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This book reminds new teachers of the idealistic and hopeful reasons they entered the profession and arms them with the practical skills and ideals to succeed.

From educational philosophy to classroom practices, this book exposes and analyzes tactical intersections between secular humanism and religious self-worship.

Hamlet by William Shakespeare: Know-It-All Version uses playful commentary interlaced with the lines of Shakespeare's original text to actively guide and support you as you read this play. It's a lively, engaging, often funny, and thoroughly enlightening way to read Shakespeare. Finally-you don't have to be an expert to know it all.

This book explains how to teach social studies through themes of primary sources, music, food, visual media, community, literature, environment, and experiential learning.

Communication skills are a key to success in most areas of life, and they do not get nearly enough attention. Most people would benefit from sharpening these skills in some way, and The 200 Communication Commandments can help improve an individual's ability to communicate in both personal and professional settings.

The book is intended to serve as a valuable resource/strategy for assessing and evaluating learning during the pandemic but will continue to be of primary help to students and teachers after the pandemic reaches its end.

This book offers teachers productive approaches to treating textual interpretation not as an effort to reach a single right view or answer, but rather as a collaborative activity involving lively discussion of texts drawn from a variety of media.

Thinking with Maps takes readers on a journey through both traditional and modern mapping in order to learn how to conceive of mapping as fundamental to cognition and, thus, to what it means to be human. Each chapter considers an aspect of how we use maps. Examples from around the world show how learning can be made more relevant.

Regardless of age and experience, young adults must be mindful of their digital presence in the expanding digital world. This book provides a guide for librarians, educators, counselors, and administrators to guide secondary and higher education students in successfully practicing responsible citizenship and civics in the digital world.

The Essentials of Special Education Law is a valuable contribution to special education teacher preparation programs and professionals in the field. Written with undergraduates in mind, this accessible book is an ideal textbook supplement to any university course needing a greater emphasis on special education law.

Archives 101 is a guidebook for people who care for historical records, photographs, and collections but do not have the appropriate professional training. Lois Hamill provides practical, step-by-step guidance for managing all facets of archival collections, from acquisition, arrangement, and description to storage and security.

Presents regulations governing banking procedures and activities of the Comptroller of the Currency, the Federal Reserve System, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Export-Import Bank, Office of Thrift Supervision, Farm Credit Administration, and the National Credit Union Administration.

This book offers a thorough and engaging introduction to Universal Design and concrete examples of how these principles can be applied at libraries of all sizes, types, and budgets.

Colorado's Historic Schools is part-regional history, and part-travel guide featuring over 140 of the most significant schools across the state, all recognized as historic landmarks. Along with interesting school stories and building descriptions, there are historic photos and stories of legendary teachers, tragedies, and even murder over the 150-year history of Colorado's schools.

Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, situated in California's rugged Sierra Nevada, boast some of the most spectacular landscapes on the continent: towering groves of giant sequoia trees, crystalline trout rivers, jagged peaks and alpine meadows, and Mount Whitney, the highest mountain in the lower 48.

Based on numerous in-depth interviews, the book tells the story of hybrid homeschooling from both the family and educator perspective.

This book integrates chronological, thematic and biographical elements of educational history to provide a more personal perspective on the development of educational policy.

Drawing upon classroom practices, Teaching English in Rural Communities articulates and develops a Critical Rural English Pedagogy.

Le Deal is a business adventure story involving raw entrepreneurship and high-level politics. It is the true story of Byrne Murphy, a young businessman who abruptly moves to Paris in a quest to reignite his career and his fortunes. He quickly finds himself up against powerful forces, including wrestling with the Prime Minister of France, the soon-to-be Chancellor of Germany and wanna-be mafia in Italy. There are also charming encounters with the British Royal Family, including a near royal embarrassment of epic proportions.Eight years after Byrne''s company, McArthurGlen Europe, was launched in his hotel room, it generated approximately $1 billion in sales from 11 centers across Europe; created nearly 8,000 jobs; opened 1,500 stores featuring 500 brands; attracted nearly 40 million shopping visits per year and spawned an array of competitors. In short, an industry was born.Along the way, the author learns what he, and Americans in general, do and do not know about life beyond our borders. The book offers a message for Americans who work internationally to truly take "context" into account; to realize, in our quest to accomplish more in less time, that investing the time to understand the nuances of the foreign cultures we are dealing with is key to prospering in our twenty-first-century multicultural, polyglot, interconnected, globalized world.

Thoroughly updated and revised, this four-season guide features 146 of the best hikes from every quarter of the range, geared to differing levels of skill and experience, and includes 38 honorable mention hikes.

Suspicious aims at providing teachers and students of history and related social sciences with ideas for critical thinking about past and present applied to documentation, images, and historical writing.

In this book experienced educators share methods, materials, and classroom management strategies to guide and support first-year teachers.

This book is meant to provide a glimpse into differing facets of organizational management that allows for continued success through refinement of skills promoting operational awareness in today's rapidly evolving world of business.

Rick Soshensky presents a groundbreaking introduction to music's power to heal and transform, weaving collections of uplifting case studies from music therapy practices with ideas from spiritual traditions, philosophies, psychological theorists, and music therapy theorists and researchers.

This 700 page subject index, complete with cross references, helps researchers locate federal regulations applicable to the operations of government departments and agencies of the executive branch.

Leading scholars in the study of congress and US foreign policy address congress's vital role in determining how and why the US chooses it's international policy agendas. They address key aspects of congressional activism, assertiveness, and acquiescence in an era of divided government and polarized politics.