Feedback matters for everyone committed to school improvement. Rather than tweaking flawed assessment tools, it is time to consider developing more meaningful feedback systems the impact the critical masses that make up the school community. Cultivating new assessment approaches for students, staff, as well as non-instructional staff, teacher-leaders, principals, superintendents, trustees and grant/philanthropic funders, can lead to remarkable change. The goal of learning for students shou...

Write to Be Read is meant to inspire educators to be designers of engaging curriculum, specifically targeting ways to improve the teaching of writing in schools today. Students tend to write in response to literature; whereas, the focus of this resource is to help students write material, fiction and non-fiction, that they want to read. Students often engage in writing that is more about pleasing the teacher or ticking a homework or assignment box. This book challenges many assumptions wit...

With more than 400 projections, Merrill's Atlas of Radiographic Positioning & Procedures, 14th Edition makes it easier to for you to learn anatomy, properly position the patient, set exposures, and take high-quality radiographs. This definitive text has been reorganized to align with the ASRT curriculum — helping you develop the skills to produce clear radiographic images. It separates anatomy and positioning information by bone groups or organ systems — using full-color illustrations to s...

Early childhood inclusion is a national priority—but how can preschool programs step up the progress of inclusion and ensure that all young children learn and grow together? Big-picture change is the answer, and this new edition of a trusted bestseller offers programs, communities, and states a clear path forward.Written by top inclusion experts and updated with timely new topics and tools, this comprehensive resource will help readers develop program-level policies for implementin...

Robots often walk the pages of Pulphouse Fiction Magazine.Pulphouse prides itself on crossing genre lines, blurring genre lines, and just flat mixing up genres until the genre classification means nothing.Terms like different, off-center, twisted, and sometimes just head-scratching form the hallmarks of a Pulphouse story.So, like everything else in Pulphouse, the robots in these ten stories might or might not fit the standard classification of robots. But they defin...

For more than a decade, the widely used Pyramid Model for Promoting Social Emotional Competence in Infants and Young Children has been helping early educators use research‐based practices to boost social‐emotional development. Now there’s a practical guide that makes it easier than ever to implement this highly effective framework in preschool classrooms.Created by the Pyramid Model developers and experts with extensive training experience, this is the first book to prov...

Hair-raising tales of ghosts, spirits, and unexplained phenomena set across Western Canada.Praise for Campfire Stories of Western Canada:“Smith’s spooky tales are perfect for warm summer nights spent around the campfire. Her latest book of ghost stories focuses solely on Western Canada and is a wonderful fit for families looking for fun and spooky tales to tell under the stars.”—Quirk MagazineIn this delightful companion t...

A concise history of the five women who changed the course of history and brought Canadians one step closer to equality.On August 27, 1927, five women gathered at a house on Edmonton’s Southside to sign a letter that would change the course of Canadian history. Those women were Emily Murphy, Nellie McClung, Louise McKinney, Irene Parlby, and Henrietta Muir Edwards, who would become known as the Famous Five.The meeting of the women had been prompted...

Read an excerpt "Chicago Firsthand" (click here).Barbara Smith has been doing groundbreaking work since the early 1970s, describing a Black feminism for Black women. Her work in Black women's literary traditions; in examining the sexual politics of the lives of women of color; in representing the lives of Black lesbians and gay men; and in making c...

Have you ever received a prophetic word from God that was beyond your comprehension, thought, or imagination? God enjoys blowing up our little crates. What did you have to pay before the word got out?The reason I ask is that many Christians long for the prophetic but have no idea how much it will cost them. We'd want to hear a prophetic word. We are unaware of the cost.What is the cost of following Jesus? Everything.Simply ask Mary.According to Luke 1:26-28,...

A delightfully frightful collection of spooky stories set across Canada, appropriate for all ages and perfect for reading aloud around the campfire.In this spine-chilling companion to Campfire Stories of Western Canada and Ghostly Campfire Stories of Western Canada, Barbara Smith takes readers on a cross-country trip of sinister spirits, urban myths, haunted houses, ghostly shipwrecks, and other unexplained phenomena, just in time for camping seas...

It takes time and work to build a good marriage. You most likely liked your husband from the moment you met him. You grew closer as you spent more time together. Your feelings for each other grew stronger, and before you knew it, you were in love. A marriage is held together by love, and romance is the glue that ties it together.Keep in mind that you get what you give. When Sir Isaac Newton formalized the law of physics, which states that every action causes an equal and opposite r...