Follow the journey of this author from a student in a one-room school house to a classroom of her own and, eventually, a counselor's office. From hilarious to heartwarming, you will catch a glimpse of the trials and triumphs within the walls of school. Join her for forty years' worth of anecdotes that will have you laughing as only a child's wit, honesty, and undaunting humor can do. If you've ever had aspirations of becoming an educator or have your own fond memories of school like, you will love this book! Chalk Dust is a testament of the authors kindness and unselfish caring for others. This book vividly illustrates what life in education is all about. It celebrates our countrys most important resource our children. Chris Martin, 12 year NFL Alumni, Author, Adult Ed Instructor Entertaining and irresistibleThis is a must read for anyone, not just educators. This author reminds us to keep humor in our daily lives. Becky Eifert, Principal
CHALK WHITE FEAR tells the story of a child who was kidnapped and raised by a serial killer. It tells of the strengths this highly intelligent child pulled from within to form the survival mechanisms that kept her alive throughout her childhood. Some background on the book: Many years ago, a band of easily led misfits made their way to an uninhabited area in the Southern United States. Their leader possessed a cold cruel heart and mystical powers. She planted a small tree and chanted until the tree and twenty foot around it became cursed with powers that only she understood. After the queens death, the band of misfits gradually either died or moved away. Only one couple stayed, built a home and attempted to lead a normal life. The years passed. In a modern day setting, a young couple settles on that same land. They are not bothered by the strange things that happen in and around the home. Later one of these characters kidnaps a toddler and brings the child back home as a companion to her daughter. The years passed and the tree became magnificent and spellbinding. The child was not easily influenced by the cursed tree, nor was she aware of the curses frustrated constant attempts to capture and kill her. It was all she could manage not to anger the woman she called mother. The question is: Will the child survive? Signed copies of Chalk White Fear is available from the author. lindabryantrichardson@yahoo.com. Please check my blog, linda-bryant-richardson@blogspot.com. Watch for sequel to Chalk White Fear.
A big change came when her school was asked to integrate. Only the cream of the crop was asked to attend the school with white majority. Would she be asked to attend? A better life was awaiting her, but she had to choose the right path--a path that would place her in the right place at the right time. Her nave and innocent way of thinking was balanced by her drive for the type of life she longed for. This young intelligent girl of little means is torn between finding a place in Corporate America or becoming a teacher. Going to college was her lifes dream. No one in her family had ever been to college. Could she be the first to begin a new way of life? Would her family be able to afford to send her to college? When romance enters her life, would it take her away from her dreams of becoming a teacher? Would she listen to the voice of her father or would she listen to her heart.? Answers to all of these questions and more exciting reading will have you, the readers, unable to put this book down. AS ITS AUTHOR, I encourage you to read it. Linda D. Robbins, pen-name, LRDiane
This book is a compilation of approximately 40 strategies that serve as blueprints for instructional design. The first chapter describes in depth the research and foundations that support these strategies. Chapter Two provides information for the reader in terms of how to use this book, and how to choose and use strategies to fit both the content and the needs of the learners. Chapter Three presents and describes several strategies. The book is designed as a user-friendly resource that is directly applicable to practice. All of the book's strategies support teachers in their efforts to engage and motivate diverse learners as they meet academic and social objectives. Each strategy is presented with an explanation, directions for use, sample applications and classroom vignettes. Applications for different ages, abilities, and learning needs of the students, and for a variety of content areas, are suggested. The book is focused on the elementary school age level.
A western historical of forbidden love, rich with vivid details of daily life and death struggles during the California Gold Rush. Born of Indian blood, Lydia is the adopted daughter of a poor white farmer. Viewed as a savage, she is never accepted by the community. When violence against her family escalates, she leaves the Ozarks to join a westward wagon train, hoping to find her Indian family, a home, and place where she can be accepted. Wary of strangers, she resists her growing attraction to the handsome gun-slinging trail boss, who arouses the savage heart she has always feared. Joe only wants to collect his fee for leading a wagon train of pioneers to California so he can pay off the gambling debts he inherited from his father. Haunted by the gambling, womanizing ways of his father, Joe has sworn off serious relationships. He doesn't expect an Indian maiden to capture his heart. But how can their love survive the hatred for Indians that surrounds them? Can Lydia give up life with her Indian family to find a home with the man she loves?
