How can we celebrate when our prayers feel unheard? How can we hold onto hope when the miracle never shows up? When the doctor delivers the worst diagnosis, how can God still be good? In this raw, heart-wrenching journey, Jenna gives us a gift; an example of how to walk through our worst fears faithfully, even when the outcome is not what we want.
Pastoral care provision in schools has become increasingly marginalized in recent years. However, emphasis on the needs of the whole learner has become ever greater. Coupled with this is a growing recognition of theadverse effects of a wider social malaise on the development of students. This book stresses the need for a radical rethink and reprioritizing of pastoral support. It promotes the belief that pastoral care can contribute to and improve academic achievement, and analyzes every aspect of pastoral care and PSE.
Jena Morgan, Atlantic City's favorite go-go dancer, may have overreacted when she found her boyfriend balls deep in a stripper called Candy. Instead of washing her eyeballs with bleach, she drank a bottle of tequila and bought a house off the internet. A house far away from her cheating, criminal of an ex-boyfriend. A house in Scotland. As soon as she turns up to claim her new home, Jena finds out exactly why you shouldn't 'one-click' houses while falling-down drunk. It was a dump. With no money, and no skills outside of shaking her booty, Jena does the only thing she can do--she throws herself into the biggest DIY project the Highlands have ever seen. Since Jena's arrival in town, Officer Matt Donaldson's workload has tripled. The woman is a menace, gorgeous yes, but definitely a few sandwiches short of a picnic. Her only discernible skill seems to be causing chaos wherever she goes. She attracts trouble like honey attracts bears. Which is why Matt isn't surprised when her ex-boyfriend turns out to be a member of the New Jersey mob. Although Jena's ex has come to Scotland to win her back, she wants nothing to do with him--a reaction the mobster does not take well. Overnight, Matt's job morphs from hunting missing cats and breaking up fights at the old folk's home, to chasing down the mob and keeping Jena alive. And he's trying to do it all while remaining professional enough to keep his hands off his sexy, but crazy, American charge. This is book 4 in the Invertary series, but can be read as a standalone novel.
From the author of the Golden Globe winner and Oscar nominated Argo, a true-life thriller set against the backdrop of the Cold War, which unveils the life of an American spy from the inside and dramatically reveals how the CIA reestablished the upper hand over the KGB in the intelligence war.From the author of the Golden Globe winner and Academy Award winner Argo... Moscow, 1988. The twilight of the Cold War. The KGB is at its most ruthless, and has now indisputably gained the upper hand over the CIA in the intelligence war. But no one knows how. Ten CIA agents and double-agents have gone missing in the last three years. They have either been executed or they are unaccounted for. At Langley, several theories circulate as to how the KGB seems suddenly to have become telepathic, predicting the CIA's every move. Some blame the defection of Edward Lee Howard three years before, and suspect that there are more high-placed moles to be unearthed. Others speculate that the KGB's surveillance successes have been heightened by the invention of an invisible electromagnetic powder that allows them to keep tabs on anyone who touches it: spy dust. CIA officers Tony Mendez and Jonna Goeser come together to head up a team of technical wizards and operational specialists, determined to solve the mystery that threatens to overshadow the Cold War's final act. Working against known and unknown hostile forces, as well as some unfriendly elements within the CIA, they devise controversial new operational methods and techniques to foil the KGB, and show the extraordinary lengths that US intelligence is willing to go to protect a source, then rescue him when his world starts to collapse. At the same time, Tony and Jonna find themselves falling deeply in love. During a fascinating odyssey that began in Indochina fifteen years before and ends in a breathtakingly daring operation in the heart of the Kremlin's Palace of Congresses, Spy Dust catapults the reader from the Hindu Kush to Hollywood, from Havana to Moscow, but cannot truly conclude until its protagonists are safely wedded in rural Maryland.
