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God's Quiet Things

By: Nancy Sweetland

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God's Quiet Things

By: Nancy Sweetland

Illustrations and rhyming text depict the quiet wonder of God's creation.

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Eerdmans Young Readers

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0802851673

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Book Crush

For Kids and Teens--Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Interest

By: Nancy Pearl

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Book Crush

For Kids and Teens--Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Interest

By: Nancy Pearl

Do you remember your first book crush? You know, the first time a book completely captured your imagination, transported you to a magical place, or introduced you to a lifelong friend you will never forget? In Book Crush, popular librarian and reading enthusiast Nancy Pearl reminds us why we fell for reading in the first place—how completely consuming and life-changing a good book can be. Pearl offers more than 1,000 crush-worthy books organized into over 100 recommended reading lists aimed at youngest, middle-grade, and teen readers. From picture books to chapter books, YA fiction and nonfiction, Pearl has developed more smart and interesting thematic lists of books to enjoy. Parents, teachers, and librarians are often puzzled by the unending choices for reading material for young people. It starts when the kids are toddler and doesn’t end until high-school graduation. What’s good, what’s not, and what’s going to hold their interest? Popular librarian Nancy Pearl points the way in Book Crush.

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Sasquatch Books

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1570616566

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9781570616563

Word Paintings

By: Nancy Frazure Stringham

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Word Paintings

By: Nancy Frazure Stringham

This book is about the thoughts and memories of my life of fifty some years in this same home, where I raised my children. I have tried to paint a picture of how I see nature all around me, and how nature is an extension of God's work. His building of the earth and the inhabitants therein. I have gained inspiration From this, and through the years have gained insight into man, and the map created for us to live by""if only we can. We are a link in a never ending chain that connects us to a past inheritance, and a help in determining the future. What is our part, and will we follow the path laid out for us? Will we be an example that can be an inspiration to others? Will we leave earth a better place? And can we attain heavenly heights with the Lord, in that special place He has prepared? My hope and prayer is to enlighten others to the wondrous gifts we have been given, and that you will take time to appreciate them all, and thank our Great Creator.

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Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.

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1644926385

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9781644926383

Music of the World War II Era

By: William H. Young,Nancy K. Young

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Music of the World War II Era

By: William H. Young,Nancy K. Young

In the World War II era, big bands and swing music reached the heights of popularity with soldiers as well as friends and loved ones back home. Many entertainers such as Glenn Miller also served in the military, or supported the war effort with bond drives and entertaining the troops at home and abroad. In addition to big band and swing music, musicals, jazz, blues, gospel and country music were also popular. Chapters on each, along with an analysis of the evolution of record companies, records, radios, and television are included here, for students, historians, and fans of the era. Includes a timeline of the music of the era, an appendix of the Broadway and Hollywood Musicals, 1939-1945, and an appendix of Songs, Composers, and lyricists, 1939-1945. An extensive discography and bibliography, along with approximately 35 black and white photos, complete the volume.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313084270

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9780313084270

Cities, Change, and Conflict

A Political Economy of Urban Life

By: Nancy Kleniewski,Alexander R. Thomas

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Cities, Change, and Conflict

A Political Economy of Urban Life

By: Nancy Kleniewski,Alexander R. Thomas

Cities, Change, and Conflict was one of the first texts to embrace the perspective of political economy as its main explanatory framework, and then complement it with the rich contributions found in the human ecology perspective. Although its primary focus is on North American cities, the book contains several chapters on cities in other parts of the world, including Europe and developing nations, providing both historical and contemporary accounts on the impact of globalization on urban development. This edition features new coverage of important recent developments affecting urban life, including the implications of racial conflict in Ferguson, Missouri , and elsewhere, recent presidential urban strategies, the new waves of European refugees, the long-term impacts of the Great Recession as seen through the lens of Detroit’s bankruptcy, new and emerging inequalities, and an extended look into Sampson’s Great American City. Beyond examining the dynamics that shape the form and functionality of cities, the text surveys the experience of urban life among different social groups, including immigrants, African Americans,women, and members of different social classes. It illuminates the workings of the urban economy, local and federal governments, and the criminal justice system, and also addresses policy debates and decisions that affect almost every aspect of urbanization and urban life.

