An Empty Seat in Class

An Empty Seat in Class

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  • Author: Rick Ayers
  • Publisher: Teachers College Press
  • ISBN: 0807756121
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 145

The death of a student, especially to gun violence, is a life-changing experience that occurs with more and more frequency in America's schools. For each of those tragedies, there is a classroom and there is a teacher. Yet student death is often a forbidden subject, removed from teacher education and professional development classes where the curriculum is focused instead on learning about standards, lesson plans, and pedagogy. What can and should teachers do when the unbearable happens? An Empty Seat in the Class illuminates the tragedy of student death and suggests ways of dealing and healing within the classroom community. This book weaves the story of the author's very personal experience of a student's fatal shooting with short pieces by other educators who have worked through equally terrible events and also includes contributions from counsellors, therapists, and school principals. Through accumulated wisdom, educators are given the means and resources to find their own path to healing their students, their communities, and themselves.


Never Look at the Empty Seats

Never Look at the Empty Seats

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  • Author: Charlie Daniels
  • Publisher: HarperChristian + ORM
  • ISBN: 0718074769
  • Category : Biography & Autobiography
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 297

The Incredible Story of a Country Music Legend Few artists have left a more indelible mark on America’s musical landscape than Charlie Daniels. Readers will experience a soft, personal side of Charlie Daniels that has never before been documented. In his own words, he presents the path from his post-depression childhood to performing for millions as one of the most successful country acts of all time and what he has learned along the way. The book also includes insights into the many musicians that orbited Charlie’s world, including Elvis Presley, Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, Tammy Wynette and many more. Charlie was officially inducted into The Country Music Hall of Fame in 2016, shortly before his 80th birthday. He now shares the inside stories, reflections, and rare personal photographs from his earliest days in the 1940s to his self-taught guitar and fiddle playing high school days of the fifties through his rise to music stardom in the seventies, eighties and beyond. Charlie Daniels presents a life lesson for all of us regardless of profession: “Walk on stage with a positive attitude. Your troubles are your own and are not included in the ticket price. Some nights you have more to give than others, but put it all out there every show. You're concerned with the people who showed up, not the ones who didn't. So give them a show and…Never look at the empty seats!”


The Undesirables

The Undesirables

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  • Author: AJMK & Abreonna King
  • Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
  • ISBN: 1493117769
  • Category : Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 157

Their family was torn apart. Their home invaded, lives ruined, and hope crushed. When a group of people split their family apart, Clover and Avalon will find a whole new meaning to disaster. As they fight for their freedom, they will discover that no one can be trusted completely. Clover never thought she'd find herself holding weapons or struggling to survive another day. Avalon wouldn't have pictured herself looking over her shoulder or cowering at every shadow... There are things...things in the dark. The monster in your closet is real, but you'll never see it coming. Monsters exist and they're more malicious than you ever imagined.


Tolerating The Player

Tolerating The Player

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  • Author: Deb Oguare
  • Publisher: SuperNovel(HK)Co.,Limited
  • ISBN:
  • Category : Young Adult Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 415

Isabella Brown, an eighteen years old girl who had the weight of the world on her head with parents who doesn't care for her and her little brother, decided to go on a low profile in her new school. Unfortunately for her the popular boy returned to the school, everything became a nightmare for her when she was caught up in a dare contest and has to be with the bad boy all day for three weeks. Will she find her peace and happiness with the bad boy or will their relationship go on a Roller Coaster Ride?


Humans in the Classroom

Humans in the Classroom

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  • Author: Haili Hughes
  • Publisher: McNidder & Grace
  • ISBN: 0857162233
  • Category : Biography & Autobiography
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 230

This book explores the human side to educators, by revealing their experiences and their personal stories; what has made them into the teachers they are today. From the tragic to the exciting, teachers have such amazing stories to tell and their passion and commitment shines out from every page. With contributions from a daughter of the teacher who lost her life at Dunblane to the first black head teacher in Inner London Yvonne Connolly as well as the amazing Rita Pierson from the US who has inspired so many teachers. By reading their stories we can appreciate how extraordinary their lives and their contributions to education are. Also with contributions from: Kierna Corr, Kyle Kiser, Marco Cimino, Toni Charlesworth, Ash Lucas, Julie Cassiano, Drew Povey, Bretta Townend-Jowitt, Brett Bigham, Allen Tsui, Michelle Alker, Dan Whittaker, FreakyHoody, Natalie Scott, Adam Henze, Jess Mahdavi-Gladwell, Luke Haisell, Lesley Douglas, Gwen Mayor, Debbie Buchanan, Maureen McDevitt, James Atkin, Katharine Birbalsingh, Hugh Ogilvie, Victoria Hewett, Penny Rabiger, Joe Gibbs, Helena Jockel, Yolana Wassersug, Caroline Riggs, Rachael Maddocks, Christine Owen, Sue Rogers, Kate McAllister, John Clifford, Dan Morrow, Rita Pierson, Sarah Dearden, Caroline Spalding, Vic Goddard and Mathew Milburn.


