Smart but Scattered


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This book has been replaced by Smart but Scattered, Second Edition, ISBN 978-1-4625-5459-1.




School, Family, and Community Partnerships


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Strengthen programs of family and community engagement to promote equity and increase student success! When schools, families, and communities collaborate and share responsibility for students′ education, more students succeed in school. Based on 30 years of research and fieldwork, the fourth edition of the bestseller School, Family, and Community Partnerships: Your Handbook for Action, presents tools and guidelines to help develop more effective and more equitable programs of family and community engagement. Written by a team of well-known experts, it provides a theory and framework of six types of involvement for action; up-to-date research on school, family, and community collaboration; and new materials for professional development and on-going technical assistance. Readers also will find: Examples of best practices on the six types of involvement from preschools, and elementary, middle, and high schools Checklists, templates, and evaluations to plan goal-linked partnership programs and assess progress CD-ROM with slides and notes for two presentations: A new awareness session to orient colleagues on the major components of a research-based partnership program, and a full One-Day Team Training Workshop to prepare school teams to develop their partnership programs. As a foundational text, this handbook demonstrates a proven approach to implement and sustain inclusive, goal-linked programs of partnership. It shows how a good partnership program is an essential component of good school organization and school improvement for student success. This book will help every district and all schools strengthen and continually improve their programs of family and community engagement.




Addiction is Addiction Workbook


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Addiction is a primary, chronic brain disease. Primary means that it is not caused by anything else and chronic means that it lasts a lifetime. Genetic factors account for more than half the likelihood that an individual will develop Addiction but environment also plays a significant role in its expression. Our goal in writing this workbook is to help you appreciate the principles discussed in our book, Addiction is Addiction, and to expand your awareness and provide clarity about how the disease has been affecting you and others around you. It is helpful, although not necessary to have read Addiction is Addiction prior to starting this workbook. This resource has been designed for those who have read our previous book and those who have not. The title Addiction is Addiction highlights that whether a person’s problem is with substances or behaviors such as food, gambling, sex and love, these are all manifestations of the same disease and are not mutually exclusive.




Intensive-Learning English


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Almond Books ICSE English Creative Writing Skills for Class 9 & 10 (Compositions, Letters, Comprehensions, Notice Writing, Email Writing)


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While writing skills are integral to the ICSE curriculum, many students have difficulty mastering them. Understanding the context, format, guidelines, and practicing relevant topics are critical to learning the art of effective writing. The most important thing is to learn how to organise ideas before you write, and this book will help you do just that. Furthermore, this book contains many new fully solved topics, select ICSE School's pre-board topics, and previous year's board exam questions.




Complete PET for Spanish Speakers Teacher's Book


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Complete PET for Spanish Speakers offers the most authentic preparation available for the Cambridge ESOL exam. Informed by Cambridge's unique searchable database of real exam scripts, the Cambridge Learner Corpus, and providing an official PET past exam paper from Cambridge ESOL, Complete PET is the most authentic exam preparation course available. The Teacher's Book contains full teacher's notes with extra teaching ideas, photocopiable material including class activities and progress tests, recording scripts and word lists. The English for Spanish Speakers edition provides specific help on how to exploit the speaking and pronunciation activities designed specially for Spanish-speaking students.




New Interchange Video Activity Book 1


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New Interchange is a multi-level series for adult and young-adult learners of English from the beginning to the high-intermediate level. The full-color Video Activity Book is designed to accompany the video. It provides pre- and post-viewing tasks for the learner. There are follow-up and Language Close-Up sections for those who want to use the video as the basis for a short course, or to review more thoroughly the contents of the Student's Book.




English Communicative Workbook Class VI


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This book is basically developed to meet the requirement of some reference matierials having collections of different possible questions from various fields related to English Grammar and composition. It has different sets of questions meant primarily for modulated and regularized self study. Answer key is also there to evaluate the choice and also to sort out majority of the areas of difficullty. Primarily this workbook is meant for students of Class V. In a wider perspective this workbook can be used as a reference material by other fellows. The Question Bank addresses patterns of problems of all possible levels. So there is no specific boundary of distinction of any class or any specific stream of study. Any aspirant remaining engaged in regular studies can have access to this Question Bank. Materials used here were collected from various sources and are also cross checked for finding out specific difficulties. We effectively sortlisted such areas and prepared a revised edition of this volume. This question bank module can also be a helpful companion for aspirants who seek admission in different strams of jobs, services and fellowships for which they have to opt for some examinations duly conducted by UPSC, PSC, SSC, RRB or any other boards of study. This workbook will provide an ample scope to students of high School standard to improve skills related to language and inter—personal communication. Communication process in modern world should be digitally sound also.We aspire for higer scope of progress as students involving in active communication process gains a lot. Font size of some of the practice papers are kept small for ensuring accommodation of the material of large volume. Students of higher class can explore them with an ease. They may not feel any specific problem while moving through content areas. Resource Centre: Arabinda Nagar, Bankura, PIN – 722101 (W.B.) Attn: Chandan Sukumar Sengupta




USFA Publications Catalog


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