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Routledge

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042966317X

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9780429663178

Steeped in the Blood of Racism

Black Power, Law and Order, and the 1970 Shootings at Jackson State College

By: Professor Nancy K. Bristow

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Steeped in the Blood of Racism

Black Power, Law and Order, and the 1970 Shootings at Jackson State College

By: Professor Nancy K. Bristow

Minutes after midnight on May 15, 1970, white members of the Jackson city police and the Mississippi Highway Patrol opened fire on young people in front of a women's dormitory at Jackson State College, a historically black college in Jackson, Mississippi, discharging "buckshot, rifle slugs, a submachine gun, carbines with military ammunition, and two 30.06 rifles loaded with armor-piercing bullets." Twenty-eight seconds later two young people lay dead, another 12 injured. Taking place just ten days after the killings at Kent State, the attack at Jackson State never garnered the same level of national attention and was chronically misunderstood as similar in cause. This book reclaims this story and situates it in the broader history of the struggle for African American freedom in the civil rights and black power eras. The book explores the essential role of white supremacy in causing the shootings and shaping the aftermath. By 1970, even historically conservative campuses such as Jackson State, where an all-white Board of Trustees of Institutions of Higher Learning had long exercised its power to control student behavior, were beginning to feel the impact of the movements for African American freedom. Though most of the students at Jackson State remained focused not on activism but their educations, racial consciousness was taking hold. It was this campus police attacked. Acting on racial animus and with impunity, the shootings reflected both traditional patterns of repression and the new logic and rhetoric of "law and order," with its thinly veiled racial coding. In the aftermath, the victims and their survivors struggled unsuccessfully to find justice. Despite multiple investigative commissions, two grand juries and a civil suit brought by students and the families of the dead, the law and order narrative proved too powerful. No officers were charged, no restitution was paid, and no apologies were offered. The shootings were soon largely forgotten except among the local African American community, the injured victimized once more by historical amnesia born of the unwillingness to acknowledge the essential role of race in causing the violence.

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Oxford University Press

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0190092092

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9780190092092

The Brain Power Story Hour

Higher Order Thinking with Picture Books

By: Nancy J. Polette

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The Brain Power Story Hour

Higher Order Thinking with Picture Books

By: Nancy J. Polette

While many texts explore ways to plan and implement story times in both school and public libraries, until now no work has brought together extensive book talks and follow-up activities specifically designed to develop thinking skills in young children. This innovative study offers age-appropriate book suggestions with related questions and activities tailored to a variety of thinking skills, including verbal or linguistic thinking, divergent and creative thinking, analytical and mathematical thinking, visual or spatial thinking, and many others. The program presented in this volume was successfully developed and implemented in the preschool/kindergarten laboratory school of Lindenwood University in St. Charles, Missouri, with 90 percent of the participating children selected for gifted programs in both public and private schools. Ideal for children's librarians, school librarians, teachers of early childhood gifted programs, parents, and homeschoolers, this study provides the tools for making any story hour a "brain power story hour.

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McFarland

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078648988X

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9780786489886

Fade to Gray

Aging in American Cinema

By: Timothy Shary,Nancy McVittie

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Fade to Gray

Aging in American Cinema

By: Timothy Shary,Nancy McVittie

Winner, Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2017 Americans are living longer and reinventing both work and retirement, but Hollywood movies barely hint at this reality of contemporary society. In many popular films, older characters fade into irrelevance, inactivity, or absurdity, or else they stay in the background as wise elders while younger characters provide the action. Most American films do not attempt to portray the rich variety of experiences or the sensitive aging issues that people confront in the years beyond fifty. Fade to Gray offers one of the first extended studies of the portrayal of older people in American cinema from the silent era to the present. Writing in an accessible style for both general audiences and scholars, Timothy Shary and Nancy McVittie examine social attitudes toward aging through an analysis of hundreds of individual films, including such classics as You Can’t Take It With You (1938), Rosemary’s Baby (1968), Grumpy Old Men (1993), and Nebraska (2013). They show how representations of the aging process and depictions of older people embracing or enduring the various experiences of longer lives have evolved over the past century, as well as how film industry practices have both reflected and influenced perceptions of aging in American society. Exposing the social and political motivations for negative cinematic portrayals of the elderly, Fade to Gray also gives visibility to films that provide opportunities for better understanding and appreciation of the aged and the aging process.

