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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.
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