The new building blocks for learning in a complex world This important resource introduces a framework for 21st Century learning that maps out the skills needed to survive and thrive in a complex and connected world. 21st Century content includes the basic core subjects of reading, writing, and arithmetic-but also emphasizes global awareness, financial/economic literacy, and health issues. The ski…
Practical, ready-to-use ELL strategies firmly rooted in the latest research This book provides practical strategies and tools for assessing and teaching even the most hard to reach English language learners across the content areas. Syrja offers educators the latest information on working with ELLs (including using formative assessments) and provides a wealth of classroom-tested models and measure…
«Капитолий — всему голова» — продолжение серии «Рим в любую погоду». Книга посвящена истории и достопримечательностям Капитолийского холма. Предназначена всем, кому интересен Рим.
Disability can affect adults across the life span—and it is the one minority group every person could join. This sourcebook aims to broaden the view of disability from a medical or economic concern to a social justice concern. It examines practical, theoretical, and research aspects of disability—including those who question disability classifications—and situates it as a political and social just…
In an increasingly interconnected world, a dialogical self is not only possible but even necessary. People are closer together than ever, yet they are confronted with apparent and sometimes even insurmountable differences. While there is a need of increased dialogue between individuals, groups, and cultures, it is equally important to develop of dialogical potentials within the self of the individ…
Рассматриваются проблемы эффективности существующих межгосударственных образований на постсоветском пространстве и перспективы их развития. Анализируются интеграционные процессы в отраслях экономики и социальной сфере. Особое внимание уделяется вопросам экономической интеграции России и бывших советских республик. Для научных сотрудников, преподавателей высших учебных заведений, аспирантов и студе…
Рассматриваются проблемы эффективности существующих межгосударственных образований на постсоветском пространстве и перспективы их развития. Анализируются интеграционные процессы в отраслях экономики и социальной сфере. Особое внимание уделяется вопросам экономической интеграции России и бывших советских республик. Для научных сотрудников, преподавателей высших учебных заведений, аспирантов и студе…
The AACC competencies were initially developed to help provide guidance in developing community college leaders because of predictions of a leadership crisis in the two-year college sector. Since their creation, the competencies have been used to direct topics in leadership development programs and to guide future leaders about what skills are critical to master. Yet scant research exists on the u…
In the midst of a challenging economic recovery, the nation’s policy makers and education leaders are seeking new and potentially more effective strategies to align personal and public educational investments with job creation, increased levels of employment, small business development, and entrepreneurial activity. Reaching the 2020 national college completion goal will require powerful and fully…
Students become new and different people through the course of their education. When students earn the right to say, “I am a college graduate,” that new status becomes a part of who they are. The authors in this volume—scholars from a range of fields—offer methods that staff and faculty can use to explore the process through which students develop new personal, civic, and professional identities. …
Fantastic strategies for getting high school students excited about writing This book offers 50 creative writing lesson plans from the imaginative and highly acclaimed 826 National writing labs. Created as a resource to reach all students (even those most resistant to creative writing), the off-beat and attention-grabbing lessons include such gems as «Literary Facebooks,» where students create a m…
A beautiful gift book that offers encouragement, comfort, and inspiration for new (and veteran) teachers This beautifully designed book is a celebration of the joys and challenges of the teaching life. Author and veteran educator Coleen Armstrong is a wise, witty, and caring mentor. Her words of encouragement will resonate with new teachers, with students in teacher education schools, and with vet…
A new approach to help kids with ADHD and LD succeed in and outside the classroom This groundbreaking book addresses the consequences of the unabated stress associated with Learning disabilities and ADHD and the toxic, deleterious impact of this stress on kids' academic learning, social skills, behavior, and efficient brain functioning. Schultz draws upon three decades of work as a neuropsychologi…
Чрезмерное потребление вина опасно для вашего здоровья. Однако потрясающие грузинские вина в основном чрезмерно не потребляются. Грузинское вино — это часть культуры Грузии, ее души, самобытности, независимости. Благородство напитка — часть грузинской идентичности. В книге перечислены и охарактеризованы вина Грузии: красные, белые, крепкие, десертные, игристые. Характер книги — образовательный и к…
Новый вид физического взаимодействия — Паули-поле. Эволюция последовательно проводимых экспериментов как Машина Времени. Связь подобных форм. Сенсационные опыты на кухонном столе. Классическая наука. И еще, по теме исследований, немного трогательной научной фантастики. Это дороже денег.