Community Development Best Practices - April 2024

The Literacy Leadership Handbook: Best Practices for Developing Professional Literacy Communities (Pearson Professional Development)

An invaluable tool for current and aspiring literacy leaders, The Literacy Leadership Handbook by Cindy Lassonde and Kristine C. Tucker presents clear advice and guidelines for fostering collaboration among colleagues, improving teacher effectiveness by involving teachers as learners, and engaging teachers in planning for their own growth and development. Included are contributions from classroom teachers across grade levels, literacy coaches and reading specialists working in school districts, representatives from outside agencies, teacher educators, administrators, and parents in both urban ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 013301388X
• ASIN: 013301388X
• ISBN: 013301388X
• Brand: Brand: Pearson
• Manufacturer: Pearson

The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The author of The Talent Code unlocks the secrets of highly successful groups and provides tomorrow’s leaders with the tools to build a cohesive, motivated culture.NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY BLOOMBERG AND LIBRARY JOURNAL Where does great culture come from? How do you build and sustain it in your group, or strengthen a culture that needs fixing? In The Culture Code, Daniel Coyle goes inside some of the world’s most successful organizations—including the U.S. Navy’s SEAL Team Six, IDEO, and the San Antonio Spurs—and reveals what makes th... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0804176981
• ASIN: 0804176981
• ISBN: 0804176981
• Manufacturer: Bantam

The First Six Weeks of School

Build the foundation for a productive year of learning. Written by teachers, for teachers, this comprehensive K-6 guidebook shows how to:Plan a great first day—set a positive tone right from the start.Ensure that every part of the day flows smoothly—arrival, recess, lunch, and dismissal times, as well as lessons.Teach positive discipline—invest children in the rules and build prosocial behavior skills that keep their learning going.Present engaging academics—spark motivation and lay the groundwork for high academic achievement.Foster community—start with a daily Morning Meeting and e... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1892989816
• ASIN: 1892989816
• ISBN: 1892989816
• Brand: Center for Responsive Schools Inc
• Manufacturer: Center for Responsive Schools, Inc.

The Miracle Morning: The Not-So-Obvious Secret Guaranteed to Transform Your Life (Before 8AM)

“Hal Elrod is a genius and his book The Miracle Morning has been magical in my life. What Hal has done is taken the best practices, developed over centuries of human consciousness development, and condensed the 'best of the best' into a daily morning ritual. A ritual that is now part of my day.” —Robert Kiyosaki, bestselling author of Rich Dad Poor Dad What's being widely regarded as "one of the most life changing books ever written" may be the simplest approach to achieving everything you've ever wanted, and faster than you ever thought possible.What if you could wake up tomorrow and an... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0979019710
• ASIN: 0979019710
• ISBN: 0979019710
• Brand: Hal Elrod
• Manufacturer: Hal Elrod

Introduction to Community Development: Theory, Practice, and Service-Learning

This text provides students of community and economic development with a theoretical and practical introduction to the field. Bringing together leading scholars, it provides both a conceptual background and contemporary approaches, with a progression from theory to practice. Included are case studies and supportive material to develop community service-learning activities.

• ASIN: 1412974623
• ASIN: 1412974623
• ISBN: 1412974623
• Brand: Brand: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Manufacturer: SAGE Publications, Inc

The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America

One of Publishers Weekly's 10 Best Books of 2017 Longlisted for the National Book AwardThis “powerful and disturbing history” exposes how American governments deliberately imposed racial segregation on metropolitan areas nationwide (New York Times Book Review). Widely heralded as a “masterful” (Washington Post) and “essential” (Slate) history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein’s The Color of Law offers “the most forceful argument ever published on how federal, state, and local governments gave rise to and reinforced neighborhood segregation” (William Julius ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1631494538
• ASIN: 1631494538
• ISBN: 9781631494536
• Manufacturer: Liveright

Rising Strong: How the Ability to Reset Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

• ASIN: B00P5557G2
• ASIN: B00P5557G2
• Manufacturer: Spiegel & Grau

The Bullet Journal Method: Track the Past, Order the Present, Design the Future

New York Times bestseller! The long-awaited book by the founder of the enormously popular Bullet Journal® planner, journal, calendar, and all-around organizational system.For years Ryder Carroll tried countless organizing systems, online and off, but none of them fit the way his mind worked. Out of sheer necessity, he developed a method called the Bullet Journal that helped him become consistently focused and effective. When he started sharing his system with friends who faced similar challenges, it went viral. Just a few years later, to his astonishment, Bullet Journaling is a global movemen... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0525533338
• ASIN: 0525533338
• ISBN: 0525533338
• Manufacturer: Portfolio

Culturize: Every Student. Every Day. Whatever It Takes.

Eradicate Average! CULTURIZE Your School. Average schools don't inspire greatness--and greatness is what our world needs if we are going to produce world-changing learners. In Culturize, author and education leader Jimmy Casas shares insights into what it takes to cultivate a community of learners who embody the innately human traits our world desperately needs, such as kindness, honesty, and compassion. His stories reveal how these "soft skills" can be honed while meeting and exceeding academic standards of twenty-first-century learning. You'll learn... How to reach those who seem unreachab... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1946444464
• ASIN: 1946444464
• ISBN: 1946444464
• Manufacturer: Dave Burgess Consulting, Inc.

Professional Learning Communities at Work: Best Practices for Enhancing Student Achievement

Professional Learning Communities at Work presents research-based recommendations drawn from the best practices found today in schools nationwide for continuously improving school performance. Coming from the perspectives of both a distinguished dean of education and one of America s most widely acclaimed practitioners, this resource provides specific, practical, how-to information about transforming schools into results-oriented professional learning communities.

