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Bamboo Shoots After the Rain: Contemporary Stories by Women Writers of Taiwan
by Ann C. Carver, Sung-sheng Yvonne ChangA short story collection hailed as a &“welcome and valuable addition to our growing knowledge about the inner lives and literary talents of Chinese women&” (Amy Ling, author of Between Worlds: Women Writers of Chinese Ancestry). This remarkable anthology introduces the short fiction of fourteen writers, major figures in the literary movements of three generations, who represent a range of class, ethnic, and political perspectives. It is filled with unexpected gems such as Lin Hai-yin&’s story of a woman suffering under the feudal system of Old China, and Chiang Hsiao-yun&’s optimistic solutions to problems of the elderly in rapidly changing 1980s Taiwan. And in between, a dozen rich stories of aristocrats, comrades, wives, concubines, children, mothers, sexuality, female initiation, rape, and the tensions between traditional and modern life. &“This is not western feminism with an Asian accent&”, says Bloomsbury Review, &“but a description of one culture&’s reality. . . . The woman protagonists survive both despite and because of their existence in a changing Taiwan.&”
Bambini Sicuri di Sé - Come Crescere Bambini Positivi, Fiduciosi, Resilienti e Focalizzati
by Karen Campbell Elena HollerOgni genitore vuole il meglio per i suoi figli. Tutti noi vogliamo che diventino degli adulti sicuri di sé e positivi, perciò cerchiamo di insegnar loro ad essere resilienti e in grado di affrontare gli alti e bassi della vita. Questo libro ti svelerà le strategie pratiche per modellare e migliorare la mentalità e i valori di tuo figlio. I genitori esercitano una grande influenza sul modo in cui i loro figli pensano e affrontano le situazioni e gli eventi della vita. I bambini che sono felici e di successo solitamente diventano degli adulti ben inseriti e con una vita gratificante. Clicca sull'icona di "look inside" per dare uno sguardo all'indice. Segui i nostri consigli e aiuta tuo figlio a raggiungere il suo pieno potenziale grazie al fatto di essere sicuro di sé, positivo, rispettoso, resiliente, focalizzato e organizzato.
Bambi: The Winter Trail
by DISNEY BOOK GROUPEvery day is an adventure for young Bambi and his friends! One winter morning, Thumper the bunny wakes Bambi up to play. Right away, the two friends discover a mysterious trail of footprints in the snow. But who could they belong to? Join Bambi and his friends as they follow the trail and track down the source of the prints!
Bambi: The Secret Adventure
by Disney Book GroupEvery day is a new adventure for Bambi and his friends! When Thumper the bunny wakes up Bambi and Flower one morning to go to a secret place, he tells them they can't tell their parents—they'd never be allowed to go! Where could Thumper possibly be taking Bambi and Thumper? Don't miss this charming tale of friendship and discovery in the forest.
Balzac, Grandville, and the Rise of Book Illustration
by Keri YousifExamining how the rise of book illustration affected the historic hegemony of the word, Keri Yousif explores the complex literary and artistic relationship between the novelist Honoré de Balzac and the illustrator J. J. Grandville during the French July Monarchy (1830-1848). Both collaborators and rivals, these towering figures struggled for dominance in the Parisian book trade at the height of the Romantic revolution and its immediate aftermath. Both men were social portraitists who collaborated on the influential encyclopedic portrayal of nineteenth-century society, Les Français peints par eux-mêmes. However, their collaboration soon turned competitive with Grandville's publication of Scènes de la vie privée et publique des animaux, a visual parody of Balzac's Scènes de la vie privée. Yousif investigates Balzac's and Grandville's individual and joint artistic productions in terms of the larger economic and aesthetic struggles within the nineteenth-century arena of cultural production, showing how writers were forced to position themselves both in terms of the established literary hierarchy and in relation to the rapidly advancing image. As Yousif shows, the industrialization of the illustrated book spawned a triadic relationship between publisher, writer, and illustrator that transformed the book from a product of individual genius to a cooperative and commercial affair. Her study represents a significant contribution to our understanding of literature, art, and their interactions in a new marketplace for publication during the fraught transition from Romanticism to Realism.
