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Books as Partners is designed to assist teachers in integrating high quality diverse literature to support instruction across the curriculum.
Stepping Forward Together can help leaders create their vision and put these changes into perspective and help them take a leadership stance in a challenging world. This book provides a resource that empowers them with planning tools and exercises to engage the community and step forward.
Educators today must manage the constant disruptions that exist in a demanding, instant gratification world. This text provides solutions for dealing with time-consuming, exhausting challenges. Equipped with the tools to respond to these in an efficient manner, educators can get back to work helping students learn and grow into successful adults.
"Ten truths" offers a window into the challenges and possibilities of being a school superintendent. It is a practical account of the realities inherent in the role. Readers will understand the nature of the problems faced as well as practical solutions to obstacles common to the position.
The book includes a suggested scope and sequence for teaching map skills in the elementary grades and a glossary of geographic terms.
This book will describe two of the four major systems needed to effectively lead a school and move the needle on student achievement.
Grove asks not that we copy East Asian teaching approaches, but that we use them as a mirror to gain insights into typically American approaches and their underlying values, which are handicapping our children's learning.
This book concerns basic issues of moral rights, responsibilities, and ideals relative to children with disabilities, their parents, educators, and lawmakers. Such issues underlie intense disputes that have been ongoing for decades since the first federal legislation regarding children with disabilities was enacted.
Gender bias is well established in children by age 6, so creating a classroom environment where all children can learn without bias requires an understanding of the components of gender bias and the related challenges. This book supports educators by giving them the language to talk about gender equity, and the tools to assess culture curriculum.
This important new book by a major voice in the Social Imaginaries movement offers the most systematic attempt to establish conceptual and historical links between the idea of modernity as a new civilization and the notion of multiple modernities. Arnason demonstrates a theory of globalization that is still compatible with the emphasis on unity and diversity of modernity as a civilization.
The official Congressional Directory is the official source for making the right connections to members of Congress, their key staff, and important contacts throughout the federal government.
Sage guidance and backwoods wisdom make this a valuable source for training bird dogs
Many wonder how anyone could ever allow Adolf Hitler-a mediocre army corporal and failed landscape painter-to rise to such power as to become the architect of the most calamitous events of the twentieth century. It is a story of ambition, betrayal, brutality, and vengeance that spanned a number of years.
This book is about embracing change for one of the most sacred ceremonies in Jewish tradition. Cantor Axelrod explains that the ceremony needs to be adapted to a more personal approach, connecting the original traditions to what's most important to the student's life. This allows a more positive path to preparing and learning about the ceremony.
Building a work-life balance continues to be a growing challenge, as technology breaks down the physical boundaries between home and the office. Curating Your Life offers a new approach for business leaders looking for success at work and satisfaction at home.
Drawing on Evangelical and Catholic exegetes, Church Fathers, and the ancient liturgies as well as later theological masters, Deep Mysteries shows how the events of the life of Jesus Christ have causal power to enter human existence now. History, metaphysics, and worshipful meditation are joined together herein.
This book is a practical, comprehensive guide for assessing the intelligence of children and youth for graduate students in school psychology training programs, as well as school personnel working at both the primary level (i.e., elementary schools) and at the secondary level (i.e., middle and high schools).
Contingent Computation offers a new theoretical perspective through which we can engage philosophically with computing. The book proves that aesthetics is a viable mode of investigating contemporary computational systems.
Fishing Through the Apocalypse may be the most important fishing book you read this year! It's about the future of fishing.
Calvin Lane explores the intersection between reform movements and everyday Christian practice from c.1000 to c.1800. Providing colorful details, Lane lowers the artificial boundaries between "the Middle Ages" and "the Reformation" to show a series of reform programs each of which hoped to revive an imagined primitive Golden Age.
After a careful examination of the rise and fall of the Stewardship Model of creation, Daniel Horan identifies and engages scriptural, theological, and philosophical resources in the Christian tradition to construct a nonanthropocentric, postcolonial, and Franciscan theology of creation imagined in terms of planetarity.
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