In this brief illustrated guide to the national monument located in Macon, Georgia, that conserves ancient Mississippian mounds and 12,000 years of human presence along the Ocmulgee River, Matthew Jennings and Gordon Johnston, like G.D. Pope and Lonnie Davis in earlier guides, introduce readers to the park's history, archaeology, Native cultures, and landscape. Jennings both updates the history and adds an account of the intercultural exchange that the park has brought about between the post-removal Muscogee Creek people native to the area and Georgians of the last several generations. This new guide braids into Jennings's concise historical overview Gordon Johnston's field notes and poems, written while Johnston was writer-in-residence at Ocmulgee National Monument, about the park's woods, streams, artifacts, and wildlife. The book includes transcriptions of oral stories by William Harjo (Muscogee) and an array of photographs and images, many of them new, that span the park's history, including Ocmulgee, an installation by artist Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds (Cheyenne/Arapaho) in Atlanta in 2005.

Ocmulgee Natl Monument

History

Jennings, Matthew

Johnston, Gordon

Americas

Mercer University Press

Teachers share one vital characteristic with students: they function best in settings that are organized enough to provide structure and focus, yet flexible enough to respect developmental and personality differences. In Leading Effective Meetings, Teams, and Work Groups in Districts and Schools, author and veteran educator Matthew Jennings provides everything you need to help the teachers in your school or district achieve their full potential: An overview of the research on collaboration and what it means for educators Step-by-step guidelines for designing and facilitating meetings Strategies for avoiding and resolving conflicts among educators Checklists, questionnaires, and rubrics for designing, implementing, and assessing work groups and teaching teams Whether you re setting up a complex district-level task force or a simple school faculty meeting, this comprehensive guide will ensure that you do so as efficiently and effectively as possible. Packed with field-proven activities, worksheets, and metrics, it is an indispensable resource for all educational leaders.

Leading Effective Meetings, Teams, and Work Groups in Districts and Schools: ASCD

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

ASCD

Macon has been a crossroads of cultures since Native Americans built the massive earthworks that now form the Ocmulgee National Monument. In the 19th century, fortunes rose and fell with the price of cotton for small farmers and businessmen, as well as plantation owners. The Civil War destroyed the plantation economy, but it left Macon’s historic treasures largely undisturbed. Though manufacturing replaced plantation slavery, cotton and race remained central facts of life as the “City of Churches” adapted to a changing world. From the 1950s onward, the city’s role as a textile center withered, but the likes of Little Richard, Otis Redding, and the Allman Brothers Band built a musical legacy for Macon that survives today.

Macon (Images of America)

Arts & Photography

Taylor, Stephen Wallace

Photography & Video

Arcadia Publishing

People have called the land near the Ocmulgee River in present-day central Georgia home for a long time, perhaps as many as 17,000 years, and each successive group has left its mark on the landscape. Mississippian-era people erected the towering Great Temple Mound and other large earthworks around 1,000 years ago. In the late 17th century, Ocmulgee flourished as a center of trade between the Creek Indians and their English neighbors. In the 19th century, railroads did irreparable damage to the site in the name of progress and profit, slicing through it twice. Preservation efforts bore fruit in the 1930s, when Ocmulgee National Monument was created. Since then, people from all over the world have visited Ocmulgee. They come for many reasons, but they invariably leave with a reverence for the place and the people who built it hundreds of years ago and those who have maintained it in recent decades.

Ocmulgee National Monument (Images of America)

From First Year to First Rate: Thriving during the Initial Years of Your Teaching Career

Administrators often assume new teachers come prepared with the foundational skills required to be effective teachers. Not only is this frequently a false assumption, but some of these skills do also not fully make sense until a teacher has responsibility for a classroom. To assist in the transition process, many teachers will attend orientation and be assigned a mentor. However, they will not receive professional development designed to establish the foundational skills of classroom management, direct instruction, classroom assessment and professionalism. These are the bedrock skills necessary for both short and long-term success as a professional educator. Through concise, research-based explanations and practical application activities, this book is designed to fill this void. Whether it is read alone, in concert with a mentor, or as part of a systematic district induction program, teachers that master the content of this text will become effective with their students.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Transforming Novices into Professionals: A Comprehensive and Systematic Guide to Teacher Induction