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University of Texas Press

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147730973X

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9781477309735

Resonate

Present Visual Stories that Transform Audiences

By: Nancy Duarte

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Resonate

Present Visual Stories that Transform Audiences

By: Nancy Duarte

Reveals the underlying story form of all great presentations that will not only create impact, but will move people to action Presentations are meant to inform, inspire, and persuade audiences. So why then do so many audiences leave feeling like they've wasted their time? All too often, presentations don't resonate with the audience and move them to transformative action. Just as the author's first book helped presenters become visual communicators, Resonate helps you make a strong connection with your audience and lead them to purposeful action. The author's approach is simple: building a presentation today is a bit like writing a documentary. Using this approach, you'll convey your content with passion, persuasion, and impact. Author has a proven track record, including having created the slides in Al Gore's Oscar-winning An Inconvenient Truth Focuses on content development methodologies that are not only fundamental but will move people to action Upends the usual paradigm by making the audience the hero and the presenter the mentor Shows how to use story techniques of conflict and resolution Presentations don't have to be boring ordeals. You can make them fun, exciting, and full of meaning. Leave your audiences energized and ready to take action with Resonate.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118008936

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9781118008935

Between The Lines

By: Nancy Wayman Deutsch

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Between The Lines

By: Nancy Wayman Deutsch

Silence that cell phone, turn off the TV, and put your PC in sleep mode. Then, settle into your favorite reading corner, open this book, and let yourself fall between the lines. You'll be glad you did, for this delightfully multifaceted poetry collection -- lighthearted and lyrical, funny and poignant, witty and wise, deceptively simple, sometimes satirical -- celebrates the human experience through a poet's kaleidoscope eyes and original perspective; exploring the relationships between Man and the animal world, the creative writing process, the various passages of life, nuances of love, friendship, and loss, remembered joys and travails of childhood, seasons of the heart, and seasons of the year. Reading Between The Lines, you'll smile, blot a tear, and perhaps... best of all...exit laughing.

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iUniverse

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059552852X

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9780595528523

Times A-Changin'

Flexible Meter As Self-Expression in Singer-Songwriter Music

By: Nancy Murphy

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Times A-Changin'

Flexible Meter As Self-Expression in Singer-Songwriter Music

By: Nancy Murphy

It is 1969 and Joni Mitchell is on television, standing empty-handed in the middle of a circular stage that is adorned with psychedelic colors. She is wearing a long, hunter-green dress, surrounded by an audience sitting cross-legged on the floor. She waits for television host Dick Cavett to introduce her next performance. The show is filming on the day after the 1969 Woodstock music festival, an event that Mitchell was initially scheduled to attend but from which she was held back by her management to ensure she could perform on The Dick Cavett Show the next day. The host introduces Mitchell and jokes with her about singing a capella, wondering aloud if someone stole her guitar. The singer laughs politely in response, denies any theft, and then proceeds to her performance, explaining to the audience that she will be singing a "song for America" that she wrote "as a Canadian living in this country." With her hands clasped behind her back, she performs "The Fiddle and the Drum" with no accompaniment, channeling the folk performance tradition on which the song is based. This song about military participation is a rare political statement from Mitchell who, unlike her peers Bob Dylan and Buffy Sainte-Marie, had only released this one "protest song" by 1969. But the song's message was not a particularly risky proclamation. Her anti-war narrative echoed the opinions of the young Cavett Show audience that night, aligning with an established trend of resistance against the war in Vietnam. Similar to the way that Mitchell's song "Woodstock" would eventually capture the spirit of an event she did not attend, "The Fiddle and the Drum" characterizes a popular anti-war sentiment in the public consciousness of the late 1960s"--

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Oxford University Press

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0197635210

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9780197635216

A Red State of Mind

How a Catfish Queen Reject Became a Liberty Belle

By: Nancy French

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A Red State of Mind

How a Catfish Queen Reject Became a Liberty Belle

By: Nancy French

A columnist for the Philadelphia Daily News, Nancy French blends her hilarious fish-out-of-water tale with humorous observations about the South's obsession with everything from church attendance to the blue-state notion that red staters think as slowly as they speak.

