This essential resource is designed to help your classroom, school, or district better identify and serve gifted English language learners in the Latinx community. Drawing on detailed case studies and vignettes from actual programs, chapters highlight the unique needs of gifted Latinx English language learners, and look at how you can best identify and support their development. Covering topics from teacher bias and systemic racism to best practices for engaging families and communities, this book lays out practical strategies and an accessible framework for implementing culturally responsive assessments, identification, and programming strategies.

This essential resource is designed to help your classroom, school, or district better identify and serve gifted English language learners in the Latinx community. Drawing on detailed case studies and vignettes from actual programs, chapters highlight the unique needs of gifted Latinx English language learners, and look at how you can best identify and support their development. Covering topics from teacher bias and systemic racism to best practices for engaging families and communities, this book lays out practical strategies and an accessible framework for implementing culturally responsive assessments, identification, and programming strategies.

Has a revolution taken place in Christianity, or are gay priests still objects of suspicion and disapproval? Is modern society too dominated by businesses too big to be human? Have communities lost control of town planning, or is there hope if only we connect? As both an insider and an outsider, the former reverend Robin Green volunteered to help the first drug addicts in the late sixties, throwing open the Crypt of St Martin-in-the-Fields and his best efforts into helping the needy at home and abroad. Yet he decided that society needed its mavericks as much as its ministers. Resigning from the Church, he declared his homosexuality and went into business with his partner, finding success as both an entrepreneur and in local politics. Now Robin offers a warning about the threats that face our world and an uplifting vision of what ministry means in the modern age. 'Hope is not about indulging the past. It is about embracing the future with all the lessons learnt from that past.'

Has a revolution taken place in Christianity, or are gay priests still objects of suspicion and disapproval? Is modern society too dominated by businesses too big to be human? Have communities lost control of town planning, or is there hope if only we connect? As both an insider and an outsider, the former reverend Robin Green volunteered to help the first drug addicts in the late sixties, throwing open the Crypt of St Martin-in-the-Fields and his best efforts into helping the needy at home and abroad. Yet he decided that society needed its mavericks as much as its ministers. Resigning from the Church, he declared his homosexuality and went into business with his partner, finding success as both an entrepreneur and in local politics. Now Robin offers a warning about the threats that face our world and an uplifting vision of what ministry means in the modern age. 'Hope is not about indulging the past. It is about embracing the future with all the lessons learnt from that past.'

When Professor Robin Greene tells a freshman composition class about her scholarly interest in women's narratives, Samantha Henderson, an African American student, invites Greene to meet her grandmother and to listen to a series of reel-to-reel tapes that both Samantha and her grandmother insist should be part of the official WPA archive of ex-slave narratives. Intrigued, Greene accepts the challenge of authenticating the recordings, but after a full year of unproductive exchanges with historians and archivists, a frustrated Greene decides to transcribe the tapes and to publish the resulting narrative so that readers may judge for themselves if the tapes are-or are not-authentic. In her transcription, Greene presents the first-person account of Sarah Louise Augustus, who comes of age during the Civil War and whose story involves a head-on collision with the moral ambiguities of slavery. Readers follow Sarah Louise as she becomes Augustus-the name she assumes when she takes control of her destiny. Her story begins in the antebellum period and unfolds as Augustus recollects a brutal war and its social carnage. Readers also discover the connections that bind Greene, Sarah Louise, Samantha, and Samantha's grandmother-for these women, surprisingly, share much in common. As a work of historical fiction, Greene's account focuses light on black feminism, on race-specific reactions to historical inquiry, on sexuality and rape, and on the quest for identity. And Greene, who in "real life" teaches English and Writing at Methodist University, becomes Professor Greene, the fictional narrator whose story frames the narrative and whose own scholarly need for authenticity and precision nearly costs her more than she is willing to lose.

Six-volume box set containing the entire first series of the acclaimed drama centred around a New Jersey Mafia family. In 'The Sopranos (Pilot)', Tony Soprano sees a psychiatrist when family problems become too much for him. '46 Long' sees acting family boss Giacomo 'Jackie' Aprile seriously ill with cancer, while Tony becomes reluctantly embroiled in a power struggle with Uncle Junior. In 'Denial, Anger, Acceptance', Mickey Palmice stirs up further trouble between Tony and Junior. In 'Meadowlands', Jackie's death forces Tony to decide whether he really wants to make a play for control of the family or allow Uncle Junior to step in, while 'College' sees Tony becoming convinced that he has seen snitch Fabian Petrulio, who testified against the family years earlier before entering the witness protection programme. In 'Pax Soprana', Tony is displeased when Junior begins taxing his associates and keeping the money for himself, but surprises his shrink, Dr Melfi, with a kiss. 'Down Neck' sees Anthony Junior suspended from school for stealing the sacramental wine, with Tony feeling responsible as a result. In 'The Legend of Tennessee Moltisanti', the boys are forced to leave Larry Boy's daughter's wedding early when they discover that they are to be indicted. 'Boca' sees Tony getting even with Uncle Junior after he is humiliated on the golf course. In 'A Hit is a Hit', Christopher and Adriana encounter gangster rapper 'Massive Genius', while Tony feels like an outsider when his neighbour invites him for a round of golf with friends. 'Nobody Knows Anything' sees Jimmy and Pussy arrested in an FBI raid, while Jimmy pays the Sopranos a visit upon his release from prison. In 'Isabella', a depressed Tony seeks solace with Italian student Isabella, but is advised by FBI agent Harris to relocate in order to protect his family. 'I Dream of Jeannie Cusamano' sees Tony warning Dr Melfi that her life is in danger, and a meal at Artie's temporarily staving off the disintegration of the family.