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Gia has been dreaming about her prom since she was a little girl, watching characters in her favorite TV shows prepare for their big day. When her older cousins and her sister had their own proms, Gia eagerly observed as they set off with their dates. Each looked so beautiful in her own unique prom dress! As Gia's own prom approaches, she imagines it will be like a dance straight out of a fairy tale. She envisions herself as the belle of the ball, sharing extra-special moments with her circle of friends. Not one to sit back and just let things happen, Gia takes tenacious charge of her own prom plans, making sure everything is lined up and in place for her big night. She's picked a gorgeous prom dress inspired by her favorite romantic film. She's negotiated with her father to stay out past curfew. And she's found a platonic date to help her dance the night away. Gia's got everything under control-but she'll come to realize that the world doesn't always work that way. When circumstances conspire to potentially ruin Gia's night, she'll learn an important lesson about the dangers of planning for-and expecting-perfection.

I'm looking for meaning in my life. Does this sound familiar? It should. We all look. Maybe it takes a few decades to get to the point of looking. Maybe it comes and goes. Or goes and comes. There are all kinds of lessons around me, to teach me where to look. And many confusions and distractions as well. In my life and experience, I happen to know about vocal technique, playing jazz, and living life. This book contains my observations…about how these areas are connected and similar. And how, through each, I found myself "coming into my own", AKA "becoming". Your areas of knowledge and experience are similar and connected as well. Perhaps by reading about my universe, you can understand your universe better and can affect every other universe that touches yours.

What counts as professionalism for teachers today? Once, teachers who knew their content area and knew how to teach it were respected as professionals. Now there is an additional type of competency required: in addition to content and pedagogical knowledge, educators need advocacy skills. In this groundbreaking collection, literacy educators describe how they are redefining what it means to be a teaching professional. Teachers share how they are trying to change the conversation surrounding literacy and literacy instruction by explaining to colleagues, administrators, parents, and community members why they teach in particular research-based ways, so often contradicted by mandated curricula and standardized assessments. Teacher educators also share how they are introducing an advocacy approach to preservice and practicing teachers, helping prepare teachers for this new professionalism. Both groups practice what the authors call “everyday advocacy”: the day-to-day actions teachers are taking to change the public narrative surrounding schools, teachers, and learning.

THIS HOUSE is a collection of thoughts from several authors... David Brunner, Cathy Deslippe, Mary Garcia, Adina Guidry, Rhonda Hailey, Amanda Kirby, Jason Petch, Chris Potts and Anna Renault. We hope you enjoy reading our creative interpretations of this picture and the resulting stories. Please remember to leave reviews, letting us know your likes and dislikes and other thoughts about "This House"!

"“The People’s Victory is a mirror for each of us to see our own power to fight for justice and create the change we want to see in our world.” – Gavin Newsom, Lieutenant Governor of California In 1996, a small group of Americans from all walks of life banded together to create one of the most miraculous political victories in modern American history. Opponents attacked the issue of marriage equality as amoral and a direct threat to families. Allies warned that it was a generation away from being practicable and a selfish drain of precious political capital. A stirring oral history told by those who almost inexplicably found themselves fighting on the front lines, The People's Victory recounts the successes – and the setbacks – that only served to strengthen everyone’s resolve to resist, fight, and bring equal marriage rights to an entire nation. Through it all, these love warriors found their voice and home in Marriage Equality USA, the nation’s oldest and largest grassroots organization of its kind. While high profile books, articles and documentaries have covered the judicial and legislative machinations, this book puts a human face on the people who made the everyday personal sacrifices to keep the movement alive. The People’s Victory shares deeply moving personal testimonies of over sixty people, from Marvin Burrows, who was forced out of his home and lost many treasured possessions after losing his lost his partner of fifty years; to Kate Burns, who risked arrest for the first time when she stood up for her relationship; to Mike Goettemoeller, who pushed his mother in a wheelchair with Marriage Equality USA to fulfill her dream of marching in a Pride parade. Edie Windsor, the triumphant lead plaintiff in the Supreme Court case United States vs. Windsor recounts shouting down a major LGBTQ organization with “I’m 77 years old and I can’t wait!!” when they attempted to belittle marriage as a critical issue. Writer and producer Del Shores shares the touching moment his young teenage daughter used tears and laughter to console him after the passage of Proposition 8 in California dealt a blow to the cause. The People’s Victory is an inspirational roadmap for anyone who has felt passionately about an issue, but has questioned whether one person’s contribution can make a difference. These candid accounts once again prove that every movement for important social change must be built on the acts of everyday. In fact, that is the only way the people have ever been victorious. In his introduction, California Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom writes: “I hope these stories inspire you to resist, to fight, to win and in the end write the next stories in our continuing push for a more just and perfect union.”

