Author: Lynn Fielding
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780966687507
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
The title describes how Kennewick School District focused on elementary reading, basedlined it currently performance of 57% at standard in 1996, set a clear goal of 90%, and created the rationale, assessment, reporting, and accountability systems to get to to goal. Describes role of board, superintendent, principals. Describes what works and did not work. Details organization and operation of the Reading Foundation, a multi-district non-profit organization which encourages parents to read aloud with their child 20 minutes a day from birth.
The 90% Reading Goal
Author: Lynn Fielding
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780966687507
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
The title describes how Kennewick School District focused on elementary reading, basedlined it currently performance of 57% at standard in 1996, set a clear goal of 90%, and created the rationale, assessment, reporting, and accountability systems to get to to goal. Describes role of board, superintendent, principals. Describes what works and did not work. Details organization and operation of the Reading Foundation, a multi-district non-profit organization which encourages parents to read aloud with their child 20 minutes a day from birth.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780966687507
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
The title describes how Kennewick School District focused on elementary reading, basedlined it currently performance of 57% at standard in 1996, set a clear goal of 90%, and created the rationale, assessment, reporting, and accountability systems to get to to goal. Describes role of board, superintendent, principals. Describes what works and did not work. Details organization and operation of the Reading Foundation, a multi-district non-profit organization which encourages parents to read aloud with their child 20 minutes a day from birth.
Step Into Student Goal Setting
Author: Chase Nordengren
Publisher: Corwin Press
ISBN: 1071867067
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 145
Book Description
This resource provides an action plan for understanding what a student knows and how to build from it. It shows teachers how to integrate formative assessment, student metacognition, and motivational strategies to make goal setting an integral instructional strategy. It weaves research and case studies with practical strategies to demonstrate how goal setting, with clear learning intentions and scaffolded teacher support, can lead to high learning growth and student agency.
Publisher: Corwin Press
ISBN: 1071867067
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 145
Book Description
This resource provides an action plan for understanding what a student knows and how to build from it. It shows teachers how to integrate formative assessment, student metacognition, and motivational strategies to make goal setting an integral instructional strategy. It weaves research and case studies with practical strategies to demonstrate how goal setting, with clear learning intentions and scaffolded teacher support, can lead to high learning growth and student agency.
The Ultimate Reading Challenge
Author: Weldon Owen
Publisher: Weldon Owen
ISBN: 9781681888231
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Invigorate your reading life with 25 unique challenges and reward yourself with 25 bookish surprises! This delightful collection of 25 challenges and rewards inspires bookworms to engage with their reading life in a fresh new way. Each pocket inside this portfolio challenges readers to a bookish challenge. Once the reader completes a challenge, they can open the pocket to claim their prize. This one-size-fits-all gift is appropriate for readers of all ages, genres, and abilities. Bibliophiles are encouraged to: Read personally Re-read a book you loved as a child. Ask a family member what book has made a lasting impression on them. Find and read that book. Read compassionately Read a book that features an indigenous person. Read a book about a person with a disability. Read broadly Visit your local bookstore and ask a bookseller to recommend a book based on your recent favorites. Read in a place you’ve never read before. Engage creatively Make (or order) a snack or meal described in a book you’ve read. Write a letter to someone who has influenced your reading life. Prizes are all thoughtfully curated to supplement the reading life and include: A laser-engraved wooden bookmark Bookish greeting cards Coffee cup sleeve Book darts A mini notebook And much more!
Publisher: Weldon Owen
ISBN: 9781681888231
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Invigorate your reading life with 25 unique challenges and reward yourself with 25 bookish surprises! This delightful collection of 25 challenges and rewards inspires bookworms to engage with their reading life in a fresh new way. Each pocket inside this portfolio challenges readers to a bookish challenge. Once the reader completes a challenge, they can open the pocket to claim their prize. This one-size-fits-all gift is appropriate for readers of all ages, genres, and abilities. Bibliophiles are encouraged to: Read personally Re-read a book you loved as a child. Ask a family member what book has made a lasting impression on them. Find and read that book. Read compassionately Read a book that features an indigenous person. Read a book about a person with a disability. Read broadly Visit your local bookstore and ask a bookseller to recommend a book based on your recent favorites. Read in a place you’ve never read before. Engage creatively Make (or order) a snack or meal described in a book you’ve read. Write a letter to someone who has influenced your reading life. Prizes are all thoughtfully curated to supplement the reading life and include: A laser-engraved wooden bookmark Bookish greeting cards Coffee cup sleeve Book darts A mini notebook And much more!
