Differentiation that shifts your instruction and boosts ALL student learning! Nationally recognized math differentiation expert Nanci Smith debunks the myths surrounding differentiated instruction, revealing a practical approach to real learning differences. Theory-lite and practice-heavy, this book provides a concrete and manageable framework for helping all students know, understand, and even enjoy doing mathematics. Busy K-5 mathematics educators learn to Provide practical structures for assessing how students learn and process mathematical concepts Design, implement, manage, and formatively assess and respond to learning in a standards-aligned differentiated classroom; and Adjust current instructional materials to better meet students' needs Includes classroom videos and a companion website.
The author, Nanci A. Smith, pens her intimate thoughts and feelings onto paper in "When My Heart Speaks...A Journey of Life Through Poetry, Short Stories, and Quotes." You will read of heartbreak, fear, loss, yet also of faith, freedom, frienship and love. As you read further into this book, you will experience first hand the transformation of the authors life, of how she changed her thinking to ultimately change her life. You will read and feel the positive energy of knowing that there is always a light at the end of the tunnel, and that true happiness can and is found despite bad times. "When My Heart Speaks..." is the true testimony of this authors belief that "out of every bad thing, something great will happen." Follow Nanci on her journey of life as she takes her experiences of life into a level of happiness, joy, laughter and love. "When my heart speaks, I listen...and then I write." Nanci A. Smith
My start in life was as the daughter of a notorious man. He was clever, had a brilliant mind, but used it badlyI disclose in this book the life of the man whom I loved every day of my life and who loved me tenderly, the life of my father, Victor Lustig. Betty Jean Lustig, 1982
Sometimes in life it's a good thing we don't know what's ahead. Through a series of events, Nanci Gravill lost everyone and everything in her life. It all started with breast cancer in late 2003. And as she began to recover from this Job-like experience, unable to return to her temporary teaching position, Nanci was forced to live off all of her investments and retirement money. Instead of giving into fear, she called countless community agencies and used her creativity to come up with other ways to stretch the money she had left. She also found healthy ways to deal with her emotions and cope with her circumstances. Above everything else, she put her trust in God. All the resources found in Fresh Hope ... Cleveland helped Nanci make it through five very difficult years. They can help anyone find the answers and hope that they need too. It's simple. Fresh Hope ... Cleveland provides wisdom at a time when it's needed most. Waiting for answers and opportunities to arrive is part of life. But how will you wait? How will you cope? Inside the pages of Fresh Hope ... Cleveland you'll find some inventive ways to manage those challenges along with money-saving tips, healthcare services, job and mortgage information, and much more. Find out too, about the most important resource you could ever possess: a relationship with God. Is Fresh Hope ... Cleveland just for Cleveland? No. Every resource in this comprehensive guide and workbook could be found too, in any city's own backyard. But more than anything, Fresh Hope ... Cleveland provides direction, encouragement, and power people everywhere need to not only survive, but thrive. Whether life is great today or feels overwhelming, still, come explore some "fresh" ideas. Just one new idea could make everything even better than it was before. - Nanci J. Gravill Fresh Hope ... Cleveland full of wisdom and power for your life today! A practical Guide to help you save money and feel your best Handbook of Resources available right in your own backyard Tried and true Strategies from the author's 5+ years of difficulties A Workbook with pages provided so you can record more information Biblical References support concepts on emotional well-being A How-to-Book useful for anyone at any time
Accompanying CD-ROM contains ... "150 color images with legends, 472 book figures with legends, 438 multiple choice test questions, and 119 interactive drag-and-drop exercises." -- from CD-ROM Welcome screen.
