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Passive learning just doesn’t cut it in today’s evolving, competitive workplace. Research demonstrates that action-first learning works because it engages the mind immediately and makes sure that knowledge and skills will stick. With a more diverse array of action-based training designs, organizations can motivate learners, provide hands-on, collaborative practice, and drive behavioral change.

¿Te sientes agotado por las constantes luchas, arrebatos emocionales y dificultades escolares? Criar a un niño con TDAH puede ser desafiante, pero con las estrategias adecuadas, puedes ayudarlo a prosperar. Este audiolibro es una guía práctica y accesible para entender y manejar el TDAH, brindándote herramientas efectivas para transformar los desafíos diarios en oportunidades de crecimiento. Tu hijo no está roto; simplemente piensa de manera diferente. Con el enfoque correcto, puedes ayudarlo a desarrollar su potencial y encontrar el éxito en su propio camino.

This guide explores essential mechanics concepts for engineers, technicians, and aspiring professionals. From simple machines like levers and pulleys to complex systems involving hydraulics, pneumatics, and thermodynamics, this book covers a wide range of topics with easy-to-understand explanations & real-world applications. Designed with the learner in mind, this book features step-by-step explanations of mechanical concepts such as force, work, energy, and motion.

Malcolm Gladwell has long relished the opportunity to skewer the upper echelons of higher education, from the institution of U.S. News & World Report’s Best College rankings to the LSATs to the luxe Bowdoin College cafeteria. I Hate the Ivy League: Riffs and Rants on Elite Education, upends the traditional thinking around how education should work and tries to get to the bottom of why we often reward the wrong people.

The culture of “safety” and its intolerance of opposing viewpoints has left many young people anxious and unprepared for adult life. Lukianoff and Haidt offer a comprehensive set of reforms that will strengthen young people and institutions, allowing us all to reap the benefits of diversity, including viewpoint diversity. This is a book for anyone who is confused by what’s happening on college campuses today, or has children, or is concerned about the growing inability of Americans to live and work and cooperate across party lines.

Award-winning author Janice Hardy (and founder of the popular writing site, Fiction University) takes you deep into one of the most frustrating aspects of writing—showing, and not telling. She'll help you understand what show, don't tell means, teach you how to spot told prose in your writing, and reveal why common advice on how to fix it doesn't always work.

A Fun and Highly Engaging Guide for Every LevelEmbark on the ultimate Spanish-learning adventure with over 83 hours of dynamic content that will take you from beginner to advanced fluency. Whether you're starting fresh or refining your skills, this comprehensive audiobook provides everything you need to master Spanish in an engaging and practical way. What Makes This Guide Stand Out? •Beginner to Advanced Grammar: Learn essential rules at every level, explained through relatable examples that make them easy to apply.

In this must-listen book for anyone striving to succeed, pioneering psychologist Angela Duckworth shows parents, educators, students, and businesspeople - both seasoned and new - that the secret to outstanding achievement is not talent but a focused persistence called "grit". Why do some people succeed and others fail? Sharing new insights from her landmark research on grit, MacArthur "genius" Angela Duckworth explains why talent is hardly a guarantor of success.

Manifest Now provides a step-by-step guide with tools, techniques, and proven strategies to raise your frequency and create the reality you want. This audiobook is designed to guide you through the mental, physical, and spiritual aspects of manifesting and creating all that your heart desires. You'll learn how to start removing mental and emotional blocks so you can rediscover that manifesting is your natural birthright. You'll feel more confident, reconnected, and powerful as you listen.

Even though the book of Proverbs was written over 3,000 years ago, it is relevant in today’s world. Life Skills from the Book of Proverbs examines it in a way that is relevant to what we experience every day. It lays out a course of action to live a successful life. The structure of this course involves written material, individual activities, group activities, and a website. Each week, individuals are encouraged to read three lessons in preparation for a weekly group meeting. The individual lessons are short and have personal activities that help reinforce the material. The leader then ...

To most of us, learning something 'the hard way' implies wasted time and effort. Good teaching, we believe, should be creatively tailored to the different learning styles of students and should use strategies that make learning easier. Make It Stick turns fashionable ideas like these on their head and will appeal to all those interested in the challenge of lifelong learning and self-improvement.

Drawing together the worlds of classroom practice, school leadership and scientific research, this is an essential how-to guide for initiating and maintaining a school improvement journey based on the science of learning.

Start learning Ukrainian, improve your skills at any level, discover Ukrainian culture, and fall in love with Ukrainian! 💙💛It is not just a podcast, but a well-structured and easily accessible Ukrainian language course that can easily fit into your life. All lessons are free, and you can get lesson notes and flashcards by becoming a premium member. Find out more at ukrainianlessons.com.

Picture yourself immersed in the rhythms of your day—walking through a bustling city, pushing through the final stretch of a workout, or finding calm in your home as chores flow seamlessly. Now imagine transforming these moments into a symphony of intellectual growth with the Davidson’s LSAT Audio Study Guide: Diamond Edition, an innovative tool designed to align with your life while preparing you for the gateway to legal education. This audiobook breathes life into every facet of the Law School Admission Test.

From the globally-recognized personal finance educator and social media star behind Her First $100K, an inclusive guide to all things money—from managing debt to investing and voting with your dollars.

In this groundbreaking work, evolutionary biologist Jared Diamond stunningly dismantles racially based theories of human history by revealing the environmental factors actually responsible for history's broadest patterns. It is a story that spans 13,000 years of human history, beginning when Stone Age hunter-gatherers constituted the entire human population. Guns, Germs, and Steel is a world history that really is a history of all the world's peoples, a unified narrative of human life.

In Lies My Teacher Told Me, James W. Loewen brings history alive in all its complexity and ambiguity. Beginning with pre-Columbian history and ranging over characters and events as diverse as Reconstruction, Helen Keller, the first Thanksgiving, the My Lai massacre, 9/11, and the Iraq War, Loewen offers an eye-opening critique of existing textbooks, and a wonderful retelling of American history as it should - and could - be taught to American students.

Written by the CEO of Service to School and former President of the Wharton Veterans’ Club, Breaking Business School is the ultimate step-by-step guide to MBA success. This newly updated edition features veteran-specific insights, including profiles and admissions data from over 40 top business schools in the U.S. and Europe. Essential for any veteran considering an MBA, this guide is filled with expert advice to navigate the admissions process with confidence. The Foreword is contributed by Nafeez Amin, founder of Smart with a Heart GRE Prep, who brings over a decade of test prep and MBA...

Zettelkasten and the Art of Knowledge Management will walk you through the process of creating your knowledge graph with Obsidian. It will take you step by step from the basics of Personal Knowledgeable Management(PKM), to the Zettelkasten note taking process, to setting up your knowledge vault. It will show you how to charge up your knowledge vault and how to use it to great effect. It will walk you through the habits you need to transform your learning into a lifelong investment. Knowledge doesn't live in isolation: it's fundamentally connected to the people and events in our life. Yet ...

In “Whatever It Is, I’m Against It,” president emeritus of Macalester College Brian Rosenberg draws on decades of higher education experience to expose the entrenched structures, practices, and cultures that inhibit meaningful postsecondary reform, even as institutions face serious challenges to their financial and educational models. A lively insider’s account, the book pinpoints factors that hinder the ability of U.S. colleges and universities to be creative and entrepreneurial amid calls to improve affordability, access, and equity for students.