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"At risk." "Low." "Title I kids." If you've worked with students, you've probably heard or said these coded labels that reflect deficit thinking. This focus on weakness is a pervasive, powerful judgment that continues to harm students long after they leave school. It's time for educators to hack deficit thinking, think about SEL and about strength-based teaching, and reframe teaching and learning.

Extraordinary Learning for All delivers a hopeful, humane, realistic, and compelling portrait for how we must reinvent schooling for a new century, drawing on the voices and experiences of real school communities who are on that journey and illuminating the specific actions that school and system leaders can take to spark these journeys in their communities.

Turns out, not only is Ellie an alien, but an ancient and powerful relic housing the forbidden knowledge of a lost civilization is hidden deep within her genetic code. Suddenly, she's on the run from a malevolent Emperor who sees her as the key to ruling the galaxy.

Kidnapped by Volga County’s serial killer, Emily “Mills” Ellis finds herself trapped in a luxury building with everything she needs: art supplies, the time to create, and the support of a budding family. Everything, that is, except for food and rest. While her best friend Livvy searches to find her hiding place, Mills battles with her beliefs in art and her purpose within a creative universe.

Emily Ellis knows her talent as an artist has a purpose: to tell the stories of girls who are no longer able to tell their stories themselves. Girls are dying in the town of Volga, and no one seems to be talking about who or what is behind their deaths. Mill’s brushes do the talking. They’re special handmade brushes with unique bristles, and they seem to have a connection to the girls and what happened to them. There’s only one person who knows how dark that connection is. And he wants nothing more than to take the talent from each girl for himself, including Mills.