There's magic in the air when the warm breezes blow..." In "Tupelo Honey" by Ann Gregory, Raul and Desdemona aren't young, and don't have stars in their eyes. They've loved and lost. Maybe hot tea and warm milk sweetened with tupelo honey can reawaken their hearts. Will riding the Ferris wheel be worse than admitting her fear? Violet must decide when the love of her life invites her along in "The Ferris Wheel" by Stacy McKitrick. Hunger was no game to exhausted off duty marshal Hennesey James. All he wanted was to sink his teeth into something hot, juicy and fried. Instead he got a heaping platter of attitude from a waitress with a piece de resistance all her own in "Swizzle Stick" by Sandy Pennington. In "The Wish" by Stacy McKitrick, all of Paige's fortieth birthday wishes include office hunk Mike. But will she be adventurous enough to see if any of them can come true? In "Titanic Love" by Linda Chalk, Stefan's seemingly endless wait to be reunited with his family is prolonged when news of "Titanic's" sinking reaches America. Is it love or madness that keeps him waiting at the pier? Carmen is fed up with Harry, and decides to kill him, in front of witnesses. And she gets away with it Find out how in "The Death of Harry" by Ann Gregory. A disgruntled cop battles his urge for the cigarettes he quit, and his attraction for the hot new partner he doesn't want, while he investigates a school ice cream theft. Then he finds there's more to the crime than he thought-and more to his partner, too, in "Sam, Kate, and the Lunch Lady's Secret" by Dakota James. In "Time's Tempest: The Storm" by Jennette Marie Powell, a headstrong handyman takes his first trip back in time in search of his own past. Instead, he winds up in the storm of the century, on the run from a madman from the future, with a woman he doesn't remember meeting-or falling in love with.
Child and Adolescent Psychopathology: A Casebook, Fifth Edition provides students with an opportunity to gain deeper insight into a wide range of disorders within the context of the diagnostic framework of the DSM-5. This supplemental textbook provides an abundance of "real life" cases which demonstrate methods in assessing and treating a wide spectrum of child and adolescent psychopathologies in a variety of settings. Each case presents an opportunity to practice and develop clinical skills in the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of childhood disorders from a number of theoretical perspectives and at various levels of interest and expertise. The book features current trends in assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and research. It is an ideal hands-on resource for a child and adolescent psychopathology course. The Fifth Edition includes a new case study on depression, expanded coverage of trauma-related disorders, a new glossary, and updated assessment materials and references throughout.
Discover everything you need to know about hand applique in this updated version of the guide from the ever-popular Piece O'Cake Designs. Step-by-step instructions with hundreds of how-to photos make this the perfect guide to applique for quilters of all levels - from beginner to advance. It also includes 5 new projects and 9 new applique blocks to mix and match.
This book is an introduction to the study of artefacts, setting them in a social context rather than using a purely scientific approach. Drawing on a range of different cultures and extensively illustrated, Archaeological Artefacts and Material Culture covers everything from recovery strategies and recording procedures to interpretation through typology, ethnography and experiment, and every type of material including wood, fibers, bones, hides and adhesives, stone, clay, and metals. With over seventy illustrations with almost fifty in full colour, this book not only provides the tools an archaeologist will need to interpret past societies from their artefacts, but also a keen appreciation of the beauty and tactility involved in working with these fascinating objects. This is a book no archaeologist should be without, but it will also appeal to anybody interested in the interaction between people and objects.
