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Winner of the 2024 Summerlee Book Prize for NonfictionIn Finding Myself Lost in Louisiana, author Keagan LeJeune brilliantly weaves the unusual folklore, landscape, and history of Louisiana along with his own family lineage that begins in 1760 to trace the trajectory of people's lives in the Bayou State. His account confronts the challenging environmental record evident in Louisiana's landscapes. LeJeune also celebrates and memorializes traditions of some underrepresented communities in Louisiana, communities that are vanishing or have vanished—communities including the author's own.Each section in the memoir is a journey to a fascinating place, but it's also a search for LeJeune's own sense of belonging. The book is an adventure and a pilgrimage across Louisiana to explore its future and to reckon with feelings of loss and anxiety accompanying climate disasters. LeJeune travels to Louisiana's geographic center to learn what waits there. He chases the ghosts of Hot Wells, a shuttered healing resort, and he kneels at the tomb of folk saint Charlene Richard. With every adventure, every memory, he ends up much closer to home.

Highlight the assets of English Learners in your classroom Students do better in school when their voices are heard. For English Learners, that means not only supporting their growing language proficiency, but also empowering them to share their linguistic and cultural identities. This practical guide, grounded in compelling research and organized around essential questions and answers, is designed to help all educators build on their current competencies to authentically harmonize home languages and cultures in the classroom. Inside you'll find • The emotional, social, linguistic, cognitive, and academic rationale for incorporating cultural and linguistic assets • Creatively illustrated powerful practices with concrete examples of successful implementation • Myth-busting reflections to spark critical thinking about diversity, inclusive education, and family engagement • Curriculum connections tied to American and Canadian standards By recognizing and validating every student's linguistic and cultural assets, you create a supportive environment for academic success.

The National Faculty Directory contains the names, departmental affiliations, institutional addresses, and phone numbers of nearly 1 million members of teaching faculties at nearly 4,500 American colleges and universities and 278 Canadian institutions that use instructional materials primarily in English. Updated and verified continuously, it is used by academic, public, and media libraries, and scholarly and research organizations.

Without warning stroke can paralyze, blind, or kill. Some victims recover, but many do not and may even suffer another disabling or fatal attack. The drug known as tPA can drastically reduce the long-term disability associated with stroke, but despite its near-miraculous capabilities and the growing support of most neurologists, it has been slow to win acceptance as the standard of care in emergency departments nationwide. tPA for Stroke chronicles how this remarkable drug came to be tested in stroke victims, its early years in development by the pharmaceutical giant Genentech, and its eventual marginalization due to a convergence of unfavorable political, fiscal, and medical circumstances. For instance, initially many stroke specialists were unconvinced that the drug's benefits outweigh its risks (tPA was originally developed and is still used for cardiac patients). Moreover, neurologists called upon to assess stroke patients have not typically been trained to make decisions in emergency settings--and tPA must be given within a scant few hours after stroke. These and other factors have continued to delay the drug's universal acceptance as the most effective treatment available, and to hamper the general public's awareness that such a treatment exists--a troubling state of affairs that Zivin and Simmons argue must be rectified. Instilling the knowledge that anyone, at any time, is susceptible to stroke, from the old and infirm to the young and healthy, tPA for Stroke is a clarion call to awareness in a rapidly changing healthcare environment in which stroke, long a disease in thrall to resignation and pessimism, must be neglected no longer.

Die Aus- und Weiterbildung europäischer Sprachenlehrkräfte gewinnt zunehmend an Bedeutung. Um den Anforderungen eines zeitgemäßen Sprachenunterrichts gerecht werden zu können, muss die Qualifizierung so gestaltet werden, dass sie angehenden und erfahrenen Lehrkräften als Modell ihres eigenen Unterrichts dienen kann. Dies ist nur zu erreichen, wenn das Bewusstsein für Sprachenvielfalt und Multikulturalität geweckt und Lehrenden Konzepte an die Hand gegeben werden, mit denen sie sprachensensible und autonome Lehr- und Lernformen realisieren können. Im Rahmen der 3. Internationalen Langscape-Tagung wurden Forschungsergebnisse und -desiderate aus bildungs- und gesellschaftspolitischer, unterrichtspraktischer und diskurstheoretischer Perspektive offen gelegt und durch examples of good practice illustriert. Foreign language teacher education across Europe is generating ever greater interest, In order to achieve the goals connected with the pedagogy of multiliteracies, teaching and teacher training has to be structured in a way that provides future teachers as well as experienced professionals with designs for their own classroom activities. This can only be achieved by offering life-long education programs that will raine awareness of language diversity and multiculturalism in Europe by providing and testing instruments to be used for reflection, external and self-evaluation and by providing teachers with a toolkit enabling them to test innovative and independent teaching and learning methods. In the course of the 3rd international Langscape conference research results and desiderata on educational, socio-political, practical/experiential and discourse theory perspectives were explored and illustrated by examples of good practice.

The history of the community and people of Conway County, Arkansas.