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It is widely acknowledged that today’s teachers are tasked with educating increasingly diverse students as well as addressing their academic and social-emotional needs. This book examines cutting-edge teaching practices that make a difference in improving general educator and/or student performance across the grade spans. The emphasis is placed on research-based strategies, practices, and theories that can be readily translated into classroom practice. From Head to Heart: High Quality Teaching Practices in the Spotlight considers the importance of more personal topics within the teaching field, such as teacher wellness, as well as including information on effective teaching practices that seek to inspire and empower students and teachers. This book will be of interest to those that work within a pedagogical environment as well as university students and parents, alike.

"The Cinema as Art, to those brought up on the "movie show and bubble gum ' image, must look like a pretentious contradiction in terms. As this book demonstrates, however, the cinema stands for an art form which is almost unique in immediacy and scope. The cinema stands for an art form which is almost unique in immediacy and scope . The authors explain, with over 300 exaples taken from films of every country and period, the stages by which a director isolates what is mentally and emotionally significant in a situation."--Amazon.com viewed February 8, 2021

"Translated from the French by Christophe Wall-Romana as The intelligence of a machine." -- T.p. verso.

"A good short story crosses the borders of our nations and our prejudices and our beliefs. A good short story asks a question that can't be answered in simple terms. And even if we come up with some understanding, years later, while glancing out of a window, the story still has the potential to return, to alter right there in our mind and change everything." ― Walter Mosley 160 Great Short Stories. 48 Genius Storytellers. Including Mark Twain, Kate Chopin, H. H. Munro (Saki), H. P. Lovecraft, Anton Chekhov, Oscar Wilde, Virginia Woolf, O. Henry, James Joyce, Beatrix Potter, Ambrose Bierce, Edith Wharton, Guy de Maupassant, Louisa May Alcott, and many more. Happy Reading to you!