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Building Academic Leadership Capacity
A Guide to Best Practices
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2015
A clear, systematic road map to effective campus leadership development
Building Academic Leadership Capacity gives institutions the knowledge they need to invest in the next generation of academic leaders. With a clear, generalizable, systematic approach, this book provides insight into the...
Visual Strategy
Strategy Mapping for Public and Nonprofit Organizations
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2014
Strategic planning becomes visual with strategy maps and the tools, techniques, and guidance for turning them into effective action.
Developed as a companion workbook to John Bryson's best-selling Strategic Planning in Public and Nonprofit Organizations, Visual Strategy: A Workbook for Strategy...
by William H. Bergquist
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2010
Since the first edition of A Guide to Faculty Development was published in 2002, the dynamic field of educational and faculty development has undergone many changes. Prepared under the auspices of the Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education (POD), this thoroughly revised,...
Becoming A Top Manager
Tools and Lessons in Transitioning to General Management
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2015
Make the move up to senior management with lessons from world-renowned business school experts
Based on themes from INSEAD's popular Transition to General Management programme, authors Kevin Kaiser, Michael Pich, and I.J. Schecter offer sound advice and practical insights for those looking...
Because Digital Writing Matters
Improving Student Writing in Online and Multimedia Environments
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2010
How to apply digital writing skills effectively in the classroom, from the prestigious National Writing Project
As many teachers know, students may be adept at text messaging and communicating online but do not know how to craft a basic essay. In the classroom, students are increasingly required...
Research Methods for Everyday Life
Blending Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2008
This book offers an innovative introduction to social research. The book explores all stages of the research process and it features both quantitative and qualitative methods. Research design topics include sampling techniques, choosing a research design, and determining research question that inform...
Grant Seeking in Higher Education
Strategies and Tools for College Faculty
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2012
Written for anyone in higher education who is responsible for submitting and running a grant-funded project, Grant Seeking in Higher Education offers a hands-on resource for developing and managing the grant process from start to finish.
Step by step, the authors will help you to identify and...
Performance Evaluation
Proven Approaches for Improving Program and Organizational Performance
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2017
Performance Evaluation is a hands-on text for practitioners, researchers, educators, and students in how to use scientifically-based evaluations that are both rigorous and flexible. Author Ingrid Guerra-López, an internationally-known evaluation expert, introduces the foundations of evaluation and...
Managing Online Instructor Workload
Strategies for Finding Balance and Success
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Managing Online Instructor Workload is a groundbreaking book that offers strategies, advice, illustrative examples, and a four-step process for identifying challenges and rethinking, prioritizing, managing, and balancing one's online instruction workload.
Based on surveys and interviews with...
Math Starters
5- to 10-Minute Activities Aligned with the Common Core Math Standards, Grades 6-12
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013
A revised edition of the bestselling activities guide for math teachers
Now updated with new math activities for computers and mobile devices—and now organized by the Common Core State Standards—this book includes more than 650 ready-to-use math starter activities that get kids quickly...
by Judith A. Muschla, Gary Robert Muschla, Erin Muschla-Berry
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2014
Helping teachers prepare elementary students to master the common core math standards
With the common core math curriculum being adopted by forty-three states, it is imperative that students learn to master those key math standards. Teaching the Common Core Math Standards with Hands-On Activities,...
Mindset Mathematics
Visualizing and Investigating Big Ideas, Grade 4
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2017
Engage students in mathematics using growth mindset techniques
The most challenging parts of teaching mathematics are engaging students and helping them understand the connections between mathematics concepts. In this volume, you'll find a collection of low floor, high ceiling tasks that will...
Pre-Algebra Out Loud
Learning Mathematics Through Reading and Writing Activities
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2016
An essential guide for teaching students in grades 5-9 how to write about math
Learning to read and write efficiently regarding mathematics helps students to understand content at a deeper level. In this third book in the popular math 'Out Loud' series, Mower provides a variety of reading and...
Program Evaluation in Practice
Core Concepts and Examples for Discussion and Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2016
An updated guide to the core concepts of program evaluation
This updated edition of Program Evaluation in Practice covers the core concepts of program evaluation and uses case studies to touch on real-world issues that arise when conducting an evaluation project. This important resource is...