Voici donc Des ourses dans le ciel ou Cathy Garcia & compagnie, 3eme volume de la serie francophone X & compagnie. Apres Stephane Bernard en septembre et Thierry Roquet en novembre, la serie revient sur toute l'annee 2015, une fois tous les deux mois. Cathy Garcia a invite Guenane, Jany Pineau, Perrine Le Querrec, Diane Meunier et Muriele Modely. Feminine et puissante, la poesie des ourses plane au-dessus de celles des autres.

winner of the 2021 Ellen Koskoff Edited Volume Prize Decentering the Nation: Music, Mexicanidad, and Globalization considers how neoliberal capitalism has upset the symbolic economy of “Mexican” cultural discourse, and how this phenomenon touches on a broader crisis of representation affecting the nation-state in globalization. This book argues that, while mexicanidad emerged in the early twentieth century as a cultural trope about national origins, culture, and history, it was, nonetheless a trope steeped in ‘otherization’ and used by nation-states (Mexico and the United States) to legitimize narratives of cultural and socioeconomic development stemming out of nationalist political projects that are now under strain. Using music as a phenomenological platform of inquiry, contributors to this book focus on a critique of mexicanidad in terms of the cultural processes through which people contest ideas about race, gender, and sexuality; reframe ideas of memory, history, and belonging; and negotiate the experiences of dislocation that affect them. The volume urges readers to find points of resonance in its chapters, and thus, interrogate the asymmetrical ways in which power traverses their own historical experience. In light of the crisis in representation that currently affects the nation-state as a political unit in globalization, such resonance is critical to make culture an arena of social collusion, where alliances can restore the fiber of civil society and contest the pressures that have made disenfranchisement one of the most alarming features characterizing the complex relationships between the state and the neoliberal corporate system that seeks to regulate it. Scholars of history, international relations, cultural anthropology, Latin American studies, queer and gender studies, music, and cultural studies will find this book particularly useful.

The COVID-19 pandemic has heightened political polarization which has transformed American policy. The American Jobs Plan (AJP) is one notable policy proposed by the current Biden Administration which has come under intense debate and deliberation within the federal government, from issues with the precipitated federal expenditure to the various tenets of the proposal. The main trouble lies within satisfying the requests of the various elected officials who vote in the passing of the AJP, while still successfully tackling all the issues elucidated in the original plan. To address this dispute, this research study performs case studies and data analysis on elected officials' responses at the local, state, and federal level from every American state and the District of Columbia. The case studies compare the politicians' stances on issues addressed in the American Jobs Plan with their legislative voting history and response to the American Jobs Plan. The data analysis quantified the viewpoints of the elected officials on a set scale to use in performing data visualization and statistical tests. After analyzing the data and responses, it was found that both Republicans and Democrats support the same issues despite often disagreeing with one another. The findings of this study will prove beneficial in revealing which aspects of the American Jobs Plan can be kept or changed to best satisfy all elected officials. This may help expedite the voting and discussion process, allowing the Plan to be carried out in the best interest of benefitting all Americans.