Deep In The Heart Of High School

Author : Veronica Goldbach
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
ISBN 13 : 9781429947497
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Deep in the Heart of High School written by Veronica Goldbach and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR). This book was released on 2009-04-27 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vanna Reynolds was popular and happy back in Plano, Texas, but now she lives with her mother in a tiny apartment in San Antonio. How can she start her freshman year as a complete nobody? Fatima Garcia does well in school and helps out with her family's construction business, but is worried about her weight. So she's thrilled when a junior starts paying attention to her – but is he really interested in Fatima? Olivia Silverstein tries to make life easier for her mother. Ever since her father died two years ago, she's been the perfect daughter. When will she get to have her own life? When Vanna, Fatima, and Olivia meet at band practice in August, they quickly become best friends. Together, they are ready to tackle the matters of the heart that await them, deep in the heart of high school. Written with verve and touches of humor, the voices in this first novel ring with authenticity.

Author : Gray Levy
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1630760900
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Big and Bright written by Gray Levy and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-09-02 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Texas is a diverse state. But the one thing that binds Texans more than their state pride, even more than religion, is football. For the many towns and cities of Texas, high school football is more than a sport or an extracurricular activity—it’s the glue of their community. Author Gray Levy, a high school football coach for more than two decades, became disillusioned with the state of the education system nationwide and traveled to Texas, a place where high school football still matters, to see just what schools and communities were doing right. What he found will both confirm and debunk common presumptions about high school football in Texas, a complex phenomenon that varies by region, school size, and the ethnic diversity of the Lone Star State.

Author : Michael Johnston
Publisher : Grove Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802140241
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In the Deep Heart's Core written by Michael Johnston and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Deep Heart's Core is the uplifting story of young Teach for America volunteer who becomes an English teacher in a desperately impoverished African-American high school in the rural Mississippi Delta beset by gang violence, drug abuse, ruptured families and teen pregnancy-but among the sorrow and struggle he finds dignity and hope, and works to bring the nascent intellectual curiosity of his students to full flower.

Author : Ranjay Gulati
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0063088932
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Deep Purpose written by Ranjay Gulati and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2022-02-08 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thinkers50 Top 10 Best New Management Books for 2022 A distinguished Harvard Business School professor offers a compelling reassessment and defense of purpose as a management ethos, documenting the vast performance gains and social benefits that become possible when firms manage to get purpose right. Few business topics have aroused more skepticism in recent years than the notion of corporate purpose, and for good reason. Too many companies deploy purpose, or a reason for being, as a promotional vehicle to make themselves feel virtuous and to look good to the outside world. Some have only foggy ideas about what purpose is and conflate it with strategy and other concepts like “mission,” “vision,” and “values.” Even well-intentioned leaders don’t understand purpose’s full potential and engage half-heartedly and superficially with it. Outsiders spot this and become cynical about companies and the broader capitalist endeavor. Having conducted extensive field research, Ranjay Gulati reveals the fatal mistakes leaders unwittingly make when attempting to implement a reason for being. Moreover, he shows how companies can embed purpose much more deeply than they currently do, delivering impressive performance benefits that reward customers, suppliers, employees, shareholders, and communities alike. To get purpose right, leaders must fundamentally change not only how they execute it but also how they conceive of and relate to it. They must practice what Gulati calls deep purpose, furthering each organization’s reason for being more intensely, thoughtfully, and comprehensively than ever before. In this authoritative, accessible, and inspiring guide, Gulati takes readers inside some of the world’s most purposeful companies to understand the secrets to their successes. He explores how leaders can pursue purpose more deeply by navigating the inevitable tradeoffs more deliberately and effectively to balance between short- and long-term value; building purpose more systematically into every key organizational function to mobilize stakeholders and enhance performance; updating organizations to foster more autonomy and collaboration, which in turn allow individual employees to work more purposefully; using powerful storytelling to communicate a reason for being, arousing emotions and building a community of inspired and committed stakeholders; and building cultures that don’t merely support purpose, but also allow employees to link the corporate purpose to their own personal reasons for being. As Gulati argues, a deeper engagement with purpose holds the key not merely to the well-being of individual companies but also to humanity’s future. With capitalism under siege and relatively low levels of trust in business, purpose can serve as a radically new operating system for the enterprise, enhancing performance while also delivering meaningful benefits to society. It’s the kind of inspired thinking that businesses—and the rest of us—urgently need.

Author : E. Randall Floyd
Publisher : Harbor House
ISBN 13 : 9781891799204
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Deep in the Heart written by E. Randall Floyd and published by Harbor House. This book was released on 1998 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: True account of seven brothers who fought for the Confederacy and the fate of their Georgia hometown during Sherman's invasion.