Florida's Coast-to-Coast Trail Guide is a guidebook designed specifically for the 250-mile dedicated bicycle/pedestrian trail that provides an uninterrupted cross-Florida trail from Titusville to St. Petersburg. The trail (over 80% complete and to be completed by 2025) already attracts not only local cyclists and walkers, but also out-of-state cycling enthusiasts. This book provides readers with a broad background of the communities through which they will travel. Although maps are included, this is not a detailed "how-to" guide, nor does it provide extensive lodging, camping or restaurant information; much of that information changes frequently and can be easily obtained via online searches. Instead, this book focuses on interesting cultural and natural aspects of the route. By highlighting the local flavor of small towns, the beauty of natural Florida, as well as local historical events, this book will introduce readers to the uniqueness of Florida. Distinctive features covered in the book include the Greek heritage of Tarpon Springs, Winter Garden's thriving downtown based on its citrus and bass-fishing past, Titusville's role in space exploration, and St. Petersburg’s lively waterfront and flourishing art scene. Also covered is the natural world of beautiful freshwater springs, moss-shrouded oak trees, and migratory birds found in protected areas along the trail such as Gemini Springs Park, Brooker Creek Preserve and the Green Swamp. In addition, readers will be introduced to important historical Florida figures such as civil rights leaders Harry T. and Harriett V. Moore and Russian entrepreneur and railway builder Peter Demens.
An indispensable guide for anyone who runs or participates in a book group, this title provides the structure and fun facts needed to examine the genre of women's fiction. Women's fiction covers numerous topics of importance in the lives of women—friendship, love, personal growth, and familial relationships. For this reason, the genre is a hotbed of engaging subjects for book group discussions. Reading Women: A Book Club Guide for Women's Fiction brings together information on over 100 women's fiction titles, providing everything a book group needs to encourage focused, stimulating meetings. Reading Women marshals information that has been, up to this point, either nonexistent or scattered in book club guides. Readers will learn the difference between women's fiction, romance, and chick lit, as well as why these genres provide a rich trove of discussion topics for book groups. Specific entries cover titles from all three genres, offering an author biography, a book summary, bibliographic material, discussion questions, and read-alike information for each book. An additional 50 titles suitable for book group discussions are listed with brief summaries.
BALLS is the story of a college football coach, his rise, his fall, and his fallback position. You could say BALLS is the story of a coach's kick-off, his first, second, and third downs . . . and his punt. But BALLS is a coach's story that belongs to the coach's wife. To her, and to his mother, his mother-in-law, his daughter, his assistants' wives, his players' mothers and girlfriends, and even his players' grandmothers. It's the women standing behind this handsome football hero who tell the story behind the headlines of Mac Gibbs, Birmingham University coach Catfish Bomar's star quarterback, who married Dixie Carraway, the beautiful homecoming queen. Set in Alabama, home state of the legendary Paul "Bear" Bryant, BALLS is told by fifteen women and one little girl touched by Mac Gibbs's fall from fame as a college quarterback to infamy as head coach of the Birmingham University Black Bears. It's told in those women's voices, from their seats in the stands. They watch the other women, worry when players are slow to get up off the ground, pray when players are carried off on stretchers. They don't care much for the "science" of the game--or its brutality. They see football as it really is--sexy, dirty, sweaty, painful, empowering, corrupt. The story they tell is often funny and not always pretty, as the view from deep inside rarely is. This is a novel that moves with the force of a fourth down charge, and shimmers with the tears of the women waiting outside the locker-room door when the game is lost. The author, twice a head coach's wife, knows whereof she writes so brilliantly. She also knows a lot about love. And BALLS is, above all, a love story.
Athletes know that proper nutrition is important, but finding the right balance can be complicated. Fuel Your Ride is a comprehensive guide to performance nutrition for cyclists and provides all the tools you need to customize a unique nutrition plan to achieve maximum performance. This book teaches riders everything from what to eat on race day to avoid the dreaded bonk to how to lose weight while consuming enough nutrients and power hard training rides. Fuel Your Ride combines the expert advice of numerous nutritionists, coaches, and professional cyclists to present a simple, clean, and whole foods approach to eating complete with easy-to-follow recipes that include delicious and nutritious vegetarian, vegan, and gluten-free options. In addition to chapters on in-exercise food and hydration, supplements, and weight loss, special attention is placed on what to eat and the best time to eat, taking into account the different nutritional requirements for training rides, race performance, and recovery. Fuel Your Ride provides cyclists with the comprehensive nutritional information you need to efficiently power your rides and perform at your very best.