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Center Street

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1599953420

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9781599953427

Information War

American Propaganda, Free Speech and Opinion Control Since 9-11

By: Nancy Snow

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Information War

American Propaganda, Free Speech and Opinion Control Since 9-11

By: Nancy Snow

In Information War, former United States Information Agency employee Nancy Snow describes how U.S. propaganda efforts and covert operations are expanding more rapidly today than at any other time in U.S. history, as the Bush administration attempts to increase U.S. dominance by curbing dissent and controlling opinion. Snow lays out the propaganda techniques that the government uses to control dissent in the twenty-first century, spotlights the key players and their spinmeistering abilities in the information war, and describes memorable "leaks" in the Administration’s efforts to conduct stealth propaganda programs and control information at home. Ultimately she shows that dissent and true democracy are the early casualties of these policies.

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Seven Stories Press

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1609802446

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9781609802448

Losses of Our Lives

The Sacred Gifts of Renewal in Everyday Loss

By: Dr. Nancy Copeland-Payton

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Losses of Our Lives

The Sacred Gifts of Renewal in Everyday Loss

By: Dr. Nancy Copeland-Payton

Shows us that by becoming aware of what our lesser losses have to teach us, the larger losses become less terrifying. Includes spiritual practices and questions for reflection, weaving in spiritual and classical themes, scripture and personal story.

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SkyLight Paths Publishing

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1594733074

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9781594733079

Introduction to Health Care Management

By: Sharon B. Buchbinder,Nancy H. Shanks,Bobbie J Kite

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Introduction to Health Care Management

By: Sharon B. Buchbinder,Nancy H. Shanks,Bobbie J Kite

Introduction to Health Care Management, Fourth Edition is a concise, reader-friendly, introductory healthcare management text that covers a wide variety of healthcare settings, from hospitals to nursing homes and clinics. Filled with examples to engage the reader’s imagination, the important issues in healthcare management, such as ethics, cost management, strategic planning and marketing, information technology, and human resources, are all thoroughly covered. Guidelines and rubrics along with numerous case studies make this text both student-friendly and teacher-friendly. It is the perfect resource for students of healthcare management, nursing, allied health, business administration, pharmacy, occupational therapy, public administration, and public health.

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Jones & Bartlett Learning

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1284206831

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9781284206838

Building a Joyful Life with Your Child Who Has Special Needs

By: Nancy J. Whiteman,Linda Roan-Yager

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Building a Joyful Life with Your Child Who Has Special Needs

By: Nancy J. Whiteman,Linda Roan-Yager

A survival manual for parents of children with disabilities. Exercises throughout the book provide a personal, individualised approach that will help each parent find their own way and discover their own consolations from this experience.

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Jessica Kingsley Publishers

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1843108410

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9781843108412

Consentability

Consent and its Limits

By: Nancy S. Kim

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Consentability

Consent and its Limits

By: Nancy S. Kim

Problems regarding the nature of consent are at the heart of many of today's most pressing issues. For example, the #MeToo movement has underscored the need to move beyond viewing consent as a simple matter of yes or no. Consent is complex because humans and their relationships are complicated. Humans, as a result of cognitive limitations and emotional and physical vulnerabilities, are susceptible to manipulation and mistakes. Given the potential for regret, are there some things to which one should not be permitted to consent? The consentability quandary becomes more urgent with technological advances. Should we allow body hacking? Cryonics? Consumer travel to Mars? Assisted suicide? In Consentability: Consent and Its Limits, Nancy S. Kim proposes a bold, original framework for evaluating consentability, which considers the complexities surrounding consent.

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Cambridge University Press

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1316732681

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9781316732687

Who Needs It?

Tax-Exempt Organizations in Your Neighborhood That Need What You Have to Donate

By: Nancy E. Friedman,Steve C. Posner

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Who Needs It?

