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Book SynopsisThis book demonstrates that the COVID 19 pandemic asks for a a global approach to bioethics. it describes how the pandemic affects the experience of being in a world that is intrinsically characterized by global connectivity. It demonstrates that a moral vision is necessary to articulate this experience of connectedness. Subsequently, a perspective of global bioethics is introduced, which provides a broader framework than mainstream bioethics, since it highlights the significance of both vulnerability and solidarity. Through a unique global perspective the book addresses the moral challenges of the pandemic, and places the confrontation with death, disease and disability within a wider framework of ethical concerns. This book is of important in the public debate on infectious diseases, and of relevance to health professionals, global health educators, public health experts,as well as policy makers.Table of ContentsIntroduction: The perspective of global bioethicsChapter 1: Pandemic pasts. Lessons from history Chapter 2: Emerging infectious diseases Chapter 3: Diverging policy responses Chapter 4: Diverging facts and values Chapter 5: Linking experience and reflection Chapter 6. Treatment and ethics Chapter 7: Care and ethics Chapter 8: Prevention and ethics Chapter 9: Post-Covid bioethics Chapter 10: Redirecting globalization: Chapter 11: Conclusion: The world after corona

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Book SynopsisThis book analyses the challenges and opportunities faced by art-based social enterprises (ASEs) engaging young creatives in education and training and supporting their pathways to the creative industries. In doing so, it addresses the complex intersecting issues of marginality and entrepreneurship, particularly in relation to young creatives from socially, economically and culturally diverse backgrounds. Drawing on extensive fieldwork and interviews with twelve key organisations, and three in-depth case studies in Australia, the book offers a detailed analysis of using enterprise to engage with the structural challenges of marginality. The book explores the local and global contexts through which art-based social enterprises (ASEs) operate and within which they attempt – often successfully – to improve access to education and work for emerging creatives. It also attends to the findings generated through engaging with the lived experiences of the staff and young creatives involved in our ASE case studies, in order to understand both the challenges and impacts of the ASE model on young people’s education, training, and employment pathways. The book focuses on three broad themes; precarious youth and digital futures, material practice and sustainable economies, and cultural citizenship in the urban fringe. In exploring these themes, the book contributes to debates about the limits, possibilities and challenges that attach to, and emerge from, an ASE model and highlights the ways in which these models can contribute to young people’s well-being, engagement, education and training, and work pathways. More broadly, it examines the possibilities of art as a means of social and cultural engagement. In the context of the precarious future of the creative industries, this book emphasise the ways in which young artists are building alternative economic and cultural models that support both individual pathways and collective change. This book will move the field forward with a critical lens that engages closely with experience and the lived realities of juggling multiple priorities of social, economic and artistic goals.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction: Artistic practice and social outcomes in a market-driven landscape.- Chapter 2: Precarious youth and digital futures.- Chapter 3: The Youthworx model: Disengaged young people and creative digital training.- Chapter 4: Fashioning a future: Material practice, creativity and sustainable economies.- Chapter 5: The Social Studio: Hope and pragmatic ambition.- Chapter 6: Creative practice, cultural citizenship and the urban fringe.- Chapter 7: Outer Urban Projects: Community building versus mainstreaming.- Chapter 8: Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisThis open access publication outlines the underlying framework for gathering data on civic knowledge, attitudes, and engagement as well as contextual information, and it describes the assessment design for the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement’s (IEA) International Civic and Citizenship Education Study 2022.The IEA International Civic and Citizenship Study (ICCS) investigates how young people are prepared to undertake their roles as citizens in a range of countries in the second decade of the 21st century. ICCS 2022 is a continuation of two earlier IEA studies, ICCS 2009 and ICCS 2016, and, for the first time, this survey includes the option of a computer-based assessment. Responding to enduring and emerging challenges of educating young people in a world where contexts of democracy and civic participation continue to change, the study addresses issues related to young people’s engagement through digital technologies, migration and diversity, perceptions of the political system, global citizenship, and education for sustainable development. Over the past 50 years, IEA has conducted comparative research studies in a range of domains focusing on educational policies, practices, and outcomes in many countries around the world. Prior to ICCS 2022, IEA conducted four international comparative studies of civic and citizenship education, with a first survey implemented in 1971, a second one in 1999, third in 2009 and fourth in 2016. ICCS 2022 data will allow education systems to evaluate the strengths of educational policies, both internationally, and in a regional context, and to measure progress in achieving critical components of their educational policy agendas.Table of ContentsOverview.- Civic knowledge framework.- Civic attitudes and engagement framework.- Contextual framework.- Assessment design.- References.- Appendices.

