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Standards-Based Leadership

A Case Study Book for the Superintendency

By: Sandra Lowery,Sandra Harris

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Standards-Based Leadership

A Case Study Book for the Superintendency

By: Sandra Lowery,Sandra Harris

Although there are several case study books for administrators, this one book, specifically for superintendents, is framed within the state and national standards. It offers a way for superintendents as well as those in training to combine best-practice theory with practice using everyday, realistic situations. Each chapter includes: _ questions for discussion _ references _ additional resources Readers will also find a corresponding brief literature review and a case study that illustrates the standard being discussed.

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R&L Education

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0585455430

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A Secret Splendor

By: Sandra Brown

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A Secret Splendor

By: Sandra Brown

“...his eyes met hers in the mirror. They were dark and smoldering, like the purest of blue flame. And in her own eyes was the glassy sheen of desire.” Arden Gentry went to the lush island of Maui for the specific purpose of ingratiating herself into Drew McCasslin’s world. The dashing widower, who had bitterly grieved the death of his wife, is ready to tackle life again and believes that his meeting with Arden is fortunate happenstance. He and his young son, Matt, are drawn to Arden’s warmth and tenderness, and both open their wounded hearts to her. But even as the passion between Drew and Arden intensifies and points toward love, she’s harboring the secret of their inextricable bond...which could also rip them apart.

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Class Ebook Editions Ltd

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1944654178

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9781944654177

Winning Women

Stories of Award-winning Educators

By: Sandra Harris

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Winning Women

Stories of Award-winning Educators

By: Sandra Harris

Here is a multiple-case study of stories of women leaders in education that covers a broad range of pertinent topics including: early childhood experiences, educational background, leadership style and skills, career path, mentoring experiences, personal and professional barriers, and advice to other women considering leadership careers.

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R&L Education

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1578861586

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9781578861583

Towards a Global Femicide Index

Counting the Costs

By: Sandra Walklate,Kate Fitz-Gibbon,Jude McCulloch,JaneMaree Maher

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Towards a Global Femicide Index

Counting the Costs

By: Sandra Walklate,Kate Fitz-Gibbon,Jude McCulloch,JaneMaree Maher

Increasingly there is global attention on the prevalence of women’s deaths resulting from intimate partner violence. Campaigns such as ‘Counting Dead Women’ in Australia, the ‘Femicide Census’ in England, the Canadian Femicide Observatory, and the emergence of family violence death review teams globally, build on the work of agencies such as the United Nations and the World Health Organisation, highlighting the fatal consequences of intimate partner violence for women around the world. This book considers the need for and the steps to be taken towards creating a meaningful framework for a global index of women’s deaths from intimate partner violence. While there are global indices for deaths that relate to public violence, such as terrorism, there is to date no systematic global count of killings of women by their intimate partners. It considers the possibilities and challenges that arise in counting intimate femicide. It argues that such an exercise needs to avoid narrow empiricism and instead be part of a broader feminist political project aimed at ending violence against women. This work will be of great interest to students and scholars of criminology, sociology, law, policing, and politics.

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Routledge

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0429647247

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North-West River (Sheshatshit) Montagnais :a grammatical sketch

By: Sandra Clarke

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North-West River (Sheshatshit) Montagnais :a grammatical sketch

By: Sandra Clarke

This work outlines the grammatical categories and inflections, both nominal and verbal, of the Montagnais dialect of North-West River, Labrador. The phonological system of the dialect is briefly sketched and, although the present work does not treat the derivational aspects of Montagnais morphology, certain very common derivational forms are included. A survey of the chief sentence types of the North-West River Montagnais is provided.

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University of Ottawa Press

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1772822426

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Community, Scale, and Regional Governance

A Postfunctionalist Theory of Governance

By: Liesbet Hooghe,Gary Marks,Arjan H. Schakel,Sara Niedzwiecki,Sandra Chapman Osterkatz,Sarah Shair-Rosenfield

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Community, Scale, and Regional Governance

A Postfunctionalist Theory of Governance

By: Liesbet Hooghe,Gary Marks,Arjan H. Schakel,Sara Niedzwiecki,Sandra Chapman Osterkatz,Sarah Shair-Rosenfield

