A clear and comprehensive guide to evaluating and supporting instructional coaches and coaching programs, including how to recruit, hire, and retain effective coaches.With sound practices in place to evaluate coaching programs, instructional coaches will become better partners, teachers will become better mentors, and students will become better learners.Few evaluation systems are specifically geared toward coaching roles. Ensuring that school districts hav...

A book of hope, empowerment of overcoming life issues and finding self worth for all walks of life.

In schools, every day is "game day." Every day, teachers need the best resources and forms of support because students deserve the best we as educators can offer. An instructional playbook aims to serve as that kind of support: a tool that coaches can use to help teachers match specific learning goals with the right research-based instructional strategies.Coaches have enormous potential to help teachers learn and implement new teaching practices, but coaches will be effective only ...

Superfoods Cookbook: Great Superfoods for the Superfoods Diet The Superfoods Cookbook contains recipes from two different sections on two Superfoods Diets. Superfoods are highly nutritious foods found in nature that are packed with an abundance of nutrients. These nutrients are highly beneficial for the body. Being on the superfoods diet will help the immune system to grow stronger and it can help to prevent and treat many health conditions such as cancer, cardiovascular disease, arthritis...

Essence best-selling author Jacquelin Thomas has garnered many honors for her acclaimed novels, including a nomination for the Career Achievement Award from Romantic Times. With Defining Moments she crafts the stirring tale of one woman's journey toward emotional and spiritual fulfillment. Recently diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, Sheila Moore strikes up an invigorating friendship with the handsome Nicholas Washington. But Nicholas is also a good friend to the wife of Sheila's former lov...

The success or failure of drug treatment programs have long been evaluated by assessing the clients' progress while in treatment and their status upon completion. This approach does not provide a complete assessment or an adequate picture of treatment outcomes over time. A comprehensive evaluation of the success or failure of treatment should also include client status in the years following treatment for a fair assessment of the long-term efficacy of any drug-treatment program. What happe...

Chances are you are interested in these two tests, AP Calculus AB and AP Calculus BC. XAMonline combined them into one book so you can save money and time. This product has four sample tests, two for each exam plus a mini course that gets you last minute test drive for the test. The full study guide is organized with each Big Idea in mind, essential knowledge explained, enduring understandings and learning objective examples. No other study guide gets this granular. This organizational str...

Harlequin® Presents brings you a collection of four new titles! This Presents box set includes:THE ITALIAN'S CHRISTMAS SECRETOne Night With Consequencesby Sharon KendrickWhen chauffeur Keira Ryan drives into a snowdrift, she and Matteo Valenti must find a hotel—and end up spending one sizzling night! It's Christmastime again before Matteo uncovers Keira's secret. Now it's time to claim his heir…THE SULTAN DEMANDS HIS H...

The Alphabet Monster is a story about friendship. The Monster is a funny looking fellow with very discriminating taste. Hes hungry and wants to eat any animal that begins with the letter A. Initially, he encounters many animals, but none of them begin with the letter A. Finally, he sees an alligator coming out of the water and thinks he finally has his letter A meal. But, the alligator, being a very clever fellow, goes back into the water, because he knows the monster cant swim. The monste...

Two people—a black woman and a white man—confront the legacy of slavery and racism head-on“We embarked on this journey because we believe America must overcome the racial barriers that divide us, the barriers that drive us to strike out at one another out of ignorance and fear. To do nothing is unacceptable.”Sharon Leslie Morgan, a black woman from Chicago’s South Side avoids white people; they scare her. Despite her trepidation, Morgan, a descende...

As you open this book look at its cover;What is going through your mind, what kind of feeling are you thinking?Look at the bubbles and imagine what the person on the cover is thinking.As you turn the pages you will find out why this book is calledA Rainbow Of Feelings.You will discover some of the feelings that I hold in my heart and mind;reflect the thoughts and dreams of many of you.My name is Sharon Ackerman and I am known as Dilly....

XAMonline has been a leader in test prep for over 22 years publishing study guides for 9 Advanced Placement exams every each year. XAMonline has the experience and knowledge to bring you the right study materials for your exam in a clear and concise way to enable you to be more efficient with your study time. The AP United States History exam is the most popular advanced placement exam with over a half million US students taking the exam each year. This Advanced Placement United States His...