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Educational accountability for excellence begins with educational leaders. In the past decade states have adopted revised requirements for school and district leaders in K-12 public schools with reliance on national standards like ELCC and ISLLC leadership standards. The development of Common Core State Standards (CCSS), No Child Left Behind (NCLB), and Race to the Top have also had profound changes on school curriculum, instruction, assessment and district leadership, evaluation, and accountability. While there are many and varying leadership books on the market, few to none outline an effective framework of educational leadership domains needed to address the current needs of administrator evaluation, self-reflection, and personal growth.
We all pray for what we want but God gives us what we need. Keeping In Touch with our faith, somehow we end up where we need to be. Author Betty Lane-Fagerlund introduces us to Sadie and proceeds to weave an adventure that leads Sadie on a path that belongs to her alone. As life would have it, Sadie grows to trust and love her friend, ballplank, and apprentice, Trish. While traveling to LA, Japan, New York, Paris, and Milan, the two friends begin to practice “letting go, while letting God.”
Winner of the 2020 Lefty Award for Best Humorous Mystery Scottish-born California transplant Lexy Campbell sails into trouble when her houseboat party ends on a deadly note. Now settled in her little houseboat, moored in the slough at the back of the Last Ditch Motel, Lexy Campbell wants nothing more than to build her counseling business, avoid her mother's phone calls and—who knows?—meet a nice guy. But when she throws a Halloween party for her motley crew of motel pals, the only single man is too old for her, too wrapped up in the case of beer chilling in the slough, and—oh, yes—too dead. The sensible choice is to leave it up to the cops to identify the body and catch the killer. S...
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American lawyer Amy Brown investigates, with the help of an eccentric product safety expert, the mysterious death of the head of her London firm.
Making Mentoring Work is a practical guide for school leaders interested in beginning or enhancing their mentoring programs for new teachers. Readers can use the mentoring program rubric to pre-assess their program and then choose the chapters that correspond to areas of growth. Each chapter provides background research as well as practical steps and tools to make mentoring work in a school environment. At the end of each section, readers will find discussion guides that support program leaders in making the next steps; organizing conversations with stakeholders that will transform and streamline new teacher support programs; and increase new teacher retention and practice.
Brawley was always a kid who wanted to become a world champion but always struggled with making it to the big show. Even his own father had his doubts. He knew he had one shot, and he took it. Later on, he had hard decisions to make about whether or not he would stay in school or fully go into boxing. He always had troubles with his stepbrother Marcus; they fought a lot, but it seems the jealousy and malicious intentions Marcus had against Brawley weren't always there. Everything changed when Marcus turned 19. From then on, he started losing his mind. His friends Omar and Kimberly are Brawley's ride or die, and they help him any way they can. In his relentless pursuit to the top, he gets challenged by all sorts of things and also gets resolved into getting hate from people and even getting harassed! How will Brawley get to the level of a world champion?
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