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Languages : en
Pages : 132
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Zooschool Animal Behavior at the Minnesota Zoo for Gifted/talented Senior High School Students
Author: Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science
Author: Minnesota Academy of SciencePublisher:
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 524
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Program of Annual Meeting and Papers Presented at Annual Meeting
Author: Minnesota Academy of SciencesPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 634
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Somewhere in the Unknown World
Author: Kao Kalia YangPublisher: Metropolitan Books
ISBN: 1250296862
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 189
Book Description
From “an exceptional storyteller,” Somewhere in the Unknown World is a collection of powerful stories of refugees who have found new lives in Minnesota’s Twin Cities, told by the award-winning author of The Latehomecomer and The Song Poet. All over this country, there are refugees. But beyond the headlines, few know who they are, how they live, or what they have lost. Although Minnesota is not known for its diversity, the state has welcomed more refugees per capita than any other, from Syria to Bosnia, Thailand to Liberia. Now, with nativism on the rise, Kao Kalia Yang—herself a Hmong refugee—has gathered stories of the stateless who today call the Twin Cities home. Here are people who found the strength and courage to rebuild after leaving all they hold dear. Awo and her mother, who escaped from Somalia, reunite with her father on the phone every Saturday, across the span of continents and decades. Tommy, born in Minneapolis to refugees from Cambodia, cannot escape the war that his parents carry inside. As Afghani flees the reach of the Taliban, he seeks at every stop what he calls a certificate of his humanity. Mr. Truong brings pho from Vietnam to Frogtown in St. Paul, reviving a crumbling block as well as his own family. In Yang’s exquisite, necessary telling, these fourteen stories for refugee journeys restore history and humanity to America's strangers and redeem its long tradition of welcome.
From the Tops of the Trees
Author: Kao Kalia YangPublisher: Carolrhoda Books ®
ISBN: 1728446252
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and sentence highlighting for an engaging read aloud experience! "Father, is all of the world a refugee camp?" Young Kalia has never known life beyond the fences of the Ban Vinai Refugee Camp. The Thai camp holds many thousands of Hmong families who fled in the aftermath of the little-known Secret War in Laos that was waged during America's Vietnam War. For Kalia and her cousins, life isn't always easy, but they still find ways to play, racing with chickens and riding a beloved pet dog. Just four years old, Kalia is still figuring out her place in the world. When she asks what is beyond the fence, at first her father has no answers for her. But on the following day, he leads her to the tallest tree in the camp and, secure in her father's arms, Kalia sees the spread of a world beyond. Kao Kalia Yang's sensitive prose and Rachel Wada's evocative illustrations bring to life this tender true story of the love between a father and a daughter.
Teaching with Fire
Author: Sam M. IntratorPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0787969702
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
Reclaim Your Fire "Teaching with Fire is a glorious collection of the poetry that has restored the faith of teachers in the highest, most transcendent values of their work with children....Those who want us to believe that teaching is a technocratic and robotic skill devoid of art or joy or beauty need to read this powerful collection. So, for that matter, do we all." ?Jonathan Kozol, author of Amazing Grace and Savage Inequalities "When reasoned argument fails, poetry helps us make sense of life. A few well-chosen images, the spinning together of words creates a way of seeing where we came from and lights up possibilities for where we might be going....Dip in, read, and ponder; share with others. It's inspiration in the very best sense." ?Deborah Meier, co-principal of The Mission Hill School, Boston and founder of a network of schools in East Harlem, New York "In the Confucian tradition it is said that the mark of a golden era is that children are the most important members of the society and teaching is the most revered profession. Our jour ney to that ideal may be a long one, but it is books like this that will sustain us - for who are we all at our best save teachers, and who matters more to us than the children?" ?Peter M. Senge, founding chair, SoL (Society for Organizational Learning) and author of The Fifth Discipline Those of us who care about the young and their education must find ways to remember what teaching and learning are really about. We must find ways to keep our hearts alive as we serve our students. Poetry has the power to keep us vital and focused on what really matters in life and in schooling. Teaching with Fire is a wonderful collection of eighty-eight poems from such well-loved poets as Walt Whitman, Langston Hughes, Billy Collins, Emily Dickinson, and Pablo Neruda. Each of these evocative poems is accompanied by a brief story from a teacher explaining the significance of the poem in his or her life's work. This beautiful book also includes an essay that describes how poetry can be used to grow both personally and professionally. Teaching With Fire was written in partnership with the Center for Teacher Formation and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Royalties from this book will be used to fund scholarship opportunities for teachers to grow and learn.
Invitation to Lifelong Learning
Author: Ronald GrossPublisher:
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Collection of essays and lectures on the basic principles of adult education and continuing education - discusses Motivation for learning and warns of the dangers of passive learning; praises the merits of self instruction; argues that a fast-changing world requires lateral rather than vertical transmission of knowledge; outlines Paulo Freire's pedagogics of literacy and culture; describes American educational development, and the concept of andragogy; provides case studies.
School Meal Programs
Author: United States Government Accountability OfficePublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781983892134
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
School Meal Programs: Changes to Federal Agencies' Procedures Could Reduce Risk of School Children Consuming Recalled Food
The Journal of Physical Education
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ISBN:
Category : Physical education and training
Languages : en
Pages : 506
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