Concrete Strategies for Positive Behavioral Support
Let's face it - teaching can be stressful. In this generation of Common Core Standards and high-stakes testing, educators are often left without the time to plan positive behavioral supports or the sanity to cultivate compassionate relationships with their students. Even though they understand the critical relationship between behavior and ......
A Teacher's Guide to Metacognitive Mapping and Critical Thinking in Re
This book offers a procedural and exemplified guide to metacognitive mapping and is built upon the central purpose of student-generated connections between life and literature.
What do faculty members, academic administrators, or development officers need to know if they want to be successful fundraisers in higher education? Going for the Gold demystifies these worlds for anyone interested in higher education fundraising and provides practical, field...
In the late 1880s, the Pecos River region of Texas and southern New Mexico was known as "the cowboy's paradise." And the cowboys who worked in and around the river were known as "the most expert cowboys in the world." A Cowboy of the Pecos vividly reveals tells the story of the Pecos cowboy from the first Goodnight-Loving cattle drive to the ......
This unique collection of short biographies of the Lone Star State's most colorful characters includes headliners Father Miguel Muldoon, the Irish-Spanish Catholic priest and diplomat who helped convert Protestants in order to settle Austin, and six-foot-two prostitute and hotelkeeper Sarah Bowman, who fought as bravely as a man among the Rangers ......
Essays on the Ethics of Labor Practices under Globalization
Labor and Global Justice combines conceptual and theoretical perspectives across a multiplicity of relevant differences, both geographical and disciplinary, to develop a transnational perspective on labor and justice and to make clear how justice requires a rethinking of the relation between labor and global capital.
In this comprehensive analysis, Richard Ruppel, a former president of the Joseph Conrad Society of America, reveals the radical contingency of the politics in Conrad's major fiction. A Political Genealogy of Joseph Conrad is the first full-length analysis of Conrad's politics since the 1960s.
This book explores the argumentative strategies used in various human rights contexts by those who advance advocacy rhetoric. Twelve case studies focus on the rhetoric of individuals or groups who work for or against human rights, offering insights about effective argumentative strategies used either to advance or obstruct human rights causes.
