In All Lanes

In All Lanes

Author: Taryn Fletcher

Publisher: Teachour Future

Published: 2021-03-08

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 9781736834503

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Are you feeling like there's no better time than RIGHT NOW to rethink school in ways that advance racial equity and enable social change in your school community?Are you feeling helpless and unsure, but know there's a better way (than what's happening right now) to make your program more culturally and socially inclusive?Are you a roll-up-your-sleeves kind of leader that likes to take action right away, especially when and where there's a need?In 2020, almost every single household with school-aged children was forced to turn to distance learning methods, further exposing inequities in education, work, and technology. Millions of students have been missing from classroom instruction altogether because their community lacked equity and access.Courageously, your school managed through, but student engagement is at an all time low, teachers are overburdened, and classroom disruptions are topping their to-do lists. You can't help but notice, 80% of your teachers are white, mimicking the national average, and this cultural mismatch, between your students and teachers, is ever more prevalent given our nation's current climate. Now, is the time to rethink school to include what all students need in order to feel empowered, valued, and courageous in their own skin. Dr. Taryn Fletcher presents clear action steps that will build the stamina needed to fight social justice issues in your school and community-- and the framework tucked inside makes this work sustainable for years and years to come.IN ALL LANES presents rich ideas about what's broken in our school systems that even 20-year veteran leaders would have never considered.IN ALL LANES is a relatable and transformative resource that is packed with doable, concise, and easily implemented action steps that will help you build a bicultural learning environment. Don't wait. Read this book to unlock learning and deeper engagement for all your students.


What Lane?

What Lane?

Author: Torrey Maldonado

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2021-05-11

Total Pages: 145

ISBN-13: 0525518452

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"If you are wondering how to begin confronting Anti-Black racism in your classroom, start with What Lane?"--School Library Journal: The Classroom Bookshelf "STAY IN YOUR LANE." Stephen doesn't want to hear that--he wants to have no lane. Anything his friends can do, Stephen should be able to do too, right? So when they dare each other to sneak into an abandoned building, he doesn't think it's his lane, but he goes. Here's the thing, though: Can he do everything his friends can? Lately, he's not so sure. As a mixed kid, he feels like he's living in two worlds with different rules--and he's been noticing that strangers treat him differently than his white friends . . . So what'll he do? Hold on tight as Stephen swerves in and out of lanes to find out which are his--and who should be with him. Torrey Maldonado, author of the highly acclaimed Tight, does a masterful job showing a young boy coming of age in a racially split world, trying to blaze a way to be his best self.


Changing Lanes

Changing Lanes

Author: Kathleen S. Long

Publisher: Lake Union Publishing

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781611099454

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Abby Halladay has the perfect life in Paris (New Jersey, that is). Then her fiancé Fred runs away to Paris (France, that is), her column is canned, and her dream home is diagnosed with termites. Forced to move back in with her parents and drive her dad's cab, Abby slowly but surely must begin to let go of her dreams of perfection and embrace the messy, imperfect life she thought she never wanted.


Lane

Lane

Author: LeAnn Ashers

Publisher: LeAnn Ashers

Published: 2018-06-20

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13:

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Amelia I'm screwed. I'm screwed, plain and simple. How, you ask? This tattooed, bearded alpha popped into my life and took it over, driving me insane. Am I complaining? Hell no. Do I love him? Yes, more than anything—and his daughter too. Lane is everything to me. He came into my life when I needed him the most. I just didn’t know it at the time. He completes me. He is someone I have waited for my whole life. Lane This five-foot-two, feistier-than-shit woman came into my life and knocked me on my ass. She brings out every protective instinct I have, and I’m ready to go nuclear if someone even looks at her. I love two people in this world more than life itself: Amelia and my daughter, Tiffany. Someone made the biggest mistake of their life by trying to take them both away. Game on. **This book is book one in what will be a series of Inter-connected standalones*


Bowling Beyond the Basics

Bowling Beyond the Basics

Author: James Freeman

Publisher: BowlSmart

Published: 2018-07-12

Total Pages: 419

ISBN-13: 173241002X

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"Why did I leave the 10-pin on that shot?" "Why isn't my ball hitting the pocket anymore?" "Should I change balls, or move?" "How heavy should my ball be?" "What's the best bowling ball?" "How do I get more hook?" "Why do I keep missing my spares?" Bowlers are faced with endless questions, problems, and choices every time we bowl. Answers and solutions abound, but a great many of them are ineffective or just plain wrong. How do we know what to do? How do we know what to believe? In this book we examine: What doesn't work, and what bowlers have wrong. What's really happening on the lanes, and how things really work. What you need to change to get back to striking. How to properly make that change. We teach you how to figure out exactly what's wrong with your shot. We show you all of the adjustments available to you, teach you what each one actually does, and show you how and when to apply it. We give you strategies that will improve your lane play and your decision making. Finally, we teach you a mathematically sound spare system that will simplify your game and make picking up your spares an easy proposition. We give you all of the knowledge and tools you need to take your game to the next level and become the bowler you want to be.