Author : Alexa Padgett
Publisher : Sidecar Press, Inc.
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Deep in the Heart written by Alexa Padgett and published by Sidecar Press, Inc.. This book was released on 2019-01-08 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wounded military veteran, a talented guitar maker hiding from her past, and a love that can soothe their hurts... Camden Grace thought realizing his dream of country music stardom would chase away the ghosts of the past. He's focused on his career — but he can’t help falling for guitar-maker phenom Jenna. Their explosive chemistry creates a magic that rivals the music until Jenna’s dangerous ex reappears to play a reckless game. They'll have to fight for each other or lose everything... Don’t miss the chance to lose your heart to Jenna and Cam in this sexy saga of hope and love from a USA Today bestselling author. Start reading DEEP IN THE HEART!

Author : James McEnteer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313015163
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Deep in the Heart written by James McEnteer and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2004-07-30 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cowboy politics is in. When George W. Bush announced a new American policy of pre-emptive attack against potential enemies in 2002, he ushered in the triumph of Texas values over the American agenda. This book traces in lucid and engaging style the fascinating influence of the Texas warrior culture from the Alamo to the present day. This is not a history of Texas, but much Texas history is entwined with American national politics. This book locates such diverse phenomena as Cold War politics, the Kennedy assassination, U.S.-Mexican immigration policies, Texas death penalty practices, and recent U.S. Middle East policy in the context of this Alamo attitude. While the Texas influence has always been strong, and has ebbed and flowed, never has it been stronger, especially as a guiding force in American foreign policy. Today, people around the world perceive this Manifest Destiny swaggering style in our foreign policy. Because of its sheer size, its border wars with Mexico, its ten-year history as an independent republic, and its having been settled by a warrior culture originating in the English-Scottish borderlands and arriving in Texas via the southern Appalachians, Texas is unique in American politics. The author does not assert that Texas causes, or is the sole cause of, our various policies or of so many violent events. Rather, he demonstrates convincingly that the Texas warrior culture provides a fascinating context for national politics in a way that no other state's political culture can claim.

Author : Douglas E. Foley
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 9780812220988
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Learning Capitalist Culture written by Douglas E. Foley and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2010-07-02 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building on the author's thirty-six years of experience with North Town, Texas, this second edition presents an ethnographic study of the ways the town's youth learn traditional American values through participation in sports, membership in formal and informal social groups, dating, and interactions with teachers in the classroom.

Author : Jane Myers Perrine
Publisher : Steeple Hill
ISBN 13 : 1426822332
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Deep in the Heart written by Jane Myers Perrine and published by Steeple Hill. This book was released on 2008-09-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With dreams bigger than Silver Lake, Texas, Kate Wallace left a trail of heartbreak when she headed for the big city. Now, her goals unmet, she's returned home. Silver Lake has gone on without her—so has Rob Chambers, the boy she left behind. Now a man, the single dad has a beautiful daughter. Kate knows he wants the same things she does—love and family—but he's built a wall she can't break down. In spite of the past, can Kate reach Rob and teach him to trust her? Will their faith bring them together so they can find love again?

Author : Jal Mehta
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674988396
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In Search of Deeper Learning written by Jal Mehta and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-22 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The best book on high school dynamics I have ever read."--Jay Mathews, Washington Post An award-winning professor and an accomplished educator take us beyond the hype of reform and inside some of America's most innovative classrooms to show what is working--and what isn't--in our schools. What would it take to transform industrial-era schools into modern organizations capable of supporting deep learning for all? Jal Mehta and Sarah Fine's quest to answer this question took them inside some of America's most innovative schools and classrooms--places where educators are rethinking both what and how students should learn. The story they tell is alternately discouraging and hopeful. Drawing on hundreds of hours of observations and interviews at thirty different schools, Mehta and Fine reveal that deeper learning is more often the exception than the rule. And yet they find pockets of powerful learning at almost every school, often in electives and extracurriculars as well as in a few mold-breaking academic courses. These spaces achieve depth, the authors argue, because they emphasize purpose and choice, cultivate community, and draw on powerful traditions of apprenticeship. These outliers suggest that it is difficult but possible for schools and classrooms to achieve the integrations that support deep learning: rigor with joy, precision with play, mastery with identity and creativity. This boldly humanistic book offers a rich account of what education can be. The first panoramic study of American public high schools since the 1980s, In Search of Deeper Learning lays out a new vision for American education--one that will set the agenda for schools of the future.