Review\nFar too often the induction of novice educators is relegated to an afterthought as competing priorities require precious resources be directed away from nurturing those who are new to the profession. In Transforming Novices into Professionals, Dr. Jennings presents a comprehensive, multi-year system of protocols and resources with the singular goal of developing professionals. Whether used "as is" or incorporated into existing processes, Dr. Jenning's thoughtful approach will support any school system aiming to develop and retain the expert educators all children deserve -- Anthony Ruela, Executive Director of Middle Schools, Data & School Improvement, Saline, Michigan\nAs a research driven educational leader, Dr. Jennings has provided our profession a book that captures the needs and effective steps for developing novice teachers. It teaches how to build a highly focused, systematic, and structured plan as well as providing the research, materials, rubrics, and timelines for implementation. 
-- David Bailey, Director of Human Resources, Millburn, New Jersey\nAs an administrator, one of the bigger challenges we face is recruiting and retaining dynamic teachers. Exceptional teaching is one of the most significant indicators of student achievement. Dr. Jennings has written a stellar playbook for administrators and teachers to follow in the vital area of new teacher orientation. For administrators, it will serve as a crucial resource to aid teacher retention and reduce burnout. For teachers it provides concrete actions and plans to succeed during the most crucial years in the profession. 
-- Richard DeMarco, Middle School Principal, New Egypt, New Jersey\nMentoring and induction are critical elements for supporting new teachers within a system that places its focus on improved teacher practice and high levels of student learning. Effective induction requires a team of trusted professionals that create a learning partnership in which learning, inquiry and observation are constantly paired with feedback and reflection on practice so that new teachers are successful. Dr. Jennings, in Transforming Novices into Professionals: A Systematic and Comprehensive Approach to Teacher Induction, proposes a four-year induction process that clearly outlines the instructional practices that new teachers must systematically learn, apply and implement in their classrooms to ensure that all students have equitable learning opportunities. Through his own experiences in building teacher capacity, the author has skillfully laid out a thoughtful progression of classroom practices and strategies that ensure that our newest professionals gain confidence and competence in the profession. This is a must read for all leaders who strive to sustain quality instruction and professionalism in their schools and districts. 
-- Vicki Duff, Coordinator of Professional Learning, Monroe, New Jersey\nMillions of novice teachers will be entering classrooms over the next few years. Unfortunately, due to feeling overwhelmed, frustrated and unsuccessfulmany of these teachers will not stay in education. If we are to succeed in staffing our schools with effective teachers, educational leaders must do a better job of supporting these teachers early in their careers. One form of support we can improve is the teacher induction process. In combination with the book From First Year to First Rate, this book provides all of the material necessary to provide a comprehensive, systematic multi-year teacher induction program. Through reflective activities, teachers that participate in this program will establish proficiency with classroom management, professionalism, assessment and instruction.

Increasing Student Achievement through High-Performance Teacher Leadership

Macon has been a crossroads of cultures since Native Americans built the massive earthworks that now form the Ocmulgee National Monument. In the 19th century, fortunes rose and fell with the price of cotton for small farmers and businessmen, as well as plantation owners. The Civil War destroyed the plantation economy, but it left Macon's historic treasures largely undisturbed. Though manufacturing replaced plantation slavery, cotton and race remained central facts of life as the "City of Churches" adapted to a changing world. From the 1950s onward, the city's role as a textile center withered, but the likes of Little Richard, Otis Redding, and the Allman Brothers Band built a musical legacy for Macon that survives today.

Macon

Arcadia Publishing Library Editions

From the early 1500s to the mid-1700s, the American Southeast was the scene of continuoustumult as European powers vied for dominance in the region while waging war on Native American communities. Yet even before Hernando de Soto landed his expeditionaryforce on the Gulf shores of Florida, Native Americans had created their own “cultures of violence”: sets of ideas about when it was appropriate to use violence and what sorts of violence were appropriate to a given situation.In New Worlds of Violence, Matthew Jennings offers a persuasive new framework for understanding the European–Native American contact period and the conflicts among indigenous peoples that preceded it. This pioneering approach posits that every group present in the Southeast had its own ideas about the use of violence and that these ideas changed over time as they collided with one another. The book starts with the Mississippian era and continues through the successive Spanish and English invasions of the Native South. Jennings argues that the English conquered the Southeast because they were able to force everyone else to adapt to their culture of violence, which, of course, changed over time as well. By 1740, a peculiarly Anglo-American culture of violence was in place that would profoundly influence the expansion of England’s colonies and the eventual southern United States. While Native and African violence were present in this world, they moved in circles defined by the English.New Worlds of Violence concludes by pointing out that long-lasting violence bears long-lasting consequences. An important contribution to the growing body of work on the early Southeast, this book will significantly broaden readers’ understanding of America’s violent past.Matthew Jennings is an assistant professor of history at Macon State College in Macon, Georgia. He is the author of “Violence in a Shattered World” in Mapping the Shatter Zone: The European Invasion and the Transformation of the Mississippian World, edited by Robbie Ethridge and Sheri Shuck-Hall. His work has also appeared in The Uniting States, The South Carolina Encyclopedia, A Multicultural History of the United States, and The Encyclopedia of Native American History.

New Worlds of Violence: Cultures and Conquests in the Early American Southeast

Univ Tennessee Press

Negotiating is both an art and a science that requires specific knowledge and skills. Few school administrator preparation programs provide training in negotiating skills. As a result, when faced with the need to negotiate, most school administrators rely on the negotiating skills they have learned from other life experiences. While these strategies may work well when attempting to purchase a car, such skills often leave Individualized Education Plan meeting participants feeling dissatisfied, worn out, and alienated. This book prepares school administrators to successfully negotiate complex deals between parents and school personnel. Clear step-by-step guidelines for preparing and leading these types of meetings are described.

Negotiating Individualized Education Programs: A Guide for School Administrators

R&L Education

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