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Conscience Choice

By: Rachelle Langston

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A Story of Suffering, Struggle, Redemption and Survival The outcry of screams radiates through the house. The walls vibrate with the sounds of a crashing body. This familiar scene causes fourteen-year-old Shane to shiver, and his heart to pound. Shane and his sixteen-year-old sister Shauna have dealt with the abuse of their stepfather, John, for as long as they can remember. They grow weary of the beatings but have no place to run until a doleful twist of fate changes their lives. One cold winter night John decides his stepchildren can no longer live in his house. Hes grown tired of feeding another mans kids. Homeless, Shane takes aggressive steps to survive. Shauna learns that Shane has contacts she knew nothing about. The most powerful is, Basim, a drug king pin. Basim takes Shane under his wing and teaches him every area of the business. Shane throws himself into his work. Hes known on the streets as Youngblood, a crazy young cat filled with rage. He grows more ruthless as time passes, that is, until he meets his Conscience. Told in the poignant voice of Shane, we watch as he grapples with the physical and emotional aches of learning to trust and accept love in the midst of constant heartache and pain.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1465372059

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The Chosen We

Black Women's Empowerment in Higher Education

By: Rachelle Winkle-Wagner

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The Chosen We

Black Women's Empowerment in Higher Education

By: Rachelle Winkle-Wagner

The Chosen We elevates the oral histories of 105 accomplished, college-educated Black women who earned success despite experiencing reprehensible racist and sexist barriers. The central argument is that these women succeeded in and beyond college by developing a Chosen We—a community with one another. The book builds on their words and insights to offer a powerful rethinking of educational success that moves away from individualistic and competitive models and instead imagines success as a result of recognizing what people owe to one another. It also uncovers the importance of the type of institutions that students attend for higher education, comparing Black women's experiences not only by region and era but also by whether they attended a predominantly White institution (PWI) or a historically Black college or university (HBCU). The Chosen We features theoretical and methodological exemplars for how to conduct research across lines of difference. The Black women's oral histories shared here manifest the wisdom from which many groups in the United States might benefit—that liberation is only found through community.

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State University of New York Press

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1438495447

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Teaching Hope and Resilience for Students Experiencing Trauma

Creating Safe and Nurturing Classrooms for Learning

By: Douglas Fisher,Nancy Frey,Rachelle S. Savitz

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Teaching Hope and Resilience for Students Experiencing Trauma

Creating Safe and Nurturing Classrooms for Learning

By: Douglas Fisher,Nancy Frey,Rachelle S. Savitz

Huge numbers of our students are caught in storms of trauma—whether stemming from abuse, homelessness, poverty, discrimination, violent neighborhoods, or fears of school shootings or family deportations. This practical book focuses on actions that teachers can take to facilitate learning for these students. Identifying positive, connected teacher–student relationships as foundational, the authors offer direction for creating an emotionally safe classroom environment in which students find a refuge from trauma and a space in which to process events. The text shows how social and emotional learning can be woven into the school day; how literacies can be used to help students see a path through challenges; how to empower learners through debate, civic action, and service learning; and how to use the vital nature of the school community as an agent of change. This book will serve as a roadmap for creating uniformly consistent and excellent classrooms and schools that better serve children who experience trauma in their lives. Book Features: Makes a clear case for the need and responsibility of schools to equip students with tools to learn despite the trauma in their lives.Shows practical classroom instructional and curricular interactions that address trauma while advancing student academic learning.Uses literacy and civic action as pathways to empowerment.Provides a method and tools for developing a coherent plan for creating a trauma-sensitive school.

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145

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Teachers College Press

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0807777846

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9780807777848

Lost Buxton

By: Rachelle Chase

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Lost Buxton

By: Rachelle Chase

Buxton, Iowa, was an unincorporated coal mining town, established by Consolidation Coal Company in 1900. At a time when Jim Crow laws and segregation kept blacks and whites separated throughout the nation, Buxton was integrated. African American and Caucasian residents lived, worked, and went to school side by side. The company provided miners with equal housing and equal pay, regardless of race, and offered opportunities for African Americans beyond mining. Professional African Americans included a bank cashier, the justice of the peace, constables, doctors, attorneys, store clerks, and teachers. Businesses, such as a meat market, a drugstore, a bakery, a music store, hotels, millinery shops, a saloon, and restaurants, were owned by African Americans. For 10 years, African Americans made up more than half of the population. Unfortunately, in the early 1920s, the mines closed, and today, only a cemetery, a few foundations, and some crumbling ruins remain.

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128

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Arcadia Publishing

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1467124389

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9781467124386

Conscience Choice

By: Rachelle Langston

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By: Rachelle Langston

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