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Forging Links

Effective Schools and Effective Departments

By: Pam Sammons,Dr. Sally Thomas,Peter Mortimore,Professor Peter Mortimore

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Forging Links

Effective Schools and Effective Departments

By: Pam Sammons,Dr. Sally Thomas,Peter Mortimore,Professor Peter Mortimore

This book is a very useful text for anyone studying comparative education systems as well as those who seek to understand more fully the complexities and frustrations that lie beneath the underuse of the leadership skills and talents of women in schools, colleges and higher education in a number of European contexts: England and Wales, France, The Federal Republic of Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, The Netherlands, Norway and Spain' - "School Leadership & Management " There are few books of which one can say 'all secondary teachers and governors should read this book' but this is one of them. I would recommend it to primary colleagues too....Its messages about school effectiveness can uniquely be applied to school improvement because there is data about how the same children fared under different regimes in different subject areas in the same school' - "School Leadership & Management " This major new school effectiveness study is a thought-provoking investigation of the concept of secondary school effectiveness. Based on a three-year study of secondary schools GCSE performance, the authors point to the importance of looking at: trends over time; effectiveness for different groups of students; and subject differences. They highlight the importance of moving beyond league table approaches and the need to focus on individual departments using value-added approaches. Forging Links illustrates the complexities of judging school performance. The findings make a significant contribution to our understanding of the factors and processes which help some schools and departments to enhance student progres

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1446228282

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The 100 Best Vacations to Enrich Your Life

By: Pam Grout

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The 100 Best Vacations to Enrich Your Life

By: Pam Grout

Travel statistics say that baby boomers travel more than any other age group in America—and that an ever increasing number of them are looking for ways to spend their leisure time in substantial, meaningful ways. One especially fast-growing area of interest is the "experience-driven" or "wellness" vacation, a proactive approach based on the idea that true recreation involves positive engagement: acquiring a new skill or volunteering to share your own expertise; exercising your intellect or extending yourself in some creative, physical, or spiritual way. In response to such aspirations, this timely book showcases a broad range of the most life-enriching getaways in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico, with something for every taste and every interest. Here are programs dedicated to kayaking lessons, mountain biking, yoga instruction, and more. Perhaps you'd prefer to spend an arts and crafts holiday focused on a creative activity like cooking, painting, or woodworking. Imagine studying French in a Maine village, learning about nutrition at a historic North Carolina spa, or helping rebuild the devastated communities of the Gulf Coast. Weave a Navajo rug; make a film in New York; learn to surf in Mexico; or choose any of scores of other possibilities. Elegantly designed and packed with attractive and fun descriptions, detailed travel information, lists of unique activities, and special sidebars, this unusual resource tells you all you need to know to ensure that your next vacation won't just be time off—it will be time well spent.

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National Geographic Books

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1426206194

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Integrating Social Work Theory and Practice

A Practical Skills Guide

By: Pam Green Lister

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Integrating Social Work Theory and Practice

A Practical Skills Guide

By: Pam Green Lister

All social work students study theory and undertake practice placements. Integrating the two – so that each informs the other – is both essential and notoriously tricky. This accessible book demystifies the process and offers helpful evidence-based strategies for doing it successfully. Structured around different approaches to learning, Integrating Social Work Theory and Practice covers: Adult and student centred learning Learning and teaching techniques and assessment methods How to locate and identify theory How to critically analyse theory Key theoretical concepts in social science Issues surrounding anti-oppressive theory and practice Methods of intervention Integrating theory and practice in academic work and on placements. This essential text helps students to identify, critically analyse and apply theory appropriately, enhancing their practice. It will be useful to all social work students struggling with the theory-practice gap.

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Routledge

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1136487409

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Early Years Pioneers in Context

Their lives, lasting influence and impact on practice today

By: Pam Jarvis,Louise Swiniarski,Wendy Holland

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Early Years Pioneers in Context

Their lives, lasting influence and impact on practice today

By: Pam Jarvis,Louise Swiniarski,Wendy Holland

This accessible text provides an international study of critical educational leaders who established the foundation for Early Childhood Education across continents in the 19th and early 20th centuries. It places each pioneer within the time and culture in which they lived to help the reader understand how theories and knowledge about early years education and care have evolved over time. Early Years Pioneers in Context traces key themes such as play, child-initiated learning, working with parents, scaffolding children’s learning and the environment, enabling students to reflect on the differences and similarities between the pioneers and understand their contribution to practice today. Pioneers covered include: Frederick Froebel; Elizabeth Peabody; Susan Blow; Rudolf Steiner; Margaret McMillan; Maria Montessori Susan Isaacs; Loris Malaguzzi. Featuring student integration tasks to help the reader link key ideas to their own practice, this will be essential reading for early years students on undergraduate and postgraduate degree courses.