For all those times when your house feels like a mini-war zone--when siblings are so restless they pick on one another mercilessly or are so angry they can hardly speak--101 Activities for Siblings Who Squabble is a dynamic, creative handbook, full of games kids can play together plus peace-keeping tips that can turn sibling rivalry into sibling revelry. "Fence Menders," for example, will get feuding siblings on the same side. "Corner Warmers" can really take the cold out of a deep freeze. "Argument Enders" give advice throughout for negotiated peace during rough moments. Each activity has a "Different Ages, Different Stages" section to help parents and kids adapt the rules. From the youngest to the oldest, your child will be fully entertained and engaged. You will find ingenious ideas and specific instructions for playtime indoors and outdoors, for every kind of weather and mood. On indoor days, help your kids make apple heads in the kitchen, fish with paper clips in the living room, or create a creepy haunted house in the dining room. Hot, sticky days are easy with games such as Hose Tag and Sprinkler Jump, Watermelon Fun and Body Painting. Also includes: - ICY, FREEZING, FUN DAYS: Snow Angels, No-Sled Snow-Sled Race, Painless Windowpane Painting - RAINY, POURING, BORING DAYS: Sunken treasure, Making Bubbles, and Finger Puppets - SICK OF BEING SICK DAYS: Get-Well-Quick Card Craft and Cheer-Up Pillow Case With children ages three to eight in mind, Linda Williams Aber provides some exciting, creative, ways to save parental sanity and make sure the little ones have fun.
An essential reference with a collection of projects to inform and inspire quilters. This book presents essential know-how—together with a wide range of inspirational projects, tips, and ideas collected from international top-name quilters. Ideal for both beginners looking for trustworthy advice in a single volume and committed quilters searching for authoritative reference on seldom-used techniques, it features over fifteen projects including cot quilts, bed quilts, lap quilts, bags, cushions, wall hangings, table mats, runners, and other beautiful projects for the home. Includes color photos and illustrations.
In Lappin’s prize-winning, literary gothic tale, the tantalizing love story between American heroine Harriet Sacket and the enigmatic Count Federigo, self-proclaimed Etruscan spirit, is played out in 1922 against the backdrop of eerie Etruscan tombs, boar-infested woods, and elegant Tuscan villas. The Etruscan recounts the adventures of Harriet Sackett, trouser-wearing American photographer who travels to Italy to photograph Etruscan tombs for the Theosophical Society. Here she falls in love with the charismatic Federigo del Re, occultist , amateur archaeologist, and shape-shifter, but her increasing fascination with the man will leave her on the brink of collapse. The story is told from the viewpoint of Harriet’s English cousins, Stephen and Sarah, whose own dark secrets are revealed as they read the diary Harriet has kept of her obsession, trying to understand what has transpired. As the unraveling of Harriet’s mind is revealed, so too are the secrets of Harriet’s family- secrets which are no less disturbing than those revealed in her diary. The mystery at the heart of Harriet’s experience draws the reader on: who is Federigo del Re, the man she calls “her secret sun”? Noble lover, unscrupulous conman, Etruscan ghost, village shaman, or simply the product of Harriet’s delusion? Lappin keeps the suspense pulled taut till the very last page. Readers traveling to Italy this summer or just lounging at home dreaming of Tuscany can lose themselves in the Etruscan woods of Lappin’s lush landscapes.
What do you get when you combine a large appliance box, a garbage bag, tape, a craft knife, and markers? A mini car wash for toddlers, of course This series is a teacher's dream You'll find more creative ways to use a tube sock, milk carton, and other inexpensive things found around the house than you ever imagined. Create unique, exciting toys and props to help children learn in appropriate ways. Don't recycle that cereal box . . . reuse it to make a simple puzzle Each age-appropriate "Making Toys "book will make you look at the everyday items around you in a whole new way.
This book is a compilation of the letters, correspondence and research that I began collecting in 1998. It will give an overview of Hal's technical methods in oil painting, his creative style and his approach to art. More importantly, the information is given here in his own words, shared with us in personal stories and experiences." -- page 1
Focusing exclusively on examples from the 16th century, the great age of Italian drawing, this stunning volume, published to accompany an early-1994 exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, includes 124 prized works from The Metropolitan, the Pierpont Morgan Library, the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, and some 20 private collections in New York. The catalogue is organized by school and, within each section, chronologically by artist. Each drawing is illustrated and presented with a discussion that places it in the context of the artist's career and explores the purpose for which it was made. Paper edition (unseen), $35. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Put Down the Ruler and Free Your Inner Appliqué Artist. Create 8 expressive appliqué quilts with this foolproof, no-rules approach. Make your quilts as precise or freewheeling as you want them to be. Use fabric color and value to make your appliqué come alive. Who says beautiful appliqué has to be fussy? Learn to create fresh and free quilts with your rotary cutter and new improvisational techniques from Piece O' Cake Designs.