It's Not Luck
Author: Eliyahu M. Goldratt
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351219006
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
There has been a shift of policy at board level. Cash is needed and Alex Rogo’s companies are to be put on the block. Alex faces a cruel dilemma. If he successfully completes the turnaround of his companies they can be sold for the maximum return: if he fails they will be closed down. Either way Alex and his team will be out of work. It looks like lose-lose, both for Alex and for his team. And as if he doesn’t have enough to deal with, his two children have become teenagers. As Alex grapples with problems at work and at home, we begin to understand the full scope of Eli Goldratt’s powerful techniques. It’s Not Luck reveals more of the Thinking Process-techniques that consistently produce win-win solutions to seemingly impossible problems.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351219006
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
There has been a shift of policy at board level. Cash is needed and Alex Rogo’s companies are to be put on the block. Alex faces a cruel dilemma. If he successfully completes the turnaround of his companies they can be sold for the maximum return: if he fails they will be closed down. Either way Alex and his team will be out of work. It looks like lose-lose, both for Alex and for his team. And as if he doesn’t have enough to deal with, his two children have become teenagers. As Alex grapples with problems at work and at home, we begin to understand the full scope of Eli Goldratt’s powerful techniques. It’s Not Luck reveals more of the Thinking Process-techniques that consistently produce win-win solutions to seemingly impossible problems.
Living Without a Goal
Author: James A. Ogilvy
Publisher: Broadway Business
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
"We've mastered the art of living with goals and what has it gotten us? More commitments, more obligations - and much less time to be playful, loving and alive. What if we could let go of our goals - and our belief that without them we are nothing - and open ourselves to even more productive and fulfilling experiences?" "The process of doing this is what James Ogilvy describes. One of a rare breed of full-time philosophers working in business, Ogilvy shows how the need for Authority runs so deep that we are often unaware of its existence. This internal taskmaster determines goals for us - even against our deepest wishes." "Ogilvy shows how to navigate the fertile and frightening territory between mindless obedience and abject aimlessness. He explores how lovers, ideologues, executives and philosophers, from Plato to Nietzsche, have at one time or another lived brilliantly without goals. Goallessness is a new method of achieving personal creativity and freedom by fashioning one's day-to-day life not as a goal in a larger goal-producing machine, but as a personal work of art."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Publisher: Broadway Business
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
"We've mastered the art of living with goals and what has it gotten us? More commitments, more obligations - and much less time to be playful, loving and alive. What if we could let go of our goals - and our belief that without them we are nothing - and open ourselves to even more productive and fulfilling experiences?" "The process of doing this is what James Ogilvy describes. One of a rare breed of full-time philosophers working in business, Ogilvy shows how the need for Authority runs so deep that we are often unaware of its existence. This internal taskmaster determines goals for us - even against our deepest wishes." "Ogilvy shows how to navigate the fertile and frightening territory between mindless obedience and abject aimlessness. He explores how lovers, ideologues, executives and philosophers, from Plato to Nietzsche, have at one time or another lived brilliantly without goals. Goallessness is a new method of achieving personal creativity and freedom by fashioning one's day-to-day life not as a goal in a larger goal-producing machine, but as a personal work of art."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Goals!
