|
Showing 1 - 20 of
20 matches in All Departments
This book shows you how your school can maintain its high standards
despite financial obstacles. It shows you how to investigate
various types and sources of money available to your school;
monitor the use of scarce school resources; develop a school
improvement plan which incorporates financial needs; and recruit,
assign, and develop teachers and staff for maximum effectiveness.
Help all students reach their full potential. Make the right
decisions! This unique book offers practical tools and strategies
to help you become a strong advocate for every student in your
school. With real world examples and situations, this book will
help you: * Acquire skills to change your students' lives for the
better -- and also reach district goals. * Learn how to advocate
for students even if it conflicts with district policy. * Discover
how to transform your staff so they will also serve as student
advocates. * Strengthen connections with parents to engage them
with their child's education. Also included is how to be an
advocate for special needs students. The book opens with a private
self-assessment to help you discover where you are on the continuum
of student advocacy. It then leads you through the steps to develop
the traits of a skilled advocate for students. There are
application exercises and numerous examples of what works.
Supported by research references in every chapter, the book details
a rich variety of interventions you and your staff can use on a
daily basis. It focuses on curricular as well as co-curricular
programs including subject-matter offerings, the fine arts,
athletics, technical programs, clubs, recreational activities, and
other programs. As the principal, it is your advocacy that will
make a powerful, lifelong difference for all the students in your
school. Also available - PowerPoint slides for in-service
professional development or for principals who wish to discuss this
topic with their staff.
Help all students reach their full potential. Make the right
decisions! This unique book offers practical tools and strategies
to help you become a strong advocate for every student in your
school. With real world examples and situations, this book will
help you: * Acquire skills to change your students' lives for the
better -- and also reach district goals. * Learn how to advocate
for students even if it conflicts with district policy. * Discover
how to transform your staff so they will also serve as student
advocates. * Strengthen connections with parents to engage them
with their child's education. Also included is how to be an
advocate for special needs students. The book opens with a private
self-assessment to help you discover where you are on the continuum
of student advocacy. It then leads you through the steps to develop
the traits of a skilled advocate for students. There are
application exercises and numerous examples of what works.
Supported by research references in every chapter, the book details
a rich variety of interventions you and your staff can use on a
daily basis. It focuses on curricular as well as co-curricular
programs including subject-matter offerings, the fine arts,
athletics, technical programs, clubs, recreational activities, and
other programs. As the principal, it is your advocacy that will
make a powerful, lifelong difference for all the students in your
school. Also available - PowerPoint slides for in-service
professional development or for principals who wish to discuss this
topic with their staff.
This book shows you how your school can maintain its high standards
despite financial obstacles. It shows you how to investigate
various types and sources of money available to your school;
monitor the use of scarce school resources; develop a school
improvement plan which incorporates financial needs; and recruit,
assign, and develop teachers and staff for maximum effectiveness.
On January 5, 1845, the Prussian Cultural Minister received a
request by a group of six young men to form a new Physical Society
in Berlin. In fields from thermodynamics, mechanics, and
electromagnetism to animal electricity, ophthalmology, and
psychophysics, members of this small but growing group--which soon
included Emil Du Bois-Reymond, Ernst Brucke, Werner Siemens, and
Hermann von Helmholtz--established leading positions in what only
thirty years later had become a new landscape of natural science.
How was this possible? How could a bunch of twenty-somethings
succeed in seizing the future? In Aesthetics, Industry, and
Science, M. Norton Wise answers these questions not simply from a
technical perspective of theories and practices but with a broader
cultural view of what was happening in Berlin at the time. He
emphasizes in particular how rapid industrial development, military
modernization, and the neoclassical aesthetics of contemporary art
informed the ways in which these young men thought. Wise argues
that aesthetic sensibility and material aspiration in this period
were intimately linked, and he uses these two themes for a final
reappraisal of Helmholtz's early work. Anyone interested in modern
German cultural history, or the history of nineteenth-century
German science, will be drawn to this landmark book.
Theorist Clifford Geertz's influence extends far beyond
anthropology. Indeed the case could be made that he has been
abandoned by anthropology and that his legacy has been transferred
to a more diffuse community of scholars interested in
interpretation. This volume reflects the breadth of his influence,
looking at Geertz as a theorist rather than as an anthropologist.
To date, there has been no impartial, comprehensive, and
authoritative work published on this critical figure. Contributors
include an interdisciplinary team of leading scholars investigating
the three core components of contested legacy: theory, method, and
writing.
