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Category : Multicultural education
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
These Walls Between Us
Author: Wendy SanfordPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1647421683
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
From an author of the best-selling women’s health classic Our Bodies, Ourselves comes a bracingly forthright memoir about a life-long friendship across racial and class divides. A white woman’s necessary learning, and a Black woman’s complex evolution, make These Walls Between Us a “tender, honest, cringeworthy and powerful read.” (Debby Irving, author, Waking Up White.) In the mid-1950s, a fifteen-year-old African American teenager named Mary White (now Mary Norman) traveled north from Virginia to work for twelve-year-old Wendy Sanford’s family as a live-in domestic for their summer vacation by a remote New England beach. Over the years, Wendy's family came to depend on Mary’s skilled service—and each summer, Mary endured the extreme loneliness of their elite white beachside retreat in order to support her family. As the Black “help” and the privileged white daughter, Mary and Wendy were not slated for friendship. But years later—each divorced, each a single parent, Mary now a rising officer in corrections and Wendy a feminist health activist—they began to walk the beach together after dark, talking about their children and their work, and a friendship began to grow. Based on decades’ worth of visits, phone calls, letters, and texts between Mary and Wendy, These Walls Between Us chronicles the two women’s friendship, with a focus on what Wendy characterizes as her “oft-stumbling efforts, as a white woman, to see Mary more fully and to become a more dependable friend.” The book examines obstacles created by Wendy’s upbringing in a narrow, white, upper-class world; reveals realities of domestic service rarely acknowledged by white employers; and draws on classic works by the African American writers whose work informed and challenged Wendy along the way. Though Wendy is the work’s primary author, Mary read and commented on every draft—and together, the two friends hope their story will incite and support white readers to become more informed and accountable friends across the racial divides created by white supremacy and to become active in the ongoing movement for racial justice.
Walking Through Walls
Author: Philip SmithPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416542949
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Smith's hilarious and profound memoir about coming-of-age in 1960s Miami with a decorator father who discovers he has the power to talk to the dead and heal the sick.
Handbook of Research on Adapting Remote Learning Practices for Early Childhood and Elementary School Classrooms
Author: Ashley Courtney-DattolaPublisher: Information Science Reference
ISBN: 9781799884057
Category : Early childhood education
Languages : en
Pages : 848
Book Description
"This book will focus on teaching and learning practices for the young student via remote learning providing resources pertaining to remote learning for others to be able to access and including suggestions for lesson plans, formats, concepts, ideas or anything necessary to further the body of research pertaining to remote learning"--
Walls
Author: Marcello di CintioPublisher: Catapult
ISBN: 1593765657
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
What does it mean to live against a wall? Travel to the world’s most disputed edges to meet the people who live alongside the razor wire, concrete, and steel and how the structure of the walls has influenced their lives. In this ambitious first person narrative, Marcello Di Cintio shares tea with Saharan refugees on the wrong side of Morocco’s desert wall. He meets with illegal Punjabi migrants who have circumvented the fencing around the Spanish enclave of Ceuta. He visits fenced-in villages in northeast India, walks Arizona’s migrant trails, and travels to Palestinian villages to witness the protests against Israel’s security barrier. From Native American reservations on the U.S.-Mexico border and the “Great Wall of Montreal” to Cyprus’s divided capital and the Peace Lines of Belfast, Di Cintio seeks to understand what these structures say about those who build them and how they influence the cultures that they pen in. He learns that while every wall fails to accomplish what it was erected to achieve – the walls are never solutions – each wall succeeds at something else. Some walls define Us from Them with Medieval clarity. Some walls encourage fear or feed hate. Some walls steal. Others kill. And every wall inspires its own subversion, either by the infiltrators who dare to go over, under, or around them, or by the artists who transform them.
The Last Lecture
Author: Randy PauschPublisher:
ISBN: 9780340978504
Category : Cancer
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The author, a computer science professor diagnosed with terminal cancer, explores his life, the lessons that he has learned, how he has worked to achieve his childhood dreams, and the effect of his diagnosis on him and his family.
