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It could happen in the morning during homework review. Or perhaps
it happens when listening to students as they struggle through a
challenging problem. Or maybe even after class, when planning a
lesson. At some point, the question arises: How do I influence
students' learning-what's going to generate that light bulb "aha"
moment of understanding? In this sequel to the megawatt best seller
Visible Learning for Mathematics, John Almarode, Douglas Fisher,
Nancy Frey, John Hattie, and Kateri Thunder help you answer that
question by showing how Visible Learning strategies look in action
in the mathematics classroom. Walk in the shoes of elementary
school teachers as they engage in the 200
micro-decisions-per-minute needed to balance the strategies, tasks,
and assessments seminal to high-impact mathematics instruction.
Using grade-leveled examples and a decision-making matrix, you'll
learn to Articulate clear learning intentions and success criteria
at surface, deep, and transfer levels Employ evidence to guide
students along the path of becoming metacognitive and self-directed
mathematics achievers Use formative assessments to track what
students understand, what they don't, and why Select the right task
for the conceptual, procedural, or application emphasis you want,
ensuring the task is for the right phase of learning Adjust the
difficulty and complexity of any task to meet the needs of all
learners It's not only what works, but when. Exemplary lessons,
video clips, and online resources help you leverage the most
effective teaching practices at the most effective time to meet the
surface, deep, and transfer learning needs of every student.
Capture your subjects on paper like never before. Look Closer, Draw
Better will transform the way you see the subjects of your artwork,
lighting the way with practical techniques in a range of mediums.
Are you looking to make a leap in the quality of your artwork? Are
you looking for new perspectives on the art of drawing? Or maybe
you want to bring more poetry and presence to your work. Look
Closer, Draw Better will help you reach your goals with projects
that explore graphite, charcoal, ink, and watercolor wash,
emphasizing techniques that Kateri Ewing has refined over years of
practice and teaching. Ewing teaches by training your eye to see
subjects clearly in contour, line, and shadow, while you learn to
make marks with tools that are expressive of what we really see.
Her focus is on nature-birds, flowers, and plants that can be
closely observed. Discover the techniques for capturing the
delicacy of feathers, the natural blemishes on a piece of fruit,
the veins and velvety texture of a leaf-all the tiny details that
enhance the realistic quality of a drawing. Ewing takes you
carefully through every step. Let Look Closer, Draw Better inspire
and transform your artistic eye.
(Re)Generation contains selected poetry by Anishinaabe writer
Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm that deals with a range of issues: from
violence against Indigenous women and lands to Indigenous erotica
and the joyous intimate encounters between bodies. Kateri
Akiwenzie-Damm's influence on the field of Indigenous literature
cannot be understated. Her creative work is formative, and she is
responsible for the release of other influential works in the field
of Indigenous literary studies through her publishing house,
Kegedonce Press. Akiwenzie-Damm is proof positive that if
Indigenous peoples are going to resist the violent processes of
ongoing colonialism, then they're going to have to do it together.
Akiwenzie-Damms's afterword speaks to the relations and obligations
Indigenous peoples have to one another and their other-than-human
kin, as she reflects on the resilient work that Indigenous creative
work has done and continues to do in spite of colonial violence.
Her afterword stakes a claim for the necessity of poetry in the
face of ongoing colonialism, not only in the present but in the
future and for the generations to come. The introduction by Dallas
Hunt locates Akiwenzie-Damm within the field of Indigenous
literature and meditates on her influence on the field of
Indigenous erotica. Akiwenzie-Damm writes in service of Indigenous
love, intimacy, and joy, and speaks with an unwavering voice, one
that, to paraphrase Akiwenzie-Damm herself, "shakes the earth."
This book addresses the ambiguities of the growing use of
private security contractors and provides guidance as to how our
expectations about regulating this expanding service industry will
have to be adjusted.
In the warzones of Iraq and Afghanistan many of those who carry
weapons are not legally combatants, nor are they protected
civilians. They are contracted by governments, businesses, and NGOs
to provide armed security. Often mistaken as members of armed
forces, they are instead part of a new protean proxy force that
works alongside the military in a multitude of shifting roles, and
overseen by a matrix of contracts and regulations.
This book analyzes the growing industry of these private
military and security companies (PMSCs) used in warzones and other
high risk areas. PMSCs are the result of a unique combination of
circumstances, including a change in the idea of soldiering,
insurance industry analyses that require security contractors, and
a need for governments to distance themselves from potentially
criminal conduct. The book argues that PMSCs are a unique type of
organization, combining attributes from worlds of the military,
business, and humanitarian organizations. This makes them
particularly resistant to oversight. The legal status of these
companies and those they employ is also hard to ascertain, which
weakens the multiple regulatory tools available. PMSCs also fall
between the cracks in ethical debates about their use, seeming to
be both justifiable and objectionable. This transformation in
military operations is a seemingly irreversible product of more
general changes in the relationship between the individual citizen
and the state.
