Doing the Possible tells the life-story of an early Primitive Baptist church in the wildness of northeast Alabama, a late-blooming area of the state that was a sanctuary for Cherokee Indians being pushed toward extinction. White settlers-prominent among them the family of William (Billy) Edwards who gave his name and a tract of land to the new county seat-established in the inhospitable hills and hollows a thriving church and community. They built a warm fellowship that was often disrupted by theological controversy as they set a course quite different from the "mainstream" church-and once the community was shocked by an act of physical violence, murder in the churchyard. And there are glimpses of the backwoods enterprise on which a few members depended heavily, the profitable conversion of corn into the moonshine for which the area is noted. But mostly it is a story of plain, hardy people living and loving together.

Doing the Possible: The Story of Cane Creek, a Pioneer Church

History

Jones, Joseph

Americas

iUniverse

Family Dialogue Journals: School–Home Partnerships That Support Student Learning (Practitioner Inquiry Series)

This honest, clearly written, and accessible book shows how to use Family Dialogue Journals (FDJs) to increase and deepen learning across grade levels. Written by K–12 teachers who have been implementing and studying the use of weekly journals for several years, it shares what they have learned and why they have found FDJs to be an invaluable tool for forming effective partnerships with families. Learn from firsthand accounts how students write weekly about one big idea they have studied, ask a family member a related question, and then solicit their writing in the journal. Through these journal entries, they share their family knowledge with classmates while actively engaging with the curriculum. In turn, teachers extend the academic discussion by writing to each family and incorporating their funds of knowledge into classroom lessons―writing about everything from the use of thermometers to life in Michoacán, Mexico. Family participation in the FDJs is remarkably high across ages, ethnicities, and economic realities. Book Features: <ul>
<li> Demonstrates how Family Dialogue Journals allow parents and caregivers to provide meaningful input and feel personally connected to their child’s education.</li> <li> Provides detailed examples of teachers implementing FDJs, including how they got started and routines for sharing family voices during morning meetings, literature discussions, and classroom dialogue.</li> <li> Illustrates how teachers, students, and families create critical curriculum that builds on the vast resources of cultural and linguistic diversity within and beyond the classroom.</li>
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Education & Teaching

Dean, Angela

Allen, JoBeth

McCreight, Jen

Beaty, Jennifer

Mathews, Stephanie Smith

Schwedler, Elyse

Simmons, Amber M.

Schools & Teaching

Teachers' College Press

This honest, clearly written, and accessible book shows how to use Family Dialogue Journals (FDJs) to increase and deepen learning across grade levels. Written by K–12 teachers who have been implementing and studying the use of weekly journals for several years, it shares what they have learned and why they have found FDJs to be an invaluable tool for forming effective partnerships with families. Learn from firsthand accounts how students write weekly about one big idea they have studied, ask a family member a related question, and then solicit their writing in the journal. Through these journal entries, they share their family knowledge with classmates while actively engaging with the curriculum. In turn, teachers extend the academic discussion by writing to each family and incorporating their funds of knowledge into classroom lessons―writing about everything from the use of thermometers to life in Michoacán, Mexico. Family participation in the FDJs is remarkably high across ages, ethnicities, and economic realities. Book Features: Demonstrates how Family Dialogue Journals allow parents and caregivers to provide meaningful input and feel personally connected to their child’s education. Provides detailed examples of teachers implementing FDJs, including how they got started and routines for sharing family voices during morning meetings, literature discussions, and classroom dialogue. Illustrates how teachers, students, and families create critical curriculum that builds on the vast resources of cultural and linguistic diversity within and beyond the classroom.

Support, celebrate, and grow your best teachers so that they stay in your school and continue to have maximum impact. Burnout and teacher turnover are on the rise, yet we often spend more of our energy on the underperformers. In this powerful book from bestselling authors Todd Whitaker, Connie Hamilton, T.J. Vari, and Joseph Jones, you'll learn why it's crucial to recognize your best teachers, going beyond superficial gestures of appreciation and investing in them in deeper ways. The authors show school leaders how to identify your best teachers and then reveal strategies for supporting them, including recognizing the value-cost of teachers' time; prioritizing appreciation; controlling the narrative; tailoring professional learning; helping teachers grow through peer observations as we as beyond the school; applying data informed feedback; and nurturing self- and collective-efficacy. Each chapter begins with a powerful story, an overview of our blind spots, strategies on what we should invest in, and how to ensure that the whole school profits from your efforts. There's also an Initial Deposits feature that provides a quick, tangible way to get started with each idea. With the helpful models, tips, and tricks in this book, you won't just be inspired to make a change but will be well-equipped to take action. As your best teachers get better-and-better, your students and the entire school culture will benefit!

Invest in Your Best

Whitaker, Todd

Vari, T.J.

Hamilton, Connie

Routledge

Invest in Your Best (Eye on Education)

The Book of Psalms: With Reflections and Prayers

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

The Book Of Psalms: With Reflections And Prayers (1848)

Literature & Fiction

Literary

Kessinger Publishing

Kessinger Pub

A Series Of Important Facts Demonstrating The Truth Of The Christian Religion: Drawn From The Writings Of Its Friends And Enemies In The First And Second Centuries (1820)

Seven Addresses To The Laboring Class On The Subject Of Moral, Social, And Religious Improvement (1849)

A Series of Important Facts Demonstrating the Truth of the Christian Religion: Drawn from the Writings of Its Friends and Enemies in the First and Second Centuries

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