• Aligns improvement efforts with two sets of standards, NELP and PSEL – no other books in the field do this. • To help ground the main points in this volume, each chapter features a case that presents a leader who is simultaneously leading a school while also learning about improvement science in their graduate class. • To help instructors use this book in their courses, each chapter includes teaching notes and an action inventory aligned to the case examples and chapters. • Uses Improvement Science as a method of continuous change and equity as a values framework—this book centers equity in every improvement effort • This book helps to reframe the conversation about how data can be used by leaders for improvement -- it emphasizes creating a data culture that allows for experimentation and learning from failure and does not limit emphasis on lagging accountability data. • This book is comprehensive with attention to foundational theory and research on continuous improvement, practical methods of continuous improvement, and the leadership of continuous improvement
In Tales with a Twist, you'll meet a teenager with unusual mental powers, a mutant rebel, a blind empath who communes with bats, a distraught father and a mysterious creature, angels, devils, pirates, knights, cowboys, old people, young people, beasts, rocks (yes, rocks), and even dust-all with a tale to tell. Cleverly illustrated, the collection offers stories and narrative poems designed to intrigue and to entertain. Some tales will fascinate you. Some will leave you chuckling. Others are bittersweet. All have a slight twist to them. None will disappoint. So, find a quiet corner, open the cover, and plunge into the imaginative worlds of C. K. Deatherage, Larry D. Rudder, and B. David Spicer.
I have read the play, Evelyn! I keep reading the play but the play keeps on changing!" Five neurotic actors, one stressed Stage Manager, a crazed director, an invisible playwright and an escaped monkey are desperately rehearsing the world's worst play, which keeps being rewritten. And every rewrite is more hilariously terrible than the one before. And although It really shouldn't, somehow, the show manages to go on. "Stop! ...The Play is a fist-bitingly funny send-up of everything bad about bad theatre. A roar-out-loud gem of side-splitting brilliance" Grumpy Gay Critic *****
We are all animals. The only difference is we pretend to be something better. But we're not. We're cruel, greedy, stupid and selfish. We have no rights, no obligations, no duty to anyone or anything. Welcome to the farm, Daddy!" Five years after her death, Gerry and Roger's mum, Martha, has gone missing. Well, most of her has... The unwitting victims of animal rights activists campaigning for the freedom of the family frog farm's slimy inhabitants, the brothers bring in the hapless Inspector Clout to establish the whereabouts of their long dead mother. An absurdly funny comedy, Raising Martha tackles terrorism, animal rights and six-foot frogs!
Having spent my life trying to find love and happiness, I have had many adventuresA[a¬asome successful, some not so successful. This book records the many feelings and emotions I felt as I traveled through the journey of my life thus far.
Optimisation has been used in industrial design for several decades. In particular, structural optimisation has made a major impact. Many of the general optimisation problems addressed in the past have been of a tactical nature rather than strategic. However, in recent years computing power and analysis capabilities have developed to the point where designs can now be assessed more comprehensively than ever before, with optimisation as an integral part of the design cycle. Moreover there is increasing industrial pressure to provide products whose cost, performance, durability and customer appeal have been refined and balanced to maximise market return.
Managerial and Professional Learning and Development seeks to provide readers with an understanding of the role and importance of learning and development at both individual and organizational levels. These represent essential individual skills and organizational capabilities that act to support competitive advantage and ensure that people and organizations can cope with the changing world and pressures created by the transformational working and business environments they face. The focus in the book therefore is on developing an understanding of a future-oriented perspective on learning that sees learning as interactive and not one-dimensional, in which learners take personal responsibility but also recognize the need for co-creation and collaboration in effective learning. Fundamentally, understanding the contribution our learning makes to personal and organizational success and the effective processes for undertaking and supporting our own and others learning and development are therefore essential requirements in the current and future workplace that this book will seek to explore. Managerial and Professional Learning and Development is organized in three sections: Part 1 will discuss the business case for learning and development and discuss the role, importance and contribution of learning and development at the organizational level. Part 2 will focus on the individual learner and the processes of personal and professional development at the individual level. Part 3 will look at the application of these principles to a number of key contexts and environments. Consideration will be given to the roles of community, ethics and culture as well as individual characteristics (values, beliefs, personality, and behaviors) and their relationships with the context explored. The authors' experience which combines academic and professional expertise in learning and development lends itself to such an approach, and the book is intended to support these practices through the inclusion of cases and examples from organizations. Managerial and Professional Learning and Development is focused at the postgraduate market and will appeal to both MBA and MSc students who are studying on programmes which include a focus on considering their learning and development and the role and contribution of these to the organization.
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