This is a story of two young boys who are faced with drama early on. They have to change their way of thinking and fight for their destiny. I believe every reader will receive answers to their purpose for their life. You'll receive encouragement and inspiration to face your fear. A key to a joyful life is living out your dreams. Prepare to work out your dreams through your gifts. Work what you have in your hand. Do not despise small beginnings. It is better to start with something small, rather than do nothing at all. It's amazing how something so small can blossom into something so great! Continue to press toward your purpose, your destiny awaits you!
The Seeds you Sow is kind of a prequel to Breathing Under Water Believe it nor not you are not alone. It takes a deep look at who's or whom is at fault for the way your life has turned out. Example: Grandmama had high blood pressure, mama has high blood pressure and I have it as well. The seeds you sow looks at where the high blood pressure started and ask the question do I really have to have it too? just because Mama and grandmama had poor eating habits do I really have to as well, and do I really want to pass this on to the 4th and 5th generation of children in my bloodline. I just used high blood as an example but it could be any illiness, diabetes, cancer or no illiness at all, maybe bad habits smoking, sexual behaviors anything that is attached to you in a negative way. Who is responsible? Can't keep a job, a man, a buck, life just sucks. Is it me or the things and/or people that I have encourter in my life, once you've made that connection then you can began to change the habit. The Seeds you sow will follow you all the days of your life and if not your life then you children or your children's children it's generational and it can be stoped.
This work sheds new light on the Battle of San Jacinto, correcting long-standing historical errors. In 1922, McDonald compiled 877 biographical entries for the most concise account of the battle ever published.
In this book, Johnnie McKinley presents the results of her in-depth study of a group of teachers in grades 3 thru 8 who managed to radically narrow the achievement gap between their black and white students by using a set of culturally responsive strategies in their classrooms. McKinley uses the educators' own words and illustrative "virtual walkthroughs" of lessons in action to examine these strategies in detail. In addition, the book includes * An overview of the research literature on effective responses to the achievement gap; * Instructions for conducting classroom walkthroughs, including a series of feedback forms that teachers can use to conduct walkthroughs in their schools; and * A comprehensive guide to the author's Teaming for Culturally Responsive Classrooms (TCRC) model—an innovative multistep framework for assessing the cultural responsiveness of teaching strategies in schools. Educators have been struggling for decades to remedy the disparity in academic outcomes between black and white students. This book shows how one remarkable group of teachers harnessed the power of culturally responsive teaching to do just that. By following the path outlined in Raising Black Students' Achievement Through Culturally Responsive Teaching, you too can help your black students to become engaged, self-confident, and successful learners.
Tourse, Hamilton-Mason, and Wewiorski discuss major concepts that help explicate the systemic nature of institutionalized racism in the U.S. – with a focus on social construction, oppression, scaffolding, and institutional web – providing insight into racist thought and behavior that construct and mark people of color as 'a problem.' [...] I highly recommend this book for those who are engaged in working to combat domination and racism at the local, national, and global levels." -Gary Bailey, DHL, MSW, ACSW, Professor of Practice, Director of Urban Leadership Program, Simmons College School of Social Work This important volume provides a powerful overview of racism in the United States: what it is, how it works, and the social, cultural, and institutional structures that have evolved to keep it in place. It dissects the rise of legalized discrimination against four major racial groups (First Nations, Africans, Mexicans, and Chinese) and its perpetuation as it affects these groups and new immigrants today. The book’s scaffolding framework—which takes in institutions from the government to our educational systems—explains why racism remains in place despite waves of social change. At the same time, authors describe social justice responses being used to erode racism in its most familiar forms, and at its roots. This timely resource: Examines the sociology of discrimination as a constant in daily life. Traces the history of the legalization of racism in the United States. Locates key manifestations of racism in the American psyche. Links racism to other forms of discrimination. Identifies the interlocking components of institutionalized racism. Offers contemporary examples of resistance to racism. A forceful synthesis of history and social theory, Systemic Racism in the United States is vital reading for practitioners and other professionals in fields related to human rights, social policy, and psychology. And as a classroom text, it challenges its readers to deepen their understanding of both historical process and current developments.
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