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Taylor & Francis

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1317600096

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Planet Panic

Notes from the Queen of Procrastination

By: Pam Pastor

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Planet Panic

Notes from the Queen of Procrastination

By: Pam Pastor

Crazy things keep happening to Pam Pastor and she is left with no choice but to chronicle them. In this second collection of stories, she tells us: How Pong Pagong ended her shot at stardom; Why her grandma burned all her trolls when she was in sixth grade; How she terrorized her brother on Facebook; Why she became a flower girl at 31; How a New York socialite almost kidnapped her; How she learned survival skills from Bear Grylls; and Why taxi drivers think she’s the white lady of Balete Drive. There are also tales about dead rabbits, Potato Corner, thirty bras, hospitals, a missing terrarium, New Kids on the Block, beer, and balikbayan boxes. Fun for the whole family.

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Anvil Publishing, Inc.

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9712732045

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Jump-Starting Boys

Help Your Reluctant Learner Find Success in School and Life

By: Pam Withers

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Jump-Starting Boys

Help Your Reluctant Learner Find Success in School and Life

By: Pam Withers

Everyone knows that boys are falling behind in education. Largely left out of the discussion are parents of boys, who are most aware that their bright, eager sons hit an invisible wall somewhere near fourth grade, after which they become disengaged, discouraged, and disaffected. There are dozens of books on underachieving boys, but most parents brave enough to lift one off the shelf are instantly intimidated by the footnotes, graphs, case studies, and academic-speak addressed almost entirely to educators. What about the average guilt-ridden, frustrated mother or father of an underachieving boy? Jump-Starting Boys is the first book on the market that empowers parents, helping them reclaim the duties and rewards of raising their children and navigate the influences of school and media. Filled with reassurance and support, the authors turn fear and guilt into can-do confidence. Through easy tips and action list sidebars, this is the most practical, readable book on the topic.

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Simon and Schuster

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1936740494

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Teachers Matter: Connecting Work, Lives And Effectiveness

By: Day, Christopher,Sammons, Pam,Stobart, Gordon

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Teachers Matter: Connecting Work, Lives And Effectiveness

By: Day, Christopher,Sammons, Pam,Stobart, Gordon

Based on a DfES funded study of 300 teachers in 100 primary and secondary schools in England, the authors identify different patterns of influence and effect between groups of teachers, which provide powerful evidence of the complexities of teachers' work, lives, identity and commitment, in relation to their sense of agency, well-being, resilience and pupil attitudes and attainment. This, in turn, provides a clear message for teachers, teachers' associations, school leaders and policy makers internationally, in understanding and supporting the need to build and sustain school and classroom effectiveness.

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0335220045

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What to Read When

The Books and Stories to Read with Your Child--and All the Best Times to Read Them

By: Pam Allyn

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What to Read When

The Books and Stories to Read with Your Child--and All the Best Times to Read Them

By: Pam Allyn

Read Pam Allyn's posts on the Penguin Blog The books to read aloud to children at the important moments in their lives. In What to Read When, award-winning educator Pam Allyn celebrates the power of reading aloud with children. In many ways, books provide the first opportunity for children to begin to reflectively engage with and understand the world around them. Not only can parents entertain their child and convey the beauty of language through books, they can also share their values and create lasting connections. Here, Allyn offers parents and caregivers essential advice on choosing appropriate titles for their children—taking into account a child’s age, attention ability, gender, and interests— along with techniques for reading aloud effectively. But what sets this book apart is the extraordinary, annotated list of more than three hundred titles suitable for the pivotal moments in a child’s life. With category themes ranging from friendship and journeys to thankfulness, separations, silliness, and spirituality, What to Read When is a one-of-a-kind guide to how parents can best inspire children through reading together. In addition, Pam Allyn includes an indispensable “Reader’s Ladder” section, with recommendations for children at every stage from birth to age ten. With the author’s warm and engaging voice throughout, discussion questions to encourage in-depth conversations, as well as advice on helping kids make the transition to independent reading, this book will help shape thoughtful, creative, and curious children, imparting a love of reading that will last a lifetime. These Penguin Young Reader's Books are referenced in What to Read When Sylvia Jean: Drama Queen by Lisa Campbell Ernst (Penguin Young Reader’s Group: 2005) Two Is For Twins, by Wendy Cheyette Lewison, illustrations by Hiroe Nakata (Penguin Young Readers: 2006) Remember Grandma? by Laura Langston (Penguin Group (USA): May 2004) Soul Looks Back in Wonder compiled by Tom Feelings (Puffin Books) Time of Wonder by Robert McCloskey (Penguin Books USA, Incorporated: December 1957) When I was Young in the Mountainsby Cynthia Rylant illustrated by Diane Goode (Penguin Young Readers Group: January 1993) Nana Upstairs and Nana Downstairs by Tomie DePaola (Puffin Books, an imprint of Penguin Books, Inc.:1973) Good Night, Good Knight by Shelly Moore Thomas, illustrations by Jennifer Plecas (Penguin Young Readers Group: 2002)

