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This supplementary reader present an engaging and novel approach to national security. A series of brief case studies representing current and controversial policy problems facilitates deliberation and debate about competing policy ideas and encourages undergraduate students to think critically about issues of national security.

This book is a comprehensive guide to the training, audition technique, and professional development essential for launching and sustaining a career in classical singing. Claudia Friedlander draws on the expertise of prominent educators and opera industry professionals to provide resources for singers at every level of development.

This lively text offers a brief history of Western civilization. Providing a focused narrative and interpretive structure, Pavlac uses the joined terms "supremacies and diversities" to develop themes of conflict and creativity. His easily accessible yet deeply knowledgeable book covers the basic information that all educated adults should know.

Comparative Judicial Politics provides insights into and raises critical questions about how courts at all levels and in divergent settings around the world intersect with politics and charts the implications of what can occur when law, courts, and politics meet.

This book explores how traditional ideologies of gender and sexuality have influenced the culture of the space and the extra-terrestrial.

Arguing that all learning is enhanced when driven by personal interest, this book shows how high schools can deliver better education if the students are allowed to choose the central topics of their study.

No organization can outperform its leadership, so the school board must play the key role in transforming the district's culture. PLOs will assist school boards with transforming the district's culture within the boundaries of the board's governance role.

This book connects a new history and philosophy of science with the history of education.

This book is for community college board members, administrators, faculty and staff who also want to: (1) foster beliefs that will enable students to finish what they start; (2) empower students to overcome daily challenges and real adversity; and (3) transform human potential into achievement, for a lifetime.

This book provides practical strategies for meeting the challenges of children exhibiting behavior problems.

This handbook is for elementary staff who work with English Language Learners, but who don't have specialized training in English language acquisition. It provides a thorough picture of English Language Learners, and offers practical strategies for teaching.

This book describes the systems that perpetuate historical underachievement for the same demographic groups of students who have struggled for decades. For leaders who believe that all students deserve the best education regardless of family circumstance or zip code, this book will support for leaders developing equitable outcomes for all students.

This book assists preservice teachers in building their own capacity to transition effectively into a professional school environment. Filled with practical advice and insights, it will show novice teachers how to maximize their preservice teaching time in a way that leverages them for success in the classroom.

Tough Choices for Teachers examines ethical issues in today's educational settings using a case study approach. Fourteen descriptive case studies offer readers the opportunity to reflect upon current ethical dilemmas, and pertinent questions provide prompts to improve their decision-making process.

Embedded technology, that is, computing built into everyday devices, is all around. Known as the Internet of Things, embedded sensors in our home, in our tools, and even in our baseball bats have changed the world as we know it. As with every stage of evolution, leaders have the options to resist, adapt, or to get ahead of the change.

This book seeks to maximize individual and institutional efforts to support young people's optimal development, specifically their talents.

This book suggests ways to teach different modes of writing.

This book is a teaching manual that helps teachers not only explain the concepts of consumer economics and media literacy to middle schoolers but supplies lessons for students to get hands-on experience recognizing, deconstructing, evaluating, and choosing for themselves whether to accept the tangible product or intangible message offered.

This book is an interdisciplinary guide to connect art lessons with core curriculum. Social studies, language arts, math, and/or science are supported in every unit. It is an ideal source for elementary and middle school teachers to enrich their curriculum. It is an invaluable tool for art teachers.

This book is about teacher evaluation in public schools and how we can improve it.

This guide cultivates a school culture where the principal is positioned as the literacy leader. It will support principals to define, and create a literacy culture, as well as provide insight to support principals in their quest to becoming primary individual responsible for bringing joy to teaching and learning as part of building school culture.

This book will challenge you to think deeply about what you can do integrate oracy into your practice. Rich with ideas, advice and strategies, Transform Teaching and Learning through Talk: The Oracy Imperative will quickly become your go-to-guide to get talking in class!

Listening is Learning invites young teachers to seek the knowledge and advice of former teachers, retired educators, respected veterans, and fellow newcomers. It encourages them to step away from their isolated classrooms and search for best ideas, methods, materials, insights--and moments of success, epiphanies, struggles, methodologies.

The cases are designed to present an overview of the law from special education, where there is frequent litigation.

Rather than simply recite problems, Unlearning Failure seeks to explore credible solutions to the urban education reform.

The aim of this book is to help you and your students identify the kinds of risks that are worth taking, better anticipate and navigate potential hazards associated with those risks and maximize the potential benefits.

This is a framework for measuring student intelligence.

Mindsets are shifting where the work areas of the students vary. The class furniture will vary from size and shape of tables, to couches, to a variety of chairs. Students must have the freedom to make choices to take ownership of their learning. This means that mistakes will happen. The classroom should be a comfortable learning environment.

This book examines six psychological and spiritual giants that will help inspire teacher renewal.