Roadschooling Ryan
Roadschooling Ryan

Author: Mary Lois Sennewald

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2007-11-19

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 0595886957

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What do you get when you combine an independent-minded, sixty-year-old mother with her adventurous seventeen-year-old son who hit the road together for his junior year? Consider the offbeat year when Mary Lois Sennewald and Ryan Costello left home to pursue learning in the wider world. Throwing conformity to the winds, the pair set out in August 2002 in a 1987 Volkswagen campervan, wandering up the Mississippi, across Canada to Newfoundland, down through New England, farther down into southern Mexico, concluding in Colorado high country. In this provocative memoir of foibles and family, astonishment, missteps, and magical moments, they share what they learned. In so doing, they challenge preconceptions about education, freedom and the necessities for a good life. By turns funny, poignant, and heart-warming, Roadschooling Ryan: Learn as We Go is about a young man on the brink of adulthood peering into the world, and a mother insisting on doing his schooling her way. It is also about survival, relative sanity, and compassion in very close quarters. Most of all, it is about laughing at fear, seeking wisdom and knowledge wherever one lands, and having a great time no matter where the road leads.

The Test
The Test

Author: Anya Kamenetz

Publisher: Public Affairs

Published: 2015-01-06

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 1610394410

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Standardized assessments test our children, our teachers, our schools—and increasingly, our patience. Your child is more than a score. But in the last twenty years, schools have dramatically increased standardized testing, sacrificing hours of classroom time. What is the cost to students, teachers, and families? How do we preserve space for self-directed learning and development—especially when we still want all children to hit the mark? The Test explores all sides of this problem—where these tests came from, their limitations and flaws, and ultimately what parents, teachers, and concerned citizens can do. It recounts the shocking history and tempestuous politics of testing and borrows strategies from fields as diverse as games, neuroscience, and ancient philosophy to help children cope. It presents the stories of families, teachers, and schools maneuvering within and beyond the existing educational system, playing and winning the testing game. And it offers a glimpse into a future of better tests. With an expert’s depth, a writer’s flair, and a hacker’s creativity, Anya Kamenetz has written an essential book for any parent who has wondered: what do I do about all these tests?

Momma Love
Momma Love

Author: Ali Smith

Publisher:

Published: 2013-05

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781938183119

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When cutting-edge portrait photographer and documentarian Ali Smith set out to explore contemporary motherhood, she was determined to capture not only its great joys but its conflicts, compromises, messiness, and unpredictable mix of emotions—and to allow a wide range of fascinating women to tell their stories in their own voices. The result is a cinematic blend of Smith’s bold photography and the enthralling words of real women caught in the midst of real life at its most intense. Among the mothers you’ll meet inMomma Loveare Oscar-nominated actress Amy Ryan, who talks about being a mother in image-obsessed Hollywood; rock musician Alyson Palmer, who has taken both of her children on tour for years for what she calls “road schooling”; and Deborah Kopaken Cogan, who traded her harrowing life as a war photographer for the challenges of motherhood—enduring criticism as a “quitter” from her colleagues and the media. They are just a few of Ali’s subjects, who come from a wide range of backgrounds and places but share a penchant for honest self-reflection. PerusingMomma Loveis like entering into an honest, gutsy conversation that women of all ages will want to join, whether they are just curious about motherhood; contemplating it in earnest, as the author was when she began her journey; or deep in the throes of it. It is also for fans of great documentary photography that sticks in the mind and heart forever.

M Is for Mama
M Is for Mama

Author: Abbie Halberstadt

Publisher: Harvest House Publishers

Published: 2022-02-01

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 0736983783

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Mama of ten Abbie Halberstadt helps women humbly and gracefully rise to the high calling of motherhood without settling for mediocrity or losing their minds in the process. Motherhood is a challenge. Unfortunately, our worldly culture offers moms little in the way of real help. Mamas only connect to celebrate surviving another day and to share in their misery rather than rejoice in what God has done and to build each other up in hard times. There has a be a better way, a biblical way, for mamas to grow and thrive. As a daughter of Christ, you have been called to be more than an average mama. Attaining excellence doesn’t have to be unsettling but it will take committed focus and a desire to parent well according to God’s grace and for His glory. M is for Mama offers advice, encouragement, and scripturally sound strategies seasoned with a little bit of humor to help you embrace the challenge of biblical motherhood and raise your children with love and wisdom. Mama, you are worthy of the awesome responsibility God has given you. Now it’s time to start believing you can live up to it.

