Celebrate your students with stylish certificates and stickers for the classroom. Up and Away Awards and Rewards can be customized for daily awards, reward stickers, and growth mindset phrases. Full page and quarter page sizes are available for all certificates. Certificates are available as a full page or four-to-a-page: I took on the challenge. I kept trying my best. Always ready to learn more. I learned from others. I taught others. I trained my brain by making connections. I used strategies that I learned. I was caught sharing today. I displayed caring today. I was responsible today. I created a friendship today. I fostered a friendship today. I showed tolerance. I was helpful. I was respectful. I used failure as a learning opportunity. Extraordinary Reader Marvelous Mathematician Science Sleuth Brilliant Writer Congratulations! Hooray for a Good Day! Look Who Worked Hard! Student of the Day! Student of the Week! Character Award Soaring to Success I’m on the Right Track! High Flying Effort! Poppin’ Good Work! Stickers are available with two encouragements per page (10 of each design): Outstanding Wow! Perfect Fantastic Smart Work Great Job! Super Star! Good Work! Excellent Superb Marvelous Exceptional Motivational Designs Up and Away Awards and Rewards comes with over 40 pages to celebrate success in your classroom! Customize the certificates and awards to personalize the celebration of your students. Print this collection on any type of paper or on Avery® labels for more versatility. This resource may be printed and photocopied for use in a single classroom only.

In this transformative resource for youth workers, children's ministry teachers, parents, and VBS volunteers, Jack Klumpenhower teaches how to discover the gospel connections in every Bible story. Show Them Jesus is an instruction manual for teachers of kids and teens written by a lay Bible teacher with thirty years of experience. With a simple framework and real-life examples, Jack helps teachers identify and communicate the heart of the gospel to each child in each lesson. Show Them Jesus challenges the culture of low-stakes, low-expectations teaching and invites teachers to do nothing less than teach and treasure the good news of Jesus—in every lesson. Instead of leaving kids with lessons about changing their behavior, Show Them Jesus offers a new way by sweetly, masterfully, and powerfully showing kids how the gospel really applies to their lives and changes them for eternity. In sharing example after example from his years of experience, Jack provides readers with a more enriched view of Jesus and how to teach this gospel perspective in a classroom setting. This life-changing tool will complement and enrich existing lessons or teaching materials, and it's appropriate for teachers of children and teens in any setting. Millions of church kids are growing up and deciding to leave the church. If we are not primarily teaching our kids about God's love for us in Christ, we may miss our opportunity to capture their hearts. Don't miss your opportunity to show them Jesus.

Noting that the use of rewards in the form of stickers, trophies, prizes, points, tokens, and grades is commonplace in elementary education today, this book explores the differences between rewards and recognition and shows how teachers can build student confidence, motivate learning, and develop skills for lifelong learning through recognition. Based on a holistic approach, the book presents: practical ideas for recognition in the elementary classroom and school, through sports and games and at the end of the year; criteria-based assessment ideas; responses to commonly asked questions; and an overview of research findings on the use of rewards. The book is presented in six chapters, each of which outlines practices to move away from, practices to include more of, practical suggestions for recognition practices, and responses to commonly asked questions for the particular area. Chapter 1 differentiates rewards and recognition and outlines the criteria for recognition. Chapter 2 focuses on classroom ideas, while chapter 3 deals with school-wide recognition ideas. Chapter 4 addresses sports and games ideas. Chapter 5 presents recognition practices for the end of the school year. Chapter 6 makes suggestions for student assessment. The appropriate age range for each recognition idea is included. Blackline masters for materials are appended. (Contains 52 references.) (KB)

One line straight down. One line to the right. One line to the left, then a circle. That was all—just three lines in a circle. This bold picture book tells the story of the peace symbol—designed in 1958 by a London activist protesting nuclear weapons—and how it inspired people all over the world. Depicting the symbol's travels from peace marches and liberation movements to the end of apartheid and the fall of the Berlin Wall, Three Lines in a Circle offers a message of inspiration to today's children and adults who are working to create social change. An author’s note provides historical background and a time line of late twentieth-century peace movements.