Shake Up Learning: Practical Ideas to Move Learning From Static to Dynamic


Kasey Bell - 2018
    This is a book about LEARNING!Technology is not a magic solution for education. It is an opportunity! An opportunity to shake things up, to connect and grow, and to create dynamic learning experiences for our students! In this three-part book, you will explore WHY it's time to Shake Up Learning, WHAT changes we can make in our classrooms to support dynamic learning experiences, and HOW to plan meaningful lessons for your classroom.Rapidly evolving technology and the demands of the digital age are transforming not only the way we live but also the way we learn. The tools students are using are newer, sleeker, and faster than ever before. In some cases, the medium is even changing the message. One thing is certain: Educators cannot continue the status quo if they expect to equip young people for the world to come. Here's the good news: With digital tools that are available 24/7, learning doesn't have to stop when the bell rings. Learning can take on a life of its own! Even better, technology can help you connect with students and empower them to grow and develop a lifelong love for learning--and it doesn't have to be scary or complicated. Shake Up Learning is a powerful guide and planning tool to help educators at all grade levels make the most of technology. Educator and blogger Kasey Bell guides you through the process of using technology and proven techniques to make learning dynamic. You'll discover . . . Practical strategies to help move from static teaching to dynamic learningStraightforward and easy-to-use templates for crafting engaging learning opportunitiesTips and tricks for fearless implementation of powerful lesson plansAdvice for moving from one-and-done activities to learning that evolves and inspires throughout the school year--and beyond!This is MORE than just a book! This is a full LEARNING EXPERIENCE!This book is jammed packed with ideas, lessons, and resources, but you can bring it all to life with the companion website, ShakeUpLearningBook.com, and the companion online course, The Dynamic Learning Workshop!Be dynamic! Shake up learning in your classroom this year.

Revisiting Professional Learning Communities at Worktm: New Insights for Improving Schools


Richard DuFour - 2008
    The most extensive, practical, and authoritative PLC resource to date, it goes further than ever before into best practices for deep implementation, explores the commitment/consensus issue, and celebrates successes of educators who are making the journey.

Strategic Management: Text and Cases


Gregory G. Dess - 1995
    The text is rounded off by rich, relevant, and teachable cases. This text's accessible writing style and wealth of new and updated illustrations, which clarify the most difficult topics, make this text the best resource for your students. The new case selections emphasize variety, currency, and familiar company names. The cases are up-to-date in terms of both financial data and strategic issues. This group of cases gives both instructors and students unparalleled quality and variety. Based on consistent reviewer feedback, these selections combine comprehensive and shorter length cases about well known companies.

Business Law: Legal Environment, Online Commerce, Business Ethics, and International Issues


Henry R. Cheeseman - 1992
    Visually engaging, enticing and current examples with an overall focus on business.Legal Environment of Business and E-Commerce; Torts, Crimes, and Intellectual Property; Contracts and E-Commerce; Domestic and International Sales and Lease Contracts; Negotiable Instruments and E-Money; Credit, Secured Transactions, and Bankruptcy; Agency and Employment; Business Organizations and Ethics; Government Regulation; Property; Special Topics; Global EnvironmentMARKET Business Law continues its dedication to being the most engaging text for readers by featuring a visually appealing format with enticing and current examples while maintaining its focus on business.

Financial Management: Principles and Applications


Arthur J. Keown - 2004
    This text provides the theory you need with the practice you want. With its exciting integration of the Harley-Davidson company theme, this text continues to provide a solid, enduring foundation of the tools of modern theory in practice while at the same time developing the logic behind their use. This text uses 10 Principles of Finance as a unifying framework to tie the major concepts of the book together.

M: Marketing


Dhruv Grewal - 2007
    This course is usually the first course taught at the undergraduate level. Marketers understand that even the best products and services will go unsold if they cannot communicate the value to the customer. Understanding this value-based approach is critical for marketing students today, and is at the forefront of this text, setting it apart. This approach is emphasized throughout the text, and demonstrated through the use of the Adding Value boxes found in each chapter. Presents a concise, impactful, and easy to read approach to Principles of Marketing. The text delivers value to both instructor and student through the engaging style and online assignment and assessment options. With monthly updates provided in a newsletter and the dynamic video program, the instructor support provided will bring marketing to life in any class setting.

