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This gripping story -a year in the lives of three high school seniors and their school-takes us deep into the hearts and minds of American teenagers, and American society, today.
The seniors of Berkeley High are the white, black, Latino, Asian, and multiracial children of judges and carpenters, software consultants and garbage collectors, housewives and housekeepers. Some are Harvard bound; others are illiterate. They are the Class of 2000, and through...
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Charles Wolfe Collins is a veteran of the Civil War, an Irish immigrant, a reluctant Pinkerton operative and an independent agent frequently performing confidential investigations for powerful politicians in Washington D.C. In early 1879, he is summoned to the nation's capital by the Secretary of the Interior and requested to gather intelligence regarding the escape of the Northern Cheyenne from Indian Territory and subsequent military actions intended...
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This is an easy-to-read guide for all teachers looking to meet the needs of Multilingual Learners/English Learners, in particular Newcomers and SLIFE (Students with Limited or Interrupted Formal Education). Educators may feel intimidated admitting that they need to learn more about ways to help their students, here they will find easy-to-implement and non-judgmental support that busy teachers can put into place from the first moment they pick up the...
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La historia del planeta es contada por muchas civilizaciones, y los pueblos mayas de Guatemala pusieron especial magia en ello.
De la rica tradición oral de los primeros pobladores de Centroamérica, seleccionamos dos historias que explican algunos fenómenos naturales y los convertimos en cuentos para niños. Así, la enseñanza de los nahuales (palabra maya para decir "abuelos") se escribió e ilustró por jóvenes creadores guatemaltecos para...
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On the wild river that divides Namibia from Angola, members of the Himba tribe herd cattle as they have done for hundreds of years. But the world of the Himba sits in the shadow of third-world development and the inevitability of change that threatens their way of life; now, they are more likely to attend evangelical church services, congregate around the liquor trader's truck, and pose for tourists' photographs. Sandra Shields and David Campion spent...
67) Advancing Equity and Embracing Diversity in Early Childhood Education: Elevating Voices and Actions
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Together, the voices of early childhood educators, scholars, and professionals can sound the call to advance the profession toward more equitable, educational experiences, systems, and practices for all children. This book showcases many of these voices from across the field of early childhood education and invites you to think about and discuss ways you can add your own voice to that call.
Expanding on recommendations from NAEYC's "Advancing Equity...
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An ongoing challenge facing educators is the rising need to best accommodate English language learners in today's classrooms. As the ELL population continues to significantly increase, there is also a demand for quality teacher preparation aligned with this work, as well. This growth requires a concrete understanding of the research surrounding the acquisition of English as a second language, but even more so, the instructional tools necessary for...
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Amplify Every Student's Potential
Do you ever wonder how you'll reach challenging students (You know the ones.) and bring out the best in every single student?
Be Their Warrior will inspire you, stretch you, empathize with you, and empower you to be a warrior for all students.
Award-winning educator, Pamela Hall shares her strategies and stories for building unwavering, life-changing relationships through Culture, Community, & Being STRONG. You'll...
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Literacy is the foundation for all learning and must be accessible to all students. This fundamental truth is where Kimberly Parker begins to explore how culturally relevant teaching can help students work toward justice. Her goal is to make the literacy classroom a place where students can safely talk about key issues, move to dismantle inequities, and collaborate with one another. Introducing diverse texts is an essential part of the journey, but...
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True or false? The continued presence of the racial achievement gap is not merely an indication of how poorly individual students perform but more of an indication of a school's lack of effectiveness in teaching certain students. Depending on how one answers the previous question ultimately depends on one's understanding of the importance of equity-based and culturally responsive practices in the classroom.
As K-12 schools continue to grow increasingly...
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Ayude a sus Hijos a Tener Éxito en High School y Llegar al College is a guide translated to Spanish for Latino parents that stresses the importance of education and provides a framework for parents to put their children on a college-bound path. It explains the American educational system, how parents can get involved, how to help children stay focused and motivated, scholarships available for Latino children, student loans, choosing the right college,...
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In Black, Brown + Latinx Design Educators, Kelly Walters collects twelve deeply personal interviews with graphic design educators of color who teach at colleges and universities across the United States and Canada. The book centers the unique narratives of Black, Brown, and Latinx design educators, from their childhood experiences to their navigation of undergraduate and graduate studies and their career paths in academia and practice. The interviewees...
74) Sin
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Over the past several years Zakhar Prilepin has emerged as a discovery in the world of prose fiction. Drawing on his experiences of peacetime labor in Putin's Russia, as well as his service with the Russian Special Forces in Chechnya, Zakhar Prilepin creates in the novel "Sin" an outstanding and controversial piece of work.
In the episodes of Zakharka's happy life, in non-chronological order, the reader sees him as a little boy, a bitterly drinking...
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A teacher discovers how reading, writing, and imagining can help children grow, change, and even sometimes survive
A few years back, children's-book writer Sam Swope gave a workshop to a third-grade class in Queens. So enchanted was he with his twenty-eight students that he "adopted" the class for three years, teaching them to write stories and poems. Almost all were new Americans (his class included students fom twenty-one countries) and Swope was...
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Every year, hundreds of thousands of young people pack their bags to study or volunteer abroad. Well-intentioned and curious Westerners-brought up to believe that international travel broadens our horizons-travel to low-income countries to learn about people and cultures different from their own. But while travel abroad can provide much-needed perspective, it can also be deeply unsettling, confusing, and discomforting. Travelers can find themselves...
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On forming people who form communion
Theological education has always been about formation: first of people, then of communities, then of the world. If we continue to promote whiteness and its related ideas of masculinity and individualism in our educational work, it will remain diseased and thwart our efforts to heal the church and the world. But if theological education aims to form people who can gather others together through border-crossing pluralism...
78) Fiche de lecture : Moi, Malala de Malala Yousafzai: Résumé complet et analyse détaillée de l'oeuvre
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Décryptez Moi, Malala, je lutte pour l'éducation et je résiste aux talibans de Malala Yousafzai avec l'analyse du PetitLitteraire.fr !
Que faut-il retenir de Moi, Malala, je lutte pour l'éducation et je résiste aux talibans, le témoignage bouleversant de la lauréate du prix Nobel de la paix en 2014 ? Retrouvez tout ce que vous devez savoir sur cette œuvre dans une fiche de lecture complète et détaillée.
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It was the last day of rehearsals for tomorrow's Festival of Dance in the park. Kaa'hina was practising her African dance routine. For some unknown reason she kept getting her steps wrong. With all the reassurances from her mother and her teacher, she was still feeling glum. That night Kaa'hina parents presented her with a special gift that Grandma Pea had left for her, which takes Kaa'hina on a mystical and magical journey, where she meets her ancestors,...
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This is about a young African girl feeling sad and confused, not knowing why others are staring at her. A story that will guide your child & encourage others to see how it would feel to be looked upon differently from another persons point of view.
This story has been written by Anna Philp who was adopted at a very young age by an Australian couple and is viewed through her eyes as a child.
Not only is this educational for people from different...
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