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Book SynopsisThis exciting, first-of-its-kind title describes the blossoming new science of medicine and management—the concepts, methodologies, techniques, and tools that create value for patients, populations, caregivers, staff, and healthcare organizations. Developed out of the innovative and powerful physician executive MBA program at the Heller School of Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University, The New Science of Medicine & Management describes what physician leaders need to know and do to fix problems that can erode value in complex healthcare environments in which they practice medicine. The book is motivated by a singular proposition—Every Physician a Leader; Every Leader a Collaborative Team Player and a new definition of high-value health care. Composed of the best 18 of approximately 200 outstanding physician-led business school projects, the book is based on the collective efforts and experiences of 33 authors and coauthors, 28 of whom are physicians and 19 of whom have an MD and an MBA degree. The work is grounded in three important assertions: First, the clinical side of complex professional medical organizations such as hospitals has traditionally been led by highly skilled, highly experienced medical practitioners trained in the underlying biomedical disciplines and applied medical sciences. Second, there is research evidence that managers with clinical backgrounds can run better healthcare organizations, and a growing number of physician-led multispecialty groups are outperforming organizations run by lay managers. Third, physicians and other caregivers should have some training in the new science of medicine and management; moreover, and very importantly, the transition from clinician to clinical manager and leader is challenging and requires training in the new science of medicine and management. State of the art, developed by expert physician leaders in the field, and replete with a wide range of management insights and lessons, this book asks important questions and offers an exciting and comprehensive resource for all physicians, health administrators, and clinicians interested in not only the science of medicine and management and in developing physician-led teams but, crucially, in ensuring value in healthcare by improving patient outcomes, safety, affordability, and employee well-being.Table of Contents Improving access to and quality of palliative & hospice care via provider and patient education Operating Room rapid response Innovation team impacting measurable efficiencies Improved transplantation operational performance through a transplant specific database integration with the hospital electronic medical record. Globalization of the new science of medicine and management Low tech visual systems to impact ED efficiency metrics Hypertrophic Pyloric Stenosis Feeding Protocol: a Prototype to Decrease the Variance in Postoperative Care Delivery "Physician of the day" structure for pediatric surgery service to improve quality through enhanced teamwork Low Dose CT scanning (LDCT) screening program for an at risk cancer population Impacting a focused set of NSQIP outcomes elements that are actionable and achievable to improve all NSQIP results and overall outcomes and quality of care. Maximizing Operating Room efficiency using revenue cycle and operations management tools. Vascular Diagnostic Laboratory Improvements through effective data management. Management of late surgical case cancellations to improve efficiency Structured data collection Insurance industry pilot using an evidence based approach The Sholdice Clinic as an example of synergizing operations management, medical care, and creative finance. Establish new leadership and business structures in a rural ED to improve key indices. Primary Care Practice Redesign Maximizing the first hundred days of medical executive positions-lessons from a CMO Successful use of marketing, branding, and alignment to tackle tobacco use. Development and implementation of a standardized procedural antibiotic protocol in a multi office urology practice. Benefits and challenges in diminishing operating room waste stream Routine post-reduction radiographs in children-challenging the paradigm Transparency and communication in the consent process regarding procedural sedation

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Book SynopsisThis open access textbook offers science education researchers a hands-on guide for learning, critically examining, and integrating machine learning (ML) methods into their science education research projects.

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Book SynopsisNow as before, Japanese architecture is very popular in Europe and the western world. This publication provides an overview of its many design concepts and cross-references. Using design examples and interviews, the book presents thirteen current positions.The publication focuses on young architects who take up extremely independent positions within Japanese architecture, as well as on Pritzker Prize winners Toyo Ito and Fumihiko Maki. Six essays by European specialists on Japan provide supplementary insights into the aesthetics and space concepts of Japanese architecture, making cross-references to Japan’s architectural history, and explaining current lines of development. The book thus combines a self-reflective approach with an outsider’s analytical view.

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Book SynopsisA cooperative reflection on how to teach art. How should art be taught? What kind of knowledge should artists absorb? How might an ordinary person become a creature addicted to the creative process? In other words, how can a non-artist become an artist? Such programmatic questions articulated by acclaimed Polish artist Artur Żmijewski were at the heart of the workshop “How to Teach Art?” Żmijewski invited a group of graduate and doctoral students from three Zurich universities—the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, the University of Zurich, and the Zurich University of the Arts—to collectively reflect on their artistic practices. Over the course of four months, the group met several times a week for hourlong sessions, following individual and collective exercises induced by Żmijewski himself. This book retraces the workshop and its process by showing inconclusive, fragmentary results between theory and practice. How to Teach Art? presents drawings, videos, photographs, 16mm films, and accompanying reflections on the central premise, “How to teach art?”

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Book SynopsisThis ICME-13 Topical Survey provides a review of recent research into statistics education, with a focus on empirical research published in established educational journals and on the proceedings of important conferences on statistics education. It identifies and addresses six key research topics, namely: teachers’ knowledge; teachers’ role in statistics education; teacher preparation; students’ knowledge; students’ role in statistics education; and how students learn statistics with the help of technology. For each topic, the survey builds upon existing reviews, complementing them with the latest research. Trade Review“The advertised purpose of the booklets was to update readers on recent developments in mathematics education. The booklet at hand attempts to do this in 28 pages … . this booklet might best be used to give researchers an overview of the field. It could also be a gold mine for a graduate student looking for a topic for a dissertation as the authors make numerous references to gaps in past research.” (Robert W. Hayden, MAA Reviews, maa.org, February, 2017)Table of ContentsMain Topics You Can Find in this “ICME-13 Topical Survey”.- Introduction.- Survey on the State-of-the-art.- Summary and Looking Ahead.

