Learning Change

Freeman A. Hrabowski III, the outspoken president of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and coauthors Philip J. Rous and Peter H. Henderson probe the way senior leaders, administrators, staff, faculty, and students facilitate academic success by cultivating an empowering institutional culture and broad leadership for innovation. They examine how shared leadership enables an empowered campus to tackle tough issues by taking a hard look in the mirror, noting strengths and weaknesses while assessing opportunities and challenges.

Statues and Storms offers a gripping insider’s account of Max Price’s tenure as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cape Town during a transformative period in South African higher education. In the wake of the Rhodes Must Fall protests, universities across the country were engulfed in sustained and often violent demonstrations, challenging institutional cultures and sparking a global movement. This book provides a unique perspective on the protests, delving into the reasons behind the decolonizing movement’s emergence at liberal universities two decades after the democratic transition.

Get the main key insights from this summary of Brianna Wiest’s 101 Essays That Will Change the Way You Think in just a short listen.

It’s a shove off the fence post and a call to action - The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming will not be satisfied until barriers to understanding climate change are obliterated. David Wallace-Wells taps into our collective survival instinct by challenging our individual roles in this all-encompassing issue.

Em Lifelong learners–o poder do aprendizado contínuo, Conrado Schlochauer propõe que retomemos o controle de nosso processo de aprendizado, deixando de lado a velha ideia de que só aprendemos se formos ensinados por alguém. Esse caminho é o único capaz de dar conta da complexidade do mundo em que vivemos, pois permite manter-se relevante e atualizado em um contexto que pede requalificação constante.

In Timeless Learning, an award-winning team of leaders, Chief Technology Officer Ira Socol, Superintendent Pam Moran, and Lab Schools Principal Chad Ratliff demonstrate how you can implement innovative practices that have shown remarkable success. The authors use progressive design principles to inform pathways to disrupt traditions of education today and show you how to make real innovations that will have a timeless and meaningful impact on students, keeping alive the natural curiosity and passion for learning with which children enter school.

Author Michael Pollan digs through decades of research and plays human guinea pig to illustrate the potential of psychedelics to alter the mind. Please note: This is a summary and analysis of the book and not the original book. If you'd like to purchase the original book, it is available from Amazon and Audible.

Originally published in 2014, 30 Days: Change Your Habits, Change Your Life is an extensive but simple-to-read book by Marc Reklau.. It is the first in a series of seven books by Reklau that helps readers improve their lives by creating new habits. Having written this book after being fired from his job, Reklau has personal experience in taking failure and turning it into success, and he shares his knowledge liberally with readers. This audiobook encapsulates key takeaways found in the original book.

Our best guarantee for a brighter, freer tomorrow is found inside the interior work we do to change our understanding about ourselves and the world we live in. In these 31 brief talks, you will get the knowledge and practices you need to change your life. Work with one talk a day and be a new you in a month! Or go at your own pace.

The 21st century is a world in constant change. In A New Culture of Learning, Doug Thomas and John Seely Brown pursue an understanding of how the forces of change, and emerging waves of interest associated with these forces, inspire and invite us to imagine a future of learning that is as powerful as it is optimistic.

In a polarizing and racially divided America, what do children of color learn about themselves before they even go to school? How do they see themselves and is that image only exacerbated by spending twelve years in a public education system that perpetuates negative stereotypes? Brian Rashad Fuller personally knows that the impact of low expectations can be devastating. He aims to make a difference in this humanizing and very personal portrayal of what it means to be Black in America's schools.

Many people discount the impact that positive thinking can have on your life. Positive thinking works on a subconscious level and the brain is a powerful organ. The brain reacts to nerves and regulates the release of hormones into your body. These hormones can cause positive feelings and reward you for actions that improve your life. Positive thinking can therefore set you on a course for continued success and happiness and can therefore add to your overall quality of life as a result.

“Leading with Purpose: Empowering Others to Create Lasting Change” is a practical guide that provides education leaders with clear and actionable strategies for implementing distributed leadership models that prioritize equity and empower their teams to elevate the needs and rights of their school community. The book emphasizes the critical role of distributed leadership in transforming school systems while addressing issues of inequity.

Demographic changes promise to reshape the market for higher education in the next 15 years. Colleges are already grappling with the consequences of declining family size due to low birth rates brought on by the Great Recession, as well as the continuing shift toward minority student populations. Each institution faces a distinct market context with unique organizational strengths; no one-size-fits-all answer could suffice. Nathan D. Grawe explores how proactive institutions are preparing for the challenges that lie ahead.

Since Peter Senge published his groundbreaking book The Fifth Discipline, he and his associates have frequently been asked by the business community: "How do we go beyond the first steps of corporate change? How do we sustain momentum?" They know that companies and organizations cannot thrive today without learning to adapt their attitudes and practices.

Layla Saad in this ground breaking discovery on White Supremacy; which is a story, a provocation, and an invitation. On the one hand, it is a reflection by Saad on her own journey as a Muslim woman of African descent growing up in Western society (in her case, in England). On the other hand, this book challenges listener to examine how their own lives contribute to and reinforce the systems of White Supremacy that underlie Western society.

The work of academics can matter and be influential on a public level, but the path to becoming a public intellectual, influential policy advisor, valued community resource, or go-to person on an issue is not one that most scholars are trained for. The Public Professor offers scholars ways to use their ideas, research, and knowledge to change the world.

En ¡Arriésgate! descubrirás un método para hacerte preguntas que irán dirigidas a cuatro áreas de especialización que tiene tu cerebro: mente racional, mente creativa, mente emocional y cerebro reptiliano. En cada capítulo cuestionarás de manera integral tu forma de ser para cambiar tus creencias limitantes y los miedos a tus nuevos desafíos. Mario Borghino te invita a transformar tu mente para alcanzar el enorme poder que hay en ti. Con sus reflexiones encontrarás el coraje para lanzarte al abismo de las oportunidades que has postergado y convertirte en quien siempre has querido.

Whether this is the first or last business audiobook you listen to, you will gain new insights and experience a few epiphanies by the time you finish. I have made the contents of this work to shock you more than the title does, introducing you to an entirely new paradigm.

Quien procura los deseos de su corazón llega a conocer todo aquello de lo que es capaz.