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Resource Management for School Administrators is the only comprehensive book covering all school resources - fiscal, facilities, and human resources. Each chapter has objectives that are aligned with the new ELCC and ISLCC standards on accreditation. Many of the federal and various state policies and laws are included. Everything you need to know on managing school resources is covered: national and state perspectives, future challenges to funding public education, resource allocation, developing a school district budget, and much more.

Chinese (Mandarin) Level 3 Lessons 6-10 builds on material taught in prior units. Each lesson provides 30 minutes of spoken language practice, with an introductory conversation and new vocabulary and structures. Detailed instructions enable you to understand and participate in the conversation.

In Joel's Schwartzberg's 10-plus years as a strategic communications trainer, the biggest obstacle he's come across - one that connects directly to nervousness, stammering, rambling, and epic fail - is that most speakers and writers don't have a point. They typically have just a title, a theme, a topic, an idea, an assertion, a catchphrase, or even something much less. This book shows you how to identify your point, leverage it, stick to it, and sell it and how to train others to identify and successfully make their own points.

The Dialogues of Plato rank with the writings of Aristotle as the most important and influential philosophical works in Western thought. In them Plato cast his teacher Socrates as the central disputant in colloquies that brilliantly probe a vast spectrum of philosophical ideas and issues.

As a key founder of humanistic psychology, Abraham Maslow has had tremendous impact on a variety of fields ranging from education and counseling to business management and marketing, as well as theology and health care, including nursing. Since Maslow's death in 1970, his ideas on higher motivation and self-actualization have continued to influence American culture - and are increasingly resonating abroad as well.

You are no doubt a busy individual with a lot of things going on! It can be challenging to find the time to study for the California DMV test. However, the truth is that the DMV test is a challenging exam. Thorough preparation cannot be overlooked. That is why the author Jeremy Winder developed the DMV Study Guide! This edition is a complete review and practice questions edition! It reviews all essential concepts found on the exam from all categories of the exam. It contains hundreds of practice questions.

Start your Italian language journey today with Learn Italian While You Sleep. Buy now and let the power of sleep guide you to Italian fluency. Your dreams of speaking Italian with confidence are just a sleep away!

Propaganda, an influential book written by Edward L. Bernays in 1928, incorporated the literature from social science and psychological manipulation into an examination of the techniques of public communication. Propaganda explored the psychology behind manipulating masses and the ability to use symbolic action and propaganda to influence politics, effect social change, and lobby for gender and racial equality.

Improve your Italian the easy way at home, now is the time to take your Italian to the next level! No books. No long lists of vocabulary. No chance of failure. Simply download, plug in and listen. Paul Noble’s tried and tested language learning method has been used independently by more than a million people to speak fluently and confidently.

Bonjour, je suis Fabien, professeur de français. Dans le podcast Fluidité, tu vas AMÉLIORER TA COMPRÉHENSION et apprendre NATURELLEMENT le français en écoutant du contenu intéressant en language courant sur différents sujets pour obtenir un vocabulaire riche et varié : culture, art, histoire, géographie française, tourisme, vie quotidienne, dialogues, ma vie de polyglotte mais également mes astuces d'apprentissage... Pour qui ? Majoritairement pour un niveau de compréhension intermédiaire (B1, B2). ▶ MAIS, si tu es débutant ou si tu penses que je parle encore trop vite : 1 - ...

Jamaican Patois is a beautiful language that is spoken by millions around the world! It is hard to find time to learn a new language however! Language courses at schools and colleges are routine and boring!

Welcome to Israel! Put your Hebrew to the test! Start speaking Hebrew in minutes, and learn key vocabulary, phrases, and grammar in just minutes more with Intermediate Hebrew. Our native Hebrew hosts break down all the sentences, grammar, and more in a simple, easily understandable way! Here are a few topics covered in this audiobook: The Perfect Tense- Converting Verbs to Nouns; The Past Tense; The Passive Tense; Israeli Cultural Tips and More!

The Allied invasions of Sicily and Italy in 1943 were bloody and pivotal, securing the Mediterranean, capitalizing on the overthrow of Mussolini, and pinning down German troops that could have been used on the Russian Front or in France after D-Day. The men who made the Allied victories in Sicily and Italy possible - soldiers and officers, bombardiers and drivers, doctors and generals - are honored and remembered in these minutes by famed war correspondent Richard Tregaskis.

Para muchos el solo nombre de este libro parecerá una locura; seguramente dirás: "Pero si YO SOY exitoso" o, "¡conozco muchas personas exitosas!". Incluso puedes enlistar a todos los personajes reconocidos como íconos del éxito en diversas áreas de nuestro mundo multifacético... De verdad ¿existe? Y, ¿si no existe el ÉXITO, entonces qué existe?

As an English teacher, Kate Roberts has seen the power of whole-class novels to build community in her classroom. But she's also seen too many kids struggle too much to read them - and consequently, check out of reading altogether. Kate's had better success getting kids to actually read - and enjoy it - when they choose their own books within a workshop model. "And yet," she says, "missed my whole-class novels." In A Novel Approach, Kate takes a deep dive into the troubles and triumphs of both whole-class novels and independent reading and arrives at a persuasive conclusion.

Returning to the "Aunt Hill" from a two-year trip around the world, 20-year-old Rose Campbell suddenly finds herself surrounded by male admirers, all expecting her to marry them! Rose is rich and pretty, and she suspects many of these suitors are more interested in her wealth than her dreams. But she is determined to live her own life and find her own love, despite the many plans of aunts, uncles, and cousins. Louisa May Alcott wrote this delightful sequel to Eight Cousins at the request of her many fans.

The Will to Learn is the first of two books aimed at getting to "The Heart of the Work," aiming to get to the inner realities of motivation for both learners and educators. This book answers the question, how can teachers and schools cultivate the conditions in which students want to do the work of learning, with care?

Originally published in 1940, this book is a rare phenomenon, a living classic that introduces and elucidates the various levels of reading and how to achieve them - from elementary reading, through systematic skimming and inspectional reading, to speed reading. Audiences will learn when and how to “judge a book by its cover,” and also how to X-ray it, read critically, and extract the author’s message from the text.

In the fall of 1959, Harvard recruited 18 "Negro" boys as an early form of affirmative action. Four years later they would graduate as African Americans. Some 50 years later, one of these trailblazing Harvard grads, Kent Garrett, began to reconnect with his classmates and explore their vastly different backgrounds, lives, and what their time at Harvard meant.

Here is the remarkable story of how this humble language took vigorous root in Eastern European shtetls and in the Jewish quarters of cities across Europe; how it achieved a rich literary flowering between the wars in Europe and America; how it was rejected by emancipated Jews; and how it fell victim to the Holocaust. And also how, in yet another twist of destiny, Yiddish today is becoming the darling of academia. Yiddish is a history as story; a tale of flesh-and-blood people with manic humor.