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Affective Jacob's Ladder Reading Comprehension Program Grades 4-5 Student Workbooks Short Stories and Media (Set of 5)

Affective Jacob's Ladder Reading Comprehension Program Grades 4-5 Student Workbooks Short Stories and Media (Set of 5)

The Affective Jacob's Ladder Reading Comprehension Program uses a models approach to scaffold student learning and promote inquiry-based discussions of texts. This series of Jacob's Ladder focuses specifically on supporting advanced students' social-emotional needs through the discussion of reading selections in the following genres: short stories and media poetry and biographies. Each set of student workbooks includes 5 student booklets divided by grade level and area of emphasis. Corresponding to the activities in Affective Jacob's Ladder Grades 4-5 students read high-interest passages then complete skill ladders connected to the picture book short story and media readings and activities to move them from lower to higher level skills of self-awareness metacognition and goal setting. The ladders include multiple skills necessary for success and integrate reading comprehension and analysis skills with affective and social-emotional needs as students are asked to apply themes character or real-life experiences and lessons from texts to their own lives. Grades 4-5 | Affective Jacob's Ladder Reading Comprehension Program Grades 4-5 Student Workbooks Short Stories and Media (Set of 5)

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E-Participation in Southern Europe and the Balkans Issues of Democracy and Participation Via Electronic Media

E-Participation in Southern Europe and the Balkans Issues of Democracy and Participation Via Electronic Media

The rapid development and the growing penetration of information and communication technologies (ICT) provide tremendous opportunities for a wide and cost effective application of the ideas of participative democracy and public participation in government decision and policy making. ICT can drive dramatic transformations in the quantity and quality of communication and interaction of government organizations with citizens revitalizing and strengthening the modern representative democracy which currently faces big problems of reduced citizens’ trust and involvement. This book deals with the application of these e-participation ideas in the special and ‘difficult’ and at the same time highly interesting national context of Southern Europe and the Balkans. The first chapter provides an overview of e-participation concepts and practices whilst the following chapters analyse pilot applications of e-participation concepts in eight different Southern European and Balkan countries (Spain France Italy Slovenia Serbia Albania Greece Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM)). They cover both the ‘classical’ e-participation paradigm based on official e-participation spaces created operated and controlled by government organizations as well as emerging new e-participation paradigms including e-participation based on web 2. 0 social media and ‘scientific-level’ e-participation based on opening government data to the scientific community. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies. | E-Participation in Southern Europe and the Balkans Issues of Democracy and Participation Via Electronic Media

GBP 9.99
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InterMedia in South Asia The Fourth Screen

InterMedia in South Asia The Fourth Screen

The emergence of new media today in South Asia has signalled an event the meaning of which remains obscure but whose reality is rapidly evolving along gradients of intensity and experience. Contemporary media in and from South Asia have come to sense a new arrangement of value sensation and force - new forms of becoming that might be usefully termed as 'media ecologies'. This evolution from nation-based forms of communication (Doordarshan All India Radio the national feudal romance) to simultaneous global ones conform and mutate the structures of feeling of local national diasporic and transnational belonging. This collection of original essays is concerned with understanding how people are making meaning from the new media and how subaltern tinkering (pirating peer to peer file sharing hacking noise jamming indymedia etc. ) does things to and in the new media. This exciting works helps us to make sense of the creation of new publics new affects and new experiences of pleasure and value in convergences of intermedia in a fast developing South Asia context. This book was originally published as a special issue of South Asian Popular Culture. | InterMedia in South Asia The Fourth Screen

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Digital Religion: The Basics

Digital Religion: The Basics

Digital Religion: The Basics explores how digital media and internet platforms are transforming religious practice in a digital age and the impact this has had on religious culture in contemporary society. Through exploring six defining characteristics of how religion is acted out online including multisite reality convergence practice networked community storied identity shifting authority and experiential authenticity the book considers how digital religion both shapes and is influenced by religion offline. Questions asked include: How is religion being performed and reimagined through digital media and cultures? In what ways do the practices of religion online merge or correspond with shifts in perspective taking place in offline religious practice? How do the key findings of religion online reflect broader social cultural and structural practices observed within mobile networked society? With case studies and further readings Digital Religion: The Basics is a must-read for students wanting to come to grips with how religion is changing and experienced through digital media.