The Story Of Myles

The Story Of Myles

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  • Author: Daniel P'Lopez
  • Publisher: AuthorHouse
  • ISBN: 1467086088
  • Category : Juvenile Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 368

When a family tragedy causes Myles to move away from his alcoholic and abusive father, he meets a beautiful girl named Stacie, who has many secrets. Just when Myles is able to see past Stacie’s reputation, and their relationship blossoms romantically, Myles meets a boy named Seth. Myles’ attraction to Seth creates a strain on his relationship with Stacie, and leaves Myles feeling lost and sexually confused. Amidst judgmental teenagers, unexplainable emotions, and a history of anger that he inherited from his father, Myles must decide who to love, and live with the consequences of his decisions.


Love Is Love

Love Is Love

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  • Author: Shondrika Scott
  • Publisher: Trafford Publishing
  • ISBN: 1466937483
  • Category : Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 153

Given a life, no one really understands. Monica is forced to face the real world on her own at such a young age. Battling with herself to find her own identity, she goes to war with the seven deadly sins. Struggling to piece back together what others will consider life, beyond her beautiful face lies many heartaches, pains, and tears. She falls in love with someone she thought will be perfect for her, but finds out more than she bargained for. Her love for him pushes her to betrayal against her friendship, her morals on life and marriage, including him. However, she finds herself the center of every man's desire except the one she truly wants.


The Shepherd's Song

The Shepherd's Song

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  • Author: Betsy Duffey
  • Publisher: Simon and Schuster
  • ISBN: 1476738203
  • Category : Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 240

One piece of paper ... twelve lives changed forever ... Shortly before the car accident, Kate wrote the simple words of Psalm 23 on a piece of paper to give to her wayward and confused son. When a lonely dry-cleaning employee finds Kate's humble, handwritten copy of the psalm, it begins an incredible journey around the world, forever changing the lives of twelve very different people. From a soldier wounded in Iraq to a Kenyan runner about to begin the Rome Invitational Marathon, the power of the ancient words begins to shape lives. When Kate's paper makes it back to its starting place, she discovers the unexpected ways that God moves and changes lives through even our smallest actions.


Urban High School Students and the Challenge of Access

Urban High School Students and the Challenge of Access

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  • Author: William G. Tierney
  • Publisher: Peter Lang
  • ISBN: 9781433105890
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 212

Urban High School Students and the Challenge of Access documents a year in the life of five adolescents preparing for college. The text examines the different pathways that brought these students to where they are: living in poverty, attending overcrowded schools, and the pressure to be the first in their families to attend college are just a few of the challenges these students must battle en route to college, and that impact their chances of success once there. Their stories provide insight for practitioners and policy makers working to improve college access at urban high schools.


Travelogues and Reflections

Travelogues and Reflections

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  • Author: Laszlo Gyermek
  • Publisher: AuthorHouse
  • ISBN: 1496973992
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 704

This book is about the travels of Laszlo Gyermek, MD, PhD, a retired physician and researcher who has immigrated to the USA from Hungary in 1957 after the defeat of the uprising against the Soviet occupation and oppression of his native country. The source of his travelogues has been the numerous trips he has taken from the United States to more than sixty countries, particularly in the last three decades, which encompass mostly recreational trips/vacations, reflecting the authors wide-ranging interests in geographic and cultural explorations all over the world, but particularly in Europe, where he has established two regional residences: one in Southern France in 1983 and another one in Budapest, Hungary, in 2000. From these bases he originated many of these trips. The book is narrated in a unique, perhaps scattered and unusual, style, considering the many destinations in different time frames, often repeatedly, and covering the common, practical aspects of todays travels into foreign lands: from ticket purchases to challenges during travel-e.g., jet lag and other health problems. There is varied information from many social, economical, educational, and artistic aspects about many European countries first and, in the second half of the book, encountered in several overseas countries on five continents. The last part of the book deals with episodes in selected cities in the United States and abroad, often with a humoristic veneer. In essence, the reader is presented with a lot of material and with analytically aspired, but often critical and subjective, stories. Still, the author believes that the contents are worth going through and pondering about.