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1101032391

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Confronting Icarus: A Psycho-social Perspective on Haematological Malignancies

By: Pam McGrath

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Confronting Icarus: A Psycho-social Perspective on Haematological Malignancies

By: Pam McGrath

This title was first publihsed in 2000: Confronting Icarus, is the first book to bring together all of the original research that has been published to date on the psycho-social aspects of Haematological malignancies. This is a practical book to be used by health care practitioners and researchers interested in Haematological malignancies. Clearly written summaries of the findings from a wealth of original research are organised into ten distinct topic areas so that the reader can quickly and easily access an overview of the work completed in the area. For more detailed reference, each chapter includes, in chronological and alphabetical order, full descriptions of the relevant research. This book provides a constructive way forward to addressing the extensive literature that is concerned with the problems inherent in the biomedical perspective that presently predominates in oncology. A remedy, it is argued, is to build into our response to disease a sophisticated understanding of the human experience of illness through psycho-social research.

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1351767097

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Money Rock

A Family’s Story of Cocaine, Race, and Ambition in the New South

By: Pam Kelley

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Money Rock

A Family’s Story of Cocaine, Race, and Ambition in the New South

By: Pam Kelley

“An ambitious look at the cost of urban gentrification.” —Atlanta-Journal Constitution “Kelley could have written a fine book about Charlotte’s drug trade in the ’80s and ’90s, filled with shoot-outs and flashy jewelry. What she accomplishes with Money Rock, however, is far more laudable.” —Charlotte Magazine “Pam Kelley knows a good story when she sees one—and Money Rock is a hell of a story. . . like a New South version of The Wire.” —Shelf Awareness Meet Money Rock—young, charismatic, and Charlotte’s flashiest coke dealer—in a riveting social history with echoes of Ghettoside and Random Family Meet Money Rock. He's young. He's charismatic. He's generous, often to a fault. He's one of Charlotte's most successful cocaine dealers, and that's what first prompted veteran reporter Pam Kelley to craft this riveting social history—by turns action-packed, uplifting, and tragic—of a striving African American family, swept up and transformed by the 1980s cocaine epidemic. The saga begins in 1963 when a budding civil rights activist named Carrie gives birth to Belton Lamont Platt, eventually known as Money Rock, in a newly integrated North Carolina hospital. Pam Kelley takes readers through a shootout that shocks the city, a botched FBI sting, and a trial with a judge known as "Maximum Bob." When the story concludes more than a half century later, Belton has redeemed himself. But three of his sons have met violent deaths and his oldest, fresh from prison, struggles to make a new life in a world where the odds are stacked against him. This gripping tale, populated with characters both big-hearted and flawed, shows how social forces and public policies—racism, segregation, the War on Drugs, mass incarceration—help shape individual destinies. Money Rock is a deeply American story, one that will leave readers reflecting on the near impossibility of making lasting change, in our lives and as a society, until we reckon with the sins of our past.

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The New Press

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1620973286

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International Virtual Teams

Engineering Global Success

By: Pam Estes Brewer

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International Virtual Teams

Engineering Global Success

By: Pam Estes Brewer

Dr. Brewer presents a complete guide to international virtual team communication with the most up-to-date research developments in the engineering workplace on a global scale, and a problem-solving approach to using and communicating in virtual teams. Presents guidelines heavily based on empirical data Application of virtual team communication guidelines to the field of engineering Provides strategies and sample projects for teaching

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119064082

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Practical Visionaries

Women, Education and Social Progress, 1790-1930

By: Pam Hirsch,Mary Hilton

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Practical Visionaries

Women, Education and Social Progress, 1790-1930

By: Pam Hirsch,Mary Hilton

An examination of women educationists in nineteenth and early twentieth century Britain. Working with new paradigms opened up by feminist scholarship, it reveals how women leaders were determined to transform education in the quest for a better society. Previous scholarship has either neglected the contributions of these women or has misplaced them. Consequently intellectual histories of education have come to seem almost exclusively masculine. This collection shows the important role which figures such as Mary Carpenter, Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon, Elizabeth Edwards and Maria Montessori played in the struggle to provide greater educational opportunities for women. The contributors are: Anne Bloomfield, Kevin J. Brehony, Norma Clarke, Peter Cunningham, Mary Jane Drummond, Elizabeth Edwards, Mary Hilton, Pam Hirsch, Jane Miller, Hilary Minns, Wendy Robinson, Gillian Sutherland and Ruth Watts.

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1317877225

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42 Rules for Your New Leadership Role

The Manual They Didn't Hand You When You Made VP, Director, Or Manager

By: Pam Fox Rollin

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42 Rules for Your New Leadership Role

The Manual They Didn't Hand You When You Made VP, Director, Or Manager

By: Pam Fox Rollin

Drawing from extensive interviews with corporate leaders and the author's 20 years as a strategy consultant and executive coach, these rules form an essential leadership manual.

