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This book provides an approach to physical science instruction in a way that is interesting and engaging to students featuring author-created action sports videos and classroom activities focused on physical science concepts.

This book explores the fun things researchers can do with logistic regression, explicates and simplifies the confounding complexities of understanding what logistic regression is, and provides evidence-based guidance as to what the best practices in performing logistic regression are.

This two-volume, A-to-Z set provides a general, non-technical resource for students and researchers in such diverse fields as communication and media studies, sociology and anthropology, social and cognitive psychology, history, literature and linguistics, and popular culture and folklore.

Planting the Seeds of Algebra will empower teachers with theoretical and practical knowledge about both the content and pedagogy of algebraic instruction, showing them the different faces of algebra as it appears in the early years.

This invaluable resource presents a clear process for using video to promote professional growth and teacher effectiveness.

This textbook shows students how knowledge is discovered through the process of research.

This book will explain what the standards say, what they mean, and how to teach them and is organized by the Anchor Standards in each category.

Using children's books as a springboard for learning, this book provides 22 ready-to-use lessons that teachers can use to build number skills and improve literacy at the same time.

Using budgets from all levels of government, as well as from non-profit organizations, this text brings together scores of exercises that will take students through the process of public budgeting, from organizing data, all the way through to analysis and presentation.

Music in the Social and Behavioral Sciences, available in both multimedia digital and print formats, is a must-have reference for music and social science library collections.

Modelled after Jim Burke's successful Common Core Companion Series, this book includes a clear explanation of the mathematics within each domain, cluster, and standard and suggested grade level appropriate visual models and representations.

Featuring 80% brand-new material, this second edition addresses the latest technological developments, combined with the authors' tested methods for applying them in schools.

A new edition of this popular sociological exploration of religious life in today's globalized world. Kurtz encourages students to re-examine conventional understandings about the role of religion in society.

The books aims to help educators understand the value and power of meaningful informal conversations about teaching and to provide all educators with the "mental maps" and practical tools to enable them to conduct meaningful, although frequently informal, professional conversations about practice.

This book provides teachers and leaders with the "how to" by focusing on the impact of building collaborative relationships, clarifying criteria for success, building learner capacity, embedded formative assessment, and using feedback to deepen and prove learning.

This book presents the rationale of including creativity as a part of every student's education, but also presents useful (and creative) strategies, especially those that use technology, for making this happen in every classroom.

Taking an interactive approach, and referencing actual cases that illustrate the application of the law of evidence, this text highlights the theme of "balancing of interests" to students of criminal justice.

The authors outline the historical and emerging trends in the field of medical social work, from end-of-life and palliative care to the role of the social worker and health disparities.

This engaging, thought-provoking, and comprehensive text examines the promise and limits of community development by showing students and practitioners how asset-based developments can improve the sustainability and quality of life.

This workbook focuses on the practical training and development of intelligence analysts using a case-based and scenario methodology

This is an engaging examination of prisoner re-entry and how to improve public safety, well-being, and justice in the "era of mass incarceration."

Detailing the steps involved in planning and carrying out a comprehensive approach to monitoring a process or new programme, policy or practice implementation in an organization, this book will develop students' skills in program evaluation, specifically in implementation monitoring.

With more than 250 entries, arranged in encyclopaedic A-to-Z format, this updated sixth edition provides insight into the key questions readers have about the U.S. Congress and helps them make sense of the narrow power division between Republicans and Democrats.

Takes the position that US bureaucracy is neither a generalized failure not a sinkhole of waste as mythologized by anti-government ideologues. Rather, it is one of the most effective and innovative sets of administrative institutions of any government in the world today.

How do we make educational equity a reality, lesson by lesson? This book shows how team observation and learning can strengthen schools and support educational achievement by all students. It helps to: implement practices for observation-based professional learning; and more.

Offers students a contemporary and accurate state of psychological theory today. Focusing more on contemporary application than psychological theory, the book factors in the efficacy of each approach and the integration of important developments such as positive psychology and the common factors approach.

A must-have for teachers, curriculum designers, and school leader, providing them with everything they need to know about developing curriculum and instruction for the K-12 classroom, tying in with the Common Core State Standards.

Thorough, extensive in scope, and meticulously researched, America Votes includes official, state-certified election returns and key data by county and by district for the House, Senate, and gubernatorial elections for the 2011-2012 election cycle. This volume is an essential acquisition for university, school, public, and professional libraries.

This practical book equips teachers with the knowledge they need to bring maths to life in the classroom.

This classroom companion employs hands-on techniques, teaching-tested activities, and brain-compatible literacy strategies to engage and motivate reluctant readers.