Balshrusti April and May 2020: બાલસૃષ્ટિ અપ્રિલ અને મે ૨૦૨૦
by Shree P. Bhartiબાલસૃષ્ટી સંયુક્ત અંક અપ્રિલ અને મે ૨૦૨૦
Baloney (Henry P.)
by Jon ScieszkaThe twisted team that gave the world Squids Will Be Squids and The Stinky Cheese Man now delivers a whole lot of Baloney. <P><P> Henry is an alien schoolkid who needs to come up with one very good excuse to explain why he is late for szkola, again. Otherwise, his teacher Miss Bugscuffle promises, it's Permanent Lifelong Detention. Henry's tall tale of his lost zimulis-received from deep space by Jon Scieszka-is told in at least twenty different Earth languages and graphically recreated in Lane Smith's out-of-this-world illustrations. The unbelievable trip into Henry's wild universe may be the most original excuse ever for being late for szkola. Or it might just be Baloney.
Balm in Gilead: Healing for the Repentent Heart
by Dudley DelffsThis unique Bible study guide is designed to lead readers into a deeper experience of God's life-changing love through a cleansing interlude of repentance.Wherever they are in their spiritual journey, whatever personal circumstances they face, readers can receive God's empowering, healing grace through the gifts of confession, forgiveness, obedience, and gratitude. As the author explains, "The solution to our desire for rest and for renewal is simple, and life-threatening. Repentance-the turning away from ourselves and moving toward God."Through eight fascinating sessions, readers will be guided by exercises in Bible study, prayer, and self-reflection, all designed to help them redirect their attention to what God is doing in their lives. It's a masterful blend of traditional, inductive Bible study and a refreshing focus on authentic spiritual renewal and intimacy with God. This meditative guide is ideal for use individually, or together with a prayer partner or small group. Either way, Balm in Gilead will release the fragrant distillation of repentance into believers' lives.
Ballot Clerk: Passbooks Study Guide (Career Examination Series)
by National Learning CorporationThe Ballot Clerk Passbook® prepares you for your test by allowing you to take practice exams in the subjects you need to study. It provides hundreds of questions and answers in the areas that will likely be covered on your upcoming exam.
Ballet in Western Culture: A History of Its Origins and Evolution
by Carol LeeThis is a history of the development of ballet designed for dance history courses.
Ballet Stars (Step into Reading)
by Joan Holub Shelagh McnicholasFrom ballet class to rehearsal for the big show to the final curtesies--budding ballet stars show emergent readers each step and pirouette along the way! This Step 1 story has big type and easy words, rhyme and rhythm, and picture clues and two sheets of irresistably adorable stickers. It's a natural for young readers who are learning ballet or aspire to take ballet classes.
Ballerina Princess (Disney Princess)
by Disney PressTutus and toe-shoes—what could be more fun? A Princess wearing them—of course! For the first time ever, the Disney Princesses become ballerinas. Cinderella, Belle, Snow White, and others will dance and spin themselves into the hearts of Princess fans in this sweet Step 2 reader.
Ballerina Dreams: From Orphan to Dancer (Step Into Reading, Step #4)
by Frank Morrison Michaela Deprince Elaine DeprincePerfect for newly independent readers--the amazing true story of Michaela DePrince, one of America's top ballerinas. At the age of three, Michaela DePrince found a photo of a ballerina that changed her life. She was living in an orphanage in Sierra Leone at the time, but was soon adopted by a family and brought to America. Michaela never forgot the photo of the dancer she once saw, and quickly decided to make her dream of becoming a ballerina come true. She has been dancing ever since and is now a principal dancer in New York City and has been featured in the ballet documentary First Position, as well as Dancing with the Stars, Good Morning America, and Oprah magazine. Young readers will love learning about this inspiring ballerina in this uplifting and informative leveled reader. This Step 4 Step into Reading book is for newly independent readers who read simple sentences with confidence.
Ball
by Mary SullivanA dog with a ball is one of the most relentlessly hopeful creatures on Earth. After his best little-girl pal leaves for school, this dog hits up yoga mom, baby, and even the angry cat for a quick throw. No luck. Forced to go solo, the dog begins a hilarious one-sided game of fetch until naptime's wild, ball-centric dream sequence. The pictures speak a thousand words in this comic book-style ode to canine monomania. Ball? Ball.<P><P> Winner of the Theodore Seuss Geisel Honor
Balayogi Astavakra
by Bhartendu Mishraबालयोगी अष्टावक्र अपने-आप में भारतीय संस्कृति का एक महत्त्वपूर्ण पात्र है। अष्टावक्र गीता पढ़ते समय मैं बार-बार अष्टावक्र के विषय में कल्पनाएँ करता रहा। कुछ किंवदंतियाँ अष्टावक्र के जीवन के विषय में अवश्य मिलती हैं, किंतु उनके जीवन के विषय में विस्तार से कोई प्रामाणिक कथा नहीं मिलती।
Balancing the Tension between Digital Technologies and Learning Sciences (Cognition and Exploratory Learning in the Digital Age)
by Dirk Ifenthaler Demetrios G. Sampson Pedro IsaíasThis volume focuses on the implications of digital technologies for educators and educational decision makers that is not widely represented in the literature. While there are many volumes on how one might integrate a particular technology, there are no volumes on how digital technologies can or should be exploited to address the needs and propel the benefits of large-scale teaching, learning and assessment.