Blended Learning in Grades 4-12: Leveraging the Power of Technology to Create Student-Centered Classrooms


Catlin R. Tucker - 2012
    Use technology to focus on your students!In this step-by-step guide, teacher and education blogger Catlin Tucker outlines the process for integrating online discussion with face-to-face instruction in a way that empowers teach

The SEVEN Most EFFECTIVE Methods of SELF-HYPNOSIS: How to Create Rapid Change in your Health, Wealth, and Habits.


Richard Nongard - 2019
    Almost every leading book on personal development, from Napoleon Hill’s book Think and Grow Rich, to Tony Robbins book Awaken the Giant Within stress the value of self-hypnosis. This book reveals the most effective methods behind that advice and tells you exactly how you can maximize your success easily by mastering self-hypnosis and autosuggestion in one of seven different ways. Self-hypnosis is a mystery to most, yet it is so easy that a child can do it! Thousands of academic studies evidence the power of hypnosis to treat medical conditions, change behaviors, and take emotional control in any area of life. It can even make you wealthy. In a way, this book will literally pay for itself with your success. Self-hypnosis can help you overcome obstacles, be more creative, and step into a new chapter of life. Are you ready to make lasting change? Do you want these changes to feel significant and meaningful? This book shows you the proof and then teaches you the methods that are backed by the research using a step-by-step guide that is easy to follow, ensuring you make the steps you need to make changes, at your pace and with confidence. Written by a Leading Expert with 30 Years’ Experience Dr. Richard K. Nongard is an ICBCH Certified Professional Hypnotist, a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and an expert in helping people create lasting success. He has been a TEDx speaker, he is a popular author with over 20 books to his credit, and his self-hypnosis videos have been seen by more than four million people. Dr. Richard K. Nongard is the expert other professionals come to study with and learn advanced methods of professional hypnosis. In this book, he reveals the strategies that actually work and how you can do them at home. Everything is explained step-by-step. When you are finished with this book, you will have a new resource that you can tap into for the rest of your life. “We become what we think. Within this book, Dr. Nongard removes the mystery of self-hypnosis while highlighting the magic of how anyone can use these practical tools to enhance their lives. If you’re ready to discover the power of hypnosis, read it now! I've read a bunch of books on self-hypnosis, and this one is superior.” Kelley T. Woods, Author of Virtual Reality Hypnosis “FINALLY! Easy to learn techniques REAL people can use to get the results that they have been promised from a seemingly endless amount of self-help materials in existence today. If YOU want the SECRET Ingredient on how to actually APPLY the knowledge from that basket of "how-to" books on your shelf, then DO THIS NOW.” Rich Guzzi, The Goombah Guru “Nongard’s book empowers people with self-hypnosis. Discover in these pages, how you can master life-changing techniques to reach your goals.” Karen Hand, Professional Hypnotist, Chicago “Just the P.O.W.E.R. Method of Self-Hypnosis revealed in this book is worth the price of the book. The other six techniques are equally as outstanding. Do not hesitate, read this book today if you are ready to exceed your goals!” Jason Linett, Author of Work Smart Business. “This is the definitive guide that will take you step-by-step into self-hypnosis and make it work for you.” John Cerbone, Author of Power Hypnosis: The Future of Hypnotic Sessions

Mercury Mind (The Downfall Saga Book 1)


Chris Mccready - 2015
    Donovan arrives at the gates of Haven to learn to control his magic.A heinous symbol carved into his chest and no memory of who he is.He soon realizes that his magic is different than his classmates.Will he discover the nature of his magic and heritage before his past catches up to him?

