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Essential Questions

Opening Doors to Student Understanding

By: Jay McTighe,Grant P. Wiggins

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Essential Questions

Opening Doors to Student Understanding

By: Jay McTighe,Grant P. Wiggins

This book from the authors of Understanding by Design explores how to design and frame essential questions that prompt students to think deeply and create a more stimulating environment for learning.

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1416615059

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Schooling by Design

Mission, Action, and Achievement

By: Grant Wiggins,Jay McTighe

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Schooling by Design

Mission, Action, and Achievement

By: Grant Wiggins,Jay McTighe

Understanding by Design authors Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe describe how to start with your school’s mission and goals and develop a powerful school improvement plan focused on desired results. Learn how to use UbD’s backward-design process to determine the evidence for your plan’s success and to plan improvement steps in instruction and leadership roles. Get dozens of action ideas for starting the school improvement process and keeping it going, plus samples of curriculum frameworks and assessment rubrics, and a three-stage school improvement planning process with specifi c tactics for each stage.

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1741704804

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Solving 25 Problems in Unit Design

How Do I Refine My Units to Enhance Student Learning? (ASCD Arias)

By: Jay McTighe,Grant Wiggins,Grant Wiggins, Edd

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Solving 25 Problems in Unit Design

How Do I Refine My Units to Enhance Student Learning? (ASCD Arias)

By: Jay McTighe,Grant Wiggins,Grant Wiggins, Edd

Curriculum design experts Jay McTighe and Grant Wiggins have reviewed thousands of curriculum documents and unit plans across a range of subjects and grades. In this book, they identify and describe the 25 most common problems in unit design and recommend how to fix them--and avoid them when planning new units. McTighe and Wiggins, creators of the Understanding by Design® framework, help you use the process of backward design to troubleshoot your units and achieve tighter alignment and focus on learning priorities. Whether you're working with local or national standards or with other l.

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141662046X

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Sunshine And Fireflies

By: Gloria Kenmare Grant

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Sunshine And Fireflies

By: Gloria Kenmare Grant

Sunshine and Fireflies is a story set in late 1800 in Rural Mississippi. The story line continues into 1920”s and the great depression era. It covers the life of Emily a young girl who narrowly escapes death at the hands of her insane mother. Catherine joins the story as the school teacher who befriends Emily as she faces the jeers of her peers. Catherine soon finds herself drawn to Emily’s handsome father, who is still in love with his demented wife. It is a story of hate, love, death and survival in a family. It is a story inside a story that keeps you reading to see what lies ahead for young Emily and her family.

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iUniverse

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1440121443

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9781440121449

Negro with a Hat

The Rise and Fall of Marcus Garvey

By: Colin Grant

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Negro with a Hat

The Rise and Fall of Marcus Garvey

By: Colin Grant

New in paperback, this groundbreaking biography captures the full sweep and epic dimensions of Marcus Garvey's life, the dazzling triumphs and the dreary exile. As Grant shows, Garvey was a man of contradictions: a self-educated, poetry-writing aesthete and unabashed propagandist, an admirer of Lenin, and a dandy given to elaborate public displays. Above all, he was a shrewd promoter whose use of pageantry evoked a lost African civilization and fired the imagination of his followers. Negro With a Hat restores Garvey to his place as one of the founders of black nationalism and a key figure of the 20th century. "A searching, vivid, and (as the title suggests) complex account of Garvey's short but consequential life." --Steve Hahn, The New Republic "The story of Marcus Garvey, the charismatic and tireless black leader who had a meteoric rise and fall in the late 1910s and early '20s, makes for enthralling reading, and Garvey has found an engaging and objective biographer in Colin Grant.... Grant's book is not all politics, ideology, money and lawsuits. It is also an engrossing social history.... Negro With a Hat is an achievement on a scale Garvey might have appreciated." --New York Times Book Review "Dazzling, definitive biography of the controversial activist who led the 1920s 'Back to Africa' movement.... Grant's learned passion for his subject shimmers on every page. A riveting and well-wrought volume that places Garvey solidly in the pantheon of important 20th-century black leaders." --Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review) "This splendid book is certain to become the definitive biography. Garvey was a dreamer and a doer; Grant captures the fascination of both." --Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) "Grant's strength lies in his ability to re-create political moods and offer compelling sketches of colorful individuals and their organizations.... An engaging and readable introduction to a complicated and contentious historical actor who, in his time, possessed a unique capacity to inspire devotion and hatred, adulation and fear." --Chicago Tribune "A monumental, nuanced and broadly sympathetic portrait." --Financial Times