This is the second of five ambitious volumes theorizing the structure of governance above and below the central state. This book is written for those interested in the character, causes, and consequences of governance within the state. The book argues that jurisdictional design is shaped by the functional pressures that arise from the logic of scale in providing public goods and by the preferences that people have regarding self-government. The first has to do with the character of the public goods provided by government: their scale economies, externalities, and informational asymmetries. The second has to do with how people conceive and construct the groups to which they feel themselves belonging. In this book, the authors demonstrate that scale and community are principles that can help explain some basic features of governance, including the growth of multiple tiers over the past six decades, how jurisdictions are designed, why governance within the state has become differentiated, and the extent to which regions exert authority. The authors propose a postfunctionalist theory which rejects the notion that form follows function, and argue that whilst functional pressures are enduring, one must engage human passions regarding self-rule to explain variation in the structures of rule over time and around the world. Transformations in Governance is a major new academic book series from Oxford University Press. It is designed to accommodate the impressive growth of research in comparative politics, international relations, public policy, federalism, environmental and urban studies concerned with the dispersion of authority from central states up to supranational institutions, down to subnational governments, and side-ways to public-private networks. It brings together work that significantly advances our understanding of the organization, causes, and consequences of multilevel and complex governance. The series is selective, containing annually a small number of books of exceptionally high quality by leading and emerging scholars. The series targets mainly single-authored or co-authored work, but it is pluralistic in terms of disciplinary specialization, research design, method, and geographical scope. Case studies as well as comparative studies, historical as well as contemporary studies, and studies with a national, regional, or international focus are all central to its aims. Authors use qualitative, quantitative, formal modeling, or mixed methods. A trade mark of the books is that they combine scholarly rigour with readable prose and an attractive production style. The series is edited by Liesbet Hooghe and Gary Marks of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and the VU Amsterdam, and Walter Mattli of the University of Oxford.

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Oxford University Press

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0198766971

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Religious Diversity and Children's Literature

By: Connie R. Green,Sandra Brenneman Oldendorf

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Religious Diversity and Children's Literature

By: Connie R. Green,Sandra Brenneman Oldendorf

This book is an invaluable resource for enabling teachers, religious educators, and families to learn about religious diversity themselves and to teach children about both their own religion as well as the beliefs of others. The traditions featured include indigenous beliefs throughout the world, Native American spirituality, Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity (Orthodoxy, Catholicism and Protestantism), Islam, Sikhism, and other beliefs such as Bahá'í, Unitarian Universalism, Humanism, and Atheism. Each chapter highlights a specific religion or spiritual tradition with a brief discussion about major beliefs, misconceptions, sacred texts, and holy days or celebrations. This summary of each tradition is followed by extensive annotated recommendations for children’s and adolescent literature as well as suggested teaching strategies. The recommended literature includes informational books, traditional religious stories, and fiction with religious themes. Teachers, religious educators, and family members will find the literature from these genres to be invaluable tools for bridging the religious experience of the child with that of the global society in which they live.

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IAP

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1617353981

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Women and Divorce/men and Divorce

Gender Differences in Separation, Divorce, and Remarriage

By: Sandra Sue Volgy

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Women and Divorce/men and Divorce

Gender Differences in Separation, Divorce, and Remarriage

By: Sandra Sue Volgy

This is one of the few books in the field dealing with gender issues in divorce in a research context. Women and Divorce/Men and Divorce presents the most recent research available in the area of gender issues as related to divorce and personal adjustment to divorce. Not intended to be comprehensive of the broad field of gender differences in divorce, this important book is representative of current trends and issues in this newly emerging area of research. Using a family studies, family theory context, the chapter authors, representing a wide spectrum of backgrounds and from diverse training institutions in this country and abroad, discuss clearly the concerns of men and women presently going through the divorce process. Important topics covered in this timely book include: gender differences in divorce adjustment gender differences in adjustment to stepparenting gender factors related to support gender issues related to child rearing practices after divorce cultural factors that relate to gender differences in adjustment to divorce Graduate and post-graduate level readers with research and clinical applications interest will find this the most helpful and useful book in the field. Family therapists, counselors who work with divorce issues, and social workers and psychologists in the family and divorce field will also find it a practical book.

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Psychology Press

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1560240903

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Standards-based Leadership

A Case Study Book for the Assistant Principalship

By: Sandra Harris

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Standards-based Leadership

A Case Study Book for the Assistant Principalship

By: Sandra Harris

Provides a structure for learning and growth that connects theory with practice, whether the assistant principal is already 'on the job' or enrolled in a preparation program.

