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Author: James Guilford Publisher: iUniverse ISBN: 1440166439 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 290
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Kendry wants a life as hearty and remarkable as the lives of the black girls...Kendry wants to smoke marijuana and be bold enough to announce it on a crowded train. Kendry wants the black girls' struggles, their tragedies, and their poverty and resilience. Kendry wants to stand among them and complain sassily about her mother. Most of all, Kendry wants to be their friend. Kendry wants to belong. As the daughter of a drug-addict and a victim of school bullying, Kendry Clare longs for a better life. Her mother's financial ruin provides Kendry with just this opportunity. On her first day at Paul Lawrence Dunbar, an all-black high school, Kendry tells a reckless lie that initiates a chain of events that catapults her into popularity and, ultimately, controversy.
Author: James Guilford Publisher: iUniverse ISBN: 1440166439 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 290
Book Description
Kendry wants a life as hearty and remarkable as the lives of the black girls...Kendry wants to smoke marijuana and be bold enough to announce it on a crowded train. Kendry wants the black girls' struggles, their tragedies, and their poverty and resilience. Kendry wants to stand among them and complain sassily about her mother. Most of all, Kendry wants to be their friend. Kendry wants to belong. As the daughter of a drug-addict and a victim of school bullying, Kendry Clare longs for a better life. Her mother's financial ruin provides Kendry with just this opportunity. On her first day at Paul Lawrence Dunbar, an all-black high school, Kendry tells a reckless lie that initiates a chain of events that catapults her into popularity and, ultimately, controversy.
Author: Cari Harris Publisher: ISBN: 9780615815145 Category : Languages : en Pages : 118
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Surprise! You've just been laid off from the teaching position in which you have so passionately invested your time, talents and heart for years! What now? Hundreds of thousands of American teachers have been laid off in the last four years as a result of the long term recession that continues to challenge the country's economy. In this book, one of those teachers shares what that experience was like for her, how she coped with unexpected unemployment, and what she learned about finding her way as a teacher without a classroom. Full of not only truthful reflection and encouragement for teachers facing similar situations, this book also offers practical tips for how to handle lay-off and unemployment, and how to prepare yourself as an education professional to expand your career outside your classroom. These are uncertain times, but teachers don't need to feel uncertain about their careers. There IS life as an education professional after lay-off!
Author: Patricia Vaccarino Publisher: ISBN: 9781935359234 Category : Public relations Languages : en Pages : 0
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This carefully thought out and well-crafted PR primer gives people all of the pieces they need to create a solid brand identity that will help them to get hired, develop their careers and increase their business. Now, in order to be seen and heard above the din and to reach the right target audiences, everyone must build a solid brand identity. By following the Ps of PRforPeople, you will increase awareness for who you are and what you do. To promote you, your brand, and your business, you must carefully plan all elements of your promotion, which include the following Ps of PRforPeople: Persona, Positioning, Perception, Platform, Planning, Press, Pitching, Partnering, Performance and Persistence. All of these pieces together help to create a brand identity where the whole is greater than the sum of its parts so that your message about who you are and what you do breaks through the clutter in a way that will help to develop your career and increase your business.
Author: Erik Daniel Shein Publisher: World Castle Publishing, LLC ISBN: 1629895652 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 189
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A young African pygmy elephant must confront his fears to fulfill a dream and become a legend…. Thunder, a young pygmy forest elephant, sets out on a journey to find his mother after he escapes capture by poachers. With danger at every turn in the central African jungle, he must face his fears to survive. Some unlikely friends: Soma, a cranky rhino; Frederick, a nutty pink flamingo; Penelope, a chatty parrot; three kooky egrets; and Jennetta Blue, a blue butterfly; help him with his dream to find his mother and fulfill his quest to be reunited with his herd.
Author: Wayne Au Publisher: Rethinking Schools ISBN: 094296151X Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 324
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This powerful collection from the groundbreaking Rethinking Schools magazine takes high-stakes standardized tests to task. Despite overwhelming evidence that the tests are invalid ways to measure teaching and learning -- and continuing signs of their unjust effects on students and teachers -- "reformers" and policymakers continue to force high-stakes tests into the public schools. Through articles that provide thoughtful and emotional critiques from the frontlines of education, Pencils Down deconstructs the damage that standardized tests wreak on our education system and the human beings that populate it. Better yet, it offers visionary forms of assessment that are not only more authentic, but also more democratic, fair, and accurate.
