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Kaguri overcame tremendous odds as he followed his dream to build a school for AIDS orphans in his village in Uganda. "A School for My Village" weaves together tales from his youth and his inspiring account of building the school and changing the lives of many children.

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Here a literary scholar and a folklorist combine skills to catalog and index this material from over a thousand almanacs according to the standard methodology established by the Aarne-Thompson Type and Motif Indexes.

The volume illuminates much of the richness in content and form of this materials.

(Paperback, 2nd edition)

Over 60% of this updated book is all new material focusing on the rapidly changing world of technology and its use in the classroom.

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This book of lesson plans using common picture books to teach the AASL/AECT Information Literacy Standards is targeted for grades K-3, complete with reproducible patterns and immediately usable reproducible activities providing lessons for each grade level (K-3) for each month of the school year.

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"Correlates with reading standards"--Cover.

(Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)

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It is composed of five domains: Knowing your emotions, Managing your emotions, Motivating yourself, Recognizing and understanding other people's emotions, and Managing relationships (managing the emotions of others).

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Solutions to the unique problems of academic libraries in urban and metropolitan areas are provided in this professional handbook.

(Hardback)

This book offers a completely new approach to the measurement of academic library effectiveness. It argues that a student learns in order to become information literate and does not become information literate in order to learn.

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This text offers academic administrators and librarians a better understanding of the issues facing the library during this time of change and the role of the library in the evolving campus of the future. Chapters reflect a range of perspectives and experience.

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Traditionally, academic library outreach has meant reaching out to the campus community, providing services to faculty and students. What types of collaborations or partnerships are academic libraries forming with schools, public libraries, or community groups

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Explores a number of themes of interest to those engaged in researching and teaching academic genres. This book is of interest to students on Master's programmes in Teaching English as a Second Langauge and Applied Linguistics, and to scholars researching issues of academic literacy.

(Paperback)

Help readers improve reading skills while stimulating their appreciation and increasing their understanding of great literature.

(Hardback)

(Hardback)

Compiled by two experienced librarians, Across Cultures introduces you to more than 400 recent fiction and nonfiction multicultural resources for preschool through grade 6 and encourages you to make literature about diversity an integral part of your program of instruction.

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In todays educational environment of data-driven decision-making, it is important for school librarians to develop and implement research studies designed to measure the effectiveness of their library media programs.

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Contrary to the trend to do away with arts education as an unnecessary expense in schools trying to boost student test scores, this book promotes and explains the value of integrated arts instruction in furthering the accomplishment of curricular objectives and fostering student achievement.

(Paperback)

Teacher Librarian Beth McGuire provides librarians and teachers with reproducible activities to encourage students to think about, discuss and provide a purpose for reading current star reviewed and award winning literature while practicing their comprehension strategies.

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This book provides practical strategies and step-by-step plans for developing advocacy initiatives for school libraries.

School libraries provide an essential service to the community, but without proper funding few libraries stand a chance to maintain the resources they offeror to survive at all.