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Digital Access and Museums as Platforms

Digital Access and Museums as Platforms

Digital Access and Museums as Platforms draws on interviews with museum practitioners along with a range of case studies from public and private institutions in order to investigate the tensions and benefits involved in making cultural collections available using digital technologies. Taking a media and critical studies approach to the museum and raising questions about the role of privately owned search engines in facilitating museum experiences the book questions who collects what for whom objects are collected and what purpose these objects and collections serve. Connecting fieldwork undertaken in Australia and New Zealand with the global practices of technology companies Wilson-Barnao brings attention to an emerging new model of digital ownership and moderation. Considering the synergising of these institutions with media systems which are now playing a more prominent role in facilitating access to culture the book also explores the motivations of different cultural workers for constructing the museum as a mediatised location. Digital Access and Museums as Platforms will be of interest to academics and students working in the fields of museum studies art culture media studies and digital humanities. Weighing in on conversations about how technologies are being incorporated into museums the book should also be useful to practitioners working in museums and galleries around the world.

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The Psychology of Fashion

The Psychology of Fashion

The Psychology of Fashion offers an insightful introduction to the exciting and dynamic world of fashion in relation to human behaviour from how clothing can affect our cognitive processes to the way retail environments manipulate consumer behaviour. The book explores how fashion design can impact healthy body image how psychology can inform a more sustainable perspective on the production and disposal of clothing and why we develop certain shopping behaviours. With fashion imagery ever present in the streets press and media The Psychology of Fashion shows how fashion and psychology can make a positive difference to our lives.

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Strategic Risk Management A Research Overview

Strategic Risk Management A Research Overview

Organizations face challenges in adapting their current business and operational activities to dynamic contexts. Successful companies share a common characteristic of dealing with the emergent risks and threats in responses that generate viable solutions. Strategic risk management (SRM) is a multidisciplinary and rather fractured field of study which creates significant challenges for research. This short-form book provides an expert overview of the topic providing insight into the theory and practice. Essential reading for strategic management researchers the authors frame the fundamental principles emerging challenges and responses for the future which will also provide valuable insights for adjacent business disciplines and beyond. | Strategic Risk Management A Research Overview

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Subcultures: The Basics

Subcultures: The Basics

Subcultures: The Basics is an accessible and engaging introduction to subcultures in a global context. This fully revised new edition adds new case studies and an additional chapter on the digital lives of subculturists as well as reflections on the relationships between subcultures and globalisation and the resurgence of the far-right. Blending theory and practice this text examines a varied range of subcultures including hip hop graffiti writing heavy metal punk gamers burlesque parkour riot grrrl straight edge roller derby steampunk b-boying/b-girling body modification and skateboarding. Subcultures: The Basics answers the key questions posed by those new to the subject including: What is a subculture? What are the significant theories of subculture? How do subcultures emerge who participates and why? How do subcultural identities interact with other aspects of self such as social class race gender and sexual identity? What is the relationship between deviance resistance and the ‘mainstream’? How have both progressive and reactionary subculturists contributed to social change? How does society react to different subcultures? How have subcultures spread around the world? In what ways do digital technologies and social media influence subcultures? What happens when subculturists age? Tracing the history and development of subcultural theory to the present day this text is essential reading for all those studying subcultures in the contexts of sociology cultural studies history media studies anthropology musicology and criminology. It pushes the field forward with cutting-edge theories of resistance and social change place and space critical race and queer studies virtual participation and ageing and participation across the life course. Key terms and concepts are highlighted throughout the text whilst each chapter includes boxed case studies and signposts students to further reading and resources.

