The world was dealt a blow that included a pandemic and economic crisis as well as racial unrest, initiating an energized charge for social justice advocacy. The United States is currently facing an unprecedented challenge in ensuring that all citizens live in a fair, inclusive, and opportunity-rich society. These issues have heightened questions about racial justice that have been placated but can no longer be ignored. Marginalized communities cannot thrive if they continue to be oppressed, neglected, disinvested, and isolated from economic opportunity. The culture of allyship needs to be enacted thoughtfully and not performatively to create sustainable change through a critical mass of engaged advocates and activists. Many organizations enable the status quo by not confronting issues around race, gender, and equity. Leaders of color want a seat at the table as highly valued contributors for the transformation of a just and equitable America. By listening to the voices of Black and Brown leaders, the promotion of change in an era of social unrest will finally occur. Black and Brown Leadership and the Promotion of Change in an Era of Social Unrest amplifies the voices of leaders who identify as Black, LatinX, Indigenous, or people of color as they navigate leadership during a time of tumultuous change and social unrest. More specifically, it portrays dilemmas that marginalized communities encounter while advocating for justice and social change within whitestream organizational systems. The chapters delve into the definitions, perceptions, and lived experiences of Americanism, identity, otherness, and racism as it relates to leadership and discusses the issues, dilemmas, struggles, and successes that persons of color experience in leadership roles in business and education. This book is valuable for practitioners and researchers working in the field of social justice leadership in various disciplines, social justice activists and advocates, teachers, policymakers, politicians, managers, executives, practitioners, researchers, academicians, and students interested in how leaders of color can succeed, navigate hostile spaces, and ultimately create a change in mindsets and practices that will lead to justice.

Tutus and leotards, pointe shoes and ribbions, stretching exercises at the barre--these are all familiar images when one is thinking of ballet. But there's much more to this historic dance form than pink tulle. There's hard work with years of study.

Young readers will find themselves pointing their toes, practicing the five positions, and dreaming of being onstage as a sugarplum fairy or a king with a crown.

This book reviews the occurrence and fate of pesticides in soils, their impact on soil quality and soil ecosystems, and it also provides a comprehensive overview of the latest prevention and remediation strategies of soil contamination. Chapters from expert contributors cover topics such as soil pollution monitoring, the role of dissolved organic matter on the environmental fate of pesticides in soils, the effects of pesticides on soil microbial communities, plant uptake of pesticides from soils, and nano-based pesticides. Particular attention is given to the latest physicochemical and biological technologies developed to immobilize or degrade pesticides, preventing soil and water pollution. Given its scope, the book will appeal to researchers, professionals, including environmental chemists, engineers, ecologists, and policy-makers responsible for soil management.

This handbook is a guide for workers in analytical chemistry who need a starting place for information about a specific instrumental technique. It gives a basic introduction to the techniques and provides leading references on the theory and methodology for an instrumental technique. This edition thoroughly expands and updates the chapters to include concepts, applications, and key references from recent literature. It also contains a new chapter on process analytical technology.

The world was dealt a blow that included a pandemic and economic crisis as well as racial unrest, initiating an energized charge for social justice advocacy. The United States is currently facing an unprecedented challenge in ensuring that all citizens live in a fair, inclusive, and opportunity-rich society. These issues have heightened questions about racial justice that have been placated but can no longer be ignored. Marginalized communities cannot thrive if they continue to be oppressed, neglected, disinvested, and isolated from economic opportunity. The culture of allyship needs to be enacted thoughtfully and not performatively to create sustainable change through a critical mass of engaged advocates and activists. Many organizations enable the status quo by not confronting issues around race, gender, and equity. Leaders of color want a seat at the table as highly valued contributors for the transformation of a just and equitable America. By listening to the voices of Black and Brown leaders, the promotion of change in an era of social unrest will finally occur. Black and Brown Leadership and the Promotion of Change in an Era of Social Unrest amplifies the voices of leaders who identify as Black, LatinX, Indigenous, or people of color as they navigate leadership during a time of tumultuous change and social unrest. More specifically, it portrays dilemmas that marginalized communities encounter while advocating for justice and social change within whitestream organizational systems. The chapters delve into the definitions, perceptions, and lived experiences of Americanism, identity, otherness, and racism as it relates to leadership and discusses the issues, dilemmas, struggles, and successes that persons of color experience in leadership roles in business and education. This book is valuable for practitioners and researchers working in the field of social justice leadership in various disciplines, social justice activists and advocates, teachers, policymakers, politicians, managers, executives, practitioners, researchers, academicians, and students interested in how leaders of color can succeed, navigate hostile spaces, and ultimately create a change in mindsets and practices that will lead to justice.

