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After three near-death experiences, the sudden loss of my first husband, and facing so many other challenges head-on, Autobiography of the Little Girl from Andersonville is a must read! This book is a testimony of God's faithfulness in comforting and meeting us at every point of need.
Now visually impaired, I refuse to allow a disability to hinder my capabilities of reaching my God-given potential. Instead, I feel even more empowered and highly...
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In the early 1900s, Mary Matthews and Lella Gaddis forged trails for women at Purdue University and throughout Indiana. Mary was the first dean of the School of Home Economics. Lella was Indiana's first state leader of Home Demonstration. In 1914, Mary hired Lella to organize Purdue's new Home Economics Extension Service. According to those who knew them, Lella was a "sparkler" who traveled the state instructing rural women about nutrition, hygiene,...
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Public education often clashes with the legal, ethical, and civil rights of its teachers. One teacher tries to navigate her way through a series of obstacles and setbacks while trying to deal with abject mistreatment and her declining mental health. She is forced out of the field of education and must deal with the aftermath. Resigned to her fate, she looks back on the mistakes of her teaching career. She also realizes that not every misstep is hers....
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Born just prior to the outbreak of World War II and inspired by his hero, a Captain of a firefighting vessel, the author joined the Royal Navy at 15 years of age, purely to experience the life at sea as told by his hero and the great wide mysterious world depicted in the Encyclopaedia.
Hugh shares the rigours of the training ship "Ganges", the excitement of his first war ship in the Mediterranean and several other drafts including being present...
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Get a glimpse into life in the days of Indentureship in Trinidad and Tobago.
Memoirs of Dr. Andrew Moonir Khan: Journey of an Educator, is an inspiring and motivational story. The book received four five-star reviews from Readers Favorite.
The foreword was written by a former Chief Justice of Trinidad and Tobago, Sir Isaac Hyatali, Q.C.[now deceased]Do you know that at one time Education was not a priority?
The young teacher Andrew overcame all...
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As a therapy dog for my new mom, I made sure she got out of bed every day, whether she was up for it or not.
I also demanded that she take me outside, so I could do my business. Slowly, my mom started to enjoy taking me outside. She started to feel safe and actually enjoyed getting to know her neighbors and their dogs. She took me on errands, to visit my great grandpa and to the park to play with other dogs. I got to meet all kinds of people in our...
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This book is about the life and times of Dr. Becky Rouse-Curry as an educator in the Twiggs County school system. She faced many trials and tribulations; however, her faith in God brought her through all her situations. She is retired now, but she appreciates each challenge because it made her stronger in the Lord.
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When Anger doesn't Heal, from Kuwait to the United States: Teacher's Memoir is a story of emotional struggles stemming from the past. It is also a story of strength, determination, and perseverance, and yet defeat of a teacher who lacks the experience and cultural knowledge of her students. The frustration from both sides, teacher and students, is conveyed through pages and pages in this book. Her story and her students' stories may not be similar...
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Jumping into the substitute teaching pool with only five hours of training and a salary of $40 per day, ex-sitcom writer Clayvon Harris was determined to make a difference. Instead, she came face-to-face with burnt-out teachers, indifferent administrators and chaotic classrooms dominated by a few out-of-control students who made it nearly impossible to teach or learn. At the end of the school year, she quit with no intention of ever returning. But...
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Coming from a region of a poor country but extremely rich with love, patience, unity, and respect, my wife, Brigitte Toingar, and I had a long story of love and patience. We respected our words and commitments to each other for nearly 10 years before we came together as husband and wife. We would have broken our commitments and ended our lives separately when the series of civil war had split us for many years but we put the patience in the center...
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Este segundo volumen recorre la historia de la teoría de la comunicación a partir de los aportes teóricos de América Latina en este campo.
Los autores analizan las influencias de los paradigmas estadounidense y europeo sobre la región, y observan cómo el subcontinente intenta readaptar o suprimir estos aportes, en especial en un periodo como el de la segunda mitad del siglo XX en el que la lucha emocional e identitaria por lo propio comienza...
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My name is Bertha Gallegos Allen.
You will read how my husband and I took care of my mother and her husband's mother while we worked at the preschool. In the book, you will read parts that are sad, and you will also cry. You will laugh at what a child says and does. Some children are happy, some sad. Childcare is good for children because they are safe and they are loved. Some children are better at childcare than at home.
I was thinking about writing...
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"The Schooling of a 21st Century Principal" traces the author's journey to the principalship, a career goal nowhere to be found on his bucket list. He took the reins knowing his middle school faced some daunting tasks, however, he would soon discover that it was the extraordinary events, changes, and challenges of a new millennium that would present the greatest arc of learning on the job.
Michael Cahill led his building using a collaborative team...
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Psychologically astute and passionately written, Molly Worthen's remarkable debut charts the intricate relationship between student and teacher, biographer and subject. As a Yale freshman, Worthen found herself deeply fascinated by worldly-wise professor Charles Hill, a former diplomat who had shaped American foreign policy in his forty-year career as an adviser to Henry Kissinger, George Shultz, and Boutros Boutros-Ghali, among others. Hill was never...
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This story discusses a few key events that occurred during my lifetime and the perspectives that I was able to gain from each of them. For as long as I could remember my life has been unpredictable. It's been like one roller coaster ride with every twist and turn enlightening me to the harsh and pleasant realities of life. I am often asked how I ended up where I am and how I came to be in Taiwan. I get asked about how I landed my career and how I've...
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Tracie's book is an autobiography that is told from her perspective, a "brownish" local girl, born and raised in Hawaii. The words "Tita Ē" describes a girl who is born and raised in the islands and is an expression of warm regard toward a female of the islands. It is a reflective and informational book filled with life stories and examples of race, racism, prejudice, and injustice. It is a heart-warming account of her life to give you an understanding...
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Progressive educator Mary Groesch reflects upon her thirty years of teaching through sharing Facing History: The Long Road to Freedom, one of the many curriculum units she wrote during her tenure as a teacher. The main elements of progressive practice are evidenced throughout the unit: integrated subjects, allowing students to pursue interests, to work in cooperative groups, to belong to a classroom community, to share their learning, and to have...
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Con el gusto de siempre y con la enorme nostalgia por la ausencia de personajes que fueron memorables en la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras de la Universidad de Guadalajara, hoy dedicamos el volumen 3 de la Colección Maestros Memorables de la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras al doctor Alberto Ladrón de Guevara Jiménez, ilustre en todas las acciones que realizó: la docencia, la investigación, la divulgación de la historia, y fuera del ámbito...
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My former student and now Pastor Chad Koons wrote a revision for the back cover that I would like to use instead of the current one. Please have the back cover changed to read:
The miracles that took place in Homeroom 109 were astounding. Widespread student salvations, healings, and deliverance occurred. Spiritual battles were fought and won as school policies were changed to allow a Christian club and prayer at the flagpole. Even my fellow...
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