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In this revised edition, Carl Glickman and coauthor Rebecca West
Burns synthesize their decades of experience in teacher education
and supervision into a comprehensive guide to supporting teacher
growth and student learning. Embedded in every page are the
essential knowledge, skills, approaches, and methods that leaders
need to drive instructional improvement. Official school leaders
and classroom teachers striving to be the best will learn how to
put the school's goals and priorities into practice by: Selecting
the right structure for differentiating teacher professional
learning to improve outcomes for students. Implementing the
technical and procedural skills needed to support teacher learning
while observing, assessing, and evaluating instruction. Identifying
appropriate relational skills for communicating and working with
teachers. Applying the best interpersonal approach to stretch each
teacher based on their own developmental level. Making the most of
teachable moments with immediate response skills. Understanding how
to support teachers' social-emotional wellness as an essential
component of improving practice. In addition, each chapter provides
detailed scenarios and case studies that illustrate exceptional
leadership, and the Appendixes offer connections to dozens of
promising practices.We are in a new era of teaching and learning,
and a new kind of leader is needed to guide successful and
extraordinary schools. Leadership for Learning: How to Bring Out
the Best in Every Teacher gives preK-12 leaders the powerful tools
they need to ensure that competent, caring, qualified professionals
who want to improve teaching and learning are in every classroom.
Written on the brink of World War II, Rebecca West's classic
examination of the history, people, and politics of Yugoslavia
illuminates a region that is still a focus of international
concern. A magnificent blend of travel journal, cultural
commentary, and historical insight, "Black Lamb and Grey Falcon"
probes the troubled history of the Balkans and the uneasy
relationships among its ethnic groups. The landscape and the people
of Yugoslavia are brilliantly observed as West untangles the
tensions that rule the country's history as well as its daily life.
Acknowledged as Rebecca West's fictional masterpiece, The Fountain
Overflows introduces the crisis-ridden Aubrey family. This Real
Night continues their remarkable story. It is the early 1900s. With
the disappearance of Piers, her feckless and gambling husband, and
the sale of some valuable paintings, Clare Aubrey has a firmer grip
on the purse strings. Rose and Mary are at music college,
struggling for artistic perfection, while the self-assured Cordelia
has fallen into the role of art dealer's assistant. Richard Quin,
beloved younger brother, is contemplating Oxford. The children's
coming of age, with its gradual acceptance of love and loss,
becomes all the more poignant as the events of the First World War
gather pace...
'Spellbinding . . . Probably her best fiction' - Sunday Times The
soldier returns from the front to the three women who love him. His
wife, Kitty, with her cold, moonlight beauty, and his devoted
cousin Jenny wait in their exquisite home on the crest of the
Harrow-weald. Margaret Allington, his first and long-forgotten
love, is nearby in the dreary suburb of Wealdstone. But the soldier
is shell-shocked and can only remember the Margaret he loved
fifteen years before, when he was a young man and she an
inn-keeper's daughter. His cousin he remembers only as a childhood
playmate; his wife he remembers not at all. The women have a choice
- to leave him where he wishes to be, or to 'cure' him. It is
Margaret who reveals a love so great that she can make the final
sacrifice. Books included in the VMC 40th anniversary series
include: Frost in May by Antonia White; The Collected Stories of
Grace Paley; Fire from Heaven by Mary Renault; The Magic Toyshop by
Angela Carter; The Weather in the Streets by Rosamond Lehmann; Deep
Water by Patricia Highsmith; The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca
West; Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston; Heartburn
by Nora Ephron; The Dud Avocado by Elaine Dundy; Memento Mori by
Muriel Spark; A View of the Harbour by Elizabeth Taylor; and Faces
in the Water by Janet Frame
'Impossible to put down' Observer 'One of the great books of the
century' Times Literary Supplement Rebecca West's epic masterpiece
not only provides deep insight into the former country of
Yugoslavia; it is a portrait of Europe on the brink of war. A heady
cocktail of personal travelogue and historical insight, this
product of an implacably inquisitive intelligence remains essential
for anyone attempting to understand the history of the Balkan
states, and the wider ongoing implications for a fractured Europe.
The soldier returns from the front to the three women who love him.
His wife, Kitty, with her cold, moonlight beauty, and his devoted
cousin Jenny wait in their exquisite home on the crest of the
Harrow-weald. Margaret Allington, his first and long-forgotten
love, is nearby in the dreary suburb of Wealdstone. But the soldier
is shell-shocked and can only remember the Margaret he loved
fifteen years before, when he was a young man and she an
inn-keeper's daughter. His cousin he remembers only as a childhood
playmate; his wife he remembers not at all. The women have a choice
- to leave him where he wishes to be, or to 'cure' him. It is
Margaret who reveals a love so great that she can make the final
sacrifice.