Balancing the Common Core Curriculum in Middle School Education: Composing Archimedes' Lever, the Equation, and the Sentence as an Interdisciplinary Unity
by James H. BunnThis book examines the idea of 'good education' which is thought to include a scientific and technical component, a mathematical component, a writing component, and an ethical and aesthetic component. Often taught separately in schools and in the Common Core Curriculum, Bunn proposes a new three-way intersection in these teachings: the basic sciences and mechanics of levering on a seesaw, the basic formulations of patterning an algebraic equation, and the basic rules for writing a sentence in English. In all three forms of inquiry, balance is the mainstay through which problems in US middle school education are brought together and analyzed.
Balancing Reading and Language Learning: A Resource for Teaching English Language Learners, K-5
by Mary CappelliniTeaching reading to children in a language that is not their own is a daunting task. Balancing Reading and Language Learning: A Resource for Teaching English Language Learners, K-5 provides the strategies proven to be effective in a balanced reading program, while at the same time valuing the native culture and first-language skills of the English language learner. Combining the best classroom practices and research on teaching reading and language acquisition, author Mary Cappellini integrates effective reading instruction with effective language instruction. Through the framework of a balanced reading program, she emphasizes the importance of constantly listening for and assessing children's language and reading strategies during read aloud, shared reading, guided reading, and independent reading, including literature circles.Included in this text are: How to set up an environment that will allow all English language learners to succeed Stages of English language proficiency and stages of reading development—how they compare and how to use them to assess and plan for individual children A focus on tapping into children's prior knowledge in their primary language while teaching reading in English and using Spanish/English cognates to help develop academic language A collection of in-depth lessons and mini-lessons based on children's language proficiency and reading strategy needs with ongoing assessment, teacher reflection, and with an emphasis on choosing the right books to match their reading and language level How to manage numerous guided reading groups with children of all stages of reading and language proficiency Thematic planning, with sample units for primary and upper grades, to support academic language and meet content standards Ideas for literacy evenings, school tours, and other events to involve parents with the learning community Extensive resources: numerous forms and checklists—observation sheets, planning sheets, literature response sheets, focus sheets for shared and guided reading, and more. Regardless of how many or how few ELL students a teacher has, this invaluable resource helps them meet the challenges and reap the rewards of teaching children to read as they learn the language.
Balancing Principles for Teaching Elementary Reading
by Peter Afflerbach James V. Hoffman James F. Baumann Sarah J. McCarthey Ann M. Duffy-HesterThis book appears at a time when the crisis rhetoric about schools, teaching, and learning to read is extremely high. There is a rising call within the profession for a balanced perspective on reading. Balancing Principles for Teaching Elementary Reading aspires to help set the agenda for improving the quality of literacy instruction in the United States--by recentering the debate from "What's better, 'whole language' or 'phonics'?" to "What can we do in reading instruction to prepare all children for the literacy demands of the next century?" The authors, all members of the professional community of reading educators, work on a daily basis with teachers in classrooms, prospective teachers, clinicians, and tutors. Their goal for this book is to represent what they have learned about effective teaching and learning as members of this community. It is written with four purposes in mind: * to offer a principled conception of reading and learning to read that is considerate of both the personal dimensions of literacy acquisition as well as the changes that are taking place in society, * to summarize key findings from the research that relate specifically to effective teaching practices, * to describe current practices in reading instruction with specific comparisons to the principles of effective practice that are identified, and * to suggest an action agenda that is school-based and designed to promote positive changes in the quality of instruction. This text offers a perspective for teaching that provokes members of the reading education community to think about their underlying beliefs about teaching and their shared commitment to making schools more effective for the students they serve. It is envisioned as a resource to be used in building a community of learners--to be read with professional colleagues in a course of study, in a teacher-researcher book club, or in some type of in-service setting. Readers are encouraged to debate the ideas presented, to challenge the authors' conceptions with their own reality, to make sense within a community about what action is desirable. Some specific suggestions and strategies are provided as springboards for further exploration and action.