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Book SynopsisThis edited volume is the premier book dedicated exclusively to marine science education and improving ocean literacy, aiming to showcase exemplary practices in marine science education and educational research in this field on a global scale. It informs, inspires, and provides an intellectual forum for practitioners and researchers in this particular context. Subject areas include sections on marine science education in formal, informal and community settings. This book will be useful to marine science education practitioners (e.g. formal and informal educators) and researchers (both education and science).Table of Contents1. Ocean Literacy in the 21st Century.- 2. An Exemplar Model for Expanding Development Reach.- Part I Research.- 3. ¡Youth & the Ocean! (¡YO!): Partnering High School and Graduate Students for Youth-Driven Research Experiences.- 4. Leveraging Parent Chaperones to Support Youths’ Learning During an Out-of-School Field Trip to a Marine Science Field Station.- 5. Systematic and Longitudinal Research to Support and Improve the National Ocean Sciences Bowl: Finding from Seventeen Years of Study.- 6. Leveraging Ocean Identity in Education to Impact Students’ Conservation Practices.- 7. Evaluating Differences in Outcomes and Participant Perspectives in Marine Science Professional Development Conducted by Informal Educators Compared to Specialized University Faculty.- 8. Implementing Ocean Literacy through the Bond of Informal and Formal Education.- 9. Evaluating Ocean Learning – The Principles and Practicalities of Evaluating Formal Education Audiences in an Informal Education Environment.- 10. Effective Practices for Fostering Empathy towards Marine Life.- Part II Practitioner.- 11. Creating Marine Outreach Programmes that Work – The Marine Institute Explorers Education Programme™.- 12. Marine Education through Cooperation: A Case Study of Opportunity in a Remote School in Taiwan.- 13. Educating with Data.- 14. Using International School Partnerships to Promote Ocean Literacy.- 15. Out of the Tower and into the Classroom: Marine Science Graduate Students as K-12 Classroom Contributors.- 16. The VIRTUE Project and the Biofilms and Biodiversity Project: An International Collaboration in Marine Science Education.- 17. Integrating Ocean Literacy in UK Curriculum-Led Field Courses.- 18. Building Capacity for Meaningful Watershed Educational Experiences.- 19. Going with/against the Flow: The Challenges of an Authentic Marine Science Education.- 20. Bring the Ocean to the Classroom - Introducing Experimental Studies to Teachers with Fair or no Science Knowledge.- 21. Closer to Blue.- 22. The Two Bays Project: A Model for Providing Multidisciplinary Approaches to Monitoring, Education, Engagement and Partnership Building.- 23. Citizen Science to Engage and Empower Youth in Marine Science.- 24. Empowering Young Ocean Conservationists.

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Book SynopsisFor over 20 years, school interventions involving former right-wing extremists have been popular in Germany. In practice, they are advertised and conducted as both civic education and extremism prevention. This book uses an evidence-based and interdisciplinary approach to examine the potentials and challenges of this format. It provides a thematic embedding of German application, a comprehensive review of attributed impact assumptions and the state of related research. Furthermore, this research offers highly valuable, unique and comprehensive insights based on empirical evidence. It thus contributes to a better understanding of the format and its complexity. Overall, the findings give no clear indication that the involvement of former right-wing extremists in schools initiate civic education processes or prevent political extremism. Rather, the investigation found fundamental needs for additional research, modification, and sensitization. In this vein, this book makes a pioneer contribution to quality assurance and evaluation research in civic education and extremism prevention.Table of ContentsStructure of the book.- Synopsis.

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Book SynopsisThe book is intended to serve as a brief companion for mathematical educators of elementary teacher candidates who learn mathematics within a college of education both at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Being informed by mathematics teaching and learning standards of the United States, Australia, Canada, Chile, England, Japan, Korea, Singapore, and South Africa, the book can be used internationally.The teaching methods emphasize the power of visualization, the use of physical materials, and support of computer technology including spreadsheet, Wolfram Alpha, and the Geometer's Sketchpad.The basic ideas include the development of the concepts of number, base-ten system, problem solving and posing, the emergence of fractions in the context of simple real-life activities requiring the extension of whole number arithmetic, decimals, percent, ratio, geoboard geometry, elements of combinatorics, probability and data analysis.The book includes historical aspects of elementary school mathematics. For example, readers would be interested to know that two-sided counters stem from the binary system with its genesis in the 1st millennium BC China of which Leibnitz (17th century) was one of the first notable proponents. The genesis of the base-ten arithmetic is in the Egyptian mathematics of the 4th millennium BC, enriched with the positional notation with the advent of Hindu-Arabic numerals in the 12th century Europe.

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Book SynopsisThis book focuses on the relationship between the university and a particular cohort of academic staff: those in visual and performing arts disciplines who joined the university sector in the 1990s. It explores how artistic researchers have been accommodated in the Australian university management framework and the impact that this has had on their careers, identities, approaches to their practice and the final works that they produce. The book provides the first analysis of this topic across the artistic disciplinary domain in Australia and updates the findings of Australia’s only comprehensive study of the position of research in the creative arts within the government funding policy setting reported in 1998 (The Strand Report).Using lived examples and a forensic approach to the research policy challenges, it shows that while limited progress has been made in the acceptance of artistic research as legitimate research, significant structural, cultural and practical challenges continue to undermine relationships between universities and their artistic staff and affect the nature and quality of artistic work.Table of ContentsForeword.- Artists in the University: An introduction.- Worlds colliding - the ongoing influence of amalgamation.- The University as a Site for Artistic Practice .- Is Artistic Practice Research?.- Artistic Research Within National Research Policy.- Artistic Research and university research management practices.- Institutional research management from the inside.- Beyond Equivalency: Repositioning Artistic Research Within higher education.- Appendix.

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Book SynopsisTop the IELTS is an IELTS book like no other. It recognizes an essential key to the problem: students who struggle with the IELTS have problems mastering English. Hence, while other IELTS books teach strategies with long wordy explanations that hardly make sense to the average student, Top the IELTS focuses on teaching students in the most intuitive way possible: examples.Each unit is systematically broken down to make it simple for any student to Top the IELTS. First, 'Simple Steps' are condensed at the outset for easy reference. Next begins 'Elaboration with Examples' — a section where the 'Simple Steps' are put into practice. As an added bonus, actual student work is included in the elaboration section to reveal the common mistakes made by IELTS-takers. The unit concludes with the 'IELTS Trainer' which allows students a chance to directly put the strategies to practice rather than just throwing students into the deep end by providing a full set of IELTS practice tests.

