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The use of instructional coaching as a follow-up component to high-quality professional development experiences is being used to improve classroom instruction to meet the requirements of NCLB and promote organizational change. The purpose of this study was to determine the minimum number of coaching sessions necessary to translate new strategies and skills learned during a summer institute into classroom practice.

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Kidnapped by raiding Abnaki Indians during the French and Indian War, seventeen-year-old Sarah must make a choice between life in slavery or death by torture.

A young Eskimo vows to avenge his parents'' violent deaths, but over the years that it takes him to become a master archer, he outgrows his hatred.

Matthew and his Eskimo friend, Kayak, set out on a dangerous overland rescue mission when Matthew''s father is lost in the Canadian Arctic during a geological mission. Based on the actual experiences of a boy lost in the Canadian Arctic.

In 1803, a New England trading ship put in at the Nootkan village of the Eagle House on the Canadian Pacific coast. Its purposes were to replenish provisions, barter for valuable sea otter pelts and, incidentally, to obtain sexual services of the young village women. A group of rebellious Indian youths, infuriated by the arrogance and disdain of the white men, carried out a violent plan to massacre the crew and plunder the ship. Surviving the slaughter were Jewitt, the appealing and skilful ironsmith, and Thompson, the dour sailmaker. "Eagle Song is the turbulent tale of their two-year captivity, seen through the eyes of Siam, a Nootkan nobleman.

A study to determine annual burning hours for street lights to help in reducing city''s electricity costs.