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Jacques Lacan The Basics

Jacques Lacan The Basics

Jacques Lacan: The Basics provides a clear and succinct introduction to the work of Jacques Lacan one of the key thinkers of the twentieth century. Lacan’s ideas are applied in the study of the humanities politics and psychology as well as contemporary media and the arts but their complexity makes them impenetrable to many. This book is unique in explaining the key concepts and context from Lacan’s understanding of psychoanalysis to drive and desire in an accessible way without diluting them beyond meaning. Examples from popular culture are used throughout to emphasise the ideas being discussed and a full glossary and list of resources for further reading encourages additional exploration. This engaging and accessible text is essential reading for all those interested in Lacan and his work as well as students of psychology psychoanalysis literature politics cultural studies film studies and more. | Jacques Lacan The Basics

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The Psychology of Democracy

The Psychology of Democracy

What is a democracy? Why do we form democratic systems? Can democracy survive in an age of distrust and polarisation? The Psychology of Democracy explains the psychological underpinnings behind why people engage with and participate in politics. Covering the influence that political campaigns and media play the book analyses topical and real-world political events including the Arab Spring Brexit Black Lives Matter the US 2020 elections and the Covidd-19 pandemic. Lilleker and Ozgul take the reader on a journey to explore the cognitive processes at play when engaging with a political news item all the way through to taking to the streets to protest government policy and action. In an age of post-truth and populism The Psychology of Democracy shows us how a strong and healthy democracy depends upon the feelings and emotions of its citizens including trust belonging empowerment and representation as much as on electoral processes.

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Being You A Girl's Guide to Mindfulness

Being You A Girl's Guide to Mindfulness

Do you ever feel stressed anxious or overwhelmed? As a teen girl you're under a lot of pressure. Mindfulness can help. Being You explores mindfulness as a simple but powerful way to center oneself and tap into one's own inner wisdom and strength. This book: Is packed with 52 different activities on mindfulness gratitude compassion and self-acceptance. Helps you navigate the pressures of home school and the confusing world of frenemies and social media. Features inspiring quotes from young women who use mindfulness in the visual and performing arts creative writing sports and STEM. Includes a wide range of practices and perspectives. Includes information about how scientists study the mind and the brain. You will discovery the many different ways mindfulness is practiced around the world. Most importantly you'll try it yourself. Practicing mindfulness can help you feel happier and less stressed as you grow into the woman you want to become. This book will show you how. Ages 14–16 | Being You A Girl's Guide to Mindfulness

GBP 14.99
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Social Work: The Basics

Social Work: The Basics

This revised second edition of Social Work: The Basics is an insightful introduction to the often misrepresented world of social work. This accessible book presents a broad view of contemporary social work exploring its roots and its possible future. It dispels myths surrounding social work addresses media debates and offers a balanced account of what social workers do. Arguing for a social work that is partisan in support of social justice questions covered include: How did social work arise? How and why do people come into contact with social workers? What are the true aims of social work – to help or to control? What is the relationship between social work and social policy? How and why do people become social workers? What’s it like to be a social worker? Can social work cross borders? Drawing examples from the full range of social work practice this book is valuable reading for all individuals interested in the field of social work. It will provide a helpful introduction for students considering a career in social work those beginning social work courses and other professionals whose work brings them into contact with social workers.

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The New Power of Children and Young People

The New Power of Children and Young People

In a rapidly changing world children have more of a voice than ever before. In The New Power of Children and Young People David Cohen explores how this has happened what the consequences might be and how we can best engage with our young people. David Cohen considers the social political and psychological issues involved in children and young people’s influence and how it impacts the balance of power between children and parents and other adults in their lives. It examines crucial topics including the role of high-profile young people such as Malala Yousafzai and Greta Thunberg; their knowledge of and anxieties around global issues such as climate change; children’s relationships with technology and social media; their changing relationships with parents and guardians; how children develop a sense of justice; sex and relationships; how children are depicted in TV and film; young people’s experience of education; and shines a light on their growing political confidence and engagement. Young people should be interested as well as parents teachers social workers politicians and other key professionals involved in children and young people’s lives. This thought-provoking book offers insight to help us understand young people’s lives.