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R&L Education

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1578860415

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Light in the Queen’s Garden

Ida May Pope, Pioneer for Hawai‘i’s Daughters, 1862–1914

By: Sandra E. Bonura

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Light in the Queen’s Garden

Ida May Pope, Pioneer for Hawai‘i’s Daughters, 1862–1914

By: Sandra E. Bonura

At the end of the 1800s, when Oberlin graduate Ida May Pope accepted a teaching job at Kawaiaha‘o Seminary, a boarding school for girls, she couldn’t have imagined it would become a lifelong career of service to Hawaiian women, or that she would become closely involved in the political turmoil soon to sweep over the Kingdom of Hawai‘i. Light in the Queen’s Garden offers for the first time a day-by-day accounting of the events surrounding the coup d’état as seen through the eyes of Pope’s young students. Author Sandra Bonura uses recently discovered primary sources to help enliven the historical account of the 1893 Hawaiian Revolution that happened literally outside the school’s windows. Queen Lili‘uokalani’s adopted daughter’s long-lost oral history recording; many of Pope’s teaching contemporaries’ unpublished diaries, letters, and scrapbooks; and rare photographs tell a story that has never been told before. Towering royal personages in Hawai‘i’s history—King Kalākaua, Queen Lili‘uokalani, and Princess Ka‘iulani—appear in the book, as Ida Pope sheltered Hawai‘i’s daughters through the frightening and turbulent end of their sovereign nation. Pope was present during the life celebrations of the king, and then his sad death rituals. She traveled with Lili‘uokalani on her controversial trip to Kalaupapa to visit Mother Marianne Cope and afflicted pupils. In 1894, with the endorsement of Lili‘uokalani and Charles Bishop, Pope helped to establish the Kamehameha School for Girls, funded by the estate of Princess Pauahi Bishop, and became its first principal. Inspired by John Dewey and others, she shaped and reshaped Kamehameha’s curriculum through a process of conflict and compromise. Fired up by the era’s doctrine of social and vocational relevance, she adapted the curriculum to prepare her students for entry into meaningful careers. Lili‘uokalani’s daughter, Lydia Aholo, was placed in the school and Pope played a significant role in mothering and shaping her future, especially during the years the queen was fighting to restore her kingdom. As Hawai‘i moved into the twentieth century under a new flag, Pope tenaciously confronted the effects of industrialization and the growing concentration of outside economic power, working tirelessly to attain social reforms to give Hawaiian women their rightful place in society.

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University of Hawaii Press

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0824866479

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9780824866471

Levon

From Down in the Delta to the Birth of THE BAND and Beyond

By: Sandra B. Tooze

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Levon

From Down in the Delta to the Birth of THE BAND and Beyond

By: Sandra B. Tooze

The life of the legendary drummer and singer is explored through extensive research and personal interviews with family, friends, and fellow musicians. In the Arkansas Delta, a young Levon Helm witnessed “blues, country, and gospel hit in a head-on collision,” as he put it. The result was rock 'n' roll. As a teenager, he joined the raucous Ronnie Hawkins and the Hawks, then helped merge a hard-driving electric sound with Bob Dylan's folk roots, and revolutionized American rock with the Band. Helm not only provided perfect “in the pocket” rhythm and unforgettable vocals, he was the soul of The Band. Levon traces a rebellious life on the road, from being booed with Bob Dylan to the creative cauldron of Big Pink, the Woodstock Festival, world tours, The Last Waltz, and beyond with the man Dylan called “one of the last true great spirits of my or any other generation.” Author Sandra B. Tooze digs deep into what Helm saw as a devastating betrayal by his closest friend, Band guitarist Robbie Robertson—and Levon’s career collapse, his near bankruptcy, and the loss of his voice due to throat cancer in 1997. Yet Helm found success in an acting career that included roles in Coal Miner’s Daughter and The Right Stuff. Regaining his singing voice, he made his last decade a triumph, opening his barn to the Midnight Rambles and earning three Grammys.

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Diversion Books

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1635767024

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Learning From the Best

Lessons From Award-Winning Superintendents

By: Sandra Harris

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Learning From the Best

Lessons From Award-Winning Superintendents

By: Sandra Harris

Award-winning superintendents detail proven best practices covering transformational leadership, community building and outreach, responding to change, and developing strategies for effective school reform.

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Corwin Press

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1412959837

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9781412959834

Down and Dirty

By: Sandra Hill

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Down and Dirty

By: Sandra Hill

Punished for an indiscretion, Navy SEAL and all-around tough guy Zachary Floyd is forced to head a new SEAL-like program for women. There he meets an alluring Norsewoman, who's escaped a nunnery, her father, and the eleventh century altogether.

