Administrators must respond to parents, students, and stakeholders in the wake of a school crisis in order to inform them, allay fears, and to counteract rumors. Most often, school superintendents, principals, deans, and school security officers seek a concise reference for help in writing messages when a crisis occurs. This book, which includes completed models and sample letter responses, addresses daily issues ranging from bullying to student dropout rates and it offers more than thirty completed documents to work with, to adapt to, and to utilize. Using or reworking the examples provided...

This book contains the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Agile Software Development, XP 2016, held in Edinburgh, UK, in May 2016.While agile development has already become mainstream in industry, this field is still constantly evolving and continues to spur an enormous interest both in industry and academia.

A coloring book specially for knitters. The book starts with the yarn, just as every knitted project starts, and continues with fabric structures, sweaters and finally complete outfits. Included are some blank graphs so that you can create your own color patterns before transposing them to the blank swatches. Inspired by Japanese craft books, the pages are simple and clean with plenty of white space so that the knitting is showcased. Helen Sharp's individual illustrations stem from her decades-long career as a sweater designer and educator and lover of all things knitted. Sit back, relax and...