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“scott simmons”

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  • Designer Biology

    The Ethics of Intensively Engineering Biological and Ecological Systems

    by Immaculada de Melo Martin, Valentina Urbanek, William Kabasenche, Nicholas Agar, S. Matthew Liao, Anders Sandberg, Rebecca Roache, Stephen Jackson, Donald S. Maier, Nicole Hassoun, Benjamin Hale, Sune Holm, Scott Simmons, Allen Thompson, David A. Frank ...
    Advances in our scientific understanding and technological power in recent decades have dramatically amplified our capacity to intentionally manipulate complex ecological and biological systems. An implication of this is that biological and ecological problems are increasingly understood and approached from an engineering perspective. In environmental contexts, this is exemplified in the pursuits ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Potential on the Periphery

    College Access from the Ground Up

    by Omari Scott Simmons ...
    Even high-performing students sometimes need assistance to transform their high school achievement into a higher education outcome that matches their potential, especially when those students come from vulnerable backgrounds. Without intervention, many of these students, lost in the transition between secondary school and higher education, would not attend selective colleges that provide greater ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Cultivating Curious and Creative Minds

    The Role of Teachers and Teacher Educators, Part I

    by Gadi Alexander, Kevin Cloninger, Jessica T. DeCuir-Gunby, John P. Gaa, Herbert P. Ginsburg, Angela McNeal Haynes, Ming Fang He, Terri R. Hebert, Sharon Johnson, Patricia L. Marshall, Joan V. Mast, Allison W. McCulloch, Christina Mengert, Christy M. Moroye, F Richard Olenchak, Merrie Snow, Derrick M. Tennial, Shijing Xu, JeongAe You, Dr. Wynnetta Scott-Simmons, Carole G. Basile, F Michael Connelly, P. Bruce Uhrmacher ...
    Cultivating Curious and Creative Minds presents a plethora of approaches to developing human potential in areas not conventionally addressed. Organized in two parts, this international collection of essays provides viable educational alternatives to those currently holding sway in an era of high-stakes accountability. Taken together, the chapters in Part I of Cultivating Curious and Creative Minds ... Read more

    $42.89 USD

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  • Cultivating Curious and Creative Minds

    The Role of Teachers and Teacher Educators, Part II

    by Donald S. Blumenfeld-Jones, Anne Chodakowski, Julia Cote, Joyce M. Dutcher, Kieran Egan, Ginny Esch, Brenda Gladstone, David Jardine, Kathryn L. Jenkins, Gillian C. Judson0, Dixie K. Keyes1, Beverly J. Klug2, Chris Lasher-Zwerling3, Teresa Leavitt4, Shaun Murphy5, Jacqueline Sack6, Kym Stewart7, Madalina Tanase8, Kip Téllez9, Sandra Wasko-Flood0, Sharon Friesen1, Patricia T. Whitfield2, Terrell M. Peace3, Cheryl J. Craig4 ...
    Cultivating Curious and Creative Minds presents a plethora of approaches to developing human potential in areas not conventionally addressed. Organized in two parts, this international collection of essays provides viable educational alternatives to those currently holding sway in an era of high-stakes accountability. Taken together, the chapters in Part I of Cultivating Curious and Creative Minds ... Read more

    $42.89 USD

  • A Guide to Effective School Leadership Theories

    by Matthew Lynch ...
    Educational administrators know that leadership requires hundreds of judgments each day that require a sensitivity and understanding of various leadership strategies. Bridging the gap between the academic and practical world, A Guide to Effective School Leadership Theories provides an exploration of ten dominant leadership strategies to give school leaders a solid basis in theory and practical ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Mentoring and Coaching in Schools

    Professional Learning through Collaborative Inquiry

    by Suzanne Burley, Cathy Pomphrey ...
    Can mentoring and coaching really improve professional practice? How can research and inquiry improve mentoring and coaching practice?Mentoring and Coaching in Schools explores the ways in which mentoring and coaching can be used as a dynamic collaborative process for effective professional learning. It demonstrates how the use of practitioner inquiry within mentoring and coaching relationships in ... Read more

    Was $54.99 USD Now $46.99 USD

  • Community College Leaders on Workforce Development

    Opinions, Observations, and Future Directions

    by William J. Rothwell, Patrick E. Gerity, Vernon L. Carraway ...
    This book has two things going for it that are rarely combined—it is fundamentally purposeful and it is useful. As the authors point out, there is a trilogy of needs confronting any business leader with a change agenda and/or transitioning into a new top role: influence, coalition building, and performance consulting. Of the three, performance consulting has received the least amount of attention ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Leading Adult Learning

    Supporting Adult Development in Our Schools

    by Eleanor Drago-Severson ...
    "Eleanor Drago-Severson takes hold of an important and neglected truth: students grow best in schools where the adults around them are growing, too. In this nurturing and much-anticipated work, the author shows us exactly how to make this happen. Sound theory, vivid examples, and, best of all, a practice-ready framework—it′s all here! Anyone who cares about making our schools better will feel ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • Generation X Presidents Leading Community Colleges

    New Challenges, New Leaders

    by Linda Garcia, Martha M. Ellis ...
    The American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) reports over 900 presidential transitions in the last five years. It also estimated that nearly 50% of presidents will retire in the next 5 years. The flood of imminent retirements of sitting presidents and other senior leaders from community colleges is widely known. As community colleges are facing unprecedented challenges with the exodus of ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Brink

    How Great Leadership is Invented

    by Mark Hunter ...
    "The author lays bare his own triumphs and failures while breaking down that elusive edge that turns great leaders into influencers." —Brad Szollose, award-winning author of Liquid LeadershipThe Brink is a method for generating leadership in an individual leader and on a team. It is based on the simple assertion that leadership is created in the face of some great challenge or obstacle to overcome ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Teacher Educators Rethink Self-Assessment in Higher Education

    A Guide for the Perplexed

    Edited by Judith McVarish, Catherine Milne ...
    Series Book 380 - Counterpoints
    This edited book provides readers with a guide for implementing self-assessment and self-evaluation that is based on a model implemented successfully in a diverse range of teacher education courses. Educators from disciplines as diverse as theater arts, early childhood, psychology, mathematics, and science education have adopted a model of self-assessment and self-evaluation that supports the ... Read more

    $42.09 USD

  • Science Education and Pedagogy in South Africa

    by Oscar Koopman ...
    Series Book 51 - Complicated Conversation
    Science Education and Pedagogy in South Africa is a contemporary contribution that entices science teachers to ‘re-examine’ or ‘rethink’ the pedagogical strategies they use in their teaching. It offers fresh and exciting teaching approaches that explore new ways to tackle the worrisome problems of how to plan, implement, and present excellent and quality learning opportunities. From this ... Read more

    $43.09 USD