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Penguin

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1101206314

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9781101206317

Leadership for Evidence-Based Innovation in Nursing and Health Professions

By: Daniel Weberg,Sandra Davidson

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Leadership for Evidence-Based Innovation in Nursing and Health Professions

By: Daniel Weberg,Sandra Davidson

The healthcare system is in need of innovative, evidence-based thinkers to transform a flawed system and improve healthcare outcomes. This book combines the two seemingly opposing concepts of innovation and evidence and provides examples, and insights that allow leaders to build capacity for transformation"--

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Jones & Bartlett Learning

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1284296652

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9781284296655

The Charter School Landscape

By: Sandra Vergari

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The Charter School Landscape

By: Sandra Vergari

Charter schools are publicly funded entities that enjoy freedom from many of the regulations under which traditional public schools operate. There are, however, state and local variations in charter school legislation and implementation. The Charter School Landscape is the first book to analyze and compare charter school politics and policies across a broad range of jurisdictions.The first charter school opened in Minnesota in 1992. Within nine years, there were more than 2,000 charter schools operating in thirty-four states, Washington, D.C., and Alberta, Canada. Public discourse on the charter school reform is often passionate and politically motivated. Sandra Vergari has assembled a group of experts to present a more reflective and scholarly discussion of the reform, its performance to date, and its implications for public policy.Each chapter focuses on a single state or province, and systematically addresses such issues as charter school laws, the politics of policy implementation, charter school accountability, controversies and trends, and prospects for the future. In addition, the contributors emphasize significant issues specific to each state that offer lessons for analysts and policymakers everywhere. As a whole, The Charter School Landscape suggests that charter schools are having a significant impact on the institution of public education and how we think about the concept of the "real public school.

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University of Pittsburgh Press

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0822980835

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9780822980834

BRAVO Principal!

Building Relationships with Actions that Value Others

By: Sandra Harris

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BRAVO Principal!

Building Relationships with Actions that Value Others

By: Sandra Harris

It is only through effective leadership actions that principals can become outstanding leaders. By building relationships that value all stakeholders—including teachers, students, parents, and community members—your actions will lead to a thriving school. This book provides you with the tools for emphasizing shared purpose, caring, integrity, and honesty so you can Build Relationships with Actions that Value Others. In this updated edition, you’ll find out how to: Establish trusting relationship based on mutual support, respect, and empowerment. Demonstrate cultural responsiveness by embracing diversity and integrating multicultural awareness throughout the curriculum. Employ creative concern-solving strategies and address conflicts with students, parents, and staff. Develop a learning culture to nurture student and teacher achievement. Each chapter concludes with a set of review questions to help you to reflect, evaluate, and improve upon your leadership skills. Filled with suggestions for actions that you can apply today, this book shows you how to become a BRAVO Principal!

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Routledge

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1317529731

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9781317529736

Bravo Teacher

Building Relationships with Actions That Value Others

By: Sandra Harris

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Bravo Teacher

Building Relationships with Actions That Value Others

By: Sandra Harris

As they wrestle with today’s rules, regulations and high-stakes testing, our best teachers never forget that strong, positive relationships are at the core of student success. This book shows us how to build relationships with students, parents, and co-workers to create the kind of learning environments where all students achieve success.

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131792231X

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Dare to Inspire

Sustain the Fire of Inspiration in Work and Life

By: Allison Holzer,Sandra Spataro,Jen Grace Baron

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Dare to Inspire

Sustain the Fire of Inspiration in Work and Life

By: Allison Holzer,Sandra Spataro,Jen Grace Baron

Dare to Inspire shows how to spark and sustain exponential growth." --Shawn Achor, New York Times bestselling author of Big Potential and The Happiness Advantage Inspiration is a most critical resource to be managed in modern work. The problem is that the power of inspiration often feels fleeting. But what if you could design your own way to be inspired at work on a regular basis? What if you could make your own inspiration last? Rooted in 18 engines of inspiration that emerged from interviews with leaders across different industries, Dare to Inspire shows how to supercharge inspiration for yourself, your team, and your organization. Each chapter offers tools, strategies, and examples of how to make inspiration happen and last. Through stories of pioneers in business, health, education, and other industries, readers learn how to effectively use the engines to spark inspiration, along with specific practices to sustain it. Dare to Inspire features Chef Wes Avila, the founder of L.A. sensation Guerrilla Tacos, who was inspired to revolutionize his industry; crowdfunding pioneer Charles Best, who founded DonorsChoose to meet the challenge of connecting teachers in need with donors interested in supporting educational programs; and many others. This will be a vital book for anyone interested in creativity, success, achievement, and happiness.