From a place where you don't have to run away to find yourself, this novel's young heroine, Berry, joins the ranks of other memorable and spirited girl narrators such as Bone in "Bastard Out of Carolina," Kaye Gibbon's Ellen Foster, Lily Owens in The Secret Life of Bees, and Scout from To Kill a Mockingbird.
Even before its dissolution in 1991, the Soviet Union was engaged in an ambivalent struggle to come to terms with its violent and repressive history. Following the death of Stalin in 1953, entrenched officials attempted to distance themselves from the late dictator without questioning the underlying legitimacy of the Soviet system. At the same time, the Gulag victims to society opened questions about the nature, reality, and mentality of the system that remain contentious to this day.The Gulag Survivor is the first book to examine at length and in-depth the post-camp experience of Stalin's victims and their fate in post-Soviet Russia. As such, it is an essential companion to the classic work of Alexander Solzhenitsyn. Based on extensive interviews, memoirs, official records, and recently opened archives, The Gulag Survivor describes what survivors experienced when they returned to society, how officials helped or hindered them, and how issues surrounding the existence of the returnees evolved from the fifties up to the present.Adler establishes the social and historical context of the first wave of returnees who were ""liberated"" into exile in Stalin's time. She reviews diverse aspects of return including camp culture, family reunion, and the psychological consequences of the Gulag. Adler then focuses on the enduring belief in the Communist Party among some survivors and the association between returnees and the growing dissident movement. She concludes by examining how issues surrounding the survivors reemerged in the eighties and nineties and the impact they had on the failing Soviet system. Written and researched while Russian archives were most available and while there were still survivors to tell their stories, The Gulag Survivor is a groundbreaking and essential work in modern Russian history. It will be read by historians, political scientists, Slavic scholars, and sociologists.
Have you ever thought that perhaps God wants to do a greater work in your heart instead of just fixing your problems? Or have you ever wanted to know God in a more meaningful way? Well, you can find both the wisdom and truth that you seek in my new book, More Precious Than Gold. Filled with thirty unique essays and devotions, my inspiration to write this book came from hearing a doctor talk about how much our culture has changed and the impact it’s had on all of us. So tucked into the back of the book you’ll find some great exercises just before the Spiritual Connections section. They’ll help keep you from the snares of our culture and guide you to the green pastures of peace and tranquility that you need. You’ll also enjoy messages that offer a fresh perspective so you can live life with more passion including: Happy Habits, An Anchor of Hope, Choose to Forgive, A New Mental Toughness, Wholeness Healing, Take a Drink of Great Happiness, Unspeakable Joy, Find the Gift, New Beginnings, The Green Bean Club, and more. So, dear friend, come and spend time with the most trustworthy friend of all — God. You’ll not only learn about Him, but you’ll find He’s a God who loves you and longs for you to draw near to Him. —Nanci J. Gravill Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you.James 4:8a – ESV
How is it that some prisoners of the Soviet gulag—many of them falsely convicted—emerged from the camps maintaining their loyalty to the party that was responsible for their internment? In camp, they had struggled to survive. Afterward they struggled to reintegrate with society, reunite with their loved ones, and sometimes renew Party ties. Based on oral histories, archives, and unpublished memoirs, Keeping Faith with the Party chronicles the stories of returnees who professed enduring belief in the CPSU and the Communist project. Nanci Adler's probing investigation brings a deeper understanding of the dynamics of Soviet Communism and of how individuals survive within repressive regimes while the repressive regimes also survive within them.
