Shows students how to use rhetorical criticism to analyse popular culture texts - everything from movies and magazines to social networking sites. Moving from theory to practice, students are first introduced to key rhetorical concepts and then presented with applications of rhetorical criticism.
The Early Childhood Education Playbook examines how the Visible Learning® research can guide our decisions as we plan, teach, document, and partner with families and colleagues so that we can have the greatest possible impact on the learning and development of young children. Each of the modules unpacks unique characteristics of early childhood environments as well as coherent practices that form a strong foundation for learning over time. Filled with tools and methods to support a team as they work toward a common goal, this playbook covers: Teacher efficacy, credibility, and clarity Partnerships with families The importance of language Formative assessment and feedback How to ensure equity and inclusion
Instead of disruptions, avoidance, and withdrawal, your learners could be participating, investing, and driving their learning experience. It¿s time to reimagine student engagement!Focused around three essential goals, Reimagining Student Engagement develops a new vocabulary for real classrooms, proposes an engagement model positioning students as active partners in the learning process, and embeds the concept of engagement into the teaching and learning process. Inside yoüll find: Reflection prompts that connect ideas to experiences Vignettes illustrating common conceptions of engagement as well as challenges Case studies showcasing real teachers using engagement strategies with learners Practical classroom strategies and tips for application
Educators, you are the hope yoüve been looking for.Have you ever wondered what it would look like for you and your colleagues to really change how things are done in your school? For over twenty-five years, Partners in School Innovation has empowered educators in doing just that, across twenty-two school districts and eight states, dramatically improving underperforming schools in the process. Their secrets? Specialized adult learning tools, a results-oriented cycle of inquiry, professional development systems focused on coaching and collaboration, implementing improvement science, understanding the roles of race, class, culture, and power in schools, and more.This book presents those time-tested, research-based practices through narratives chronicling the efforts of real-life educators. It presents thoughtful checklists and discussion questions to help educators strengthen the skill sets and mindsets needed to implement sustainable school improvement.A lot has changed in recent years, but the solution to turning schools into lively, loving, learning communities remains the same: you. This book provides a blueprint for you to become the change agent your students need.
Secondary Data in Mixed Methods Research by Daphne C. Watkins, is the latest contribution to the Mixed Methods Research Series. This brief text offers step-by-step procedures for incorporating existing data into mixed methods research designs, as well as identifying characteristics of datasets that make them good candidates for mixed methods projects.
Engage your students in critical thinking, literacy activities, and inquiry using as a springboard the personal and social issues of pressing importance to today's students.
Transform negative behavior into a teachable moment at your school, utilizing restorative practices that are grounded in relationships and a commitment to the well-being of others.
Everyday executive function strategies to engage and motivate YOUR studentsWith an impressive collection of 75 grade-appropriate executive function strategies, this practical guide addresses student needs in areas such as planning, working memory, time management, inhibitory behavior, cognitive flexibility, and self-regulation. Inside, you'll find the strategies shown most effective in facilitating students' readiness and success in learning, plus Suggestions for incorporating executive function skills into your daily lesson planning and teaching routine without detracting from instructional time A step-by-step manual for explicitly teaching metacognitive skills Grade-level appropriate strategies grouped according to elementary, middle, and high school levels Guidance for adapting strategies to meet a wide range of individual student needs
With a breadth of coverage unrivalled by any other resource, the Tenth Edition of the Music Business Handbook and Career Guide maintains the tradition of this classic text as the most comprehensive, up-to-date guide to the music industry.
Taking an interdisciplinary and intersectional approach, this popular textbook examines the variety of ways in which communication of and about gender both enables and constrains people's identities.
This book helps scholars uncover their unique writing process and design a writing practice that fits how they work. Author Michelle R. Boyd introduces the Writing Metaphor as a reflective tool that can help you understand and overcome your writing fears: going from "stuck" to "unstuck" by drawing on skills you already have at your fingertips. She also offers an experimental approach to trying out any new writing strategy, so you can easily fill out the parts of your writing process that need developing. The book is ideal for dissertation writing seminars, graduate students struggling with the transition from coursework to dissertation work, scholars who are supporting or participating in writing groups, and marginalized scholars whose write struggles have prompted them to internalize the bias that others have about their ability to do exemplary research.
Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation equips students with the theories, models, tools, and templates they need to generate ideas and shape opportunities into impactful social enterprises. Author Carole Carlson uses a variety of real-world examples, cases, and profiles to illustrate how entrepreneurs around the world are changing their communities. Exercises allow students to practice developing their entrepreneurial skillset as they learn the fundamentals of structuring, financing, marketing, and scaling social ventures.
This volume of The ANNALS considers the power of United States policy reform and its potential to build self-reinforcing political consequences.
This volume of The ANNALS considers the power of United States policy reform and its potential to build self-reinforcing political consequences.