Tax-Exempt Organizations in Your Neighborhood That Need What You Have to Donate

By: Nancy E. Friedman,Steve C. Posner

A unique compilation that helps non-cash (and cash) charitable donors find tax-exempt organizations that need the goods the donors have to give. It helps donors advance their favorite causes while increasing tax-deductions more easily than ever before, and helps tax-exempt organizations get more of what they need.

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0974126144

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9780974126142

Education and the Creation of Capital in the Early American Republic

By: Nancy Beadie

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Education and the Creation of Capital in the Early American Republic

By: Nancy Beadie

This book argues that schools were a driving force in the formation of social, political, and financial capital during the market revolution and capitalist transition of the early republican era. Grounded in an intensive study of schooling in the Genesee Valley region of upstate New York, it traces early sources of funding and support for education (including common schools and various forms of higher schooling) to their roots in different social and economic networks and trade and credit relations. It then interprets that story in the context of other major developments in early American social, political, and economic history, such as the shift from agricultural to non-agricultural production, the integration of rural economies into translocal capitalist markets, the organization of the Second Great Awakening, the transformation of patriarchy, the expansion of white male suffrage, the emergence of the Secondary American Party System, and the formation of the modern liberal state.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521196280

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9780521196284

The Social-Emotional Learning Playbook

A Guide to Student and Teacher Well-Being

By: Nancy Frey,Douglas Fisher,Dominique Smith

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The Social-Emotional Learning Playbook

A Guide to Student and Teacher Well-Being

By: Nancy Frey,Douglas Fisher,Dominique Smith

Teach skills and foster the dispositions of social and emotional learning in yourself, your students, and your school. Social and emotional learning (SEL) is like any academic subject students learn in school—their learning expands and deepens, year after year. As an educator, what can you do to support not only your students’ well-being and SEL development, but your own? The Social-Emotional Learning Playbook: A Guide to Student and Teacher Well-Being provides the language, moves, and evidence-based advice you need to identify and nurture social and emotional learning in yourself, your students, and your school. Sparking deep reflection and transformative growth, this highly interactive playbook profiles six tenets of social and emotional learning—building resilience, belonging and prosocial skills, emotional regulation, relational trust and communication, individual and collective efficacy, and community of care. Each module features Reflection prompts and self-awareness resources that help teachers identify strengths, target areas for growth, and engage with colleagues over social and emotional development. Strategies for teaching and reinforcing SEL skills that are proven through effect size to increase your impact on students, both academically and socially. Ideas for creating a school culture that manifests social and emotional learning in policies, procedures, and interactions with families and the community. Vocabulary self-assessments, word clouds, and a "Case in point" feature that allows you to analyze a situation, cognitively reframe it, and decide a course of action. With this actionable playbook in hand, jumpstart your social and emotional development journey, reduce compassion fatigue, and create alliances and opportunities for the children and adults in your school community to thrive.

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Corwin Press

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1071886789

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9781071886786

Woman Spirit Awakening in Nature

Growing into the Fullness of Who You Are

By: Nancy Barrett Chickerneo, Ph.D.

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Growing into the Fullness of Who You Are

By: Nancy Barrett Chickerneo, Ph.D.

Dare to Take Ownership of the Wildness and Wonder of Your Truest Self “Nature is there for you, waiting to reflect your deepest self back to you and to teach you the Creator’s wisdom. A step into nature’s embrace is always a step into a richer, fuller life. The door is wide open; come on out!” —from “Beginning” This book is your invitation to experience the life-energizing process of reclaiming your spiritual roots through nature—be it your backyard or the wilds of the forest. Nancy Barrett Chickerneo, a twenty-year veteran leading women’s retreats, guides you on a journey into nature to reconnect with your senses—what you see, hear, touch, taste and smell—in order to reactivate your ability for personal discovery. Combining creativity, playfulness and spiritual depth, she poses eight life-changing questions that help you explore ways to awaken, transform and nurture your spirit. Practical exercises for individual or group use encourage you to let go of self-judgment and seek balance in your everyday life, empowering you to find your own path to spiritual growth. Whether you have picked up this book out of curiosity, longing—even skepticism—you will be inspired to get out there into nature to reclaim the person you were created to be.

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1594734127

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