The book presents a conceptual framework for understanding leadership for effective educator learning in early childhood settings. The book describes how leaders can move centre practices from crisis to stabilization. It argues that a core component of leaders' work in early childhood settings is to construct and enact epistemological accounts of practice change. The book includes case examples that bring to life the contexts early childhood services and services leaders who participated in the research. The book also describes the application of cultural-historical activity theory to the development of practice in early childhood education. It describes how background theory, literature, and data can be synthesized to create new focal theory in education. Readers will benefit from the theory that is presented, establishing a sound basis for testing in future research in schools as well as in early childhood education. “Joce Nuttall and team are congratulated for their ground-breaking scholarly endeavour in designing, implementing, validating findings, and then writing a book that unambiguously connects theory-policy-practice in enacting leadership in early childhood settings. This book is ambitious, eloquent, and inspirational. The research was driven by a bold vision to build a new theorisation of early childhood leadership. The writing style of the book makes the complex clear and easy to digest, and thereby strengthening its readability and understanding. The comparative lens adopted in the study, underscores the neoliberal control of the working lives of early childhood leaders in both Australia and England. The use of case study narratives to explain various aspects including the study design and methodology, was refreshingly engaging. Notes of encouragement addressed to novice researchers such as those embarking on higher degree studies, also provide apt guidance about the messiness of conducting qualitative research. The book is infused with lots of examples demonstrating the transformative power of learning – especially when expertly scaffolded by the research team, and thereby increasing practitioner agency and quality improvement across the early childhood setting. If professional autonomy is the driver of reform and change, then we must find ways to nurture strong educational leaders who can think outside the box. Overall, Nuttall and team succeed in arousing learning-rich possibilities for reimagining early childhood leadership in theory and in practice, and thereby making a magnificent contribution to the scholarship of educational leadership.” Professor Manjula Waniganayake PhD, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
The book presents a conceptual framework for understanding leadership for effective educator learning in early childhood settings. The book describes how leaders can move centre practices from crisis to stabilization. It argues that a core component of leaders' work in early childhood settings is to construct and enact epistemological accounts of practice change. The book includes case examples that bring to life the contexts early childhood services and services leaders who participated in the research. The book also describes the application of cultural-historical activity theory to the development of practice in early childhood education. It describes how background theory, literature, and data can be synthesized to create new focal theory in education. Readers will benefit from the theory that is presented, establishing a sound basis for testing in future research in schools as well as in early childhood education. "Joce Nuttall and team are congratulated for their ground-breaking scholarly endeavour in designing, implementing, validating findings, and then writing a book that unambiguously connects theory-policy-practice in enacting leadership in early childhood settings. This book is ambitious, eloquent, and inspirational. The research was driven by a bold vision to build a new theorisation of early childhood leadership. The writing style of the book makes the complex clear and easy to digest, and thereby strengthening its readability and understanding. The comparative lens adopted in the study, underscores the neoliberal control of the working lives of early childhood leaders in both Australia and England. The use of case study narratives to explain various aspects including the study design and methodology, was refreshingly engaging. Notes of encouragement addressed to novice researchers such as those embarking on higher degree studies, also provide apt guidance about the messiness of conducting qualitative research. The book is infused with lots of examples demonstrating the transformative power of learning - especially when expertly scaffolded by the research team, and thereby increasing practitioner agency and quality improvement across the early childhood setting. If professional autonomy is the driver of reform and change, then we must find ways to nurture strong educational leaders who can think outside the box. Overall, Nuttall and team succeed in arousing learning-rich possibilities for reimagining early childhood leadership in theory and in practice, and thereby making a magnificent contribution to the scholarship of educational leadership." Professor Manjula Waniganayake PhD, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
The official tie-in to Broadway's hit musical Waitress, featuring the recipes for 3 dozen of the show's most evocative and delicious pies. In the cult classic movie-turned-Broadway production, the eternally optimistic protagonist of Waitress expresses her hopes, dreams, fears, and frustrations through the whimsically named pies she bakes each morning. Sugar, Butter, Flour celebrates this art of baking from the heart, with foolproof and flavorful pies for seduction, pies for mending a broken heart, pies for celebrating new beginnings and pies for all the little milestones that come afterwards. Taking its inspiration from the iconic mile-high pies of the diner case, Sugar, Butter, Flour offers an array of showstopping pies, each with a twist that puts it over the top; from rum-spiked cookie crusts to hidden layers of passion fruit preserves, these are familiar favorites with hidden depths. The ideal gift for anyone who has ever eaten her feelings or baked away the blues, Sugar, Butter, Flour proves there's a perfect pie for every occasion - and that everything looks better with pie.