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Da Capo Lifelong Books

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0738285730

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9780738285733

Uncivil Wars

Elena Garro, Octavio Paz, and the Battle for Cultural Memory

By: Sandra Messinger Cypess

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Uncivil Wars

Elena Garro, Octavio Paz, and the Battle for Cultural Memory

By: Sandra Messinger Cypess

The first English-language book to place the works of Elena Garro (1916–1998) and Octavio Paz (1914–1998) in dialogue with each other, Uncivil Wars evokes the lives of two celebrated literary figures who wrote about many of the same experiences and contributed to the formation of Mexican national identity but were judged quite differently, primarily because of gender. While Paz’s privileged, prize-winning legacy has endured worldwide, Garro’s literary gifts garnered no international prizes and received less attention in Latin American literary circles. Restoring a dual perspective on these two dynamic writers and their world, Uncivil Wars chronicles a collective memory of wars that shaped Mexico, and in turn shaped Garro and Paz, from the Conquest period to the Mexican Revolution; the Spanish Civil War, which the couple witnessed while traveling abroad; and the student massacre at Tlatelolco Plaza in 1968, which brought about social and political changes and further tensions in the battle of the sexes. The cultural contexts of machismo and ethnicity provide an equally rich ground for Sandra Cypess’s exploration of the tandem between the writers’ personal lives and their literary production. Uncivil Wars illuminates the complexities of Mexican society as seen through a tense marriage of two talented, often oppositional writers. The result is an alternative interpretation of the myths and realities that have shaped Mexican identity, and its literary soul, well into the twenty-first century.

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University of Texas Press

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0292742665

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9780292742666

Stretched Thin

Poor Families, Welfare Work, and Welfare Reform

By: Sandra Morgen,Joan Acker,Jill Weigt

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Stretched Thin

Poor Families, Welfare Work, and Welfare Reform

By: Sandra Morgen,Joan Acker,Jill Weigt

When the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act became law in 1996, the architects of welfare reform celebrated what they called the new "consensus" on welfare: that cash assistance should be temporary and contingent on recipients' seeking and finding employment. However, assessments about the assumptions and consequences of this radical change to the nation's social safety net were actually far more varied and disputed than the label "consensus" suggests. By examining the varied realities and accountings of welfare restructuring, Stretched Thin looks back at a critical moment of policy change and suggests how welfare policy in the United States can be changed to better address the needs of poor families and the nation. Using ethnographic observations, in-depth interviews with poor families and welfare workers, survey data tracking more than 750 families over two years, and documentary evidence, Sandra Morgen, Joan Acker, and Jill Weigt question the validity of claims that welfare reform has been a success. They show how poor families, welfare workers, and welfare administrators experienced and assessed welfare reform differently based on gender, race, class, and their varying positions of power and control within the welfare state. The authors document the ways that, despite the dramatic drop in welfare rolls, low-wage jobs and inadequate social supports left many families struggling in poverty. Revealing how the neoliberal principles of a drastically downsized welfare state and individual responsibility for economic survival were implemented through policies and practices of welfare provision and nonprovision, the authors conclude with new recommendations for reforming welfare policy to reduce poverty, promote economic security, and foster shared prosperity.

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Cornell University Press

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0801459087

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9780801459085

Research Methods in Public Administration and Public Management

An Introduction

By: Sandra van Thiel

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Research Methods in Public Administration and Public Management

An Introduction

By: Sandra van Thiel

Research in Public Administration and Public Management has distinctive features that influence the choices and application of research methods. The standard methodologies for researching from the social sciences can be difficult to follow in the complex world of the public sector. In a dynamic political context, the focus lies on solving societal problems whilst also using methodological principles to do scientifically sound research. The second edition of Research Methods in Public Administration and Public Management represents a comprehensive guide to undertaking and using research in Public Management and Administration. It is succinct but covers a wide variety of research strategies, including action research, experiments, case studies, desk research, systematic literature reviews and more. It pays attention to issues of design, sampling, research ethics and data management. This textbook does explain the role of theory, but also offers many international examples and practical exercises. It takes the reader through the journey of research, starting with the problem definition, choice of theory, research design options and tools to achieve impactful research. New and revised material includes, but is not limited to: A closer look at popular methods like the experiment and the systematic literature review; A deeper examination of research ethics and data management; New examples from a wide range of countries; Updated ‘Further Reading’ material and additional useful websites. This exciting new edition will be core reading for students at all levels as well as practitioners who are carrying out research on Public Management and Administration.