Culture Sketches: Case Studies in Anthropology


Holly Peters-Golden - 1993
    The groups selected are peoples whose traditional cultures are uniquely their own. Each has distinctive patterns and practices; each has faced the challenge of an encroaching world, with differing results. Moreover, they often provide the prime illustrations of important concepts in introductory anthropology course including Azande witchcraft, Ju/'hoansi egalitarianism, Trobriand kula exchange, and Minangkabau matriliny. As such, this volume can stand alone as an introduction to central ethnographic concepts through these 15 societies, or serve as a valuable companion to anthropology texts. Many of the peoples presented are involved in the diaspora; some struggle to preserve old ways in new places. All sketches follow a logical, consistent organization that makes it easy for students to understand major themes such as history, subsistence, sociopolitical organization, belief systems, marriage, kinship, and contemporary issues.

Fundamentals of Physics, Chapters 1 - 21, Enhanced Problems Version


David Halliday - 2000
    This newest edition expands on the strengths of earlier versions, helping students bridge the gap between concepts and reasoning. Students are shown, rather than told about, how physics works and are given the opportunity to apply concepts to real-world problems. Each chapter and concept has been scrutinized to ensure clarity, currency, and accuracy while checkpoints, problem solving tactics, and sample problems help students make sense of new concepts. As always, Fundamentals of Physics covers every aspect of basic physics, from force and motion to relativity and will prepare today's students to be tomorrow's scientists.

Image Grammar: Teaching Grammar as Part of the Writing Process


Harry R. Noden - 2011
    This is why both teachers with struggling students and those with AP students have embraced the book through 15 printings. Each chapter is divided into two sections: concepts that show how professional writers develop their art and lesson strategies to implement these concepts in the classroom. New and expanded concepts in the second edition include:an introduction to grammatical chunksexpanded discussion of the five basic brush strokes and examination of advanced brush strokes presentation on the nonfiction modelexplanation of the character wheel-a visual aid that helps students to write both a nonfiction and fiction character sketch. Plus, the updated and expanded CD includes customizable files of the 60+ strategies; reproducible handouts; images and quotes for projection in the classroom; and dozens of weblinks.

Financial Accounting


Jerry J. Weygandt - 2010
    Weygandt, Paul D. Kimmel, and Donald E. Kieso, which incorporates International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) into the existing textbook framework. On almost every page, the book addresses every accounting topic from the perspective of IFRS while still highlighting key differences between IFRS and US GAAP. Following the reputation for accuracy, comprehensiveness, and currency, the authors have painstakingly created a book dedicated to assisting students learning accounting topics under the rules of IFRS.

Disciple Making Is . . .: How to Live the Great Commission with Passion and Confidence


Dave Earley - 2013
    stands as one of the most thorough books yet offered regarding how to make disciples. In thirty brief, hard-hitting but easily accessible chapters, the entire scope of disciple making is presented in a way that will inspire and inform the reader to obey the Great Commission with great passion.Grounded on a solid biblical foundation, authors Dave Earley and Rod Dempsey -- both veterans of one-on-one, collegiate, small group, and local church discipleship -- share their practical insights on how to best reproduce reproducers of Christ’s message.Each compelling entry is set up to finish the sentence that begins with the book’s title. For example, Disciple Making Is . . . "Embracing the Cross," "Forsaking All to Follow Jesus," "Living on Mission," "Launching an Unstoppable Force," "Mentoring Disciples as Jesus Did," "Multiplying Disciple-Makers as Paul Did," "Creating a Healthy Church," and more.

Fundamentals of Nursing: The Art and Science of Nursing Care


Carol R. Taylor
    The book's holistic perspective shows students how nursing care involves more than performing procedures. With a case-based approach to learning, the book offers numerous examples and opportunities for students to think critically. The Seventh Edition includes new features highlighting clinical questions and research, nursing advocacy, and health literacy, and also includes new information related to electronic medical records and documentation. With this textbook you'll find an integrated, cohesive, and student-focused suite of multimedia products to appeal to all types of learners, including a bound-in DVD-ROM and a companion website.