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Improving Father-Daughter Relationships A Guide for Women and their Dads

Improving Father-Daughter Relationships A Guide for Women and their Dads

Improving Father-Daughter Relationships: A Guide for Women and Their Dads is essential reading for daughters and their fathers as well as for their families and for therapists. This friendly no-nonsense book by father-daughter relationships expert Dr. Linda Nielsen offers women and their dads a step-by-step guide to improve their relationships and to understand the impact this will have on their well-being. Nielsen encourages us to get to the root of problems instead of dealing with fallout and helps us resolve the conflicts that commonly strain relationships from late adolescence throughout a daughter’s adult years. Showing how we can strengthen bonds by settling issues that divide us her book explores a range of difficult issues from conflicts over money to the daughter’s lifestyle or sexual orientation to her parents’ divorce and dad’s remarriage. With quizzes and real-life examples to encourage us to examine beliefs that are limiting or complicating the connection between fathers and daughters this guide helps us feel less isolated and enables us to create more joyful honest enriching relationships. | Improving Father-Daughter Relationships A Guide for Women and their Dads

GBP 16.99
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Closing the Writing Gap

Closing the Writing Gap

This book explains seven critical steps to improve children's writing. Though seemingly ‘natural’ writing proves devilishly difficult for far too many school pupils and closing this gap can have a lasting impact on their academic and life success. With the goal of giving every teacher the knowledge and skill to teach writing with confidence it makes sense of the history and ‘science’ of writing synthesising the debates and presenting a wealth of usable evidence about how children develop most efficiently as successful writers. It trains teachers to be an expert in how pupils learn to write from the big picture of planning editing and revising your writing to the vital importance of grammar and spelling with accuracy. Highly practical strategies and easy-to use classroom activities are included to help teachers seize opportunities across the curriculum every school day to teach the critical writing process. Closing the Writing Gap will guide teachers at every stage of their career and when used with Alex Quigley’s much-loved books on Vocabulary and Reading gives school leaders evidence-based approaches to literacy that can be applied across a school or a group of schools.

GBP 16.99
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Creating a Strong Culture and Positive Climate in Schools Building Knowledge to Bring About Improvement

Creating a Strong Culture and Positive Climate in Schools Building Knowledge to Bring About Improvement

If there is one thing that school leaders need to get right it is school culture. When they do children learn more and colleagues have a stronger sense of purpose - they are more motivated and ultimately more fulfilled. Creating a strong culture and a positive climate requires an understanding of the complexity of school life and this begins by building knowledge. This book supports leaders to do just that. Drawing on ideas from different domains this insightful book reveals the role of concepts such as autonomy and trust in school improvement. Each chapter sets out the specific knowledge and expertise required by school leaders for great cultural leadership and offers practical examples and case studies to show how they can be applied in different school contexts. Creating a Strong Culture and Positive Climate in Schools is an essential lens through which to examine the common problems faced by school leaders. It is invaluable reading for all those wanting to become more expert in school leadership and to better solve the everyday problems that arise from leading a school. | Creating a Strong Culture and Positive Climate in Schools Building Knowledge to Bring About Improvement

GBP 16.99
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Climate Obstruction How Denial Delay and Inaction are Heating the Planet

