Archibald D. Hart Bücher

Learn how to make instructional coaching more empowering and effective by supporting teachers as learners and leaders in their own classrooms. This unique book offers a powerful assets-based coaching framework that capitalizes on teachers’ strengths, internal motivation, and professional goals. The authors provide a useful analysis of popular theories and models that ground coaching and support intentional planning; tools and strategies to help you enact the framework through ongoing coaching cycles; and examples, vignettes, and transcripts to illustrate coaching in practice. Each chapter also includes opportunities for reflection and practice to guide you along the way. Appropriate for school-and district-based coaches of all levels of experience, this book will enable you to provide a more targeted, proactive learning experience for ongoing teacher growth. With an instructional framework designed to empower teachers, increased teacher professional capacity can be expected for lasting impact on students, classrooms, schools, and communities.

"American pathologist Nora Gavin fled to Ireland three years ago, hoping that distance from home would bring her peace. Though she threw herself into the study of bog bodies and the mysteries of their circumstances, she was ultimately led back to the one mystery she was unable to solve, the murder of her sister, Tríona ... Determined to put her sister's case to rest and anxious about her eleven-year-old niece, Elizabeth, Nora returns to Saint Paul, Minnesota, to find that her brother-in-law, Peter Hallett, is about to remarry and has plans to leave the country with his new bride ... Time is short, and as Nora begins reinvestigating her sister's death ... What is the significance of the "false mermaid" seeds found on Tríona's body? Why was her behavior so erratic in the days before her murder? Is there a link between Tríona's death and that of another young woman? Nora's search for answers takes her from the banks of the Mississippi to the cliffs of Ireland, where the eerie story of a fisherman's wife who vanished more than a century ago offers up uncanny parallels ..."--Publisher

Im Westen Irlands wird eine Moorleiche gefunden, die Spuren eines bestialischen Ritualmords aufweist. Kurz darauf taucht ein zweiter Leichnam auf. Wieder gibt es Hinweise auf eine rituelle Tötung. Doch zwischen den Morden liegen Jahrhunderte. Nora Gavin und der Archäologe Cormac Maguire suchen nach der Verbindung zwischen diesen beiden Menschenopfern. "Exzentrische Figuren, Aberglaube und unheimliche Schauplätze - eloquent spinnt Hart ihr spannendes Garn." The New York Times