This book will be of much interest to students of private
security companies, war and conflict studies, security studies and
IR in general.
Kateri Carmola is the Christian A. Johnson Professor of
Political Science at Middlebury College in Vermont. She received
her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley.
This book addresses the ambiguities of the growing use of private
security contractors and provides guidance as to how our
expectations about regulating this expanding 'service' industry
will have to be adjusted. In the warzones of Iraq and Afghanistan
many of those who carry weapons are not legally combatants, nor are
they protected civilians. They are contracted by governments,
businesses, and NGOs to provide armed security. Often mistaken as
members of armed forces, they are instead part of a new protean
proxy force that works alongside the military in a multitude of
shifting roles, and overseen by a matrix of contracts and
regulations. This book analyzes the growing industry of these
private military and security companies (PMSCs) used in warzones
and other high risk areas. PMSCs are the result of a unique
combination of circumstances, including a change in the idea of
soldiering, insurance industry analyses that require security
contractors, and a need for governments to distance themselves from
potentially criminal conduct. The book argues that PMSCs are a
unique type of organization, combining attributes from worlds of
the military, business, and humanitarian organizations. This makes
them particularly resistant to oversight. The legal status of these
companies and those they employ is also hard to ascertain, which
weakens the multiple regulatory tools available. PMSCs also fall
between the cracks in ethical debates about their use, seeming to
be both justifiable and objectionable. This transformation in
military operations is a seemingly irreversible product of more
general changes in the relationship between the individual citizen
and the state. This book will be of much interest to students of
private security companies, war and conflict studies, security
studies and IR in general. Kateri Carmola is the Christian A.
Johnson Professor of Political Science at Middlebury College in
Vermont. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California,
Berkeley.
Shows the elements of statistical science that are highly relevant
for students who plan to become data scientists less emphasis on
probability theory and methods of probability such as
combinatorics, derivations of probability distributions of
transformations of random variables (except for explanations of t,
chi-squared, and F constructions) Formal statements and proofs of
theorems, and decision theory Introduces some modern topics that do
not normally appear in "math stat" texts but are especially
relevant for data scientists, such as generalized linear models for
non-normal responses (e.g., logistic regression) Bayesian and
regularized fitting of models (e.g., showing an example using the
lasso), classification and clustering, and implementing methods
with modern software (R and Python)
This book provides a selection of modern and sophisticated
methodologies for the analysis of large and complex univariate and
multivariate categorical data. It gives an overview of a
substantive and broad collection of topics in the analysis of
categorical data, including association, marginal and graphical
models, time series and fixed effects models, as well as modern
methods of estimation such as regularization, Bayesian estimation
and bias reduction methods, along with new simple measures for
model interpretability. Methodological innovations and developments
are illustrated and explained through real-world applications,
together with useful R packages, allowing readers to replicate most
of the analyses using the provided code. The applications span a
variety of disciplines, including education, psychology, health,
economics, and social sciences.Â
All accidents and incidents at the workplace, and the resulting
consequences, are tied to human beings and their actions. Although
their avoidance has been a crucial part of training in aviation for
the past twenty years, it has been largely ignored in many other
occupations with team structures similar to those in aviation. In
such professions and workplaces, those involved are under high
stress, with enormous workloads, simultaneously completing mental
and motor tasks, facing unexpected situations involving great risk,
and with uncertain final outcomes. The goal of researchers is to
find ways to minimize human error and to understand the interaction
amongst the members of the team fulfilling the task. Specialized
training programmes, good management and clear rules that lay out
which member is responsible for making decisions can be the first
steps to reducing and managing such errors. This book is a major
result of the Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz Foundation's 6th
Berlin Colloquium, 'Interaction in High Risk Environments', hosted
in 2002 by the Psycholinguistic Group of the Humbolt University
Institute for German Language and Linguistics. This group is
affiliated with the ongoing research group 'Group Interaction in
High Risk Environments (GIHRE)' sponsored by the Foundation based
in Ladenburg, Germany. The Colloquium brings together experts from
aerospace, clinical medicine, nuclear power, psychology,
linguistics and psycholinguistics, to include fields that have yet
to be a major focus of scientific investigations. Together, the
authors explore scientific advances with direct application to a
range of high risk environments. The aim is to address the issues
and root causes of error and lack of teamwork by combining the
knowledge of scientific experts with experience gained in different
fields of industry and public life. Chapters span space travel,
risk in the cockpit, safety in medicine, nuclear submarine salvage,
large construction sites, police
Explore the past 150 years through the eyes of Indigenous creators
in this groundbreaking graphic novel anthology. Beautifully
illustrated, these stories are an emotional and enlightening
journey through Indigenous wonderworks, psychic battles, and time
travel. See how Indigenous peoples have survived a post-apocalyptic
world since Contact. Each story includes a timeline of related
historical events and a personal note from the author. Find cited
sources and a select bibliography for further reading in the back
of the book. The accompanying teacher guide includes curriculum
charts and 12 lesson plans to help educators use the book with
their students. This is one of the 200 exceptional projects funded
through the Canada Council for the Arts' New Chapter initiative.
