Transnational adoption was once a rarity in the United States, but Americans have been choosing to adopt children from abroad with increasing frequency... since the mid-twentieth century. Korean adoptees make up the largest share of international adoptions 25 percent of all children adopted from outside the United States but they remain understudied among Asian American groups. What kind of identities do adoptees develop as members of American families and in a cultural climate that often views them as foreigners? Choosing Ethnicity, Negotiating Race is the first study of this unique population to collect in-depth interviews with a multigenerational, random sample of adult Korean adoptees. The book examines how Korean adoptees form their social identities and compares them to native-born Asian Americans who are not adopted. How do American stereotypes influence the ways Korean adoptees identify themselves? Does the need to explore a Korean cultural identity or the absence of this need shift according to life stage or circumstance? In Choosing Ethnicity, Negotiating Race, sixty-one adult Korean adoptees representing different genders, social classes, and communities reflect on early childhood, young adulthood, their current lives, and how they experience others' perceptions of them. The authors find that most adoptees do not identify themselves strongly in ethnic terms, although they will at times identify as Korean or Asian American in order to deflect questions from outsiders about their cultural backgrounds. Indeed, Korean adoptees are far less likely than their non-adopted Asian American peers to explore their ethnic backgrounds by joining ethnic organizations or social networks. Adoptees who do not explore their ethnic identity early in life are less likely ever to do so citing such causes as general aversion, lack of opportunity, or the personal insignificance of race, ethnicity, and adoption in their lives. Nonetheless, the choice of many adoptees not to identify as Korean or Asian American does not diminish the salience of racial stereotypes in their lives. Korean adoptees must continually navigate society's assumptions about Asian Americans regardless of whether they choose to identify ethnically.Choosing Ethnicity, Negotiating Race is a crucial examination of this little-studied American population and will make informative reading for adoptive families, adoption agencies, and policymakers. The authors demonstrate that while race is a social construct, its influence on daily life is real. This book provides an insightful analysis of how potent this influence can be for transnational adoptees and all Americans.

Choosing Health uses student stories, social-networking tools, and a wealth of online resources to speak to today's students better than any other... personal health textbook. With its magazine-style design and inclusion of real student stories (both online and in the printed text), this text is the one that you can most relate to–and the one that will most inspire you to choose a healthy lifestyle.    Health-related stories from real college students are woven throughout the book, accompanied by videos of real students on the book's companion website. A "Health Online" feature points you to online podcasts, videos, and resources related to health topics and encourages them to become a part of Choosing Health's lively online health community via Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. The text also provides unique, practical tools to help you see the relevance of health education and make informed decisions about their lifestyle choices. An ultra-modern, magazine-style design encourages you to read, and the writing style is conversational and student-friendly without watering down content or academic rigor.

  Books a la Carte are unbound, three-hole-punch versions of the textbook. This lower cost option is easy to transport and comes with same access... code or media that would be packaged with the bound book.   Choosing Health uses student stories, social-networking tools, and a wealth of online resources to speak to today's students better than any other personal health textbook. With its magazine-style design and inclusion of real student stories (both online and in the printed text), this text is the one that students can most relate to–and the one that will most inspire them to choose a healthy lifestyle.    Health-related stories from real college students are woven throughout the book, accompanied by videos of real students on the book's Companion Website. A "Health Online" feature points students to online podcasts, videos, and resources related to health topics, and encourages them to become a part of Choosing Health's lively online health community via Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube.  The text also provides unique, practical tools to help students see the relevance of health education and make informed decisions about their lifestyle choices. An ultra-modern, magazine-style design encourages students to read, and the writing style is conversational and student-friendly without watering down content or academic rigor.          This package contains: Books a la Carte for Choosing Health MyHealthLab Student Access Code Card for Choosing Health

Choosing Health uses student stories, social-networking tools, and a wealth of online resources to speak to today's students better than any other... personal health textbook. With its magazine-style design and inclusion of real student stories (both online and in the printed text), this text is the one that you can most relate to–and the one that will most inspire you to choose a healthy lifestyle.    Health-related stories from real college students are woven throughout the book, accompanied by videos of real students on the book's companion website. A "Health Online" feature points you to online podcasts, videos, and resources related to health topics and encourages them to become a part of Choosing Health's lively online health community via Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. The text also provides unique, practical tools to help you see the relevance of health education and make informed decisions about their lifestyle choices. An ultra-modern, magazine-style design encourages you to read, and the writing style is conversational and student-friendly without watering down content or academic rigor.

A dramatic and carefully detailed account of one family's journey through the maze of genetic counseling, medical technology, and disability rights;... destined to become required reading for anyone touched by any of these issues.

