Professional Development Education

In his long-awaited memoir, Yvon Chouinard - legendary climber, businessman, environmentalist, and founder of Patagonia, Inc. - shares the persistence and courage that have gone into being head of one of the most respected and environmentally responsible companies on earth. From his youth as the son of a French Canadian blacksmith to the thrilling, ambitious climbing expeditions that inspired his innovative designs for the sport's equipment.

In today's fast-paced, competitive business environment, we all need to communicate clearly and use our time productively. Even seasoned writers will find tips, tools, and ideas in this book that can improve the quality - and reduce the quantity - of email in the workplace. This book will help you write concise, clear emails that advance your business needs.

Communication is a must-have skill for all people, especially leaders and professionals. It does not matter what industry you’re working in, the role, or size of the organization you’re leading, you will inevitably interact with many different people. And effective communication is the main component to ensure professional success. Communicate NOT Communihate will empower you with vital tools, techniques, and advice you need to become an effective communicator.

The Ultimate Trainer for After School & Camp Counselors is a comprehensive guide designed for professionals working with children in after-school programs and summer camps. This essential resource covers policies, procedures, and best practices that ensure a safe, engaging, and well-managed environment.

Jadie never spoke. She never laughed, or cried, or uttered any sound. Despite efforts to reach her, Jadie remained locked in her own troubled world - until one remarkable teacher persuaded her to break her self-imposed silence. Nothing in all of Torey Hayden's experience could have prepared her for the shock of what Jadie told her - a story too horrendous for Torey's professional colleagues to acknowledge.

Paper Belt on Fire is the unlikely account of how two outsiders with no experience in finance—a charter school principal and defrocked philosopher—start a venture capital fund to short the higher education bubble. Against the contempt of the education establishment, they discover, mentor, and back the leading lights in the next generation of dropout innovators and in the end make their investors millions. Can such a madcap strategy help renew American creativity? This story is the behind-the-scenes romp of one team that threw educational authorities into a panic.

In The Making of Her, Clarissa Farr shares the wealth of her extensive experience to explore key questions facing parents, teachers, business leaders and managers everywhere. What contributes to the success of women? How can we inspire confidence, and nurture excellence in children - girls especially - that will equip them for adult life? Drawing on her time as high mistress of St Paul’s Girls’ School, one of the most successful schools of the country, Clarissa reflects on her experience of working as a key figure in the UK’s education system.

You might have a step-wife or a step-husband. Chances are that this phantom relationship is haunting your life and you might even wonder how much longer you can hang on. Here is the reality: Whether it’s a good situation or a bad situation, this relationship is going to impact your life for as long as you live. It can be like having a third person in your bedroom, or a third person on your bank account, or even an extra person undermining your relationship with the children.

It's hard to find an educational book that relates to the boots-on-the-ground educator right away. But project-based learning and student-centered learning is the direction education is going no matter your context. Project Based Learning Stories and Structures is a practical guide to starting a PBL journey complete with examples of fails, wins, and a place to get started. Everyone on your staff will have a place to relate in the practical structures and the humorous stories from the classroom.

In this book, I'll reveal the powerful techniques employed by best-selling authors, and I'll show you how to apply them to rivet your readers. I'll start with the basics of Point of View - if you're already familiar with the concept, you can treat them as a refresher - and then guide you to advanced strategies for taking your reader deep.

Despite ongoing professional development for urban educators, many inner-city school students are still not performing on high levels or even grade level. This book is a practical guide to helping educators understand the innate difficulties of transferring expertise from the experts, through the teachers, and into the students in a meaningful way that demonstrates student learning.

A dramatic and remarkable narrative of an extraordinary teacher's determination, from the author of the Sunday Times bestsellers The Tiger's Child and One Child. Torey Hayden faced six emotionally troubled kids no other teacher could handle - three recent arrivals from battle-torn Northern Ireland, badly traumatized by the horrors of war; an eleven-year-old boy, who only knew life inside an institution; an excitable girl, aggressive and sexually precocious at the age of eight; and seven-year-old Leslie, perhaps the most hopeless of all, unresponsive and unable to speak.

Empower yourself or your team with this comprehensive training manual for after-school and camp counselors. Whether you're experienced or just starting out, this guide offers clear steps and practical insights to create a safe, nurturing, and engaging environment for every child. This is professional development that provides lifelong tools to help you excel in your career and well beyond.

Networking for Career Success shows professionals how to enhance their careers through effective networking. It covers everything from basics of networking to targeted techniques for making a career change, funding a new business venture, adding clients, and more.

Teaching has never been easy, but these days, it seems to keep getting harder. As the pressure builds, many educators are calling it quits on a profession that once felt like a calling. Planning to Stay offers a hopeful alternative.

Marine Maxims is a collection of fifty principle-based leadership lessons that Thomas J. Gordon acquired commanding Marines over a career spanning three decades of service. Dealing with the complexities and challenges of the contemporary operating environment requires an internal moral compass fixed true. These maxims focus on developing inner citadels of character, moral courage, and the resilience to persevere in a contested domain where information is key. Its purpose is to provide future leaders with a professional development plan that will enable them to lead with honor.

Shift Teaching Forward showcases the ecosystem of elements that characterizes a successful job-training program. We need to prepare students to interact with others, contribute to inclusive workplaces, and become collaborators-whatever their industry or career goals. This book shows the way.

Career Pathways: From School to Retirement brings together leading workforce researchers and practitioners to provide new perspectives on school-to-work and workplace career pathways. This groundbreaking book explains the transformations that have taken place in the workplace over the past several decades and how those transformations have combined to produce a dramatically different career landscape.

The Complete Book of Grant Writing is the ultimate grant book that shows you how to write a grant proposal if you're seeking funding through government grants, foundation grants, and specialty grants. Grant proposal writing is an intricate process where any bits of misinformation or formatting errors can mean the difference between securing funding or not. Professional grant writer Nancy Burke Smith and philanthropy consultant and grant maker E. Gabriel Works unveil the secrets behind how to find and successfully apply for grants.

The authors of this audiobook share personal experiences and insights that have propelled them to long-term success and share enlightening stories from the world of business to inspire you to take the lead in any situation. The ideas in this audiobook are actionable, and the stories are peppered with insights for action that can bring leadership to every level of an organization.