Salome Thomas-EL, award-winning educator and the highly-praised author of I Choose to Stay, has helped hundreds of troubled children get into magnet high schools, major colleges, and universities. Yet he still finds himself devastated by the long-ago death of a promising student named Willow Briggs. Salome worked with and consistently encouraged this troubled boy, who ultimately became one of the school's top chess players and students. But when Willow moved on to high school, he ...

This collected edition of Rolled & Told contains all the adventures, mini-adventures, comics, and articles from issues zero to six along with extra content you couldn't get in the single issues! It provides hours of pick-up-and-play campaigns designed both for players new to tabletop role playing and for those who have played for years. Every page is filled with beautiful illustrations, comics coinciding with adventures, and splash art from your favorite comic artists to inspire your playe...

Every student must know they are unique and incredible and capable of doing great things.Principal Salome Thomas-EL is crazy about the kids in his school. He's curious about them and the lives they lead at home and in the community. He is committed to being a consistent adult they can rely on and to maintaining a culture of love and support for every child.In this inspirational and action-oriented book, "Principal EL" sha...

Organized-(Black Mafia Tale)Organized, is a tale about a Mobster in his late 60's that's been in the game for a long time and wishes to depart the game a 'living legend', however, his men have plotted to assassinate Organized by implementing the ways of the Italian Mafia (La Cosa Nostra) in which is a violation of Organized family (The Nomolosa Crime Family).As Organized gathers this information from a series of informants, wire tappings, drones and seed planters, h...

The challenges of working in an urban school are not for every teacher. Some get burnt out fast. Some lose sight of why they started teaching in the first place. Some find their calling in other neighborhoods...with other kids. But not Salome Thomas-El. A Teacher at Roberts Vaux Middle School in Philadelphia's inner city, he chose to stay. Gripping, poignant, and homest, this is his blistering real-life tale of mentoring and making a difference—and how the reformation of America's educatio...

Average schools don't inspire greatness—and greatness is what our world needs if we are going to produce world-changing learners.In Culturize, author and education leader Jimmy Casas shares insights into what it takes to cultivate a community of learners who embody the innately human traits our world desperately needs, such as kindness, honesty, and compassion. His stories reveal how these "soft skills" can be honed while meeting and exceeding academic standards of twenty-...

The global sensation of the Planet of the Apes comes to tabletop in this official role-playing game! The Role-Playing Game of the Planet of the Apes will challenge every idea you have ever had about a role-playing game. You will be thrust onto a planet where humans are the lowest order of living things and the superior beings are apes. It’s the evolutionary process—but in reverse. Become an intellectual chimpanzee who seeks to better apekind through science and exploration. Choose an orang...

An encyclopedic sourcebook for the classic Planet of the Apes franchise for use to expand the adventures in the official role-playing game! Bring the cinematic thrills and shocking twists of the five original Planet of the Apes movies to your tabletop game. Now you can interact with the apes and humans that have come directly from the silver screen—Caesar, Taylor, Zira, Hasslein, and, of course, Dr. Zaius—every iconic character is gamified for campaign use with biographies and statistics. ...

LIFETREK: From Naptown to Red Carpets is a bold, honest, and emotionally powerful memoir from Emmy-nominated actor Anthony Montgomery, tracing his journey from the streets of Indianapolis to the sound stages of Hollywood.This is not just a celebrity memoir. It is a deeply personal story of survival, faith, family, fame, and forging your own path.Before the red carpets, before Star Trek: Enterprise, before General Hospital,...

In Retention for a Change, we give precise strategies for motivating, inspiring, and energizing a staff. The goal is to make your school a place of success for everyone. Teacher retention is a huge issue that continues to grow, and we believe that this book is one-of-a-kind in that it tackles a tough topic with practical solutions.

The Solo Play Rulebook includes everything needed to create single-player RPG adventures on the Planet of the Apes! The book features design tools and guides to empower both new and experienced gamers to modify existing multicharacter scenarios for individual play and craft all-new solo epics utilizing an ingenious mix of oracles, emulator tables, and quick-reference charts. These resources can also be used by Lawgivers to quickly forge plots and conflicts for their player groups, ideal fo...

The book describes currently applied and newly developed advanced numerical methods for wave-induced ship motions and loads. Besides well-established computational methods based on strip theory, panel methods and finite volume methods for unsteady Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes equations (URANS), recent advances like a fully nonlinear Rankine panel method, URANS calculations including elastic hull deformations, and an improved method to predict added resistance in waves are explained in d...