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“casandra e harper”

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  • Building Institutional Systems of Support for the Parents and Families of College Students

    Edited by Casandra E. Harper, Judy Marquez Kiyama ...
    This book unpacks innovations in practice that engage with the parents, family, and key supporters of today’s college students, with particular attention to the experiences, programming supports, and needs assessment of first-generation, low-income, and families and students of color.Organized in two major sections, chapter authors first address establishing parent and family programs, even with ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • Clearing the Path for First-Generation College Students

    Qualitative and Intersectional Studies of Educational Mobility

    by Jenny Stuber, Trista Beard, Kim Godsoe, Casandra E. Harper, Allison L. Hurst, Véronique Irwin, Anthony Abraham Jack, Judy Marquez Kiyama, Rory Kramer, Elizabeth M. Lee, Robin Minthorn0, Ann L. Mullen1, Delma Ramos2, Bedelia Nicola Richards3, Ashley C. Rondini5, Thomas Piñeros Shields7, Nicolas P. Simon8, Fanny Yeung0, Natalie Rose Youngbull1 ...
    Clearing the Path for First-Generation College Students comprises a wide range of studies that explore the multidimensional social processes and meanings germane to the experiences of first-generation college students before and during their matriculation into institutions of higher education. The chapters offer timely, empirical examinations of the ways that these students negotiate experiences ... Read more

    $44.59 USD

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  • Despite the Best Intentions

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  • The End of Diversity As We Know It

    Why Diversity Efforts Fail and How Leveraging Difference Can Succeed

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  • The Light in Their Eyes

    Creating Multicultural Learning Communities: Tenth Anniversary Edition

    by Sonia Nieto ...
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    In this 10th Anniversary Edition of her popular text, Sonia Nieto reviews where we have been and where we should be going in our pursuit of creating multicultural learning communities in our schools. With a new Introductory Chapter and a new Epilogue, Nieto addresses some of the changes we have experienced during the past decade that help explain the current sociopolitical environment—our ... Read more

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  • Leading School Turnaround

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    by Kenneth Leithwood, Alma Harris, Tiiu Strauss ...
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  • Excellence in Internal Communication Management

    by Dr. Rita Linjuan Men, Dr. Shannon Bowen ...
    This book integrates theories, research insights, practices, as well as current issues and cases into a comprehensive guide for internal communication managers and organizational leaders on how to communicate effectively with internal stakeholders.Important topics such as engagement, trust, change communication, new technologies, leadership communication, ethical decision making, transparency and ... Read more

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  • Practice What You Teach

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    Many teachers enter the profession with a desire to "make a difference." But given who most teachers are, where they come from, and what pressure they feel to comply with existing school policies, how can they take up this charge? Practice What You Teach follows three different groups of educators to explore the challenges of developing and supporting teachers’ sense of social justice and activism ... Read more

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