course that develops your students as learners and challenges them to consider global issues such as climate change and important scientific discoveries. With inspirational topics and texts from around the world, pages dedicated to life competencies and focused Cambridge English exam practice, this course encourages students to think big - in English. The Student's Book comes with access to the Interactive Workbook and Digital Pack on Cambridge One.

Think Second edition is the English course that develops your students as learners and challenges them to consider global issues such as climate change and important scientific discoveries. With inspirational topics and texts from around the world, pages dedicated to life competencies and focused Cambridge English exam practice, this course encourages students to think big - in English. The Student's Book comes with access to the Interactive Workbook and Digital Pack on Cambridge One.

Pathways is a dual skills course that can be taught in parallel or as individual strands - Reading and Writing, and Listening and Speaking - and topics and language complement and mirror each other. Students benefit from a targeted skills syllabus where they can really develop, not just practice, the skills they will need for effective use of language. Pathways particularly lends itself to academic learners of English, with the topics and language input texts taken from a more academic context. In addition, the strong critical thinking element present in both strands encourages and stimulates the 'higher order' thinking skills and the students' ability to evaluate, analyse, and synthesise information from a wide range of sources. Meaningful and authentic content from National Geographic stimulates creates the perfect environment for this and stimulates learners' curiosity and participation.

Pathways is a dual skills course that can be taught in parallel or as individual strands - Reading and Writing, and Listening and Speaking - and topics and language complement and mirror each other. Students benefit from a targeted skills syllabus where they can really develop, not just practice, the skills they will need for effective use of language. Pathways particularly lends itself to academic learners of English, with the topics and language input texts taken from a more academic context. In addition, the strong critical thinking element present in both strands encourages and stimulates the 'higher order' thinking skills and the students' ability to evaluate, analyse, and synthesise information from a wide range of sources. Meaningful and authentic content from National Geographic stimulates creates the perfect environment for this and stimulates learners' curiosity and participation.

How did we conclude that the best way to prepare kids for the future is to cluster them into classrooms by age and grade, forcing them to learn the same things, at the same time and pace, seven hours a day, five days a week, for twelve years? We trust the school system to prepare our kids for the future. We get excited when they get good grades, or disappointed if they don't. But we rarely stop to question whether school is teaching our children the right things in the right way. Kids could get good at playing the game of school, but are they really learning? Teacher-turned-edupreneur Ana Lorena Fabrega, known by her students as Ms. Fab, invites us to rethink education. In The Learning Game, she reveals how traditional schooling has gone wrong, and proposes a series of actionable strategies to help kids learn. What if we guide kids to think for themselves? Should we encourage kids to take risks and tackle projects of their own? How do we help kids learn to love learning? Answering these questions and many more, The Learning Game will arm you with practical tools to design a new approach to learning-one that leaves behind the game of school and prepares your kids for the game of life.

Poverty and superstition go hand in hand, When you have nothing, you cling to whatever gives you hope. Tracy King was raised in a house of contradictions. Her home was happy and creative but it was marked by debt, by her father's alcoholism and her mother's agoraphobia. When her father died at the hands of a local teenage gang on the streets of their Midlands council estate, superstition gave way to a deeper and more dysfunctional reliance on the born-again Christian church to which Tracy and her family belonged. In the chaos of loss, the paranormal became paranoia. In a bid to find definitive answers, Tracy followed one belief system after another until, accidentally, she stumbled across a book by scientist Carl Sagan. It opened the door to scientific thinking. Ultimately, it taught her to think for herself. And it was only when she applied the tools of critical thinking to this exploration of her past that she uncovered a very different kind of story. Learning to Think is a memoir about belief. It's about poverty, religion and superstition, grief and healing. But most of all, it's about the liberating power of a scientific view of the world.

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This book helps children learn how to learn to think rationally with logic puzzles, challenges and activities.

It encourages the reader to think outside the box, take creative risks and find new ways to do things. As well as puzzles, the book explores the stories of people from history to help children learn from the brilliant men and women of the past.

Project Logic helps children aged 8+ to test and improve their critical thinking skills. The books boost growth mindset, as the reader is asked to challenge themselves with fun puzzles and then discover how critical thinking can help us to solve everyday problems and issues.

A scientist’s journey from observation to discovery is anything but straightforward. It is littered with failure, unexpected diversions and joyous realizations. Science helps us to understand ourselves – but what we know about the world around us, what has already been explored and discovered, is only half of science’s story.

Dr Camilla Pang will look at some of the biggest mysteries facing science today and how some of the best, most cutting-edge scientists can illuminate our own approaches to observation, hypothesis, exploration, troubleshooting and discovery in our own lives.