With this $35M initiative, the Council supports the creation and
sharing of the arts in communities across Canada.
Narratives of mixed-race people bringing claims of racial
discrimination in court, illuminating traditional understandings of
civil rights law As the mixed-race population in the United States
grows, public fascination with multiracial identity has promoted
the belief that racial mixture will destroy racism. However,
multiracial people still face discrimination. Many legal scholars
hold that this is distinct from the discrimination faced by people
of other races, and traditional civil rights laws built on a strict
black/white binary need to be reformed to account for cases of
discrimination against those identifying as mixed-race. In
Multiracials and Civil Rights, Tanya Kateri Hernandez debunks this
idea, and draws on a plethora of court cases to demonstrate that
multiracials face the same types of discrimination as other racial
groups. Hernandez argues that multiracial people are primarily
targeted for discrimination due to their non-whiteness, and shows
how the cases highlight the need to support the existing legal
structures instead of a new understanding of civil rights law. The
legal and political analysis is enriched with Hernandez's own
personal narrative as a mixed-race Afro-Latina. Coming at a time
when explicit racism is resurfacing, Hernandez's look at
multiracial discrimination cases is essential for fortifying the
focus of civil rights law on racial privilege and the lingering
legacy of bias against non-whites, and has much to teach us about
how to move towards a more egalitarian society.
Provide students a clear view of what success looks like for any
process, task, or product. What does success look like for your
students? How will they know if they have learned? This essential
component of teaching and learning can be difficult to articulate
but is vital to achievement for both teachers and students. The
Success Criteria Playbook catapults teachers beyond learning
intentions to define clearly what success looks like for every
student-whether face-to-face or in a remote learning environment.
Designed to be used collaboratively in grade-level, subject area
teams-or even on your own-the step-by-step playbook expands teacher
understanding of how success criteria can be utilized to maximize
student learning and better engage learners in monitoring and
evaluating their own progress. Each module is designed to support
the creation and immediate implementation of high-quality, high
impact success criteria and includes: * Templates that allow for
guided and independent study for teachers. * Extensive STEM-focused
examples from across the K-12 STEM curriculum to guide teacher
learning and practice. * Examples of success criteria applied
across learning domains and grades, including high school content,
skills, practices, dispositions, and understandings. Ensure equity
of access to learning and opportunity for all students by designing
and employing high-quality, high-impact success criteria that
connect learners to a shared understanding of what success looks
like for any given learning intention.
Make learning visible in the early years Early childhood is a
uniquely sensitive time, when young learners are rapidly developing
across multiple domains, including language and literacy,
mathematics, and motor skills. Knowing which teaching strategies
work best and when can have a significant impact on a child's
development and future success. Visible Learning in Early Childhood
investigates the critical years between ages 3 and 6 and, backed by
evidence from the Visible Learning (R) research, explores seven
core strategies for learning success: working together as
evaluators, setting high expectations, measuring learning with
explicit success criteria, establishing developmentally appropriate
levels of learning, viewing mistakes as opportunities, continually
seeking feedback, and balancing surface, deep, and transfer
learning. The authors unpack the symbiotic relationship between
these seven tenets through Authentic examples of diverse learners
and settings Voices of master teachers from the US, UK, and
Australia Multiple assessment and differentiation strategies
Multidisciplinary approaches depicting mathematics, literacy, art
and music, social-emotional learning, and more Using the Visible
Learning research, teachers partner with children to encourage high
expectations, developmentally appropriate practices, the right
level of challenge, and a focus on explicit success criteria. Get
started today and watch your young learners thrive!
