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When Black Students Excel

How Schools Can Engage and Empower Black Students

By: Joseph F. Johnson, Jr.,Cynthia L. Uline,Stanley J. Munro, Jr.

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When Black Students Excel

How Schools Can Engage and Empower Black Students

By: Joseph F. Johnson, Jr.,Cynthia L. Uline,Stanley J. Munro, Jr.

This book draws from the successes of award-winning schools, teachers, students, and parents to help leaders understand how they can positively change the educational experience of Black students. When Black Students Excel offers real-life examples of outstanding elementary, middle, and high schools where teachers and school leaders have rejected policies and practices built upon deficit perceptions about the capacity of Black students. Chapters highlight leadership implications and offer specific suggestions for educators who are seeking to transform their schools in ways that advance the success of Black students. This practical guide includes questions to ask students and their parents, self-assessment tools, and an array of leadership and teaching practices that are effective to empower Black students, elevate school attendance and academic engagement, and improve other important outcomes. Unpacking important themes that influence the success of Black students, this book is a useful tool for educators who are seeking to understand how they can change programs, procedures, and practices in ways that engage and empower Black students.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000771709

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9781000771701

Five Practices for Improving the Success of Latino Students

A Guide for Secondary School Leaders

By: Christina Theokas,Mary L. González,Consuelo Manriquez,Joseph F. Johnson Jr.

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Five Practices for Improving the Success of Latino Students

A Guide for Secondary School Leaders

By: Christina Theokas,Mary L. González,Consuelo Manriquez,Joseph F. Johnson Jr.

Based on the work of real leaders and educators in high-performing, urban schools across the country, this book unpacks five key practices that are integral to improving achievement and postsecondary outcomes for Latino students. These inspiring stories affirm that excellence and equity are possible when educators come together around an important purpose and focus on the needs, strengths, and interests of all their students. Full of specific examples and guidance, each chapter also includes an assessment tool designed to help school leaders reflect upon their current practices, affirm school strengths that resemble the exemplary practices described in the chapters, and help educators pinpoint opportunities to strengthen practices in ways that can improve the postsecondary readiness of their students. This important book will help leaders create a positive school culture, coherent school design, and develop the practices and policies that support Latino students in their performance and help students realize their potential.

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264

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Routledge

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1351773437

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9781351773430

Going Up the River

Travels in a Prison Nation

By: Joseph T. Hallinan

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Going Up the River

Travels in a Prison Nation

By: Joseph T. Hallinan

The American prison system has grown tenfold in thirty years, while crime rates have been relatively flat: 2 million people are behind bars on any given day, more prisoners than in any other country in the world — half a million more than in Communist China, and the largest prison expansion the world has ever known. In Going Up The River, Joseph Hallinan gets to the heart of America’s biggest growth industry, a self-perpetuating prison-industrial complex that has become entrenched without public awareness, much less voter consent. He answers, in an extraordinary way, the essential question: What, in human terms, is the price we pay? He has looked for answers to that question in every corner of the “prison nation,” a world far off the media grid — the America of struggling towns and cities left behind by the information age and desperate for jobs and money. Hallinan shows why the more prisons we build, the more prisoners we create, placating everyone at the expense of the voiceless prisoners, who together make up one of the largest migrations in our nation’s history.

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Random House Trade Paperbacks

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0812968441

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9780812968446

Teaching Practices from America's Best Urban Schools

A Guide for School and Classroom Leaders

By: Joseph F. Johnson, Jr.,Cynthia L. Uline,Lynne G. Perez

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Teaching Practices from America's Best Urban Schools

A Guide for School and Classroom Leaders

By: Joseph F. Johnson, Jr.,Cynthia L. Uline,Lynne G. Perez

Discover the teaching practices that make the biggest difference in student performance! The new edition of this practical, research-based book gives leaders and teachers an even closer look at instructional practices from top award-winning urban schools. With refreshed examples from high-performing teachers and detailed analyses of these practices, the authors demystify the achievement of these schools while offering a practical guide to help educators apply these practices in their contexts. Teaching Practices from America's Best Urban Schools is a valuable tool for any educator in both urban and non urban schools that serve diverse student populations, including English language learners and children from low-income families. What’s New: Additional "What It Is/What It Isn’t" boxes help educators distinguish the subtle differences in the implementation of practices that lead to impressive learning results "Practice Guides" and "Practical Next Steps" for each of the 8 Success Factors encourage self-assessment and collaboration Expansion of topics address current developments in education and additional examples from award-winning elementary, middle, and high schools provide new insights.

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190

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Routledge

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1351204335

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9781351204330

Leadership in America's Best Urban Schools

By: Joseph F. Johnson, Jr.,Cynthia L. Uline,Lynne G. Perez

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Leadership in America's Best Urban Schools

By: Joseph F. Johnson, Jr.,Cynthia L. Uline,Lynne G. Perez

Leadership in America’s Best Urban Schools describes and demystifies the qualities that successful leaders rely on to make a difference at all levels of urban school leadership. Grounded in research, this volume reveals the multiple challenges that real urban elementary, middle, and high schools face as well as the catalysts for improvement. This insightful resource explores the critical leadership characteristics found in high-performing urban schools and gives leaders the tools to move their schools to higher levels of achievement for all students—but especially for those who are low-income, English-language learners, and from various racial and ethnic backgrounds. In shining a light on the essential qualities for exceptional leadership at all levels of urban schools, this book is a valuable guide for all educators and administrators to nurture, influence, support, and sustain excellence and equity at their schools.

