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Kendall Hunt on the Road - Conventions 2016
All sights were set on Nashville at the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) conference. NSTA celebrated their 64th annual conference, March 31-April 3, with over 7,800 in attendance. Attendees gathered to view the featured new editions of Forensics and BSCS: Biology, A Human Approach. Barbara Ball, author of Forensics, presented during the conference and also spent time in the booth touting her new edition. In the new edition Kendall Hunt has partnered with Murder at Old Fields.
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Lessons from the Galápagos
I had the privilege last month of spending a week in the Galápagos Islands working with math teachers as part of the Galápagos Conservancy’s Education for Sustainability in Galápagos program through a partnership with Teachers 2 Teachers International. More than 270 Galapagos teachers participated in intensive workshops delivered by education specialists from mainland Ecuad
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5 Ways to Encourage Your Students to Read at Home and Fall in Love with Reading
As the weather gets colder and students spend more time cooped up indoors after heading home from school each day, there is no better time to stress the importance of reading at home. Encourage your students to spend some (or most) of that time reading. For some students, this will seem much more appealing than it will for others. However, you can motivate all students and help them enjoy reading outside the classroom with these strategies:
- Read to your st
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Kendall Hunt Publishing, Desmos Form Partnership with Addition of Digital Graphing Calculator to Curricula
This spring, Kendall Hunt Publishing Company announced a partnership with Desmos, an ed-teach product known for offering an online graphing calculator. This fall, this digital math component will be integrated with Kendall Hunt’s Discovering Algebra.
Using what Desmos calls, “Our powerful and blazingly-fast math en
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The Importance of STEM Education
More than ever, the importance of STEM education is becoming more and more apparent in today’s ever changing world. According to the U.S. department of Commerce, careers in STEM are growing extremely quickly at 17% from 2008 to 2018 compared to other careers growing at a rate of 9.8%. With these numbers to back it up, STEM education is finding its home in classrooms to get young minds interested early in hopes of filling a future workforce void.
Science, technology, engin
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Pamela Weber Harris Joins Discovering Advanced Algebra Author Group
We are excited to welcome Pamela Weber Harris who recently joined the author group for Discovering Advanced Algebra. Harris joins the team of Ellen Kamischke, Eric Kamischke and Jerald Murdock. An updated version of Discovering Advanced Algebra will be available in January of 2017.
Harris is a former secondary mathematics teacher who currently teaches at
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Gifted Language Arts Customer Review
Krista, mother to three boys, ages 5, 11 and 15, used William & Mary The Center for Gifted Education Language Arts curriculum A World of Wild, Wacky, Wonderful Words with her 5-year-old, Daniel. Krista said this program was different because “I’ve had a lot of teacher lesson books in my hands over the years (going on 11 now!!) of homeschooling, but never one quite this detailed