Ingrid Pramling Samuelsson; Maria Magnusson; Maria Alfredsson; Petra Brattén; Inga-Lill Danielsson; Maria Eliasson; Ulrika Friberg; Hanna Granath; My Grann; Therese Gylling; Gunilla Göransson; Jenny Henriksson; Helena Hermansson; Marie Hindersson; Annelie Hugosson; Malin Holst; Sofia Häggström; Rebecka Jarl; Sofia Johansson; Mari Juterot; Filip Jönsson; Ewa Kvoch Johansson; Carina Magnusson; Ulrika Nilsson; Pernilla Boode Näveri; Niklas Pramling; Kristina Persson; Jonna Runheimer; Carina Stål; Charlotte Rydberg; Lena Wagman
Hur kan lek och undervisning integreras och bilda en helhet i det dagliga arbetet i förskolan? I Den lekande undervisande förskolläraren ges många och rika exempel på hur en ny teori som benämns som Lekresponsiv undervisning (LRU) omsätts och formar det vardagliga arbetet i förskolan. Teorin har utarbetats i ett praktiknära forskningsprojekt i samarbete med förskollärare, utvecklingsledare och rektorer från förskolor och forskare från universitet och högskolor.I denna bok är det förskollärare, speciallärare och rektorer som själva träder fram som aktörer i sin profession och ger ett unikt bidrag till hur lekresponsiv undervisning omsätts i praktiken. De medverkande författarna ingår i Nätverket för utvecklingspedagogik, förskoleforskning och praktikutveckling. Redaktörerna Maria Magnusson, Linnéuniversitetet och Ingrid Pramling Samuelsson, Göteborgs universitet har båda deltagit i forskningsprojektet men är också aktiva i nätverket.Boken vänder sig till både förskollärarutbildning och till förskolans professionella.
Hatte sie wirklich gedacht, ihr Geheimnis w re das gr te? Denn das Gest ndnis ihrer Freundin bringt die ganze Welt ins Wanken. Bisher waren die Grenzen von Wirklicht und Magie so klar abgesteckt, nun nicht mehr... Zeitreisen gibt es nicht, soviel ist f r die pragmatische Karrierefrau Jenna Campbell klar, doch wie konnte es dann passieren, dass sie auf einmal einem Club der Zeitreisenden angeh rt? Und dann gibt es da auch noch diesen unversch mt attraktiven Amerikaner Evan Mackenzie, in den sie sich Hals ber Kopf verliebt - so, als h tte eine st rkere Macht ihre Finger im Spiel. Doch wie jede von Jennas drei Freundinnen hat auch er ein Geheimnis mit in die schottischen Highlands gebracht - eines das Jennas Welt geh rig durcheinander wirbelt... Jenna ist der Auftakt zur neuen spannenden Zeitreise-Serie Der Club der Zeitreisenden, die in den schottischen Highlands spielt. Du wirst diese neue Serie lieben, denn wer mag nicht diese Mischung aus Mystik, Abenteuer, starken Frauen und ihre Liebe zu au ergew hnlichen M nnern, die nicht aus dieser Welt sind?
Jenna Starborn was created out of frozen embryonic tissue, a child unloved and unwanted. Yet she has grown up with a singularly sharp mind--and a heart that warms to those she sees as less fortunate than herself. This novel takes us into Jenna Starborn's life, to a planet called Fieldstar, and to a property called Thorrastone--whose enigmatic lord will test the strength of that tender and compassionate heart.
Eleven-year-old Jenna Bloom, contending with the separation of her parents and the unwanted presence of her twin brother and older sister at Camp Lakeview, is determined to make a name for herself by pulling the ultimate prank. Original.
