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Family Dialogue Journals

School–Home Partnerships That Support Student Learning

By: JoBeth Allen,Jennifer Beaty,Angela Dean,Joseph Jones,Stephanie Smith Mathews,Jen McCreight,Amber M. Simmons,Elyse Schwedler

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Family Dialogue Journals

School–Home Partnerships That Support Student Learning

By: JoBeth Allen,Jennifer Beaty,Angela Dean,Joseph Jones,Stephanie Smith Mathews,Jen McCreight,Amber M. Simmons,Elyse Schwedler

This honest, clearly written, and accessible book shows how to use Family Dialogue Journals (FDJs) to increase and deepen learning across grade levels. Written by K–12 teachers who have been implementing and studying the use of weekly journals for several years, it shares what they have learned and why they have found FDJs to be an invaluable tool for forming effective partnerships with families. Learn from first-hand accounts how students write weekly about one big idea they have studied, ask a family member a related question, and then solicit their writing in the journal. Through these journal entries, they share their family knowledge with classmates while actively engaging with the curriculum. In turn, teachers extend the academic discussion by writing to each family and incorporating their funds of knowledge into classroom lessons—writing about everything from the use of thermometers to life in Michoacán, Mexico. Family participation in the FDJs is remarkably high across ages, ethnicities, and economic realities. “This is an incredibly readable book that is highly useful for teachers, teacher educators, and university researchers interested in this powerful practice. The descriptions of the classrooms are riveting and exemplify the kind of teaching we would all like to see in every classroom.” —Kathy Schultz, dean and professor, Mills College “Family Dialogue Journals is a beautiful, socially conscious book offering so much wisdom for curriculum, classroom norms, and creating learning-focused contexts. Readers will be immersed in classroom contexts, teachers’ decisionmaking processes, and practical advice about how to foster a humble, genuine, ongoing dialogue built upon mutual respect and openness with their students and students’ families. Family Dialogue Journals doesn’t just demonstrate the power of interpersonal relationships, it links those dialogues and relationships directly to curriculum and supporting students’ critical literacies of both community and academic ways of knowing and being Family Dialogue Journals is a beautiful, socially conscious book offering so much wisdom for curriculum, classroom norms, and creating learning-focused contexts.” —Stephanie Jones, professor, University of Georgia

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0807773646

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Betrayal Foretold

Descended of Dragons, Book 3

By: Jen Crane

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Betrayal Foretold

Descended of Dragons, Book 3

By: Jen Crane

A Bitter Betrayal Stella Stonewall exposed her scaly side to save the man she loves, the soulful and sexy Ewan Bristol. But her troubles have only just begun. A treacherous betrayal at the hands of a trusted confidante leaves her running for her life. An Impossible Choice An unlikely savior offers Stella a way out, but it means leaving everything—and everyone—behind. Can she give up the only home, the only friends she’s ever known to save herself? A Chance to Have It All Stella learns of an ancient curse that, if lifted, could change everything. To alter the course of history she must trust her former lover Rowan Gresham, and she must trust the machinations of fate: that she may be the key to it all. Betrayal Foretold is an emotional ride through the mesmerizing world of Thayer. This third book in the Descended of Dragons series, a new adult fantasy romance, is a can’t-put-it-down story of loss and self-invention, of survival, and of the selfless pursuit to secure the happiness of friends.

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Carpe Noctem Publishing, LLC

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Homeland Security and Private Sector Business

Corporations' Role in Critical Infrastructure Protection, Second Edition

By: Chi-Jen Lee,Cheng-Hsiung Lu,Lucia H. Lee

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Homeland Security and Private Sector Business

Corporations' Role in Critical Infrastructure Protection, Second Edition

By: Chi-Jen Lee,Cheng-Hsiung Lu,Lucia H. Lee

Addressing mandates and legislation introduced since the first edition, this new edition of an essential text identifies the role the private sector plays in securing our homeland and offers strategies to aid in the fight against national and international threats. It includes updates to the NIPP (National Infrastructure Protection Plan), new case studies of both proper security policies and procedures in practice versus costly security breaches, a toolkit for improving a company‘s security posture, and new measures to assess and address vulnerabilities and threats.

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