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Book SynopsisThis is the ultimate all-in-one guide for teaching writing, spelling, punctuation and grammar in the primary classroom. Providing practical advice on teaching grammar and writing techniques through the use of non-fiction texts, Grammarsaurus is closely aligned to the National Curriculum and ensures teachers are addressing the right topics at the right time. Each chapter focuses on a non-fiction text type: instructions, explanations, non-chronological reports, diary entries, newspaper reports and persuasive texts. There are photocopiable model texts for each year group, along with annotated versions guiding teachers through language features, grammar, spelling and punctuation opportunities, saving hours of lesson planning. Mitch Hudson and Anna Richards, expert teachers and creators of the popular Grammarsaurus website, answer common questions from teachers: When should I teach this punctuation mark?'', or ''Which spellings should I be teaching my Year 2 class?'. With exaTrade ReviewMitch and Anna are my go-to people when it comes to SPaG! This book is full of tried-and-tested lesson ideas that children will engage with and learn from, making teaching SPaG enjoyable. A must-buy book for experienced or newly qualified teachers. -- Heather McAvan * Author of Learn to Read the Easy Way and Director of www.mrsmactivity.co.uk, @mrsmactivity *Grammarsaurus Key Stage 1 contains everything you need to teach effective lessons. The model texts are pitched at the right level and there are tips and tricks that enable you to cover as much curriculum content as possible. -- Kelly Cox * Deputy headteacher *So many wonderful ideas, presented in an accessible way. The writing process is broken down to ensure a consistent approach and expectations are high, yet realistic. A valuable toolkit for any teacher. -- Gemma Hathaway * Key Stage 1 Lead, @misshath2 *Jam-packed full of all the skills you need for planning and teaching non-fiction writing that will save you hours of time. A real must-have! -- Katie Hemmings * Primary teacher and KS1 English Lead, Instagram: @katiesclassroom_ *An easy-to-follow guide that breaks down the requirements of the National Curriculum and provides a planning overview for teaching, combining grammar, spelling, punctuation and writing into one book. It includes annotated high-quality model texts, to show teachers the benchmark for expectations in each year group and presents up-to-date content that reflects the new framework for writing. * Love Reading 4 Schools *

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Book SynopsisBloomsbury Teacher Guide: Anita and Me weaves together the essential subject knowledge, ready-to-use resources and classroom strategies needed to teach Meera Syal's extraordinary story, as well as fresh ideas to teach this GCSE set text that are as exciting for you as they are for your students.Each chapter contains suggested schemes of work and lesson ideas to enhance subject knowledge on key areas of the text, with focus on historical and cultural context, understanding the plot, character analysis, key themes and detailed analysis of language, form and structure, appropriate for all GCSE exam boards and for pre-teaching at KS3 level. Effective and engaging strategies are included for relevant lessons and exam preparation, from retrieval practice to scaffolding and reciprocal reading. The book includes exclusive downloadable and printable teaching resources for instant use in the classroom to support students at all levels.Whether you are new to tea

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewIn this genre-bending work of art, words and images morph in ways that free the reader's imagination to think and write differently. Mona Oraby, Emilie Flamme, and their ghostwriters create the kind of visionary experimentation and innovation that are sorely lacking, but very much needed both within and beyond the academy today. -- Mark C. Taylor, Columbia UniversityOraby and Flamme invite readers into an impressive, courageous, and innovative experiment in communicative arts, an interpretive work of political action, a wager at broader engagement for important ideas raised in expertly curated words and equally scintillating images. A Universe of Terms ushers into perceptible shape a series of interconnected propositions; it threads these together to create space for expansive imaginings. This hefty contribution is a brilliant object for study and thought. -- Sally M. Promey, Yale UniversityA Universe of Terms encourages readers to reconsider the conventions that have served to inform what we see and how we communicate the social sciences and humanities. And, in the process, it supports new and unconventional ways of thinking, communicating, and engaging. This is a creative and important project that opens much needed space for reimagining academic language and knowledge. -- Anthony B. Pinn, author of Interplay of Things: Religion, Art, and Presence TogetherTable of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsNote on QuotationsTable of TermsSPIRITECONOMYHUMANMEDIAPERFORMANCESPACE/PLACEMODERNITYENCHANTMENT/DISENCHANTMENTIndexBibliography

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Book SynopsisThis book presents a wide variety of experiential learning activities to help instructors enliven their courses and teach critical concepts in psychology and law.Table of ContentsPreface Introduction Chapter 1: Fact or Fiction: Psychology and Law in the Media Chapter 2: Legality Versus Morality Debate Chapter 3: A Brief Trial Chapter 4: Who Do You Want? The Voir Dire Process Chapter 5: Psychological Profile of a Murder Suspect Chapter 6: Voices for Victims Chapter 7: To Protect and Serve: Training Law Enforcement Chapter 8: Do You See What I See? Eyewitness Identification Chapter 9: To Waive or Not to Waive? Miranda Rights and Due Process Chapter 10: Evaluating Juvenile Competency to Stand Trial Chapter 11: A Journey Through Civil Commitment Chapter 12: Do You Swear to Tell the Truth? Expert Testimony Chapter 13: Can We Predict? Appraising and Reducing Risk Chapter 14: Freeze! What's a Juvenile Justice Facility to Do? Chapter 15: Problem Solved? Creating a Problem-Solving Court Chapter 16: May It Please the Court: Amicus Curiae Brief Chapter 17: What Would SCOTUS Do? Appendix A: Written Assignment Grading Rubric Appendix B: Participation Grading Rubric Appendix C: Presentation Grading Rubric Appendix D: Group and Self-Evaluation Form Appendix E: Sample Activity Feedback Survey Index About the Authors