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Oxford University Press

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0199709866

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9780199709861

Elementary Social Studies

Constructing a Powerful Approach to Teaching and Learning

By: S.G. Grant,Bruce A. VanSledright

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Elementary Social Studies

Constructing a Powerful Approach to Teaching and Learning

By: S.G. Grant,Bruce A. VanSledright

Organized around four commonplaces of education—learners and learning, subject matter, teachers and teaching, and classroom environment—Elementary Social Studies provides a rich and ambitious framework to help social studies teachers achieve powerful teaching and learning results. By blending the theoretical and the practical, the authors deeply probe the basic elements of quality instruction—planning, implementation, and assessment—always with the goal of creating and supporting students who are motivated, engaged, and thoughtful. Book features and updates to the fourth edition include: • Two new chapters on using the Inquiry Design Model (IDM) to understand inquiry-based teaching and learning and to develop IDM inquiries. • Revised chapter on ideas and questions. • Revised chapter on literacy to more fully incorporate media literacy and digital citizenship. • Real-classroom narratives introduce chapters and provide in-depth access to teaching and learning contexts. • Practical curriculum and resource suggestions for the social studies classroom. • End-of-chapter summaries and annotated teaching resources.

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Routledge

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1000176940

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9781000176940

The Ropes Held Him Up -- Boxing Essays and Articles

By: J. E. Grant

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The Ropes Held Him Up -- Boxing Essays and Articles

By: J. E. Grant

A compilation of boxing essays and articles by JE Grant

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1430303352

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History Lessons

Teaching, Learning, and Testing in U.S. High School Classrooms

By: S.G. Grant

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History Lessons

Teaching, Learning, and Testing in U.S. High School Classrooms

By: S.G. Grant

Uses extended case studies of two New York teachers and their students combined with discussion of the existing research literature, to explore issues central to understanding teaching, learning, and testing in secondary school history classrooms.

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1135625891

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Inquiry-Based Practice in Social Studies Education

Understanding the Inquiry Design Model

By: S.G. Grant,Kathy Swan,John Lee

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Inquiry-Based Practice in Social Studies Education

Understanding the Inquiry Design Model

By: S.G. Grant,Kathy Swan,John Lee

Written by the lead authors of the C3 Framework, Inquiry-Based Practice in Social Studies Education: Understanding the Inquiry Design Model presents a conceptual base for shaping the classroom experience through inquiry-based teaching and learning. Using their Inquiry Design Model (IDM), the authors present a field-tested approach for ambitious social studies teaching. They do so by providing a detailed account of inquiry’s scholarly roots, as well as the rationale for viewing questions, tasks, and sources as inquiry’s foundational elements. Based on work done with classroom teachers, university faculty, and state education department personnel, this book encourages readers to transform classrooms into places where inquiry thrives as everyday practice. Both pre-service and in-service teachers are sure to learn strategies for developing the reinforcing elements of IDM, from planning inquiries to communicating conclusions and taking informed action. The curricular and pedagogical examples included make this practical book essential reading for researchers, students of pre-service and in-service methods courses, and professional development programs.

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Taylor & Francis

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1351692232

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Aquatic Insects in the Vicinity of the Black Hills, South Dakota and Wyoming

By: Grant De Jong

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Aquatic Insects in the Vicinity of the Black Hills, South Dakota and Wyoming

By: Grant De Jong

The Black Hills, straddling the border between southwestern South Dakota and northeastern Wyoming, represent an ecological "island" of mountainous terrain in the midst of the Great Plains. Streams, rivers, lakes, and ponds are abundant, yet the aquatic insect fauna inhabiting those ecosystems has not previously been compiled in a single document. This work demonstrates that the known fauna of 95 families, 335 genera, and 447 species-level aquatic insect taxa has a curious mix of eastern, western, northern, and southern biogeographic affinities, yet many significant data gaps remain, and this work can only represent a starting point. The Black Hills beckon more curious naturalists to come and add to our knowledge.