Contingency tables arise in diverse fields, including life
sciences, education, social and political sciences, notably market
research and opinion surveys. Their analysis plays an essential
role in gaining insight into structures of the quantities under
consideration and in supporting decision making. Combining both
theory and applications, this book presents models and methods for
the analysis of two- and multidimensional-contingency tables. An
excellent reference for advanced undergraduates, graduate students,
and practitioners in statistics as well as biosciences, social
sciences, education, and economics, the work may also be used as a
textbook for a course on categorical data analysis. Prerequisites
include basic background on statistical inference and knowledge of
statistical software packages.
Contingency tables arise in diverse fields, including life
sciences, education, social and political sciences, notably market
research and opinion surveys. Their analysis plays an essential
role in gaining insight into structures of the quantities under
consideration and in supporting decision making. Combining both
theory and applications, this book presents models and methods for
the analysis of two- and multidimensional-contingency tables.An
excellent reference for advanced undergraduates, graduate students,
and practitioners in statistics as well as biosciences, social
sciences, education, and economics, the work may also be used as a
textbook for a course on categorical data analysis. Prerequisites
include basic background on statistical inference and knowledge of
statistical software packages.
Unmanned Aerial Systems in Agriculture: Eyes Above Fields bridges
the gap between knowledge of concept and real-world use and
operations of UASs in agri-production. Based on a valuable
combination of themes presented at the 13th European Federation for
Information Technology in Agriculture, Food and the Environment
(EFITA) and supplemented by targeted invited articles of
key-scientists, this book presents a full-spectrum view of the use
of unmanned aerial systems (UAS) for agricultural applications. It
integrates dispersed knowledge in the field, providing a holistic
approach regarding UAVs and other UAS and their use in sustainable
decisions. The integrated approach of the book provides a fresh
look on contemporary agriculture-related issues, following
precision farming approaches, by educating on a range of different
issues of remote sensing and its use in agriculture. Furthermore,
the operational planning aspects for UAS in agriculture focus part
of the book provides information that is missing from other
resources.
Watercolor Is for Everyone guides you through 21 intuitive,
process-based painting lessons that help you discover your own
unique artist-within while creating works of beauty you will
joyfully send out into the world to share. In this beautiful book,
artist Kateri Ewing, author of Look Closer, Draw Better, guides you
through a series of simple creative projects using a soulful,
meditative, and reflective process. Whether you're picking up a
paint brush for the first time or are an experienced artist, you'll
discover and deepen your creative potential through these
exercises, because everyone can make art. Each project results in
two art pieces: one to keep for yourself, and then another one,
such as a postcard or mini painting, to share with someone else or
send out into the world, to spread their color, creativity, and joy
in new places. With Watercolor Is for Everyone, you can learn how
to build a daily practice and how to set intentions and create,
even if you have just 10 minutes a day. The projects draw
inspiration from poetry, music, literature, and the natural world,
and invite experimentation with a variety of sources, from tarot
and oracle cards to rocks and feathers. You'll pursue your personal
passions through accessible projects as you build your artistic
skills, confidence, and creativity.
Learn how the Visible Learning (R) research guides our planning and
teaching as we partner with families and colleagues to have the
greatest impact on the learning and development of young children.
Operations Management in Agriculture bridges the knowledge gap on
operations management for agricultural machinery. It complements
traditional topics (cost of using and choosing machinery) with
advanced engineering approaches recently applied in agricultural
machinery management (area coverage planning and sequential
scheduling). The book covers new technologies in bio-production
systems (robotics, IoT) and environmental compliance by employing a
systems engineering perspective with focuses on sub-systems,
including advanced optimization, supply chain systems,
sustainability, autonomous vehicles and IT-driven decision-making.
It will be a valuable resource for students studying
decision-making and those working to improve the efficiency,
effectiveness and sustainability of production through machinery
choice.
The close-knit community of Drake Cove is under fierce public
scrutiny due to a long-standing tradition called "The Culling", the
annual slaughter of pilot whales for consumption, an act that
splits the nation. Widower and local fisherman, Julian Finch awakes
to learn that the bodies of two colleagues have washed up on the
beach of Drake Cove. The suspects are members of the extreme animal
rights group, the Fighters Against Animal Cruelty (FAAC). A video
uploaded of Julian killing a pregnant whale goes viral, causing an
uproar online and in real life. In the aftermath, Julian becomes
the victim of life-threatening attacks. With his teenage daughter,
Julian takes refuge in the home of Frank Blothio: ex-fisherman
turned writer and political activist who does not have the best
history with the animal rights movement, or Drake Cove as a whole.
As Julian integrates into the Blothio way of life, he discovers
heinous secrets and disturbing truths lurking beneath his hometown
that will change his life forever.
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