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What You Need to Know About Austin QuickBooks Professional Advisor

QuickBooks is a state of the art financial accounting application.  This software has everything you need to properly manage the financial side of your business.  Your bookkeeper therefore should be familiar with QuickBooks so that your company can maximize the power of technology in organizing your books.  Unfortunately, not all bookkeepers in Austin are familiar […]

Living Authors Are All Around Us

As a student in a small elementary school in central Iowa, I met my first author—at a book signing at a local bookstore. While the actual book and story didn’t make a big impression on me—I have no recollection of the author’s name or the title of the book—the experience has stayed with me. The […]

Variations Involving the Situated Performances of CPVs

At this stage, students are selected to play particular roles in the CPV (e.g., student, teacher, parent, principal, etc.) and try to respond to the situation as it unfolds. When using this technique, it is important to emphasize to the students in the audience that this is an extremely difficult activity and that the whole […]

Using Picture Books to Expand Adolescents’ Imaginings of Themselves and Others

Multicultural education and a multicultural curriculum are vital components of contemporary education. Today’s students are living in a “flat” world, a world in which infinite possibilities exist for transacting across cultures (Friedman). Unfortunately, as evidenced too frequently on the nightly news, not all of these transactions are positive, and “for all the trumpeted diversity in […]

The Language of Education Reform

Words on websites like these have the power to brainwash the public. For starters, accountability is just another way of saying adherence to a standard. We hold our students accountable by squishing them into a one-size-fits-all mold, while those marginalized from the “all” are, in short, left behind. Then there is the promise of higher […]