Veteran instructional coaches A. Keith Young and Tamarra Osborne provide practical advice for trainers seeking high-leverage strategies for successful professional trainings.How do you see yourself as a trainer? Are you occasionally extraordinary, or do you flail about a bit? Are you connected to a helpful community of other trainers, or are you just starting out and feeling isolated and alone in your job? Do your workshops end with thunderous applause, or do you h...

Transform your classroom with more than 200 research-backed solutions to perennial problems every teacher faces in every school.Between behavioral challenges, disengaged students, the demands of technology integration, the constant reimagination of assessment, and the looming threat of burnout, educators need high-quality practical support more than ever.Written by four passionate practitioners, The Teaching Strategy Handbook delivers exactly what ...

Three instructional coaches share more than 200 of the most helpful problem-solving strategies they've used in their decades-long work with teachers, administrators, and coaches.The Instructional Coaching Handbook is not a new model of coaching. It addresses common hiccups that prevent productive coaching conversations from happening in the first place. From their thousands of annual school visits, the authors recognize that coaches frequently confront sim...

Discover more than 15 evidence-based treatments for trauma and PTSD, from medications to trauma-informed yoga.Globally, an estimated 70% of individuals will experience a potentially traumatic event during their lifetime and 6% will develop PTSD. Despite its widespread prevalence in our families, schools, workplaces, and military, people living with the effects of severe trauma often feel lost and alone in the challenges they face.The book begins by outlinin...

Discover more than 15 evidence-based treatments for trauma and PTSD, from medications to trauma-informed yoga.Globally, an estimated 70% of individuals will experience a potentially traumatic event during their lifetime and 6% will develop PTSD. Despite its widespread prevalence in our families, schools, workplaces, and military, people living with the effects of severe trauma often feel lost and alone in the challenges they face.The book begins by outlinin...

Georgians, like all Americans, experienced the Civil War in a variety of ways. Through selected articles drawn from the New Georgia Encyclopedia (www.georgiaencyclopedia.org), this collection chronicles the diversity of Georgia’s Civil War experience and reflects the most current scholarship in terms of how the Civil War has come to be studied, documented, and analyzed.The Atlanta campaign and Sherman’s March to the Sea changed the course of the war in 1864, in terms both of the up...

This is a book of life's inspirations, love, and spirituality done through poetry. It contains real world expressions for a real world feel. Included are a series of micro poems, along with short stories for each theme. Sit back, read and enjoy I Got Something To Say.

The perfect gift for music lovers and Neil Young fans, telling the story behind Neil Young's legendary career and his iconic, beloved songs.“I think I will have to use my time wisely and keep my thoughts straight if I am to succeed and deliver the cargo I so carefully have carried thus far to the outer reaches.”—Neil Young, from Waging Heavy PeaceLegendary singer and songwriter Neil Young’s storied career has spanned over forty years and yielded so...

Bringing together 34 flash fiction stories from 14 authors, SPARK offers a host of stories to thrill, move, and challenge fans of short-short fiction. A woman physically at war with her mother's legacy inside her own body, a young girl given a vision of a utopic past at the end of the world, a man psychically bonded to the living weapon for which he is the failsafe, a harem of "female" androids newly capable of questioning their subservient status—these are a few of the characters you'll m...

Cultural Criminology: An Invitation traces the history, theory, methodology and future direction of cultural criminology.Drawing on issues of representation, meaning and politics, this book walks you through the key areas that make up this fascinating approach to the study of crime.The second edition has been fully revised to take account of recent developments in this fast developing field, thereby keeping you up-to-date with the issues facing cultural cri...

Neil Young took on the music industry so that fans could hear his music—all music—the way it was meant to be heard.Today, most of the music fans listen to is streamed via online services and highly compressed. It’s convenient, but, frustratingly, this comes at the cost of quality. Gone are the days when it was technologically necessary to compress music into the smallest possible file size, yet this remains the industry standard.The result is music that is ...

Lost Sci-Fi Books 231 thru 235 brings together five imaginative science fiction stories from Morrison Colladay, Jerry Shelton, Dean Evans, Robert F. Young, and Keith Laumer. From a catastrophe in the heavens to mysterious visitors and dangers lurking beyond Earth, each story opens the door to another unexpected possibility.When the Moon Fell by Morrison Colladay reaches back to the early days of science fiction with a spectacular premise: what happ...