Theorist Clifford Geertz's influence extends far beyond
anthropology. Indeed the case could be made that he has been
abandoned by anthropology and that his legacy has been transferred
to a more diffuse community of scholars interested in
interpretation. This volume reflects the breadth of his influence,
looking at Geertz as a theorist rather than as an anthropologist.
To date, there has been no impartial, comprehensive, and
authoritative work published on this critical figure. Contributors
include an interdisciplinary team of leading scholars investigating
the three core components of contested legacy: theory, method, and
writing.
"The Values of Precision" examines how exactitude has come to
occupy such a prominent place in Western culture. What has been the
value of numerical values? Beginning with the late eighteenth
century and continuing into the twentieth, the essays in this
volume support the view that centralizing states--with their
increasingly widespread bureaucracies for managing trade, taxation,
and armies--and large-scale commercial enterprises--with their
requirements for standardization and mass production--have been the
major promoters of numerical precision. Taking advantage of the
resources available, scientists and engineers have entered a
symbiotic relationship with state and industry, which in turn has
led to increasingly refined measures in ever-widening domains of
the natural and social world. At the heart of this book, therefore,
is an inquiry into the capacity of numbers and instruments to
travel across boundaries of culture and materials.
Many of the papers focus attention on disagreements about the
significance and the credibility of particular sorts of
measurements deployed to support particular claims, as in the
measures of the population of France, the electrical resistance of
copper, or the solvency of insurance companies. At the same time
they display the deeply cultural character of precision values.
Contributors to the volume include Ken Alder, Graeme J. N. Gooday,
Jan Golinski, Frederic L. Holmes, Kathryn M. Olesko, Theodore M.
Porter, Andrea Rusnock, Simon Schaffer, George Sweetnam, Andrew
Warwick, and M. Norton Wise.
This is a new release of the original 1932 edition.
"Not another ghost " Yes, Jenny, another ghost. You see, the
Sprucehaven Inn is haunted and it's another mystery that you, Liza,
and Peter, the Paranormal Club as you refer to yourselves, have
been called upon to solve. This time there are many ghosts and one
is very angry and particularly dangerous. In fact, the very life of
your good friend is in grave peril because of him. But let me warn
you - before it's over the Paranormal Club will be a witness to one
of the most shockingly evil events in the history of our great
country. Are you sure you still want to get involved? Are you sure
the Paranormal Club wants to solve the mystery of the haunted
Sprucehaven Inn? After all, you have been warned. The Paranormal
Club has very successfully solved a mystery before. Its adventures
are recorded in the first book in the Paranormal Club series, Ghost
Child. But will Jenny and her friends be able to solve their second
case The haunting of Sprucehaven Inn?
Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of
rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for
everyone!
Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of
rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for
everyone!
Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of
rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for
everyone!
For much of the twentieth century scientists sought to explain
objects and processes by reducing them to their components-nuclei
into protons and neutrons, proteins into amino acids, and so on-but
over the past forty years there has been a marked turn toward
explaining phenomena by building them up rather than breaking them
down. This collection reflects on the history and significance of
this turn toward "growing explanations" from the bottom up. The
essays show how this strategy-based on a widespread appreciation
for complexity even in apparently simple processes and on the
capacity of computers to simulate such complexity-has played out in
a broad array of sciences. They describe how scientists are
reordering knowledge to emphasize growth, change, and contingency
and, in so doing, are revealing even phenomena long considered
elementary-like particles and genes-as emergent properties of
dynamic processes. Written by leading historians and philosophers
of science, these essays examine the range of subjects, people, and
goals involved in changing the character of scientific analysis
over the last several decades. They highlight the alternatives that
fields as diverse as string theory, fuzzy logic, artificial life,
and immunology bring to the forms of explanation that have
traditionally defined scientific modernity. A number of the essays
deal with the mathematical and physical sciences, addressing
concerns with hybridity and the materials of the everyday world.
Other essays focus on the life sciences, where questions such as
"What is life?" and "What is an organism?" are undergoing radical
re-evaluation. Together these essays mark the contours of an
ongoing revolution in scientific explanation. Contributors. David
Aubin, Amy Dahan Dalmedico, Richard Doyle, Claus Emmeche, Peter
Galison, Stefan Helmreich, Ann Johnson, Evelyn Fox Keller, Ilana
Loewy, Claude Rosental, Alfred Tauber
|
You may like...
Kill Joy
Holly Jackson
Paperback
R240
R192
Discovery Miles 1 920
Hampstead
Diane Keaton, Brendan Gleeson, …
DVD
R66
Discovery Miles 660
|