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      • RANOK Corporation

        RANOK is the leading publishing house of Ukraine dealing with educational and children's literature. It also covers adult fiction and non-fiction/business sectors. RANOK has been working on the international market for over 20 years and has a long history of successful cooperation with many publishers around the world.

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      • July 2023

        Code Peking Duck

        by Max Claro (author); Nicholas Corwin (translator)

        West German pacifist Michael Müller ends up as a GI in the U.S. Army after a wild cross-country odyssey through America, the land of his dreams. Now Michael Miller, he’s a medic in Vietnam. Shaken by combat’s horrors, Miller decides to desert. Eluding the authorities halfway around the world, he returns to the United States. To avoid prison for desertion, Miller pledges to smuggle defectors and dissidents from hostile countries for the CIA. After thrilling operations in the Eastern Bloc and the Middle East, he faces the ultimate challenge: rescuing 141 German civilians from the chaos of revolutionary Iran.An incredible story—based on true events.

      • Organization & management of education
        October 2014

        Good to Great to Innovate

        Recalculating the Route to Career Readiness, K-12+

        by Lyn Sharratt and Gale Harild

        Building on global conversations that are taking place worldwide, regarding what effective secondary education for students should look and feel like in the 21st century, the book will examine essential conditions to be considered. By examining ongoing practices from across continents the reader will be challenged to consider how one might reimagine our high school system, schools, and classrooms to reflect some of these identified conditions.

      • Organization & management of education
        January 2014

        Distributed Leadership Matters

        Perspectives, Practicalities, and Potential

        by Alma Harris

        Distributed leadership—engaging the many rather than the few in school improvement—has long been a promising theory. But it must be implemented effectively before educators and students can reap the rewards, including improved learner outcomes and stronger organizational performance. Distributed Leadership Matters offers pragmatic approaches for realizing these benefits. First, Alma Harris shows why harnessing educators’ collective expertise is an improvement strategy worth adopting. Then she details the collaborative processes that make it happen. Insights include: • How to translate the research on distributed leadership into tangible results for schools • Methods for building the social capital necessary for sustainable institutional change • How to distribute leadership widely and wisely through professional collaboration This book is the educator's guide to improving the learning outcomes of young people, whatever their context and whatever it takes, supporting teachers to be the very best they can be and ensuring that collaborative learning with impact is achievable and sustainable.

      • Teaching of a specific subject
        January 2013

        Digital Storytelling in the Classroom

        New Media Pathways to Literacy, Learning, and Creativity

        by Jason B. Ohler

        This text shows how to integrate storytelling into curriculum design and use the principles of storytelling as a measurement of learning and literacies. It also covers important copyright and fair use information, and offers numerous implementation tips, concrete examples, and illustrative video clips. Aimed at primary and secondary teachers, the book is designed to help them: " Teach their students to create digital stories that employ effective principles of storytelling, technology application, and media technique." Use digital storytelling as a tool to promote the development of emerging literacies, such as digital and media literacy, as well as traditional literacies, such as reading, writing, speaking, and art." Help students use digital storytelling as an academic tool to explore content and to communicate what they understand." Understand the importance of combining the power of story and critical thinking as an approach to teaching and learning.

      • Education
        January 2013

        Thinking Through Project-Based Learning

        Guiding Deeper Inquiry

        by Jane Krauss and Suzie Boss

        Thinking Through Projects shows teachers how to create a more interactive classroom environment where students engage, learn, and achieve. Teachers will findA reader-friendly overview of project-based learning that includes current findings on brain development and connections with Common Core standardsNumerous how-to's and sample projects for every K-12 grade level Strategies for integrating project learning into all main subject areas, across disciplines, and with current technology and social mediaWays to involve the community through student field research, special guests, and ideas for showcasing student workWhether you are new to project-based learning or ready to strengthen your existing classroom projects, you'll find a full suite of strategies and tools in this essential book.

      • Organization & management of education
        January 2013

        The Multiplier Effect

        Tapping the Genius Inside Our Schools

        by Lois Allen, Elise Foster, and Liz Wiseman

        Why are some leaders able to double their team’s effectiveness, while others seem to drain the energy right out of the room? In this engaging and highly practical book, leadership expert Liz Wiseman, leadership coach Elise Foster, and veteran principal Lois Allen team up to offer compelling research showing the overwhelmingly positive and exponential effect on schools getting more done without increasing the number of teachers and resources. Taking a deep dive with more than 100 of education’s best leaders, the authors explore the five disciplines that distinguish Multipliers from Diminishers and how these leaders attract and develop talent, as well as harness new ideas and energy to drive educational innovation. These five disciplines are not based on innate talent; indeed they are skills that every educator can learn to use – even when steeped in lifelong Diminisher settings. By practicing these disciplines, leaders learn how to - Attract top teachers to their school • Create an intense environment that demands people’s best thinking • Drive sound decisions by constructing debate and decision-making forums • Give their team a sense of ownership for responsibilities and results

      • Project management

        The ITSM Process Design Guide

        Developing, Reengineering, and Improving IT Service Management

        by Donna Knapp, CPDE, ITIL ExpertTM

        The Definitive Source for Certified Process Design Engineers IT organizations increasingly recognize the need to design, re-design, and improve their internal IT service management (ITSM) processes. While popular frameworks such as the IT Infrastructure Library™ (ITIL®), Control Objectives for IT (COBIT®), Microsoft® Operations Framework (MOF), and the ISO/IEC 20000 standard describe what to do, they do not describe the mechanics of how to do it. The ITSM Process Design Guide: Developing, Reengineering and Improving IT Service Management closes the knowledge gap by providing detailed guidance on assessing, designing, measuring, and integrating ITSM processes. The advice and techniques in this book apply unilaterally to every IT service provider and ITSM framework, standard, and maturity model. While other books may touch on process design methods and techniques, there is no other publication dedicated specifically to developing, re-engineering and improving ITSM processes. This guide is also the definitive reference source for the Certified Process Design Engineer (CPDE®) qualification. The CPDE qualification imparts and validates knowledge of best practices in the assessment, design, integration, implementation, and management of ITSM processes. It recognizes the value of having a qualified CPDE within an organization and has been endorsed by The APM Group (ITIL's official accreditor) as a complementary qualification for the ITIL Qualification Scheme.

      • April 2019

        A to Z of Classroom Behaviour

        by Lawrence, Tracey

        This book presents strategies and advice on how to deal with common issues in bite-size chunks that teachers can dip in and out of quickly and easily.

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