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1000429865

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9781000429862

Writing to Make an Impact

Expanding the Vision of Writing in the Secondary Classroom

By: Sandra Murphy,Mary Ann Smith

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Writing to Make an Impact

Expanding the Vision of Writing in the Secondary Classroom

By: Sandra Murphy,Mary Ann Smith

Through ideas and practices straight from the classrooms of outstanding teachers, this lively resource illustrates writing that makes an impact on a reader, a writer, or a cause—writing that everyone wants to read. The book is rich with student work that shows how writing can make things happen in the world. The authors provide ready-to-use lessons that include a full range of writing, including poetry, narrative, petitions, proposals, emails, self-reflections, long-term projects, and critical analyses. “Young people yearn to have an impact on the world but often lack the tools to make change. This book demonstrates how shifting the focus and purposes for writing can turn students' frustration with the status quo into action. There’s no time to waste. The need for change—both in school and in society—is urgent.” —Carol Jago, past president, National Council of Teachers of English and associate director, California Reading and Literature Project at UCLA “In true National Writing Project style, Sandy Murphy and Mary Ann Smith take us inside the classrooms of remarkable teachers to see how they create contexts for young writers to pursue writing they care about for purposes that matter. Readers will find lots to take back to their own settings to engage this remarkable generation of young people in our classrooms.” —Elyse Eidman-Aadahl, Executive Director, National Writing Project

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Teachers College Press

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0807778605

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9780807778609

Examination of Musculoskeletal Injuries

By: Sandra J. Shultz,Peggy A. Houglum,David H. Perrin

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Examination of Musculoskeletal Injuries

By: Sandra J. Shultz,Peggy A. Houglum,David H. Perrin

Examination of Musculoskeletal Injuries, Fourth Edition With Web Resource, guides current and future athletic trainers and rehabilitation professionals through the examination and evaluation of musculoskeletal injuries both on and off the field. The text presents injury examination strategies in on-site, acute, and clinical settings and provides the information on mastering the skills needed for the Board of Certification examination for athletic trainers as determined by the sixth edition of Athletic Training Role Delineation Study/Practice Analysis for entry-level athletic trainers. This updated fourth edition contains foundational information on a wide spectrum of injuries and the appropriate tests for examining and diagnosing them. Readers will learn to obtain an accurate injury history from the patient, inspect the injury and related areas, test motion control, palpate both bone and soft tissues, and examine function in order to gauge the player’s readiness to return to play. The fourth edition also includes the following enhancements: • A new online video library contains more than 51 short video clips that correspond to and demonstrate evaluation techniques for various musculoskeletal disorders found throughout the text. • Full-color photos and medical artwork have been added throughout the text to clarify testing techniques and enhance knowledge of relevant body structures. • Substantial updates provide the most recent evidence-based clinical information. • An expanded selection of special tests and injury-specific examinations are now presented in a more accessible format and include a photo or video, description of the purpose, patient and clinician positions for the test, procedures performed, and possible outcomes. The content of Examination of Musculoskeletal Injuries, Fourth Edition With Web Resource, has been restructured and focused to provide applicable information in a straightforward manner. Part I is aimed at entry-level students and presents general and introductory skills for each component of injury examination, including basic terminology and a breakdown of the examination procedure. Each component is then explored in depth along with general purposes and techniques. Part I ends by incorporating the various components into a systematic strategy for examination based on severity of injury and environment. Part II then applies the principles learned in the previous chapters to the recognition and examination of injuries organized by specific regions of the body. Each chapter includes strategies for examination immediately after an injury as well as examinations seen later in a clinical setting. To assist student comprehension and knowledge retention, key terms are in boldface throughout the text and are defined in the glossary. Symbols throughout the text alert students to essential procedures and highlight important information. The web resource houses printable tables of special tests, examination checklists and forms that students can use in laboratory work and review sessions, and a robust video library. To aid instructors, the text includes a suite of ancillary materials featuring a test package, instructor guide, and presentation package plus image bank. Examination of Musculoskeletal Injuries, Fourth Edition With Web Resource, is an essential resource for students of athletic training and therapy as well as current practitioners in the field who wish to use evidence-based procedures in their clinical practice to ensure safe and accurate diagnoses of injuries.

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Fundraising Skills For Health Care Executives

By: Sandra S. Deller, BA

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Fundraising Skills For Health Care Executives

By: Sandra S. Deller, BA

No one prepares the new dean or health care executive for the fundraising aspect of their profession. Rather, it is one of the skills that is expected but not explicitly taught. Here, a former Dean and a Director of Major Gifts for a renowned nursing institution, with a combined 50 years in the profession, present an explicit, hands-on guide to successful fundraising among individuals, foundations, and corporations. From the basic principles of development to the specifics of tax regulations and the sometimes delicate matter of stewardship, this book articulates strategies for success. Case studies, extensive support materials and illustrative tables makes this an accessible and indispensable tool for health care executives.