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Happy About

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1607731010

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Busks, Basques and Brush-Braid

British dressmaking in the 18th and 19th centuries

By: Pam Inder

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Busks, Basques and Brush-Braid

British dressmaking in the 18th and 19th centuries

By: Pam Inder

The dressmaking trade developed rapidly during the 18th and 19th centuries, changing the lives of thousands of British workers. Busks, Basques and Brush-Braid focuses on the trade and the people within it, from their working conditions and earnings to their training, services and relationships with customers. Exploring the lives of dressmakers in fact and fiction, the book looks at representations of the trade in the plays and novels of the time, while surveying the often harsh realities of the workers' lives. From the arrival of the sewing machine to the influence of the department store, it explores the impact of mechanization, commercialization and modernity on a historical trade. Pamela Inder illuminates a new world of dressmaking enabled by goods like paper patterns and magazines, and sets out to investigate the increasing monopoly of female dressmakers in an industry once dominated by male tailors. Drawing on a range of original and hitherto unpublished sources – including business records, diaries, letters, bills and newspaper articles – Busks, Basques and Brush-Braid reveals the untold story of the dressmaking trade. Beautifully illustrated with over 80 images, the book brings dressmakers into focus as real people, granting new insights into working class life in 18th- and 19th-century Britain.

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1350060909

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Nursing Care of the Pediatric Surgical Patient

By: Nancy Tkacz Browne,Laura M. Flanigan,Carmel A. McComiskey,Pam Pieper

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Nursing Care of the Pediatric Surgical Patient

By: Nancy Tkacz Browne,Laura M. Flanigan,Carmel A. McComiskey,Pam Pieper

The book packages all aspects of the pediatric surgical nurse's job into one comprehensive reference, including pre- and post-operative care, minimally invasive surgery, innovative therapies, fetal surgery, pediatric solid organ transplantation, and more. It offers up-to-date information on pediatric surgical nursing and includes many critical pathways and research topics. It is a must-have resource for all healthcare providers involved in the care of the general pediatric surgical patient.

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Jones & Bartlett Publishers

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0763768030

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Hitch, Hockey's Unsung Hero

The Story of Boston Bruin Lionel Hitchman

By: Pam Coburn

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Hitch, Hockey's Unsung Hero

The Story of Boston Bruin Lionel Hitchman

By: Pam Coburn

Distinguished sportswriter Elmer Ferguson called him the “greatest defensive” defenseman of his day. The NHL’s revered chief referee Cooper Smeaton ranked him ahead of his defense partner, Eddie Shore. Legendary manager of the Boston Bruins, Art Ross, wouldn’t sell him “at any price.” And yet he goes unrecognized by the Hockey Hall of Fame. Lionel Hitchman, or “Hitch,” played 12 seasons in the NHL. First with the Ottawa Senators, helping them to a Stanley Cup win, and then with the Boston Bruins for ten years. As the Bruins’ captain and first “money player,” Hitch led them to their first Stanley Cup championship and to the NHL’s best winning point percentage of all time. His hockey stats belie his real contribution to the success of the Boston Bruins. Hitch was the last original Bruin and the first to have his sweater retired. After his playing career, he went on to coach in the Boston system for several years before parting ways with the franchise. Hitch, Hockey's Unsung Hero, is the story of an unheralded “superstar,” the times he lived through and the fascinating people who helped shape his character and life choices. It is told through the “scribes” of the day with interjections by some notable people who knew him well. A few family tales are revealed, including one that helps explain Hitch’s absence from hockey’s highest shrine.

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Pamdre Publishing Inc.

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1999029712

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9781999029715

Lambuth University

By: Pam Dennis,Susan Kupisch

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Lambuth University

By: Pam Dennis,Susan Kupisch

Students, alumni, and friends of Lambuth University recollect with fond memory the many accomplishments of the school throughout its history, from its early days as a female institution through its growth as a university. Located in the West Tennessee city of Jackson, Lambuth reaffirms the Wesleyan emphasis on the necessity for academic excellence and authentic faith. Since 1843, when it began as the Memphis Conference Female Institute, the institution has recognized the interdependence of education and religion. As a university committed to the liberal arts, Lambuth provides resources and encouragement for students to reach an understanding of the cultural heritage of people throughout the world that will broaden their perspectives, enrich their personalities, and enable them to think and act wisely. The university provides a congenial atmosphere where people of all faiths work together to fully develop their total lives.