Balancing Local Control and State Responsibility for K-12 Education
by Neil D. Theobald Betty MalenThis book examines the impact of state activism on local school autonomy in terms of both financial resources and policy initiatives.
Balancing Leadership and Personal Growth: The School Administrator's Guide
by Christa MetzgerPromote strong teaching and learning while maintaining personal leadership development and growth! Author Christa Metzger provides strategies to enrich your leadership practice while helping you balance the personal aspects in your life that can become neglected when facing too many professional pressures. Highlights include: Finding balance, self-actualization, personal improvement, values, inner focus, and strong relationships Nourishing your spirit, finding time for solitude and meditation, and cultivating relationships Fulfilling your purpose as a leader and finding meaning as a person
Balancing Dilemmas in Assessment and Learning in Contemporary Education (Routledge Research in Education)
by Liz McDowell Anton HavnesThis book focuses on dilemmas inherent in the practice of assessment in the contemporary context. New forms of assessment are being introduced in all sectors of education and training, and the culture of assessment is shifting. The authors in this volume discuss the practice of assessment, reporting empirical research on modes of assessment within a variety of educational contexts, while also addressing conceptual and theoretical aspects of assessment. Though most publications on assessment do not go beyond one sector or phase of education and only consider assessment in one national context, this volume is cross-sectoral and international in scope. This groundbreaking book illustrates the conceptual and practical dilemmas of assessment and raises issues that are relevant and applicable across a variety of modes of assessment and across various contexts where assessment takes place.
Balancing Acts: The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Academic Careers
by Mary Taylor HuberDrawing on interviews with Dan Bernstein (psychology, University of Nebraska), Brian Coppola (chemistry, University of Michigan), Sheri Sheppard (mechanical engineering, Stanford University), Randy Bass (American literature, Georgetown University), and colleagues within and outside their institutions and fields, the author looks at the routes these pathfinders have traveled through the scholarship of teaching and learning and at the consequences that this unusual work has had for the advancement of their careers, especially tenure and promotion. In collaboration with the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
Balancing Acts in Personal, Social and Health Education: A Practical Guide for Teachers (Routledge Revivals)
by Lesley Campbell Judith RyderThis book, originally published in 1988, is designed for two types of reader: teachers trying out active learning methods and those with responsibilities for curriculum coordination and staff development. Its view of PSHE, and of the balance between personal and social values, is argued in relation to theoretical and practical questions which teachers can explore through a variety of exercises as they read. The authors offer four models of PSHE and a technique to help teachers identify these different approaches in practice. A framework is suggested for distinguishing PSHE form other areas, including the Pastoral Curriculum, Health Education, Moral Education and Careers Education, and a procedure, using grids, is described to help identify which elements of PSHE are being taught and by whom. Given their commitment to a holistic view of health, in which both individuality and collaboration have a place, the authors argue for active teaching methods and include examples of a wide range of PSHE exercises and evaluation techniques for use in schools. The book also discusses the importance of ‘healthy’ whole school organisation and suggests strategies for staff development.
Balanced Assessment Systems: Leadership, Quality, and the Role of Classroom Assessment
by Richard J. Stiggins Stephen J. Chappuis Carol A. CommodoreBuild a balanced assessment system and support ESSA implementation! It has never been more important to develop balanced assessment systems that can provide meaningful information, improve teaching practices, and help students learn. The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) increases assessment flexibility and responsibilities for states and districts—an opportunity to change assessment for the better. Authors Chappuis, Commodore, and Stiggins have helped thousands of teachers, principals and other educational leaders in becoming assessment-literate and developing assessment systems built on quality assessment. This comprehensive new guide provides clear steps and strategies for developing an assessment system, and includes many interactive exercises designed for professional development and system implementation. Readers will learn how to: Create a balanced assessment system and analyze the progress being made within your school or district toward it Develop and implement assessment systems that are both formative (measuring learning in progress) and summative (verifying learning that has taken place) Take specific leadership actions that advance the balance and quality of assessment systems Help teachers integrate formative assessments into classroom instruction Empower students by involving them in the assessment process Take action now to make proactive, positive changes in your school or district’s approach to assessment!