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Standing on Holy Ground

A Triumph Over Hate Crime in the Deep South

By: Sandra E. Johnson

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Standing on Holy Ground

A Triumph Over Hate Crime in the Deep South

By: Sandra E. Johnson

Probing the dark corners of the South, this book follows the courageous people who risked their lives to rebuild the black churches in order to heal the Southern community.

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Mountain Murders: Homicide in the Rockies

By: Sandra K. Wells

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Mountain Murders: Homicide in the Rockies

By: Sandra K. Wells

Mountain murders brings to the public fifteen legendary Colorado murders, dating from 1909 to the early 1980s."--Page 4 of cover.

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The Wild Vine

By: Sandra Pesini,Shirley Mattson Wolf

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The Wild Vine

By: Sandra Pesini,Shirley Mattson Wolf

After her mother's untimely death, seven-year-old Abigail must endure an alcoholic stepfather, a well-meaning but unsavory orphanage, and a grandfather ruled by a designing woman. The traumatic seeds of Abigail's unstable childhood grow, flourish and pervade her adolescence and marriage.

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Assessing Writing to Support Learning

Turning Accountability Inside Out

By: Sandra Murphy,Peggy O'Neill

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Assessing Writing to Support Learning

Turning Accountability Inside Out

By: Sandra Murphy,Peggy O'Neill

In this book, authors Murphy and O’Neill propose a new way forward, moving away from high-stakes, test-based writing assessment and the curriculum it generates and toward an approach to assessment that centers on student learning and success. Reviewing the landscape of writing assessment and existing research-based theories on writing, the authors demonstrate how a test-based approach to accountability and current practices have undermined effective teaching and learning of writing. This book bridges the gap between real-world writing that takes place in schools, college, and careers and the writing that students are asked to do in standardized writing assessments to offer a new ecological approach to writing assessment. Murphy and O’Neill’s new way forward turns accountability inside out to help teachers understand the role of formative assessments and assessment as inquiry. It also brings the outside in, by bridging the gap between authentic writing and writing assessment. Through these two strands, readers learn how assessment systems can be restructured to become better aligned with contemporary understandings of writing and with best practices in teaching. With examples of assessments from elementary school through college, chapters include guidance on designing assessments to address multiple kinds of writing, integrate reading with writing, and incorporate digital technology and multimodality. Emphasizing the central role that teachers play in systemic reform, the authors offer sample assessments developed with intensive teacher involvement that support learning and provide information for the evaluation of programs and schools. This book is an essential resource for graduate students, instructors, scholars and policymakers in writing assessment, composition, and English education.

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Uncommonly Good Ideas

Teaching Writing in the Common Core Era

By: Sandra Murphy,Mary Ann Smith

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Uncommonly Good Ideas

Teaching Writing in the Common Core Era

By: Sandra Murphy,Mary Ann Smith

This innovative resource provides teachers with a road map for designing a comprehensive writing curriculum that meets Common Core State Standards. The authors zero in on several big ideas that lead to and support effective practices in writing instruction, such as integrating reading, writing, speaking, and listening; teaching writing as a process; extending the range of the students' writing; spiraling and scaffolding a writing curriculum; and collaborating. These ideas are the cornerstone of best reseach-based practices as well as the CCSS for writing. The first chapter offers a complete lesson designed around teaching narrative writing and illustrates tried-and-true practices for teaching writing as a process. The remaining chapters explore a broad range of teaching approaches that help students tackle different kinds of narrative, informational, and argumentative writing as well as complexities like audience and purpose. Each chapter focuses on at least one of the uncommonly good ideas and illustrates how to create curricula around it. Uncommonly Good Ideas includes model lessons and assignments, mentor texts, teaching strategies, student writing, and practical guidance for moving the ideas from the page into the classroom.

