The CLAIMING FACE curriculum is designed to support all of us, but especially children, to engage with creativity in order to know ourselves and be empowered to live our best lives. It is not about art, although art is made. It is about process. It is about life. Through exploration of the philosophy and its development, imagination exercises and questions, resource materials for art and literacy, as well as a vast and diverse sense of self-portraiture projects, the Claiming#13; Face curriculum lays out a feast of creative involvement to support first you, the educator and then the student in the classroom. This is an excellent tool to encourage higher thinking, strong self esteem, life skills, cultural diversity, ESL education and a lifelong connection to creativity.#13; Through your empowered model of presence in the classroom and the Claiming Face projects you will support your students to use creativity to:#13; - create their own reflection#13; - reflect on and know their selves #13; - empower and trust in their own knowing#13; - explore and expand their sense of self#13; - be free to be all that they are#13; Why would this be important? The stronger we feel in ourselves, the stronger we are in every aspect of our lives. When we have a strong sense of self it helps us to learn, make supportive choices, respect ourselves and those around us, and to care about our lives and ultimately our world. CLAIMING FACE and claiming creativity will resource us as a people to create a world in which we are made stronger through genuine reflection, through knowing that we all belong here now, and through understanding our creative potential. This is our world.

[Siren Classic BDSM: Erotic Romance, Contemporary, Science Fiction, BDSM, MF, HEA] Mia Ember is suffocating in her life. She has a good job and provides well for herself, but her personal life is a mess. She needs a break, so she goes off to Nevada to visit her best friend. The visit only emphasizes how far she has fallen in the last year. Then she meets Korbin and she is enchanted from the moment she locks eyes with his. Korbin is not who he appears to be. Long ago, his race volunteered to protect Earth from other races who would strip the planet of its natural resources and force the humans into slave labor. The human government’s only restriction on them is to never reveal to the population they are here. His job has always been easy, until he meets Mia. From the moment he saw her walk into the bar, he wanted her. He assumes one night with her would satisfy his desire for her, but he wants more. The secrets he keeps endangers their fragile love for one another. Can she overcome who and what he is and accept a reality she never imagined could be possible?

With her family’s legacy on the line, a woman with everything to lose must rely on a man hiding from his past… Oklahoma, 1890 Frontier women don’t ride off alone to track an outlaw—not even women as capable as tomboy spinster Willa Malone. But Willa desperately needs the bounty money offered for her father’s killer if she’s to keep their homestead and take care of her sisters. That means she needs an expert tracker's help. Gideon Hartley has the skill, but the handsome trail guide also has a troubling secret… Gideon has spent years trying to numb his pain with whiskey. Little by little, their quest—and Willa’s belief in him—is restoring the sense of purpose he thought he’d lost. Journeying into the heart of danger, they’ll have to face down the past together if they hope to protect their future… “Linda Goodnight is a writer who pulls readers into her stories with characters who come off the pages with life.” —Jodi Thomas, New York Times bestselling author

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