Students will learn to find relevant facts, determine questions, select processes, use basic functions, round numbers, find averages, work with fractions and decimals, solve multiple-step problems, and more. Activities become more challenging as students build upon what they have previously learned. Two reproducible activities per page. Perfect for review and practice. Supports NCTM standards.
Innovations: The Comprehensive Toddler Curriculum" is a complete, interactive curriculum for toddlers from 18 to 36 months. In addition to a wealth of activities and experiences, "The Comprehensive Toddler Curriculum" includes assessment tools, how to set up the physical environment, ways to partner with parents, and much more. It combines accessible theory with practical applications for beginning and experienced teachers. The only complete curriculum for toddlers available, this resource has everything you need to build an interactive program for toddlers. Dr. Kay Albrecht lives in Houston TX. Dr. Linda G. Miller, Ed.D. lives in Slapout, Alabama.
Create Fabulous Bags with Simple Techniques Distinctive handbags and totes have long been a passion of renowned designer Linda McGehee. In Simple Sensational Bags, Linda shares her secrets for making and embellishing dozens of innovative new designs without spending hours at the sewing machine. Linda's cleverly embellished creations incorporate many popular techniques including decorative stitching, piecing, applique and trims, pockets, piping, and more. With her easy, friendly style, Linda teaches the basics of bag construction, straps, pockets, and decorative embellishment. The book showcases dozens of extraordinary bags. Projects include a zipper cosmetic bag, lingerie and sweater bag, shoe tote, and a variety of handbags. • Simple techniques to transform plain bags into spectacular works of art • Easy-to-follow instructions for making and decorating bags • Detailed discussions of straps, pockets, and finishing touches
This newest volume in Hudson Hills Press's acclaimed series about leading collections of master drawings presents sixty-eight great sheets, all reproduced in full-color, including many versos, from one of the finest college museums in America.
Mason jars are no longer just for canning. Today we use them to drink from, to cook inside, and—with almost limitless possibilities—to craft with. In this fabulous new book, Linda Braden, author and owner of MasonJarCraftsLove.com and ItAllStartedWithPaint.com, offers up a collection of fun and creative Mason jar crafts for kids. Her ideas include everything from wild science experiments and delicious edible treats to holiday decor and gifts for the whole family. Kids won’t want to miss the fireworks in a jar or the lava lamp jar projects. And who could resist a Mason jar cupcake or a rainbow Jell-O jar? There are instructions for how to make your own lantern jars, snow globes, and even a Mason jar terrarium. This book will keep little hands busy all year round, with dozens of easy do-it-yourself projects. Accompanied by photo tutorials and helpful step-by-step instructions, these projects are kid-friendly and offer a variety of options for both beginning and more advanced DIY fans. Each project is complete with age recommendations, a list of supplies you will need, and safety precautions. These projects are great for crafting with a big group or alone with your child, and perfect for long summer days, rainy weekends, and holiday preparation. Be inspired and discover the endless possibilities with the world’s most famous jar!
The Delaware and Raritan Canal connected the Chesapeake Bay with New England ports, allowing a wide variety of vessels to use the waterway and avoid the treacherous Atlantic Ocean. The unusual machinery of the canal--locks, swing bridges, aqueducts, spill gates--is depicted in detail in The Delaware and Raritan Canal at Work. The book focuses on many of the businesses that operated along the canal, including farms, food-packing companies, rubber-reclaiming plants, coal yards, quarries, Johnson & Johnson, and Atlantic Terra Cotta. It includes scenic views along this famous waterway, one of the most successful towpath canals in the United States.