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Book SynopsisReady-to-go, vetted approaches for facilitating artistic environmental projects How do we educate those who feel an urgency to address our environmental and social challenges? What ethical concerns do art-makers face who are committed to a deep green agenda? How can we refocus education to emphasize integrative thinking and inspire hope? What role might art play in actualizing environmental resilience? Compiled from 67 members of the Ecoart Network, a group of more than 200 internationally established practitioners, Ecoart in Action stands as a field guide that offers practical solutions to critical environmental challenges. Organized into three sections—Activities, Case Studies, and Provocations—each contribution provides models for ecoart practice that are adaptable for use within a variety of classrooms, communities, and contexts. Educators developing project and place-based learning curricula, citizens, policymakers, scientists, land managers, and those who work with communities (human and other) will find inspiration for integrating art, science, and community-engaged practices into on-the-ground environmental projects. If you share a concern for the environmental crisis and believe art can provide new options, this book is for you!Trade Review"Art is essential to our movements: environmentalists have always been good at appealing to the hemisphere of the human brain that values bar graphs and pie charts, but the message of our peril needs to get across in far more visceral ways as well. And here artists are as important as scientists, as this wonderfully comprehensive account makes clear." -- Bill McKibben, environmentalist and author of The End of Nature"Ecoart in Action is an extensive and invaluable field guide to the ways in which the arts can raise consciousness and instigate action on ecological issues. Transformative projects are carefully laid out by an amazing group of artists and writers whose dedication to the issues goes back decades. Packed with brilliant ideas for a vast number of contexts and participants, this book is crucial to our hopes for a sustainable future." -- Lucy R. Lippard, art critic and author of Undermining: A Wild Ride Through Land Use, Politics, and Art in the Changing West"Even as California combusts, Greenland’s vaulting ancient ice dome sweats, and seas swell, this Anthropocene period of Earth history, hubristically named by and for our species, is in its earliest formative stages. That’s both good and bad news. The bad news, of course, is that we haven’t seen anything yet. The good news is that humanity and the wider living world won’t see the worst outcomes if we all spread the activities, learn from the case studies and amplify the provocations offered in this vital field guide to ecoart in action." -- Andrew Revkin, journalist, educator, musician, and author of five environmental books, including The Burning Season and The North Pole Was Here

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Book SynopsisIn this second edition of Improving Instruction Through Supervision, Evaluation, and Professional Development we’ve maintained the conceptual framework while updating sections to provide the most recent research on instructional strategies that have the most promise of helping all students learn. Modifications of the law resulting from the reauthorization of the 50-year-old Elementary and Secondary Education Act—Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) (2015)—and their implication for practice are embedded throughout this new edition. Updated data collection tools for classroom observations are also provided. We included a link to a website that contains all the observation tools in electronic format so that observers can have the opportunity to collect data on a tablet or laptop, save the observation data as a PDF file and e-mail those data to the teacher observed.This new edition recognizes the reality that all principals are responsible for supervision, evaluation, and professional development of their teachers—tasks that are neither simple nor without conflict. The primary audience of this text is aspiring and practicing principals. We hope to help them understand both the theory and practice of supervision, evaluation, and professional development. However, observing instruction, collecting data for reflection, and having conversations about teaching, are not the sole provinces of principals. Master teachers, teacher leaders, and teacher colleagues can also benefit from the supervisory sections of the book, especially the chapters on high-quality instruction, improving instruction, and the classroom data collecting tools.The book provides numerous tools specifically designed to collect a variety of data in classrooms to improve instruction. Embedded in each chapter are exercises to apply Theory into Practice by responding to a set of questions posed by the key issues of the chapter. After the explication and illustration of the key concepts and principles of the chapter, actual Instructional Leadership Challenges as described by a successful practicing principal for reflection and analysis.Table of Contents Preface Chapter 1: Learning Leadership Chapter 2: An Integrated Model of Learning Leadership Chapter 3: Creating a School Context to Improve Student Learning Chapter 4: A Model for Classroom Supervision Chapter 5: Supervision of Instruction Chapter 6: Supervisory Skills Chapter 7: High Quality Instruction Chapter 8: Improving Instruction Chapter 9: Professional Development Chapter 10: Evaluation Chapter 11: Implementing Evaluation Chapter 12: Supervision and Professional Development: An Application Chapter 13: Evaluation, Supervision and Professional Development: Applications Appendixes References About the Authors Index

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the key concepts of middle school mathematics such as fractions, negative numbers, arithmetical operations, variables, the coordinate plane, and measurement formulas. It also highlights the rarely examined notions of the tree of mathematics and language of mathematics. The practical content knowledge is scaffolded using the history of the concepts in mathematics of various cultures around the world. The rich material for culturally responsive pedagogy is provided by relevant historical vignettes and alternative mathematical approaches.

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Book SynopsisWriting Better Essays, now in its second edition, is an authoritative but accessible guide to writing successful argumentative essays that combines classical approaches with practical advice tailored to contemporary students. Designed to be effective either in the classroom or for independent learning, the book will appeal students at all levels, ranging from advanced placement to post-graduate, its detailed explanations of key steps of the writing and editing process from conception through planning and execution ensuring that students will be able to create a coherent argumentative essay that features the classical circular and reiterative structure. The conversational style and tone of the book serves to give students much-needed confidence as they approach their writing, as does its extended explanation of the key skill of paragraphing and its commonsense advice on punctuation. Students should find that its extensive use of exercises, its well-chosen examples of good practice, and its emphasis on imitation makes it an ideal primary or secondary textbook for courses. Teachers of writing should appreciate the instructor’s guide at the beginning of the book as well as the consistent emphasis throughout on the need for students to commit themselves to practice and revision if they want to write effective argumentative essays.Table of ContentsSeries Editor’s Preface Martha C. Pennington Instructor’s Guide Introduction: Developing a Trusted Process of Writing and Revision Chapter 1 Preparing, Creating, and Structuring Your First Draft Chapter 2 Developing Your Paragraphs Chapter 3 Bridging by Connectives: The Art of Creating Transitions Chapter 4 Bridging by Forms of Repetition Chapter 5 Bridging through Reference Chapter 6 Practicing Imitation and Revising Your Paragraphs Chapter 7 Looking More Closely at Your Thesis Statements Chapter 8 Adding Introductions Chapter 9 Reviewing Your Final Essays Chapter 10 Submitting Your Final Essays Appendix A: Bibliography of Authoritative Sources on Essay Writing, Rhetoric, and Composition Appendix B: Stages in Our Writing Process for Argumentative Essays Appendix C: Sample Topics for Further Practice

