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How do you know when students understand? Can you design learning experiences that make it much more likely that students understand content and apply it in meaningful ways? Thousands of educators have used the Understanding by Design (UbD) framework to answer these questions and create more rigorous, engaging curriculums. Now, this expanded 2nd edition gives you even more tools and strategies for results-oriented teaching.

Even for experienced facilitators, putting together a two-hour workshop can be daunting. Where to start? What to include? How to engage the audience? How to create impact and positive results? Above all, how to do all this quickly and effectively? Drawing on years of experience designing and delivering workshops all over the world, Leanne Hughes' The 2-Hour Workshop Blueprint gives you a formula to create sessions that hit the mark every time.

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.

Design to Engage is a “how-to” book that will help you become an effective designer and facilitator of learning events. Practical, accessible, and jam-packed with tools to support facilitators to create impactful learning experiences, