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Literacy Unleashed

Fostering Excellent Reading Instruction Through Classroom Visits

By: Bonnie D. Houck,Sandi Novak

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Literacy Unleashed

Fostering Excellent Reading Instruction Through Classroom Visits

By: Bonnie D. Houck,Sandi Novak

In Literacy Unleashed, Bonnie D. Houck and Sandi Novak explain why ensuring high-quality reading instruction is one of school leaders’ most important jobs and introduce their Literacy Classroom Visit (LCV) Model. Meticulously researched and refined through years of application in the field, the LCV Model enables administrators to evaluate and improve literacy instruction in their school or district. The authors—both seasoned literacy and leadership experts—share processes and practices to help you Identify the elements of effective literacy instruction and establish common beliefs, practices, and language within the education community. Convene a team to conduct classroom observations and pinpoint common patterns that indicate your school or district's areas of strength and need. Provide targeted professional development and resources that reduce unnecessary budget expenditures. Implement the LCV Model across your entire school—ncluding all grade levels and content areas—or district. Ensure that all students are mastering grade-level standards and expectations. This comprehensive guide includes a repertoire of tools, checklists, and templates to support you on the LCV journey, along with scenarios and videos of real schools and practitioners to illustrate what the model looks like in action. With both academic standards and 21st century jobs requiring higher-level literacy skills, quality reading instruction is more important than ever. This book provides everything you need to create a culture of literacy, reflective practice, and continual learning among staff and students alike.

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ASCD

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1416622365

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Domination Games Played on Graphs

By: Boštjan Brešar,Michael A. Henning,Sandi Klavžar,Douglas F. Rall

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Domination Games Played on Graphs

By: Boštjan Brešar,Michael A. Henning,Sandi Klavžar,Douglas F. Rall

This concise monograph present the complete history of the domination game and its variants up to the most recent developments and will stimulate research on closely related topics, establishing a key reference for future developments. The crux of the discussion surrounds new methods and ideas that were developed within the theory, led by the imagination strategy, the Continuation Principle, and the discharging method of Bujtás, to prove results about domination game invariants. A toolbox of proof techniques is provided for the reader to obtain results on the domination game and its variants. Powerful proof methods such as the imagination strategy are presented. The Continuation Principle is developed, which provides a much-used monotonicity property of the game domination number. In addition, the reader is exposed to the discharging method of Bujtás. The power of this method was shown by improving the known upper bound, in terms of a graph's order, on the (ordinary) domination number of graphs with minimum degree between 5 and 50. The book is intended primarily for students in graph theory as well as established graph theorists and it can be enjoyed by anyone with a modicum of mathematical maturity. The authors include exact results for several families of graphs, present what is known about the domination game played on subgraphs and trees, and provide the reader with the computational complexity aspects of domination games. Versions of the games which involve only the “slow” player yield the Grundy domination numbers, which connect the topic of the book with some concepts from linear algebra such as zero-forcing sets and minimum rank. More than a dozen other related games on graphs and hypergraphs are presented in the book. In all these games there are problems waiting to be solved, so the area is rich for further research. The domination game belongs to the growing family of competitive optimization graph games. The game is played by two competitors who take turns adding a vertex to a set of chosen vertices. They collaboratively produce a special structure in the underlying host graph, namely a dominating set. The two players have complementary goals: one seeks to minimize the size of the chosen set while the other player tries to make it as large as possible. The game is not one that is either won or lost. Instead, if both players employ an optimal strategy that is consistent with their goals, the cardinality of the chosen set is a graphical invariant, called the game domination number of the graph. To demonstrate that this is indeed a graphical invariant, the game tree of a domination game played on a graph is presented for the first time in the literature.

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Springer Nature

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3030690873

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9783030690878

Zack, the Half-Brained Yellow Bird

By: Sandi Eyman

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Zack, the Half-Brained Yellow Bird

By: Sandi Eyman

Zack Zuzak has a self-image problem. Not only is he bothered by the stigma of being in the Yellow Bird reading level, hes convinced he has only half a brain--the right side. Together with his friends, Lin and Carlos, they consider themselves the class misfits. Zack suspects they dont have a whole brain between the three of them. What other reason could there be that makes the planning of a science fair project so difficult? When inspiration smacks Zack on the head, the boys are motivated to plan and construct an offbeat, creative science project. However, the smartest kid in the class, Richard Martin Malone, doesnt appreciate their efforts. Richard feels strongly the praise of the boys project is not justified. After all, these dummy guys rarely carry through on any major assignment. What happens next is an escalation from harsh words to confrontation and a swift trip to the principals office. How will the principal deal with the unkind language, hurt feelings, and misunderstandings between Richard and the boys?

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Archway Publishing

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1480832669

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What Holds Us Together

By: Sandi Ward

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What Holds Us Together

By: Sandi Ward

Luna, an imaginative tabby, understands that sometimes change is necessary. When her owner, Annika, moved back to her small New England hometown six months ago along with her sixteen-year-old twins, Luna knew it was for the best. Ever since Annika's husband, Peter, died suddenly, the family has been floundering. Luna also knows something the others don't know: Peter's spirit is still with them, and Luna believes there is something he needs her help to do. Annika has been struggling to move on. It doesn't help that her son, Donovan, blames her for his father's death. When Annika's first love, Sam, arrives to plow them out during a storm, the truth begins to emerge at last. And Luna-- watchful and unwavering in her affection-- may be her family's best hope of learning how to forgive and to heal. -- adapted from back cover

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Kensington Publishing Corporation

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1496722272

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9781496722270

Handbook of Product Graphs

By: Richard Hammack,Wilfried Imrich,Sandi Klavžar

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Handbook of Product Graphs

By: Richard Hammack,Wilfried Imrich,Sandi Klavžar

This handbook examines the dichotomy between the structure of products and their subgraphs. It also features the design of efficient algorithms that recognize products and their subgraphs and explores the relationship between graph parameters of the product and factors. Extensively revised and expanded, this second edition presents full proofs of many important results as well as up-to-date research and conjectures. It illustrates applications of graph products in several areas and contains well over 300 exercises. Supplementary material is available on the book's website.

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CRC Press

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1439813051

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English All Around Us (B)

By: Sandi Ward, Simon Young, Peter Wilds, et al.

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English All Around Us (B)

By: Sandi Ward, Simon Young, Peter Wilds, et al.

The English All Around Us B (junior level) textbook is designed to give English students practice in question types appearing on the TOEIC, and in general English vocabulary and phrases that are useful for TOEIC preparation. Each of the book's eighteen units concerns general topics that relate to those found in TOEIC tests. The topics covered in English All Around Us B are: People, News, Food, Culture, Travel, Campus, Sports, Language, Daily Life, Shopping, Health, Law, Religion, Natural Environment, Science, Technology, Society, and Relationships. It is general language derived from these topics that provides many of English All Around Us's test questions. However, students preparing for TOEIC should remember that they are not required to know specialized business and technical vocabulary. Accordingly, English All Around Us B is not intended only to teach vocabulary and phrases, but also to create, through reading passages, larger contexts where students will need to think about and respond to the topics herein.

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All-people Publishing Compa

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9865765144

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9789865765149

English All Around Us (E)

By: Sandi Ward, Simon Young, Sean Gale

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English All Around Us (E)

By: Sandi Ward, Simon Young, Sean Gale

English All Around Us E (advanced level) is designed to help advanced students develop the skills necessary to achieve a good score on the Test of English for International Communication (TOEIC). There are twenty units that cover a variety of practical topics. In the first half of the book, the passages are related to daily life and topical issues. The themes covered in the second half of the book are more business-oriented. The topics covered in English All Around Us E are: Current Affairs, Daily Life, Computers, Technology, Career Planning, Business, and Economy. Each unit consists of an advanced reading passage and reading comprehension questions. The readings are designed to be longer and more challenging in order to reflect the standard required for the actual TOEIC. A short test is provided in each unit so that students can test their knowledge of the unit's vocabulary and phrases. An additional reading passage and a cloze passage on related topics are also provided for further practice. At the end of each unit, students can reinforce what they have learned by answering questions on issues raised in preceding passages.

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All-people Publishing Compa

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9865765179

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9789865765170

Meaningful Motion

Biomechanics for Occupational Therapists

By: Sandi Jennifer Spaulding

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Meaningful Motion

Biomechanics for Occupational Therapists

By: Sandi Jennifer Spaulding

Meaningful Motion covers biomechanical and motor control principles and provides examples that address combining the principles of kinesiology with clinical occupational therapy practice. The text also has case studies and laboratory exercises specifically designed for occupational therapy students. The focus is on the concepts of kinesiology and excludes some of the mathematics that is used by biomechanists. Written by a kinesiologist who is also an occupational therapist, the text is tailored to the needs of the undergraduate and the practicing occupational therapist. Principles of kinesiology are combined with clinical practice. Includes case studies and laboratory exercises that have been specifically designed for occupational therapists. Focuses on concepts used in day-to-day practice. Discusses environments in which therapists work, including balance training, ergonomics, and leisure

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0443074399

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9780443074394

English All Around Us (A)

By: Sandi Ward, Simon Young, Regan Tyndall, et al.

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English All Around Us (A)

By: Sandi Ward, Simon Young, Regan Tyndall, et al.

The English All Around Us A (basic level) textbook is designed to give English students practice in question types appearing on the TOEIC, and in general English vocabulary and phrases that are useful for TOEIC preparation. The eighteen units in this book cover general topics that relate to those found on the TOEIC. The topics covered in English All Around Us A are: Daily Life, Letters, Festivals, Stories, Accidents, Health, Holidays, Food & Drink, Natural Environment, Travel, and Education. The test questions used in English All Around Us A are derived from the topics covered in each unit. However, students preparing for the TOEIC should remember that they are not required to know specialized business and technical vocabulary. Accordingly, English All Around Us A is intended not only to teach vocabulary and phrases, but also to create, through reading passages, larger contexts where students will need to think about and respond to the topics herein.

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All-people Publishing Compa

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9865765136

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9789865765132

Working in Class

Recognizing How Social Class Shapes Our Academic Work

By: Allison L. Hurst,Sandi Kawecka Nenga

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Working in Class

Recognizing How Social Class Shapes Our Academic Work

By: Allison L. Hurst,Sandi Kawecka Nenga

More students today are financing college through debt, but the burdens of debt are not equally shared. The least privileged students are those most encumbered and the least able to repay. All of this has implications for those who work in academia, especially those who are themselves from less advantaged backgrounds. Warnock argues that it is difficult to reconcile the goals of facilitating upward mobility for students from similar backgrounds while being aware that the goals of many colleges and universities stand in contrast to the recruitment and support of these students. This, combined with the fact that campuses are increasingly reliant on adjunct labor, makes it difficult for the contemporary tenure-track or tenured working-class academic to reconcile his or her position in the academy.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1475822545

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9781475822540

The Tower of Hanoi – Myths and Maths

By: Andreas M. Hinz,Sandi Klavžar,Ciril Petr

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The Tower of Hanoi – Myths and Maths

By: Andreas M. Hinz,Sandi Klavžar,Ciril Petr

The solitaire game “The Tower of Hanoi" was invented in the 19th century by the French number theorist Édouard Lucas. The book presents its mathematical theory and offers a survey of the historical development from predecessors up to recent research. In addition to long-standing myths, it provides a detailed overview of the essential mathematical facts with complete proofs, and also includes unpublished material, e.g., on some captivating integer sequences. The main objects of research today are the so-called Hanoi graphs and the related Sierpiński graphs. Acknowledging the great popularity of the topic in computer science, algorithms, together with their correctness proofs, form an essential part of the book. In view of the most important practical applications, namely in physics, network theory and cognitive (neuro)psychology, the book also addresses other structures related to the Tower of Hanoi and its variants. The updated second edition includes, for the first time in English, the breakthrough reached with the solution of the “The Reve's Puzzle" in 2014. This is a special case of the famed Frame-Stewart conjecture which is still open after more than 75 years. Enriched with elaborate illustrations, connections to other puzzles and challenges for the reader in the form of (solved) exercises as well as problems for further exploration, this book is enjoyable reading for students, educators, game enthusiasts and researchers alike. Excerpts from reviews of the first edition: “The book is an unusual, but very welcome, form of mathematical writing: recreational mathematics taken seriously and serious mathematics treated historically. I don’t hesitate to recommend this book to students, professional research mathematicians, teachers, and to readers of popular mathematics who enjoy more technical expository detail.” Chris Sangwin, The Mathematical Intelligencer 37(4) (2015) 87f. “The book demonstrates that the Tower of Hanoi has a very rich mathematical structure, and as soon as we tweak the parameters we surprisingly quickly find ourselves in the realm of open problems.” László Kozma, ACM SIGACT News 45(3) (2014) 34ff. “Each time I open the book I discover a renewed interest in the Tower of Hanoi. I am sure that this will be the case for all readers.” Jean-Paul Allouche, Newsletter of the European Mathematical Society 93 (2014) 56.

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Birkhäuser

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3319737791

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9783319737799

Wild Sorrow

By: Sandi Ault

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Wild Sorrow

By: Sandi Ault

Jamaica Wild, a government agent seeking shelter from a snow storm in an abandoned school, finds the body of a murdered school teacher, hated for abusing her Indian students, and Jamaica finds herself being stalked by a person whom she suspects is the kil

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Penguin

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0425225836

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9780425225837

What Comes After Crazy

A Novel

By: Sandi Kahn Shelton

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What Comes After Crazy

A Novel

By: Sandi Kahn Shelton

Growing up as the daughter of Madame Lucille, "Fortune-Teller to the Stars," Maz Lombard wants nothing more than a normal life, but her plans go awry when her soon-to-be-ex-husband Lenny shows up wanting another chance, her mother and her latest stepfather arrive for a visit, and her daughter becomes convinced that she has inherited the family psychic talent. A first novel. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.

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Broadway Books

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1400097304

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9781400097302

Lurkers

By: Sandi Tan

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Lurkers

By: Sandi Tan

From author and filmmaker Sandi Tan, director of the acclaimed documentary Shirkers, comes a novel about a neighborhood of immigrants, seekers, lovers, and lurkers. The residents of Santa Claus Lane do their best to stay out of each other’s way, but desire, fury and mischief too often propel these suburban neighbors to collide. Precocious Korean American sisters Mira and Rosemary find their world rocked by a suicide, and they must fight to keep their home; a charismatic and creepy drama teacher grooms his students; a sardonic gay horror novelist finds that aging is more terrifying than any monster; and a white hippie mom and her adopted Vietnamese daughter realize that their anger binds them rather than pushes them apart. Lurkers is an homage to the rangy beauty of Los Angeles and the surprising power that we have to change the lives of those around us.

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Soho Press

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1641292555

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9781641292559

Patriotic Pacifism

Waging War on War in Europe, 1815-1914

By: Sandi E. Cooper

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Patriotic Pacifism

Waging War on War in Europe, 1815-1914

By: Sandi E. Cooper

Peace movements became a part of the national landscapes of British, American, and European politics in the nineteenth century, reaching their peak during the European arms race of 1889-1914. This study examines the history of European peace movements from the end of the Napoleonic wars to the beginning of the First World War, analysing their methods and influence, and examining their ideological underpinnings and internal conflicts.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0195057155

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9780195057157

Operational Differences and Similarities Among the Motorcoach, School Bus, and Trucking Industries

By: Lance R. Grenzeback,Sandi Lin,Jacob Meunier

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Operational Differences and Similarities Among the Motorcoach, School Bus, and Trucking Industries

By: Lance R. Grenzeback,Sandi Lin,Jacob Meunier

Ch. 1 Introduction -- Ch. 2. The motorcoach industry -- Ch. 3. The school bus contractor Industry -- Ch. 4. The trucking Industry -- Ch. 5. Industry comparisons -- Ch. 6. Data limitations -- Abbreviations used without definitions in TRB publications.

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