This book explores notions of justice-oriented literacy coaching and offers a way of being in the world with young people, teachers, and communities that centers transformative coaching, teaching, and learning. It is intended to disrupt the traditional and historical positioning of literacy coaches in schools today. Through the lens of social justice and liberatory education, Sailors and Manning begin a dialogue with literacy coaches to help them reconsider their own roles and positions as...

Accessible and inviting, this book showcases how teachers and literacy coaches can use research as a tool to teach literacy effectively and with intention. Sailors and Hoffman invite literacy specialists and practicing and preservice teachers into a conversation about how they can use research as means for professional learning, mentorship, and empowerment.Chapters feature a wealth of tools, examples, and strategies that make key concepts in literacy research refreshing and practic...

REFLECTIONS is written as creative nonfiction, based on actual events from the author’s life. Memoir is a popular form for sharing practical life lessons and each story stands alone. Read the book from cover to cover or choose the titles that catch your eye.Life generally comes as a package of daily routines, but by taking time to reflect on past experiences we often discover positive solutions for the future which help us avoid repetition of past mistakes. These short stories have...

Reading Egyptian anecdote you see yourself. The unique document will spell out to you something new. Quintessence of my book is contained in a simple way how to change the world for the better. For example: no more cash, corruption, robbery, kidnapping for ransom, and much more.

Nora Fitzgerald doesn't believe in magic. After eighteen months of grief that turned her into a ghost of herself, she's learned that hope is just another word for disappointment waiting to happen. As a travel writer for a New York magazine, she's built her reputation on clever takedowns—finding the cracks in charming facades and exposing them for readers who share her suspicion that nothing is ever as good as it seems.When her editor assigns her to Vermont's Winterbell Inn, a bouti...

My Walk with Christ Jesus, the memoir of Obie Sailors III, chronicles the story of his life and journey as a Christian. As a young boy, he lived with his parents, but he encountered strange and unexplained incidents that convinced him that God and Jesus Christ were the most important part of his life.With poignant detail, he talks about the things he has experienced and the hard lessons that he has learned. Along the way, he confides the ups and downs of his life and the m...

Author Alfreta Sailor knows life can be challenging at times. With a goal of motivating others to make small changes that have the power to make big differences, Sailor shares a thought-provoking guide filled with wisdom and advice drawn from her more than sixty years of life experiences. Sailor offers encouragement to anyone looking to be the voice of change not only in their own lives, but also in the lives of others in the form of relatable scenarios that provide a glimpse into such cha...

This is the book you can’t put down!Claire Calloway thought she had her life figured out. A good job in Manhattan advertising. A boyfriend of four years. A best friend she trusted completely. Then she walks into her apartment and finds Ryan and Jessica together, and three days later, she's laid off from the career she built over six years.At twenty-nine, Claire has nothing: no relationship, no job, no reason to stay in a city that suddenly feels like a crim...

About the BookSailor and Ally Jones reside in the Lakes region of Naples, Maine. They decided it would be fun to write a children’s book of Maine adventures!Included are delightful illustrations of life on the water and in the air. Imagination and fun combine with Ally Jones’s “Best Friend.”Sailor and Ally hope that you enjoy the book as much as they did creating it.

Paul Bowman is a former airship freighthauler recently conscripted into the Army of the Kingdom of Aurora. He certainly doesn't think he's anybody particularly special.But when Paul accidentally wins a minor victory, he suddenly finds himself as the most famous soldier in the Kingdom of Aurora. Soon, this unpolished and proudly working-class former freighthauler, is catapulted into the treacherous world of Auroran politics.Now given an airship to command, Captain Bowman is ...

Alfalfa Girl is the inner soul of teacher and mentor, Emily Sorenson. Alfalfa Girl inspires a painful but illuminating self-discovery journey out of the impact of debilitating and repeated child abuses for herself and Emilys mentee, Jenny Nelson. Through their growing bond as mentor and mentee in a vocational training setting, the story unfolds a vivid account of personal reconciliation and delicate, fragile trust building. The relationship painfully but lovingly advances the beginning rec...

This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of the ancient world find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data sets, and blogs. Written by a leading international authority on the subject, the ebook provides bibliographic information supported by direct recommendations about which sources to consu...