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"In this must-read book for anyone striving to succeed, pioneering psychologist Angela Duckworth shows parents, educators, athletes, students, and business people--both seasoned and new--that the secret to outstanding achievement is not talent but a focused persistence called "grit." Why do some people succeed and others fail? Sharing new insights from her landmark research on grit, MacArthur "genius" Angela Duckworth explains why talent is hardly...
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It wasn't long after being named North Carolina History Teacher of the year that Justin Ashley started noticing signs of burnout. He knew he needed to make some radical changes in how he handled his work and personal life. In The Balanced Teacher Path, Justin shares his personal story-illuminating how easy it is to give your job everything you've got and leave yourself with nothing outside of school-and shows new teachers and veterans alike the self-care...
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An in-depth account and model of antiracist professional development for white practicing teachers.
Antiracist professional development for white teachers often follows a one-size-fits-all model, focusing on narrow notions of race and especially white privilege at the expense of more radical analyses of white supremacy. Frustrated with this model, Zachary A. Casey and Shannon K. McManimon, both white teacher educators, developed a two-year professional...
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In this galvanizing book for all educators, Kristin Souers and Pete Hall explore an urgent and growing issue--childhood trauma--and its profound effect on learning and teaching. Grounded in research and the authors' experience working with trauma-affected students and their teachers, Fostering Resilient Learners will help you cultivate a trauma-sensitive learning environment for students across all content areas, grade levels, and educational settings....
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In the broken public education sphere, how do educators find continued success? How do teachers not burn out and run away from this profession? Come on in and learn about how to engage your students to the max. Embed music, gamification, and experiences in the family classroom. Learn the untold truths of the classroom and a school. Future Teachers, you need this book before you step into a public school system for the first time as an educator. This...
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In this powerful new book, James Rickabaugh, former superintendent and current director of the Institute for Personalized Learning (IPL), presents the groundbreaking results of the Institute's half-decade of research, development, and practice: a simple but powerful model for personalizing students' learning experiences by building their levels of commitment, ownership, and independence. Tried and rigorously tested in urban, suburban, and rural districts--and...
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The Feeling of Teaching is part of a larger project, Teaching through Emotions (TTE), developed by the author, Elizabeth Burris. The project is based on these premises: * that teaching and learning depend on relationships; * that teaching is fraught with emotion, often negative; * that working through emotions can help illuminate the nature of classroom relationships, which points to ways teachers can improve their teaching; and * that teachers need...
8) ¡Dua Ahora!
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Katie Novak, una voz internacional líder en el Diseño Universal para el Aprendizaje (DUA), brinda conocimientos prácticos y estrategias inteligentes para ayudar a los educadores a tener éxito en la enseñanza de todos los estudiantes en el mundo pospandémico.
Esta poderosa guía cubre temas actuales que incluyen:
Aplicación del DUA en las aulas y en todos los sistemas escolares
Preocupaciones de equidad en contextos sociales, raciales, culturales...
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In this collection, Canadian scholars articulate a response to their collective concerns about the impact of global policy on teacher education, provoking a far-reaching dialogue about teacher education in and for our times.
The first two decades of the new millennium have witnessed unprecedented appraisal, analysis, and educational policy formulations related to teaching (K—12) across the Western world. In turn, teacher education has been greatly...
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“The Academic Sabbatical: A Voyage of Discovery” is a collection of narratives that reveals how important sabbaticals are to faculty and, by extension, to higher education. This in-depth look at the diverse experiences and perspectives provides a wealth of evidence that sabbaticals are instrumental in increasing productivity in terms of research and knowledge dissemination.
These periods of self-directed and focused work enable scholars to restore...
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What does it take to be a good school principal? No two principals work exactly the same way, but research shows that effective principals focus on a core set of factors critical to fostering success among all students.
In this second edition of Qualities of Effective Principals, James H. Stronge and Xianxuan Xu delineate these factors and show principals how to successfully balance the needs and priorities of their schools while continuously developing...
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Ensure your school's grading procedures are supportive of learning, accurate, meaningful, and consistent. Discover how the "seven essential Ps" can improve your effectiveness in supporting assessment and communicating student achievement. You will also learn how to avoid inaccurate grades caused by penalties for lateness or academic dishonesty; extra credit; group rather than individual work; and marking down for attendance.
13) UPS Handbook
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Not an engineer, but need to know the basics of battery backup power? UPS Handbook breaks down the complex world of Uninterruptible Power Supply systems into simple-to-understand language. If you need to know the basics of UPS systems but not the expertise of how to repair them, this book is for you.
· What is an Uninterruptible Power Supply system?
· How do they work?
· Which is right for you?
· What is a UPS topology?
· What maintenance is...
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What really motivates students to learn? What gets them interested-and keeps them interested-in pursuing knowledge and understanding? Recent neuroscientific findings have uncovered the source of our motivation to learn, or as neuroscientist Jaak Panksepp terms it, the drive to seek. Seeking is what gets us out of bed in the morning, the engine that powers our actions, and the need that manifests as curiosity. Informed by new findings on the nature...
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Good Documentation Practices (GDP) in Pharmaceutical Industry document contains the the instructions which are required to be followed for compliance of Good Documentation Practices (GDP) during preparation, data entry, recording and reporting of all types of documents in the plant. This is the basic requirements for the persons working in pharmaceutical industry.
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In this guide to project management, geared toward "virgins", or first-time/inexperienced project managers, author Chandra Worthington provides a simple, straightforward plan of action for success. Using clear language, Worthington offers tips on everything from effective project management to the steps involved in such an undertaking. She provides a quick sketch of the type of person who would make a good project manager, and she lists skills found...
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What do you want to be when you grow up? What do you want to specialize in your last year of school? You have been at your job for two years now, are you staying? Are you growing? WHAT`S NEXT?
Too many questions and not enough answers! And while theoretical answers to these questions are appreciated, the best answers come from real-life experiences of the people who are right in the midst of it.
Let`s concern ourselves with the topic of certification....
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"Teaching Bites" is an impactful and enlightening book written for every teacher who has ever felt frustrated, tired, unappreciated or uninspired. No matter who you are or where you come from, you will be able to relate to these wonderful short stories. Everything written here is based on real-life events from the author's 25 years of teaching in public and private schools. A must-read for Christians, this book is certain to inspire you and help you...
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Innovation is a process built by many hands and its definition makes it very clear that innovation is linked to practice, bringing benefits to something or someone.
Education and innovation are a duo that is still going strong, but has a lot to gain. After all, being able to think about education and the teaching and learning process through the lens of "what can I do differently?" is an opportunity to bring new ideas to a space that inspires this...
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There are over 90,000 trade, membership, and professional associations in the United States, and more than 1 million charitable or philanthropic organizations, each managed by association executives and professionals that are dedicated to the mission, services, and social good provided by each institution. Perhaps you are one of these executives, or are considering a career in this important field. You may be surprised to learn that there are, in...
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