An updated version of the best-selling therapist-to-coach transition text. With his bestselling Therapist As Life Coach, Pat Williams introduced the therapeutic community to the career of life coach, and in Becoming a Professional Life Coach he and Diane Menendez covered all the basic principles and strategies for effective coaching. Now Williams, founder of the Institute…
Becoming a School Leader Applications, Interviews, Examinations and Portfolios There are many master teachers who have excellent organizational and interpersonal relation skills who think about becoming assistant principals and principals. Becoming a School Leader is designed primarily for these master teachers as they contemplate the next step in their professional careers. It will help them…
What’s it like to be a social entrepreneur – not a textbook social entrepreneur but one on the ground? This book offers an explanation. Michael Gordon, leading Social Entrepreneurship expert from the University of Michigan, spoke with more than one hundred social entrepreneurs – from six continents, young and old, just starting out to several…
Becoming a Successful Graphic DesignerA Compositional Analysis of Angels in MatthewAs students prepare to enter the world of work, there are many decisions that they need to make about what type of career they want: Freelancing? Working in a design agency? Setting up their own business? They also need the practical advice about how to…
The book explains how to emerge and grow as a supply chain leader and details supply chain and procurement processes and operational activities in real-work scenarios across multiple supply chain verticals. The book defines what an entry-level supply chain professional must do to excel in various types of supply chain verticals such as IT, electronics…
Explore the world teaching today through first-person stories and in-depth coverage of current issues With a bright and engaging writing style that enlists the voices of experts as well as novices, Becoming a Teacher explores what it means to be a professional teacher in today’s climate of accountability, high-stakes testing, and changing legislation. Becoming a…
Seeking citizenship? Here’s everything you need to know! The path from green card to U.S. citizenship can be a long and winding one – and bureaucratic hassles are inevitable. But with Becoming a U.S. Citizen, you can shave months or years off the time it takes to become a citizen. Find out how to: ….
Becoming Activist Critical Literacy and Youth Organizing Becoming Activist is a revolutionary study of youth human rights activism and literacy learning. The book follows five urban youth organizers from the Drop Knowledge Project in New York City. Intentionally polyvocal, the voices of the five youth are featured prominently to highlight the shifting articulation of their…
With its friendly, step-by-step format, the Third Edition of Becoming an Academic Writer helps readers improve their writing by engaging in deep, deliberate, and daily practice. Author Patricia Goodson designed this book for anyone in an academic setting who must write to survive, from new graduate students to senior faculty. Featuring 50 exercises, this practical…
This book traces how a new school, physically designed as a modern learning environment, has come into being in New Zealand. A key feature is how it designs its curriculum for future citizens. The book explores how flexible curriculum and assessment options support the provision of a well-balanced, coherent and future-oriented learning programme. It also…
Still the only book of its kind, this intensely practical text helps nurses build the skills they need to gain and use influence throughout their entire careers.This second edition is updated throughout with new information on nursing, health care, and technology � including social media. Readable, timely, and upbeat, BECOMING INFLUENTIAL: A GUIDE FOR NURSES…
We find our way forward by going back. The invented history of the Western world is crumbling fast, Anishinaabe writer Patty Krawec says, but we can still honor the bonds between us. Settlers dominated and divided, but Indigenous peoples won’t just send them all “home.” Weaving her own story with the story of her ancestors…
Once dismissed as a rusting industrial has-been�the �Next Detroit��Philadelphia has enjoyed an astonishing comeback in the 21st century.Over the past two decades, Inga Saffron has served as the premier chronicler of the city�s physical transformation as it emerged from a half century of decline. Through her Pulitzer Prize-winning columns on architecture and urbanism in the…
For courses in Qualitative Research Ideal for introducing the novice researcher to the theory and practice of qualitative research, this text opens students to the diverse possibilities within this inquiry approach, while helping them understand how to design and implement specific research methods.The author�s accessible writing style, the wealth of examples, and the numerous exercises…
In your courses and career, you will compose essays, reports, photos, graphics, web pages, and more. BECOMING RHETORICAL gives you the tools and the training you need to create successful communications in all of these formats and in different situations. First you will learn tools of analysis – ways to investigate different aspects of a…
Communication isn’t static. It shifts and changes. Nicotra’s BECOMING RHETORICAL: ANALYZING AND COMPOSING IN A MULTIMEDIA WORLD, 2nd edition, equips you with the tools and knowledge to effectively communicate to countless different audiences and across multiple forms of media. You will learn to analyze and compose in textual, visual and multimodalities – from evaluating an…