This volume of The ANNALS explores eleven country case studies of pernicious polarization, and its resulting obstinate political blocs and its effects on democracy. By examining the emotional and identity facets of polarization and the role of political entrepreneurs who use polarizing discourse for their own instrumental ends, this volume offers insight into the causes of pernicious polarization and possible policies to prevent it.
Published annually, State Rankings features comprehensive state statistics making it easy to compare states across key measures in education, health, crime, transportation, taxes, government finance, and so much more. The editors compile useful statistics that would otherwise take an enormous amount of time to research making it a favorite resource on reference shelves throughout the United States and around the world. The rankings have been updated using specific methodology explained in the introduction. Geographic and data notes are also included to provide context.
Published annually, State Rankings features comprehensive state statistics making it easy to compare states across key measures in education, health, crime, transportation, taxes, government finance, and so much more. The editors compile useful statistics that would otherwise take an enormous amount of time to research making it a favorite resource on reference shelves throughout the United States and around the world. The rankings have been updated using specific methodology explained in the introduction. Geographic and data notes are also included to provide context.
The Washington Information Directory is the essential one-stop source for information on U.S. governmental and nongovernmental agencies and organizations. This thoroughly researched guide provides capsule descriptions that help users quickly and easily find the right person at the right organization. The Washington Information Directory offers three easy ways to find information: by name, by organization, and through detailed subject indexes. Although it is a "directory, the volume is topically organized, and within the taxonomic structure the relevant organizations are listed not only with contact information but with a brief paragraph describing what the organization (whether government or nongovernmental) does related to that topic. It is focused on Washington¿in order to be listed, an organization must have an office in the Washington metropolitan area. These descriptions are not boilerplate advertising material from the organizations; rather, they are hand-crafted by a talented freelance research team. In addition, the Washington Information Directory pulls together 55 organization charts for federal agencies, congressional resources related to each chapter topic, hotline and contact information for various specific areas of interest (from Food Safety Resources to internships in Washington), and an extensive list of active congressional caucuses and contact details. It has two appendices, one with thorough information on congresspersons and committees, and the second with governors and embassies.With more than 10,000 listing and coverage of the new presidential administration, the 2019¿2020 Edition features contact information for the following:¿ 116th Congress and federal agencies¿ Nongovernmental organizations¿ Policy groups, foundations, and institutions¿ Governors and other state officials¿ U.S. ambassadors and foreign diplomats¿ Congressional caucuses
Designing research is about making decisions to transform an idea into a plan that can provide answers to a research question. This engaging new text provides a serious but accessible introduction to research design and serves as a guide when designing research or reading the research of others. The authors illustrate how designing research is an iterative and reflexive process in which there is constant thinking through, and re-visiting of, decisions about that design as it develops.
This volume of The ANNALS addresses common misconceptions about American diversity that stem from issues surrounding race and ethnicity in census datämisconceptions such as the belief in the imminence of a majority-minority society, when in reality there are rising numbers of Americans being raised in mixed majority-minority families.
An accessible and comprehensive guide to the concepts and practice of evaluation, this book integrates new approaches and classic frameworks with practical tools that readers can use to design evaluation studies. The authors stress the role of critical and evaluative thinking, as well as self-reflection, and demonstrate the importance of context and equity, offering a new stance for evaluators to support global as well as local issues.
Dominant representations of contemporary smuggling and migration have created concerns of a "migration crisis" that is a threat to countries¿ national security. This narrative represents migrant smugglers as ruthless and human smuggling as corrupt and evil. Using evidence collected from around the world from human smugglers and the migrants they smuggle, the research presented in this volume of The ANNALS shows how smugglers are often friends, relatives, or acquaintances of the migrants they help and are not motivated by profit alone. And immigrants, seeking to make better lives for themselves and their families, often rely on smugglers to succeed in clandestine border crossings. This volume of The ANNALS explores the complex relationship between human smugglers and the immigrants they smuggle. It also shows how government policies and immigration enforcement and control measures can be counterproductive, playing a role in creating the conditions that lead to human smuggling.
Applied Bayesian Statistics provides a broad, but in-depth introduction to Bayesian statistics, both in terms of its basic theoretical underpinnings and its contemporary methods of application. The book is highly applied¿more of a "how to" guide¿with statistical theory limited to what is needed to understand the basic ideas. The focus is on common models used by social scientists, and extensions to them that the Bayesian approach facilitates. The author uses publicly-accessible and user-friendly datasets for the examples, such as the General Social Survey data.
This volume of The ANNALS outlines the infrastructures that will need to be built to make sure data providers and empirical researchers can best serve national policy needs.
The long-awaited third edition of Doing Qualitative Research by Benjamin F. Crabtree and William L. Miller is out! Co-create your own inspired research stories with this reader-friendly book on qualitative methods, design, and analysis. With an abundance of clinical research examples, discussion questions, and concise descriptions of qualitative methods, this text encourages researchers to learn by doing and actively experiment with the tools and concepts presented throughout the book.
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