Best Selling Books by Jennifer Williams

Transformational education leader Jennifer Williams offers design- and empathy-driven practices to help teachers activate positive change in student learning. Today’s students are ready to design, dream and MAKE the future. Teach Boldly: Using Edtech for Social Good is a guide for educators ready to apply innovative practices, meaningful technology use and global collaboration to drive the change they want to see in the world. Readers will learn how to create a customized plan for education innovation, with strategies for constructing agile classroom environments, digital storytelling and communicating across lines of difference, and prioritizing feedback and active listening. This book: Showcases the power of narrative and bringing focus to the need for storytelling in education. Offers direction for seeking out authentic feedback and steps for iterating on ideas, emphasizing preservation of voice and creative expression. Discusses learning space design through the lens of empathy and amplification of student voice. Provides easy-to-implement ideas for transforming learning and classroom culture through space. With inspiration from real-world peaceMAKERS in education, Teach Boldly invites readers to create ready-to-go action plans for themselves as educators, for classroom communities and for the global community. Audience: K-12 educators

Jeremy Williams captured the nation’s imagination by coaching his high school football team to unprecedented heights while combating ALS and caring for a son with spina bifida. This is his family’s inspiring story. America first met Jeremy and Jennifer Williams when Extreme Makeover: Home Edition rebuilt their Depression-era farmhouse into a beautiful, handicapped-accessible haven. Friends, family, and neighbors from their west Georgia community—and all over the state—came together to support the ailing high school coach who had won their respect and their hearts. It made for compelling television but only told a little slice of the story. Tenacious gives you the rest—a tender love story, a thrilling sports story, and an unforgettable testimony to the power of faith and grit in the face of almost overwhelming adversity. In Tenacious you’ll meet: The distraught parents learning their son would be born with spina bifida. The young father facing his own devastating diagnosis of ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease) with matter-of-fact courage. The coach who guided his underdog team to a 10–0 Cinderella season—while struggling to walk, talk, and even breathe. Packed full of faith, hope, love, and miracles, Tenacious is a story you don’t want to miss.

Dear Reader, Here are the postcards and snapshots that Stringbean Coe and his brother Fred sent home from the long trip they made one summer in Fred''s truck. Their grandfather made this album for the family--and for you. Enjoy yourselves! Love, Vera and Jennifer Stringbean Coe, his big brother, Fred, and their dog, Potato, are driving from Kansas to California in a pickup truck with a little house built on the back. Reading the postcards they send home every day is the next best thing to having a cross-country adventure all your own. "A good-hearted celebration of life and experience, and a gift to the public."--School Library Journal

This cultural experience is entitled "Black to China" because it speaks to who I am culturally here in America, as a Black American visiting China''s three cities: Harbin, Beijing and Xian; speaking on two university campuses: Heilongjiang and MuDunjiang; experiencing the Chinese culture, people, language and education.

Welcome to the J-M Institute English for All Workbook Study Series! Each Workbook numbers I through V correspond to the fifteen-week lessons taught at the J-M Institute Private Home/High School. The basis of the curriculum corresponds with the most efficient steps to mastering English, making the learning experience as true to real life use as possible.

This book investigates the aesthetic and political dialectics of East Berlin to argue how its theatre and opera stages incited artists to act out, fuel and resist the troubled construction of political legitimacy. It will be of interest to scholars in theatre and performance studies, art history, music, German studies, and political science.

Send a letter, give a gift. Finding a letter amid catalogs, impersonal flyers, & bills is like getting an unexpected present -- created just for the recipient. Victoria The Pleasures of Staying in Touch gives excellent, reassuring advice, helping the reader to get started. Whether the occasion calls for an invitation, a thank-you, a note of congratulations, or a letter of condolence, Victoria shows the way. Examples of memorable & appropriate letters for every situation are included, providing both help & inspiration. In a society accustomed to telephones, faxes, & e-mail, there is an antidote: a handwritten letter. While store-bought & preprinted cards can be personal to a degree, handwritten words to a family member or friend are true treasures. One can read & reread these thoughts & reflect on them whenever one likes. Many letters can bring one back to a particular time, a particular moment, a happy recollection. What Victoria The Pleasures of Staying in Touch conveys is that the important part of a letter is that it comes from the heart. No matter what one''s writing skills, a sincere expression of love, sympathy, or simply a sharing of thoughts is a lifetime keepsake.

There are some far-fetched rumours about the caverns beneath the Citadel: some say the mages left their most dangerous secrets hidden there; others, that great riches are hidden there; even that gods have been imprisoned in its darkest depths. For Lord Frith, the caverns hold the key to his vengeance. Against all the odds, he has survived torture and lived to see his home and his family taken from him and now someone is going to pay. For Wydrin of Crosshaven and her faithful companion, Sir Sebastian Caverson, a quest to the Citadel looks like just another job. There''s the promise of gold and adventure. Who knows, they might even have a decent tale or two once they''re done. But sometimes there is truth in rumour.

Nothing gets an idea across faster than a sketch. The Sticker UI Book is a sketchbook to help designers illustrate software ideas, develop good documentation habits, build familiarity with UI elements, & capture early thoughts in a structured way.As designers, we often need to sketch out ideas that work with standardized conventions. The Sticker UI Book gives us tools to represent common UI elements quickly, leaving more time to focus in on moments of creativity.