When Graduation’s Over, Learning Begins
When Graduation’s Over, Learning Begins

Author: Roger Forsgren

Publisher: Business Expert Press

Published: 2023-02-16

Total Pages: 179

ISBN-13: 163742437X

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What They Didn’t Teach You in School: Lessons for STEM Students and Professionals Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math education has been described as, “drinking from a firehose.” STEM students are required to absorb an overwhelming amount of technical information before they can earn their undergraduate degrees. But it takes more than a thorough understanding of math, science, and engineering concepts to become successful in today’s job market. NASA’s former Chief Knowledge Officer, Roger Forsgren, was responsible for training the agency’s technical workforce and provides critical lessons learned for STEM students and graduates to build successful careers as they compete in today’s workplace. Being an introvert in an extroverts’ world: You may certainly be the smartest person in the room but that may not be enough to convince a client, make a persuasive presentation, or effectively manage others. Learn how to remain in your comfort zone yet still make a compelling impact by becoming an ambivert. Communication Skills: How to get your point across and express yourself in a cogent, concise manner. How to make yourself heard, and respected, in a group of experienced professionals. Critical Thinking: Avoid jumping to conclusions by training yourself to look beyond the obvious for the real clues to a problem or situation. Ethics: STEM professionals possess unique skills, but such technical expertise also requires a sense of personal responsibility ensuring your talents are being put to the best use for yourself and for society. Case studies have proven to be valuable learning tools and Roger Forsgren includes twelve compelling historical case studies that demonstrate the critical knowledge needed for STEM students as they progress through their careers.

Cybersecurity Training
Cybersecurity Training

Author: Gregory J. Skulmoski

Publisher: Business Expert Press

Published: 2023-12-26

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 1637425546

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Organizations face increasing cybersecurity attacks that threaten their sensitive data, systems, and existence; but there are solutions. Experts recommend cybersecurity training and general awareness learning experiences as strategic necessities; however, organizations lack cybersecurity training planning, implementation, and optimization guidance. Cybersecurity Training: A Pathway to Readiness addresses the demand to provide cybersecurity training aligned with the normal flow of IT project delivery and technology operations. Cybersecurity Training combines best practices found in standards and frameworks like ITIL technology management, NIST Cybersecurity Framework, ISO risk, quality and information security management systems, and the Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge. Trainers will appreciate the approach that builds on the ADDIE model of instructional design, Bloom’s Taxonomy of Cognitive Thought, and Kirkpatrick’s Model of Evaluation, a trilogy of training best practices. Readers learn to apply this proven project-oriented training approach to improve the probability of successful cybersecurity awareness and role-based training experiences. The reader is guided to initiate, plan, design, develop, pilot, implement and evaluate training and learning, followed by continual improvement sprints and projects. Cybersecurity Training prepares trainers, project managers, and IT security professionals to deliver and optimize cybersecurity training so that organizations and its people are ready to prevent and mitigate cybersecurity threats leading to more resilient organizations.

The Agile Enterprise
The Agile Enterprise

Author: David Asch

Publisher: Business Expert Press

Published: 2024-01-09

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 1637425481

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A group of eminent software developers gathered at a Colorado ski lodge in 2001, codifying The Agile Manifesto, a philosophy for efficiently accomplishing technical work. In this accessible, real-world-example-laden, and unexpectedly entertaining book, The Agile Enterprise explains how to apply The Agile Manifesto's ideas company-wide. The wisdom imparted in The Agile Enterprise teaches students to decompose large problems into manageable chunks, helps managers find their value among self-managing teams, and enables executives to measure and recognize success in their own Agile Enterprises.

Leaving to Learn: How Out-of-School Learning Increases Student Engagement and Reduces Dropout Rates
Leaving to Learn: How Out-of-School Learning Increases Student Engagement and Reduces Dropout Rates

Author: Elliot Washor, Charles Mojkowski

Publisher: Urban Fox Studios

Published: 2013-10-11

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 0325050724

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In this provocative book, authors Washor and Mojkowski observe that beneath the worrisome levels of dropouts from our nation’s high school lurks a more insidious problem: student disengagement from school and from deep and productive learning. To keep students in school and engaged as productive learners through to graduation, schools must provide experiences in which all students do some of their learning outside school as a formal part of their programs of study. All students need to leave school—frequently, regularly, and, of course, temporarily—to stay in school and persist in their learning. To accomplish this, schools must combine academic learning with experiential learning, allowing students to bring real-world learning back into the school, where it should be recognized, assessed, and awarded academic credit. Learning outside of school, as a complement to in-school learning, provides opportunities for deep engagement in rigorous learning.

