Will your past be your future?Are you confined by a mindset of scarcity, fear, or insecurity? Stop Conforming, Start Living will guide you in recognizing self-sabotaging behaviors that are keeping you from living an authentic life. But where to start?What to apply?Will it really make a difference?Or are you just destined for a life that you don't have control of? Through 21 lessons you will address the fears and limitations that you have developed and learn how to overcome them. You'll discover how to tweak your mindset, allowing you to live the life you desire. It's time to stop conforming and start living.
Whether you're new to the classroom or merely new to the reading-writing workshop, "Getting Started "is the concise primer you're looking for that will help you implement these powerful teaching frameworks. Workshop teaching is simple, research based, and rewarding for you and your students. It can be launched by any teacher in any type of classroom, and "Getting Started" shows you the doable strategies for planning, organizing, teaching, and reflecting that make the workshop so effective. Linda Ellis and Jamie Marsh provide smart, practical advice about working with readers and writers of varying levels - including struggling students - differentiating your instruction to support everyone's needs, and helping diverse groups of children move toward a single classroom-wide goal of improved literacy. Ellis and Marsh strip the workshop down to its most vital parts and offer you straight-ahead techniques for reading and writing, including: reading aloud implementing independent reading conferring with readers working with struggling readers conducting writing minilessons conferring with writers sharing students' work. With valuable one-on-one instructional strategies, examples of student work, forms, checklists, and other tools, "Getting Started "includes everything you need to launch your workshop, to better understand your students' literacy needs, and to give them the support they deserve.
Asking the hard questions about immigration in light of Jesus' call to love our neighbors as ourselves.You've seen the headlines. You've watched the TV footage. People around the world are in dire situations and on the move. Current estimates suggest over 100 million people are forcibly displaced from their homes and seeking refuge in other countries. It seems as if everyone wants to come to the U.S., and if we're honest, that gives many of us pause.We wonder how it would impact our culture and communities if we showed welcome to the world, and many of us wonder how to separate the political rhetoric and talking points on present day immigration from what the Bible really has to say about immigrants and strangers.Start with Welcome dives into the whole narrative of Scripture to better understand what God calls us to do concerning immigrants and refugees. Bri Stensrud will guide you through pressing questions that will ignite your compassion and leave you curious about our calling as followers of Christ—questions like:Is Immigration a Pro-Life Issue?What does the Bible say about Immigrants?Who is Welcome here?What does Christlike Welcome look like? You have questions. You have fears. But you also have compassion.So, let's start there.Bri Stensrud welcomes you into the conversation—a conversation that’s more urgent now than ever. It all starts with one word: Welcome.
Find out all you need to know to get started, get noticed, and get signed in the music business from the advice of over 30 music industry experts spanning from radio promoters to A&R reps to tour managers. YOU WILL LEARN: The roles of each person in the business and how they relate to you as an artist or manager, Who they communicate with on a daily basis, What their fees are, What they look for in artists before working with them, How to contact and communicate with them, How to get on their radar, How to get signed by them, What their expectations are, How to DIY before they are ready to work with you.ALSO INCLUDED: Step-by-step guide to releasing your next album + Step-by-step guide to getting your music on the radio + Step-by-step guide to going on tour + Detailed guide on how to register your songs for royalties.BOOK CONTRIBUTORS INCLUDE: Adam Kreeft (United Talent Agency), Adam Oppenheim (Stampede Entertainment), Alexa Shoenfeld (Live Nation Entertainment), Craig Laskey (The Horseshoe Tavern), Denny Carr (Open Road Recordings), Dondrea Erauw (Instinct Entertainment), Graham Tait (93 The Peak), Grant Paley (Paquin Artists Agency), Janet Trecarten (101 The Farm), Jason Manning (Z95), Jesse Mitchell (Kim Mitchell Tour Manager), Jodi Ferneyhough (CCS Rights Management), Joel Baskin, The Feldman Agency, Michael Donley (Streaming Caf ), Mike Campbell (The Carlton), Mike Rice (RPM Promotion), Paul Hinrichs (Spirit Bar), Paul Parhar (Flow 93.5), Peter Michael (106 The Drive), Rob Murray (Jack FM), Ron Lopata (Warner Music Canada), Sam Pickard (Strut Entertainment), Sari Delmar (AB Co.), Steve (The Railway Club), Tim Des Islet (Noisemaker Management), Troy Arseneault (Talent Buyer), along with a handful of contributors who chose to remain nameless from additional booking agencies, Universal, Sony, radio stations, and venues.
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Singing Starters is a selection of fun and catchy singing games that are guaranteed to get your lessons off to a flying start. Based on the brain-friendly Kagan philosophy of teaching, these energetic songs are sure to become firm favourites amongst your students.
A step by step, practical tutorial to help you transform into a Grunt poweruser. This book is for JavaScript developers who want to get to grips with GruntJS and use it to build and test their JavaScript applications. The only requirement for this book is a basic understanding of objects and functions in JavaScript.
Exhausted with life, Dakota tries to end his -- only to be saved at the last moment by his friend Terrell, who then drags him into a world of magic and intrigue that's always been right there, hidden beneath the surface. Powerful magic users are steadily pulling the planet into a violent war, and evil forces will stop at nothing to take the talismans possessed by Dakota and his newfound family. Dakota soon finds himself deeply in over his head ... with love, with family, with fighting for all their lives.
In this three-lesson booklet, you will generate story ideas that you can use later, and you will learn techniques for getting new story ideas whenever you need them.
"Jamie" is a story about a spunky little sparrow who, after just learning how to fly, embarks on an exciting adventure that leads to undreamed of experiences. Written in a manner to delight young children, each chapter can be read as a separate bedtime story, revealing, as the narrative unfolds, the basic principles of flight.
Jamie longs for love and acceptance. A debilitating childhood illness has left him with physical disabilities but he believes that some day someone will look beneath the surface, see his inner worth and love him for his true self. Despite constant rejection he continues to see every girl who crosses his path as the potential answer to his search for a loving life companion.As he endeavours to carve out a creative life for himself his great need for acceptance and love often alienates those around him. Leone Sperling's JAMIE is a poignant and moving tale of a young man's search for love and understanding.
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