This collection of poems takes young readers to a day at an urban farmers' market. Who to see, what to eat, and how produce is grown--it's all so exciting, fresh, and delicious. Readers are invited to peruse the stands and inspect vendors' wares with poems like "Farmer Greg's Free-Range Eggs," "Summer Checklist," and "Necessary Mess." Bright and vibrant, this is the perfect guide for little ones to take with them on marketing day to inspire literacy and healthy eating. A pleasing window into the world of the farmers' market -- School Library Journal, starred review Sprightly illustrations and engaging rhymes will leave readers eager to sample market bounty -- Kirkus Reviews This cheerful collection of verse offers an enticing introduction to farmers' markets -- Booklist
The BASICS College Curriculum presents a hands-on approach to learning essential independence and life skills for students with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). The second book helps young adults to explore their identity and self-perception and encourages them to consider their personal characteristics and strengths, to help navigate college life more easily and to provide a starting point for thinking about future careers. Ideal as a textbook for ASD college programs and suitable for students to use for self-study, it focuses on reframing the student's perception of ASD by looking at personal experiences, the language of diagnosis, and ASD in the media and it encourages students to identify their strengths in social, group or work settings. Each chapter has a lesson-based progressive structure, providing valuable information and advice for the student, useful diagrams, practical exercises and workbook components that can be filled in at home or in class. Self-assessment tools ensure the skills from each chapter can be reviewed and adjusted as necessary.The book can be used on its own or in conjunction with the other BASICS curriculum books to further develop essential life skills.
The BASICS College Curriculum presents a hands-on approach to learning essential independence and life skills for students with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). The third book helps young adults to translate their strengths and interests into possible careers and develop job-hunting skills that will set them on the road to success.Students are shown how to identify their unique skill set, write an effective resume, build a network of contacts, prepare for interviews, and secure that internship position. Other possible life paths are also explored including continuing in education and studying abroad. Ideal as a textbook for ASD college programs and suitable for young adults to use for their own self-study, each chapter has a lesson-based progressive structure, providing valuable information and advice for the student, useful diagrams, practical exercises and workbook components that can be filled in at home or in class. Self-assessment tools ensure the skills from each chapter can be reviewed and adjusted as necessary.The book can be used on its own or in conjunction with the other BASICS curriculum books to further develop essential life skills.
The BASICS College Curriculum presents a hands-on approach to learning essential independence and life skills for students and new graduates with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). The fourth book helps young adults to develop strategies for successfully managing workplace challenges, both before they enter the workplace and during employment.Students or recent graduates are shown how to identify and develop strategies to overcome common challenges associated with ASD in the workplace. These include communication and social interactions with colleagues, working in a team, proactively and successfully managing workload, dealing with stress, and managing their emotions.Ideal for graduates to use independently or for students in their last year of college, each chapter has a lesson-based progressive structure, providing valuable information and advice for the student, useful diagrams, practical exercises and workbook components that can be filled in at home or in class. Self-assessment tools ensure the skills from each chapter can be reviewed and adjusted as necessary. The book can be used on its own or in conjunction with the other books in the BASICS curriculum for a complete program of self-development.