• ASIN: 1879639602
• ASIN: 1879639602
• ISBN: 9781879639607
• Brand: Brand: Solution Tree
• Manufacturer: Solution Tree

Strategic Enterprise Architecture Management: Challenges, Best Practices, and Future Developments (Management for Professionals)

The Enterprise Architecture Management (EAM) discipline deals with the alignment of business and information systems architectures. While EAM has long been regarded as a discipline for IT managers, this book takes a different stance: It explains how top executives can use EAM to leverage their strategic planning and controlling processes, as well as how it can contribute to their sustainable competitive advantage. Based on the analysis of best practices from eight leading European companies from various industries, the book presents the crucial elements of successful EAM. It outlines what exec... [Read More]

• ASIN: 3642242227
• ASIN: 3642242227
• ISBN: 9783642242229
• Manufacturer: Springer

The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization

• ASIN: 0385517254
• UPC: 884596142845
• ASIN: 0385517254
• ISBN: 9780385517256
• Brand: Broadway Business
• Manufacturer: Doubleday

Miracle Morning Millionaires: What the Wealthy Do Before 8AM That Will Make You Rich (The Miracle Morning Book 11)

What if the real secret of millionaires isn’t about doing more, but becoming more?Millionaires know everything in your present is a result of how you thought, decided, and acted in the past. But your present circumstances can easily change. Right now. Because, with this revolutionary manual to wealth, you’ll discover...•The undeniable connection between mornings and wealth.•Why becoming wealthy is never a sedentary pursuit.•The simple five-step wake-up process that’ll guarantee you’ll rise early...like a millionaire.•Four choices you must make to become wealthy. •The specific... [Read More]

• ASIN: B07D3Y1F3Z
• ASIN: B07D3Y1F3Z
• Manufacturer: Hal Elrod International, Inc

The Innovator's Mindset: Empower Learning, Unleash Talent, and Lead a Culture of Creativity

Kids walk into schools full of wonder and questions. How you, as an educator, respond to students' natural curiosity can help further their own exploration and shape the way they learn today and in the future. The traditional system of education requires students to hold their questions and compliantly stick to the scheduled curriculum. But our job as educators is to provide new and better opportunities for our students. It's time to recognize that compliance doesn't foster innovation, encourage critical thinking, or inspire creativity--and those are the skills our students need to succeed.In... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0986155497
• ASIN: 0986155497
• ISBN: 0986155497
• Brand: George Couros
• Manufacturer: Dave Burgess Consulting, Incorporated

First Little Readers Parent Pack: Guided Reading Level C: 25 Irresistible Books That Are Just the Right Level for Beginning Readers

Jumpstart reading success with this big collection motivating storybooks correlated with Guided Reading Level C. Most pages of these full-color storybooks feature just two or three lines of simple, repetitive text to help children learn to read with ease and confidence. Includes a 4-page, tip-filled parent guide. A great value! 1. The Pie that Jack Made 2. Funny Foods 3. Round the Clown 4. Follow that Cat! 5. Counting Bugs 6. Lunch Crunch 7. Bubble Shapes 8. All About Dinosaurs 9. Make a Pizza 10. This Little Piggy 11. Tail Tale 12. Eight Arms are Great 13. Bat Facts 14. Snow Tracks 15. Lots o... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0545231515
• ASIN: 0545231515
• ISBN: 0545231515
• Brand: Scholastic Teaching Resources (Teaching Strategies)
• Manufacturer: Scholastic Teaching Resources (Teaching Strategies)

Professional Learning Communities at Worktm : Best Practices for Enhancing Students Achievement

The book that launched a school improvement movement offers research-based recommendations drawn from the best practices found in schools nationwide for continuously improving school performance. Coming from the perspectives of both a distinguished dean of

• UPC: 25219726

Student Development and Social Justice : Critical Learning, Radical Healing, and Community Engagement

Student Development and Social Justice: Critical Learning, Radical Healing, and Community

• UPC: 55812842

Community Development in Action : Putting Freire into Practice

In a world in which social divisions are widening, not lessening, it is essential for community development, or any other practice committed to social justice and sustainability, to understand how power works at every level,

• UPC: 43579555

BPEL Cookbook: Best Practices for SOA-based integration and composite applications development - eBook

This book is aimed at architects and developers building applications in Service Oriented Architecture. The book presumes knowledge of BPEL, SOA, XML, web services, and multi-tier

• UPC: 430638619
• Rating: 4.0

Transforming the U.S. Workforce Development System : Lessons from Research and Practice

This book brings together leading scholars and practitioners working in the job skills field to examine what research tells us about the current state of the U.S. skills system in comparative perspective and the changes

• UPC: 14537239

Preschool Appropriate Practices : Environment, Curriculum, and Development

Aligned around ten learning centers in a preschool classroom, PRESCHOOL APPROPRIATE PRACTICES, 5th Edition is a must-have resource for preschool teachers creating the learning environment in their classroom. Easy to read and full of practical

• UPC: 56157938

Navigating Teacher Education in Complex and Uncertain Times : Connecting Communities of Practice in a Borderless World

9781350069077

• UPC: 152468673

Simulation : The Practice of Model Development and Use

"Simulation modelling involves the development of models that imitate real-world operations, and statistical analysis of their performance with a view to improving efficiency and effectiveness. This non-technical textbook is focused towards the needs of business,

• UPC: 39967026

Probation, Parole, and Community Corrections Work in Theory and Practice: Preparing Students for Careers in Probation and Parole Agencies (Paperback)

9781611637939

• UPC: 49118518

Learning and Development Practice in the Workplace

Understand the key theories, models and practice of learning and development in the workplace with this introductory

• UPC: 56193836