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My Life
Overcoming Classism through Faith and Perseverance
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For a boy growing up in Jamaica in the 1940s, going to school was not a given. Colonialism, colourism, and classism created educational barriers for anyone who wasn’t rich or white. But from these early struggles, Howard Palmer devoted his career...
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The Reflective Teacher
Holistic Pedagogic Approaches for Early Childhood Educators
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A holistic and all-encompassing pedagogic resource, The Reflective Teacher includes everything early childhood educators in day care and preschool settings need, to inform their teaching and caring of infants, toddlers, and preschoolers. Rooted...
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No One Told Me There Would Be Days Like This
A Practical Guide to Teaching
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You’ve been hired for your first teaching position—congratulations! Now what? University has taught you the theory of education, and you probably have some practicum experience, but what about all the things you were not taught in university? The...
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Mrs. Homeschool
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"I sometimes wonder where I was when I changed my mind." Ainslee’s husband once said, “Physical change is not necessary for spiritual growth, but it’s almost always the impetus for growth.” With that mindset, when a job offer prompts Lyndon and...
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Leadership: Different & Servant-like
A Framework of Insight That Will Help You “Master” Servant-Leadership
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In Matthew 20:26, Jesus made this statement: “With you (Jesus followers) it (leadership) will be different (and servant-like).” So, is it? Is your leadership “different” in the ways intended by Jesus? Is your leadership correctly “servant-like?”...
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70 to 100 in a BLINK
Lifestyle Planning, Support & Advocacy for Seniors & their Families - Solutions for a better life in later years.
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70 to 100 in a Blink — Lifestyle Planning, Support and Advocacy for Seniors & Their Families provides useful information and insights for planning later lifestyles and protecting quality of life. It is told from the eyes of seniors and families...
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Just Call Me 'Teacher'
A Memoir about My Career as a Correctional Educator
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Teaching at all levels and at all institutions should be fun and rewarding. Teaching in a federal prison brings its own challenges and at the same time, its own rewards. Building trust between the teacher and the inmate learners is the first...
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Profile of an Effective School Superintendent
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ABOUT THE INFORMANT Ed Noyce, the informant or subject of this field study, was the Superintendent of the Wapiti Falls School District in 1994. Pseudonyms are used throughout his story, but he is real and so are the people, events, and locations...
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Flying With Peek-a-Boo Multi-Colored Feathers
A Teacher Reconnects with her Pioneering Efforts to Promote Multicultural Education
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Students learning how to witness the best version of themselves was an important aspect of pioneering multicultural education. I wanted the children to learn the larger truth about how the knowledge of themselves and others can spin into...
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Dare to Read
Improving Your Reading Speed and Skills
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Be in control of your reading. With the Read Through It Strategy, you will be empowered to make decisions while you read. You will gain confidence as you decide how much you learn from any given passage. There are no tests of comprehension or...