The SWEL coaching model provides teacher leaders with the tools they need to develop customized professional development. This book is designed to facilitate the School-Wide English Learning (SWEL) peer coaching model at any school that serves multilingual learners of English, whether they make up most of the student body or a smaller group within the school. By capitalizing on the expertise that is already in the building, schools can transform the educational experience of multilingual learners throughout the school day. You can read this innovative volume sequentially or in an order that best suits your needs. Sections cover topics such as building school-wide systems to support language development, applying teacher professional development, and putting SWEL to work in your school with intentional planning. Valuable Features Professional Development Plans: each complete with objectives, time needed to complete the activity, materials and resources, preparation required, and step-by-step instructions A Companion Website: including downloadable handouts, articles, links, videos, and more, as well as all appendixes (editable) In the second edition of this book, you will find new perspectives on how language provides access while supporting student identity. Also look for: More ready-to-use professional development plans Updates based on real-world teacher input Revised and expanded planning tools to focus on targeted observation goals Discussion of how the psychology of change impacts the work of SWEL coaches
Whether you direct, administrate or lead early childhood education, DEVELOPING AND ADMINISTERING AN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION PROGRAM, 10E provides the knowledge and skills you need for success. This comprehensive edition highlights the director's role in leading both people and programs, with an emphasis on business and interpersonal skills. You also learn how to select and implement a high-quality curriculum. Updates present the latest changes in the field, including NAEYC’s 2020 statement on Developmentally Appropriate Practice and new position statement, Advancing Equity. Revised chapters integrate NAEYC's Power to the Profession Unifying Framework. A new chapter addresses leadership during change and crisis. Practical insights guide you through all aspects of directing a program -- from budgeting, facility and equipment to selecting, training and supervising staff; working with children and parents; and handling accrediting, licensing, evaluations and improvements.
Refine the art and craft of instructional coaching. For more than 25 years, Jim Knight and his team at the Instructional Coaching Group have been studying what excellence in instructional coaching looks and sounds like. Their findings—organized around 7 Success Factors for instructional coaches and shared via books, articles, and workshops—have helped many instructional coaches around the world to increase teacher effectiveness and improve outcomes for students. Bringing together for the first time a wealth of resources and practical tools, The IC Toolkit is designed to guide instructional coaches—either individually or, preferably, collectively—through a 36-week journey of practice, reflection, and learning. For instructional coaches who want to improve and leaders who want to set up meaningful learning experiences, the book provides concrete tools—including activities, checklists, case studies, and videos—that you can use every week. Additional features include One-page descriptions of each success factorA needs assessment to gauge your instructional coaching proficiency in the 7 Success FactorsLearning paths to guide your use of the resources and enable meaningful exploration of each success factorEnd-of-chapter reflection questions The IC Toolkit makes it possible for every instructional coach to become highly proficient in the Success Factors. When instructional coaches become highly proficient in their craft, we can see students, teachers, and systems flourish.
This collection of original stories and poems touches on many aspects of military life from a child's point of view. From moving to making new friends, deployment, homecoming, patriotism, and tender family moments, Military Life gives a glimpse of the many joys and challenges military children experience. Moonbeam Children's Book Awards - Gold Medal Midwest Book Awards - Finalist Contents: "Just Like You " by Julie LaBelle "My Space" by Donna Portelli "Best Friends" by Judy Hissong "My Daddy Jumps Today" by Michelle Tonsmeire "Mama's Been Called Up" by Charlene Kochensparger "Saying Goodbye" by Peggie Brott "The Good Day" by Alison Buckholtz "Holding Mom's Kite" by Jennifer Jesseph "When Mommy Comes Home" by Amy Houts "When Daddy Comes Home" by Amy Houts "Love Letters" by Karen Pavlicin "It's Five O'Clock" by Cindy Shaw "Good Night" by Christy Lyon Illustrations by Quinette Cook
Mary Jane Jacob; Glenn Adamson; Svetlana Alpers; John Badlessari; Alice Bellony–rewold; Mary Bergstein; Walead Beshty; Andrea Bowers; Daniel Buren; Rochelle Feinstein; David J Getsy; Michelle Grabner; Rodney Graham; Amy Granat; Karl Haendel; Rachel Harrison; Caroline A Jones; Suzanne Lacy; Thomas Lawson; Lynn Lester Hershman; Shana Lutker; Annika Marie; Courtney Martin; Carrie Moyer; Bruce Nauman; Michael Peppiatt; David Reed; Lane Relyea; David Robbins; Judith Rodenbeck; Joe Scanlan; Brenda Schmahmann; Carolee Schneemann
The image of a tortured genius working in near isolation has long dominated our conceptions of the artist's studio. Examples are abound: think Jackson Pollock dripping resin on a cicada carcass in his shed in the Hamptons. But times have changed; ever since Andy Warhol declared his art space a 'factory', artists have begun to envision themselves as the leaders of production teams, and their sense of what it means to be in the studio has altered just as dramatically as their practices. "The Studio Reader" pulls back the curtain from the art world to reveal the real activities behind artistic production. What does it mean to be in the studio? What is the space of the studio in the artist's practice? How do studios help artists envision their agency and, beyond that, their own lives? This forward-thinking anthology features an all-star array of contributors, ranging from Svetlana Alpers, Bruce Nauman, and Robert Storr to Daniel Buren, Carolee Schneemann, and Buzz Spector, each of whom locates the studio both spatially and conceptually - at the center of an art world that careens across institutions, markets, and disciplines. A companion for anyone engaged with the spectacular sites of art at its making, "The Studio Reader" reconsiders this crucial space as an actual way of being that illuminates our understanding of both artists and the world they inhabit.
