Rosemary Woods Livres

Tree of Life is a dazzling introduction to the incredible variety of life on Earth, from the team behind the bestselling If The World Were a Village. Children learn that humans are just one leaf on a tree with almost two million species.

Meili is an imaginary giant panda with a special gift. Guided by a strange and powerful Buddhist monk, Meili learns to use the extraordinary gift she has inherited from her ancestors to understand and even influence the thoughts of others. The stories in this book tell of the unusual and fascinating lives of her ancestors, beginning with her great-great-grandmother Bao Bao and continuing through several generations of giant pandas. As the gift showed up generation after generation in Meili's family tree, it changed as it adapted to those different personalities. When the gift eventually found its way to Meili, it allowed her to communicate with Wenling on a deep and meaningful level, changing Wenling's life and helping her find her destiny.

Learning Communities in Educational Partnerships shows how theory and practice come into lived interplay in social spaces where theory informs practice and practice turns into theory. Drawing on their own experiences of becoming a learning community, the authors introduce the ideas underpinning self-study action research. Through a series of first-hand practitioner accounts, the chapters describe and explain how to engage in processes of inquiry and establish learning communities, how to make space for professional conversations and how to develop living theories from within daily practice. The book shows how meaningful change can take place, both in educational improvements and also in more transformative professional learning, when educators are encouraged to draw on their own personal educational values and share their idea