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Provides tips on dealing with congressional staff Take charge of your cause and make government work for you! Need a passport on short notice? Want to get a bill passed? Looking to contact your representative? This fun, friendly guide takes the mystery out of getting something done in Congress, introducing you to the players and explaining the processes -everything from legislation and lobbying to caucuses and coalitions. The Dummies Way Expla...

A Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy *** ISSUE 8: May 2014 *** Mike Resnick, Editor *** Shahid Mahmud, Publisher *** Stories by: Tina Gower, Robert Silverberg, Tom Gerencer, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Andrew Liptak, David Brin, Eric Leif Davin, Robin Reed, Nancy Kress, Alex Shvartsman.Serialization: Lest Darkness Fall by L. Sprague de CampColumns by: Barry Malzberg, Gregory BenfordBook Reviews: Paul Cook.Interview: Joy Ward interviews Gene W...

This book offers real-life depictions of how colleges and universities are remaking their Teaching & Learning practices by confronting complacency and building new kinds of futuristic and humanistic programs and practices. Chapter authors present dynamic case studies from 5 institutions in 5 states along with touching interviews that provide insights about being a change agent and impacting institutional change. Probing questions are offered t...

This book offers real-life depictions of how colleges and universities are remaking their Teaching & Learning practices by confronting complacency and building new kinds of futuristic and humanistic programs and practices. Chapter authors present dynamic case studies from 5 institutions in 5 states along with touching interviews that provide insights about being a change agent and impacting institutional change. Probing questions are offered t...

This book offers thought-provoking and instructive insights into the personalities and policies that enhance, or detract from, institutional evolution and provides practical insights into key levers for targeted, transformational growth.

Many colleges/universities, their professors, and their students are waking up to the questions "how can we transform our institution to meet the needs of today's professors and students?" This book offers real-life depictions of how colleges and universities, often mired in calcified practices, beliefs, and aspirations are remaking their approach to Leadership & Identity - mid-flight - by confronting complacency and building new kinds of futu...

Busy administrators lack the training and experience necessary to quickly and efficiently craft a teacher evaluation system that successfully meets the needs of their district. Questions like "What is the best program for my district?" or "How do I get the teachers on-board?" are being asked by school leaders across the country. This book provides real-world answers by highlighting 10 diverse model programs from around the country.

For the first time, school districts around the country are being required to adopt formal accountability measures to assess teacher effectiveness. In a radical shift, teacher quality will be based on outputs (student achievement, teacher observations) rather than inputs (years of service, degrees attained). This change in school culture and practice is an attempt to improve everything from individual student learning to national economic comp...

Reading & Writing across the Curriculum: STEPS for the Common Core" is a reorganization of the official 2010 National ("Common Core") Standards in Reading & Writing into logical, readily graspable instructional themes and strands (e.g., Language: Conventions of Standard English, Reading: Print Concepts, etc.). This arrangement displays all of the official National Standards in Reading & Writing, verbatim and for all grade levels in the PreK-12...

As if a pending divorce, emotional turmoil and life changes were not enough to deal with, Buddy Figaro is visited by an alien, the size of a housefly. Buddy, then, learns an invasion of Earth from a distant star is coming unless Buddy can successfully argue that the world deserves another chance despite its history of war and its violent nature deemed to threaten the galaxies. Can he do it?

As if a pending divorce, emotional turmoil and life changes were not enough to deal with, Buddy Figaro is visited by an alien, the size of a housefly. Buddy, then, learns an invasion of Earth from a distant star is coming unless Buddy can successfully argue that the world deserves another chance despite its history of war and its violent nature deemed to threaten the galaxies. Can he do it?

Provides tips on dealing with congressional staff Take charge of your cause and make government work for you! Need a passport on short notice? Want to get a bill passed? Looking to contact your representative? This fun, friendly guide takes the mystery out of getting something done in Congress, introducing you to the players and explaining the processes -everything from legislation and lobbying to caucuses and coalitions. The Dummies Way Expla...