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This authoritative handbook examines the community, district, and teacher leadership roles that affect urban schools. It will serve as a foundation for pedagogical and educational leadership practices that foster social justice, equity, and advocacy for those who have been traditionally …
Falcon Guides
This revised and updated guidebook--now in full color--provides rock climbers with information on the best climbs in Virginia, West Virginia, and Maryland, accompanied with color action photographs, climbing history for each area, route ratings and trip planning information, pitch-by-pitch written …
Falcon Guides
Spanning the border between Virginia and North Carolina, the Blue Ridge Parkway is the most heavily visited unit of the National Park system. These short, easy hikes will entice the more than twenty million annual visitors to stretch their legs …
View book details for Breaking Away from the Corporate Model
Even More Lessons from Principal to Principal
R&L Education
Breaking Away from the Corporate Model integrates the core values of servant leadership into an effective formula for organizational health and school transformation. Providing strategies for transformation, Rocky Wallace follows a high school principal, John, as he extends his servant …
View book details for Mentoring for School Quality
How Educators Can Be More Professional and Effective
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Making Mentoring Work should help educators to mentor or to be mentored effectively in our schools. We all have had mentors, those key adults from family, work, or schools who have assisted us in learning and becoming good adults, skilled …
View book details for Differentiating Instruction
Matching Strategies with Objectives
R&L Education
In this book you will improve the instructional strategies you are currently using and learn new ones to add to your repertoire. Accomplishing this task will provide you the variety that will better match different kinds of objectives with corresponding …
View book details for A Pianist's Dictionary
Reflections on a Life
Hamilton Books
A Pianist's Dictionary is an exploration of the world of the classical pianist and piano professor. The author deconstructs the many familiar words that help describe these worlds as well as their practitioners. Based upon a lifetime of experience as …
View book details for Hiking Colorado's Sangre de Cristos and Great Sand Dunes
A Guide to the Area's Greatest Hiking Adventures
Falcon Guides
Lace up your boots and head into Colorado's rugged Sangre de Cristo Mountains to explore this spine of soaring peaks that stand more than a mile above the San Luis and Wet Mountain Valleys. Here you'll discover plunging creeks, gorges …
View book details for Insiders' Guide: San Antonio in Your Pocket
Your Guide to an Hour, a Day, or a Weekend in the City
Insider's Guide
Insiders Guide in Your Pocket is a new series of miniguides that distill the best of the trusted Insiders Guide series into easy-to-use, portable, quick referenceseach with two popout maps and detailed listings on hotels, restaurants, and attractions, as well …
Falcon Guides
Best Easy Day Hikes Phoenix features concise descriptions and easy-to-follow maps of twenty-eight easily manageable hikes through some of the most breathtaking scenery in the Valley of the Sun - from Piestewa Peak (formerly Squaw Peak), which dominates Phoenix's northern …
Lyons Press
With this book, A. D. Livingston combines a lifetime of Southern culinary knowledge with his own love of authentic home smoking and curing techniques. He teaches how to prepare smoked and salted hams, fish, jerky, and gameadapting todays materials to …
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Exploring Information Age Realities for Schools
R&L Education
The public education system has the capacity to slowly and quietly resist all attempts at systemic change or reform; this resistance has become even more tangible and definable over the past fifteen years as reforms to bring schools up-to-date are …
View book details for Geek Silicon Valley
The Inside Guide to Palo Alto, Stanford, Menlo Park, Mountain View, Santa Clara, Sunnyvale, San Jose, San Francisco
Globe Pequot Press
Silicon Valley veterans and newbies alike will want to explore this book that delves into the rich history behind the region that birthed the world's most important industry. Technology journalist Ashlee Vance has captured almost every aspect of the area …
View book details for Home Port Cookbook
Beloved Recipes from Marthas Vineyard
Lyons Press
100+ recipes, photos, and memories from a Martha's Vineyard landmark The Home Port embodies summertime on Marthas Vineyard. Its where it resides. --James TaylorToday, when I turn an eye inward, I see the Home Port hanging in the memory halls …
Lyons Press
Grillin' Wild, a cooking show for hunters and fishermen that many consider the best outdoor cooking show on TV, finds creator and host Rick Browne as the Wild Game Chef, sharing recipes from hunting lodges, resorts, preserves, lakes, rivers, oceans, …
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Branch campuses are a growing and vital segment of the American higher education community. But these campuses, and the particular challenges of leading them, have received far less attention than other types of institutions. Leading America's Branch Campuses remedies this …
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Socioeconomic Status and Education
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
In these vivid, thought-provoking essays, leading scholars draw from their own life experiences to explore the ways in which socio-economic class has shaped their lives and educational practices. Some experienced the sting of poverty as students, while others tell stories …
View book details for We Die Alone
A WWII Epic of Escape and Endurance
Lyons Press
We Die Alone recounts one of the most exciting escape stories to emerge from the challenges and miseries of World War II. In March 1943, a team of expatriate Norwegian commandos sailed from northern England for Nazi-occupied arctic Norway to …
View book details for Kentucky Curiosities
Quirky Characters, Roadside Oddities & Other Offbeat Stuff
Globe Pequot Press
Kentucky Curiosities is your round-trip ticket to the wildest, wackiest, most outrageous people, places, and things the Bluegrass State has to offer. Discover a medieval castle in the middle of horse-farm country, a soda fountain where the burgers and shakes …
View book details for Food Lovers' Guide to Connecticut
The Best Restaurants, Markets & Local Culinary Offerings
Globe Pequot Press
The Best Restaurants, Markets & Local Culinary Offerings The ultimate guides to the food scene in their respective states or regions, these books provide the inside scoop on the best places to find, enjoy, and celebrate local culinary offerings. Engagingly …
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Labor and Gender in Colombia
Lexington Books
Colombia is a major exporter of fresh-cut flowers. As in other global assembly line industries, women constitute a majority of Colombia's floriculture workforce. This ethnographic study explores the links between agro-industrial employment in the context of economic adjustment programs and …
View book details for The School Improvement Planning Handbook
Getting Focused for Turnaround and Transition
R&L Education
Developing and updating school improvement plans is an annual ritual for virtually all school principals and their school improvement committees. Still, large numbers of schools continue to produce disappointing outcomes. The authors believe that part of the problem is the …
Insider's Guide
Insiders' Guide to Louisville is the essential source for in-depth travel and relocation information to this storied Kentucky city. Written by a local (and true insider), this guide offers a personal and practical perspective of Louisville and its surrounding environs.
View book details for Understanding the Role of Today's School Principal
A Primer for Bridging Theory to Practice
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
The second edition of this handbook is an easily understood desk companion for new school principals and aspiring school leaders. The common-sense approach of the handbook guides new administrators through daily routines and challenges. In-service and university professionals, who provide …
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How Frank Mcguire's '57 Tar Heels Beat Wilt And Revolutionized College Basketball
Lyons Press
The Best Game Ever is a revealing look at the University of North Carolina Tar Heels 195657 season, one of the most storied in college basketball history. From the first day of practice, when forward Lennie Rosenbluth predicted a winning …
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