Download or read book Literacy Is Liberation written by Kimberly N. Parker and published by ASCD. This book was released on 2022-02-25 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literacy is the foundation for all learning and must be accessible to all students. This fundamental truth is where Kimberly Parker begins to explore how culturally relevant teaching can help students work toward justice. Her goal is to make the literacy classroom a place where students can safely talk about key issues, move to dismantle inequities, and collaborate with one another. Introducing diverse texts is an essential part of the journey, but teachers must also be equipped with culturally relevant pedagogy to improve literacy instruction for all. In Literacy Is Liberation, Parker gives teachers the tools to build culturally relevant intentional literacy communities (CRILCs) with students. Through CRILCs, teachers can better shape their literacy instruction by * Reflecting on the connections between behaviors, beliefs, and racial identity. * Identifying the characteristics of culturally relevant literacy instruction and grounding their practice within a strengths-based framework. * Curating a culturally inclusive library of core texts, choice reading, and personal reading, and teaching inclusive texts with confidence. * Developing strategies to respond to roadblocks for students, administrators, and teachers. * Building curriculum that can foster critical conversations between students about difficult subjects—including race. In a culturally relevant classroom, it is important for students and teachers to get to know one another, be vulnerable, heal, and do the hard work to help everyone become a literacy high achiever. Through the practices in this book, teachers can create the more inclusive, representative, and equitable classroom environment that all students deserve.

Download or read book Counting in the Garden written by Kim Parker and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2005 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Invites the reader to count the inhabitants of a garden, from one to ten, such as four bunnies and nine inchworms.

Download or read book Edna and the Moon written by Kim Widdis and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2021-08-26 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edna experiences many difficult emotions when faced with the unexpected loss of her father. With the support of her family and darling friend the moon, Edna learns to overcome her grief and find comfort and peace.

Download or read book Elemeno Pea written by Molly Smith Metzler and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It's just after Labor Day, and Martha's Vineyard has started emptying out, but you can still smell the suntan lotion (the expensive kind). And the expensive life is just what Simone is living these days, as personal assistant to Michaela Kell, trophy wife of an absurdly rich (and often absent) New York ad man. When Simone's older sister, a social worker from blue collar Buffalo, comes to visit, lifestyles -- and worlds -- collide. This keenly observed comedy about class, family and the choices that shape who we are unfolds in real time, fast, furious and funny."--Cover.

Download or read book Dorothy Parker s Elbow written by Kim Addonizio and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2009-10-31 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the bestselling tradition of Drinking, Smoking, and Screwing: Great Writers on Great Times comes a hip collection of classic and contemporary stories, essays, and poems about tattoos. Previously considered the domain of bikers and a rite of passage in the army, tattoos have crawled out of society’s fringes and onto the ankles of starlets and the biceps of bankers. While still risque enough to raise a mother-in-law’s eyebrow, tattoos have come to be one of the most popular forms of personal expression. DOROTHY PARKER’S ELBOW brings together some of the most erotic, humorous, and vivid fiction, essays, and poetry that explore the mysterious fascination and the intensity of emotion attached to the act of being tattooed. Readers will join great writers, including Flannery O’Connor, Rick Moody, Elizabeth McCracken, Sylvia Plath, and more in celebrating the tattoo experience in all of its rebellious glory.

Download or read book Ghost Boys written by Jewell Parker Rhodes and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A heartbreaking and powerful story about a black boy killed by a police officer, drawing connections through history, from award-winning author Jewell Parker Rhodes. Only the living can make the world better. Live and make it better. Twelve-year-old Jerome is shot by a police officer who mistakes his toy gun for a real threat. As a ghost, he observes the devastation that's been unleashed on his family and community in the wake of what they see as an unjust and brutal killing. Soon Jerome meets another ghost: Emmett Till, a boy from a very different time but similar circumstances. Emmett helps Jerome process what has happened, on a journey towards recognizing how historical racism may have led to the events that ended his life. Jerome also meets Sarah, the daughter of the police officer, who grapples with her father's actions. Once again Jewell Parker Rhodes deftly weaves historical and socio-political layers into a gripping and poignant story about how children and families face the complexities of today's world, and how one boy grows to understand American blackness in the aftermath of his own death.

