Professional Learning Communities, or PLCs, is a school improvement model that continues to grow in popularity as a means to build capacity, embed professional development, create a positive school culture, grow accountability, and increase student achievement. This book provides an overview for why PLCs are needed & what they can accomplish.
Written in accessible prose that includes a synthesis of recent scholarship, this revised edition delves into the social impact of being an African-American soldier in the 19th century.
Stu Cole is struggling to keep his nightclub, Club Anesthesia, afloat in the face of mob harassment when he's visited by a manifestation of the city of San Francisco, crystallized into a single enigmatic being. This amoral superhero leads him on a terrifying journey through the rock and roll demimonde as they struggle to save the city.
Interpretation of Historic Sites offers essential knowledge on how to develop and conduct interpretive programs for every historic site, regardless of size or budget.
This extensively up-dated and expanded edition provides the busy clinician with an essential overview of the latest developments in human cancer genetics - an area that has made significant advances since publication of the first edition. The opening section presents the the principles of cancer genetics and introduces the basic concepts and ...
Many cancers, both common and rare, are known to have a hereditary predisposition and advances in genetics have clarified the risks and in some cases the mechanisms of cancer developing in an individual. First published in 1998, this important contribution to the literature of cancer genetics covers all the key issues, reviewing both the ...
Unlikely Warriors is the story of Benjamin Henry Grierson, Civil War hero and postwar commander of the Tenth Cavalry "Buffalo Soldiers, " and his family on the western frontier. In 1863, Colonel Grierson led a cavalry brigade of 1,700 men on a daring raid through Mississippi, which helped Ulysses S. Grant launch his successful campaign against ...
This updated test preparation manual covers all sections of the CLEP, with model tests in all five subjects and with all topic reviews expanded and updated.
An up-to-the-minute reference guide for health professionals confronting pulmonary disorders in children, "Pediatric Asthma" offers the latest findings on this classification-defying disease and related conditions. Written by more than 20 international experts in the field, the book focuses on drug administration-issues of compliance, aerosol ...
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
This biographical remembrance of Soviet Premier Nikita Khruschev is written by his son and is based on many conversations the two had throughout their lives. It provides key background on major events as well as unique insight into the character and vulnerability of the man.
Twenty up-to-date practice CLEP exams consisting of four each in the following subjects: English Composition, Humanities, Mathematics, Natural Sciences, Social Sciences, and History. All questions have answers and detailed explanations. Also featured are tips for productive study and test-taking tactics.
More is known about Nikita Khrushchev than about many former Soviet leaders, partly because of his own efforts to communicate through speeches, interviews and memoirs. But even with the opening of party and state archives in 1991, as William Taubman points out in his Foreword, many questions remain unanswered. How did Khrushchev manage not only to ...
This book is based on the author's personal views of parallel processing developed over the past 15 years, initially at Loughborough University of Technology and then at Reading University. The material brought together here is based on research work and courses given over that time. The author does not expect that all workers in the field of ...
Twenty up-to-date practice CLEP exams consisting of four each in the following subjects: English Composition, Humanities, Mathematics, Natural Sciences, Social Sciences, and History. All questions have answers and detailed explanations. Also featured are tips for productive study and test-taking tactics.
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark ...
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William E. Oriol, John H. Mather, Shirley H. Wester, Terry E. Shannon, American Health Planning Association, United States. Veterans Administration. Dept. of Medicine and Surgery
"Curriculum: A River Runs Through It is a collection of William M. Reynolds' essays from 1982-2002. These essays explore curriculum theory from hermeneutics and phenomenology to poststructuralism. There is a pervasive thematic force that flows through the author's work: a persistent voice desiring change in the ways we school our children and ...
New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt/M., Oxford, Wien. Schooling, Ivan Illich says, is one modern manifestation of the « mystery of evil. The essays in Thoughts out of School are observations of what happens to children and teachers-in-training as they go through the peculiarly modern institution of schooling. « Schools are so ...
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