Safe Is Not Enough illustrates how educators can support the positive development of LGBTQ students in a comprehensive way so as to create truly inclusive school communities. Using examples from classrooms, schools, and districts across the country, Michael Sadowski identifies emerging practices such as creating an LGBTQ-inclusive curriculum; fostering a whole-school climate that is supportive of LGBTQ students; providing adults who can act as mentors and role mod...

By 2040, more than 30 percent of students in the United States will be immigrants or the children of immigrants.What factors can help these young people thrive in school, despite the many obstacles they face? And how can school staff best support immigrant students’ academic and personal success?In Portraits of Promise, educators hear from the ultimate experts—successful newcomer students. Drawing on the students’ own stories, the book highlights t...

Safe Is Not Enough illustrates how educators can support the positive development of LGBTQ students in a comprehensive way so as to create truly inclusive school communities.Using examples from classrooms, schools, and districts across the country, Michael Sadowski identifies emerging practices such as creating an LGBTQ-inclusive curriculum; fostering a whole-school climate that is supportive of LGBTQ students; providing adults who can act as mentors and r...

Men I've Never Been recounts Michael Sadowski's odyssey as a boy who shuns his own identity—and, ultimately, his sexual orientation—in order to become who he thinks he's supposed to be. Beginning with the memory of a four-year-old sitting in a dingy dive bar, sounding out newspaper headlines while his boasting father collects drinks from onlookers, each chapter highlights a different image of manhood that Sadowski saw at home, at school, or on television—from sports heroes, hunter...

Warm-water islands are a cohesive group of islands distinguished by their geography and remoteness, history as former colonial territories, and dependence on external stakeholders for their economic and social development. Warm-water island destinations also have a year-round tourism industry. These island tourism destinations are facing unprecedented adjustment challenges in the wake of increasing globalization and susceptibility to external shocks, and are in search of appropriate policy...

Flüchtlinge stellen derzeit und in absehbarer Zeit eine, wenn nicht die zentrale Herausforderung für Europa und die deutsche Gesellschaft dar. Das Buch bringt im Kontext der aktuellen Situation unterschiedliche Facetten der komplexen Thematik zur Geltung. Es ist inter- und transdisziplinär angelegt und verbindet theoretische Grundlagen und wissenschaftliche Zugänge mit Handlungsorientierungen und Praxisbeispielen. Geflüchtete bringen sich mit ihren Geschichten zur Sprache. Grundlegende Asp...

Adolescents at School brings together the perspectives of scholars, educators, and researchers to address the many issues that affect adolescents’ emerging identities, especially in relation to students’ experience of and engagement with school. The book offers current and preservice teachers a practical understanding of the concept of identity development, particularly as impacted by such factors as race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, ability/disability,...

Die vorliegende Coaching-Forschung bezieht sich bisher fast nur auf Face-to-Face-Coaching. Angesichts des aktuellen Booms von Online-Coaching stellt sich deshalb die Frage, ob bzw. mit welchen Modifikationen die vorliegenden Forschungsergebnisse auch für Online-Coaching gelten. Darüber hinaus stellt sich die ebenfalls wenig geklärte Frage, wie sich Erfolge im Coaching angemessen konzeptionalisieren lassen. Diese beiden Fragen beantwortet die vorliegende Untersuchung, indem gezeigt wird, wi...

"“Who is he?” I asked.“The worst man in London,” Holmes answered, as he sat down and stretched his legs before the fire." And so begins this Sherlock Holmes adventure with the most morally corrupt and vile man in London. A man whom Sherlock must accept into his home and treat with professional courtesy despite intense personal disgust and animosity. What power does this man hold over Holmes and the other people he forces into terrible situations?

In Replacement Parts, internationally recognized bioethicist Arthur L. Caplan and coeditors James J. McCartney and Daniel P. Reid assemble seminal writings from medicine, philosophy, economics, and religion that address the ethical challenges raised by organ transplantation. Caplan's new lead essay explains the shortfalls of present policies. From there, book sections take an interdisciplinary approach to fundamental issues like the determination of death and the dead donor rule; the divis...

Features Red Sonja issues 13-18 of the critically-acclaimed series, plus a complete cover gallery, and sketch material!This brand-new digital Dynamite collection includes the Red Sonja storyline that forever changed the world of the She-Devil with a Sword as Sonja faces THE RETURN OF KULAN GATH!After the events of issue #12, Red Sonja faced the growing menace of an unseen Kulan Gath as he operated from behind the shadows through his puppet god, the Borat Na-Fori! Now, in these very pages, ...

Reprinting Issues 8-12 Of The Fan-Favorite Red Sonja Series, plus bonus materials!