While technology and geopolitical forces change the face of business today, the patterns and challenges of organizing humans to work together across organization, culture, language and time zone boundaries remain. To face these challenges, all organizations need to be agile, networked and scalable. Networked, Scaled, and Agile reveals how to shape organizations that will enable people to make faster and better decisions in a more complex world. By outlining the tension between the need for agility/differentiation and scale/integration, the book offers a new way to think about this debate using the models of the Tower (vertical integration) and the Square (horizontal integration). It addresses the role of the leadership team and how the organization design process can build C-suite leaders and successors. Each chapter concludes with a series of reflection questions for leaders as well as a summary of key concepts and tips. Including case studies from global organizations, Networked, Scaled, and Agile reveals how organization design can address three of the biggest business challenges organizations face today: how to build a new capability across the entire enterprise; how to make the entire organization more customer-centric; and how to allow for faster innovation.
While technology and geopolitical forces change the face of business today, the patterns and challenges of organizing humans to work together across organization, culture, language and time zone boundaries remain. To face these challenges, all organizations need to be agile, networked and scalable. Networked, Scaled, and Agile reveals how to shape organizations that will enable people to make faster and better decisions in a more complex world. By outlining the tension between the need for agility/differentiation and scale/integration, the book offers a new way to think about this debate using the models of the Tower (vertical integration) and the Square (horizontal integration). It addresses the role of the leadership team and how the organization design process can build C-suite leaders and successors. Each chapter concludes with a series of reflection questions for leaders as well as a summary of key concepts and tips. Including case studies from global organizations, Networked, Scaled, and Agile reveals how organization design can address three of the biggest business challenges organizations face today: how to build a new capability across the entire enterprise; how to make the entire organization more customer-centric; and how to allow for faster innovation.
This Read, Play, and Learn! storybook module contains 10 days of activities linked to the popular storybook Abiyoyo. The module contains the following sections:The Story: A brief summary of the storybook, with information on where to get the book. The Planning Sheets: Charts for at-a-glance reference to all of the suggested activities for the 2 weeks. Vocabulary: A list of the key words and concepts, including labels, action words, and descriptors, to which children can be introduced in the module. Materials: A list of the toys and equipment, supplies, food, and other items needed for the module. Areas/Centers: A description of 10 days of different activities for each area or center in the classroom, plus suggested modifications for children functioning at the sensorimotor, functional, and symbolic levels of learning.How to Involve Families: Sample letters with recommendations to help keep family members or other caregivers informed. More Suggestions: Additional storybooks and other activities (e.g., songs, fingerplays, resources, computer games) that can be used with the module.The storybooks themselves are not included with this module or the collections. This module is part of an innovative, play-based curriculum for children 3 - 6 years of age that promotes general development and boosts cognitive, sensorimotor, communication/language, social, and emerging literacy skills.
Welcome to Havenwood Falls, a small town in the majestic mountains of Colorado, where nobody is what you think, where truths pose as lies, and where myths blend with reality. A place where everyone has a story, including the high schoolers. These are only but three... Somewhere Within by Amy Hale Zoey Mills has been the target of bullies since childhood, no matter how many times her family moved. She expects nothing to change when they relocate to Havenwood Falls, her parents' hometown. What she doesn't expect is to discover that she inherited her eccentricities-as the next generation of a long line of frost dragons. When Zoey falls for a human boy, elitism and prejudice take on whole new meanings. While she wants to trust her instincts and follow her heart, Zoey discovers that hiding who she really is and playing by the rules would make life a lot simpler. But simple doesn't mean easy. Awaken the Soul by Michele G. Miller Breckin Roberts has known Vivienne his entire life, but they aren't friends. They're merely two classmates-her human and him not so much. Until one fateful December afternoon, when Vivienne almost died. Breckin saved her, but his actions opened her to a whole new kind of danger. He interfered with Death, a slight easily forgiven, if not for the connection he awakens while healing her. A connection one Reaper finds highly appealing and could turn Vivienne into a pawn in the battle of Good versus Evil-a battle about to descend on Havenwood Falls. Bound by Shadows by Cameo Renae Eris Blaekthorn can't believe what she and her father learn when two strangers show up at their door and remove a memory spell that had caused them to forget their past and the people in it-including her older brother, who's in a coma caused by dark magic. Her father agrees to return to their hometown of Havenwood Falls-a place he'd left to keep Eris safe-where she discovers who she really is, which becomes the biggest surprise of all. Events start to spiral and danger rises, so Eris turns to Rylan, her brother's best friend, for help in saving her brother's life. These are Young Adult paranormal fantasies in the Havenwood Falls High series of Young Adult fantasy stories featuring a variety of supernatural creatures. The series is a collaborative effort by multiple authors. Each book is generally a stand-alone, so you can read them in any order, although some authors will be writing sequels to their own stories. Please be aware when you choose your next read. Books in the Havenwood Falls High YA series: Written in the Stars by Kallie Ross Reawakened by Morgan Wylie The Fall by Kristen Yard Somewhere Within by Amy Hale Awaken the Soul by Michele G. Miller Bound by Shadows by Cameo Renae Inamorata by Randi Cooley Wilson Fata Morgana by E.J. Fechenda (March 2018) Forever Emeline by Katie M. John (April 2018) Books are released on a monthly basis. Coming soon are stories by AnnaLisa Grant, Daniele Lanzarotta, Rose Garcia, J.L. Weil, and more. Immerse yourself in the world of Havenwood Falls and stay up-to-date on news and announcements at www.HavenwoodFalls.com. Join our reader group, Havenwood Falls Book Club, on Facebook at https: //www.facebook.com/groups/HavenwoodFallsBookClub/
Book 2 of MC's Diner TrilogyLife is about making choices-millions of them. Unfortunately, one bad choice can lead to serious consequences and a lifetime of unhappiness, without the aid of God.Amy Wentdorf's mother is one such person who made a bad choice, then another, and another, and another. It cost her a mother/daughter relationship during her daughter's teen years.Young teenager, Amy, ran away from her mother's perverted wishes. Loneliness followed and hounded her. She remained strong opposing her mother's lifestyle.A few years later, while searching for her only other known living relative, fate hammered her down. Suicide seemed logical for her pitiful existence.Amy failed to realize not one of us is a master of our own fate-God is in control and He can use all things, both good and evil, for our good.
There were three things Amy Curry didn't expect out of senior year. First: her father's death. Second: her mother's decision to relocate to the East Coast. Third: Roger Sullivan. After her father's sudden death, Amy's mom has decided to start anew--in Connecticut, just before the start of senior year. And she's decided that it'll be Amy's job to get the car from California to Connecticut. The only problem? Amy hasn't gotten behind the wheel since the car accident that took her father's life. Enter Roger, a family friend, tasked by his mother to help Amy drive across the country. Amy's not pleased to be driving across the country with a boy she barely knows, but as Amy gets lost on her cross-country adventure, she must confront the past she's running from, come to terms with the grief of losing a parent, and learn how to open her heart in order to find herself again.
