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Create schools students don′t want to missChronic absenteeism continues to affect schools across the world, yet traditional approaches—rewards, punishments, and attendance campaigns—rarely address the underlying reasons students miss school. Improving Attendance in Your School and Classroom offers educators, school leaders, counselors, and support staff a comprehensive, research-grounded framework for improving attendance through relationships, engagement,...

A University of Texas at Austin art student comes home to find police on her doorstep. They tell her that her microbiologist mother and engineer father as well as all of her parents' coworkers are dead. Isa wants to understand what happened. She enlists the assistance of an investigative journalist to find out. The pair have no idea where this search will take them.This book is first in a trilogy called After Normal. It takes place in a period from the year 2003 to 2045. W...

Nancy MacDonell Smith explores the origins, meaning, and remarkable staying power of the ten staples of feminine fashion:* the little black dress* the white shirt* the cashmere sweater* blue jeans* the suit* high heels* pearls* lipstick* sneakers* the trench coatTracing the evolution of each item from inception to icon status, she reveals the history and social significance of each, from the black dress's associat...

The management of scar tissue is a huge and growing problem for massage and other manual therapists. Research has showed that appropriate massage treatment can have significant results both physically and psychologically.Existing books have chapters on the problem but there is no practical manual available on the subject at the present time which tells the therapist what to do (and what not to do). This book fills that gap, explaining the physiologic and pathophysiologic background...

My book shares places I went for Tupperware--people I worked for, worked with, met, and partied with.

Imagine a school with a diverse student body where everyone feels safe and valued, and all—regardless of race, culture, home language, sexual orientation, gender identity, academic history, and individual challenges—have the opportunity to succeed with interesting classes, projects, and activities. In this school, teachers notice and meet individual instructional needs and foster a harmonious and supportive environment. All students feel empowered to learn, to grow, and to pursue their dre...

Create classrooms where every student knows they belongBelonging is an instinctual feeling that serves as the ultimate gatekeeper for learning. There′s a difference between fitting in and belonging, and the cost of energy expended to "fit in" comes at the cost of disconnection. As an educator, you know the struggle of trying to reach students who feel unseen or undervalued. This updated, easy-to-use playbook tackles this urgent challenge by exploring the 11 dimensi...

ASCD Bestseller! Classroom management is traditionally a matter of encouraging good behavior and discouraging bad by doling out rewards and punishments. But studies show that when educators empower students to address and correct misbehavior among themselves, positive results are longer lasting and more wide reaching.In Better Than Carrots or Sticks, longtime educators and best-selling authors Dominique Smith, Douglas Fisher, and Nancy Frey provide a pract...

Friends at a volleyball party by the Firebrand River, discover strange, green pollution and a human finger bone. Mira Cash, the owner of the land, works with police and an EPA investigator to help solve both this new mystery and a twenty-year-old cold case.The Firebrand River is Book Two of the trilogy: After Normal. This trilogy describes current times crumbling into ruin through the year 2045. It's about people living with love and hope after the world's devastation. The books ar...

The Complete Book of Grant Writing is the ultimate grant book that shows you how to write a grant proposal if you're seeking funding through government grants, foundation grants, and specialty grants. Grant proposal writing is an intricate process where any bits of misinformation or formatting errors can mean the difference between securing funding or not. Professional grant writer Nancy Burke Smith and philanthropy consultant and grant maker E. Gabriel Works unveil the secrets behind how ...

This is a Southern Gothic suspense, romance story soaked in secrets, tangled legacies, and slow-burn betrayal.All set against the haunting beauty of Kiawah Island, South Carolina.When Anna Cooke inherits a weather-beaten beach house from her late Aunt Meredith, she returns home hoping for peace and closure. What she finds is a cottage in flames, a mysterious caretaker who may be more than he seems, a jailed family friend, and a fortune buried under generations of silence. T...

The authors skillfully combine a philosophical and pragmatic approach, exploring the cognitive processes behind children’s painting. To deepen children’s understanding, the book suggests meaningful tasks for each phase of imagery and offers methods for encouraging children to discuss the concepts involved in their work. Focusing on children from 1-1/2 to 11, the authors include in this second edition: a more detailed discussion about painting in the preschool; an expanded description of te...