Learning Change

This audiobook features music and special effects. Listen along and enjoy the fun that is Honey Bee (Young Zoologist). Journey into a beehive to study honey bees in this beautiful nonfiction field guide for kids. You might know that honey bees dance to let each other know where to find the best...

Freeman A. Hrabowski III, the outspoken president of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and coauthors Philip J. Rous and Peter H. Henderson probe the way senior leaders, administrators, staff, faculty, and students facilitate academic success by cultivating an empowering institutional culture and broad leadership for innovation. They examine how shared leadership enables an empowered campus to tackle tough issues by taking a hard look in the mirror, noting strengths and weaknesses while assessing opportunities and challenges.

Join New York Times bestselling author Shauna Niequist as she invites you to experience the precious gifts and wisdom that only come the hard way--through change, loss, and transition. In this collection of poignant essays, Shauna reflects on her own journey of making peace with change, the...

Written by a psychologist turned support teacher, this collection is designed to help students and anyone academically minded reach their true learning and thought potential. Easy to follow and written in layman’s terms, these books explain the steps to follow to strengthen your brainpower.

From an extraordinary partnership between a teacher and an administrator, best-selling Otherful is the easy-to-listen (and laugh-out-loud) book for those who’ve discovered that influence is mightier than control. Research-backed and practitioner-tested, it’s a brilliant resource for in-school PD, administrator leadership classes, and faculty retreats. Otherful reveals an ancient truth of leadership: the most formidable power isn’t force; it’s relationship building.

Have you ever had this happen? You went to bed the night before committing to going to the gym the next morning. Membership is paid for, nothing left to do but to start your transformation. When the alarm goes off the next morning, you think, “A few more minutes.” After a few times slapping the snooze button, you compromise with your brain by saying “Okay, I’m going straight after work!”

This summary guide is proudly brought to you by Mercy Brain. It contains a comprehensive, well detailed summary and key takeaways of the original book by Dean Ornish MD and Anne Ornish. It summarizes the book in detail, to help people effectively understand, articulate and imbibe the original work.

Last year, US companies spent over $165 billon on training; while many training programs themselves provide valuable skills and concepts, even the best-designed programs are ineffective because the learned behaviors are not reinforced. Without reinforcement, learned information gets shuffled to the back of the mind in the "nice to know" file, never again to see the light of day. This book bridges the canyon between learning and doing by providing solid reinforcement strategies.

In How to Raise a Leader: 7 Essential Parenting Skills for Raising Children Who Lead, parenting author Frank Dixon shares practical, listen-and-apply tools to help you develop real leadership in your child—not “bossiness,” but character-based leadership built on emotional intelligence, resilience, and a positive mindset.

Writing as an ordinary mother as well as a best-selling author and internationally respected literacy expert, Fox explores when and where to read aloud and demonstrates with clear, easy-to-follow examples how to read aloud to best effect and how to get the most value and joy out of a read-aloud session. Filled with practical advice, activities, and inspiring true read-aloud miracles, this audiobook is a must for every parent - and for anyone who would like to know more about how children learn to read.

This book focuses both on how educators can cultivate compassion within themselves and lead together to cultivate humanizing school environments. Teachers, librarians, counselors, resource specialists, mental health professionals, and social workers who are working to create conditions for compassion and dignity in schools are all leaders who can impact change.

Few books tell the story from a caregiver’s or loved one’s perspective. Lori’s experience, prayers, and lessons learned remind people that they don’t need to have all the answers. The patient is not alone in the process, and open communication among the whole care team is vital for the healthy recovery of the entire family unit.

Waking up early was the most life-changing habit I ever formed. In just a few weeks I was waking up two hours early every day and feeling more productive and happier than ever. This book will show you how I did it.

Monica Sharma describes how we can source our inner capacities and wisdom to manifest change that embodies universal values such as dignity, compassion, fairness, and courage. Drawing on more than twenty years of work for the United Nations and elsewhere, she presents a radical new approach to...

Discover timeless leadership principles through the lives of Scripture’s greatest figures. In Great Leaders of the Bible, John C. Maxwell, a New York Times bestselling author and one of the world’s most trusted voices on leadership, explores 28 biblical examples of men and women who...

What are the habits of successful people? The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People has captivated readers for 25 years. It has transformed the lives of Presidents and CEOs, educators, parents, and students - in short, millions of people of all ages and occupations have benefited from Dr. Covey's book. And, it can transform you.

In Timeless Learning, an award-winning team of leaders, Chief Technology Officer Ira Socol, Superintendent Pam Moran, and Lab Schools Principal Chad Ratliff demonstrate how you can implement innovative practices that have shown remarkable success. The authors use progressive design principles to inform pathways to disrupt traditions of education today and show you how to make real innovations that will have a timeless and meaningful impact on students, keeping alive the natural curiosity and passion for learning with which children enter school.

Do you want to make the world a fairer and more equal place? But are there times when all those big complex problems feel totally overwhelming or difficult to understand? You're not alone, and yet sometimes it's just the little things you can do, every single day, that all add up and make the biggest difference. In this handbook, founders of Everyday Racism Natalie and Naomi Evans introduce young listeners to anti-racism work - explaining what racism is, where it comes from, and the everyday small actions young people can take to combat it.

In response to educators who are already fans of her best seller Change Your Questions, Change Your Life, Marilee Adams, the originator of Question Thinking, presents a compelling model for creating a classroom environment infused with curiosity, creativity, and caring. Through a moving story of a teacher on the verge of burnout, Adams demonstrates the powerful influence our mind-sets have on how we interact with our students, our colleagues, and ourselves.

In this mind-training audiobook, Mental Hygiene: How to Change your Mind, you will learn some simple ways to transform your mind, body, and spirit, as well as improve the quality of your life.