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This unique counting book introduces Cree numbers, from one to ten. Featuring powwow imagery that reflects the rich culture and tradition of the Cree people, rhyme, rhythm, and glowing illustration combine to make language learning a joyful experience for young readers. A pronunciation guide is included in the back of the book.
• Winner of McNally Robinson Book for Young People Award
• Selected for The Canadian Children's Book Centre's Best...
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NOW IN PAPERBACK The "powerful" (Michelle Alexander) exploration-featured by the Atlantic, Essence, the Washington Post, New York magazine, NPR, the New Republic and the Tom Joyner Morning Show-of the harsh and harmful experiences confronting black girls in schools In a work that has rapidly become "imperative reading" (Lisa Delpit) on education, gender, and juvenile justice, Monique W. Morris (Black Stats, Too Beautiful for Words) chronicles the...
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Three dramatic innovations are changing the face of reading instruction: (1) response to intervention (RTI), (2) differentiated instruction, and (3), with an increasing impact on classrooms each year, technology. RTI & Differentiated Reading in the K 8 Classroom focuses on these three areas from kindergarten through the upper elementary grades. Whole-group reading instruction in general education classes is no longer an appropriate learning environment...
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This timely and essential book provides a comprehensive guide for school leaders who desire to engage their school communities in transformative systemic change. Sharon I. Radd, Gretchen Givens Generett, Mark Anthony Gooden, and George Theoharis offer five practices to increase educational equity and eliminate marginalization based on race, disability, socioeconomics, language, gender and sexual identity, and religion. For each dimension of diversity,...
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Have you ever considered studying abroad, but the process seems overwhelming, tedious, and time consuming? Do you question what you'll get out of the experience, or how it will benefit you? Do you find yourself wondering if it's even worth it to go?
Samantha Kaiser, a study abroad intern and alumni explains exactly why it's worth it! Studying abroad equips you with beneficial skills that will empower you to be your best self for the rest of your...
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Today one hears harrowing stories in Uganda about how hard it has become for rural families to get their children and especially daughters, through the primary school years successfully. It would appear that there are enormous difficulties in getting children to master the basic skills of reading, writing and arithmetic, let alone to learn and apply the basics of personal hygiene, an acceptable work ethic and respect for individuals and institutions....
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This book teaches Spanish to English and English to Spanish so that cultures may start to communicate and understand each other better. May this book be the key to unlock your child's future.
Este libro enseña del español al inglés y del inglés al español para que las culturas comiencen a comunicarse y entenderse mejor. Que este libro sea la clave para desbloquear el futuro de su hijo.
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Build bridges, foster better relationships, and establish a more inclusive school community. In her direct yet conversational style, Hedreich Nichols examines discriminatory classroom practices and offers strategies for eliminating them. You'll acquire the knowledge and skills to identify biases that adversely affect your practice and learn how to move beyond those biases to ensure a more equitable, inclusive campus culture.
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Teacher leaders are practicing researchers. They constantly investigate and reflect on innovative strategies for student success. During a season of drastic change in Durham, North Carolina, public school teachers were forced to reconceptualize the curriculum. Two separate and unequal school districts merged forcing a paradigm shift. What can we learn from these teacher leaders as they reflected on the impact of the texts selected for their more diverse...
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A multicultural retreat is a structured activity that allows white students and students of color an opportunity to learn about other cultures by experiencing and sharing it firsthand. Participants who may not know each other spend several days and nights in a secluded setting, communicating, eating, rooming and working together. "A group of caring but skeptical students assemble themselves to dialogue about some of the most sensitive issues their...
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When children of color enter their classrooms each year, many often encounter low expectations, disconnection, and other barriers to their success. In The Innocent Classroom, Alexs Pate traces the roots of these disparities to pervasive negative stereotypes, which children are made aware of before they even walk through the school door. The cumulative weight of these stereotypes eventually takes shape as guilt, which inhibits students' engagement,...
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Get the Summary of Nikole Hannah-Jones's The 1619 Project in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Nikole Hannah-Jones's "The 1619 Project" examines the enduring legacy of Black Americans' contributions to the nation, juxtaposed with the systemic racism they have faced. The book begins with Hannah-Jones's reflection on her father's patriotism, despite the discrimination he faced as a descendant of sharecroppers in an...
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Vivre la diversité est un guide incontournable pour quiconque veut comprendre la diversité et les questions raciales afin de lutter contre les préjugés. Shakil Choudhury y évoque des expériences concrètes et propose des outils pratiques, une feuille de route pour réconcilier les
différences, renforcer l'équité et l'inclusion dans nos sociétés. Ancré dans la psychologie, la justice sociale et la méditation, Vivre la diversité...
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Unacknowledged policies and mindsets from the Transatlantic Slave Trade continue to perpetuate injustices and instability, destroying people and the planet. It keeps the world in conquest, terror alert mode shaping human interactions and expectations. To address these issues and define our lens, Parts I and II answers two questions regarding the Transatlantic Slave Trade (1444-1888). The first question, "Where are we?," addresses the remnants of that...
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Life starts out as a plan in becoming someone or somebody. But plans can be interrupted, broken, or changed when making bad decisions due to some of our choices as youth and the situations that we allow ourselves to be put in. Most of the time, things are not turning out the way they should. This is the real meaning behind the title of my book, It Was Over Before It Started. I would just like to help and inspire those with depression, drug addiction,...
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This book contains some short stories from the author's experiences in teaching Indonesian to middle school students in Northern Territory, Australia. There are basic level Indonesian language vocabulary and sentences which are presented in this book with simple exercises and solutions. Originally, this book was written as a gift for students who graduated in 2017 but can be extended also to the general public who are interested in Indonesian language...
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With all the programs, reform efforts, and innovations designed to fix our schools and improve student achievement, there is one basic question that often goes unasked: Are students actually being taught those things we expect them to learn? Total Instructional Alignment (TIA) explains why the answer to this question is often No, and then details how to implement the TIA three-step process so there is alignment between standards, curriculum, classroom...
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As the pandemic hit and the schools began closing, many kids had different experiences. The Day Everyone Stayed Home is a story that shares about what many different children experienced while they were staying home. Not every home looked the same, and each child had something to share with their teachers during remote learning sessions. Each child added a wonderful unique page in the story of the day everyone was home from school.
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This creative dissertation addresses the process and implications of documenting and exhibiting a musical soundscape, utilizing the culture of southwest Louisiana as an anchor. From an insider's perspective, the scholarly essay interrogates the photographer's privilege and civil contract within a cultural, historical, and artistic framework. This study examines the relationship between music and social welfare, and explores the messages between the...
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Passing through Boundary Rd at West End, a Brisbane suburb, is not an ordinary experience. As opposed to the larger world- where due to differences in religion, culture, language or social class, pools of blood have coloured the streets and the sacred threshold of family homes have been turned to crime scenes and rubble- you get to see an immense diversity of food, shops, retail stores, cultures, costumes, religions and music, all within a stretch...
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