Student Success

Racial Opportunity Cost turns critical attention to the specific challenges faced by high-achieving students of color and gives educators a framework for recognizing and addressing these issues. Terah Venzant Chambers roots her discussion in the concept of racial opportunity cost, using a term borrowed from economics to refer to the obstacles faced and tradeoffs made by Black and Latinx students on the path to academic success.

This book shows how schools can - and must - develop expertise in "learning variation" (understanding how different kinds of minds learn) and apply this knowledge to classroom instruction in order to address the chronic learning challenges and achievement gap faced by millions of students. Barringer shows how using what we know about learning variation with a focus on discovering learning strengths, not just deficits, can help schools create plans for success for those students who often find it elusive.

From the beloved author of The Power of Your Subconscious Mind, this compact book is a classic guide to financial prosperity. Filled with simple, powerful mindset shifts, How to Attract Money will fundamentally change how you approach your finances. By learning to accept that money is a solution, not a problem and that wealth is a state of consciousness, your mind can truly become your main path to prosperity.

This affirmations audiobook is designed to provide students who struggle with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) with a resource to help them achieve academically, socially, and emotionally.

For every college-failure-turned-success story, there are countless less-inspiring ones. The real reason why most people don’t make the grades they need or become so disheartened that they drop out of college early has nothing to do with the subject they’re studying or their drive to succeed…. It’s because they lack essential study skills and inside knowledge. Your courses focus on your subject—as they should…. But there’s a wealth of other information you’re missing out on that could make the difference between a pass and a fail.

Depression can greatly impact a young adult’s successful completion of college, leaving them and their parents overwhelmed and anxious about the future. As a Harvard-trained, board-certified child, adolescent, and adult psychiatrist with over 15 years of experience, Dr. Melissa Lopez-Larson has helped hundreds of parents and young adults overcome depression and successfully complete college.

It’s a fact that today some of our public school kids are struggling. We hear reports of test scores being down and kids don’t like to read as much as they used to. Now the schools are being charged with teaching more nontraditional skills, like social skills that involve social emotional learning, than ever before, to students less prepared than ever before.

Discover the transformative magic of active collaboration between home and school with "The Powerful Partnership." This resourceful title lights up the significance of understanding diverse instructional needs and how they influence a child's academic journey. Chapter 1 begins by establishing a comprehensive understanding of these diverse requirements, shedding light on how various factors shape them, and importantly, how crucial parental involvement is in this equation. Chapter 2 underscores the vast power vested in parental engagement in a child's education, detailing the multiple ...

This definitive guide to career success will transform your career planning toolkit and elevate your post-high-school or career change plans to new heights. Don't miss your chance to gain the knowledge and insights that will set you apart from the competition and propel you toward a successful future—free of student loan debt.

We have literally broken down the most complex portion of nursing school and the area where more students struggle than any other, and handed it to you on a silver platter. Toss out the boring PowerPoint slides and useless handouts from your professors. This audiobook outlines the must know and most critical information needed to comprehend, demolish, learn and understand at a faster rate without all the fluff of traditional review books. With tons of images and outlined content this is a shortcut to MedSurg success.

At a time when we're constantly flooded with contradictory information and opinions, critical thinking skills are more important than ever. This accessible workbook is full of valuable insights, thought-provoking questions, and useful exercises to help teens and preteens expand their perspectives, skillfully navigate thorny issues, recognize bias, identify misinformation, and become more comfortable with dissent and differences of opinion. Becoming a Critical Thinker offers essential tools for students to mature into thoughtful, curious, and empathetic learners.

This book shows how any student can get a job, internship, or research position they want using the Career Launch Method - a detailed framework based on a key insight: The clearest path to landing a position is through creating relationships with professionals in the industries you desire.

This is a quintessentially American story of one man's journey through his career and life. Wall Street veteran Ben Carpenter chronicles the people he met, the experiences he had, the mistakes he made, and what he learned along the way. Listeners will encounter a colorful cast of real-life characters which include Big Hank, Hoops, Sweater Girl, The Zombies, Mr. Nuts, The Cheese, Deep Throat, and The RAT.

Natalie Marie Janji is a graduate of Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, CA with a BS in chemistry and a passion for helping others succeed. She knows the challenges of college life, and in The Miracle Morning for College Students she shares from her wisdom and experience to help students achieve at the highest level.

Este libro es un recurso invaluable para académicos, profesionales y cualquier persona que busque mejorar sus habilidades de negociación. Con la creciente importancia de las negociaciones en el mundo globalizado de hoy, "Negociación Estratégica" es la guía definitiva para lograr resultados exitosos y éticos en cualquier mesa de negociación.

The Learning Progression Model (LPM) offers a flexible and effective framework focusing on improvement over time, emphasizes learning as a process rather than an endpoint, encourages academic risk-taking, and fosters positive student-teacher relationships. This model defines outcomes based on a limited number of skills, provides ample opportunities for formative assessment, and allows multiple attempts without penalty. The LPM also removes nonacademic factors from grading and uses descriptive scoring to decrease attempts to quantify performances.

With a focus on studying and revising, Improving Your Memory walks the listener through a wealth of advice surrounding memory improvement. This includes providing advice on how to structure revision, exam preparation, and essay planning. Along the way, the listener will find a number of memory-based activity questions to put their new memory skills into action. Throughout, the information is presented in easily-navigable sections that anyone can use to dip in and out of their new memory improvement audiobook.

Do you feel exhausted and tired with stress? Are you overwhelmed by your circumstances? Do you give up whenever you encounter obstacles and mishaps? If so, Building Mental Strength for Success is for you. If you are sincerely looking to build your mental strength to achieve success in life, this book contains all the requisite tools to master your inner state and empower you to take consistent massive action, improve your productivity, and achieve your goals faster.

Raising students' math achievement doesn't mean ripping up your planning book and starting over. In Accessible Mathematics Steven Leinwand shows how small shifts in the good teaching you already do can make a big difference in student learning. Steve focuses on the crucial issue of classroom instruction. He scours the research and visits highly effective classrooms for practical examples of small adjustments to your teaching that lead to deeper student learning in math. Some of his 10 classroom-tested teaching shifts may surprise you and others will validate your thinking.

Becoming Einstein's Teacher will help you understand what it is to be a genius, how the brain works, and what it means to learn in the 21st century driven by artificial intelligence. Becoming Einstein's Teacher will show you how to tap into this one thing all your students have that enables lifelong learning without extra curriculum, new tech, more hours in class, or endless homework nights.