Author: Brian Tracy
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
ISBN: 1576755088
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Annotation Based on more than 20 years of experience and 40 years of research, this book presents a practical, proven strategy for creating and meeting goals that has been used by more than 1 million people to achieve extraordinary things in life. Author Brian Tracy explains the seven key elements of goal setting and the 12 steps necessary to set and accomplish goals of any size. Using simple language and real-life examples, Tracy shows how to do the crucial work of determining one's strengths, values, and true goals. He explains how to build the self-esteem and confidence necessary for achievement; how to overpower every problem or obstacle; how to overcome difficulties; how to respond to challenges; and how to continue moving forward no matter what happens. The book's "Mental Fitness" program of character development shows readers how to become the kind of person on the inside who can achieve any goal on the outside
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
ISBN: 1576755088
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Annotation Based on more than 20 years of experience and 40 years of research, this book presents a practical, proven strategy for creating and meeting goals that has been used by more than 1 million people to achieve extraordinary things in life. Author Brian Tracy explains the seven key elements of goal setting and the 12 steps necessary to set and accomplish goals of any size. Using simple language and real-life examples, Tracy shows how to do the crucial work of determining one's strengths, values, and true goals. He explains how to build the self-esteem and confidence necessary for achievement; how to overpower every problem or obstacle; how to overcome difficulties; how to respond to challenges; and how to continue moving forward no matter what happens. The book's "Mental Fitness" program of character development shows readers how to become the kind of person on the inside who can achieve any goal on the outside
The Golden Goal
Author: Matthew Cade
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 144346340X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
And faster than you could blink—not a second, but a fraction— Crosby shot the puck before Miller reacted. It slipped through his pads and like that it was done, The country erupted—Canada had won! The Vancouver Olympics, 2010. Canada’s best hockey players battle Team USA for the Olympic gold medal in men’s hockey. The stakes are high, and the game starts off fast with both teams fighting for the puck. At the end of the second period, Canada is ahead 2-1 and the gold medal is within reach. Then, with minutes left in the third period, the US scores to tie the game. With millions of Canadians on the edge of their seats, the game goes into overtime and thirteen minutes in, Sidney Crosby shoots and scores. Sid the Kid and one of the greatest hockey teams ever assembled clinches the gold medal on home ice for Canada, the birthplace of hockey. The Golden Goal captures the energy and excitement of the game and celebrates the tenth anniversary of this iconic moment in Canadian history. Perfect for reading aloud and sharing with kids of all ages.
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 144346340X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
And faster than you could blink—not a second, but a fraction— Crosby shot the puck before Miller reacted. It slipped through his pads and like that it was done, The country erupted—Canada had won! The Vancouver Olympics, 2010. Canada’s best hockey players battle Team USA for the Olympic gold medal in men’s hockey. The stakes are high, and the game starts off fast with both teams fighting for the puck. At the end of the second period, Canada is ahead 2-1 and the gold medal is within reach. Then, with minutes left in the third period, the US scores to tie the game. With millions of Canadians on the edge of their seats, the game goes into overtime and thirteen minutes in, Sidney Crosby shoots and scores. Sid the Kid and one of the greatest hockey teams ever assembled clinches the gold medal on home ice for Canada, the birthplace of hockey. The Golden Goal captures the energy and excitement of the game and celebrates the tenth anniversary of this iconic moment in Canadian history. Perfect for reading aloud and sharing with kids of all ages.
The Literate Classroom
Author: Prue Goodwin
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136851534
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Now in its third edition, The Literate Classroom offers essential information and advice from leading experts about the teaching of primary English to students, NQTs and less confident teachers of literacy. Presenting a range of refreshing and challenging viewpoints from experienced classroom practitioners, this book describes how the theory behind key areas of literacy teaching can be transformed into realistic learning experiences within the classroom. Split into five sections, this book outlines effective measures in inspiring children to become confident with all aspects of literacy through speaking and listening, creative approaches to reading and writing and new experiences with poetry and drama. This fully updated edition includes: shared and guided reading and writing guidance on literacy teaching with EAL pupils comprehension through response to children’s literature working with drama, ICT, poetry and language study new chapters on speaking and listening, reading aloud to children and children’s development as independent readers. This accessible and informative collection is a must-have for all trainee and practising teachers, as well as teaching assistants and support workers, looking to enhance literacy learning in the primary classroom.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136851534
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Now in its third edition, The Literate Classroom offers essential information and advice from leading experts about the teaching of primary English to students, NQTs and less confident teachers of literacy. Presenting a range of refreshing and challenging viewpoints from experienced classroom practitioners, this book describes how the theory behind key areas of literacy teaching can be transformed into realistic learning experiences within the classroom. Split into five sections, this book outlines effective measures in inspiring children to become confident with all aspects of literacy through speaking and listening, creative approaches to reading and writing and new experiences with poetry and drama. This fully updated edition includes: shared and guided reading and writing guidance on literacy teaching with EAL pupils comprehension through response to children’s literature working with drama, ICT, poetry and language study new chapters on speaking and listening, reading aloud to children and children’s development as independent readers. This accessible and informative collection is a must-have for all trainee and practising teachers, as well as teaching assistants and support workers, looking to enhance literacy learning in the primary classroom.