This practical guide illuminates all aspects of breadmaking. It provides a thorough understanding of the many new developments shaping the industry and offers detailed technical coverage of the complex processes that make bread and fermented products. It examines the nature of bread products, the role of the ingredients in determining their quality, processing methods and their control, and equipment functions. In addition, the book explores the contributions of individual components and processing stages to final bread quality. It also reviews the current state of technical knowledge on breadmaking.
The Level 1 Teacher's Manual focuses on addition while developing many related skills. Each of the 52 lessons begins with a measurable objective and includes a clear teaching activity, numerous optional games, activities and ideas for teacher made supplemental materials. Added sections such as "special problems" and "older students" assist the educator in adapting the program to the spectrum of learning challenges. Available Fall 2005, the Second Edition Level One Teacher's Manual has been revised by the original author. Letter to the Reader Semple Math is a complete, basic-skills mathematics program for students of all ages and all learning abilities. We use a carefully ordered sequence of associative mnemonics in order to embed an accurate understanding of math concepts and skills in the long-term memory of our students, hence the expression, "Simply Unforgettable." We do not ask students to memorize math facts through repetition. We do not use learning by rote methods that teach only to a student's short-term memory. We have never encountered a math program or a supplemental material based entirely on learning by association, nor have we ever encountered a program that has enjoyed our level of success with all students across the learning spectrum. Now in its 25th year, the program has undergone both a business reorganization and a long-awaited revision of the Level One Teacher's Manual by the original author, Jan Semple. Semple Math materials were formerly distributed by Stevenson Learning Skills, Inc. Moving forward, Semple Math, Inc., a new company founded by members of the Semple family, will actively market our program while safeguarding the integrity ofthis tried and true process. For more information please visit us at www.semplemath.com William W. Semple President and Co-founder Semple Math, Inc.
Does your afterschool program have the WOW factor? Create a high quality school-age program that is exciting, inviting, and reflects the interests, abilities, and needs of the children. Whether your program operates before or after school, on non-school days, during the summer, or overnight, you can create a dynamic environment where everyone will enjoy spending time. This book is filled with hundreds of ideas—from setting up a quiet reading nook to tackling clutter—reflecting the authors’ years of experience and hundreds of visits to a variety of school-age programs. It takes you through all of the considerations that affect your program and then lays out a process to help you improve the three dimensions of a school-age environment. Temporal: Establish schedules, routines, rules, and learning opportunities to meet children’s needs Interpersonal: Facilitate the relationships and social interactions of children, staff, families, and the greater community Physical: Create sensory-rich indoor and outdoor spaces Linda J. Armstrong and Christine A. Schmidt are experienced educational consultants who serve children and youth programs throughout the United States.
It is never possible to return literally to times and events of the past. Even places revisited will not be the same as they were. But we can, at least to some extent, go back in our minds. In trying to capture some of the past and record for posterity my lifetime of adventures, I find that my memory has been stretched more than I thought possible. The mind is a funny thing, and time is slippery stuff, but someone has said that we remember more than we think we do; that years after the fact, one day things fall into place and we say, "Ah yes, I remember that well.
Nonverbal interactions are applied to trauma treatment for more effective results. The model of treatment developed here is grounded in the physical, psychological, and cognitive reactions children have to traumatic experiences and the consequences of those experiences. The approach to treatment utilizes the integrative capacity of the brain to create a self, foster insight, and produce change. Treatment strategies are based on cutting-edge understanding of neurobiology, the development of the brain, and the storage and retrieval of traumatic memory. Case vignettes illustrate specific examples of the reactions of children, families, and teens to acute and repeated exposure to traumatic events. Also presented is the most recent knowledge of the role of the right hemisphere (RH) in development and therapy. Right brain communication, and how to recognize the non-verbal symbolic and unconscious, affective processes will be explained, along with examples of how the therapist can utilize art making, media, tools, and self to engage in a two-person biology.
Provides guidelines and strategies for success that will take teachers far beyond the gauge of survival into the realm of confidence, focus, effectiveness, success, and professionalism.
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