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Phelps Kindergarten Readiness Scale

Encounter Magazine
Vol 19, No. 2
Published Spring 2006

• The Phelps Kindergarten Readiness Scale
  Helps assess a student's strengths and weaknesses
  early in the kindergarten year
  Full Manual Online

• ENCOUNTER: Education for Meaning and Social Justice
  Our flagship quarterly journal. Focuses on the role of education in fostering personal growth and social justice

• What Every Great Teacher Knows:
  Practical Principles for Effective Teaching
  (fully searchable book on CD-ROM)
  
  The essence of the educational philosophy of John Dewey distilled into eighteen succinct principles, with illustrative examples of each principle

• Ten Common Myths in American Education
  Ten common educational policies and practices that are not supported by solid learning research
• Designing and Implementing an Integrated Curriculum:
  A Student-Centered Approach
  (includes a newly released retrospective by the author on what he has learned since the book was originally published)
  
  How to develop any integrated curriculum in your school

• What Are Schools For?
  Holistic Education in American Culture
  The history of the holistic perspective in American education

• Educating for Human Greatness
  Six principles to insure that students grow in identity, interaction, and inquiry

• Caring for New Life
  Thought-provoking essays by Ron Miller, founding editor of Encounter magazine

• Losing Lou-Ann
  A riveting autobiographical account of a husband dealing with his wife's battle with Pick's Disease, a form of Alzheimer's

• The Complete List of Titles Available from Great Ideas in Education