The Standards for Mathematical Practice provide an excellent foundation for encouraging students to think, reason, and persevere like mathematicians. Many elementary school teachers, however, face a challenge unpacking these practices and figuring out how to implement them in their classrooms. Christine Moynihan wrote "Common Core Sense: Tapping the Power of the Mathematical Practices" with the goal of making the practices more explicit, learnable, and accessible. Moynihan shows what each practice might look, sound, and feel like in the classroom using the four-part GOLD framework: G Go for the goals. What are the major purposes of the practice? O Open your eyes & Observe. What should you see students doing as they utilize the practice? What should you see yourself doing? L Listen. What should you hear students saying as they utilize the practice? What should you hear yourself saying? D Decide what you need to do in order to make the most of the practice. This timely text devotes one chapter to each practice. The consistent framework of the book, similar in structure to Moynihan s "Math Sense," provides an easy way to learn, assess, and deepen your own understanding of each practice to mine the GOLD.
How is that you can walk into a classroom and gain an overall sense of the quality of math instruction taking place there? What contributes to getting that sense? In Math Sense, wuthor Christine Moynihan explores some of the components that comprise the look, sound, and feel of effective teaching and learning. Does the landscape of the classroom feature such items as student work samples, a math literature collection, and a number line? Do the lessons include wait time, checks for understanding, and written feedback? Do you feel a spirit of collaboration, risk taking, and a sense of pride? In Math Sense, Moynihan provides a series of self-assessment rubrics to help you identify the earmarks of a vibrant mathematics community that will help inform and refine your practice. This practical guide offers a road map for taking stock of your teaching and building a stronger mathematics classroom environment for you and your students.
Known worldwide through her EWTN network, MOther Angelica presents a book of timeless wisdom and practical insights drawn from her deep faith and personal suffering and experience. Her answers to life's dilemmas, large and small, are a sure source of inspiration for all.
Named one of the best spiritual books of 2022 by Spirituality & Practice. Awarded third place in contemporary spirituality by the Catholic Media Association and third place in inspirational books by the Association of Catholic Publishers. Do you long to feel more alive, to see the vibrancy in your daily life? Do you feel the seeds of a new calling tugging at you? Look to the Blessed Mother for help. In Birthing the Holy, Christine Valters Paintner—abbess of the online Abbey of the Arts—invites you to better know Mary and her heart through thirty-one of her titles, and, along the way, you’ll nurture the new growth in your life. The Blessed Mother is known by many beautiful titles, some of which are familiar—Virgin, Queen of Peace, and Star of the Sea—and some we may not be aware of—Vessel of Grace, Greenest Branch, and Our Lady of Silence. Paintner offers a flexible format to reflect on Mary’s titles through a thirty-one-day personal retreat, a series of novenas, or with visio divina exercises using striking images by printmaker Kreg Yingst. As you reflect on Mary in her role as Mother of Good Counsel, Woman Clothed with the Sun, Mystical Rose, Mother of Sorrows, Queen of the Angels, and other titles, Paintner invites you to hear what God calls you to develop in your life, help that dream or vision grow, and then nourish it in the world. Whether you’re meeting Mary for the first time in these magnificent titles or revisiting her as a beloved companion, Birthing the Holy invites you to see the exploration of Mary and your life as a spiritual and creative act, one that can help deepen your faith even as it sparks new growth within you.
Even There is a book of short stories inspired by the love of God. It is meant to bring the reader glimpses of courage and faith as it relates to instances of God's amazing care in the everyday moments of our lives. It is hoped that we all look for defining happenings like this in our own lives. It is said that if we don't look for something, we will never find it, or as Jesus told us, "Seek and ye shall find.
Out of the Depths: A Journey of Hope is a true journey of hope. It presents a selective collection of letters, poems, meditative prayer, meditations, and questions for Scripture study designed for a weekly/monthly study of Scripture. These evolved from nine years of prison ministry. The letters are exact words of prisoners that were written to the author. Poems are those written by the author as are the meditations and Scripture study questions.
This book is devoted to you. To every woman--every mother, wife, sister, or friend--who would value being reminded that in the busyness of life that's common to all your life is anything but common to God. Crowned is a daily reminder that you're a daughter of the King, crowned with his love and compassion because of his endless, unfailing devotion to you.
Can a young girl beat all odds? Nancy was a young girl trying to make it in life ,her mother had twenty kids in was a church woman in Nancy wanted to have a free life so she met this older guy in started dating him she did not know what she was getting herself into only thing she knew that he was fine but her life just started when she had her daughter Gensis. When Gensis got older bad things started happen to her it turn Gensis to the wrong direction she started doing bad in school in. When Gensis entered high school she met this guy named Sky she thought he had a good personality until she found something out about him he was a big-time drug dealer. Gensis was so in love she did not want to leave him but as the relationship went on Gensis got sprug out on drugs but God took a hold on her life.
A personal testimony about sexual purity by a woman who understands what being lost feels like as a young person. How Jesus found her where she was and helped her become the woman she is today.
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