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1387872303

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Solving 25 Problems in Unit Design

How do I refine my units to enhance student learning? (ASCD Arias)

By: Jay McTighe,Grant Wiggins

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How do I refine my units to enhance student learning? (ASCD Arias)

By: Jay McTighe,Grant Wiggins

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1416620443

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Think Again

The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know

By: Adam Grant

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Think Again

The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know

By: Adam Grant

#1 New York Times Bestseller “THIS. This is the right book for right now. Yes, learning requires focus. But, unlearning and relearning requires much more—it requires choosing courage over comfort. In Think Again, Adam Grant weaves together research and storytelling to help us build the intellectual and emotional muscle we need to stay curious enough about the world to actually change it. I’ve never felt so hopeful about what I don’t know.” —Brené Brown, Ph.D., #1 New York Times bestselling author of Dare to Lead The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Hidden Potential, Originals, and Give and Take examines the critical art of rethinking: learning to question your opinions and open other people's minds, which can position you for excellence at work and wisdom in life Intelligence is usually seen as the ability to think and learn, but in a rapidly changing world, there's another set of cognitive skills that might matter more: the ability to rethink and unlearn. In our daily lives, too many of us favor the comfort of conviction over the discomfort of doubt. We listen to opinions that make us feel good, instead of ideas that make us think hard. We see disagreement as a threat to our egos, rather than an opportunity to learn. We surround ourselves with people who agree with our conclusions, when we should be gravitating toward those who challenge our thought process. The result is that our beliefs get brittle long before our bones. We think too much like preachers defending our sacred beliefs, prosecutors proving the other side wrong, and politicians campaigning for approval--and too little like scientists searching for truth. Intelligence is no cure, and it can even be a curse: being good at thinking can make us worse at rethinking. The brighter we are, the blinder to our own limitations we can become. Organizational psychologist Adam Grant is an expert on opening other people's minds--and our own. As Wharton's top-rated professor and the bestselling author of Originals and Give and Take, he makes it one of his guiding principles to argue like he's right but listen like he's wrong. With bold ideas and rigorous evidence, he investigates how we can embrace the joy of being wrong, bring nuance to charged conversations, and build schools, workplaces, and communities of lifelong learners. You'll learn how an international debate champion wins arguments, a Black musician persuades white supremacists to abandon hate, a vaccine whisperer convinces concerned parents to immunize their children, and Adam has coaxed Yankees fans to root for the Red Sox. Think Again reveals that we don't have to believe everything we think or internalize everything we feel. It's an invitation to let go of views that are no longer serving us well and prize mental flexibility over foolish consistency. If knowledge is power, knowing what we don't know is wisdom.

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Penguin

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1984878123

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9781984878120

Schooling by Design

Mission, Action, and Achievement

By: Grant P. Wiggins,Jay McTighe

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Schooling by Design

Mission, Action, and Achievement

By: Grant P. Wiggins,Jay McTighe

The authors of Understanding by Design share a compelling strategy for creating schools that truly fulfill the central mission of education: to help students become "thoughtful, productive, and accomplished at worthy tasks.

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1416605800

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9781416605805

Coach Yourself

How to Create Solutions in Your Life

By: Anthony Grant,Jane Greene

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Coach Yourself

How to Create Solutions in Your Life

By: Anthony Grant,Jane Greene

Life coaching empowers people to make lasting, positive, inspirational change in their working life and life outside work. As such, coaching is a proven highly successful management technique. Many people seek coaches from within their organisation or visit a professional life coach. But many more still feel uncomfortable asking another person to fulfil this role, or don't have access to the right kind of person, with the right kind of time, or simply don't have the disposable income to employ a professional. Imagine the cost effectiveness and convenience of having your life coach on tap 24/7. There whenever you need them. You can - it's you. Based on scientifically validated and tested psychological techniques, this highly practical book will teach you how to make lasting positive, inspirational change in your life. It will help you to identify goals and to reach them. You will learn how to be your own, solution-focussed life coach.

