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Are you focused on what's wrong with your students?Now you can transform learning by reframing your view from what's wrong to what's strong."At risk." "Low." "Title I kids." If you've worked with students, you've probably heard or said these coded labels that reflect deficit thinking. This focus on weakness is a pervasive, powerful judgment that continues to harm students long after they leave school. It's time for educators to hack deficit thinking, think about SEL and about strength-based teaching, and reframe teaching and learning.Nationally certified school psychologists McClure and Reed show teachers, administrators, and support staff how to unlearn student blame and reframe thinking to focus on students' strengths. When we acknowledge the impact of teaching practices and the broader structural inequities, we can help everyone reach their highest potential.In Hacking Deficit Thinking, you'll learn how to:Build on student strengthsThink about student empathyHumanize your dataRecognize the value of differencesThink about teacher empathyTalk about equity in schoolsTap into school-wide strengthsFlourish as an educatorReady to reframe your thinking and go from what's wrong to what's strong? Read Hacking Deficit Thinking today, and reframe your view from what's wrong to what's strong.

It is hard to cope with fear. You don't want to get hurt or overreact. Yet you also want to be safe. Cal and Ada are both afraid of spiders and do not know how to cope with their fear. Ben who is one of their many monster friends who play together in the 'I Feel When' book series helps them out with this. They cope with their feelings of fear in this second book of the series. Ada struggles with finding a way to handle the fact that there is a spider coming towards her. Cal also does not know what to do. Their enthusiastic friend Ben has experience with spiders and shows them how to handle the situation. Ben removes the spider from the room safely by using a glass and a piece of paper slid under it. Finally, both Ada and Cal thank him. They explain how afraid they were and how relieved they are now. They work out their feelings and then they all play a game together. This colorful book opens the door to discussing fear in a nonthreatening way for younger audiences. It also uses nonviolent communication as described on the YouTube channel 'Dealing with Feelings' by psychotherapist Dr. Jim Porter and Karen Porter in their weekly show 'Feeling Fridays'. The husband-and-wife team invites you to explore feelings with your young reader as they begin to read. See how these furry friends learn appropriate ways to express feelings and solve problems by coping with their feelings through listening to one another and observing each other without judgement, expressing feelings and needs, and coping with feelings in compassionate helpful ways.

Helen or My Hunger is a looping, serial sequence that explores the relationship between memory, language, the body, and power. In dialogue with H.D.'s 1961 epic Helen in Egypt, these poems address the eidolon of Helen of Troy: the "echo of an echo." They question notions of beauty and the body by communicating with this absence, sustaining this unsustainable dialogue. Ghost? Icon? Mother? Friend? These poems address the ruptures of trauma, violence, with mythology and lineage, with the inevitable failings of gender and the body.The core of Helen or My Hunger contains, and at the same time rejects-tries to distract itself from-the material of the writer's life and body. These poems reckon with hunger, desire, and shame, and with the violence of language and representation (body as icon, as seat of trauma). Helen or My Hunger asks: how can we live in a world where both private and public pain resist language? How can we mark differences, but also make visible the samenesses? What violence do we sanction through language, through narrative, through form? In a sequence that resists its own formation, Helen or My Hunger wonders how to live in a world that seeks to reduce, to wound, what it cannot contain.

Are You Ready for a Miracle?In Magic & Miracles, Rita Barbagallo, 'The Red Peacock', shares her journey from death to dazzling. From endometriosis, endometrial cancer, dying on the operating table, and multiple near-death experiences to running successful businesses including Barbee Barb Children's Entertainment, Barbee Barb Magic School and Barbee Barb Collection, Rita has experienced it all. Now she shares the invaluable knowledge and life lessons she has gained from her experiences.After the trauma of her extensive and extreme health issues, Rita decided to bring magic and joy to other people's lives, through speaking, coaching, her businesses and charity work.This memoir, Magic & Miracles, is set to take the reader on a transformational journey and inspire them to live their best life. This highly acclaimed book is also being produced into a movie! So, stay tuned for further updates.Rita shares her RED PEACOCK teachings and principles for living your best life: Resilience, Empowerment, Daring to be different, Positivity, Embracing life, Appreciation, Creativity, Optimising opportunities, Courage, and Kindness. These are Rita's rules for life; using them will guide you to live your most happy and fulfilling life.Rita's unbelievable story will inspire you to change your life for the better.

The welfare state is one of the crowning achievements of the twentieth century, giving citizens access to healthcare, pensions, disability and unemployment benefits. This unprecedented expansion of the state was a product of the postwar period of the late 1940s, when governments ramped up investment in this grand safety net. By the 1970s, half of all government spending went towards social-welfare programs, but today the welfare state stands at a crossroads, beset by both political opposition and funding pressures as the population ages.Australian Labor Party MP Daniel Mulino provides a sweeping account of the history of welfare in Australia and abroad, from Bismarckian Germany to present-day Canberra. In this deeply researched and lucid account, Mulino looks to the challenges facing today's welfare state and reflects on what steps must be taken to protect and extend it.