Creating a Culture of Reflective Practice
Creating a Culture of Reflective Practice

Author: Pete Hall

Publisher: ASCD

Published: 2017-08-29

Total Pages: 326

ISBN-13: 1416624473

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As a school administrator, instructional coach, or teacher leader, you know that reflective teachers are effective teachers. But how can you help teachers become self-reflective practitioners whose thoughtful approach translates into real gains for student achievement? In Creating a Culture of Reflective Practice—a companion volume to their teacher-oriented book Teach, Reflect, Learn—authors Pete Hall and Alisa Simeral draw on lessons learned from educators across grade levels, content areas, and district demographics to present a definitive guide to developing a culture of reflective practice in your school. Hall and Simeral expand on ideas originally presented in Building Teachers’ Capacity for Success to help you gain a clear understanding of your role and responsibilities—and those of your teachers—within each stage of the Continuum of Self-Reflection. Armed with the book’s real-life examples and research-based tools, you’ll learn how to determine the current location of all stakeholders on the continuum and how teacher-leadership activities, transformational feedback, and strategic coaching can move them forward. The end result? A schoolwide culture that both values reflection and uses it to ensure that teachers—and their students—reach their fullest potential.

Book of Yoga Self Practice
Book of Yoga Self Practice

Author: Rebecca Anderton-Davies

Publisher:

Published: 2020-08-20

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 9781529349467

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Too busy? Too stressed? Can't focus? But would you love to discover the power of regular practice? This book is for you. The Book of Yoga Self-Practice is the ultimate guide for every aspiring yogi or dedicated student who wants to find the magic of an independent yoga self-practice - one that's simple, practical, captivating and attainable. No need to travel to a class, or struggle to find the exact type of teaching you need in any given moment. No need to follow a video or come up with the pre-planned sequence. No need to keep spending money on classes or subscriptions that never quite fit the bill. This step-by-step guide will show you how to overcome the challenges of starting, continuing and progressing in a yoga self-practice. It combines heartfelt writing with beautiful, clear design to provide 20 usable and unbelievably helpful tools that you can implement in your yoga practice today. Learn to practice anywhere at anytime, not just do poses. Fast, slow, short, long - your flow starts here. Start reaping the incredible rewards for your body and mind.

Creating with Others
Creating with Others

Author: Shaun McNiff

Publisher: Shambhala Publications

Published: 2003-09-16

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 1590307917

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Do you believe that life within an organization means death to the creative process? That creativity is the exclusive province of "artistic types"? Wrong! Shaun McNiff shows how we can all cultivate the special kind of creative energy that is generated by people working together in groups, whether in the workplace or other cooperative communities—wherever individuals come together to pursue a common goal through dialogue, interaction, and teamwork. Creating with Others is designed to address group creativity in both theory and practice. McNiff draws examples from the creative arts as well as from organizational life and everyday work situations. He shows how leaders can be facilitators of creative teamwork, and how artists and other creative people can collaborate fruitfully with others. The book includes exercises and questions that can be used in courses, informal discussion groups, and interactive e-groups. It will also help individual readers—ranging from beginners to artists seeking inspiration—to reflect upon their personal relationship with creativity. Readers will find that they are never alone in the creative process. Creativity is the basic interplay of life, and we establish a vital link to its power through engagements with others.

Creating the Opportunity to Learn
Creating the Opportunity to Learn

Author: A. Wade Boykin

Publisher: ASCD

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 1416613064

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Explore why some schools are making more progress than others, so you can focus on what works and build the capacity of high-performance, high-poverty schools.

Creating Built Environments
Creating Built Environments

Author: Roderick J. Lawrence

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 9781351201674

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Built environments are complex, emergent, systemic, and require contextual analysis. They should be understood before reconsidering how professionals and researchers of the built environment are educated and trained to reduce the gap between knowledge, practice and real-world circumstances. There is an urgent need to rethink the role of policy makers, researchers, practitioners and laypeople in the construction, renovation and reuse of the built environment in order to deal with numerous environmental/ecological, economic/financial and social/ethical challenges of providing a habitat for current and future generations in a world of continual change. These challenges are too complex to be dealt with only by one discipline or profession. Combinations of different types of knowledge, knowing in praxis and tacit knowledge are needed. This book presents and illustrates recent innovative contributions with case studies focusing on five strategic domains and the interrelations between them. These transdisciplinary contributions apply concepts, methods and tools that facilitate convergence and concerted action between participants collaborating in policy definition and project implementation. The methods and tools include experiments in living-labs, prototypes on site and virtual simulations, as well as participatory approaches including citizen science, the development of alternative scenarios, and visioning plausible futures.