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1405893982

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9781405893985

Analytical and Computational Methods of Advanced Engineering Mathematics

By: Grant B. Gustafson,Calvin H. Wilcox

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Analytical and Computational Methods of Advanced Engineering Mathematics

By: Grant B. Gustafson,Calvin H. Wilcox

This book focuses on the topics which provide the foundation for practicing engineering mathematics: ordinary differential equations, vector calculus, linear algebra and partial differential equations. Destined to become the definitive work in the field, the book uses a practical engineering approach based upon solving equations and incorporates computational techniques throughout.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1461206332

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9781461206330

Language and Online Identities

The Undercover Policing of Internet Sexual Crime

By: Tim Grant,Nicci MacLeod

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Language and Online Identities

The Undercover Policing of Internet Sexual Crime

By: Tim Grant,Nicci MacLeod

Drawing upon a unique forensic linguistic project on online undercover policing the authors further understanding of language and identity.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108487300

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9781108487306

Subjectivity and Being Somebody

Human Identity and Neuroethics

By: Grant Gillett

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Subjectivity and Being Somebody

Human Identity and Neuroethics

By: Grant Gillett

This book uses a neo-Aristotelian framework to examine human subjectivity as an embodied being. It examines the varieties of reductionism that affect philosophical writing about human origins and identity, and explores the nature of rational subjectivity as emergent from our neurobiological constitution. This allows a consideration of the effect of neurological interventions such as psychosurgery, neuroimplantation, and the promise of cyborgs on the image of the human. It then examines multiple personality disorder and its implications for narrative theories of the self, and explores the idea of human spirituality as an essential aspect of embodied human subjectivity.

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Andrews UK Limited

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1845402855

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Music Endangerment

How Language Maintenance Can Help

By: Catherine Grant

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Music Endangerment

How Language Maintenance Can Help

By: Catherine Grant

In response to increased focus on the protection of intangible cultural heritage across the world, Music Endangerment offers a new practical approach to assessing, advocating, and assisting the sustainability of musical genres. Drawing upon relevant ethnomusicological research on globalization and musical diversity, musical change, music revivals, and ecological models for sustainability, author Catherine Grant systematically critiques strategies that are currently employed to support endangered musics. She then constructs a comparative framework between language and music, adapting and applying the measures of language endangerment as developed by UNESCO, in order to identify ways in which language maintenance might (and might not) illuminate new pathways to keeping these musics strong. Grant's work presents the first in-depth, standardized, replicable tool for gauging the level of vitality of music genres, providing an invaluable resource for the creation and maintenance of international cultural policy. It will enable those working in the field to effectively demonstrate the degree to which outside intervention could be of tangible benefit to communities whose musical practices are under threat. Significant for both its insight and its utility, Music Endangerment is an important contribution to the growing field of applied ethnomusicology, and will help secure the continued diversity of our global musical traditions.

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Oxford University Press

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0199352208

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9780199352203

Ecology and Evolution of Darwin's Finches (Princeton Science Library Edition)

Princeton Science Library Edition

By: Peter R. Grant

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Ecology and Evolution of Darwin's Finches (Princeton Science Library Edition)

Princeton Science Library Edition

By: Peter R. Grant

After his famous visit to the Galápagos Islands, Darwin speculated that "one might fancy that, from an original paucity of birds in this archipelago, one species had been taken and modified for different ends." This book is the classic account of how much we have since learned about the evolution of these remarkable birds. Based upon over a decade's research, Grant shows how interspecific competition and natural selection act strongly enough on contemporary populations to produce observable and measurable evolutionary change. In this new edition, Grant outlines new discoveries made in the thirteen years since the book's publication. Ecology and Evolution of Darwin's Finches is an extraordinary account of evolution in action. Originally published in 1986. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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Princeton University Press

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1400886716

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9781400886715

Literacy Assessment and Instructional Strategies

By: Kathy B. Grant,Sandra E. Golden,Sandra Golden,Nance S. Wilson

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Literacy Assessment and Instructional Strategies

By: Kathy B. Grant,Sandra E. Golden,Sandra Golden,Nance S. Wilson

This is a core textbook designed to prepare literacy educators to conduct reading and writing assessment and to help them develop appropriate corrective literacy strategies for use with their students.