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Arcadia Publishing

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073851683X

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9780738516837

Tell Your Story

Teaching Students to Become World-Changing Thinkers and Writers

By: Pam Allyn,Ernest Morrell

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Tell Your Story

Teaching Students to Become World-Changing Thinkers and Writers

By: Pam Allyn,Ernest Morrell

Learn how to increase students' skills as writers and storytellers with an innovative, inclusive, and empowering framework for teaching writing that centers student voice. Tell Your Story: Teaching Students to Become World-Changing Thinkers and Writers explores how to help students see themselves as writers and storytellers who are developing the skills and techniques to communicate in ways that resonate with various audiences. When students make that shift and see themselves as active and valued participants in their own communities, cultures, and literary journeys, they become powerful writers eager to explore and share ideas. With the strategies in this book, you can * Create an environment of belonging that fosters creativity and confidence. * Demonstrate the value of oral and visual storytelling. * Teach story structure, both old and new and in a variety of genres. * Offer a variety of role models and exemplars through mentor texts. * Assess and confer with student writers to help them improve their skills. * Value students' voices as future agents of change. When you help students unlock the stories they want to tell, you'll see writing anxieties and resistance fade as students come alive to the multitude of ways in which they can make their voices heard. Storytelling can be a wellness practice, a tool for empowerment, and a method for self-understanding and self-expression. For all students, storytelling is a path to lifelong learning and to realizing the full power of their voice and their potential to change the world.

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ASCD

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1416631534

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Your Child's Writing Life

How to Inspire Confidence, Creativity, and Skill at Every Age

By: Pam Allyn

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Your Child's Writing Life

How to Inspire Confidence, Creativity, and Skill at Every Age

By: Pam Allyn

An illuminating resource to help parents foster a love of writing in their child's life--filled with writing prompts, engaging home learning activities, and more. New educational research reveals that writing is as fundamental to a child's development as reading. But though there are books that promote literacy, no book guides parents in helping their child cultivate a love of writing. In this book, Pam Allyn, a nationally recognized educator and literacy expert, reminds us that writing is not only a key skill but also an essential part of self-discovery and critical to success later in life. Allyn offers the "the five keys" to help kids WRITE-Word Power, Ritual, Independence, Time, and Environment-along with fun, imaginative prompts to inspire and empower children to put their thoughts on the page. A groundbreaking blueprint for developing every child's abilities, Your Child's Writing Life teaches parents how to give a gift that will last a lifetime.

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1101529326

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Imagining Inclusive Society in Nineteenth-Century Novels

The Code of Sincerity in the Public Sphere

By: Pam Morris

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Imagining Inclusive Society in Nineteenth-Century Novels

The Code of Sincerity in the Public Sphere

By: Pam Morris

In Imagining Inclusive Society in Nineteenth-Century Novels, Pam Morris traces a dramatic transformation of British public consciousness that occurred between the Reform Acts of 1832 and 1867. This brief period saw a shift from a naturalized acceptance of social hierarchy to a general imagining of a modern mass culture. Central to this collective revisioning of social relations was the pressure to restyle political leadership in terms of popular legitimacy, to develop a more inclusive mode of discourse within an increasingly heterogeneous public sphere and to find new ways of inscribing social distinctions and exclusions. Morris argues that in the transformed public sphere of mid-nineteenth-century Britain, the urbane code of civility collapsed under the strain of the conflicting interests that constitute mass society. It was replaced by a "code of sincerity," often manipulative and always ideological in that its inclusiveness was based upon a formally egalitarian assumption of mutual interiorities. The irresistible movement toward mass politics shifted the location of power into the public domain. Increasingly, national leaders sought to gain legitimacy by projecting a performance of charismatic "sincerity" as a flattering and insinuating mode of address to mass audiences. Yet, by the latter decades of the century, while the code of sincerity continued to dominate popular and political culture, traditional political and intellectual elites were reinscribing social distinctions and exclusions. They did so both culturally—by articulating sensibility as skepticism, irony, and aestheticism—and scientifically—by introducing evolutionist notions of sensibility and attaching these to a rigorous disciplinary code of bodily visuality. Through an intensive, intertextual reading of six key novels (Bronte's Shirley, Thackeray's Henry Esmond, Dickens's Bleak House and Our Mutual Friend, Gaskell's North and South, and Eliot's Romola) and an array of Victorian periodicals and political essays, Morris analyzes just how actively novelists engaged in these social transformations. Drawing on a wide range of literary, cultural, and historical thinkers—Jürgen Habermas, Michel Foucault, Benedict Anderson, Mary Poovey, and Charles Tilly—Morris makes an original and highly sophisticated contribution to our understanding of the complex and always contested processes of imagining social inclusiveness.

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0801879116

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9780801879111

Robin Hood Was Right

A Guide to Giving Your Money for Social Change

By: Chuck Collins,Pam Rogers,Joan P. Garner

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Robin Hood Was Right

A Guide to Giving Your Money for Social Change

By: Chuck Collins,Pam Rogers,Joan P. Garner

Last year, Americans donated $150 billion to charity, an amount larger than the U.S. defense budget. Giving has never been more popular, possible, or, for many, more confusing. There are oceans of need, mountains of requests -- and often little time to examine our preconceptions about money (earned, inherited, bequeathed, saved, spent) and make the best decisions on how to give effectively.

