by Lucy Heckman (2011)
"This fact-filled guide serves as an introductory handbook or as a refresher for those who want to research a specific topic or update their research skills"--Provided by publisher.
Nancy Fichtman Dana, Diane Yendol-Hoppey
This how-to guide to teacher research and inquiry takes educators from 'Where do I Begin?' through publishing results, with detailed attention to every step in between. It covers questioning, sharing insights and processes, research methods, analysing data, developing reports, and communicating findings to the ecucational community.
Frank Crowther
"Bestselling author Frank Crowther makes a compelling case for capacity building and parallel leadership as the keys to ensuring sustainable improvement. Research-based with tools and examples"-- Provided by publisher. "In this sequel to Developing Teacher Leaders, bestselling author Frank Crowther builds on the key concept of parallel leadership to demonstrate its utility as a strategic managerial tool in building school capacity. From School Improvement to Sustained Capacity: The Parallel Leadership Pathway specifically demonstrates how district and school leaders can utilize parallel leadership to facilitate a sequential school capacity building process that will ensure school improvement and increased student success. Based on a recent research study which examined how principals and teacher leaders worked together over a 2-4 year period to develop and sustain enhanced quality in their workplaces, this book expands the definition of parallel leadership, refines the notion of teacher leadership and incorporates roles for middle managers and student leaders. Crowther's research evidence and cases from numerous school-based studies illustrate how these parallel leadership roles can be used to attain what he terms the six basic dynamics essential to any successful school capacity building and preservation effort"--
John Wood
John Wood discovered his passion, his greatest success, and his life's work—not at business school or leading Microsoft's charge into Asia in the 1990s—but on a soul-searching trip to the Himalayas. Wood felt trapped between an all-consuming career and a desire to do something lasting and significant. Stressed from the demands of his job, he took a vacation trekking in Nepal because a friend had told him, "If you get high enough in the mountains, you can't hear Steve Ballmer yelling at you anymore."Instead of being the antidote to the rat race, that trip convinced John Wood to divert the boundless energy he was devoting to Microsoft into a cause that desperately needed to be addressed. While visiting a remote Nepalese school, Wood learned that the students had few books in their library. When he offered to run a book drive to provide the school with books, his idea was met with polite skepticism. After all, no matter how well-intentioned, why would a successful software executive take valuable time out of his life and gather books for an impoverished school?But John Wood did return to that school and with thousands of books bundled on the back of a yak. And at that moment, Wood made the decision to walk away from Microsoft and create Room to Read—an organization that has donated more than 1.2 million books, established more than 2,600 libraries and 200 schools, and sent 1,700 girls to school on scholarship—ultimately touching the lives of 875,000 children with the lifelong gift of education.Leaving Microsoft to Change the World chronicles John Wood's struggle to find a meaningful outlet for his managerial talents and entrepreneurial zeal. For every high-achiever who has ever wondered what life might be like giving back, Wood offers a vivid, emotional, and absorbing tale of how to take the lessons learned at a hard-charging company like Microsoft and apply them to one of the world's most pressing problems: the lack of basic literacy.
Jiri Matousek, Bernd Gärtner
The book is an introductory textbook mainly for students of computer science and mathematics. Our guiding phrase is "what every theoretical computer scientist should know about linear programming". A major focus is on applications of linear programming, both in practice and in theory. The book is concise, but at the same time, the main results are covered with complete proofs and in sufficient detail, ready for presentation in class. The book does not require more prerequisites than basic linear algebra, which is summarized in an appendix. One of its main goals is to help the reader to see linear programming "behind the scenes".