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1412996589

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9781412996587

The Golden Ghetto

The American Commercial Community at Canton and the Shaping of American China Policy, 1784–1844

By: Jacques M. Downs,Frederic D. Grant, Jr.

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The Golden Ghetto

The American Commercial Community at Canton and the Shaping of American China Policy, 1784–1844

By: Jacques M. Downs,Frederic D. Grant, Jr.

Before the opening of the treaty ports in the 1840s, Canton was the only Chinese port where foreign merchants were allowed to trade. The Golden Ghetto takes us into the world of one of this city’s most important foreign communities—the Americans—during the decades between the American Revolution of 1776 and the signing of the Sino-US Treaty of Wanghia in 1844. American merchants lived in isolation from Chinese society in sybaritic, albeit usually celibate luxury. Making use of exhaustive research, Downs provides an especially clear explanation of the Canton commercial setting generally and of the role of American merchants. Many of these men made fortunes and returned home to become important figures in the rapidly developing United States. The book devotes particular attention to the biographical details of the principal American traders, the leading American firms, and their operations in Canton and the United States. Opium smuggling receives especial emphasis, as does the important topic of early diplomatic relations between the United States and China. Since its first publication in 1997, The Golden Ghettohas been recognized as the leading work on Americans trading at Canton. Long out of print, this new edition makes this key work again available, both to scholars and a wider readership. “The fullest exposition on the subject thus far and as the final word on extant, previously untapped, English-language sources.” — Eileen Scully, in The China Quarterly

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Hong Kong University Press

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9888139096

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9789888139095

Dive Into UDL

Immersive Practices to Develop Expert Learners

By: Kendra Grant,Luis Perez

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Dive Into UDL

Immersive Practices to Develop Expert Learners

By: Kendra Grant,Luis Perez

In this new edition of the popular book Dive Into UDL, learn how Universal Design for Learning (UDL) supports the creation of learning environments that ensure all learners feel valued, respected and understood. UDL is a framework for designing instruction that meets the needs of every learner. This book is meant to support your professional learning, giving you options and choice in how you build your knowledge. You can wade in, take a shallow swim or dive into UDL as you develop your instructional practice and create a more inclusive learning environment that plans for variability, celebrates diversity and offers flexibility in how students learn and grow. In the process, you’ll learn how to foster high achievement for all students, including those with disabilities or limited English proficiency. In this updated edition, readers will learn how to incorporate accessible learning materials and technologies into their instructional design to ensure choice for learners and help them develop into independent, motivated expert learners. This edition: • Explores how UDL is key to creating an inclusive learning environment that is equitable, culturally relevant, safe and welcoming. • Expands the learning to include virtual classrooms, and emphasizes how UDL is key to ensuring rich, engaging and purposeful online learning. • Examines the application of UDL principles to multiple grade levels and subject areas in both in-person and online environments. • Dives deeper into the authors’ UDL Planning Guide guide at a variety of UDL levels of understanding (Wade in, Shallow Swim, Deep Dive). • Features ideas and examples (on the companion website) from educators around the world to illustrate multiple means of engagement, representation, and action and expression. Along the way, the authors draw connections to the ISTE Standards (Educators and Students sections), helping teachers strategically use technology to not only support the three principles of UDL but support the development of independent, self-regulatory empowered learners. Audience: K–12 teachers, coaches and administrators; professors in pre-service programs

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International Society for Technology in Education

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1564849406

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9781564849403

How and Why Species Multiply

The Radiation of Darwin's Finches

By: Peter R. Grant,B. Rosemary Grant

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How and Why Species Multiply