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169

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Routledge

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1317412389

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9781317412380

Air-Conditioning in Modern American Architecture, 1890–1970

By: Joseph M. Siry

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Air-Conditioning in Modern American Architecture, 1890–1970

By: Joseph M. Siry

Air-Conditioning in Modern American Architecture, 1890–1970, documents how architects made environmental technologies into resources that helped shape their spatial and formal aesthetic. In doing so, it sheds important new light on the ways in which mechanical engineering has been assimilated into the culture of architecture as one facet of its broader modernist project. Tracing the development and architectural integration of air-conditioning from its origins in the late nineteenth century to the advent of the environmental movement in the early 1970s, Joseph M. Siry shows how the incorporation of mechanical systems into modernism’s discourse of functionality profoundly shaped the work of some of the movement’s leading architects, such as Dankmar Adler, Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Gordon Bunshaft, and Louis Kahn. For them, the modernist ideal of functionality was incompletely realized if it did not wholly assimilate heating, cooling, ventilating, and artificial lighting. Bridging the history of technology and the history of architecture, Siry discusses air-conditioning’s technical and social history and provides case studies of buildings by the master architects who brought this technology into the conceptual and formal project of modernism. A monumental work by a renowned expert in American modernist architecture, this book asks us to see canonical modernist buildings through a mechanical engineering–oriented lens. It will be especially valuable to scholars and students of architecture, modernism, the history of technology, and American history.

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764

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Penn State Press

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0271089008

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9780271089003

The 115th Infantry Regiment in World War II

By: Joseph Binkoski,Arthur Plaut

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The 115th Infantry Regiment in World War II

By: Joseph Binkoski,Arthur Plaut

On 3 February 1941, the First Maryland Infantry Regiment, Maryland Army National Guard, was inducted into federal service as the 115th Infantry Regiment and sent to join the 29th Infantry Division. They arrived in England on 11 October 1942, and then were attached to the 1st Infantry Division in preparation for the D-Day invasion. They moved with the 1st Infantry Division from 2 June 1944, and remained with 1st Infantry Division until 7 June 1944, when they returned to the 29th Infantry Division for further operations. Their participation in the Normandy Campaign continued until it was over on 24 July 1944. They immediately moved into the Northern France Campaign on 25 July 1944, which continued until it was over on 14 September 1944. During this period the 115th Infantry Regiment was engaged in one of the war's forgotten chapters, "The Battle of Brest". The Battle for Brest was one of the fiercest battles fought during Operation Cobra, the Allied breakout of Normandy which began on 27 July 1944, during the Battle of Normandy during World War II. The 115th Infantry then started participation in the Rhineland Campaign on 15 September 1944, whereupon the 115th Infantry crossed from France to Belgium and the Netherlands both on 27 September 1944, and entered Germany on 30 September 1944.

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Pickle Partners Publishing

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1789123941

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9781789123944

With Ballot and Bayonet

The Political Socialization of American Civil War Soldiers

By: Joseph Allan Frank

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With Ballot and Bayonet

The Political Socialization of American Civil War Soldiers

By: Joseph Allan Frank

Based on letters and diaries of more than a thousand soldiers, political scientist Joseph Allan Frank describes how political considerations were central to the development of the armies of the North and South--motivating soldiers, shaping officers, and assuring military cohesion. Illustrations.

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University of Georgia Press

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0820319759

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9780820319759

Candid and Compassionate Feedback

Transforming Everyday Practice in Schools

By: Joseph Jones,T.J. Vari

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Candid and Compassionate Feedback

Transforming Everyday Practice in Schools

By: Joseph Jones,T.J. Vari

Too often educational leaders are caught in a "culture of nice," finding it difficult to give their teachers and staff critical feedback to improve their practice. This important book helps leaders become both candid and compassionate, unrelenting and supportive, and demanding yet caring. Exploring real scenarios and situations, this book helps you through the common traps of trying to improve performance, and the strategies to move beyond these pitfalls to achieve desired results. Addressing best practices for driving change such as informal feedback mechanisms, collaborative decision-making, and teacher leadership, this important book will help you create a trusting and supportive environment where you can have candid educational conversations in person and in writing, during informal chats, in PLCs, and with other leaders.

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Routledge

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0429881371

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9780429881374

Book's by Joseph F. Johnson, Jr.

When Black Students Excel

When Black Students Excel

Five Practices for Improving the Success of Latino Students

Five Practices for Improving the Success of Latino Students

Going Up the River

Going Up the River

Teaching Practices from America's Best Urban Schools

Teaching Practices from America's Best Urban Schools

Leadership in America's Best Urban Schools

Leadership in America's Best Urban Schools

Air-Conditioning in Modern American Architecture, 1890–1970

Air-Conditioning in Modern American Architecture, 1890–1970

The 115th Infantry Regiment in World War II

The 115th Infantry Regiment in World War II

With Ballot and Bayonet

With Ballot and Bayonet

Candid and Compassionate Feedback

Candid and Compassionate Feedback

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