The lives of the talented Aubrey children have long been clouded by
their father's genius for instability, but his new job in the
London suburbs promises, for a time at least, reprieve from scandal
and the threat of ruin. Mrs. Aubrey, a former concert pianist,
struggles to keep the family afloat, but then she is something of a
high-strung eccentric herself, as is all too clear to her daughter
Rose, through whose loving but sometimes cruel eyes events are
seen. Still, living on the edge holds the promise of the
unexpected, and the Aubreys, who encounter furious poltergeists,
turn up hidden masterpieces, and come to the aid of a murderess,
will find that they have adventure to spare.
In "The Fountain Overflows," a 1957 best seller, Rebecca West
transmuted her own volatile childhood into enduring art. This is an
unvarnished but affectionate picture of an extraordinary family, in
which a remarkable stylist and powerful intelligence surveys the
elusive boundaries of childhood and adulthood, freedom and
dependency, the ordinary and the occult.
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Given the increasing diversity of the United States and students
entering schools, the value of teacher learning in clinical
contexts, and the need to elevate the profession, national
organizations have been calling for a re-envisioning of teacher
preparation that turns teacher education upside down. This change
will require PK-12 schools and universities to partner in robust
ways to create strong professional learning experiences for
aspiring teachers. University faculty, in particular, will not only
need to work in schools, but they will need to work with schools in
the preparation of future teachers. This collaboration should
promote greater equity and justice for our nation's students. The
purpose of this book is to support individuals in designing
clinically based teacher preparation programs that place equity at
the core. Drawing from the literature as well as our experiences in
designing and coordinating award-winning teacher education
programs, we offer a vision for equity-centered, clinically based
preparation that promotes powerful teacher professional learning
and develops high-quality, equity-centered teachers for schools.
The chapter topics include policy guidelines, partnerships,
intentional clinical experiences, coherence, curriculum and
coursework, university-based teacher educators, school-based
teacher educators, teacher candidate supervision and evaluation,
the role of research, and instructional leadership in teacher
preparation. While the concepts we share are research-based and
grounded in the empirical literature, our primary intention is for
this book to be of practical use. We hope that by the time you
finish reading, you will feel inspired and equipped to make change
within your own program, your institution, and your local context.
We begin each chapter with a "Before You Read" section that
includes introductory activities or self-assessment questions to
prompt reflection about the current state of your teacher
preparation program. We also weave examples, a "Spotlight from
Practice," in the form of vignettes designed to spark your thinking
for program improvement. Finally, we conclude each chapter with a
section called "Exercises for Action," which are questions or
activities to help you (re)imagine and move toward action in the
(re)design of your teacher preparation program. We hope that you
will use the exercises by yourself, but perhaps more importantly,
with others to stimulate conversations about how you can build upon
what you are already doing well to make your program even better.
Given the increasing diversity of the United States and students
entering schools, the value of teacher learning in clinical
contexts, and the need to elevate the profession, national
organizations have been calling for a re-envisioning of teacher
preparation that turns teacher education upside down. This change
will require PK-12 schools and universities to partner in robust
ways to create strong professional learning experiences for
aspiring teachers. University faculty, in particular, will not only
need to work in schools, but they will need to work with schools in
the preparation of future teachers. This collaboration should
promote greater equity and justice for our nation's students. The
purpose of this book is to support individuals in designing
clinically based teacher preparation programs that place equity at
the core. Drawing from the literature as well as our experiences in
designing and coordinating award-winning teacher education
programs, we offer a vision for equity-centered, clinically based
preparation that promotes powerful teacher professional learning
and develops high-quality, equity-centered teachers for schools.
The chapter topics include policy guidelines, partnerships,
intentional clinical experiences, coherence, curriculum and
coursework, university-based teacher educators, school-based
teacher educators, teacher candidate supervision and evaluation,
the role of research, and instructional leadership in teacher
preparation. While the concepts we share are research-based and
grounded in the empirical literature, our primary intention is for
this book to be of practical use. We hope that by the time you
finish reading, you will feel inspired and equipped to make change
within your own program, your institution, and your local context.
We begin each chapter with a "Before You Read" section that
includes introductory activities or self-assessment questions to
prompt reflection about the current state of your teacher
preparation program. We also weave examples, a "Spotlight from
Practice," in the form of vignettes designed to spark your thinking
for program improvement. Finally, we conclude each chapter with a
section called "Exercises for Action," which are questions or
activities to help you (re)imagine and move toward action in the
(re)design of your teacher preparation program. We hope that you
will use the exercises by yourself, but perhaps more importantly,
with others to stimulate conversations about how you can build upon
what you are already doing well to make your program even better.
Rose Aubrey is one of a family of four children. Their father,
Piers, is the disgraced son of an Irish landowning family, a
violent, noble and quite unscrupulous leader of popular causes. His
Scottish wife, Clare, is an artist, a tower of strength,
fanatically devoted to a musical future for her daughters. This is
the story of their life in south London, a life threatened by
Piers's streak of tragic folly which keeps them on the verge of
financial ruin and social disgrace . . . 'A book bursting with love
and vitality' DAILY EXPRESS
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