Author: William R. Penuel Publisher: ISBN: 9781682530481 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 0
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This is a guide for researchers and district leaders to help them form and sustain long-terms partnerships to study and solve practical problems in education together.--
Author: Joyce L. Epstein Publisher: Corwin Press ISBN: 1483320014 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 508
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Strengthen programs of family and community engagement to promote equity and increase student success! When schools, families, and communities collaborate and share responsibility for students′ education, more students succeed in school. Based on 30 years of research and fieldwork, the fourth edition of the bestseller School, Family, and Community Partnerships: Your Handbook for Action, presents tools and guidelines to help develop more effective and more equitable programs of family and community engagement. Written by a team of well-known experts, it provides a theory and framework of six types of involvement for action; up-to-date research on school, family, and community collaboration; and new materials for professional development and on-going technical assistance. Readers also will find: Examples of best practices on the six types of involvement from preschools, and elementary, middle, and high schools Checklists, templates, and evaluations to plan goal-linked partnership programs and assess progress CD-ROM with slides and notes for two presentations: A new awareness session to orient colleagues on the major components of a research-based partnership program, and a full One-Day Team Training Workshop to prepare school teams to develop their partnership programs. As a foundational text, this handbook demonstrates a proven approach to implement and sustain inclusive, goal-linked programs of partnership. It shows how a good partnership program is an essential component of good school organization and school improvement for student success. This book will help every district and all schools strengthen and continually improve their programs of family and community engagement.
Author: J. Ceders Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 1984503618 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 225
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Jenny, a migrant from USA to Australia, is no more than a middle-class citizen of Queensland living as a programmer. Yet in secret, she is a member of a notorious hacking group with power to move—teleportation. It, however, changes on the night she bumps into a man who appears to be a professional wet worker and becomes a witness of a crime scene. The very night, her wealthy aunt is killed in a car accident, leaving Jenny as an heir of her unknown wealth. However, her aunt has also left a series of tests to inherit the wealth for unknown reasons. Then out of blue, her not-so-close cousin flew from America and contacts her while the man she bumped into on the other night also steps into her life again. Learning there is a hidden world of Receivers, possessors of special powers like herself, and Illumination, the most ancient organization of Receivers, Jenny realizes this is much more than just inheriting her inheritance.
Author: Sonia Nassery Cole Publisher: BenBella Books, Inc. ISBN: 1937856879 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 370
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When Sonia Nassery Cole set out to film The Black Tulip in her homeland of Afghanistan, she knew the odds were against her; she was told time and time again that filming inside a war zone would be impossible. What she didn't anticipate was how intent the Taliban and its sympathizers were on halting the film's production—the crew encountered extortion, government corruption, kidnapping attempts, and death threats, even with around-the-clock security. Her cinematographer fled after two days, and many others followed. After 9/11, Cole wrote The Black Tulip, based on a true story of a real Afghan family. The plot was simple: After 2001, when the Taliban was routed, an Afghan family opened The Poet's Corner—a restaurant with an open microphone for all to read poetry, perform music, and tell their stories. But the Taliban didn't approve, and the family's new-found hope proved fleeting as it struggled to maintain the restaurant and its vibrant way of life. Selected as Afghanistan's official submission for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 2010 Academy Awards, The Black Tulip is a modern portrait of Afghanistan that captures the plight and resilience of its people. Without financial support from a studio or anyone else, Cole self-financed the film by mortgaging her home and selling her belongings. Then, with everything on the line, she left for Kabul to make the impossible possible and set out to gather the right people who would risk their lives and willingly be part of the production. In Will I Live Tomorrow?, Cole gives an intimate look into what went on behind the scenes of making a controversial film in the heart of a war-ravaged country—the looming terror the Taliban creates among Afghans everywhere and the challenges and fear the cast and crew faced every day. Will I Live Tomorrow? is a memoir about one woman's struggle to make a difference in a violent world.
Author: Susan Albers Mohrman Publisher: Jossey-Bass ISBN: Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 488
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From issues of strategy and structure to leadership and capability development, the authors combine their research and consulting experience to offer the latest thinking and emerging practices today's most successful companies have incorporated to achieve strategic market advantage. And they outline the flatter, more flexible and dynamic designs these companies have instituted.
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