This book shows you how to positively involve parents to raise student achievement. It offers 10 steps for designing a comprehensive parent involvement program to increase communication between students, parents, and schools. The authors offer practical strategies and activities for involving all parents, monitoring under-involved parents, balancing over-involved parents, and assisting parents in urgent situations.

The prefix "hyper" refers to multiplicity and abundance. More than a physical space, a hypercity is a real city overlaid with information networks that document the past, catalyze the present, and project future possibilities. Hypercities are always under construction. Todd Presner, David Shepard, and Yoh Kawano put digital humanities theory into practice to chart the proliferating cultural records of places around the world. A digital platform transmogrified into a book, it explains the ambitious online project of the same name that maps the historical layers of city spaces in an interactive, hypermedia environment. The authors examine the media archaeology of Google Earth and the cultural-historical meaning of map projections, and explore recent events-the "Arab Spring" and the Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster-through social media mapping that incorporates data visualizations, photographic documents, and Twitter streams. A collaboratively authored and designed work, HyperCities includes a "ghost map" of downtown Los Angeles, polyvocal memory maps of LA's historic Filipinotown, avatar-based explorations of ancient Rome, and hour-by-hour mappings of the Tehran election protests of 2009. Not a book about maps in the literal sense, HyperCities describes thick mapping: the humanist project of participating and listening that transforms mapping into an ethical undertaking. Ultimately, the digital humanities do not consist merely of computer-based methods for analyzing information. They are a means of integrating scholarship with the world of lived experience, making sense of the past in the layered spaces of the present for the sake of the open future.

Vidor recounts his early days in Texas, his years at the birth of Hollywood, and his rise through the MGM Studios to become a prominent film director.

This book will help practitioners overcome one of the leading challenges in couples therapy: working effectively with the male partner. Men have unique needs and psychological issues that many clinicians may not recognize or know how to address. This volume presents chapters by the leading practitioners associated with current therapeutic models, including Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy, Imago Relationship Therapy, Integrated Behavioral Couple Therapy, and more. Using in-depth case examples, they demonstrate how their approaches can be adapted to be "male-sensitive" and respond to the ambivalence so many men experience about couples work. Special topics are also addressed, including infidelity, cultural diversity, working with veterans, and fathering issues. This book will enrich therapists? work with couples, making treatment a welcoming experience for both partners and the treatment process more gratifying for the therapist.

This book will help practitioners overcome one of the leading challenges in couples therapy: working effectively with the male partner. Men have unique needs and psychological issues that many clinicians may not recognize or know how to address. This volume presents chapters by the leading practitioners associated with current therapeutic models, including Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy, Imago Relationship Therapy, Integrated Behavioral Couple Therapy, and more. Using in-depth case examples, they demonstrate how their approaches can be adapted to be "male-sensitive" and respond to the ambivalence so many men experience about couples work. Special topics are also addressed, including infidelity, cultural diversity, working with veterans, and fathering issues. This book will enrich therapists work with couples, making treatment a welcoming experience for both partners and the treatment process more gratifying for the therapist.

This book shows you how to positively involve parents to raise student achievement. It offers 10 steps for designing a comprehensive parent involvement program to increase communication between students, parents, and schools. The authors offer practical strategies and activities for involving all parents, monitoring under-involved parents, balancing over-involved parents, and assisting parents in urgent situations.

INTRODUCTION TO COUNSELING, Eighth Edition provides a comprehensive overview of the counseling profession while encouraging readers to examine the day-to-day realities of being a counselor as well as their motivation for choosing the profession. Coverage includes information on what counseling is as well as its history, theoretical orientations, applications, and professional issues. As readers become engaged in the process of learning and applying counseling concepts, they get an unparalleled look at what their professional futures may hold.

INTRODUCTION TO COUNSELING brings you the most complete and up-to-date information on what counseling is as well as its history, theoretical orientations, applications, and professional issues. In this edition, new co-author David S. Shepard adds his years experience to the text to show you how to apply the most recent counseling theories to your future professional practice. Throughout the text, you will explore unflinching accounts of the day-to-day realities of being a counselor that will help you prepare for a career with your eyes and heart wide open.

We first met Jack Henry in the story 'They don't know Jack'. We saw how the Lottery changed not only his life but his family and friends lives forever. We followed him through his adventures in 'Summer Heat' as he got to know his new wife, Abigail as their families joined together. Now we follow Jack through the last chapter in his saga as around every corner, a surprise awaits. Watch how his faith changes not only the people he meets but an entire nation, as he takes us on an unlikely run for the Presidency. Jack shows America why our forefathers chose the motto "In God we Trust" as our national motto and what God can do when he's asked to get involved. This is not a book about religion but rather a book about a man that faces the same everyday issues we all face. He knows God but comes to realize he is never alone. God is always there in every event in your life if you just take a second and listen for him.

We are entering into the Aquarian Age. This is a time when the outpouring of the Knowledge of Spirit will flow abundantly.
In this book you will find 150 writings of affirmation and wisdom to guide you to fully embracing and dancing within this Age of Spiritual Freedom. Each writing is a reflection of the human condition. Through the spectrum of struggle to victory you will feel the connection for we are all one, each of us seeking peace and happiness. These writings came into creation as part of my morning meditation and devotion. Every morning I had one simple request... "To bring forth the highest and the best to be of the greatest benefit to all of Humanity." You may also wish to make these a part of your meditations or simply draw upon them "randomly" to nourish your soul.
Feel free to substitute your Teachers, Guides or Masters names in place of words like Mother/Father God or Divine Source. All Paths lead to the One and All Paths are Holy when Pursued in Love. May this book be of Divine Service to this One that we may All find our way back Home to Love and Peace.

Devotionals based on the exciting life of college football's greatest coach, Bear Bryant. These devotionals will help you in your life's walk. It will inspire and tell you things you never knew about the Bama, the Bear and even the Bible.