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0393320855

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9780393320855

The Book of Birthdays

Discover the secret meaning of your birthdate

By: Pam Carruthers

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The Book of Birthdays

Discover the secret meaning of your birthdate

By: Pam Carruthers

All of us have wondered what our birth date says about us, and now The Book of Birthdays can reveal its full significance. With a reading for every day of the year, this fascinating book combines astrological expertise with numerology and tarot to reveal your personality profile and identify your strengths and weaknesses. Consult The Birthday Oracle for insight and direction in your work and career, love and relationships, social life and more! You will not only learn a lot about yourself but also the characteristics of many of your colleagues, friends and family. Includes: • Strengths and weaknesses • Planets you are governed by • Associated tarot card • Quote to live by • Celebrities and figures born on this day • Meditation to bring out the best in you • A breakdown of your star sign

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1398817465

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9781398817463

Skirting Traditions: Arizona Women Writers and Journalists 1912-2012

By: Brenda Kimsey Warneka,Carol Hughes,Lois McFarland,June P. Payne,Sheila Roe,Pam Knight Stevenson

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Skirting Traditions: Arizona Women Writers and Journalists 1912-2012

By: Brenda Kimsey Warneka,Carol Hughes,Lois McFarland,June P. Payne,Sheila Roe,Pam Knight Stevenson

Women who skirt traditions, whether on the frontier of a young state or in a male-dominated profession, have relied on resilience, creativity, and grit to survive…and to flourish. These short biographies of twenty-eight female writers and journalists from Arizona span the one hundred years since Arizona became the forty-eighth state in the Union. They capture the emotions, the monumental and often overlooked events, and the pioneering spirit of women whose lives are now part of Arizona history. The remarkable women profiled in this anthology made the trek to Arizona from the big cities of Chicago, Los Angeles, and Washington, D.C.; from the green hills of Wisconsin, and from backwater towns in Oklahoma and Pennsylvania; by covered wagon, automobile, and, later, airplane. They came with their parents or their husbands, or as single women, with and without children. They came seeking health in the sun-blessed dryness of the desert, a job, a better lifestyle. What these women had in common was their love of writing and journalism, and their ability to use the written word to earn a living, to argue a cause, and to promote the virtues, beauty, history, and people of the Southwest. The narratives in Skirting Traditions move forward from the beginning of statehood to the modern day, describing daring feats, patriotic actions, and amazing accomplishments. They are women you won't soon forget.

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Successful School Leadership: Linking With Learning And Achievement

Linking with Learning

By: Day, Christopher,Sammons, Pam,Leithwood, Ken

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Successful School Leadership: Linking With Learning And Achievement

Linking with Learning

By: Day, Christopher,Sammons, Pam,Leithwood, Ken

This book examines the nature of successful school leadership - what is it, what does it look like in practice and what are the consequences for schools and pupils. As well as providing a contemporary overview of international research and thinking about successful school leadership, it identifies similar and distinguishing features of successful leadership in different sectors; between heads of different experience; and between schools in different socio-economic circumstances. It introduces the notions of 'layered leadership' and 'progressive trust' as key features of successful leadership. Additionally it discusses issues of sustainability and resilience in successful school leadership. Finally it considers how successful school leadership connects to pupil success, exploring the leadership strategies used by successful heads in a range of primary and secondary schools whose pupil attainment results had improved over a three year period during their headship.

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27 Views of Durham

The Bull City in Prose & Poetry

By: Jean Anderson,Jim Wise,Katy Munger,Ariel Dorfman,Rodrigo Dorfman,Barry Yeoman,Clyde Edgerton,Pam Spaulding,Diane Daniel,Cliff Bellamy

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27 Views of Durham

The Bull City in Prose & Poetry

By: Jean Anderson,Jim Wise,Katy Munger,Ariel Dorfman,Rodrigo Dorfman,Barry Yeoman,Clyde Edgerton,Pam Spaulding,Diane Daniel,Cliff Bellamy

Eno Publishers builds on its successful 27 Views series by showcasing the literary community of Durham, North Carolina, in 27 Views of Durham: The Bull City in Prose & Poetry. The book features 27 writers, who in poetry, essays, short stories, and book excerpts focus on the town of Durham, famous for Duke University, tobacco, and Southern cuisine. The collection offers readers a broad and varied picture of life past and present in Durham, as well as a sense of the town's literary breadth. Contributing authors include Steve Schewel, Jean Anderson, Carl Kenney, Katy Munger, Ariel Dorfman, Pierce Freelon, John Valentine, Shirlette Ammons, Jim Wise, and others.