Download or read book The Biblical Politics of John Locke written by Kim Ian Parker and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Locke is often thought of as one of the founders of the Enlightenment, a movement that sought to do away with the Bible and religion and replace them with scientific realism. But Locke was extremely interested in the Bible, and he was engaged by biblical theology and religion throughout his life. In this new book, K.I. Parker considers Locke’s interest in Scripture and how that interest is articulated in the development of his political philosophy. Parker shows that Locke’s liberalism is inspired by his religious vision and, particularly, his distinctive understanding of the early chapters of the book of Genesis. Unlike Sir Robert Filmer, who understood the Bible to justify social hierarchies (i.e., the divine right of the king, the first-born son’s rights over other siblings, and the “natural” subservience of women to men), Locke understood from the Bible that humans are in a natural state of freedom and equality to each other. The biblical debate between Filmer and Locke furnishes scholars with a better understanding of Lockes political views as presented in his Two Treatises. The Biblical Politics of John Locke demonstrates the impact of the Bible on one of the most influential thinkers of the seventeenth century, and provides an original context in which to situate the debate concerning the origins of early modern political thought.

Download or read book I Lost My Sleepy written by Kim Parker and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-18 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Make bedtime easier by teaching your child techniques to relax and fall asleep. This fun and dynamic children's story is about a little girl's journey to find her sleepy.

Download or read book A Castle on Viola Street written by DyAnne DiSalvo and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2001-08-07 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A hardworking family gets their own house at last by joining a community program that restores old houses. Includes a note about housing organizations, such as Habitat for Humanity.

Download or read book Stevie written by John Steptoe and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1986-11-13 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An African-American child resents and then misses a little foster brother. One day my momma told me, "You know you're gonna have a little friend come stay with you." And I said, "Who is it?" and "For how long?" That's when Stevie moved in with his crybaby self. He played with my toys and broke them, and he left dirty footprints all over my bed. But then Stevie left again, and I missed him. I missed playing Cowboys and Indians on the stoop and watching cartoons in the morning. Maybe. . .just maybe, Stevie wasn't so bad after all. Notable Children's Books of 1940–1970 (ALA) "Best of the Best" Children's Books 1966–1978 (SLJ) 1978 Lewis Carroll Shelf Award Society of Illustrators Gold Medal Children's Books of 1969 (Library of Congress) Children's Books of the Year 1969 (CSA) Black Americans – Minority Groups List (BL) Notable Books for the Portrayal of the Black in Children's Literature (Top of the News) Select Children's Books of 1969 (Publishers Weekly) Brooklyn Art Books for Children 1974

Download or read book A Radical Enterprise written by Matt K. Parker and published by IT Revolution. This book was released on 2022-02-22 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fastest growing and most competitive organizations in the world have no bureaucracies, no bosses, and no bullshit. The tomato sauce in your pantry. The raincoat in your closet. The smart TV hanging in your living room. What do all of these products have in common? Chances are they were created by organizations where colleagues self-allocate into teams based on intrinsic motivation. Where individuals self-manage their commitments to each other without the coercion of managers. And where teams launch new products and ventures on the market without the control of leaders. These organizations represent a new, radically collaborative breed of corporation. Recently doubling in number and already comprising 8% of corporations around the world, scientists and researchers have discovered that radically collaborative organizations are more competitive on practically every meaningful financial measure. They enjoy higher market share, higher innovation, and higher customer satisfaction than their traditional corporate competitors—and they also enjoy higher engagement, loyalty, and motivation from their employees. In this groundbreaking book, technology thought leader and organizational architect Matt K. Parker breaks down the counterintuitive principles and practices that radically collaborative organizations thrive on. By combining the latest insights from organizational science, sociology, and psychology, he illuminates four imperatives that all radically collaborative organizations must embrace in order to succeed: team autonomy, managerial devolution, deficiency gratification, and candid vulnerability. Millions of workers around the world are collapsing under the weight of command-and-control culture. The crisis has reached its breaking point. Now is the time to embrace radical change. Discover the revolutionary shift to partnership and equality and the economic superiority that follows with A Radical Enterprise.

