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Despite ongoing professional development for urban educators, many inner city school students are still not performing on high levels or even grade levels. In this professional development book, bestselling author Daniel Blanchard offers a practical guide to helping school administration understand and overcome the inherent difficulties of transferring expertise from the experts, through the teachers, and into the students in a meaningful way that demonstrates student learning. The Evaluation of Professional Development in an Urban High School reviews the literature on the characteristics of effective schools, various professional development models, and their impact. This book offers a wealth of practical tools for schools to transform their professional development. This PD book is ideal for educational leaders and administrators, professional development facilitators, coaches, positional leaders, department heads, and college training programs. Enjoy this invaluable resource offering concrete strategies for all educators who want to improve their craft and their students' learning.

Why this book? Why now? Being a teacher is more demanding than ever. Up to 50% of new teachers leave the field within five years, and many veteran teachers are pondering second careers. With the guidance and proper support offered in this book, teachers can find joy and success in education and make a difference in the lives of our youth.This book highlights a much-neglected area: Professional Development. Daniel Blanchard, Dede Rittman, and Daniel Flores combine a wide range of expertise. The three authors share how professional development enhances educators' abilities to perform their jobs effectively at all levels and all stages of their careers.The book shares the latest research and real-world strategies for Professional Development!*Strategies for new teachers*Fresh approaches for veteran teachers*Guidance for student teachers*Inclusion and training for paraeducators*Ongoing learning for school administrators

Students are struggling. Test scores are down. Kids are reluctant to read. Now, schools must teach more nontraditional skills, like social skills and social-emotional learning, to students less prepared. For educators giving it their all, Success and Social Skills Secrets for Kids is for you. Students will: ?Improve their performance by reading high-interest short passages.?Increase social-emotional learning through insightful readings.?Create civic-mindedness in students through community-orientated discussions that will help improve our schools and this world.

Are our children getting the best educational experience? Are the educators in an environment that best suits them to become the teachers that our kids deserve? If you believe that our schools can do better for our children, this book is for you! You are about to read a story based on a training that award-winning educators Dan Blanchard and Dan Flores are presenting around the country for the American Federation of Teachers and several other educational organizations. It is about how teachers and paraeducators could work more effectively together to heighten the quality of the educational experience our students receive. Get ready to experience the written version of the fun back and forth verbal exchanges and sometimes jabs that Dan Blanchard (the teacher) and Dan Flores (the para) have with each other and an audience of public educators.

Will the workplace of the future be overrun by machines and robots? Are the new frontiers of artificial intelligence (AI) on the cusp of dethroning us in efficiency, intelligence and innovative potential? Automation and AI will augment our human world and potential. The winners of the future of work are those that harness the power of machines to their advantage. Human/Machine is the only guide you need to understand the fourth industrial revolution. It sets out a road map to the challenges ahead, but also unlocks the wondrous opportunities that it offers. Human/Machine explores how we will work symbiotically with machines, detailing how institutions, companies, individuals and education providers will evolve to integrate seamlessly with new technologies. With exclusive case studies, this book offers a glimpse into the future and details how top companies are already thriving on this very special relationship. From gamification in job training to project management teams integrated with bots and predictive technologies that fix problems in the supply chain before they happen, the authors deliver a powerful manifesto for the adoption and celebration of automation and AI. In a much more fluid, skills-based economy, we will all need to prove our worth and future-proof our skills base. This book offers a blueprint to avoid being left behind and unearth the opportunities unique to human-machine partnership ecosystems.

"Feeling Lucky? is about a struggling teen who lives in a violent and frustrating world. He is angry over the hand that life has dealt him. Suddenly, as if out of nowhere, his estranged and mysterious Granddaddy appears. On this one stormy and magical afternoon in the park, this former WWII fighter-pilot plants a seed that forever changes the way his grandson looks at family, relationships and success. The once angry boy departs finally understanding what it really means to feel lucky! Do you feel it? Will you do what it takes to succeed in this imperfect world? Will people be better or worse off because they met you? Are you feeling lucky?"

Discover how to make virtually any moment in your day a significant part of a meaningful Jewish life. As we have discovered, and as our sages have long known, there is no experience in the life of a Jew that cannot be marked in Jewish ways.... The book you hold in your hands is the result of the kinds of rituals we have sculpted together over the years. It is not a prayer book or even a compendium of obligatory Jewish rituals. Rather, it is a source for all to use creatively. —from the Introduction Decades of experience by CLAL—The National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership in connecting spirituality with daily life come together in this one comprehensive handbook. In these pages, you have access to teachings that can help to sanctify almost any moment in your day. Offering a meditation, a blessing, a profound Jewish teaching, and a ritual for more than one hundred diverse everyday events and holidays, this guide includes sacred practices for: Lighting Shabbat candles Blessing your parents Running a marathon Visiting the sick Building a sukkah Seeing natural wonders Moving into a new home Saying goodbye to a beloved pet Making a shiva call Traveling ... and much more Drawing from both traditional and contemporary sources, The Book of Jewish Sacred Practices will show you how to make more holy any moment in your daily life.