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In introducing basic concepts of cultural anthropology, Bodley challenges students to consider "big questions" about the nature of cultural systems, to explore relationships between growth, scale, and power, and to critically assess how commercialization, development, humanitarian concerns, and environmental issues are affecting our global future.

This book gives guidance to administrative leaders for dealing with ongoing organizational changes.

This case study book represents current areas of interest in Educational Psychology embedded within current challenges teachers face in today's elementary grade classrooms.

This unique book reveals the kinds of teaching that engages girls intellectually, fosters their creativity, and bolsters their confidence.

The Care and Display of Historic Clothing aims to assist with the full integration of costume collections into the interpretation of the past. The topics explored in this publication range from the care and identification of items in a costume collection to discussions about both physical display and how they can be used to engage audiences.

An Instructor's Guide to Teaching Military Students is a resource for online and on-ground educators in private and public learning institutions around the world.

This book focuses on four areas necessary to be an impactful teacher of mathematics: Planning, Pedagogy, Assessment, and Relationships. For each of the ideas presented, a brief introduction will be shared and then two different perspectives will be detailed: a Not like This, the traditional way, and a Teach Like This, my recommended approach.

The Relevance of Leadership Standards explores the links and importance between educational leadership and student learning. In each chapter, we go in depth exploring Professional Standards for Educational Leaders (PSEL), which provide a framework of the knowledge and skills needed for school leaders to be prepared for the challenges.

Real and Relevant provides teachers with a realistic, integrated, and inspirational guide for how to lead service and project-based learning with their students.

Practical Incident Management for Schools will help prepare every school leader for their important role in keeping students safe in their school, teaching the exact same system that fire chiefs have used to command emergencies for more than three decades, but with customized information to meet your specific needs as a school leader.

The Drive to Learn helps American parents learn from how Chinese, Japanese, and Korean parents think about and carry out child-rearing and how it translates into education.

Library Makerspaces: The Complete Guide is a road map for libraries of any size, with any budget, seeking to redesign or repurpose space or develop maker style programming. This book covers developing makerspaces, writing grant proposals, and helping staff and administrators learn about the technologies and processes involved.

Using examples, tips, suggestions for resources, samples, and anecdotes from a wide variety of library practitioners and settings, The Library Staff Development Handbook shows how to create an environment that nurtures individuals while encouraging staff opportunities in order to generate optimal institutional performance.

This book explores how societal changes, the number of children with autism, and the increasingly politically aggressive positions of advocacy groups will influence the reauthorization of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA).

Optimal Language Learning describes the effective, idiosyncratic approaches of five highly gifted language learners and discerns patterns among their stories of success.

Learning Begins, written by a teacher for teachers, translates current brain research into practical classroom strategies.

This book focuses on learning and pedagogy around inquiry using technology as a cognitive tool. Specific inferences and applications of learning through an inquiry approach are explored and illustrations are drawn from educational settings.

Growing a Growth Mindset provides teachers with an innovative approach to teaching children the positive psychology constructs that underlie self-belief, goal motivation, and happiness.

This book offers a systematic analysis of the various existing strategic cyber deterrence options and introduces active cyber defense as a technically capable and legally viable alternative strategy for the deterrence of cyber attacks. It examines the array of malicious actors operating in the domain and their methods of attack and motivations.

This important book provides a comprehensive synthesis of the geography of race and ethnicity. David Kaplan explores the complicated terrain of ethnicity through an expansive global perspective. He encapsulates the central debates, explains key concepts, and provides compelling examples of the crucial role ethnicity plays in everyday geographies.

Introduction to Public History: Interpreting the Past, Engaging Audiences is a brief foundational public history textbook for use in undergraduate and graduate classrooms. It is organized around the questions and ethical dilemmas that drive public history in a variety of settings, from local community-based projects to international case studies.

Forty years after its initial publication, this new edition features over 150 revisions, including case studies from the authors' experiences, complete look with color images of the archaeological excavation at Bacon's Castle and Monticello in Virginia, 74 illustrations and new chapters based on emerging information in the field.

This book is for those who are chairing their first search, trying to avoid some of the mistakes they made during their last search, interested in picking up a few pointers that have helped other department chairs and deans, or hoping to get the next hire right simply because they are dedicated to the job.

This book helps school principals understand the practical application of instructional leadership while improving ISLLC Competency. The case studies provide a multifaceted approach to effective instructional practices by exploring the behaviors, practices and actions that a school leader embodies and is exposed to daily.

This books highlights the questions that parents have posed about learners. It also highlights the groups that responded to their question, the answers they gave, the rhetoric in which they couched their answers, and their motives.

This book is about changing curriculum to align with school's goals for culture change. Original stories about subjects such as vengeance, prejudice and self-respect provide entry points into ideas for prioritizing group learning, demonstrating the linkages between personal and social concerns and making clear how all actions have consequences.

This is a story driven book about changing school culture from `me first' to `us' through curriculum and pedagogical change. Mr. Levitt addresses bullying, bystander behavior, shunning, and forgiveness, while emphasizing connections and mutuality of interest and suggesting real life opportunities to demonstrate how we are 'All in it Together.'

This book seeks to educate principals, counselors, teachers, coaches, and support staff about sexual misconduct, while providing a training model to prepare school staff to avoid sexual misconduct, to encourage school leaders to upgrade their supervision efforts, and to provide needed outreach and intervention before sexual misconduct occurs.