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Splitting Up

Enmeshment and Estrangement in the Process of Divorce

By: Alvin Pam,Judith Pearson

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Splitting Up

Enmeshment and Estrangement in the Process of Divorce

By: Alvin Pam,Judith Pearson

From the characterological struggle that leads to the breakup through the difficult adjustments that come after the marriage is over, this volume examines the emotional process of divorce. Illustrated throughout with evocative case examples, this book explores why marriages fail, the feelings and reactions of both the rejecting and the rejected partners, the psychodynamics of jealousy, the possibility of reconciliation, and the impact of divorce on children.

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1572303670

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The Water-Saving Garden

How to Grow a Gorgeous Garden with a Lot Less Water

By: Pam Penick

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The Water-Saving Garden

How to Grow a Gorgeous Garden with a Lot Less Water

By: Pam Penick

A guide to growing beautiful gardens in drought-prone areas utilizing minimal water for maximum results. With climate change, water rationing, and drought on the rise, water conservation is more important than ever—but that doesn’t mean your gardening options are limited to cacti and rocks. The Water-Saving Garden provides gardeners and homeowners with a diverse array of techniques and plentiful inspiration for creating sustainable gardens that are so beautiful and inviting, it’s hard to believe they are water-thrifty. Including a directory of 100 plants appropriate for a variety of drought-prone regions of the country, this accessible and contemporary xeriscaping guide is full of must-know information on popular gardening topics like native and drought-tolerant plants (including succulents), rainwater harvesting, greywater systems, permeable paving, and more.

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1607747936

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How to Coach Your Team

Release Team Potential And Hit Peak Performance

By: Pam Jones,Viki Holton,Angela Jowitt

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How to Coach Your Team

Release Team Potential And Hit Peak Performance

By: Pam Jones,Viki Holton,Angela Jowitt

How to Coach Your Team helps business managers coach their teams to peak professional performance. It includes: Becoming a team coach – coaching skills for team managers Understanding your team - identifying how your team works; deciphering personalities and motivations; building the right environment for success Achieving better outcomes – setting goals; managing performance; facilitating collaboration Building a happier team – building trust; giving and receiving feedback; having positive conversations Improving team communication – working smartly; improving meetings; working virtually A team coaching plan to help you put it all together and stay on track How to Coach Your Team is a toolkit for working together with your team to achieve success. Many of the questionnaires and ideas can be shared and there are guided opportunities to assess and monitor your progress on a regular basis. The full text downloaded to your computer With eBooks you can: search for key concepts, words and phrases make highlights and notes as you study share your notes with friends eBooks are downloaded to your computer and accessible either offline through the Bookshelf (available as a free download), available online and also via the iPad and Android apps. Upon purchase, you'll gain instant access to this eBook. Time limit The eBooks products do not have an expiry date. You will continue to access your digital ebook products whilst you have your Bookshelf installed.

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Pearson UK

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1292077999

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9781292077994

I HOPE YOU’RE HAVING A GREAT DAY!

I KNOW I AM!

By: Pam Christian

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I HOPE YOU’RE HAVING A GREAT DAY!

I KNOW I AM!

By: Pam Christian

This is Pam Christian’s journey into self-help before selfhelp was even a thing. Facing extraordinary circumstances from a young age, including childhood abuse and the ultimate reckoning with her family over those experiences, Pam relied on her instincts and self-awareness not only to survive but to thrive. Those instincts would later become methods for success within the world of personal development. For Pam, however, they were simply an intuitive solution to an unthinkable situation. In her uncomplicated way, Pam reflects on her life to provide a fascinating story that will captivate readers and inspire them to make simple changes for maximum impact to their everyday lives.

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The Esther M. Wilkins Story

As Told by Her Friends: An Authorized Biography

By: Pam Bretschneider

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The Esther M. Wilkins Story

As Told by Her Friends: An Authorized Biography

By: Pam Bretschneider

Publisher's Note: Products purchased from 3rd Party sellers are not guaranteed by the Publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product. Don’t miss this inspiring look inside the life of Esther M. Wilkins, RDH, DMD, the pioneering author, teacher, advocate, and mentor affectionately known as the “godmother” of dental hygiene! When Esther passed away in 2016, just three days after her 100th birthday, she left behind a legacy of excellence and dedication to the entire dental hygiene community that will never be forgotten.

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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1975119576

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Eighteenth-Century British Midwifery, Part I vol 2

By: Pam Lieske

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Eighteenth-Century British Midwifery, Part I vol 2

By: Pam Lieske

Gives readers an understanding of midwives, midwifery students, and women in labour. This twelve-volume collection comprises pamphlets, treatises, lectures for midwifery students, texts on the establishment of lying-in hospitals, and catalogues of obstetrical apparatuses collected by male-midwives.

