The Fire Chief's Toolbox


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This is not another book about how to put the wet stuff on the red stuff. The Fire Chief's Tool Box presents a clear view of the personal and professional issues affecting a new fire chief and offers tools to address the issues successfully. The Fire Chief's Tool Box will provide readers with: - Realistic insight into the knowledge, skills and abilities that every fire chief must have to succeed. - Guidelines for long-term career preparation. - An understanding of the job search and selection process. - A fundamental plan for assuming command. - An understanding of the importance of the chief's role as a politician, educator, salesperson and marketer to assure career success. - Guidance for spouses and families of those who seek to become The Chief. - A reminder that the primary job of every fire chief is the safety of his or her personnel. As a future or current chief of any fire department, you will: - Benefit from the practical, straightforward and common sense advice. - Discover the thought processes needed to meet the challenges that face every chief. - Gain insight that will help your family cope with the stresses your job as fire chief will bring to their lives.







The Animator's Survival Kit


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"A manual of methods, principles and formulas for classical, computer, games, stop motion and internet animators"--Cover.




Growing Beyond Survival


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The Toolbox Revisited


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The Toolbox Revisited is a data essay that follows a nationally representative cohort of students from high school into postsecondary education, and asks what aspects of their formal schooling contribute to completing a bachelor's degree by their mid-20s. The universe of students is confined to those who attended a four-year college at any time, thus including students who started out in other types of institutions, particularly community colleges.




The Social Workers' Toolbox


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This book aims to bring order to the diversity of methods which is so typical of social work. The tools described can be directly put into practice and adapted to the social worker's personalised approach with their clients. Useful for both the inexperienced and the more practiced social worker, the book provides a solid basis through the use of numerous practical examples and offers the more experienced social worker a substantial resource and the means to legitimise a chosen course of action and social work intervention. Schools of social work will be able to use the book as an easily accessible resource for social work assessments, interventions and quality social work management.




The ELL Teacher's Toolbox


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Practical strategies to support your English language learners The ELL Teacher’s Toolbox is a practical, valuable resource to be used by teachers of English Language Learners, in teacher education credential programs, and by staff development professionals and coaches. It provides hundreds of innovative and research-based instructional strategies you can use to support all levels of English Language Learners. Written by proven authors in the field, the book is divided into two main sections: Reading/Writing and Speaking/Listening. Each of those sections includes “Top Ten” favorites and between 40 and 70 strategies that can be used as part of multiple lessons and across content areas. Contains 60% new strategies Features ready-to-use lesson plans Includes reproducible handouts Offers technology integration ideas The percentage of public school students in the U.S. who are English language learners grows each year—and with this book, you’ll get a ton of fresh, innovative strategies to add to your teaching arsenal.




The Survival Toolbox


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Here's Something Few Preppers Fully Consider... What would you do if your home is damaged after a disaster, but you couldn't fix it or evacuate? You'd have a BIG problem, that's for sure! I can help ensure this doesn't happen to you by creating a Survival Toolbox, a toolbox which includes dozens of useful hand tools specially selected for home disaster recovery. Who I Am, Why Listen To Me My name is Damian Brindle. I'm a longtime survival blogger with many thousands of readers. I've spent the past decade studying and discovering nearly everything I can about survival, especially at home preparedness, to ensure my own family's survival. I know more than most folks about bugging in, bugging out, food storage, off-grid cooking, home safety and protection, and so much more. Over the last several years I've dedicated my life and my time to helping others just like you better survive disasters of all kinds. Like I said, it's my life. I'm also husband to a wonderful wife and father to two growing boys. I've spent years ensuring my family will be 100% safe, secure, and ready for disasters of all kinds and now I'm offering you the chance to take an important--even crucial--action for yourself by getting yourself prepared the right way, right now. Here's What's Covered Inside Inside you'll uncover 67 practical tools and supplies to fix or maintain your home after a disaster strikes, each tool chosen to help you keep your family safe instead of being freezing cold and soaking wet... and maybe even dead as a result. We'll also briefly cover two additional considerations, including tools to keep in your vehicles as well as on your person. Finally, we'll also discuss where to find these tools cheap, where to keep this survival toolbox (hint: it's not where you think you should), and even what toolbox to opt for given your situation. Why You Must Prepare Yourself Now Disasters, including earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes, wildfires, blizzards, floods, and so many more won't wait for you to be ready for them, and most strike without warning! You simply MUST prepare yourself now. Here's how to create a survival toolbox the right way and to stay safe, starting right now. How To Get The Kindle Version Free This book qualifies for the Kindle MatchBook program. As such, you can get the Kindle version free simply by purchasing the paperback version right now. Details can be found inside the paperback book. After purchase please visit the Kindle MatchBook page to download the Kindle version. Scroll Up And Click The "Buy Now" Button Inside you'll uncover 67 practical tools and supplies to fix or maintain your home after a disaster strikes that anyone--even you--can use to better prepare themselves and their families starting today. Don't wait! Discover how to assemble a truly useful disaster toolkit starting right now, all by following an expert in the field.




The Social Studies Teacher's Toolbox


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Social studies teachers will find classroom-tested lessons and strategies that can be easily implemented in the classroom The Teacher’s Toolbox series is an innovative, research-based resource providing teachers with instructional strategies for students of all levels and abilities. Each book in the collection focuses on a specific content area. Clear, concise guidance enables teachers to quickly integrate low-prep, high-value lessons and strategies in their middle school and high school classrooms. Every strategy follows a practical, how-to format established by the series editors. The Social Studies Teacher's Toolbox contains hundreds of student-friendly classroom lessons and teaching strategies. Clear and concise chapters, fully aligned to Common Core Social Studies standards and National Council for the Social Studies standards, cover the underlying research, technology based options, practical classroom use, and modification of each high-value lesson and strategy. This book employs a hands-on approach to help educators quickly learn and apply proven methods and techniques in their social studies courses. Topics range from reading and writing in social studies and tools for analysis, to conducting formative and summative assessments, differentiating instruction, motivating students, incorporating social and emotional learning and culturally responsive teaching. Easy-to-read content shows how and why social studies should be taught and how to make connections across history, geography, political science, and beyond. Designed to reduce instructor preparation time and increase relevance, student engagement, and comprehension, this book: Explains the usefulness, application, and potential drawbacks of each instructional strategy Provides fresh activities applicable to all classrooms Helps social studies teachers work with ELLs, advanced students, and students with learning differences Offers real-world guidance for addressing current events while covering standards and working with textbooks The Social Studies Teacher's Toolbox is an invaluable source of real-world lessons, strategies, and techniques for general education teachers and social studies specialists, as well as resource specialists/special education teachers, elementary and secondary educators, and teacher educators.




A Biostatistics Toolbox for Data Analysis


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A Biostatistics Toolbox for Data Analysis delivers a sophisticated package of statistical methods for advanced master's (MPH) and PhD students in public health and epidemiology who are involved in the analysis of data. The book's statistical tools are organized into sections with similar objectives, each of which is accompanied by complete instructions, explanations, detailed examples, and advice on relevant issues and potential pitfalls.