Climate Obstruction How Denial Delay and Inaction are Heating the Planet

In Climate Obstruction: How Denial Delay and Inaction are Heating the Planet Kristoffer Ekberg Bernhard Forchtner Martin Hultman and Kirsti Jylhä bring together crucial insights from environmental history sociology media and communication studies and psychology to help us understand why we are failing to take necessary measures to avert the unfolding climate crisis. They do so by examining the variety of ways in which meaningful climate action has been obstructed. This ranges from denial of the scientific evidence for human-induced climate change and its policy consequences to (seemingly sincere) acknowledgement of scientific evidence while nevertheless delaying meaningful climate action. The authors also consider all those actions by which often well-meaning individuals and collectives (unintendedly) hamper climate action. In doing so this book maps out arguments and strategies that have been used to counter environmental protection and regulation since the 1960s by first and foremost corporations supported by conservative actors but also far-right ones as well as ordinary citizens. This timely and accessible book provides tools and lessons to understand identify and call out such arguments and strategies and points to actions and systemic and cultural changes needed to avert or at least mitigate the climate crisis. | Climate Obstruction How Denial Delay and Inaction are Heating the Planet

GBP 16.99
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Style and the Nineteenth-Century British Critic Sincere Mannerisms

Style and the Nineteenth-Century British Critic Sincere Mannerisms

In analyzing the nonfiction works of writers such as John Wilson J. S. Mill De Quincy Ruskin Arnold Pater and Wilde Jason Camlot provides an important context for the nineteenth-century critic's changing ideas about style rhetoric and technologies of communication. In particular Camlot contributes to our understanding of how new print media affected the Romantic and Victorian critic's sense of self as he elaborates the ways nineteenth-century critics used their own essays on rhetoric and stylistics to speculate about the changing conditions for the production and reception of ideas and the formulation of authorial character. Camlot argues that the early 1830s mark the moment when a previously coherent tradition of pragmatic rhetoric was fragmented and redistributed into the diverse localized sites of an emerging periodicals market. Publishing venues for writers multiplied at midcentury establishing a new stylistic norm for criticism-one that affirmed style as the manifestation of English discipline and objectivity. The figure of the professional critic soon subsumed the authority of the polyglot intellectual and the later decades of the nineteenth century brought about a debate on aesthetics and criticism that set ideals of Saxon-rooted 'virile' style against more culturally inclusive theories of expression. | Style and the Nineteenth-Century British Critic Sincere Mannerisms

GBP 11.99
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Closing the Reading Gap

Closing the Reading Gap

Our pupils’ success will be defined by their ability to read fluently and skilfully. But despite universal acceptance of reading’s vital importance the reading gap in our classroom remains and it is linked to an array of factors such as parental wealth education and book ownership as well as classroom practice. To close this gap we need to ensure that every teacher has the knowledge and skill to teach reading with confidence. In Closing the Reading Gap Alex Quigley explores the intriguing history and science of reading synthesising the debates and presenting a wealth of usable evidence about how children develop most efficiently as successful readers. Offering practical strategies for teachers at every phase of their teaching career as well as tackling issues such as dyslexia and the role of technology the book helps teachers to be an expert in how pupils ‘learn to read’ as well as how they ‘read to learn’ and explores how reading is vital for unlocking a challenging academic curriculum for every student. With a focus on nurturing pupils’ will and skill to read for pleasure and purpose this essential volume provides practical solutions to help all teachers create a rich reading culture that will enable every student to thrive in school and far beyond the school gates.

GBP 16.99
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Study Skills for Foundation Degrees

Study Skills for Foundation Degrees

Study Skills for Foundation Degrees offers a step-by-step guide to the skills needed to successfully complete a Foundation Degree. Filled with activities and useful tips it will help students to move from nervous novice to confident expert and provide them with the necessary tools to accomplish this. By reading this book students will be able to learn new skills and enhance existing ones. This third edition has been fully updated and features new chapters on e-learning and dissertations as well as expanded sections on ethics feedback and referencing. Each chapter includes practical guidance as well as student perspectives that will help students through their course of study. It includes advice on how to support learning boost motivation and enhance time management and covers all the essential skills required for successful study including: Effective reading and note-taking strategies Developing oral skills in a wide range of presentation settings including what makes a good presentation and how each stage of the process can be prepared for Carrying out well-planned methodologically sound and well-written research Preparing for examinations and other forms of assessment Producing a professional development portfolio or winning CV Highly accessible this new edition is an essential resource for all Foundation Degree students who want to get the most out of their course mature students or anyone with limited or no experience of academic study.

