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This book offers the first full account of Continental contributions to the philosophy of language. It includes coverage of a range of key figures including Heidegger, Gadamer, Blanchot and Kristeva and is designed to engage advanced students with a range of literary references and case studies.

Drawing on the voices and experiences of community-based peace leaders around the world, this book envisions a new way of working together as a truly local and global peacebuilding field.

This book explains the importance of embodiment in understanding the function of race. With chapters by expert contributors and coverage of the most recent thinking in philosophy of race, the book is ideal for upper-level students in Phenomenology, Philosophy of Race and Critical Race Theory.

Neuroscientists are discovering the Chemistry of Culture by revealing the neurological links between our brain and our relationships. This book brings that brain research out of the lab and into schools by connecting it to highly effective culture-building strategies.

This book includes 180 creatively designed screen-free activities teachers can implement to maximize authentic hands-on learning in their classroom. Chapter topics include promoting peace by empowering students to handle conflict through kindness, literacy centers, STEM challenges, and ways to build connections beyond the classroom door.

Mentoring programs strengthen faculty relationships within their school community while increasing teachers' motivation and drive to remain in the profession. If teachers are appreciated, supported, and intrinsically motivated, they will want to be in schools, and they will remain.

This book focuses on assigned reading events in middle grade social studies courses and the 14 actions proficient readers take before, during, and after reading to comprehend assigned course texts including textbook chapters, book chapters, passages, and articles.

Artificial Intelligence, Mixed Reality, and the Redefinition of the Classroom highlights new interpretations, understandings, and emerging technologies that radically remake traditional educational models, structures, and systems, and upend how faculty teach, and students learn.

This book explores some of the challenges that libraries and librarians face due to diversity and inclusion issues among library staff, as well as the patrons that they serve. Its goal is to increase awareness of and sensitivity to the social, cultural, and educational needs of everyone involved.

The aim of this book is to provide guidance on all aspects of your student teaching experience.

This book outlines the contributions school counselors and others make to the development and college and career readiness of each student at the elementary, middle and high school levels.

This book outlines the rationale for a regular, systematic, comprehensive evaluation of school district superintendents.

This book is an essential reference for all supervisors. It presents experiences in teaching, research and training.

Teachers handle student data every day, but too often they are not provided with the guidance they need to protect student data privacy.

This innovative book provides aspiring school leaders with a theoretical foundation of marketing principles, coupled with examples of effective strategies to develop a marketing skill set.

Talking Texts is a guide for teachers to the steps and strategies of implementing text clubs in many forms in the classroom.

The tenth edition of this core textbook provides a fresh perspective and a crisp introduction to congressional politics. Informed by the authors' Capitol Hill experience and scholarship, the text emphasizes the importance of a strong legislature and offers discussion questions and further reading.

This book provides a new framework in how we shape our curriculum, involve our families and communities, and align our work around skills like creativity and confidence in ways that are so unlike what we do now that a revolution may be in order. In the end, that will require bold leadership and a collective search for our souls.

This book seeks to identify key policy and practice recommendations that create a resourceful toolbox for school boards and superintendents to consider when developing methodologies for the evaluation of the superintendent of schools.

Kevin Sheehan shares the research on cultural grit, providing a formula for successful leadership in any field or endeavor. There are lessons in this book that can change your life and cultivate a culture of grit in your organization that will lead to success that you could never have imagined.

This book describes the Interactive Method (IM) for teaching different abilities, special needs, and all learners.

This book is primarily for teachers of student learners with special needs, different abilities or who require a methodology for retention of curriculum and are at any grade, age level.

This book lays out a blueprint for thoughtful actions that transform schools and their communities. Using ideas and techniques focused on six key areas, educators discover what needs to be taught, what needs to be retaught, and who needs to be taught. Their PLCs build solutions that place academic excellence within reach of every learner.

Conflict Management for Managers is designed to equip managers with the skills and information they need to improve their handling of common disputes. Enhanced to facilitate your daily work, this updated edition incorporates a greater number of exercises that address conflicts with employees, customers, business partners and regulators.

Assessing Deeper Learning explores how performance assessment advances deeper learning-the skills students need for 21st century success. The book examines different aspects of performance assessment and details how a large school district used performance tasks to assess their students' critical-thinking, problem-solving, and communication skills.

This book offers educators and youth advocates a comprehensive set of discussions and activities to help develop critical thinking, compassion, self-awareness, and resilience in adolescents. It is designed to complement the unique social and developmental attributes of students this age.

Discovering Quacks, Utopias, and Cemeteries: Modern Lessons from Historical Themes explores two enduring issues - our age-old pursuit of better lives and how the media impacts our choices. In this unique approach to social history, each chapter opens with essential questions asking the reader to consider these issues in historical and modern life.

Complete with case studies and the authors' experiences in changing the law in their own state of Illinois, this book is a necessary resource for furthering dialogue and action around maternal mental illness.

This book makes a compelling case for the continuing strength of China's one-party system. Leading scholar Jean-Pierre Cabestan shows that most Chinese, influenced by China's traditional culture and even more so by the regime's Soviet ideology, institutions, and modus operandi, are choosing security, stability, and prosperity over democracy.

America through Transgender Eyes provides readers with important insights into the beauty and struggle of transgender people, identities, experiences, and relationships.