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You're already a good teacher. But you want more-for them and for yourself. You want to be the teacher your students remember, the one who makes real, positive differences in their lives. You want to become a legendary teacher.
This book outlines the characteristics of legendary teachers. It shows you how to recognize and acknowledge those traits in your colleagues,] then cultivate them in yourself. Find out how you can:
Convey your high expectations...
3562) Redmine Cookbook
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Over 80 hands-on recipes to improve your skills in project management, team management, process improvement, and Redmine administration
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Efficiently install and customize Redmine for your own infrastructure, whether that be Microsoft or open source
Manage multiple projects with multiple teams across the globe in a standardized and effective way
Customize Redmine to fit your organisation's specific and unique needs
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Margaret Pugh O'Mara teaches history at Stanford University. The dissertation this book is based upon won the Urban History Association's award for Best Dissertation in Urban History completed in 2002.
What is the magic formula for turning a place into a high-tech capital? How can a city or region become a high-tech powerhouse like Silicon Valley? For over half a century, through boom times and bust, business leaders and politicians have tried to...
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Get that arts grant and be more independent! In this book, artists and arts groups will find all they need to know to support themselves through grants and special projects. This expert guide, written by an insider who has been on both the grant-making and the grant-writing side of the arts, shows readers how to assess their personal strengths and set goals to pursue their dreams. Hands-on examples and how-to exercises are provided for every situation:...
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Ready to take your career to the next level? Find out everything you need to know about stress and coping mechanisms with this practical guide.
In a world that is increasingly full of stress and responsibility, it is important to find balance and ways of dealing with it. While stress is something that affects everyone at some point, it does not mean that our health and happiness should be put on the line for our professional achievement. This guide...
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Extrait : "On n'a pas oublié les débats passionnés, les discussions orageuses, qu'a soulevés, dans le public et dans la presse, la question des Eaux de Paris. Tout récemment encore, M. Robinet, le savant rapporteur du projet de dérivation des sources de la Dhuis, adressait, sous le couvert anodin d'une Lettre à un conseiller d'État, une vigoureuse réplique à ses contradicteurs, ou, pour parler plus exactement, aux adversaires des projets...
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View the culture of childhood through a whole new lens. Identify age-based bias and expand your outlook on and understanding of early childhood as a culture. Examine various elements of childhood culture: language, belief economics, arts, and social structure to understand children's dispositions of questioning, engagement, and cooperation.
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¡Disfruta trabajando en un ambiente laboral saludable!
Este libro es una guía práctica y accesible para aprender a resolver los conflictos en la oficina, que te aportará la información esencial y te permitirá ganar tiempo.
En tan solo 50 minutos podrás:
• Analizar las relaciones conflictuales que vives en el trabajo, desde la identificación del problema hasta la elección de una solución
• Entender cómo los diferentes perfiles de...
3569) Essential Lessons for School Leaders: Tips for Courage, Finding Solutions, and Reaching Your Goals
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This gold mine of wisdom from top education researcher and the bestselling author of Turning Around Failing Schools and Connecting Teacher Leadership and School Improvement contains key tips and strategies every school leader should know. Award-winning professor and former school administrator Joseph Murphy's concise and instructive lessons will help you stay focused on what matters most as you navigate the hectic world of high-stakes testing and...
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A case study of how an award-winning start-up used a large-scale collaboration to achieve a bold objective, and what it shows us about leadership.
Machiavelli famously wrote, "There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things."
That's what this book is about innovation far more audacious than a new way to find a restaurant or...
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The must-read summary of Robert J. Ringer's book: "Million Dollar Habits: Make Success the Habit of a Lifetime".
This complete summary of the ideas from Robert J. Ringer's book "Million Dollar Habits" shows that millionaires have set habits that put them on the path to success. Ringer explains each of these habits and teaches you how to implement them into your own life.
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In the world of municipal politics, truth is stranger than fiction and there is no truth stranger than La Blanca Gente, Colorado. In this striking first book, the author weaves between the anecdotal and the academic to sew a grand comic farce as he unveils the curtain over the tactics employed by government employees to achieve their own ends. Tragic? Absurd? Harrowing? Indeed, and "City Boy" serves as a lesson on what not to do when confronted by...
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Teaching can be a highly satisfying profession, but it can also be overwhelming. Stress management. Self-care. Mental well-being. Mindfulness. These words have become all too familiar, but what do they actually mean for you? And how can they help without adding to your to-do list?
All teachers have different experiences and different needs. Through stories by diverse educators, this professional resource invites you to try different wellness strategies,...
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This complete summary of the ideas from Edwin C. Bliss' book "Doing It Now" shows that highly successful people never procrastinate - they always find a way to get the most important things done, and to do them now. In fact, overcoming the tendency to procrastinate unlocks the potential in everyone's life and opens the door to a fuller, more satisfying and enjoyable life of achievement. Procrastination can be a major business road block, but one which...
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Urbanization will become one of the defining trends of Asia's transformation in the coming decades. Investments in urban areas have a strong potential to contribute to inclusive growth, reduce urban poverty, and strengthen social resilience. The Guidance Note on Poverty and Social Dimensions in Urban Projects aims to assist Asian Development Bank (ADB) staff, including practitioners and specialists working on their behalf, to effectively address the...
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Part architectural guidebook and part critique, Sky-High documents the pencil-thin, supertall towers that are transforming New York City's skyline as well as its streets.
New York City's penchant for building skyward has reached new heights with its crop of supertall towers-those that rise at least 984 feet above the sidewalk. The city that never sleeps is also the city that never stops building ever higher, from the Woolworth and Chrysler buildings...
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Scott E. Page is the Leonid Hurwicz Collegiate Professor of Complex Systems, Political Science, and Economics at the University of Michigan. His books include The Difference: How the Power of Diversity Creates Better Groups, Firms, Schools, and Societies (Princeton).
How businesses and other organizations can improve their performance by tapping the power of differences in how people think
What if workforce diversity is more than simply the right...
3578) Detroit: A Biography
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At its heyday in the 1950s and 1960s, Detroit's status as epicenter of the American auto industry made it a vibrant, populous, commercial hub and then the bottom fell out. Detroit: A Biography takes a long, unflinching look at the evolution of one of America's great cities and one of the nation's greatest urban failures. This authoritative yet accessible narrative seeks to explain how the city grew to become the heart of American industry and how...
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Have you experienced a deeply painful setback? Or do you know someone? Are you feeling stuck with negative emotions, unsure of how to express them? Based on a true story, Metaphors: An Emotional Journey-by award-winning author Gabriela Casineanu-takes you on a visual journey to understand how to make peace with these feelings. And when you're ready, how to let go of what's holding you back. With over a decade of experience in professional coaching,...
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Based on Geoff Colvin's bestselling book, Managing the Cycle of Acting-Out Behavior in the Classroom, this practitioner-friendly guide provides special and general education teachers of autistic students with a six-phase positive behavior support model that includes interventions for each phase. Outlining practical steps for preventing and responding to the various phases of meltdown behavior in students with autism spectrum disorder, you'll find:
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