Jennifer S : 163 books
Text Structures From the Masters
50 Lessons and Nonfiction Mentor Texts to Help Students Write Their Way In and Read Their Way Out of Every Single Imaginable Genre, Grades 6-10
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2016
Text Structures from the Masters provides 50 short texts written by famous Americans driven by what Peter Elbow described as “an itch” to say something. By examining the structure of these mentor texts, students see that they too have an “itch” and learn how to use the text structure of each...
Children, Youth and Adults with Asperger Syndrome
Integrating Multiple Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2004
This book offers a comprehensive overview of clinical, research and personal perspectives on Asperger Syndrome, including contributions from parents and experts in the fields of psychology, social work, psychiatry, genetics, sexology and vocational counselling.
It includes first-hand accounts...
by Barbara Pini, Berit Brandth, Jo Little
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
Feminist concern with difference has rarely extended to rurality even if it is now widely recognized that experiences of inequality depend on intersections of several identities in each individual life. This lack of concern may reflect the urban background of the majority of feminist academics or...
The Longest Kiss
Modern Library of Indonesia
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
The protagonists of the stories in this translated collection all crave a private domain, a place that nobody else can touch. They share with their creator a passion for words, a passion for writing and a passion for literature. These characters are feisty, non-conformist, and fiercely independent—traits...
Reflective Practice for Renewing Schools
An Action Guide for Educators
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
Renew your teaching and your passion with this updated bestseller!
When the teaching life gets tough, reflective practice reenergizes you—counteracting the effects of professional isolation and instilling a sense of meaning, renewal, and empowerment that benefits you, your colleagues, and...
by Thomas S. Poetter, Jennifer Pierson, Chelsea Caivano
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
This book is an attempt to show that preservice teacher knowledge is substantive and should be part of the wider database of knowledge about teaching and learning in the field of teacher education. From the perspectives of five prospective teacher interns and a teacher educator, this volume brings...
Group Play Therapy
A Dynamic Approach
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014
Group Play Therapy presents an updated look at an effective yet underutilized therapeutic intervention. More than just an approach to treating children, group play therapy is a life-span approach, undergirded by solid theory and, in this volume, taking wings through exciting techniques. Drawing on...
Bilingualism in the Spanish-Speaking World
Linguistic and Cognitive Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
Bilingualism has given rise to significant changes in Spanish-speaking countries. In the US, the increasing importance of Spanish has engendered an English-only movement; in Peru, contact between Spanish and Quechua has brought about language change; and in Iberia, speakers of Basque, Galician and...
Understanding Family Change and Variation
Toward a Theory of Conjunctural Action
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2011
Fertility rates vary considerably across and within societies, and over time. Over the last three decades, social demographers have made remarkable progress in documenting these axes of variation, but theoretical models to explain family change and variation have lagged behind. At the same time, our...
Critical Leadership Theory
Integrating Transdisciplinary Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2018
This book contributes five novel tenets for building a critical theory of leadership studies. Drawing from transdisciplinary insights, these tenets help shape the emerging field of inquiry. They also facilitate the examination of normative social processes that reinscribe hegemonic power relations...
Achieving sustainable cultivation of potatoes Volume 2
Production, storage and crop protection
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2018
Comprehensive coverage of improvements in cultivation techniques across the potato value chain, from yield modelling to post-harvest storage
Detailed review of the main fungal, bacterial and viral diseases affecting potatoes
Assesses the environmental impact of potato cultivation
Vampires, Zombies and Ghosts, Volume 1
Read on the Run
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2019
This charming collection of short stories about vampires, zombies, ghosts, a muse, and a witch, is the first volume in this two-volume anthology in the Read on the Run series. There are some stories that will scare you, some that will make you a laugh, and some that might make you shed a tear or two.
by Dana D. Marchese, Kimberly D. Becker, Jennifer P. Keperling
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
A Step-By-Step Guide for Coaching Classroom Teachers in Evidence-Based Interventions is a practical guide for school-based professionals. Combining evidence-based practices with the authors' real-life experiences working with classroom teachers, it represents a decade of research. The authors offer...
The Energy of Forgiveness
Lessons from Those in Restorative Dialogue
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
Forgiveness is a profound, life-changing experience for many people who have been hurt by others. But forgiveness is paradoxical in that if one relies on forgiveness language or if others prescribe it as an expectation, the depth of that experience can be significantly compromised. By the same token,...