One of a series of accessible, illustrated guides to various weather and climate-related topics aimed at Key Stage 3 readers.

Describes the water cycle, erosion, environment, and ecosystems of rivers.

In an era when immigration was at its peak, the Fabre Line offered the only transatlantic route to southern New England. One of its most important ports was in Providence, Rhode Island. Nearly eighty-four thousand immigrants were admitted to the country between the years 1911 and 1934. Almost one in nine of these individuals elected to settle in Rhode Island after landing in Providence, amounting to around eleven thousand new residents. Most of these immigrants were from Portugal and Italy, and the Fabre Line kept up a brisk and successful business. However, both the line and the families hoping for a new life faced major obstacles in the form of World War I, the immigration restriction laws of the 1920s, and the Great Depression. Join authors Patrick T. Conley and William J. Jennings Jr. as they chronicle the history of the Fabre Line and its role in bringing new residents to the Ocean State.

Teacher leadership is a challenge. Frequently, those selected to serve as teacher leaders have no formal training and are provided with limited guidance. Yet, teachers expect teacher leaders to have an extensive “toolbox” containing strategies that can be used to improve educator effectiveness. This book is intended to provide teacher leaders with a repertoire of high-quality “tools” they can immediately and effectively use to complete their job responsibilities. More specifically, the reader will be provided with tools and strategies for leading groups and professional learning activities, collecting and analyzing data and student work, and organizing and facilitating mentoring programs and teacher action research projects. The teacher leader that reads this book will have the tools of a “master craftsman”, making them capable of building a better future for teacher and their students.

Administrators often assume new teachers come prepared with the foundational skills required to be effective teachers. Not only is this frequently a false assumption, but some of these skills do also not fully make sense until a teacher has responsibility for a classroom. To assist in the transition process, many teachers will attend orientation and be assigned a mentor. However, they will not receive professional development designed to establish the foundational skills of classroom management, direct instruction, classroom assessment and professionalism. These are the bedrock skills necessary for both short and long-term success as a professional educator. Through concise, research-based explanations and practical application activities, this book is designed to fill this void. Whether it is read alone, in concert with a mentor, or as part of a systematic district induction program, teachers that master the content of this text will become effective with their students.

Characterized by complex challenges and constant change, a school or district hierarchy can prove a difficult setting in which to establish high-performance teamwork. Dynamic Educational Leadership Teams: From Mine to Ours provides school and district level leaders with research-based, practical guidelines that they can use to create high-performing school- and district-level leadership teams. High-performing leadership teams emerge with adherence to Jennings's set of simple behavioral principles, which he teaches through a sequence of interactive activities on subjects ranging from promoting productive conflict to demanding mutual and individual accountability.

The first year of a new leader's tenure is a critical time period. If an administrator begins their position by taking certain actions while avoiding others, he or she will get off to a positive start. This positive start leads to momentum and an increased probability of success. In this book, an experienced school administrator provides practical, research-based, guidance for how to succeed during this critical first year as a new school administrator. It also includes research and practical application strategies for addressing the most important tasks to be accomplished during their first year in a new administrative position.

The superintendent position is important to the overall quality of a school system. Staff would have difficulty succeeding without the support of an effective and efficient system. It is also potentially rewarding. There is great satisfaction in knowing that something you did had a major impact on the quality of education provided to children. You can change the future, but it comes at a cost. The superintendent position is difficult. In addition to all of the technical skills and knowledge required, doing this job well requires strength of character, mental toughness, and a high level of self-awareness. You must know who you are and what you believe in. Not only that, you must have the fortitude to represent those beliefs in the face of crises and adversity. These are not the topics taught in most graduate school education coursework. Through sharing of “ten truths” the author fills this void. More specifically, readers will learn the realities of being a school superintendent and practical suggestions for navigating the difficulties inherent in the role.

What does it mean to stay safe online? What exactly is Internet safety? Emerging readers need to know these important concepts. Straightforward, neutral text and vivid photographs provide readers with the tools they need to be successful and safe users of all types of media.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.