Eyes on the Goal
Author: John Coy
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1429935774
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 189
Book Description
Here is a story about how life, like sports, can be unpredictable, frustrating, and exhilarating. Eyes on the Goal by John Coy is part of the 4 for 4 series, an action-packed middle grade series for young readers about four boys from diverse backgrounds who deal with family, friendship, and school situations. Just before they're due to start middle school, Diego, Gig, Jackson, and Isaac, four sports-loving friends, all attend the same weeklong soccer camp. Diego is an experienced soccer player, and Gig has a natural ability for the sport he never realized. But Jackson and Isaac are split into another group of players—a group with younger, smaller kids. For the first time, both boys aren't the stars of their team. In fact, they can't seem to get a handle on soccer. At the same time, Jackson is having a hard time getting a handle on his mom's deepening relationship with her boyfriend, and her suggestion that they move in with him. And Gig is worried about his father's deployment to Afghanistan. "Light, enjoyable reading for those downtimes between sports seasons." —Booklist "Coy has created a story of just the right length to keep his fans engaged. It is not necessary to have read Top of the Order to appreciate this one. Hints of fall football in middle school indicate that a third book is to follow." —School Library Journal
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1429935774
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 189
Book Description
Here is a story about how life, like sports, can be unpredictable, frustrating, and exhilarating. Eyes on the Goal by John Coy is part of the 4 for 4 series, an action-packed middle grade series for young readers about four boys from diverse backgrounds who deal with family, friendship, and school situations. Just before they're due to start middle school, Diego, Gig, Jackson, and Isaac, four sports-loving friends, all attend the same weeklong soccer camp. Diego is an experienced soccer player, and Gig has a natural ability for the sport he never realized. But Jackson and Isaac are split into another group of players—a group with younger, smaller kids. For the first time, both boys aren't the stars of their team. In fact, they can't seem to get a handle on soccer. At the same time, Jackson is having a hard time getting a handle on his mom's deepening relationship with her boyfriend, and her suggestion that they move in with him. And Gig is worried about his father's deployment to Afghanistan. "Light, enjoyable reading for those downtimes between sports seasons." —Booklist "Coy has created a story of just the right length to keep his fans engaged. It is not necessary to have read Top of the Order to appreciate this one. Hints of fall football in middle school indicate that a third book is to follow." —School Library Journal
The First 90 Days, Updated and Expanded
Author: Michael D. Watkins
Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press
ISBN: 1422191397
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
The world’s most trusted guide for leaders in transition Transitions are a critical time for leaders. In fact, most agree that moving into a new role is the biggest challenge a manager will face. While transitions offer a chance to start fresh and make needed changes in an organization, they also place leaders in a position of acute vulnerability. Missteps made during the crucial first three months in a new role can jeopardize or even derail your success. In this updated and expanded version of the international bestseller The First 90 Days, Michael D. Watkins offers proven strategies for conquering the challenges of transitions—no matter where you are in your career. Watkins, a noted expert on leadership transitions and adviser to senior leaders in all types of organizations, also addresses today’s increasingly demanding professional landscape, where managers face not only more frequent transitions but also steeper expectations once they step into their new jobs. By walking you through every aspect of the transition scenario, Watkins identifies the most common pitfalls new leaders encounter and provides the tools and strategies you need to avoid them. You’ll learn how to secure critical early wins, an important first step in establishing yourself in your new role. Each chapter also includes checklists, practical tools, and self-assessments to help you assimilate key lessons and apply them to your own situation. Whether you’re starting a new job, being promoted from within, embarking on an overseas assignment, or being tapped as CEO, how you manage your transition will determine whether you succeed or fail. Use this book as your trusted guide.
Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press
ISBN: 1422191397
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
The world’s most trusted guide for leaders in transition Transitions are a critical time for leaders. In fact, most agree that moving into a new role is the biggest challenge a manager will face. While transitions offer a chance to start fresh and make needed changes in an organization, they also place leaders in a position of acute vulnerability. Missteps made during the crucial first three months in a new role can jeopardize or even derail your success. In this updated and expanded version of the international bestseller The First 90 Days, Michael D. Watkins offers proven strategies for conquering the challenges of transitions—no matter where you are in your career. Watkins, a noted expert on leadership transitions and adviser to senior leaders in all types of organizations, also addresses today’s increasingly demanding professional landscape, where managers face not only more frequent transitions but also steeper expectations once they step into their new jobs. By walking you through every aspect of the transition scenario, Watkins identifies the most common pitfalls new leaders encounter and provides the tools and strategies you need to avoid them. You’ll learn how to secure critical early wins, an important first step in establishing yourself in your new role. Each chapter also includes checklists, practical tools, and self-assessments to help you assimilate key lessons and apply them to your own situation. Whether you’re starting a new job, being promoted from within, embarking on an overseas assignment, or being tapped as CEO, how you manage your transition will determine whether you succeed or fail. Use this book as your trusted guide.