Rebecca: 4598 books
Improving Adolescent Literacy
An RTI Implementation Guide
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
Meet your students' literacy needs with this book from Pamela Craig and Rebecca Sarlo. Literacy experts Craig and Sarlo explain how the implementation of a Problem Solving/Response to Intervention framework in grades 4-12 will help all students greatly improve their reading skills. Written for secondary...
Recruiting and Retaining Lawyers
Innovative Strategies to Attract, Develop and Retain Legal Talent
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
The competition for talent that leading experts started to describe in the 1990s has now become a reality in the legal profession. Like most industries across the globe, the legal industry is facing a shortage of exceptional people. Although in some jurisdictions there are more lawyers than the market...
Consultation
Creating School-Based Interventions
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
The methods presented by Don Dinkmeyer, Jr., Jon Carlson, and Rebecca Michel in Consultation are based on the assumption that problems in the home and classroom result not only from the direct actions of disruptive students, but also from the expectations of teachers and parents. This newly expanded...
What Works in Girls' Education
Evidence for the World's Best Investment
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
Hard-headed evidence on why the returns from investing in girls are so high that no nation or family can afford not to educate their girls.
Gene Sperling, author of the seminal 2004 report published by the Council on Foreign Relations, and Rebecca Winthrop, director of the Center for Universal...
Fields and Streams
Stream Restoration, Neoliberalism, and the Future of Environmental Science
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Examining the science of stream restoration, Rebecca Lave argues that the neoliberal emphasis on the privatization and commercialization of knowledge has fundamentally changed the way that science is funded, organized, and viewed in the United States.
Stream restoration science and practice...
Educating Activists
Development and Gender in the Making of Modern Gandhians
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2010
What do people make of their own development? In Educating Activists, Rebecca M. Klenk illuminates a reality that is far more complex than either development planners or critics commonly assume. This gracefully written, accessible ethnography shows how rural women accept, refuse, reinterpret, and...
Globalizing Citizens
New Dynamics of Inclusion and Exclusion
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Globalization has given rise to new meanings of citizenship. Just as they are tied together by global production, trade and finance, citizens in every nation are linked by the institutions of global governance, bringing new dynamics of inclusion and exclusion. For some, globalization provides a sense...
Removing Mountains
Extracting Nature and Identity in the Appalachian Coalfields
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2010
A coal mining technique practiced in southern West Virginia known as mountaintop removal is drastically altering the terrain of the Appalachian Mountains. Peaks are flattened and valleys are filled as the coal industry levels thousands of acres of forest to access the coal, in the process turning the...
Creating High Performing Teams
A Step-By-Step Guide for Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014
Rebecca has now documented her perceptive approach to Team Coaching, along with many of the practical and effective exercises that have helped my teams and my personal leadership approach Id highly recommend it. Liz Robson - Head of IS Homebase, Home Retail Group PLC Why Read This Book? I am a Team...
Revival
Twisted, #2
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
Cut Throat Curtis Mason is a monster with a heart of gold, a criminal on the road to redemption; a lost boy on a journey to find himself.Orphaned as a child and left emotionally desolate when he sends the love of his life away, Curtis falls into a dangerous trap of manipulation that soon spirals out...
Enforcing Equality
Congress, the Constitution, and the Protection of Individual Rights
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2006
In Enforcing Equality, Rebecca E. Zietlow assesses Congress's historical role in interpreting the Constitution and protecting the individual rights of citizens, provocatively challenging conventional wisdom that courts, not legislatures, are best suited for this role.
Specifically focusing on what...
The Weblog Handbook
Practical Advice On Creating And Maintaining Your Blog
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2009
Finally a book for anyone who has ever thought about starting a Weblog but wasn't sure how to post, where to find links, or even where to go to register. The Weblog Handbook is a clear and concise guide to everything one needs to know about the phenomenon that is exploding on the Web. Rebecca Blood...
Fifty Strategies to Boost Cognitive Engagement
Creating a Thinking Culture in the Classroom (50 Teaching Strategies to Support Cognitive Development)
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2019
Transform your classroom culture from one of passive knowledge consumption to one of active learning and student engagement. In this well-researched book, author Rebecca Stobaugh shares how to build a culture of thinking that emphasizes essential 21st century skills -- from critical thinking and problem-solving...
by Rebecca Rohman
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2019
Captain Dorian Rae is a wounded soul who gets his greatest pleasures from being in the great outdoors and soaring the skies. When he has a life-changing encounter with a beauty on Washington State’s High Steel Bridge, he never anticipates that one meeting would have an enduring effect on him and...