COACH is better than ever! Now with practical updates based on user feedback and a new streamlined format for easier use, the third edition of this... bestselling guide can be the key to effective educational planning for students with intensive special education needs in inclusion-oriented schools. Based on 25 years of field-testing and widely used by thousands of education teams, COACH is the educational planning choice for students ages 3 21 in supported general education settings. Retaining the core elements of the popular previous editions, this revised edition organizes planning into a clear step-by-step process that has never been easier to implement. Professionals and families will have an effective process to help them collaborate on individualized educational plans that promote inclusive opportunities for students with a range of developmental disabilities. Education teams will discover how to implement a collaborative and family-centered approach to teamwork explore the current and future status of valued life outcomes identify appropriate curriculum areas to assess rate and select high-priority learning outcomes to be targets of instruction determine which aspects of the general education curriculum should be targets of instruction choose the supports students need to reach their goals develop meaningful annual goals and short-term objectives that reflect each student's individual priorities create a program-at-a-glance that keeps critical information handy throughout the school day COACH comes with the essential materials educators need to engage in collaborative educational planning. Ready-to-use, fillable forms and tools now on CD-ROM for easy access help educators organize goals and objectives, determine their students' learning styles, schedule class activities, plan and adapt instruction, evaluate the impact of instruction on student outcomes, and more. To model successful COACH implementation, this book also walks readers through three complete examples of the COACH process for a kindergartner, an elementary school student, and a transition-age teenager. With this streamlined planning process, educators and families will ensure that each student's education plan has real substance, addresses individual goals, and leads directly to positive, meaningful outcomes. What's New CD-ROM with fillable electronic versions of the forms, plus examples and supplemental materials Updated introductory information establishing a contemporary context for the use of COACH Increased focus on access to the general education curriculum Streamlined COACH process for easier implementation Reorganized descriptions and directions Updated and simplified student record forms Information about COACH and alternate assessment A tool to assist teams in clarifying their respective roles

Under the influence of the media, it is easy to forget the tremendous impact of the speaker on an audience. Today's media enables speakers who once... addressed hundreds in auditoriums to increase their public to millions through television. Dr. Carpenter's relevant research and careful scholarship about how to pick the best words and arrange them in the best orders will help the speaker become a stylist and slogan-maker whose sentences may become sound bites on the evening news or quoted in newspaper accounts the day after the speech has been made. This book prepares speakers to potentially change one little corner of the world - and perhaps the world itself -- through powerful words.

Work. Family. Church. Hobbies. Fitness. Housekeeping. Socializing. Sleep. With only 24 hours in each day, we simply can't fit everything in. And what we... choose to cheat is a clear announcement of our values. When you come home an hour earlier, miss a round of golf, or let the dishes sit while you play with your child, you make your family feel valued and secure. Bestselling author Andy Stanley helps you restore your vision of what really matters - and guides you in making courageous decisions about your time.Who are you cheating? You love your family. You love the challenges of your job. But there’s not enough of you to go around. Somebody isn’t getting as much of your attention as they want or deserve. This little book presents a strategic plan for resolving the tension between work and home—reversing the destructive pattern of giving to your company and career what belongs to your family. But be forewarned...you will have to cheat. Story Behind the BookAndy has spent hundreds of hours with men and women who have cheated their families for the sake of their career goals. They all admitted knowing there was a problem. This is not a struggle relegated to some diminutive segment of society. We all wrestle with the tension between work and family. Regardless of which side of the equation you are on, you know what it is like to deal with the endless cycle of guilt, anger, jealousy, and rejection. But there is a solution. Strangely enough, the solution is similar to the problem. Both involve cheating. Simply put, you must choose to cheat at work rather than at home.

Choosing to Participate focuses on the civic choices—both large and small—people make about themselves and others in their community, nation, and... world. As teachers and students explore the readings in this collection they will come to understand that choices people make may not seem important at the time, but little by little they shape us as individuals and responsible global citizens. The stories in this collection focus on individuals and groups—the famous and the not so famous—wrestling with a question that many young people ask, How can I make a positive difference in the world? This resource is a valuable addition to units on civics, government, and US history. Features include: 10 readings centered around the following themes: civic participation, democracy, bystanders vs. upstanders, community, segregation; 2 new readings tell the story of social change (My Country Tis of Thee) and civic participation (From Sympathy to Action); Accompanying video/audio links add a multimedia component to each reading; Connection Questions to stimulate classroom conversation

"They aren't going to read A Tale of Two Cities no matter how many times we assign it. Put Dickens away for a bit and try some books that will turn your... students into real readers." -Joan Schroeder Kindig What do we ultimately want from our students as readers? More than just becoming readers, we want them to want to read. Drawing on her personal experiences as a professor of reading education and a children's literature specialist, Joan Schroeder Kindig shares the secrets of how to turn your reading program into one that allows for student choice, entices children with books that are relevant to their lives, and turns kids into real readers. This conversational text has everything you need to jump-start kids reading by harnessing their social life and providing meaningful texts, including: dynamite book lists, organized by topic, that will spark all readers interests 15 easy steps on how to become a children's literature expert along with guiding principles for identifying books kids will read quick and easy assessments, including the running record and five-finger rule, to identify each student's independent, instructional, and frustration reading levels. PLUS! Essays on student choice and relevance from eight of the hottest young adult authors. Reading is a choice. Motivate your students to read by connecting them to books they can relate to.