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Book SynopsisWith more than one million copies sold, Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons is a remarkable step-by-step, phonics-based program that teaches your child to read in just twenty minutes a day—with love, care, and joy a parent and child can share. Now fully revised and updated with a Practice Guide for parents and an extra section with supplementary material! “[A] magical book...I’ve seen this method work in my own home, having used it with both of my children and watched that light go on.” —John McWhorter, The New York Times “Countless parents have told me they used this book to teach their child how to read when their child wasn’t being taught in school.” —Emily Hanford, host and lead producer of the APM podcast, Sold a Story: How Teaching Kids to Read Went So WrongIs your four-year-old or even three-year-old child expressing interest in reading, constantly pretending to read, and asking questions while you are reading? Do you want to develop a young reader but are unsure of how to do it? Is your child halfway through kindergarten and unable to read simple words without memorizing or guessing? Do you want to teach your child to read using the most research-supported method with a long record of success? Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons is an adaptation of the most successful beginning reading program written for schools. More than 100 formal studies using the highest-quality research methods have documented the superiority of the Direct Instruction approach to phonics and other essential beginning reading skills. Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons is a complete, sensible, easy-to-follow, step-by-step program that shows simply and clearly how to teach children to read. In 100 lessons, color-coded for clarity and ease of delivery, you can give your child the basic and more advanced skills needed to be a good reader—at about a second-grade level. Twenty minutes a day is all your child needs to become an independent reader in 100 lessons. It’s an enjoyable way to help your child gain the vital skills of reading. Everything you need is here for you and your child to learn together. Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons will bring you and your child a sense of accomplishment and confidence while giving your child the reading skills needed now for a better chance at tomorrow. Training videos and additional supplementary material are available for free at StartReading.com.Trade Review“School boards should be pressured as much as possible to teach reading via the Direct Instruction method of phonics. And if they won’t, there’s what I call the magical book: Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons, by Englemann with Phyllis Haddox and Elaine Bruner. I’ve seen this method work in my own home, having used it with both of my children and watched that light go on.” —John McWhorter, The New York Times "With its short lessons, intuitive alphabet, clear lessons and hands-on learning component, Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons can be an easy, compact and affordable way for parents to get children reading quickly." —Anne Miller, The Smarter Learning Guide "Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons is incredible. I owe this book, author and method a huge thank you—my daughter can read now, and more importantly, reads for fun. Plus, it's an interesting way to teach phonics I hadn't seen before." —David Weller, The Barefoot TEFL Teacher“While working within a university-school partnership, I trained, supervised, and guided my teacher candidates as they implemented Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons with the lowest performing first grade readers at a large urban elementary school. Semester after semester, I witnessed children who were considered 'nonreaders' or poor readers advance to reading with joy and confidence and candidates who became skilled and proud of their newfound craft.” —Dr. Susan Syverud, Ph.D"I have spent years of my life being passionate about literacy and reading... In college I took a path that led me to keep teaching younger and younger children, trying to figure out why they were not prepared until I began directing childcare centers in 2015. I keep hearing/finding the same things. Children are not being taught to read! And parent/teachers have no idea this is happening until about 2nd or 3rd grade. The main reading curriculum is not scientifically researched or backed! Being an educator in this work, I recognize all the care, thought and research it takes to create a resource like this that is so easy for children and facilitators to understand and teach!” —Brittany Lemons, Family and Community Engagement Specialist–Birth to Five Illinois"Teach Your Child to Read In 100 Easy Lessons has been endorsed by the National Right to Read Foundation as an exemplary instructional program for teaching children to read...The program is academically sound--the results speak for themselves. The continued problem of illiteracy is an enormous one, but [this book has] made a very significant contribution to solving one of American’s greatest needs.” —Robert W. Sweet, Co-founder and Former President, National Right to Read Foundation

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Book SynopsisThe same five practices teachers know and love for planning and managing powerful conversations in mathematics classrooms, updated with current research and new insights on anticipating, lesson planning, and lessons learned from teachers, coaches, and school leaders. This framework for orchestrating mathematically productive discussions is rooted in student thinking to launch meaningful discussions in which important mathematical ideas are brought to the surface, contradictions are exposed, and understandings are developed or consolidated. Learn the 5 practices for facilitating effective inquiry-oriented classrooms: Anticipating what students will do and what strategies they will use in solving a problem Monitoring their work as they approach the problem in class Selecting students whose strategies are worth discussing in class Sequencing those students′ presentations to maximize their potential to increase students′ learning Connecting the strategies and ideas in a way that helps students understand the mathematics learned Table of Contents Front Matter Dedication Acknowledgments Preface Introduction Full access Chapter 1 Introducing the Five Practices Chapter 2 Laying the Groundwork: Setting Goals and Selecting Tasks Chapter 3 Investigating the Five Practices in Action Chapter 4 Getting Started: Anticipating Students’ Responses and Monitoring Their Work Chapter 5 Determining the Direction of the Discussion: Selecting, Sequencing, and Connecting Students’ Responses Chapter 6 Ensuring Active Thinking and Participation: Asking Good Questions and Holding Students Accountable Chapter 7 Putting the Five Practices in a Broader Context of Lesson Planning Chapter 8 Working in the School Environment to Improve Classroom Discussions Chapter 9 The Five Practices: Lessons Learned and Potential Benefits Appendix A Web-based Resources for Tasks and Lesson Plans Appendix B Lesson Plan for Building a Playground Task Appendix C Bag of Marbles Task Monitoring Chart References 5 Practices: Professional Development Guide

