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With detailed examples of best practices from middle schools across the country, this book features research-based strategies and suggestions for transition programs. It covers the roles of school principals, counselors, classroom teachers, and the central office.
This book presents 46 research-based tools, worksheets, and resources which have been field-tested at schools and dropout prevention programs across the country. For teachers, administrators, counselors, and special educators who work with at-risk learners, it helps you apply the Fifteen Strategies identified by The National Dropout Prevention Center and Network at Clemson University. A set of indexes (by grade level, by job title, and by individual strategy) makes it easy for you to identify the tools, worksheets, and resources which will be of the greatest benefit to you and your students. Examples include: How To Encourage Students To Think About Staying In School, How To Make Your School Family Friendly, How to Identify High-Performing At-Risk Students, What Can Parents and Teachers Do If an Adolescent Begins to Fail in School, Reducing Special Education Dropouts, and How to Get the Community Involved in Truancy and Dropout Prevention.
This book shows administrators and teachers what they can do to make their students' ninth grade experience a successful one. Practical and research-based, this book showcases strategies to help you reduce your dropout rate, enhance student achievement, and provide a safe environment for your ninth grade students.
"A wonderful guide for school leaders as they create a contemporary schedule for middle and high school students to take advantage of a variety of curricular offerings. This second addition is comprehensive, with numerous subject-centered examples and detailed specifics for those desiring to move to more advanced designs. It is no wonder why Queen is often referred to as the father of the new block schedule." —Henry Peel, Wachovia Distinguished Professor East Carolina University A comprehensive, step-by-step handbook on making the most of block scheduling! Block scheduling is one of the most popular ways of restructuring the school day, and schools engaged in some form of alternative sched...
Making peace in the long-troubled Middle East is likely to be one of the top priorities of the next American president. He will need to take account of the important lessons from past attempts, which are described and analyzed here in a gripping book by a renowned expert who served twice as U.S. ambassador to Israel and as Middle East adviser to President Clinton. Martin Indyk draws on his many years of intense involvement in the region to provide the inside story of the last time the United States employed sustained diplomacy to end the Arab-Israeli conflict and change the behavior of rogue regimes in Iraq and Iran. Innocent Abroad is an insightful history and a poignant memoir. Indyk provi...
Thomas Willcox (1689-1779) immigrated from England to Concord, Pennsylvania, and married Elizabeth Cole (Kohl) in 1727. Descendants moved southward and then to the midwest.
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Ulrich Hostetter Sr. (b.ca. 1720) and his family immigrated in 1749 from Switzerland to Pennsylvania, and settled in York County, Pennsylvania. Descendants and relatives lived in Pennsylvania, Virginia, Maryland, South Carolina and elsewhere.