Better Than Good

Better Than Good

Author: Lane Hayes

Publisher: Dreamspinner Press

Published: 2013-07

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 1623806399

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Matt Sullivan understands labels: law student, athlete, heterosexual. He has goals: graduate and begin his career in law. One fateful night, Matt tags along with his gay roommate to a dance club and everything changes. Matt finds himself attracted to the most beautiful man he's ever seen. All labels go flying out the window. Aaron Mendez doesn't believe in labels, and he's leery of straight curious men. He makes it clear that he'll hide his fabulous light for no one. While Aaron can't deny the attraction between him and Matt, he is reluctant to start anything with someone who is still dealing with what this new label means-especially when that someone has a girlfriend.


Fifteen Lanes

Fifteen Lanes

Author: S. J. Laidlaw

Publisher: Tundra Books (NY)

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 1101917806

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Set in the fifteen lanes that comprise Mumbai's red light district Fifteen Lanes compellingly explores class, race and gender through the alternating voices of two teenage protagonists. Noor lives in a Mumbai brothel with her mother and siblings and is immensely grateful for the chance to go to school, hoping it will help her escape being sold into the sex trade. Grace is the Canadian daughter of the CEO of one of Mumbai's largest banks. When the two eventually meet at a NGO support centre for women and children, their lives and perspectives are irrevocably changed.


8 Lanes

8 Lanes

Author: Denisha Hardeman

Publisher: Jones and Wright Publishing

Published: 2015-12-30

Total Pages: 235

ISBN-13: 9780996722025

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Niyah Coleman is a high school track star with her whole life ahead of her. With good grades and track skills, Niyah has scholarships piling up at her doorstep. But when Niyah gets involved in fights and a twisted bank robbery months before the season is over, Niyah is left with almost no hope of attending any colleges on a scholarship. However, the track coach from Bay University needs Niyah to run for them in order for the University to keep the track team afloat. The coach makes a deal with Niyah, she has to perform on the track and in the classroom exceptionally well in order for her to keep her scholarship. If she fails in any of these areas, she will be sent home. Niyah agrees to be a well- rounded student athlete and a great person on and off the field no matter what. Niyah starts off keeping her word at Bay University, but soon finds her difficulties mounting. After grappling with a new relationship, failing grades, and a slipping performance on the track, Niyah finds herself keeping secrets and losing friends. After facing assault, abuse, and deadly encounters Niyah finds herself with a desperation to return to her life of promise before she loses everything she ever wanted. Can Niyah get her life back on track before she is sent home permanently? What do you do when your problems run faster than you?


Bike Lanes Are White Lanes

Bike Lanes Are White Lanes

Author: Melody L Hoffmann

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 2016-07-01

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 0803276788

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The number of bicyclists is increasing in the United States, especially among the working class and people of color. In contrast to the demographics of bicyclists in the United States, advocacy for bicycling has focused mainly on the interests of white upwardly mobile bicyclists, leading to neighborhood conflicts and accusations of racist planning. In Bike Lanes Are White Lanes, scholar Melody L. Hoffmann argues that the bicycle has varied cultural meaning as a “rolling signifier.” That is, the bicycle’s meaning changes in different spaces, with different people, and in different cultures. The rolling signification of the bicycle contributes to building community, influences gentrifying urban planning, and upholds systemic race and class barriers. In this study of three prominent U.S. cities—Milwaukee, Portland, and Minneapolis—Hoffmann examines how the burgeoning popularity of urban bicycling is trailed by systemic issues of racism, classism, and displacement. From a pro-cycling perspective, Bike Lanes Are White Lanes highlights many problematic aspects of urban bicycling culture and its advocacy as well as positive examples of people trying earnestly to bring their community together through bicycling.


Changing Lanes

Changing Lanes

Author: Joseph F. DiMento

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 380

ISBN-13: 0262018586

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The story of the evolution of the urban freeway, the competing visions that informed it, and the emerging alternatives for more sustainable urban transportation. Urban freeways often cut through the heart of a city, destroying neighborhoods, displacing residents, and reconfiguring street maps. These massive infrastructure projects, costing billions of dollars in transportation funds, have been shaped for the last half century by the ideas of highway engineers, urban planners, landscape architects, and architects -- with highway engineers playing the leading role. In Changing Lanes, Joseph DiMento and Cliff Ellis describe the evolution of the urban freeway in the United States, from its rural parkway precursors through the construction of the interstate highway system to emerging alternatives for more sustainable urban transportation. DiMento and Ellis describe controversies that arose over urban freeway construction, focusing on three cases: Syracuse, which early on embraced freeways through its center; Los Angeles, which rejected some routes and then built I-105, the most expensive urban road of its time; and Memphis, which blocked the construction of I-40 through its core. Finally, they consider the emerging urban highway removal movement and other innovative efforts by cities to re-envision urban transportation.