The Radiation of Darwin's Finches

By: Peter R. Grant,B. Rosemary Grant

Charles Darwin's experiences in the Galápagos Islands in 1835 helped to guide his thoughts toward a revolutionary theory: that species were not fixed but diversified from their ancestors over many generations, and that the driving mechanism of evolutionary change was natural selection. In this concise, accessible book, Peter and Rosemary Grant explain what we have learned about the origin and evolution of new species through the study of the finches made famous by that great scientist: Darwin's finches. Drawing upon their unique observations of finch evolution over a thirty-four-year period, the Grants trace the evolutionary history of fourteen different species from a shared ancestor three million years ago. They show how repeated cycles of speciation involved adaptive change through natural selection on beak size and shape, and divergence in songs. They explain other factors that drive finch evolution, including geographical isolation, which has kept the Galápagos relatively free of competitors and predators; climate change and an increase in the number of islands over the last three million years, which enhanced opportunities for speciation; and flexibility in the early learning of feeding skills, which helped species to exploit new food resources. Throughout, the Grants show how the laboratory tools of developmental biology and molecular genetics can be combined with observations and experiments on birds in the field to gain deeper insights into why the world is so biologically rich and diverse. Written by two preeminent evolutionary biologists, How and Why Species Multiply helps to answer fundamental questions about evolution--in the Galápagos and throughout the world.

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Princeton University Press

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1400837944

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Living Apart Together

Legal Protections for a New Form of Family

By: Cynthia Grant Bowman

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Living Apart Together

Legal Protections for a New Form of Family

By: Cynthia Grant Bowman

Argues for legal reforms to protect couples who live apart but perform many of the functions of a family Living Apart Together is an in-depth look at a new way of being a couple and “doing family”—living apart together (LAT)—in which committed couples maintain separate residences and finances. In Bowman’s own 2016 national survey, 9% of respondents reported maintaining committed relationships while living apart, typically spending the weekend together, socializing together, taking vacations together, and looking after one another in illness, but maintaining financial independence. The term LAT stems from Europe, where this manner of coupledom has been extensively studied; however, it has gone virtually unnoticed in the United States. Living Apart Together aims to remedy this oversight by presenting original research derived from both randomized surveys and qualitative interviews. Beginning with the large body of social science literature from outside the US, Cynthia Bowman examines the prevalence of this lifestyle, the demographics of people who live apart, their reasons for doing so, and how these individuals manage finances, care during illness, and many other aspects of family life. She focuses in particular detail on three key demographics—women, gay men, and the elderly—and how individuals from these groups engage in LAT behavior. She finds that while these living arrangements are more common than previously believed, there are virtually no legal protections for the people involved. Bowman concludes by proposing a number of legal reforms to support the caregiving functions LAT partners perform for each other. Living Apart Together makes an important case for formal recognition of this growing but largely overlooked family structure.

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NYU Press

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1479891045

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The Social Profit Handbook

The Essential Guide to Setting Goals, Assessing Outcomes, and Achieving Success for Mission-Driven Organizations

By: David Grant

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The Social Profit Handbook

The Essential Guide to Setting Goals, Assessing Outcomes, and Achieving Success for Mission-Driven Organizations

By: David Grant

How do you measure the success of a social profit institution, where missions are focused on the well-being of people, place, and planet? It is one of the most difficult tasks faced by non-profit administrations, who find themselves confused, even paralyzed, by the current demand for "outcomes measurement", a phrase used by most foundations and funding agencies, and increasingly by individual donors. The Social Profit Handbook gives those who lead, govern, and support social profit organizations both a different way to think about assessment and a very practical approach to implementing formative assessment practices--practices whose purpose is not about judging work that has already happened, but rather about improving work that will happen in the future. Readers looking to improve planning and outcomes will find new insights and strategies--from backward planning to applied rubrics. These tools, along with a host of case studies from around the nation, make The Social Profit Handbook a unique organizational development tool--for a wide range of social profit organizations, as well as social venture businesses, from low-profit corporations to B Corps. Drawing upon decades of leadership in the foundation and non-profit worlds, David Grant clarifies and emboldens the pursuit of social profit in multiple forms. The result: more benefits to society, more social profit, and stronger, more effective social profit organizations.

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1603586040

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Making Choices for Multicultural Education

Five Approaches to Race, Class and Gender

By: Christine E. Sleeter,Carl A. Grant

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Making Choices for Multicultural Education

Five Approaches to Race, Class and Gender

By: Christine E. Sleeter,Carl A. Grant

Focusing on what multicultural education actually looks like in the classroom, "Making Choices for Multicultural Education, Sixth Edition" encourages all to examine the latest theoretical perspectives on multicultural education, as well as personal beliefs about classroom diversity. The authors show how schools reflect broad patterns of institutional discrimination, and then offer five different approaches to addressing such problems in the classroom.

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