Download or read book WAKING WISDOM written by Kim Parker and published by . This book was released on 2021-07 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This very special memoir is a feast of short reminiscences about the various non-ordinary events - synchronicities, encounters with human and animal spirits, precognitive dreams, shamanic engagements - experienced by the author in her life's journey.They are for perusal by those who refuse to be restricted to a life that is reduced to a reflection of the material world only. Woven throughout is an understanding of a loving bedrock of consciousness that is fundamental to all life. With over 60 years of a broad range of personal non-ordinary experiences and additionally much reading and research, the author is in an excellent position to present concepts of consciousness. The life accounts in What The Cat Saw serve to illustrate that there is a much broader and deeper range to reality than we generally accept. Furthermore, this added spectrum of perceptions gift a depth of spiritual cohesion and growth possibilities in our everyday experience of life. A pathway is opened here to the ongoing spiritual instruction that has been the outcome of all these wonderful experiences. Most importantly this first book supports the author's conviction that we need to discuss the non-ordinary. By choosing to scorn it and ridicule those that have strange experiences we confine our working knowledge of the nature of reality in ways that are detrimental to our advancement as a species. So much wisdom is available to be harvested in such events.This book is for hearts that thirst for the miraculous, for a spiritual life that isn't just dogma, for a science of being that incorporates rather than scorns the extraordinary.

Download or read book The Hula Hoopin Queen written by Thelma Lynne Godin and published by Lee & Low Books. This book was released on 2017-09-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A spunky African American girl has a hula-hooping competition with her friends in Harlem, and soon everyone in the neighborhood--young and old alike--joins in on the fun.

Download or read book All in the Family written by Sharon Graham Niederhaus and published by Taylor Trade Publishing. This book was released on 2013-02-14 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the nation reels from the impact of the Great Recession, many families are finding new ways to live together, including creating multigenerational households to save money and consolidate resources. Indeed, as the authors point out, the concept of nuclear family living is an aberration in our history that stemmed from post–World War II prosperity, mobility, and the associated baby boom. However, the threatened failure of American social security and healthcare systems is forcing us all to rethink how we live and care for one another. This book covers the financial and emotional benefits of living together, proximity and privacy, designing and remodeling your home to accommodate adult children or elderly parents, overcoming cultural stigmas about interdependent living, financial and legal planning, and making cohabitation agreements.

Download or read book A Tale of Two Beasts written by Fiona Roberton and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2015-04-02 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are two sides to every story. A little girl finds a strange beast in the woods and takes it home as a pet. She feeds it, shows it off to her friends and gives it a hat. But that night it escapes. Then the beast tells the story of being kidnapped by the girl, who forcefed it squirrel food, scared it with a group of beasts and wrapped it in wool. Can the two beasts resolve their differences? An eye-opening story that makes you look at things from a different perspective. 'Roberton's premise is as sublime as it is simple, with a subtle message. [...] Totally delightful.' - Kirkus Reviews

Download or read book Notice Note written by G. Kylene Beers and published by Heinemann Educational Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Examines the new emphasis on text-dependent questions, rigor, and text complexity, and what it means to be literate in the 21st century"--P. [4] of cover.

Download or read book Allah and Our World written by Noor Saadeh and published by . This book was released on 2014-08-14 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We have given teachers the tools that will link students to Allah and His Messenger - and like a hearty and healthy seed is planted, it cannot be uprooted. Allah and Our World comes complete with everything teachers need, from lesson plans, supplemental resources to accompanying CD with Qur'anic recitation and songs.