Parent & Teacher Resources

Grades: 2nd - 8th
Thinking Strategies for the gifted in science, math, social studies, language arts, and fairy tales. This huge book uses subject areas familiar to children and then urges each child to practice creative concepts using questions and exercises to stimulate creative thinking in all subject areas.

Improve your child's creative writing skills.
Grades: Preschool to 12th
This book will motivate, even inspire, parents to supplement and enrich their children's learning experiences. Any Child Can Write outlines a home program that encourages creative writing. Word games, sentence crafts, autobiography, poetry, narration, painting word pictures, letter writing, and preparing school reports are covered.

Ages: 6 to 12 years
This lively introduction to color, famous artists, and art from around the world provides a writen text for teachers and art projects for children. Each lesson has two projects suggested for children 6 to 9 years old and children ages 9 to 12 years old. Extensions in language, history, science, and geography, along with a bibliography of children's books, are included.

Learn the technical terms of learning disabilities, the six core symptoms of ADD, is your child in the right school, how to cope with your child's emotions, how to find the right professional help for your child, how to help your child get organized, know your rights and responsibilities, and the learning tools your child can really use.

180 stimulating activities for the classroom, home, car, or anywhere! These unique and creative tasks are designed to stretch the minds of children and adults alike.

Anyone who has watched a master storyteller mesmerize an audience without benefit of set, props, or musical score, has wondered: “How do they do that?” The trick, this anthology tells us, is in the material. And the 40 contributors should know. They are some of America's most popular storytellers, each of them sharing a story guaranteed to work in front of the most demanding audience.
In addition to a delightful story, each teller has included tips for unlocking the story and telling it in performance. This multicultural collection includes stories from Africa, India, ancient Greece, Egypt, Japan, the British Isles, Mexico, Thailand, as well as African-American, Cajun, Appalachian, Jewish, and Native American oral traditions.

This collection of fifty metaphorical folktales and parables is selected with a global perspective and retold by a professional storyteller. Included are tales from diverse story traditions such as Sufi, Zen, Taoist, Buddhist, Jewish, Christian, African, and Native American. Comprised of ancient plots both poignant and comical, this anthology contains simple truths, common sense, and the promise that we can benefit from past generations' experience. Wisdom tales offer useful insights into life's joys and sorrows. By metaphorically suggesting constructive strategies for living, these ancient tales resonate with a universal appeal. They can be simply enjoyed for their drama or more deeply considered for their subtleties.

School tests now influence what teachers teach, how educators are evaluated, and whether children are successful in school. W. James Popham has written the book every parent needs to read. It explains what the tests your kids are taking really mean--and don't mean--about your children and their education.

Bring harmony to your house by building your children's problem-solving skills!
Thinking Parent,Thinking Child will help you guide your children in the use of ICPS to come up with their own solutions to more than 100 of the most common problems, including being a sore loser, acting aggressively, having trouble with friendships or teachers, or experiencing a major loss.