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"A new lens on leadership and living with a research-based guide for designing experiences that can touch hearts, provoke minds, and change lives in powerful ways. Transformative experiences are life events that change our sense-of-self in important ways. How do they work? What elements do they require? How can we learn to design them intentionally? By embracing the research-based approach of ELVIS (The Experiential Learning Variables and Indicators...
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Everything you need to know to get started as an adult learning professional
Instructing adults is dramatically different from teaching children, and the effectiveness of training programs is often dictated by how well they apply the principles of adult learning. Enhance your programs with the latest research into how adults learn, remember, and apply knowledge and skills.
“Adult Learning Basics” examines the principles of adult learning theory...
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HBO Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
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English
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This documentary takes an enlightening look at a group of young people with a wide spectrum of learning disabilities and offers a compelling portrait of the ways they overcome their challenges. By using their strengths and working with parents and teachers committed to helping the children discover the ways they learn best, these young people have risen above learning differences and low self-esteem and have found their unique voices. A group of students...
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HarperCollins
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[2019]
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English
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Boaler is one of those rare and remarkable educators who not only know the secret of great teaching but also know how to give that gift to others.- CAROL DWECK, author of Mindset Jo Boaler is one of the most creative and innovative educators today. Limitless Mind marries cutting-edge brain science with her experience in the classroom, not only proving that each of us has limitless potential but offering strategies for how we can achieve it.- LAURENE...
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My weird school volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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A.J. and his classmates are convinced that new school librarian, Mrs. Roopy, has multiple personality disorder because she keeps pretending to be famous people.
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Berrett-Koehler Publishers
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[2017]
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English
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What's your learning style?
Being a lifelong learner is one of the secrets to happiness, success, and personal fulfillment. But there are multiple styles of learning, and when we identify and understand our own, we can find the easiest and most effective ways to keep absorbing more knowledge and developing better abilities.
What's your style? In this informative guide, Kay Peterson and David Kolb offer deep, research-based insights into the ideal...
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My weird school volume 15
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IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Mr. Macky, the reading specialist who thinks he is Abraham Lincoln, assigns A.J. and his friends to read all about the presidents for President's Day.
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HarperCollins
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[2014]
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English
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An innovative, comprehensive guide -- the first of its kind -- to help parents understand and accept learning disabilities in their children, offering tips and strategies for successfully advocating on their behalf and helping them become their own best advocates. In Thinking Differently , David Flink, the leader of Eye to Eye -- a national mentoring program for students with learning and attention issues -- enlarges our understanding of the learning...
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Berkley Pub. Group
Pub. Date
2003
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English
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A guide to Sensory Integration Dysfunction that focuses on the importance of using fun and games to help children strengthen their sensory processing skills and features more tan one hundred activities to help develop and organize a child's brain and body.
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The New Press
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[2011]
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English
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"A significant contribution to understanding the interaction among teachers, students, the environment, and the content of learning" (Herbert Kohl, education advocate and author). What is at work in the mind of a five-year-old explaining the game of tag to a new friend? What is going on in the head of a thirty-five-year-old parent showing a first-grader how to button a coat? And what exactly is happening in the brain of a sixty-five-year-old professor...
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Berrett-Koehler Publishers
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2011.
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English
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Many subject matter experts are just that, subject matter experts--not experts in the art of teaching, facilitating, or designing. Thousands of authors, trainers, and speakers have great content, but they lack the skills required to convey their content in a way that inspires learners to unleash their brilliance and move the learning to practice... They often spend 70% of their time on WHAT they are going to teach, and 30% of their time on HOW, when...
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My weird school volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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A skateboarding principal offers unusual incentives to his students to motivate them to learn more.
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"A detailed framework for leaders to move past outdated workplace blame and shame strategies to cultivate resilient teams capable of facing adversity and setbacks confidently. Workplace finger-pointing stifles creativity, reduces productivity, and limits psychological safety. Although no one sets out to be judgmental, learning new habits is hard. Two experienced leadership and agilists coaches share a road-tested leadership model that continuously...
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