If the Walls Could Talk
Author: Jane O'ConnorPublisher: Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books
ISBN: 9780689868634
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In case you've ever wondered, the walls at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue have eyes and ears -- and, what's more, they don't miss a thing. Now, listen up because the walls have a thing or two to tell you! During President John Tyler's presidency, the White House was such a mess that it was called the "Public Shabby House." President William Howard Taft was so large that he had to have a jumbo-size bathtub installed -- one big enough for four people. President Andrew Jackson's "open door" policy at the White House resulted in 20,000 people showing up for his inauguration party. (The new president escaped to the quiet of a nearby hotel!) President Abraham Lincoln didn't mind at all that his younger sons, Tad and Willie, kept pet goats in their White House bedrooms. Children all across the country sent in their own money to build an indoor swimming pool for wheelchair-bound President Franklin D. Roosevelt so that he could exercise. President Harry S. Truman knew it was time to renovate the White House after a leg on his daughter's piano broke right through the floor. Hear these funny, surprising stories and more about the most famous home in America and the extraordinary families who have lived in it.
Learning Across Cultures
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Category : Multicultural education
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Project-Based Learning Across the Disciplines
Author: Acacia M. WarrenPublisher: Corwin Press
ISBN: 1506335071
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
A turnkey and cost-effective PBL framework that is highly recommended! Are you tired of complex and costly PBL models that fall short of your instructional goals? The +1PedagogyTM framework is a fresh new approach to project-based learning that helps you support students’ academic, literacy, and life goals. You’ll learn to easily blend theory and practice, core standards, 21st Century Skills, and technology for a comprehensive – and unforgettable - learning experience. K-12 educators, coaches and administrators will learn to: Stimulate students’ interest across disciplines Implement a turnkey, interdisciplinary framework Immerse students in authentic inquiry and real-world application Integrate college and career readiness and digital technology The book includes 9 sample units with interdisciplinary features and more than 30 helpful templates. Accelerate achievement with this inspiring and informative guide! "I have no doubt that Dr. Warren′s comprehensive, highly-readable, and excellent book will be a standard and sought-after resource for any teacher who strives to implement rigorous, exciting, and real-world project-based learning in their classroom." Elisa Salasin, Program Director of Developmental Teacher Education University of California, Berkeley "What a rich resource and blueprint to guide and support reluctant educators! This work will bring many stuck learning environments into the 21st century." Kendra Wallace, Principal The Joseph Sears School, Kenilworth, IL Dr. Warren’s framework will impact the learning of students and allow for creativity to blossom and ownership to be assumed by supporting both the educator and the learner." Deborah Hamm, Superintendent of Schools Newton USD, Newton, KS
Sacred Walls
Author: Gerald E. HansenPublisher: Covenant Communications
ISBN: 9781598117721
Category : Christian art and symbolism
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
This stunning photo essay examines the main symbolic motifs of several LDS temples, associating these motifs with sermons or visions in the Book of Mormon.
Handbook of Research on K-12 Blended and Virtual Learning Through the i²Flex Classroom Model
Author: Avgerinou, Maria D.Publisher: IGI Global
ISBN: 1799877620
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 710
Book Description
Teaching models that focus on blended and virtual learning have become important during the past year and have become integral for the continuance of learning. The i²Flex classroom model, a variation of blended learning, allows non-interactive teaching activities to take place without teachers’ direct involvement, freeing up time for more meaningful teacher-student and student-student interactions. There is evidence that i²Flex leads to increased student engagement and motivation as well as better exploitation of teachers’ and classroom time leading to the development of higher order cognitive skills as well as study skills for students' future needs related to citizenship, college, and careers. The Handbook of Research on K-12 Blended and Virtual Learning Through the i²Flex Classroom Model focuses not only on how to design, deliver, and evaluate courses, but also on how to assess teacher performance in a blended i2Flex way at the K12 level. The book will discuss the implementation of the i²Flex (isquareFlex), a non-traditional learning methodology, which integrates internet-based delivery of content and instruction with faculty-guided, student-independent learning in combination with face-to-face classroom instruction aiming at developing higher order cognitive skills within a flexible learning design framework. While highlighting new methods for improving the classroom and learning experience in addition to preparing students for higher education and careers, this publication is an essential reference source for pre-service and in-service teachers, researchers, administrators, educational technology developers, and students interested in how the i2Flex model was implemented in classrooms and the effects of this learning model.