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Embracing Technology in the Early Years A Practitioner’s Guide

Embracing Technology in the Early Years A Practitioner’s Guide

Why should we embrace technology? How can it make the practitioner’s role easier? This book is the answer to these questions equipping Early Years practitioners with the skills and knowledge to use technology: both that which they already have and that which they can access from beyond the setting (such as in the local community and online). Written by an expert in both Early Years and Digital Inclusion it provides practical tips and guidance for practitioners working at all levels to implement the use of technology across all areas of the curriculum and to support the development of the characteristics of effective learning. Drawing on contemporary theory and research chapters cover key topics such as: the short- and long-term benefits of incorporating technology for children families and staff making the most of pre-existing technology alongside guidance on how best to use new technology consideration of safeguarding issues around the use of technology with children technology beyond the setting and the use of local resources how technology can support professional development potential pitfalls of using technology Containing links to curriculum and reflective prompts this engaging and accessible book is essential reading for those interested in using technology to develop as a practitioner and continue to provide the best care and learning for every child. | Embracing Technology in the Early Years A Practitioner’s Guide

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Boys Do Cry Improving Boys’ Mental Health and Wellbeing in Schools

Boys Do Cry Improving Boys’ Mental Health and Wellbeing in Schools

Schools are undergoing a mental health crisis and adult statistics surrounding male suicide paint a bleak picture of the future for boys in our schools. From bullying and sexism to traditional ideals of masculinity outdated expectations of what it is to be male are causing boys to suffer. Research also shows that this is having a negative impact on girls in our schools. Clearly the issue of boys’ mental wellbeing has never been so important. Boys Do Cry examines key research on factors impacting boys’ mental health and arms teachers with a range of practical strategies to start enacting positive change. Combining the latest research personal anecdote expert advice and a uniquely engaging writing style Matt Pinkett provides focused evidence-based guidance on what those working in schools can do to improve and maintain the mental wellbeing of boys. The chapters follow an easy-to-navigate three-part structure detailing personal stories key research and practical solutions to the problems raised. With sensitivity Pinkett deals with a diverse range of topics relating to boys’ mental health including: Anger Self-harm and suicide LGBTQ+ masculinity Body image Friendships Pornography This is an essential read for teachers and school leaders who want to ensure they are improving the mental health of boys in their schools challenging toxic behaviours and equipping the current generation of boys to become happy healthy emotionally articulate men. | Boys Do Cry Improving Boys’ Mental Health and Wellbeing in Schools

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What Do New Teachers Need to Know? A Roadmap to Expertise

What Do New Teachers Need to Know? A Roadmap to Expertise

What knowledge will make you most effective as a teacher? New teachers are often bombarded with information about the concepts they should understand and the topics they should master. This indispensable book will help you navigate the research on curriculum cognitive science student data and more providing clarity and key takeaways for those looking to grow their teaching expertise. What Do New Teachers Need to Know? explores the fundamentals of teacher expertise and draws upon contemporary research to offer the knowledge that will be most useful the methods to retain that knowledge and the ways expert teachers use it to solve problems. Written by an educator with extensive experience and understanding each chapter answers a key question about teacher knowledge including: • Does anyone agree on what makes great teaching? • How should I use evidence in my planning? • Why isn’t subject knowledge enough? • What should I know about my students? • How do experts make and break habits? • How can teachers think creatively whilst automating good habits? • What do we need to know about the curriculum? • How should Cognitive Load Theory affect our pedagogical decisions? Packed with case studies and interviews with new and training teachers alongside key takeaways for the classroom this book is essential reading for early career teachers those undertaking initial teacher training and current teachers looking to develop their expertise. | What Do New Teachers Need to Know? A Roadmap to Expertise

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