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Book SynopsisWynn Kapit, the designer and illustrator of this book, has had careers in law, graphic and advertising design, painting, and teaching. In 1955, he graduated from law school, with honors, from the University of Miami and was admitted to the Florida Bar. He practiced law both before and after military service. Four years later, he decided to pursue a childhood ambition and enrolled at what is now the Art Center College in Los Angeles, where he studied graphic design. Afterwards, he worked in the New York advertising world for six years as a designer and art director. He dropped out in the late 1960s, returned to California, and began painting. His numerous exhibitions included a one-man show at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor in 1968. He returned to school and received a master's degree in painting from the University of California at Berkeley in 1972. Kapit was teaching figure drawing in Adult Ed in San Francisco in 1975 when he decided he Table of ContentsTable of Contents PREFACE ACKNOWLEDGMENTS INTRODUCTION TO COLORING ORIENTATION TO THE BODY Anatomic Planes & Sections Terms of Position & Direction Systems of the Body (1) Systems of the Body (2) Cavities & Linings CELLS & TISSUES The Generalized Cell Cell Division / Mitosis Tissues: Epithelial Tissues: Fibrous Connective Tissues Tissues: Supporting Connective Tissues Tissues: Muscle Tissues: Skeletal Muscle Microstructure Tissues: Nervous Integration of Tissues INTEGUMENTARY SYSTEM The Integument: Epidermis The Integument: Dermis SKELETAL & ARTICULAR SYSTEMS Long Bone Structure Endochondral Ossification Axial / Appendicular Skeleton Classification of Joints Terms of Movements Bones of the Skull (1) Bones of the Skull (2) Temporomandibular Joint Vertebral Column Cervical & Thoracic Vertebrae Lumbar, Sacral, & Coccygeal Vertebrae Bony Thorax Upper Limb: Pectoral Girdle & Humerus Upper Limb: Glenohumeral (Shoulder) Joint Upper Limb: Bones of the Forearm Upper Limb: Elbow & Related Joints Upper Limb: Bones / Joints of the Wrist & Hand Upper Limb: Bones / Joints in Review Lower Limb: Hip Bone, Pelvic Girdle, & Pelvis Lower Limb: Male & Female Pelves Lower Limb: Sacroiliac & Hip Joints Lower Limb: Bones of the Thigh & Leg Lower Limb: Knee Joint Lower Limb: Ankle Joint & Bones of the Foot Lower Limb: Bones & Joints in Review MUSCULAR SYSTEM Introduction to Skeletal Muscle Integration of Muscle Action Head: Muscles of Facial Expression Head: Muscles of Mastication Neck: Anterior & Lateral Muscles Torso: Deep Muscles of the Back & Posterior Neck Torso: Muscles of the Bony Thorax & Posterior Abdominal Wall Torso: Muscles of the Anterior Abdominal Wall & Inguinal Region Torso: Muscles of the Pelvis Torso: Muscles of the Perineum Upper Limb: Muscles of Scapular Stabilization Upper Limb: Muscles of the Musculotendinous Cuff Upper Limb: Movers of the Shoulder Joint Upper Limb: Movers of Elbow & Radioulnar Joints Upper Limb: Movers of Wrist & Hand Joints Upper Limb: Movers of Hand Joints (Intrinsics) Upper Limb: Review of Muscles Lower Limb: Muscles of the Gluteal Region Lower Limb: Muscles of the Posterior Thigh Lower Limb: Muscles of the Medial Thigh Lower Limb: Muscles of the Anterior Thigh Lower Limb: Muscles of the Anterior & Lateral Leg Lower Limb: Muscles of the Posterior Leg Lower Limb: Muscles of the Foot (Intrinsics) Lower Limb: Review of Muscles Functional Overview NERVOUS SYSTEM Organization Functional Classification of Neurons Synapses & Neurotransmitters Neuromuscular Integration CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM Development of the Central Nervous System (CNS) Cerebral Hemispheres Tracts / Nuclei of Cerebral Hemispheres Diencephalon Brain Stem / Cerebellum Spinal Cord Ascending Tracts (Pathways) Descending Tracts CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM: CAVITIES & COVERINGS Ventricles of the Brain Meninges Circulation of Cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF) PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM Cranial Nerves Spinal Nerves & Nerve Roots Spinal Reflexes Distribution of Spinal Nerves Brachial Plexus & Nerves to the Upper Limb Lumber & Sacral Plexuses: Nerves to the Lower Limb Dermatomes Sensory Receptors AUTONOMIC (VISCERAL) NERVOUS SYSTEM ANS: Sympathetic Division (1) ANS: Sympathetic Division (2) ANS: Parasympathetic Division SPECIAL SENSES Visual System (1) Visual System (2) Visual System (3) Auditory & Vestibular Systems (1) Auditory & Vestibular Systems (2) Taste & Smell CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM Blood & Blood Elements Scheme of Blood Circulation Blood Vessels Mediastinum, Walls, & Coverings of the Heart Chambers of the Heart Cardiac Conduction System & the ECG Coronary Arteries & Cardiac Veins Arteries of the Head & Neck Arteries of the Brain Arteries & Veins of the Upper Limb Arteries of the Lower Limb Aorta, Branches, & Related Vessels Arteries to Gastrointestinal Tract & Related Organs Arteries of the Pelvis & Perineum Review of Principal Arteries Veins of the Head & Neck Caval & Azygos Systems Veins of the Lower Limb Hepatic Portal System Review of Principal Veins LYMPHATIC SYSTEM Lymphatic Drainage & Lymphocyte Circulation IMMUNE (LYMPHOID) SYSTEM Introduction Innate & Adaptive Immunity Thymus & Red Marrow Spleen Lymph Node Mucosal Associated Lymphoid Tissue (M.A.L.T.) RESPIRATORY SYSTEM Overview External Nose, Nasal Septum, & Nasal Cavity Paranasal Air Sinuses Pharynx & Larynx Lobes & Pleura of the Lungs Lower Respiratory Tract Mechanism of Respiration DIGESTIVE SYSTEM Overview Oral Cavity & Relations Anatomy of a Tooth Pharynx & Swallowing Peritoneum Esophagus and Stomach Small Intestine Large intestine Liver Biliary System & Pancreas URINARY SYSTEM Urinary Tract Kidneys & Related Retroperitoneal Structures Kidney & Ureter The Nephron Tubular Function & Renal Circulation ENDOCRINE SYSTEM Introduction Pituitary Gland & Hypothalamus Pituitary Gland & Target Organs Thyroid & Parathyroid Glands Adrenal (Suprarenal) Glands Pancreatic Islets REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM Male Reproductive System Testis Male Urogenital Structures Female Reproductive System Ovary Uterus, Uterine Tubes, & Vagina Menstrual Cycle Breast (Mammary Gland) BIBLIOGRAPHY AND REFERENCES APPENDIX A: ANSWER KEYS APPENDIX B: INNERVATION OF SKELETAL MUSCLES GLOSSARY INDEX

