Children who love to color and who delight in solving puzzles will find this book a double treat. Anna Pomaska's charmingly drawn, imaginative scenes, peopled by elves, fairies, and other magical and ordinary creatures, have the added attraction of hidden objects ? animals, numbers, letters, and other items ? cleverly worked into the designs. Thirty-one pictures include all kinds of objects to hunt for while coloring: fish, birds, mice, rabbits, airplanes, flags, umbrellas, ice cream cones, laughing faces, mermaids, ghosts, and more. Captions for each picture provide story lines and indicate the numbers and kinds of items to locate. Solutions are provided in the back of the book.

Provides a collection of American themed puzzles of increasing difficulty levels previously featured in "USA Today" that challenge the reader to spot the differences between photographs.

Twenty-four delightfully drawn tableaux with ingeniously concealed objects: a near-sighted giant's mislaid glasses; tools belonging to an absent-minded tree-house builder; many other items.

Organizations have risk management strategies and procedures in place for disaster recovery, for employee safety, for computer system outages, and more. But not all organizations have an active succession planning strategy in place, which is a risk management plan for the key talent in the organization. But consider thishow much would it benefit your organization to predict leadership openings, using data and discussions in the same way that you predict other business risks? How much would it reduce your external recruiting costs to address future leadership gaps by proactively developing your top talent, with a sense of urgency to avoid or to lessen the negative impact of a predicted leadership opening when it arrives? The truth is that eventually each employee will leave the organization. Therefore, the risk management function of succession planning is the most critical risk management function for organizational success. Effective succession planning is a process of fitting together the puzzle pieces of organizational talent needs and employee career interests, for the purpose of identifying, retaining and developing talent for business success. This book provides the strategy and the puzzle pieces you will need to plan and to implement an active and effective succession program for your organization. Succession management expert Mark Caruso has created easy-to-use plans and tools you can use to create and implement a succession strategy that achieves results and doesnt sit on a shelf. Use the interview guides and the talent meeting agendas in this book to generate rich talent discussions and to make better talent decisions. Refer to the leadership models and ideas in this book to build leadership programs that address the competency needs of your top talent and successors. Make sure you have an effective succession plan in place for the most critical important asset of your companyyour talent!

An acclaimed, research-based framework for promoting excellence Based on a proven instructional model distilled over years of research, this book focuses on five essential pedagogy standards for guiding teaching practice in classrooms with diverse students, including English learners. Providing key indicators for each standard along with the theoretical rationale and "best practice" strategies, the book offers teachers invaluable guidance for enhancing language, literacy, thinking, and content learning across the curricula. It also provides advice on creating classroom groupings for differentiating lessons and activities and includes extensive examples of practices from real-life classrooms. Stephanie Stoll Dalton, Ed.D., has taught diverse students from first to twelfth grade, community college, and as a teacher educator. She has consulted widely on teacher quality. She is currently with the U.S. Department of Education

Ultimate Puzzle Challenge is filled with brain-twisting fun and ultra-challenging puzzles, expertly crafted for the most experienced puzzlers. With more than 125 games and activities inside, this collection features Hidden Pictures puzzles, mazes, Sudoku, word searches, crisscrosses, logic puzzles and more. From the puzzle experts at Highlights, this 256-page book includes our most challenging—and most rewarding—puzzles yet. A perfect activity book for kids ages 8-12, this collection is designed for super-solvers who are ready to up their game. This book is bursting with a wide variety of mind-bending visual puzzles and clever word puzzles, all infused with playful humor that will make kids want to keep on puzzling. With full-color illustrations and brilliant photos, this book is sure to please the most discerning of puzzle fans and offer hours of screen-free fun at home or on the go. Solving tricky puzzles is not only entertaining. It’s a great way for kids to hone their concentration and reasoning skills, challenging them to work with determination and focus to achieve their goals. Plus, kids will love tackling these ingenious puzzles alongside friends and family as a fun and memorable shared activity.

NICK GENTRY is a writer in a contest to write a novel in a month. Throughout the book, we are in his mind facing the stresses of the competition, and the difficulty of daily production. But, what starts out as a simple and fun task of discipline, suddenly turns into an additional huge challenge of big decisions for his beloved character, and the massive weight of responsibility of a story that could change the world. We find ourselves in the middle of a battle for truth against the power of tradition. RYAN McGRAW, Nick's main character, is a specialist in historical Jesus studies, and also in the concept of paradigms and paradigm shifts. And RYAN is sure that paradigmatic thinking can play a major role in looking at the message and ministry of Jesus and discovering a new paradigm for Christian thinking. RYAN shares his story of the Jesus Paradigm. But can people see it? Does the power of tradition create a paradigm blindness that makes it impossible to grasp?

When we enter a building, we owe our sense of well-being to parts of the building that we do not see or recognize. It is the same with the local church. Pillars stand faithfully behind the walls apart from the eyes of human admiration to hold up the weight of the building. PILLARS is a book that will prepare you to take your place behind the walls to support the local church on the solid footing of maturity. Paul Staack has written this book to call the body of Christ to responsible action. It is a manual for putting away childish things. The words in this work are not idle words. They are backed by 35 years of ministry experience in the same church. These chapters will give you a glimpse of a mature believer. Will you allow yourself to be poured into the mold of a pillar? If so, you will assume the mind and attitude of Christ. You will spend your life pouring yourself out in acts of love and service. You will taste the fruit of changed lives on the table of your influence and you will live the life you really want. The voice of a pillar in the church continues to speak to ensuing generations. This book will equip you to take your place as: PILLARS THE INVISIBLE SUPPORT TEAM OF THE LOCAL CHURCH

Discover the educational power of puzzle-based learning. Understand the principles of effective game design, the power of well-crafted narratives and how different game mechanics can support varied learning objectives. Applying escape room concepts to the classroom, this book offers practical advice on how to create immersive, collaborative learning experiences for your students without the need for expensive resources and tools. Packed with examples, including a full sample puzzle game for you to use with your students, this book is a primer for classroom teachers on designing robust learning activities using problem-solving principles.

Have fun with faith using Bible Story Puzzle ‘n’ Learn for grades 1–2! The theme of this 176-page book is “God is good and He loves us.” The book includes more than 170 reproducible puzzles with mini-lessons and Scripture verses that captivate children while they learn the major Bible stories and concepts. Compiled from Carson-Dellosa's best-selling Fun Faith-Builders series, these coloring pages and dot-to-dots are perfect supplements to any home, church, or school curriculum and reinforce God’s Word in a way that children always remember.