HIGH ON HOPE tells the gripping story of a young girl trying to find herself in the destructive world of teenage rebellion, drug addiction, and alcohol abuse. To make matters worse --or better --she is a preacher's kid! Will she completely reject the faith of her parents or will she somehow find her way back home? And what will be the price of her rebellion? At what cost, will the prodigal return? Nanci Johnson's highly personal and deeply honest testimony will make you laugh and cry at the same time, break your heart with empathy, and lift your spirit with hope. A must read for all teenagers struggling with peer-pressure and sin; a survivor's guide for parents with prodigal teens. It is Nanci's conviction born of hard experience that the only true high --the only high high enough --is an exciting and amazing life with Jesus Christ!
Our students must become skilled at finding answers and using information to succeed in college, careers, and daily life. Using inquiry, writing, and technology to infuse passion into the classroom research paper motivates students and results in deeper learning. In this practical, research-based book, authors Werner-Burke, Knaus, and DeCamp encourage you to toss the old index cards and jump-start the classroom research paper so that it is more meaningful, manageable, and effective. Explore innovative ways to help students find engaging topics, collect and evaluate information, and write, rethink, and revise to truly impact their audience. The book is filled with tools and student samples to help you implement the ideas in your own classroom. Special Features: Clear connections to the Common Core State Standards Ready-to-use classroom handouts for different stages of the research process A handy appendix featuring a sample research project timeline and rubric Helpful examples of real student work and assessments Research-based foundations that guide and inform how the process unfolds and why it works
Set in contemporary small town America, this is the story of Verbena Martin Eckert McHale ("Bena," for short), an indomitable woman who is damned—but not doomed—by the bad behavior and bad luck of her two husbands. When Bena's first husband, Bobby Eckert, dies in a car wreck, she's left with their five children, a little mortgaged house, a little bit of insurance, and a big empty place in her heart. Not to mention that the hole Bobby left is jagged around the edges—he wasn't in the car alone and Bena hadn't had a clue about his girlfriend. So now she's a cheated-on widow with five grief-stricken children to finish raising. No matter. No matter that she almost burns the house down when she discovers the marijuana farm in their backyard or that she has terrible, loud crying jags in church. When it gets down to it, Bena's backbone bends minimally and her moral center holds. By the time she's ready to invest again in romance, Bena know what she wants. When she finds the right man and the right circumstances, she doesn't hesitate—she marries Lucky McHale. And what does he do? He disappears off the face of the earth. Verbena is the vibrant story of an extraordinary ordinary woman—strong, emotional, headstrong, sexy, funny—an especially American woman, one worth knowing and cheering.
Gain a solid foundation in the structure and function of oral tissues with the definitive text in oral histology! Ten Cate's Oral Histology, 10th Edition covers the latest research and thinking on general embryology, the development of the head (especially the structures in and around the mouth), oral anatomy, the structure of the tooth, salivary glands, the temporomandibular joint, and more. Clear explanations and full-color photos, micrographs, drawings, and charts help you better understand even the most complex topics. Edited by noted educator Dr. Antonio Nanci and written with the collaboration of some notable experts, this renowned text also provides excellent preparation for the histology content in the INDBE exam. NEW! An eBook version is included with print purchase. The eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures and references, with the ability to search, customize your content, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud. NEW! Updated review questions for the INDBE exam are added to the eBook included with print purchase, along with interactive drag-and-drop labelling exercises, providing extra practice for the exam. A robust art program includes full-color photomicrographs and 3D art, as well as detailed histological and structural images to help differentiate the microanatomy of tissues. Molecular concepts are integrated to help you understand genes and mechanisms implicated in embryogenesis, development, cell function, and matrix events. Application of histology content to the clinical setting is emphasized throughout the book. User-friendly approach emphasizes learning and understanding concepts rather than memorization of detail, and also allows you to use individual chapters or sections independently. Feature boxes provide a broader context, present new concepts, and discuss topics of clinical relevance.
