Burns Books

This assists teachers with enhancing their math curriculum and making it more accessible to students. It motivates them and gives them an arena in which to expolore math concepts. Using non-fiction books also makes it cross-curricular.

This thorough and thoughtful book emphasizes critical thinking through careful exploration of Probability. Hands-on, minds-on group activities combine with effective classroom lessons to create a wonderful unit plan. I taught a 4 week unit to a class of third graders using this book as my guide and the class didn't want to stop learning probability!

This book uses three books to teach the concept of division, with examples from actual classrooms. It lays everything out. You must buy 100 Hungry Ants, The Doorbell Rings, and 17 Kings and 42 Elephants to complete all the activities.

I teach students who struggle with math and have found the activities in this book to be just what they need. My students love the hands-on activities that have helped them develop a real understanding of the concept of multiplication. The journal activities have expanded their communication skills, and they have learned to express their thoughts better as a result of the prescribed instruction. They are more tuned into patterns in math and think they're "cool!" They are amazed when others solve a problem using a different strategy than theirs. The "Circles and Stars" game is a favorite.

I taught this entire unit for the first time this school year (97-97) and the kids absolutely loved it. The end of math would come, and I heard, "That was math?" and "Math is over?" I highly recommend this unit, especially to anyone with a combination class. You don't have to be two people at once!

Jennifer Broussard, combination teacher

Eleanor Burns always makes a quilting project fun and easy to do. Steps are broken down and easy to understand for beginner to expert.

Drug use and mis-use is a complex subject. It is addressed here by leading experts from pharmacology, toxicology, law enforcement, psychology, and the law. For those involved in the detection, treatment, arrest, or prosecution of drug use, this is a valuable resource.

If faith is seen as the fundamental orientation of human existence to the mystery we know as God, the goal and fulfilment of that faith cannot be measured with the instruments of human calculation. Faith of that order lives by hope, above all by the courage that lies at the heart of hope; and the Spirit. If a person courageously and freely responds to the impulses of the Spirit, then he or she is a true believer, even though - measured by life's mundane rules - he or she is a failure, or cannot fully accept all the Church's formal articles of faith. Even in the midst of the manipulations and deadness of the organized world, social or ecclessiastical, the individual can preserve his uniqueness and prevail against all darkness. This is the message of these powerful meditations. Writing at the height of his powers, spiritual and conceptual, Rahner addresses himself to central problems of the Christian life today: faith as courage; tolerance in the Church; freedom and manipulation in society and the Church. He offers the only valid blue-print for the Church now and to come: the divine plan of freedom and the Spirit.
--- from book's back cover

Meeting Standards Through Integrated Curriculum is a guidebook created in response to the unfortunate tendency K-12 schools have encountered to adopt a narrow curriculum that places severe boundaries on the scope of what students are taught, under the mistaken belief that this is the best way to achieve higher standards. Meeting Standards Through Integrated Curriculum offers an approach to improve the quality of grade school education without sacrificing depth. The KNOW/DO/BE framework at the heart of the discussion embraces rigor and relevance alike in the K-12 curriculum. Drawn from extensive research as well as real-life experiences of teachers who have successfully integrated their curricula, Meeting Standards Through Integrated Curriculum is a combination of vision, how-to instructions, extensive questions and answers, trouble shooting tips, multi-disciplinary models, and more. The is a very welcome and timely contribution to education reference shelves.

This book presents a large number of songs, many not well known, and suprisingly beautiful and melodic. There is a respect for Burns and an apreciation of history and accuracy. The arrangements are unusually excellent, often simple, and so intriguing and exactly right -- sometimes pleasantly quirky -- beautiful.