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Book SynopsisDrawing on extensive professional and personal experience, this book offers guidance and advice on how to better communicate with 12-18-year olds about relationships and sexuality. An invaluable resource for teachers and parents, it provides you with the tools you need to feel confident and informed about how to talk about sex education at all stages.The book explores the challenges in adult-child communication about sexuality and provides helpful advice on how to establish an open and positive dialogue, covering topics like social media, porn and sexual development in UK, US and Australian contexts. Specific age-based guidance and exercises are also offered. Finally, the book ends with the Flag System for identifying 'acceptable/nonacceptable' sexual behaviour and next steps. Throughout, the book emphasizes the importance of positive sexuality education, empowering young people to make their own choices on how to enjoy their relationships and sexuality in a safe and consensual way.Trade ReviewPuberty is a crucial time in a young person's life. Preparing children for puberty is different from talking with small children about where babies come from. Fortunately this book supports you during this phase of young people's lives. 'Going beyond "The Talk"' shows how you to have an honest and open conversation about sex and sexuality at home and in school. It gives relevant facts and gives advice to overcome your embarrassment to talk about the most intimate and sensitive issues around sex. I highly recommend it! -- Doortje Braeken, former senior adviser of adolescents, gender and rights of the International Planned Parenthood Federation and International consultant for UNESCO, Plan International, Global Advisory Board for Sexual WellbeingThe life raft that helps you navigate the choppy seas of sex(uality) education for adolescents and how to talk to them about it. Thank you for giving me the understanding, insight and tools to provide the right support. I only wish my parents had read it! -- John Pope CBEThis warm, hopeful, evidence-based guide is filled with wisdom and has inclusivity at its heart. It is a must read for all adults wishing to communicate with their teenagers about relationships, sexuality, identity, and values like never before. It will challenge you and affirm you in equal measure. -- Katy Thomas, relationships and sexuality education researcher, teacher, mother of fourThis book is an eminently readable resource for anyone caring for a teenager. It gives a very clear picture of teenage development, which helps understand our own biases and how to overcome these so that our teenagers get the love, support and understanding they need. -- Arushi Singh, UN specialist on sexuality educationA highly engaging book exploring relationships, consent, respect, sexuality and identity in an accessible way. It brings together the informal learning of the home and the formal learning of schooling to provide a coherent, inclusive and joined up approach to young people's development. -- Professor Richard Woolley, University of HullThis is a unique book which successfully unifies sexuality education in school and at home. It is a practical tool for an intergenerational dialogue and addressing serious questions raised by young people. The parents and educators will find here the right words and approaches to support young people in staying safe and achieving well-being. But most of all, the reader of this book will feel the joy of sexuality education classes. -- Drashko Kostovski, IPPF European NetworkTable of ContentsIntroduction1. Being in touch2. Challenges and opportunities in discussing sexuality with adolescents3. Communicating with adolescents about sex and sexuality4. Towards a better understanding of our teenagers: Body, Brains and Sex5. The sexual lives of adolescents6. Early Adolescence (12-14+ years): What adults want to know7. Mid-Adolescence (14-16+ years): What adults want to know8. Late Adolescence (16-18+ years): What adults want to know9. "Is this OK?"10.Moving forward

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Book SynopsisThis book is the second volume of mathematician and Waldorf teacher Ernst Schuberth's Geometry Lessons in the Waldorf School.It covers the free form drawing and basic constructions covered in Years 4 and 5. An accompanying CD has additional exercises and color plates for the teacher to study.

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Book SynopsisThis audio CD is a companion to the two song books 'Gesture Games for Spring and Summer' and 'Gesture Games for Autumn and Winter'.It includes 37 songs, and is intended as a learning CD for teachers and parents rather than a 'listening' CD for children.

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