Offering a rarely seen female perspective on gang life, this raw and powerful memoir tells not only of one woman's struggle to survive the streets but also of her ascent to the top ranks of the new mafia, where the only people more dangerous than rival gangs were members of her own. At age 5 Sonia Rodriguez's stepfather began to abuse her; at 10 she was molested by her uncle and beaten by her mother when she told on him; and by 13 her home had become a hangout for the Latin Kings and Queens who were friends with her older sister. Threatened by rival gang members at school, Sonia turned away from her education and extracurricular activities in favor of a world of drugs and violence. The Latin Kings, one of the largest and most notorious street gangs in America, became her refuge, but its violence cost her friends, freedom, self-respect, and nearly her life. As a Latin Queen, she experienced the exhilarating highs and unbelievable lows of gang life. From being shot at by her own gang and kicked out at age 18 with an infant daughter to rejoining the gang and distinguishing herself as a leader, her legacy as Lady Q was cemented both for her willingness to commit violence and for her role as a drug mule.

World figure skating champion siblings Isabelle and Paul Duchesnay perform this interpretation of Gustav Holst's 'The Planets' suite to a routine choreographed by Lar Lubovitch. Featuring the Toronto Dance Theatre, the routine combines ice dancing, skating and synchronised swimming to the Montréal Symphony Orchestra's performance of Holst's music, conducted by Charles Dutoit.

Actualmente, a partir de los convenios realizados entre paises latinoamericanos y de otras regiones del mundo con Cuba, las Universidades estan comprometidas a dar respuestas a las exigencias del reconocimiento a la multiculturalidad para crear espacios de aprendizajes socioculturales diversos.En el presente trabajo, se abordan los fundamentos psicopedagogicos de la formacion integral de los estudiantes de la carrera de Educacion Especial desde una perspectiva intercultural, con el objetivo de disenar una estrategia metodologica que garantice la preparacion del claustro de profesores para atender la diversidad cultural existente en la carrera, a partir de los presupuestos teoricos de la transculturacion y la formacion intercultural vistos desde el proceso de formacion del estudiante universitario. La propuesta le ofrece al profesor los recursos necesarios para, desde la clase y demas contextos de actuacion, dirigir el proceso de formacion desde tres dimensiones fundamentales: la docente-metodologica, la laboral- investigativa y la educativo-extensionista con la proyeccion de acciones metodologicas que propician el desarrollo de la formacion desde una perspectiva intercultural."

El libro se sustenta a partir de una investigacion que se inicia con el diagnostico efectuado a los estudiantes de un grupo de Servicios Gastronomicos de un Instituto Politecnico con la finalidad de determinar las insuficiencias en el aprendizaje en el componente linguistico en las asignaturas tecnicas relacionado con el vocabulario. Los terminos mal utilizados en esta especialidad limitan el desarrollo de su modo de actuacion una vez egresado de la escuela e incorporados a sus entidades laborales, para erradicar estos males que atentan contra el buen desarrollo del lexico en los alumnos de Servicios Gastronomicos, se propone un material docente para el aprendizaje desde una perspectiva desarrolladora sobre la base de la aplicacion del enfoque sistemico.

El trabajo aborda la metodologia para la gestion cultural del promotor cultural desde su funcion profesional en el contexto familia. La metodologia ofrece las etapas y acciones que pueden ser consultadas por los promotores culturales u otros agentes educativos en su desempeno profesional. En el proceso de la informacion se tubo en cuenta la revision y consulta de diversas fuentes que abordan la gestion cultural."

En el presente libro se abordan los fundamentos psicopedagogicos de la orientacion profesional, en funcion de la motivacion hacia la profesion, con el objetivo de disenar un taller metodologico con fases y sesiones para el desarrollo de la motivacion profesional, en los estudiantes de la carrera de Educacion Especial. El taller y sus sesiones, favorecen la concepcion del trabajo metodologico del colectivo pedagogico de ano, y su preparacion en cuanto a los fundamentos psicopedagogicos de la orientacion profesional y la motivacion profesional. Se eleva la preparacion de los profesores ademas de tener en cuenta la diversidad existente en el grupo. La propuesta permitio sistematizar desde el trabajo metodologico en el colectivo pedagogico de ano, acciones que propicien la orientacion profesional, en funcion del desarrollo de la motivacion hacia la profesion de los estudiantes."