Professional Learning

Hailed by Oprah as a "warrior woman for our times", reviled by teachers unions as the enemy, Michelle Rhee, outgoing chancellor of Washington DC, public schools, has become the controversial face of school reform. She has appeared on the cover of Time Magazine, and is currently featured as a hero in the documentary Waiting for Superman. This is the story of her journey from good-girl daughter of Korean immigrants to tough-minded political game-changer.

This audiobook is expertly narrated by author Nigel Poulton. Nigel is well-known for his entertaining video courses and other audiobooks. In fact, listeners of his other audiobook have suggested it be "a case study on how to make a technical book work really well as an audiobook". Kubernetes and cloud native technologies are reshaping the world. Possessing the knowledge and skills to leverage Kubernetes and cloud native technologies is a huge career boost for you.

Core technical vocabulary for English-speaking CFOs and other financial executives working with Spanish-speaking clients, vendors, colleagues, or partners. The book contains a list of words and phrases that are focused on the operation of financial functions within organizations with the Spanish alongside the English. Examples including balance sheets, P&L and cashflow statements, the financial role and function, investor relations, the capital structure, and other topics relevant to those working in finance.

This inspiring 2018 IPPY gold medal award-winning book presents the idea of your heartprint: The distinct impression an educator's heart makes on students and colleagues during his or her career. For teachers, understand how teacher motivation, teacher-student relationships, and collaborative teaching all affect your career and professional development. For school leaders, discover your impact on staff, students, and culture as you progress in your career.

A Spanish course for those involved in teaching Spanish students, for example ESL teachers. This course focuses on vocabulary most useful to teachers in conducting lessons and communicating with students and parents. There are also words and phrases related to subject names, classroom items, and administering tests, assignments, and group work. There are also some grammar pointers for English speakers learning Spanish and a broader set of vocabulary beyond teaching.

Teaching Art takes patience, empathy and hard work. Nurturing creativity in children takes time; but often you will be sidetracked organizing supplies, equipment and students! You also need to decide what supplies to buy with a limited budget. This book helps you prepare and plan for a long-term program for each art medium you teach. Actual lessons are detailed with "not to forget" ideas underlined for quick reference. Clean-up instructions are included so your next class can begin at the bell!

This guide is intended to prepare eligible HR professionals to pass the PHR on their very first attempt. Whether you are, at heart, a self-learner, lack the time or means to spend on review classes or professional tutors, are looking for additional resources for your PHR test preparation class you have invested in or have taken the PHR exam before without success then this guidebook is for you!

You are no doubt a busy professional with a lot of things going on! It can be challenging to find the time to study for the PSI National Real Estate License Exam! That is why the author Luca Coletti, a real estate professional, developed the Real Estate AUDIO Study Guide! This edition is a practice questions edition. It contains hundreds of practice questions. If you listen to or read our study guide and take the time to really understand the concepts, we are confident you will be on your way to an exciting new career!

You don't have to have an MBA to get ahead in business. You don't even need a college degree. All you need is intelligence, drive, creativity, courage, and The Cilantro Diaries. Lorenzo Gomez went from the stockroom of a grocery store to the boardrooms of two private companies without a formal higher education. In his inspiring and humorous true story of hope and accomplishment, he shares the steps he took up the ladder and the guiding principles that got him to the top.

In The Diary of a West Point Cadet, by Captain Preston Pysh, the author teaches essential West Point leadership through the most fun and unique reading of any book in its class. Each intriguing firsthand account of Preston's top 12 enthralling and hilarious stories from attending West Point, will capture your interest and imagination. The stories walk the reader down a personal journey many outsiders never see behind the thick stoney walls.

Are you stuck in the lecture-and-worksheet rut? Many teachers continue to struggle to break out of the corporate lesson-and-worksheet cycle to find fresh, meaningful ways to develop original, engaging and effective instruction. In The EduProtocol Field Guide, Jon Corippo and Marlena Hebern outline sixteen classroom-tested protocols to break up clichéd lesson plans, build culture, and deliver content to K–12 students in a supportive, creative environment.

Escrever é fundamental. Afinal, quem, nos dias de hoje, não precisa mandar mensagens pelo correio eletrônico, escrever relatórios, fazer vestibular, ou produzir uma matéria jornalística? Este audiolivro, inicialmente destinado a jornalistas e profissionais do texto, é o mais claro e bem-humorado que qualquer um que precise escrever bem pode obter. Donas de texto impecável, agradável e atual, Dad Squarisi e Arlete Salvador mostram como é possível redigir de modo adequado e elegante.

For good or ill, once money enters the picture, you become a professional writer: even if you've never received a penny for your words, as soon as you try to sell them - to agents, editors, or the public - the nature of many of your social relationships changes. People will no longer care about you; they'll only care about what you and your writing can do for them. This guide looks at all the people who will be involved in buying and selling your books, what you need to understand about them, and how to deal with them.

In his first nine years as a teacher, Brendan Halpin goes from wide-eyed idealist to cynical, heartbroken idealist. Unique among teaching memoirs, Losing My Faculties is not the story of a heroic teacher who transforms the lives of his hardbitten students; rather, it's the inspirational and often unpretty truth about people who choose to get up ridiculously early day after day and year after year to go stand in front of teenagers.

The inspirational story of a former Microsoft executive’s quest to build libraries around the world and share the love of books What’s happened since John Wood left Microsoft to change the world? Just ask six million kids in the poorest regions of Asia and Africa. In 1999, at the age of 35, Wood quit a lucrative career to found the nonprofit Room to Read. Described by the San Francisco Chronicle as "the Andrew Carnegie of the developing world", he strove to bring the lessons of the corporate world to the nonprofit sector - and succeeded spectacularly.

Newspaperman tells the story of how an immigrant's shy son from Queens, New York, rose to the top of his industry, powered by little more than passion, brains, and hard work. Phillips began his career working as a copyboy for the New York Herald Tribune for 16 dollars a week... and ended it as publisher of The Wall Street Journal and CEO of its parent corporation, Dow Jones & Company. The life story of Warren Phillips is the story of the American newspaper business.

This audio course provides Hindi words and phrases relevant to English-speaking teachers, professors, lecturers, and others involved in schools, universities, and teaching. Important words, phrases, and expressions are provided alongside the English, and vocabulary is first explained and then tested through comprehension and pronunciation. Topics covered include classroom management, assignments, grading, subject names, feedback, starting and ending class, and many other expressions that teachers can rapidly put to use with Hindi-speaking students.

Explore the confusing field of internal medicine without getting bogged down in the terminology! With a dash of fun and a tonne of knowledge, "The Crash Course Study Guide to Medical Terms in Internal Medicine" is your reliable sidekick, helping you clear up the confusion around medical language.

Em meio a uma torrente de populismo e desinformação, sete nomes da imprensa refletem sobre os desafios do jornalismo no Brasil.

Americans' current trust in journalists is at a dismayingly low ebb, particularly on the subject of national and international politics. It might be tempting to look back to the mid-twentieth century, when the nation's press corps was a seemingly venerable and monolithic institution that conveyed the official line from Washington with nary a glint of anti-patriotic cynicism. As Kathryn McGarr's City of Newsmen shows, however, the real story of what Cold War-era journalists did and how they did it wasn't exactly the one you'd find in the morning papers.