![]() It's important to note that these aren't meant to be done in isolation. The researchers concluded that if educators knew which factors produced the greatest positive gains in student achievement, they could do more of the effective practices and fewer of the negative or ineffective practices. The research produced data on over 250 aspects/actions' impact on student learning in terms of effect size. They called this Visible Learning, what action was observed and the effect size or impact it had on student learning. From this research, they were able to quantify the effect size on learning from each action/evidence on the impact on student learning. John Hattie, Viviane Robinson and a group of educational researchers analyzed data of over 800 meta-analyses from thousands of studies on every aspect of school and instruction. ![]() ![]() Effective instructional leaders often examine actions within a school through the lens of evidence=impact, what do teachers/students do and what is the impact on student learning. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Gregory's impressive and disturbing memoir uncovers the truths of this elusive and disturbing form of child abuse that is often overlooked and misdiagnosed. Not until adulthood, when she hears a professor describe MPB during a lecture, does Gregory realize what the real problem is. Then, undernourished and doped up on drugs for problems that don't exist, Gregory is dragged from hospital to hospital in search of""answers."" Interspersed throughout Gregory's narrative are real medical records that show the efforts of dozens of doctors, procedures and surgeries to""heal"" her, efforts which instead become the source of new illnesses. When her mother feeds her handfuls of pills, withholds food or instructs her to""act sick,"" Gregory does as she is told because she wants to please her. Set in towns of rural obscurity, Gregory's memoir movingly describes how, as a""sick"" child, she believed that her constant feelings of exhaustion and lethargy were caused by some illness in herself rather than by her mother's complicated and abusive rituals. ![]() MBP, a psychological disorder in which caretakers, usually themselves the victims of traumatic abuse,""make an otherwise healthy child sick"" as a way of gaining attention and approval. Its four oclock, and she hasnt been allowed to eat anything all day. ![]() Just twelve, she is tall, skinny, and weak. The first of its kind, this compelling memoir recounts the story of a childhood affected by Munchausen by proxy disease, a.k.a. A young girl is perched on the cold chrome of yet another doctors examining table, missing yet another day of school. ![]() ![]() Yet how can she live with herself if she lies to him?īut as the Fae Prince begins to close in, intent on permanently opening the gates to the Otherworld, Ivy is running out of options. ![]() Their chemistry is smoking hot, but Ivy knows that Ren has always valued his duty to the Order above all else-he could never touch her if he knew the truth. Then there’s Ren Owens, the sexy, tattooed Elite member of the Order. And if the Order finds out her secret, they’ll kill her. After being betrayed and then nearly killed by the Prince of the Fae, she’s left bruised and devastated-and with an earth-shattering secret that she must keep at all costs. Torn between duty and survival, nothing can be the same.Įverything Ivy Morgan thought she knew has been turned on its head. Thankfully, this was not an issue with Torn and I FLEW through this book! This review will have slight spoilers. I mentioned in my review of Wicked that I was interested in the story but not that invested until around the 60% point. ![]() I recommend reading my review for the first book, Wicked, before this one. Torn is book two in the Wicked trilogy by Jennifer L. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() With their hearts already on the line, Michael and Bry need to decide just how complicated they want to get. until their professional and personal worlds collide. The rules are clear: no names, no details, no complications.īut one night becomes one more night, and eventually the arrangement suits them both for weeks . . . Out with friends to celebrate his return, he sees a gorgeous blond man across the bar, and with merely a smile and a raised eyebrow, they leave together for a night of incredible chemistry. He's one of Sydney's fastest-moving career-focused corporate realtors, and the only thing he has time for is one-night stands with zero fuss.