This text analyzes research from more than 100 studies on classroom management to discover the answers to these questions: *How does classroom management affect student achievement? *What techniques do teachers find most effective? *How important are schoolwide policies and practices in setting the tone for individual classroom management? With ...
This is a comprehensive book on newborn care written for expectant and new parents. This book focuses on the crucial time (birth to two months) when parents can lay the groundwork for confident parenting. Heading Home represents a blending of author experiences - a book that depicts the reality of parenting from a parent's perspective, but with a ...
One of the most influential books in the field in years! Making Content Comprehensible for English Learners: The SIOP(R) Model presents a coherent, specific, field-tested model of sheltered instruction that specifies the features of a high quality sheltered lesson that teaches content material to English language learners. For twelve years, ...
This book clearly defines, "sheltered instruction," or Specially Designed Academic Instruction in English (SDAIE), and provides strategies for its successful implementation in the K-12 classroom. Unlike any other book on the market, this popular resource focuses on using sheltered instruction with students of varying abilities, making it a unique ...
Like no other text on the market, Making Content Comprehensible presents an empirically validated model of sheltered instruction. This text provides the Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol (SIOP) model, which provides school administrators, staff developers, teachers, teacher candidates, university faculty, and field experience supervisors ...
Demystifying 52 common behaviors of toddlers, this entertaining, reassuring guide to toddler behavior shows parents how to get through their kids' toddlerhood with affection, humor, and authority, and appreciate the miraculous development of their children.
Get the facts on temples, tithing, missions, and caffeine. Mormon doctrines, rituals, and history, demystified at last! Mormonism, or the LDS Church, is one of the world's fastest growing religions. But unless you were raised a Mormon, you probably don't have a clear picture of LDS beliefs and practices. Covering everything from Joseph Smith and ...
There is magic and mystery in the French farmhouse known as Pistoulet. Here in Southwestern France, situated between the Field of Echoes and the Hill of Forgotten Dreams, Mademoiselle J. uncovers the ancient recipes which transform the weary guests at Pistoulet. There is redemption in the Tourte of Friendship, Potage of Passion, Celestial Croutons ...
This true story chronicles the travels of Baby, a three-legged poodle rescued from a puppy mill, who, along with her human, Kohl, aim to raise awareness and help stop animal cruelty. 100 full-color photographs throughout.
While books about adoption proliferate, none of them addresses the subject of open an interracial adoption like Jana Wolff's personal and frank account does.
"Building the Awesome Organization" discusses the eight components of an awesome organization. This book will help you to realize the core competencies for growth. It describes the processes, policies and systems that support growth. Find out how to attract and retain awesome people and develop an environment that motivates and empowers people to ...
With the wise-cracking ghost of her mother-in-law hounding her, a sexy half-Creole investigator ready to seduce her, and a killer on the loose, Maryse Robicheaux is feeling the heat on the Louisiana bayou.
When Deputy Dorie Berenger finds a stoned alligator in the town drunk's swimming pool, she realizes big-city crime has found its way to the small town of Gator Bait, Louisiana, and so has a stunningly handsome DEA agent. Original.
A leading conservative thinker offers the first in-depth look at the religious life of America's greatest founding father, George Washington. George Washington has long been viewed as the patron saint of secular government, but in "Washington's God", Michael Novak and his daughter, Jana, reveal that it was Washington's strong faith in divine ...
This work tells a true story about four young friends diagnosed with breast cancer and the monthly luncheon that lifted their spirits. Like any group of young women, Patti, Kim, Jennifer and Jana talked about their latest career moves, the men in their lives, and their dreams for family when they met each month for lunch at the trendy cafe at ...
Winnie Ruth Judd--who allegedly killed and dismembered two friends, stuffed them in trunks, and checked them as baggage on a train--at long last speaks to an award-winning investigative journalist, in this explosive true-crime story that rips the lid off an age-old cover-up to reveal the real crime and the real victim. Photographs. NBC-TV ...
The Perfect Companion to Making Content Comprehensible for English Learners: The SIOP(R) Model!!! This long-awaited new book by acclaimed authors MaryEllen Vogt and Jana Echevarria offers research-based, SIOP(R)-tested techniques for lessons that include the eight SIOP(R) components. The 99 ideas and activities in this book include a few familiar ...
Learn how to take your company to the next level of growth through the stories of over 500 successful entrepreneurs. Developed by the Kauffman Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership, this flagship book introduces a new series on managing growth. The authors expertly guide you through the three stages of entrepreneurial growth: initial growth, rapid ...
The contributors, who teach in seminaries and divinity schools across the USA, bring a variety of theological and denominational perspectives to the subject. They are united, however, in their concern for the importance of the performance of the sermon - not in a shallow or theatrical sense, but as an essential aspect of bringing God's word to ...
Loretta Bowersock and her daughter, Terri, ran a multimillion-dollar furniture store based in Tempe, Arizona, where they were well-known and admired by many. Together, these two women seemed to be living the American Dream - until one man decided to take it all away. Over the course of two decades, Taw Benderly worked his way into Loretta's heart, ...
For introductory and intermediate courses in computer forensics, digital investigations, or computer crime investigation By applying information systems, computer security, and criminal justice principles and practices to crime investigations and other legal actions, this text teaches students how to use forensically-sound methodologies and ...
The team that made international best-sellers of "The Secrets of Pistoulet" and "Dancing with the Moon" returns with a powerful new tale of transformation and the healing power of love, this one set in Ireland, that most magical and warm-hearted of countries. "In the enchanted Irish countryside of ancient forests, singing bridges, and babbling ...
This reader provides over 40 selections of enduring intellectual value--classic articles, book excerpts, and research studies--that have shaped the study of multicultural education and our contemporary understanding of it.
This work describes art in the age of digital communication. Artists have always been early adopters of emerging media technologies, from Albrecht Durer and his use of the printing press in the 16th century to Nam June Paik's experiments with video in the 1960s. In 1994, the advent of the Internet as a popular medium catalyzed a global art ...
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