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“tom vander ark”

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  • Smart Parents: Parenting for Powerful Learning

    by Bonnie Lathram, Tom Vander Ark, Carri Schneider ...
    We spend a lot of our time creating and sharing resources for educators and parents (who are often one and the same audience). Time and time again, we observe that families are left out of the equation when it comes to determining the primary audience for education reports, papers and articles—even though they are among the hungriest for informed opinions that can help them. This is why, in ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Getting Smart

    How Digital Learning is Changing the World

    by Tom Vander Ark ...
    A comprehensive look at the promise and potential of online learningIn our digital age, students have dramatically new learning needs and must be prepared for the idea economy of the future. In Getting Smart, well-known global education expert Tom Vander Ark examines the facets of educational innovation in the United States and abroad. Vander Ark makes a convincing case for a blend of online and ... Read more

    $16.00 USD

  • The Power of Place

    Authentic Learning Through Place-Based Education

    by Tom Vander Ark, Emily Liebtag, Nate McClennen ...
    "Place: it's where we're from; it's where we're going. . . . It asks for our attention and care. If we pay attention, place has much to teach us."With this belief as a foundation, The Power of Place offers a comprehensive and compelling case for making communities the locus of learning for students of all ages and backgrounds.Dispelling the notion that place-based education is an approach limited ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Change Leadership

    A Practical Guide to Transforming Our Schools

    by Tony Wagner, Robert Kegan, Lisa Laskow Lahey, Richard W. Lemons, Jude Garnier, Deborah Helsing, Annie Howell, Harriette Thurber Rasmussen ...
    The Change Leadership Group at the Harvard School of Education has, through its work with educators, developed a thoughtful approach to the transformation of schools in the face of increasing demands for accountability. This book brings the work of the Change Leadership Group to a broader audience, providing a framework to analyze the work of school change and exercises that guide educators ... Read more

    $31.00 USD

  • Better Together

    How to Leverage School Networks For Smarter Personalized and Project Based Learning

    by Tom Vander Ark, Lydia Dobyns ...
    Bring students, teachers, and administrators together to facilitate higher school achievementBetter Together presents a tour through one of the modern era’s most important educational innovations, and provides smart strategy for working optimally within the school network sphere. There are more than 50 high-quality scaled charter networks in the U.S.; most share a learning model, professional ... Read more

    $18.00 USD

  • Difference Making at the Heart of Learning

    Students, Schools, and Communities Alive With Possibility

    by Tom Vander Ark, Emily liebtag ...
    Your students will change the world!Today’s learners know they face a complex future. They yearn to live in a world where people are working with purpose, leading with character and making a difference. Learning to identify problems and use smart tools to develop meaningful solutions will help them make a difference in their families, their communities and for society.They need your help. This ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

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    Difference Making at the Heart of Learning Audiobook

    Students, Schools, and Communities Alive With Possibility

    by Tom Vander Ark, Emily Liebtag ...
    Narrated by Tim Tharrington ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 13 min

    Your students will change the world!Today’s learners face a complex future, where multilayered technological and societal issues will require new ways of problem-solving. This inspirational yet practical guide helps educators, counselors, and youth-development leaders build on students’ talents and interests to develop their desire for a better world, entrepreneurial mindset and personal ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

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    In the world of Facebook, Twitter and Yelp, water-cooler conversations with co-workers and backyard small talk with neighbors have moved from the physical world to the digital arena. In this new landscape, organizations ranging from Fortune 500 companies to government agencies to political campaigns continuously monitor online opinions in an effort to guide their actions. Are consumers satisfied ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

  • Improving the Performance of Government Employees

    A Manager's Guide

    by Stewart Liff ...
    In light of an increasingly tumultuous political landscape, the success, efficiency, and performance of government employees and departments is more critical than ever before. With over thirty years of experience working for the federal government, author Stewart Liff shares firsthand knowledge about the key to improving a government team’s performance results: understanding how different ... Read more

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  • Learning Transformed

    8 Keys to Designing Tomorrow’s Schools, Today

    by Eric C. Sheninger ...
    With all that we know about how students learn, the nature of the world they will face after graduation, and the educational inequities that have existed for centuries, maintaining a traditional, one-size-fits-all approach to teaching and learning is tantamount to instructional malpractice.International security, the success of global economies, and sustainability as a global society all depend on ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Project Sustainability

    A Comprehensive Guide to Sustaining Projects, Systems and Organizations in a Competitive Marketplace

    by John N. Morfaw MBA ...
    This business guide explores the complex relationship between a good strategic implementation plan and the implementation needed to enhance the sustainability of a project in the marketplace.“A good reference guide on issues related not only to the sustainability of projects and programs, but also to the sustainability of systems, institutions, and organizations.”—Dr. Mrs. Mercy M. Tembon, country ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Boards that Matter

    Building Blocks for Implementing Coherent Governance' and Policy Governance'

    by Randy Quinn, Linda J. Dawson ...
    This book clears the smoke for boards faced with the challenge to make their governing model, either Policy Governance® or Coherent Governance® , work in real life. Boards of directors thoughtfully engage in the exciting work of developing new policies and adopting their new governing model, then immediately confront reality: how does the board actually put the new model into motion and allow it ... Read more

    $42.99 USD