Madam President
Madam President

Author: Lane Smith

Publisher: Hyperion

Published: 2008-07-29

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781423108467

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A little girl imagines what her day would be like if she were Madam President. There would be executive orders to give, babies to kiss, tuna casseroles to veto (or VETO!)…and so much more! Not to mention that recess would definitely require more security. With deadpan wit and hilarious illustrations, best-selling picture book creator Lane Smith introduces readers to an unforgettable new character. /DIVDIV

Mr. Terupt Falls Again
Mr. Terupt Falls Again

Author: Rob Buyea

Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers

Published: 2012-10-09

Total Pages: 370

ISBN-13: 0385742053

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Several students relate their experiences helping Mr. Terupt move the old classroom to the sixth grade annex during the summer vacation.

America's Largest Classroom
America's Largest Classroom

Author: Jessica Leigh Thompson

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 309

ISBN-13: 0520340647

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"America's largest classroom includes 419 sites, covering more than 85 million acres in all 50 states and territories. These sites present hundreds of lessons, from battlefields to lakeshores and monuments to scenic trails, there are unlimited opportunities for immersive, reflective learning about conservation and citizenship. This book presents an interdisciplinary collection of research and case studies of such initiatives. The chapters illustrate how learners of all ages are engaged to understand critical issues from climate change to civil rights. The five sections of the book address (1) different types of learning, (2) research informing learning, and learning informing research, (3) learning about ourselves and our health, (4) partnering to engage the next generation, and (5) strategies to inform park-learning practice"--

Bible Story Coloring and Activity Book
Bible Story Coloring and Activity Book

Author: B&h Kids Editorial

Publisher:

Published: 2017-06

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 9781462745166

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Filled with more than 200 coloring pages and more than 150 activity pages for young children, this Bible Story Coloring and Activity Book from The Big Picture Interactive provides hours of fun. Here are some of the great activities your kids will love: Word searches Mazes Connect the dots Hidden messages Fill in the blank Secret code Matching Find it Unscramble and more!

Family Tourism
Family Tourism

Author: Heike Schanzel

Publisher: Channel View Publications

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13: 184541327X

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This cutting-edge international book brings together leading experts? latest research in the field of family tourism by adding to its underdeveloped knowledge base. Family Tourism: Multidisciplinary Perspectives underlines the infancy of academic family tourism research that belies its market importance and directs towards future implications and theoretical debates about the place of families within tourism.

Unlocating
Unlocating

Author: Margie Lundy

Publisher:

Published: 2019-06

Total Pages: 138

ISBN-13: 9781097971633

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Everyone wants to keep up with the Joneses, but what if the Joneses are miserable? What if they long for freedom, but they're stuck keeping up appearances, simply because they are the Joneses? What if you are? What if you could create the life you want with the freedom you've been longing for? The Lundy family is on an incredible, life-changing journey and they invite you along. In Unlocating, Margie Lundy will show you how to rethink key areas and create the life you desire. Drawing from her courageous lifestyle, including nine years on the road with her family of five, Margie will share the secrets of living in true freedom. She will reveal their grand adventures and epic failures, with some hilarious side trips along the way. You will yearn for the freedom they found and the help that always came. You will decide if you want to follow the Joneses or forge your own path. Unlocating will give you the jump start you need if you are ready for a life of freedom. Scroll up and buy to get started on your adventure today! This book is for anyone who wonders if there is another way. It will help you rethink key areas and show you that another way isn't only possible, but it's possible for you. You will realize if the Lundys can do this, anyone can! Read about their adventures into each of the following areas and learn how rethinking them brings freedom.UnknownUnlocatingUnschoolingUnworkingUnschedulingUndietingUnfriending Unchurching UnpluggingUnhomesteading Unlimiting You don't have to think about home, school, work, calendars, diets, friends, church, camping, or homesteading in the traditional way. You don't have to do anything the way your neighbor does it. Or how you were raised to do it. Or how your family expects you to do it. Or even how you think you should do it. You don't have to be limited. You can live the way you WANT to live. You can have that freedom. Whether you desire to become a fulltime RVer, a digital nomad, a world traveler, or not, you will find useful advice inside. Maybe you want to be a more present parent, a healthier person, or a better friend. Whatever you're looking for, you will find true freedom by undoing everything you think.