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Being Smart about Gifted Education

A Guidebook for Educators and Parents

By: Dona J. Matthews,Joanne F. Foster

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Being Smart about Gifted Education

A Guidebook for Educators and Parents

By: Dona J. Matthews,Joanne F. Foster

The book presents practical strategies to identify and nurture exceptionally high ability in children. These authors promote the "mastery" (rather than the "mystery") model of gifted education and challenge several common practices and assumptions.

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448

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Great Potential Press, Inc.

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ISBN 10

0910707952

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9780910707954

The History of Listening to Music: Displaying Data

Displaying Data

By: Dona Herweck Rice

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The History of Listening to Music: Displaying Data

Displaying Data

By: Dona Herweck Rice

Enjoying music is something that nearly everyone on the planet has in common. Our musical tastes may differ, but listening to music is a fundamental part of the human experience. Analyze the data about how people have listened to music throughout history. Packed with factual information and high-interest content, this nonfiction math book uses real-world examples of problem solving to build students' math and reading skills. Let's Explore Math sidebars feature math questions that challenge students to develop their math skills. A problem-solving section at the end of the book prompts students to reflect and apply what they've learned. Demystify math with this leveled book that makes learning math fun and accessible for kids ages 10-12 and appeals to reluctant readers.

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Teacher Created Materials

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1425858945

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9781425858940

Imperfect Parenting

How to Build a Relationship With Your Child to Weather any Storm

By: Dona Matthews

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Imperfect Parenting

How to Build a Relationship With Your Child to Weather any Storm

By: Dona Matthews

This book presents a model of authoritative parenting that makes room for imperfection, focusing on the skills needed to build a strong parent-child relationship. As parents, we often worry we’re making the wrong decisions. The good news is, having a strong relationship with your child means you can make a parenting blunder from time to time, and exercise grace and patience to try again. Written for parents of children from birth to young adulthood (ages 0-24), this book helps you examine your role as a guide, cheerleader, advocate, and most importantly, as a human being who doesn’t always have the right answers. While your child’s brain, body, emotions, and social abilities develop over time, author Dona Matthews shows how your skills as a parent can be developed too, by practicing relationship fundamentals such as acceptance, positivity, social support, boundaries, respect, self-care, and gratitude. Rooted in the latest findings from neuroscience and psychology, this book presents a model of authoritative parenting that embraces imperfection. Each chapter focuses on a key relationship skill for parenting, with tips on how to practice it during different stages of your child’s growth and in common stressful situations such as social, school, health, and family scenarios.

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380

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American Psychological Association

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ISBN 10

1433837579

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9781433837579

Toward a Healthier Garden State

Beyond Cancer Clusters and COVID

By: Michael R. Greenberg,Dona Schneider

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Toward a Healthier Garden State

Beyond Cancer Clusters and COVID

By: Michael R. Greenberg,Dona Schneider

While New Jersey now frequently appears near the top in listings of America’s healthiest states, this has not always been the case. The fluctuations in the state’s overall levels of health have less to do with the lifestyle choices of individual residents and more to do with broader structural issues, ranging from pollution to urban design to the consolidation of the health care industry. This book uses the past fifty years of New Jersey history as a case study to illustrate just how much public policy decisions and other upstream factors can affect the health of a state’s citizens. It reveals how economic and racial disparities in health care were exacerbated by bad policies regarding everything from zoning to education to environmental regulation. The study further chronicles how New Jersey struggled to deal with public health crises like the AIDS epidemic and the crack epidemic. Yet it also explores how the state has developed some of the nation’s most innovative responses to public health challenges, and then provides policy suggestions for how we might build an even healthier New Jersey.

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172

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Rutgers University Press

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ISBN 10

1978832028

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9781978832022

The Dual Agenda

Race and Social Welfare Policies of Civil Rights Organizations

By: Dona C. Hamilton,Charles V. Hamilton

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The Dual Agenda

Race and Social Welfare Policies of Civil Rights Organizations

By: Dona C. Hamilton,Charles V. Hamilton

This book chronicles the complex connections between race and class that have marked American social reform since the New Deal, revealing an aspect of the civil rights struggle that that has been too long overlooked or obscured: the struggle for policies to expand social and economic welfare for blacks and whites alike.

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364

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Columbia University Press

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0231103646

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9780231103640

Beyond Intelligence

Secrets for Raising Happily Productive Kids

By: Dona Matthews,Joanne Foster

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Beyond Intelligence

Secrets for Raising Happily Productive Kids

By: Dona Matthews,Joanne Foster

From two internationally recognized experts in the field of gifted education comes this timely exploration of how best to nurture a child’s unique gifts, and set them on a path to a happily productive life — in school and beyond. What is intelligence? Is it really a have or have not proposition, as we’ve been led to believe? Are some children just destined to fall behind? Dona Matthews and Joanne Foster answer those questions with a resounding “No!” In Beyond Intelligence, they demonstrate that every child has the ability to succeed — with the right support and guidance. But how can parents provide that support? Matthews and Foster proceed from the assumption that knowledge is power, offering parents an information-packed guide to identifying a child’s ability, fostering creativity, and bolstering effort and persistence. Using case studies and anecdotes from their personal and professional experience, they explore different ways of learning; the links between creativity and intelligence; and how to best to provide emotional and social supports. They offer critical advice on how to work co-operatively with schools and educators, and address how to embrace failures as learning opportunities. Drawing on the latest research in brain development and education theory, Beyond Intelligence is a must-read for today’s parents and educators.

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180

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House of Anansi

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1770894780

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9781770894785

Proofreading

A Programmed Approach

By: Dona Orr,Carol Henson,H. Frances Daniels

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Proofreading

A Programmed Approach

By: Dona Orr,Carol Henson,H. Frances Daniels

Basics of Proofreading, 4E provides a programmed approach to reviewing the rules for effective written communication. Short concise content delivers a thorough approach with clear-cut examples and exercises to reinforce learning. Use of current technology including the Internet has been incorporated as well as SCANS workplace readiness skills. Humor is also added to emphasize key principles and concepts.

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292

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Cengage Learning

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0538723742

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9780538723749

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Being Smart about Gifted Education

Being Smart about Gifted Education

The History of Listening to Music: Displaying Data

The History of Listening to Music: Displaying Data

Imperfect Parenting

Imperfect Parenting

Toward a Healthier Garden State

Toward a Healthier Garden State

The Dual Agenda

The Dual Agenda

Beyond Intelligence

Beyond Intelligence

Proofreading

Proofreading

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