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0807756431

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Words of Worth

Meditations to Enhance Your Faith

By: Sandra H. Meyer

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Words of Worth

Meditations to Enhance Your Faith

By: Sandra H. Meyer

Are you sitting on the mountaintop with Jesus or down groveling in the mud puddles? Words of Worth travels both places. Sandra Meyers spiritual journey through life resembles that of many others, and she writes from her familiarity of both the good and hard times. Practical ideas to help you grow come from ordinary activities, nature, and experience. Often Christians march forward, only to take a slow ride downhill, unaware until weve already lost ground. Biblical people experienced the same frustrating situations, showing us through their examples how to get up and advance again. Sharing her defeats as well as victories, Sandra has e-mailed her meditations for several years and has responses like those below. Some topics discussed in Words of Worth include trials, trouble, and temptations; discipline; contentment; and intimacy with God. Wow! Karen Davis suggested the title Words of Worth because when I read Sandra Meyers meditations, I usually say Wow! and they are worth so much to me. Melvin Gordy says, When I had to have an operation I found that by reading articles like the ones Sandra Meyer writes I got relief. That is the real reason I wanted to see Words of Worth published. Rhonda Baronne tells, I am in a nursing home ministry. We have shared the meditations with the residents, and they were truly blessed. Sandra Meyers writings are very uplifting and encouraging. Just the right word at the right time. See why Sandras meditations earn such enthusiastic endorsements, and learn how you can enhance your faith as you read Words of Worth.

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Inspiring Voices

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Dare to Dream!

25 Extraordinary Lives

By: Sandra McLeod Humphrey

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Dare to Dream!

25 Extraordinary Lives

By: Sandra McLeod Humphrey

Stories about ordinary people who lived extraordinary lives.

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Prometheus Books

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Touching All Walks of Life

By: Sandra Bailey Lowery

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Touching All Walks of Life

By: Sandra Bailey Lowery

In all walks of life, we all need encouragement and inspiration. Touching All Walks of Life reaches each of us in places and times when we need help most. Let these words soothe your soul. Then share them with a friend.

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1105680401

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A Struggle for Independence

Life with Cerebral Palsy

By: Sandra Lowery

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A Struggle for Independence

Life with Cerebral Palsy

By: Sandra Lowery

A Struggle for Independence is a true story based on my personal life as someone who has lived with mild Cerebral palsy and the many goals I have accomplished such as walking at twenty months old and speaking, driving a car at age seventeen, another was motherhood at age thirty-five which was a huge victory for me. I gave birth to a healthy normal baby girl, who is the joy of my life. I have overcome many obstacles in spite of the prejudice and ignorance that I have faced with society. I was raised in a military family that moved around from state to state and lived in Europe as well. I'm the oldest of four siblings. As the oldest I was responsible for my younger siblings, one of them, a precocious younger sister who forced me to excel in ways that weren't expected. In addition, my mother had the insight to allow me to do things on my own without any interference. This story leads you from tears to laughter. You might ask yourself does her struggle with independence have to do with her physical disability or society itself? I hope my story inspires others like myself to write their story.

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Women of the Right

Comparisons and Interplay Across Borders

By: Kathleen M. Blee,Sandra McGee Deutsch

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Women of the Right

Comparisons and Interplay Across Borders

By: Kathleen M. Blee,Sandra McGee Deutsch

An interdisciplinary collection of essays examining the role of women in right-wing political activism around the world, from the Afrikaner movement in South Africa in the early twentieth century to the supporters of Sarah Palin in the United States"--Provided by publisher.

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Penn State Press

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An Archaeology of Persecuted Peoples

Religion and Hate in the Mountains of Asia

By: Sandra Scham

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An Archaeology of Persecuted Peoples

Religion and Hate in the Mountains of Asia

By: Sandra Scham

This book examines the pasts and presents of some of the world’s most persecuted peoples, in search of answers to the question of why minorities living in Asia’s Highlands, with ancient roots in their homelands, have been continually oppressed by both historical and modern governments. The role of religious beliefs and practices is crucial to their story of isolation, tenacity, and resistance in the mountains of Asia. The Rohingya, Uyghurs, Hazara, Yazidis, Armenians, and Samaritans were among the earliest adopters of monotheist religions in their respective regions. The chapters devoted to each of these ethno-religious minorities explore the archaeological evidence for their millennia-old presence in South, East, and West Asia, their historical trajectories, and the more recent events that have decimated their populations and destroyed their ways of living. Examining both the parochial and universalist roots of their beliefs and practices as they evolved from the Axial Age teachings of Zoroaster, the Israelite prophets, and Ancient Greek philosophers, this book explains how the people of the Arakan, Tienshan, Hazarajat, Sinjar, Tauru,s and Gerizim mountains came to be regarded as perennial enemies of empires and nations.

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Taylor & Francis

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1040194095

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NSTA Guide to Planning School Science Facilities

By: LaMoine L. Motz,James T. Biehle,Sandra S. West

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NSTA Guide to Planning School Science Facilities

By: LaMoine L. Motz,James T. Biehle,Sandra S. West

Provides guidance and tools for planning a school science facility, discussing general room design, budget, furnishings, and other related topics and discussing safety, accessibility, and legal guidelines.

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1933531088

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