īryson Schroeder's back home from two years overseas with plans to leave his family's hotel empire and begin his own business ventures. Michael Pietersen isn't up for complications. ![]() ![]() ![]() I know that she’s the one thing I love more than the peak. Waking up this morning with her wrapped around me, her head laying on my shoulder, and her nose and lips tucked into my neck as she slept so peacefully-her holding me and me holding her-I… Having her to myself, in my bed, was the only food I needed. ![]() We closed the door, and there was hardly a single second that some part of me wasn’t touching some part of her for the next twelve hours. I can’t even be a few fucking feet away from her, can I? Who’s pathetic now?Īs soon as we got back from the cabin yesterday, I walked her right past my father’s goddamn yelling about how much danger we put her in, we passed her room, and I took her up to mine. What is she doing to me? Everything hurts… ![]() I dig my nails into the tiled wall ahead of me, the world spinning behind my eyelids as my hair blankets my eyes. The hot water pours over my scalp as I hang my head under the showerhead. This bonus scene takes place during Credence, after Tiernan and Noah bring Kaleb back from the fishing cabin, and it’s a spoiler for the book. ![]() What happened to Tiernan’s underwear?! We never found out in the confines of the story, but we will now. ![]() ![]() The idea is to find out if Harry has the toughness to survive an actual capture on the battlefield. He’s hooded, dragged to an underground bunker, beaten, frozen, starved, stripped, forced into excruciating stress positions by captors wearing black balaclavas. It’s a simulation, but the tortures inflicted upon Harry are very real. Harry, at the close of gruelling military exercises in rural England, gets captured by pretend terrorists. ![]() For two years, I’d been the ghostwriter on Harry’s memoir, “ Spare,” and now, reviewing his latest edits in a middle-of-the-night Zoom session, we’d come to a difficult passage. Then, as Harry started going back at me, as his cheeks flushed and his eyes narrowed, a more pressing thought occurred: Whoa, it could all end right here. And yet some part of me was still able to step outside the situation and think, This is so weird. ![]() My head was pounding, my jaw was clenched, and I was starting to raise my voice. ![]() ![]() ![]() Fiction / Romance / Historical / Regency.For more about her past, her books, and what she does and doesn’t do on social media, please visit her website. ![]() Her bestselling historical romances, set in the Regency and Romantic eras of the early nineteenth century, have won a number of awards, including the Romance Writers of America’s RITA®. She might have developed an excitingly checkered career had her spouse not nagged her into writing fiction. Loretta Chase has worked in academe, retail, and the visual arts, as well as on the streets-as a meter maid-and in video, as a scriptwriter. ![]() ![]() ![]() This is the summit of that unity of doctrine and life which marks the whole patristic age speculation and mysticism of the greatest subtlety are wedded to a soberly and consciously grasped martyrdom. Martin I in Rome and finally suffers martyrdom for the true faith. Once again, like Athanasius, one man was able to defend orthodox Christology against a whole empire. But the course of this saint’s life impressed me even more than his teaching. At the same time, with real originality, there is much from within that tradition that he takes to a higher level. ![]() As Balthasar writes elsewhere, “in Maximus all the streams of the Greek patristic tradition flow together in synthesis. The present volume, which was originally published in 1941 and thoroughly revised in 1962, marked the beginning of the twentieth-century renewal of scholarly interest in the figure of Maximus the Confessor (580-662). ![]() ![]() ![]() Includes bibliographical references and index ![]() Traces the rise of the processed food industry and how addictive salt, sugar, and fat have enabled its dominance in the past half century, revealing deliberate corporate practices behind current trends in obesity, diabetes, and other health challengesįeatures examples from some of the most recognizable and profitable companies and brands of the last half century, including Kraft, Coca-Cola, Lunchables, Kellogg, Frito-Lay, Nestlé, Oreos, Cargill, Capri Sun, and many more The author explores his theory that the food industry's used three essential ingredients to control much of the world's diet ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() They will also use nest boxes, especially if you fill them with wood shavings. 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Get photos, identification help, bird calls, and what you need to know about where you might spot them and at what time of year.Īll this information will really help you to identify those birds with black heads. If you need help identifying birds with black heads in North America, then you have come to the right place. ![]() |