handbook teaching practical strategies

books:

Your Quick & Easy Car Care and Safe Driving Handbook
Laura Flynn McCarthy

Nelson Doubleday, 1988

An indispensable source of information for the average car owner, this guide contains no superfluous details or fancy schematic illustrations--just simple, easy-to-understand text and drawings on everything from emergency procedures to locating a reliable mechanic to basic car maintenance. 20 line drawings.

Muscle Shoals (AL) (Images of America)
Laura Flynn Tapia, Yoshie Lewis

Arcadia Publishing, 2007

Long known as “the Shoals,” Muscle Shoals saw its formal birth as an incorporated city in 1923. It really sprang to life in 1933, when the Tennessee Valley Authority took shape on the Tennessee River and became the nation’s largest public power company. The construction crew for the Wilson Dam and power plant was one of the region’s first racially integrated workforces. Some truly influential figures of the 20th century came to Muscle Shoals to ...

Teaching Writing With Rubrics: Practical Strategies and Lesson Plans for Grades 2-8

1 review
Laura A. Flynn, Ellen M. Flynn

Corwin Press, 2004

With eleven comprehensive and classroom tested lessons plans
Co-authored by classroom education experts Laura and Ellen Flynn, Teaching Writing With Rubrics: Practical Strategies And Lesson Plans For Grades 2-8 is a very strongly recommended compendium of "teacher friendly" step-by-step instructions on creating a classroom writing program using rubrics to explain at a glance what is being taught, how it is taught, and how the students will be graded. ...

Swallow the Ocean: A Memoir

17 reviews
Laura M. Flynn

Counterpoint, 2008

Unpretentious and honest
Finally, a memoir that isn't so caught up in itself that it's too cerebral to be readable. Laura has an uncanny ability to make the unimaginable relatable. The story is beautifully written with honesty, making the family familiar and relevant to the reader. The language keeps the story from becoming bigger than itself in the retelling. It gives candid appraisal of a child's unconditional love ...

Eyes of the Heart: Seeking a Path for the Poor in the Age of Globalization

8 reviews
Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Laura Flynn

Common Courage Pr, 2004

Thinking Outside the Box
By all accounts, life for Haiti's desperately poor majority is difficult. By most accounts, that life is hopeless- newspaper reports see only squalor, development strategies see only economic enslavement as the lesser of evils, even supporters of Haiti cannot see the country escaping the rut of its history. President Aristide, as he has always done, finds hope. He finds hope in his people's ...