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This study documents actions of Wallace Foundation grantees to create more-cohesive policies and initiatives to improve instructional leadership in schools; describes how states and districts have worked together to forge such policies and initiatives; and examines the hypothesis that cohesive systems improve school leadership. Such efforts appear to be a promising approach to developing school principals engaged in improving instruction.
ECHOES OF TORTURE! Gabby and the Doctor are back in New York after a terrifying excursion into the past, catching up with family and friends... until THE ECHO strikes, amplifying everyday noise into ear-shattering, mind-splinteringly debilitating waves of sound. What is the Echo – and can the Doctor and Gabby solve the mystery before the cacophany drives the city mad? Plus: "Doctor... you are coming back?" The fantastic Elena Casagrande and Arianna Florean return on art duties, taking us through to #15 and the end of the first season!
THE FOUNTAINS OF FOREVER! Cindy and Gabby have a falling out after Gabby's homecoming ¨C as an ancient artefact from the centre of the universe, a rogue Black Ops organisation, and a secret auction conspire to cause galaxy-shattering chaos!
When the end of the Castro era arrives, the successor government and the Cuban people will need to answer certain questions: How is Castro's more than four-decade rule likely to affect a post-Castro Cuba? What will be the political, social, and economic challenges Cuba will confront? What are the impediments to Cuba's economic development and democratic transition? The authors examine Castro's political legacies, Cuba's generational and racial divisions, its demographic predicament, the legacy of a centralized economy, and the need for industrial restructuring.
STONE HANDS STALK THROUGH THE CRATERS OF THE SOMMEÉ When Gabby and the Doctor arrive by accident in No ManÕs Land in July, 1916, theyÕre met by Corporal Jamie Colqhoun Ð a soldier who knows from bitter experience that there are worse things than the Jerries out in the rat-strewn trenches. Things that drift through the smoke of a thousand cannon shells, and move only when you look away. Shadows that flit over artillery-blasted field hospitals and throw their terrifying wings over the living. Statues that steal your life in an instant. The Weeping Angels. But in a conflict where the life of young men is cheap, and thousands die every day Ð are the Angels actually offering salvation? Trapped in the midst of a flock of starving Angels, the Doctor faces his most challenging and terrifying moral dilemma yet! Robbie Morrison and Daniel Indro take the new Tenth Doctor era to the next level, on the Centenary of World War I! Plus: a jaw-dropping Tommy Lee Edwards regular cover, and commemorative variants!
THE FINAL CHAPTER OF THE GREAT WAR! Trapped in No ManÕs Land. Surrounded by Weeping Angels on all sides. Bombarded by artillery both British and German. No weapons of any use. No protection against the cold. Tired, hungry, and walking wounded. Things have never looked so dire for the Doctor and Gabby, or for their new friend, weary soldier Jamie Colquhoun. With time running out, can victory be found in the stone jaws of certain defeat? ThereÕs only one defence leftÉ DonÕt blink. DonÕt. Even. Blink.
After a brief break in New York City, the Doctor and Gabby were ready to set off in search of a new adventure – but trouble is never far from the Doctor. Picking up a mysterious signal in the heart of Manhattan, he discovered a secret action where, among the junk, he found something of true value: an alien device with unknown and powerful properties! Purchased by a private bidder, the Doctor followed its signal to actress Dorothy Bell’s apartment – stalked by the street-smart agent, Cleo! Having got her hands on the device at Bell’s home, Cleo revealed the device’s true power: reverting Dorothy’s assistant Vivian back to a baby! The Doctor was a hit too… and is retro-regenerating back to his ninth incarnation!
IN THE TRENCHES OF WORLD WAR ONE, SOLDIERS FEAR THE SOUND OF ANGELS' WINGS... Trapped in a field hospital in No Man's Land, the Doctor and Gabby are surrounded on all sides by a force of starving Weeping Angels. Their only allies - a handful of experienced soldiers, the friendly-but-exhausted Corporal Jamie Hamilton, and beds full of the walking wounded. As the siege stretches on and watchful eyes grow weary Ð who will be the first to blink?!
"THEY SAY IF YOU'RE TOUCHED BY AN ANGEL, YOU'RE SAVED FROM THE HORRORS OF WAR." Trapped in a tunnel beneath No Man's Land, the Doctor and the surviving soldiers under his protection fight for their lives Ð with open eyes! With the TARDIS lost, the Weeping Angels on one side and the might of the German front lines on the other, how much will the Doctor sacrifice to keep Gabby safe? And in the endless dark, struggling not to blink, sparks are fanned between Gabby and Jamie Colquhoun... Is he just one more doomed soldier? ¥ The Weeping Angels as you've never seen them before! ¥ Love amid the horrors of war?!