Personalized Learning
Personalized Learning

Author: John H. Clarke

Publisher: Corwin Press

Published: 2013-04-05

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 1452299714

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Your guide to making a whole-school move toward personalized learning Give students the freedom to map their own educational pathways and help them meet graduation standards! This book illustrates how to support students to take advantage of resources from the community, colleges, virtual platforms, and creative outlets to design their own education. Readers will: Hear from educators who have successfully steered schools toward personalized learning Get specific tips to help your entire staff implement key processes and measure outcomes Find answers to the big questions that threaten success Use models of prompts and rubrics to get your pilot program started Personalized Learning gives you solid, flexible tools to enhance your school’s depth and generate successful outcomes. "With a sharp eye for detail, Clarke reminds us that students can and must make their own sense of the world, but to do so, they need smart and flexible frameworks, the company of attentive adults, and lots of back and forth about the important big ideas." —Larry Myatt, Founder and President The Education Resources Consortium

High School Graduation
High School Graduation

Author: Avis Glaze

Publisher: Corwin Press

Published: 2013-06-28

Total Pages: 201

ISBN-13: 1452217645

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High-impact strategies to improve student outcomes Based on first-hand experiences from one of the world’s fastest improving school systems, this comprehensive resource provides concrete, detailed, and research-based tools with particular attention to learning progressions. Scaffolded instruction and leadership strategies promote early and sound foundations in literacy and numeracy, build pathways to close achievement gaps, and emphasize character and citizenship development, among other strategies, to improve graduation rates. You’ll also find: A multi-pronged approach that includes state, district and school level action points Sample tools and templates for planning and self-assessment Lessons learned from schools that have successfully implemented strategies

INTERIM MANAGEMENT: Provision and Management Resources and Skills
INTERIM MANAGEMENT: Provision and Management Resources and Skills

Author: Vinod Rawat

Publisher: Global India Publications

Published: 2009-12

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 9789380228570

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This book focuses on the important and growing field of interim management. The book responds to some very basic questions involved in making a transition to management from a systems perpsective. It raises the issues related to embarking on a career that determines the future of society and draws your attention to the need for integrating organizational purposes with people and processes. It also explores the seven management hats hat every manager wears and which may equire changing at a moment's notice.

The Oxford Handbook of U.S. Education Law
The Oxford Handbook of U.S. Education Law

Author: Kristi L. Bowman

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2021

Total Pages: 761

ISBN-13: 0190697407

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This handbook is currently in development, with individual articles publishing online in advance of print publication. At this time, we cannot add information about unpublished articles in this handbook, however the table of contents will contunue to grow as additional articles pass through the review process and are added to the site. Please note that the online publication date for this handbook is the date that the first article in the title was published online.

Your Life Graduation
Your Life Graduation

Author: Ganesh Mandadi

Publisher: Clever Fox Publishing

Published:

Total Pages: 380

ISBN-13:

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This book titled “Your Life Graduation” is about unlocking your life treasures and unleashing your true potential in the core pillars of all the ten fulfillment empires of your life. It is a self-awareness and practical blueprint towards your life contentment, sustainable happiness and overall wellbeing of not only an individual but also of building a better society in your own self. The life contentment cannot be found in money or fame, nor living in poverty-stricken life. In contrary to popular opinion, it lies in simply being satisfied in all your life fulfillment empires, including ‘Right Mindset’, ‘Personalset’, ‘Healthset’, ‘Familyset’, ‘Heartset’, ‘Professionalset’, ‘Financialset’, ‘Socialset’, ‘Spiritualset’ and ‘Philanthropicset’. In precise it is about attaining at least basic mastery in all these life fulfillment empires to become a life graduate irrespective of your financial and social status. The fact is that even richest people or big celebrities lacks or deprives in one or more fulfillment empires, which cost them their life fulfillment and it applies to all sections of people across the geographies on this planet. This book is about building and enriching your ‘Right Mindset’ with right attitude and beliefs, about sowing the fulfillment seeds and harnessing your contentment. It is about taking charge of your personal life, discovering your life purpose and goals. , enriching your intrinsic and extrinsic personal traits to accomplish your life goals. It is about the essence of your physical, mental and emotional health, also nourishing your body, mind, heart and soul for sustainable health and longevity. The ingredients picked in this book are based on decades of my life experiences and wisdom that I acquired in all facets of my life right from my difficult childhood days of school dropout to attaining my fulfilled life. The purpose of authoring this book is part of my Philanthropicset, to strive and spread wisdom to everyone on their life fulfillment empires by unfolding the life treasures of them.

Latino High School Graduation
Latino High School Graduation

Author: Harriett D. Romo

Publisher: University of Texas Press

Published: 2010-05-28

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13: 0292774621

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While high school drop-out rates have steadily declined among white and African American students over the 1970s and 1980s a constant 35 percent of Latino students continued to quit school before graduation. In this pioneering work, Harriett Romo and Toni Falbo reveal how a group of at-risk Latino students defied the odds and earned a high school diploma. Romo and Falbo tracked the progress of 100 students in Austin, Texas, from 1989 to 1993. Drawing on interviews with the students and their parents, school records, and fieldwork in the schools and communities, the authors identify both the obstacles that caused many students to drop out and the successful strategies that other students and their parents pursued to ensure high school graduation. The authors conclude with seven far-reaching recommendations for changes in the public schools. Sure to provoke debate among all school constituencies, this book will be required reading for school administrators, teachers, parents, legislators, and community leaders.