Author: Tony White Publisher: Taylor & Francis ISBN: 1136139346 Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 512
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Sadly the days of the traditional studio apprenticeship in animation are long gone but this book enables the reader to find the next best thing, watching and observing a Master Animator at work. Become Tony White's personal animation apprentice, and experience the golden era of the great Disney and Warner Brothers studios right in your own home or studio. Tony White's Animation Master Class is uniquely designed to cover the core principles of animated movement comprehensively. It offers a DVD with animated movies and filmed excerpts of the author at his drawing board to illustrate the concepts as the work is being created. Tony White's Animation Master Class offers secrets and unique approaches only a Master Animator could share. The book comes out of the author's six years of real-world professional experience teaching animation, and 30 years of professional experience. Whether you want to become a qualified animator of 2D, 3D, Flash or any other form of animation, Tony White's foundations bring you closer to that goal. The DVD is invaluable, in that readers are not only taught principles and concepts in the book, they are able to see them demonstrated in action in the movies on the DVD.
Author: Maria Trolle Publisher: Gibbs Smith ISBN: 1423654013 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 0
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A special, limited edition of Botanicum coloring book with eight never-before-seen pages of artwork. Embark on a floral adventure in this garden of botanicals and beyond: Venture into a meadow filled with spring flowers, a cool summer lake, an autumn harvest, and winters first snow. Meet the birds, people, and animals who live together in this fairytale land in harmony with nature. Calm your mind as you color the seasons’ most beautiful plants. In this book you will also find a register of plants, birds, and butterflies found in the book. Features two new illustrations for each season, for eight new pages of illustrations.
Author: Audrey Elisa Kerr Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press ISBN: 9781572334625 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 176
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The Paper Bag Principle: Class, Colorism, and Rumor in the Case of Black Washington, D.C. considers the function of oral history in shaping community dynamics among African American residents of the nation's capitol. The only attempt to document rumor and legends relating to complexion in black communities, The Paper Bag Principle looks at the divide that has existed between the black elite and the black "folk." The Paper Bag Principle focuses on three objectives: to record lore related to the "paper bag principle" (the set of attitudes that granted blacks with light skin higher status in black communities); to investigate the impact that this "principle" has had on the development of black community consciousness; and to link this material to power that results from proximity to whiteness. The Paper Bag Principle is sure to appeal to scholars and historians interested in African American studies, cultural studies, oral history, folklore, and ethnic and urban studies.
Author: Linda Darling-Hammond Publisher: John Wiley & Sons ISBN: 1118889290 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 464
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Performance assessment is a hot topic in school systems, and educators continue to analyze its costs, benefits, and feasibility as a replacement for high-stakes testing. Until now, researchers and policymakers have had to dig to find out what we know and what we still have to learn about performance assessment. Beyond the Bubble Test: How Performance Assessments Support 21st Century Learning synthesizes the latest findings in the field, and not a moment too soon. Statistics indicate that the United States is in danger of falling behind if it fails to adapt to our changing world. The memory and recall strategies of traditional testing are no longer adequate to equip our students with the skills they need to excel in the global economy. Instead teachers need to engage students in deeper learning, assessing their ability to use higher-order skills. Skills like synthesizing information, understanding evidence, and critical problem-solving are not achieved when we teach to multiple-choice exams. Examples in Beyond the Bubble Test paint a useful picture of how schools can begin to supplement traditional tests with something that works better. This book provides new perspectives on current performance assessment research, plus an incisive look at what’s possible at the local and state levels. Linda Darling-Hammond, with a team of leading scholars, bring together lessons learned, new directions, and solid recommendations into a single, readily accessible compendium. Beyond the Bubble Test situates the current debate on performance assessment within the context of testing in the United States. This comprehensive resource also looks beyond our U.S. borders to Singapore, Hong Kong, and other places whose reform-mindedness can serve as an example to us.
Author: James Guilford
Author: James Guilford
Author: Cari Harris
Author: Patricia Vaccarino
Author: Erik Daniel Shein
Author: Wayne Au
Author: Tony White
Author: Maria Trolle
Author: Tony White
Author: Audrey Elisa Kerr
Author: Linda Darling-Hammond