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Avoid Sloppy Thinking, Do Thorough Analysis, Improve Your Logic and Arguments and Make Smarter Decisions. If you've often struggled in developing deeper thinking and analytical skills; If you're guilty of making decisions based on your gut and regretted later, if you have always wondered if there is some easy to learn step-by-step framework to master critical thinking, then keep reading! Yes, you are about to uncover the secrets of how intelligent...
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When you pursue a career path, how often do you think what is required to be a leader, achieve success, and see failure as a positive? As you read this book, you will understand how reflection, perspective, and opportunity are critical in every aspect of your life and how developing into the person you dream of being requires more from you than you think. This book covers important questions that people ask themselves at some point in their lives:
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When I looked at Rosalia's face she was pale as a ghost. Her smile was gone and for a brief moment I thought her eyes looked 'dead.' This haunting image would stay with me for years. Eventually I came to understand why I had the haunting image of Rosalia. I had allowed my own unknown prejudice to show through and it targeted her. I condoned the prejudice message that said it was okay to treat Rosalia unworthy simply because she was different from...
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Every life has beginning. Your life began when two people a man and a woman or one of these two decided to cause an act. That act could be a well-thought-through event or a random one, by consensus addendum, or otherwise. What is certain is that either one or both parties made a decision, whether it was a good one or not, one thing is indisputably certain; you are a product of decision.
Decisions are constant requirement, without which nothing can...
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[2015]
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IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
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1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm
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A boy wants all of the pets in a pet store but he and his sister can choose only one. End notes discuss Dr. Seuss's pets, his creative process, and the discovery of the manuscript and illustrations for "What Pet Should I Get?"
88) Awake and Ready
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Everyone Operates from a Different Level of Energy
What works for one person won't necessarily work for another. Based on Paramhansa Yogananda's practical principles on energy and form, Awake and Ready, offers real-life examples, simple, and useful suggestions to help guide and motivate people at every level.
DISCOVER THESE 8 KEYS
To ease tensions, improve relationships, and create happier environments ... in your home, workplace, or classroom.
• Excitement...
89) The New Leadership Literacies: Thriving in a Future of Extreme Disruption and Distributed Everything
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A rapid and massively disruptive shift from centralized to distributed organizations has already begun. But current leadership practices were designed for large, centralized organizations, making them increasingly obsolete. Bob Johansen, who has been projecting future trends from Silicon Valley since 1968, outlines five literacies leaders need to develop to cope with this brave new world. Johansen says leaders need the literacy of projecting themselves...
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Some negotiations are easy. Others are more difficult. And then there are situations that seem completely hopeless. Conflict is escalating, people are getting aggressive, and no one is willing to back down. And to top it off, you have little power or other resources to work with. Harvard professor and negotiation adviser Deepak Malhotra shows how to defuse even the most potentially explosive situations and to find success when things seem impossible.
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In this book, “Scenarios in Higher Education Leadership: Improving Your Leadership Intelligence Volume 2”, Maulding Green and Leonard have provided the reader with a continuing series of situational judgement test (SJT) scenarios, used in a training process that assists both novice and experienced leaders to grow their Leadership Intelligence. The twist, in this second edition, is that the majority of the scenarios are based on the experiences...
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Robert Durocher partage son expérience et son vécu comme enseignant. Il fait une critique du système éducatif actuel du Québec, notamment de la réforme de l'Éducation, et propose quelques pistes de solution facilement applicables dans les écoles. Son livre est un véritable témoignage de terrain, car il raconte ses pratiques gagnantes aux enseignantes et enseignants.
En outre, ses recommandations sont basées sur les données probantes et...
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Comprehensive treatment of the challenges faced by America's public research universities, and of what those challenges may mean for the nation.
President Lincoln signed the Morrill Land-grant Act in 1862, launching a nationwide project in public higher education that would build democracy, prosperity, and competitiveness to levels undreamed of 150 years ago. As student costs skyrocket, driven by steep drops in public funding, the viability of that...
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Principals know all too well the complexities of effective school leadership. To successfully navigate the journey's ups and downs, you'll need to rely on the appropriate gear. In The Principal's Backpack, Nancy Karlin Flynn draws on her background as a hiker and her experience leading schools to provide ways to not only survive but thrive as a school leader.
K–12 principals will:
• Create a mental map for health and well-being with tips...
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As in “Improving Your Leadership Intelligence A Field Book for K-12 Leaders”, Maulding Green and Leonard have in, “Improving Your Leadership Intelligence: Volume 2 Scenarios in K-12 Leadership”, provided the reader with an ongoing series of situational judgement test (SJT) scenarios, used in a process that assists both novice and experienced leaders to grow their Leadership Intelligence. The main change in the content in this second edition...
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With education reform in the forefront of societal issues, virtually everyone is seeking methods to augment students' academic performance. Yet, real reform begins in individual classrooms, where the difference between the ordinary teacher and the extraordinary lies not in the content they teach, but in the manner and atmosphere in which they teach it. “Can I Be in Your Class?” offers secondary teachers tips and techniques to invigorate instruction...
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According to a recent study by the National Center for Education Statistics, an estimated 65 percent of recent college graduates are burdened by student loans. Although the average debt is $19, 000, loans can exceed $50, 000 and may be much higher for those who attend graduate school, law school, or medical school. Many students, faced with the task of repaying such a large amount of money, become overwhelmed merely thinking about it. But, using this...
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Depuis plus de trente ans, nous avons mené des projets de recherche, de formation de professionnels (éducation, psychologie et psychoéducation) et, ces dernières années, d'accompagnement des écoles dans la lutte à l'échec et au décrochage scolaires. Nous souhaitons que cette expérience profite aux lecteurs. Ce livre traite des grands déterminants de la réussite éducative et du décrochage, et offre une vue d'ensemble de ce qui contribue...
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Developing the critical and creative thinking skills of students in our classrooms is a necessary culture that all teachers should foster. Not only does it underpin the syllabus outcomes and content indicators, but the ability to think critically and creatively, and to articulate that thinking to others, is a hugely valuable skill in today's world.
Supporting students to be critical and creative thinkers requires us as educators to be willing to...
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El libro trata en profundidad un tema de crucial interés para nuestra sociedad. El análisis objetivo del sector le permite a la autora facilitar a los interesados un diagnóstico desapasionado de la situación actual del sistema educativo salteño. Los datos reunidos por Silvia Álvarez en un período de 12 años (2007-2018), revelan un arduo trabajo y una vocación por develar la verdad. El análisis tiene en cuenta las dimensiones de: la matriculación...
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