Creating a Learning Culture
Creating a Learning Culture

Author: Marcia L. Conner

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2004-06-17

Total Pages: 378

ISBN-13: 9780521537179

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Creating a Learning Culture features insightful essays from industry observers and revealing case studies of prominent corporations. Each chapter revolves around creating an environment where learning takes place each day, all day - fundamentally changing the way we think about how, what, and when we learn, and how we can apply learning to practice. For the first time contemporary work on this subject appears in one volume. Three sections address key aspects of learning culture: the modern business context and the importance of learning at every juncture; the organic and adaptive approaches organizational leaders can take to design enduring success; and the expanding role of individuals within organizations and the implications for business leaders, educators, technologists, and learners. Identifying the steps companies must take to remain competitive for years to come, this book explains how learning strategies applied to all aspects of every job can provide swift returns and lasting results.

From Solo to Scaled
From Solo to Scaled

Author: Natalie Marie Dunbar

Publisher: Rosenfeld Media

Published: 2022-07-25

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 1933820675

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Content strategy is clearly critical to your organization, but where do you start, and how do you grow it into a true practice? Whether you're a lone content person tasked with creating a content strategy practice from scratch, or a leader struggling to scale one up, From Solo to Scaled is your blueprint for creating and managing a content strategy practice that is sustainable and successful. Who Should Read This Book? This book is for anyone who wants or needs to build a content strategy practice—for example, content writers, UX researchers and designers, Design Operations leaders and program managers, or any team that is focused on the user experience. Basically, it's for anyone who understands that content can make or break a digital experience. Takeaways Use this book to: Create a content strategy practice blueprint and make the business case for it to upper management in your organization. Show what success looks like and how to measure it. Learn how to create a sustainable practice and when to scale it—from solo to mid–sized to enterprise. Take an inventory of your existing tools to see if you need to repurpose or augment them as you prepare to scale your business. Learn how to present the content practice’s work to leadership in language that leaders understand. Use a handy checklist to audit and improve your own practice–building.

Creating Adaptable Teams: From the Psychology of Coaching to the Practice of Leaders
Creating Adaptable Teams: From the Psychology of Coaching to the Practice of Leaders

Author: David Webster

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education (UK)

Published: 2021-08-09

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 0335250084

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This practical guide for coaches, leaders and team members will help readers create team success in a modern context. Adaptability has now become a core skill and adaptable teams create foundations that withstand the increasing speed of change, allowing for quality in performance to be sustained. This book defines the core components of the Adaptable Team™ Framework, to embed the principles and practice of team support. As teams can often work in a range of volatile, uncertain and ambiguous environments, this book offers numerous tips for readers on their quest for team excellence: -Supporting the team coach and coaching psychologist in their preparation and design for team interventions, by providing both theory and practical application of evidenced-based approaches -Guiding leaders looking to coach their own teams and managers to lead success -Highlighting each leader’s unique contribution -Providing team members a map by which to navigate their professional development as leaders and team members “There are pearls of wisdom on every page which are invaluable to every leader, coach and team.” Professor Karen Middleton CBE, FCSP, MA, Chief Executive, The Chartered Society of Physiotherapy “Whether you’re a CEO or CHRO working on team dynamics, or a coach seeking to deepen your practice, you’ll find excellent food for thought on every page.” Caroline Webb, Author of global best seller ‘How To Have A Good Day’ and Senior Adviser to McKinsey & Company “David has a profound understanding of what makes teams resilient in change and positioned to perform in the modern world.” Andrew Shebbeare, Managing Partner, Counteract “Possibly the best book on teams and coaching I have read." Jonathan Passmore, Director, Henley Centre for Coaching & Behavioural Change David Webster is Founding Partner at Centre for Teams, UK and an award-winning coaching psychologist, specialising in senior teams. A former Chair of the British Psychological Society’s Coaching Psychology Group, and a martial art black belt, David can also be found hill walking with his dog Molly, cycling and enjoying live music and theatre.

Creating New States
Creating New States

Author: Aleksandar Pavkovic

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-05-13

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 1317158474

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Secession is the creation of a new independent state out of an existing state. This key volume examines the political, social and legal processes of the practice of secession. Following an analysis of secessionist movements and their role in attempts at secession, eight case studies are explored to illustrate peaceful, violent, sequential and recursive secessions. This is followed by a look at the theoretical approaches and a discussion that focuses on the economic causes. Normative theories of secession are discussed as well as the status of secession in legal theory and practice. The book systematizes our present knowledge of secessions in an accessible way to readers not familiar with the phenomenon and its consequences. It is ideal as a supplementary text to courses on contemporary political and social movements, applied ethics and political philosophy, international relations and international law, state sovereignty and state formation.

The Form Book
The Form Book

Author: Borries Schwesinger

Publisher: Thames and Hudson

Published: 2010-06

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13:

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Filling in a form may be an everyday experience, yet as an aspect of design that affects all our lives, forms are quite often overlooked. This is a handbook on form design for designers, students and anyone interested in improving client communication and information handling.