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This book provides data and uses stories and personal insights
gleaned from nearly 6,000 observations in real classrooms across
the nation. The mix of data and descriptions provide a clear
picture of the rich interaction of teacher and student behaviors -
and how one predicts the other. Graphs and tables provide concrete
visual representations of the often surprisingly low rates of
effective instructional practices used in the average classroom. In
addition to a description of how the large dataset was developed,
there are descriptions of what it is like to visit multiple
classrooms in different schools, what the data tells us about
teaching and learning in our public school system, and what the
implications are for pre-service teacher training, school
professional development, research, and understanding interaction
effects.
This book provides data and uses stories and personal insights
gleaned from nearly 6,000 observations in real classrooms across
the nation. The mix of data and descriptions provide a clear
picture of the rich interaction of teacher and student behaviors -
and how one predicts the other. Graphs and tables provide concrete
visual representations of the often surprisingly low rates of
effective instructional practices used in the average classroom. In
addition to a description of how the large dataset was developed,
there are descriptions of what it is like to visit multiple
classrooms in different schools, what the data tells us about
teaching and learning in our public school system, and what the
implications are for pre-service teacher training, school
professional development, research, and understanding interaction
effects.
Renewed ethnic and nationalist strife, the proliferation of nuclear
weapons, rogue states that disregard elementary norms of
international conduct, brutal regimes that torture their own
citizens, the widespread use of terrorism, and other trends
demonstrate the dangerous and unpredictable nature of international
politics in the Post-Cold War Era. The prominent contributors to
this edition reassess these problems from a moral-philosophical
perspective in an effort to move beyond familiar ways of thinking.
These insightful essays draw on a long and rich tradition of
Christian political reflection to cast a moral light on
international politics and to enrich public discourse on these
pressing matters. Sovereignty at the Crossroads? is important
reading for everyone concerned about the political stability,
economic development, and ecological integrity of the post-cold war
world. Sponsored by the Calvin Center for Christian Scholarship.
For years crisis management has been synonymous with reactive
leadership. This stems from a belief that crisis is both
unpredictable and unexpected; but this is simply not true. Crisis
develops as an organization's values, beliefs, culture, or behavior
becomes incongruent with its operating environment. A leader, who
is "tuned-in" to the signals of impending crisis and understands
how to harness the urgency brought on by the situation, can
minimize the potential dangers and maximize the resulting
opportunities. This paper presents the "Crisis Lifecycle Model" as
a generic representation of crisis. It illustrates that crisis can
be broken into three unique phases. In the first or preparation
phase, the organization is typically mired in the comfort zone.
Here, leaders struggle when introducing any change or learning, as
the organization prefers to avoid conflict and sustain equilibrium.
However, as crisis hits, the organization is jolted into the
emergency phase, often threatening its very existence. Once the
immediate threat is eliminated, the organization enters the
adaptive phase. In this phase, the leader has the attention and
urgency to solve the underlying issue that caused the crisis in the
first place. Unfortunately, many leaders don't take advantage of
this opportunity and push the organization back toward the original
status-quo, ensuring that the crisis will return. The study of
crisis leadership is becoming increasingly important as leaders in
all walks of life face varying degrees of crisis, spawning numerous
recent books and articles. From this extensive body of work, we
found seven essential strategies that are crucial for success. They
are to: Lead from the Front, Focus on the Core Purpose, Build the
Team, Conduct Continuous Planning, Mitigate the Threat, Tell the
Story, and Profit from the Crisis.
This book contains a compilation of the most profound quotes from
many inspirational figures in history. Twenty-five centuries of
wisdom are contained in the words of this incredibly diverse group
of men and women. Each of the nineteen chapters is organized
chronologically by birthdate to give the reader an idea of the
evolution of the authors' mindsets through time. This book contains
hundreds of powerful quotations from the sixth century B.C. to the
second century A.D. This includes the thoughts of many of the great
ancient Chinese and Greek philosophers. Beginning in the middle of
the fifteenth century, and spanning each preceding century to the
present date, there are many more inspiring quotes found in this
book. The reader can get a glimpse into the minds of the great
inventors, world leaders, and other influential men and women who
have reshaped history.
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