Atkins, Weight Watchers, Jenny Craig, Low Fat, or the ever-present South Beach all promise the same things-starvation, deprivation, self-denial, unhappiness, irritation, and most importantly, failure as you seek the elusive and unattainable emaciation of Hollywood stars.? Why go that tragic route when now you CAN have it all-doughnuts, milkshakes, double meat and cheese burgers, and best of all deep fried snickers bars on the brand new North Beach Diet?? Author Kim Bailey, the poster child of this groundbreaking new food plan, says it best...? "I gained 145 pounds, became emotionally insulated, and allowed food to control every aspect of my life?now you can too!"

This parody of the ubiquitous South Beach Diet celebrates the joys of sugar, butter, and all things carbohydrate. This high-fat, high-salt, real sugar movement is the perfect backlash to the overwhelming barrage of diet plans that dominate bookstore shelves and bedside tables. It is filled with helpful tips, including . . .Slower is always betterAlways use food as an emotional outletStressed spelled backwards is desserts

Exercise is all virtual in this innovative "Body-By-Cake" program with routines such as: Pie-laties, NordicSnack, and Cap'n Crunches.

The "Robust Gourmet" section of the book is one of its best features with over 60 high calorie recipes made with lots of real butter, refined sugar, white flour, and chocolate.? You'll be entertained by a few of these like the Battered Fried Twinkies, Biscuits and Chocolate Gravy, and the 7-Layer Nabisco English Trifle, and delighted by most, as you enjoy the sumptuous comfort-food offerings of Cognac Braised Short-Ribs, Buttermilk Vidalia Onion Rings, and Sweet PotatoPie.

Teams that engage in designing, using, and responding to common formative assessments are more knowledgeable about their own standards, more assessment literate, and able to develop more strategies for helping all students learn. In this conversational guide, the authors offer tools, templates, and protocols to incorporate common formative assessments into the practices of a PLC to monitor and enhance student learning

Ensure every educator is engaged in the right work with a collective focus on improved student learning. Aligned to the Professional Learning Communities (PLC) at Work(R) model, this resource includes instructional coaching tools, processes, protocols, templates, tips, and strategies designed to support the multidimensional work of instructional coaches and PLC training. Each chapter includes action steps and reflective coaching activities, as well as suggestions for navigating some of the most common issues instructional coaches face. Use this book to understand the unique requirements of instructional coaches in building a school that answers the four critical questions of a PLC at Work: Learn how to provide PLC training and professional development for collaborative teacher teams. Study three major variables that will affect instructional coaching (capacity, culture, and context) and four major actions that will act as guiding principles. Explore issues that can arise in PLC schools, as well as teacher coaching strategies to help resolve these issues. Deepen your understanding of instructional coaching in a PLC with helpful online reproducibles and teacher coaching tools. Acquire capacity-building strategies aligned to the four PLC questions. Contents: Introduction Chapter 1: How to Get Started as an Instructional Coach Chapter 2: What Do We Want Students to Know and Be Able to Do? Chapter 3: How Will We Know if They Have Learned It? Chapter 4: How Will We Respond When Some Students Do Not Learn? Chapter 5: How Will We Extend the Learning of Students Who Are Already Proficient? Epilogue: Maintaining the Momentum and Sustaining the Process References and Resources Index