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Taylor & Francis

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1040247970

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Children and Young People's Spaces

Developing Practice

By: Pam Foley,Stephen Leverett

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Children and Young People's Spaces

Developing Practice

By: Pam Foley,Stephen Leverett

This reader takes debates about children's services forward by drawing on ideas based in social pedagogy and arguing that the concept of 'space' is crucial to relationships and practices with children and young people. It will stimulate students to question and rethink, and practitioners to innovate and challenge mainstream thinking.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1137285338

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9781137285331

Creating Reading Rainbow

The Untold Story of a Beloved Children's Series

By: Barbara Irwin,Tony Buttino,Pam Johnson

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Creating Reading Rainbow

The Untold Story of a Beloved Children's Series

By: Barbara Irwin,Tony Buttino,Pam Johnson

Reading Rainbow is one of the most successful PBS children’s series in television history, earning numerous national and international awards including 26 Emmys and a Peabody Award. But perhaps more important than anything else, Reading Rainbow helped generations of children cultivate a love for books. Reading Rainbow is very much a story of humble beginnings and enormous perseverance. Over five summers, Tony Buttino Sr. and his colleagues at WNED-TV, the public television station in Buffalo, New York, worked in collaboration with educators and librarians to experiment with summer reading programs. But after trialing these programs, the WNED team realized there was a big need for a new children's literacy series and believed they could create a new show with local and national collaborators and friends. After fits and starts, and enough twists and turns to fill a children’s book, Reading Rainbow premiered in the summer of 1983 and captured the attention of 6.5 million young viewers. Creating Reading Rainbow explores the many intriguing and homespun stories that, when woven together, reveal how this groundbreaking and iconic television series came to be. What led to the series being called “Reading Rainbow”? How did the road to Reading Rainbow wind its way through Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood? How did a public television station in Buffalo spearhead a movement in education and spark the passion for reading in millions of children? And, what does lasagna have to do with it?

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1493077333

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9781493077335

You've Got to Have Balls to Make it in this League

My Life as an Umpire

By: Pam Postema,Gene Wojciechowski

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You've Got to Have Balls to Make it in this League

My Life as an Umpire

By: Pam Postema,Gene Wojciechowski

In You?ve Got to Have Balls to Make It in This League Pam Postema reveals with frank language and uncompromising candor what it was like being an umpire in professional baseball. For thirteen seasons, from 1977 until her unconditional release in 1989, Postema umpired more than two thousand baseball games, making national news as she worked in various minor leagues as high as level AAA?one step below the majors. She also called many major league spring training games as well as the Hall of Fame game in 1988 between the Yankees and the Braves. ø Postema?s story is one of grit and determination to succeed in a profession dominated by men, but it is also an intimate look at umpiring. Postema discusses the mindset behind making a proper call, the weeks of intensive training, ejecting problem players and managers, and the chaos mixed with the monotony of being on the road most of the year. Throughout, Postema relates her encounters with major league stars when they were just up-and-comers in the minors.

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803287755

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The New Job Security, Revised

The 5 Best Strategies for Taking Control of Your Career

By: Pam Lassiter

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The New Job Security, Revised

The 5 Best Strategies for Taking Control of Your Career

By: Pam Lassiter

Take Control of Your Career Job security used to mean counting on a company to support you until retirement. Well, the rules have changed—companies downsize, jobs are outsourced, and pensions are eliminated as fast as the fluctuating economy. There’s good news, however—the new job security is alive and well and centered in you, not in a company. In this newly revised edition of The New Job Security, executive career-management consultant Pam Lassiter presents the five best strategies for achieving work security and success, from building a supportive network that returns your calls to creating new jobs rather than wasting time on advertised openings. Thoroughly updated with the latest tactics, technology, and trends, plus advice from nationwide business leaders and career experts, this is the career book for the new economy. The New Job Security will help you to: • Uncover interesting alternative jobs • Generate multiple income streams • Shape your job so that it reflects your values and goals • Move successfully within your company • Plan for career transitions so that they’re under your control Filled with practical exercises, real-life examples, online resources, and a refreshingly no-nonsense approach, The New Job Security is a strategic plan to gain control of your career and never worry about job stability again.

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1580083773

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9781580083775

Day Trips® from Phoenix, Tucson & Flagstaff

Getaway Ideas for the Local Traveler

By: Pam Hait

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Day Trips® from Phoenix, Tucson & Flagstaff

Getaway Ideas for the Local Traveler

By: Pam Hait

Rediscover the simple pleasures of a day trip with Day Trips from Phoenix, Tucson, and Flagstaff. This guide is packed with hundreds of exciting things for locals and vacationers to do, see, and discover within a two-hour drive of these popular Arizona cities. With full trip-planning information, Day Trips from Phoenix, Tucson, and Flagstaff. helps makes the most of a brief getaway.

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149301692X

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