Childhood cancer, particularly leukemia, is on the rise. Leukemia strikes one child in every 25,000, and most often does so between the ages of 3 and 7. Annually, more than 2,700 children are diagnosed with leukemia in the United States. Due to advances in biotechnology and medicine, survival rates for this once-deadly disease now stand at 80%. But the psychological effects of diagnosis, removal from school, treatment, and remission or cure, linger. Here nine long-term survivors of childhood leukemia share their vivid memories and give us insight into the physiological changes, psychosocial and educational difficulties that became a constant shadow in their lives. Author Nanci Sullivan provides recommendations for ways teachers, counselors and other professionals may better help young students with leukemia cope.
Normal 0 MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Dexter Cattle: A Breeder's Notebook is a collection of notes and photo illustrations on the history, selective breeding, management, and genetics of Dexter Cattle. The information has been gathered over twenty years of Dexter breeding.
As an elementary teacher, you know that students are different and learn differently. And yet, when students enter your classroom, you somehow must teach these unique individuals deep mathematics content using rigorous standards. Is differentiation really the answer? How can it be done well and in less time? Nationally recognized math differentiation expert Nanci Smith debunks the myths, revealing what differentiation is and isn’t. In this engaging book Smith reveals a practical approach to teaching for real learning differences. You’ll gain insights into an achievable, daily differentiation process for ALL students in the K-5 classroom. Theory-lite and practice-heavy, this book shows how to maintain order and sanity while helping your students know, understand, and even enjoy doing mathematics. Classroom videos, teacher vignettes, ready-to-go lesson ideas, and rich K-5 mathematics examples help you build a manageable framework of engaging, sense-making math. Busy K-5 mathematics teachers, coaches, and teacher teams will learn to Provide practical structures for assessing how each of your students learns and processes mathematical concepts Design, implement, manage, and formatively assess and respond to learning in a differentiated classroom Plan specific, standards-aligned differentiated lessons, activities, and assessments Adjust current instructional materials and program resources to better meet students′ needs This book includes classroom videos, in-depth student work samples, student surveys, templates, before-and-after lesson demonstrations, examples of 5-day sequenced lessons, and a robust companion website with downloadables of all the tools in the books plus other resources for further planning. Every Math Learner, Grades K-5 will help you know and understand your students as learners in order to provide daily differentiation that accelerates their mathematics comprehension. "Every Math Learner is a powerful tool for educators serious about meeting the needs of all learners in their mathematics classrooms. Nanci Smith balances philosophy with practicality while providing a glimpse into real classrooms with real students. Teachers will ultimately learn how to lift students up to their greatest potential in learning." —Eileen Hogan, District Mathematics Facilitator, Winnetka District #36
Once rolling countryside and bucolic dairy farmland, the area that became Multnomah Village was transformed when the Oregon Electric railroad line connecting Portland to Salem placed a station here in 1908 and brought Multnomah within 15 minutes of Portlands downtown core. The electric train opened the way for individual families to build the charming homes of their dreams. Over the next 20 years, as the rise of the automobile transformed transportation options, the village continued to grow and thrive, with its own post office, grocery stores, pharmacy, movie house, churches, school, and bank to meet the needs of those living nearby. The subsequent rise of shopping centers and large retail grocery chains led to a change in the character of the village, which was annexed piecemeal by the city of Portland beginning around 1950. The former village center is now an eclectic yet dynamic mix of shops, restaurants, and galleries tucked into the storefronts of a generation ago. The bones of the village as it was in the past remain visible.
Differentiation that shifts your instruction and boosts ALL student learning! Nationally recognized math differentiation expert Nanci Smith debunks the myths surrounding differentiated instruction, revealing a practical approach to real learning differences. Theory-lite and practice-heavy, this book provides a concrete and manageable framework for helping all students know, understand, and even enjoy doing mathematics. Busy secondary mathematics educators learn to Provide practical structures for assessing how students learn and process mathematical concepts information Design, implement, manage, and formatively assess and respond to learning in a standards-aligned differentiated classroom Adjust current materials to better meet students' needs Includes classroom videos and a companion website.
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