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In this guide to project management, geared toward "virgins", or first-time/inexperienced project managers, author Chandra Worthington provides a simple, straightforward plan of action for success. Using clear language, Worthington offers tips on everything from effective project management to the steps involved in such an undertaking. She provides a quick sketch of the type of person who would make a good project manager, and she lists skills found...
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Turn your knowledge and background into something your audience can tangibly witness! Inside this easy-to-follow eBook course are pep talks, checklists, examples, insights, and a formula that makes the daunting chore of writing good content achievable even for the non-writer. Your content becomes your 'intellectual property' an above-the-line item seen as an investment rather than an expense. 1% of Internet users create the content; 10% enrich or...
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Fully and confidently, step into your role as an instructional coach with the support of Coaching for Educator Wellness. This instructional leadership guide offers evergreen strategies alongside fresh new solutions that will help you differentiate coaching practices for new and veteran teachers, address teacher self-care, and more. You'll turn to this resource again and again as you continue to improve your craft and help teachers find their own greatness.
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44) UPS Handbook
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Not an engineer, but need to know the basics of battery backup power? UPS Handbook breaks down the complex world of Uninterruptible Power Supply systems into simple-to-understand language. If you need to know the basics of UPS systems but not the expertise of how to repair them, this book is for you.
· What is an Uninterruptible Power Supply system?
· How do they work?
· Which is right for you?
· What is a UPS topology?
· What maintenance is...
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Good Documentation Practices (GDP) in Pharmaceutical Industry document contains the the instructions which are required to be followed for compliance of Good Documentation Practices (GDP) during preparation, data entry, recording and reporting of all types of documents in the plant. This is the basic requirements for the persons working in pharmaceutical industry.
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Ensure your school's grading procedures are supportive of learning, accurate, meaningful, and consistent. Discover how the "seven essential Ps" can improve your effectiveness in supporting assessment and communicating student achievement. You will also learn how to avoid inaccurate grades caused by penalties for lateness or academic dishonesty; extra credit; group rather than individual work; and marking down for attendance.
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Esta sexta publicación de Cuadernos de Seminario busca profundizar sobre el oficio de la enseñanza como eje fundamental de la reflexión pedagógica, a partir de lineamientos teóricos derivados de la epistemología francesa y la revalorización de la historia de las ciencias, especialmente, de los trabajos de Gaston Bachelard, Georges Canguilhem y Michel Foucault, en particular, desde la arqueología del saber y el orden del discurso. Se sugiere...
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K–12 schools in the United States are suffering from an epidemic of teacher attrition: nearly half of all new teachers leave the field within their first five years, and thousands of teaching positions across the country are going unfilled. What can school leaders do about this persistent turnover and the resulting loss of human potential? In this timely book, Bryan Harris describes the four broad supports that he says are crucial to helping early-career...
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It's time to say goodbye to "sit-and-get, one-size-fits-all" PD sessions and embrace professional learning that meets the needs of all teachers.
Allison Rodman's Personalized Professional Learning provides district and school administrators with a roadmap for transforming existing professional development programs into more effective and innovative learning experiences that elevate onsite expertise while still aligning with school and district priorities.
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Although much about the future is uncertain, trends reveal patterns of behavior that help to resolve some of that uncertainty. McREL has thoroughly researched and tracked these trends to provide readers with a glimpse into the future world of education. The Future of Schooling presents four scenarios of education in 2020. Scenarios are carefully researched stories, full of detail about current and emerging trends that adds credibility and brings forth...
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This Book contains 11 Modules of Current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMP) requirements for pharmaceutical industry which will be very useful for job seekers in Pharma sector, Beginners and Learners of a Pharmaceutical industry and Pharmacy Students. It is a must-read book for every students aspiring for Placement in any pharmaceutical industry
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Description of the book: Poetry in the Spanish language is, measured according to the number of syllables in each verse, unlike Greek and Latin poetry, which have the foot as a unit of measurement, a combination of short and long syllables the iamb, the simplest combination, is a foot formed by a short and a long syllable). In Latin poetry, the verses have been frequently six feet long.
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“The Academic Sabbatical: A Voyage of Discovery” is a collection of narratives that reveals how important sabbaticals are to faculty and, by extension, to higher education. This in-depth look at the diverse experiences and perspectives provides a wealth of evidence that sabbaticals are instrumental in increasing productivity in terms of research and knowledge dissemination.
These periods of self-directed and focused work enable scholars to restore...
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What really motivates students to learn? What gets them interested-and keeps them interested-in pursuing knowledge and understanding? Recent neuroscientific findings have uncovered the source of our motivation to learn, or as neuroscientist Jaak Panksepp terms it, the drive to seek. Seeking is what gets us out of bed in the morning, the engine that powers our actions, and the need that manifests as curiosity. Informed by new findings on the nature...
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Looking Backat SECOM is the culmination of a long series of human interest columns with that title by Dr. Melnick, published in the schools magazine COM Outlook. In addition, Dr. Melnick has added some personal insights about why and how this osteopathic medical school came about. And he presents some views of the earliest days of its founding.A major portion of this work is the re-publishing of those original columns, and he has added a brief overview...
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Classroom management is traditionally a matter of encouraging good behavior and discouraging bad by doling out rewards and punishments. But studies show that when educators empower students to address and correct misbehavior among themselves, positive results are longer lasting and more wide reaching. In Better Than Carrots or Sticks, longtime educators and best-selling authors Dominique Smith, Douglas Fisher, and Nancy Frey provide a practical blueprint...
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The Feeling of Teaching is part of a larger project, Teaching through Emotions (TTE), developed by the author, Elizabeth Burris. The project is based on these premises: * that teaching and learning depend on relationships; * that teaching is fraught with emotion, often negative; * that working through emotions can help illuminate the nature of classroom relationships, which points to ways teachers can improve their teaching; and * that teachers need...
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In this powerful new book, James Rickabaugh, former superintendent and current director of the Institute for Personalized Learning (IPL), presents the groundbreaking results of the Institute's half-decade of research, development, and practice: a simple but powerful model for personalizing students' learning experiences by building their levels of commitment, ownership, and independence. Tried and rigorously tested in urban, suburban, and rural districts--and...
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Any teacher can be a master teacher. So says Robyn R. Jackson, author of the best-selling Never Work Harder Than Your Students and Other Principles of Great Teaching. In this book for school leaders, Jackson presents a new model for understanding teaching as a combination of skill and will and explains the best ways to support individual teachers' ongoing professional development. Here, you'll learn how to meet your teachers where they are and help...
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There are over 90,000 trade, membership, and professional associations in the United States, and more than 1 million charitable or philanthropic organizations, each managed by association executives and professionals that are dedicated to the mission, services, and social good provided by each institution. Perhaps you are one of these executives, or are considering a career in this important field. You may be surprised to learn that there are, in...
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