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This one-of-a-kind directory includes culturally-specific award-winning books about Jewish, African-American, Latino, Carribean, and Asian-American cultures. The book includes background information on ethnic book awards as well as an alphabetical listing of award-winning books with publication information and brief summaries for each title.?Library media specialists can use this resource to select high-quality books to increase diversity in l...

If we want to understand culture wars on the contemporary American scene, we must first come to grips with the American culture wars of the nineteenth century. That our nation did not remove slavery in a biblical way helps explain many of our contemporary social evils. But who is qualified to talk about such things? What is a biblical view of racism? Why do the biblical answers to such questions so infuriate the radical left and the radical ri...

This thoroughly practical text offers numerous sample lessons, questions for conferences, and ideas for revamping guided reading groups. It will help teachers tweak the mix of instructional components in their reading workshops, and provoke school-wide conversations about the place of guided reading in a complete literacy curriculum.

This practical book draws on the latest research and personal case studies to give principals suggestions for improving leadership -- tackling accountability, respecting diversity, building professional learning communities, working with students and families, and much more.

Shows teachers how to guide students through the various stages of the writing process and teach them to focus on the purpose for writing in all kinds of non-fiction. This book helps teachers assess what students know so they can plan more successful instruction. It enables teachers of content-area subjects discover ways to help their students.

Informal Assessment Strategies" explores the power of informed assessment practices on teachers, on instruction and, most of all, on the literacy success of students. Beth Charlton shows teachers how to use the results of assessment and how to find time to assess in an increasingly-crowded school day. She challenges teachers to reflect on their own practice, encourages them to explore the why, what, and how of assessment, and presents techniqu...

This edited volume, full of new and original perspectives, makes an important contribution to the anthropological and historical study of ritual. . . . this fine collection of essays is a challenging and provocative contribution to the study of ritual, and certainly one that ought to change the ways in which anthropologists conceive of ritual." · Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute Historically, canonic studies of ritual have discus...

The newest volume in this series presents refereed papers in the following categories and their applications in the engineering domain: Neural Networks, Complex Networks, Evolutionary Programming, Data Mining, Fuzzy Logic, Adaptive Control, Pattern Recognition, Smart Engineering System Design. These papers are intended to provide a forum for researchers in the field to exchange ideas on smart engineering system design.

This comprehensive handbook on submarine pipeline systems covers a broad spectrum of topics from planning and site investigation, procurement and design, to installation and commissioning. It considers guidelines for the choice of design parameters, calculation methods, and construction procedures. The authors bring together extensive data currently scattered throughout the literature. The book draws upon the extensive experience of a group of...

An individual with Morton Deutsch's theoretical brilliance comes along maybe two or three times a century." David Johnson, University of Minnesota "The richness of Morton Deutsch's work is like a goldmine that has barely begun to be mined." Susan Opotow, University of Massachusetts Morton Deutsch is one of the most distinguished psychologists of our time and has been honoured by his profession with numerous awards. His ideas permeate the bound...

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Use these titles to provide students with activities that investigate shapes, symmetry, congruence, angles, rotations, reflections, and more.

Groundworks: Reasoning with Geometry provides students with activities that investigate shapes, symmetry, congruence, angles, rotations, reflections, and more. The text provides a teaching problem for each activity set, accompanied by questions and ideas teachers can use to lead a discussion while reviewing each concept. Geometry is no longer the forgotten strand when you include this series of easy-to-use books into your lesson plans!Each Gro...

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Improve your students' writing skills to meet state benchmarks and standards with these eight writing workshops designed especially for students in kindergarten through second grade.

By providing students with a road map to respected, commonly available resources on a variety of topics, pathfinders help build independent research and information literacy skills. This book includes 70 pathfinders on various topics targeted to the middle-school level including the American Revolution, Lewis and Clark, astronomy, mythology, and more.?The creation of original library pathfinders is very labor-intensive, so these ready-to-use p...

This book is designed to foster independent study, research, writing, and oral presentation skills for students in grades two and three. The lessons, which integrate several content areas, can be used for enrichment or extension in the classroom or as a homework assignment. The forty lessons, four for each of ten months, September through June, are connected to a famous person or event associated with that month. An index indicates the content...

A very basic introduction to maps and their uses.

A very basic introduction to land and its uses.

A basic introduction to what you see on a snowy day