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Bringing School to Life: Place-Based Education across the Curriculum offers insights into how to build a program across the K-8 grades. Anderson addresses key elements such as mapping, local history, citizen science, and integrated curricula. She suggests strategies for building community partnerships and implementation for primary grades.

This book attempts to harness the power of stories to help students grow and develop as writers. It argues that stories and narratives can be utilized in the composition classroom, specifically first-year composition (FYC) to break down barriers. Stories and narratives can help students overcome academic, personal, and creative barriers.

Surviving Mass Victim Attacks serves as a guide to anyone who wishes to be more knowledgeable and better prepared if caught in an attack. Gary Jackson focuses on extracted principles of survival, rather than simply describing past events, to help and provide a useful guide on how to survive in future attacks.

When it comes to public higher education in America, one size does not fit all.

This text analyzes the major post-unification developments that have tested and shaped the "new Germany" from a multilevel perspective. Informed by the authors' intimate knowledge of Germany, the book offers a comprehensive, in-depth analysis of a pivotal global player at a critical economic, political, and social juncture.

Designed as a "how-to" manual, Practical Preservation and Conservation Strategies for Libraries provides librarians with information to help them grapple with specific preservation challenges by identifying areas of concern, optimizing the use of resources put towards preservation, and establishing goals for continual improvement over time.

This book is a practical tool to aid both the novice and experienced administrator grow their leadership skillset. Scenarios of actual higher education situations (including solutions and rationales) guide the leader through analysis and reflection. Supporting readings along with various activities are included to aid in improved leadership.

This book introduces and explores a theory of global development ethics, revealing some of the challenges to projects of global development and including coverage of core topics such as immigration, technology, famine, race and capitalism. It is ideal for advanced-level courses in Global Ethics, Development Ethics and Applied Ethics.

Identifies the critical influence of religious practices and power relations in the transnationalpeacebuilding and development work of faith-based organisations.

Explores the (post)colonial condition of German development policy, particularly in the Global South.

This book provides a comprehensive critical account of Taylor's writings, and argues that a close examination of his central concept of "strong evaluation" reveals both the potential of and the tensions in his entire thinking.

This book considers the brighter side of our world today by exploring the ways in which wellbeing is on an upward swing globally.

No Longer Homeless is a powerful look at a group of people we rarely hear about-those who have formerly been on the streets-sharing the details of their lives to help individuals, organizations, and communities learn to better support the ongoing challenges of homelessness.

Quietly Courageous offers practical guidance to leaders-both lay and ordained-on leading churches today. It encourages leaders to focus on their mission and purpose-what is ultimately motivating their work. It also urges a shift in perspectives on resources, discusses models of change, and offers suggestions for avoiding common pitfalls.

Introducing Medical Anthropology, Third Edition, is intended for use in the medical anthropology course taught primarily at four year universities.

This comprehensive and balanced assessment of the historical and contemporary determinants of Sino-American relations, now updated through 2017, explains the conflicted engagement between the two governments. Offering a welcome richness of discussion and analysis, Sutter explores the twists and turns of the relationship over the past 200 years.

This book brings dialogic and critical thinking into practice.

Assessment, technology, and racial discrimination are three status quos that negatively impact the way educators teach and how students learn. The education system must change and courage is required to speak out against ideas and practices that do not work so we can improve learning for all students.

At least half of all college students in the U.S. today attend two-year colleges; yet, fewer than half of these students achieve their educational goals. This book, written by an experienced community college teacher summarizes specific evidence-based methods to improve student learning and completion.

This book is a valuable resource for all educators who seek to gain a better understanding of learning disabilities, effective classroom practices, and meeting the instructional, emotional, and social needs of struggling students.

This book is designed to be a valuable resource for all educators who seek to gain a better understanding of writing development, effective writing teaching practices, and meeting the instructional needs of struggling writers. Educators will gain a thorough understanding of developing proficient writers and how to do so effectively.

This book shows teachers how to align emotion with subject matter, and it offers them lessons and projects that resonate with young authors.

The scope and theme of the book includes the educational process, learner-centered pedagogy, cultural competency, and effective teaching in a culturally diverse setting.

Most social studies teachers follow a traditional lecture-discussion-practice format, even though the curriculum was founded on John Dewey's problem-and-inquiry approach to learning. This book guides the reader through his major theories--curriculum, experience, interest, inquiry-and culminates with active, democratic citizenship.

This book demonstrates effective teaching practices that facilitate all students' written language development and improve attitudes toward writing in grades 6 - 12. All teachers need to be involved in raising the literacy bar. This book provides practical and classroom-tested activities and strategies that promote success for all learners.

Cultivating a Culture of Learning illustrates practice from a variety of teacher education programs. Authors share their first-hand experience of cultivating a culture of learning as teacher educators. The insights and challenges are shared to stimulate conversation and engender future pedagogy and research in contemplative education.

This book will help you to discover how struggling students can be reached and teachers encouraged.

This book provides everything you need to get started with visual notetaking, including the research behind the benefits of using this tool for your own learning, as well as with your students. The information is applicable to all grade levels and subject areas.

The components of sound district finance and management, that are increasingly important in an era of scarce financial, material, and human resources, are provided in this book, along with some clear and related recommendations.

The LITA Guide to No- or Low-Cost Technology Tools for Libraries provides a practical guide on how to find and use technology tools for a variety of purposes in libraries and education. Each topic showcases two technology tools in detail, discusses additional tools, and provides examples of how to use them in libraries and schools.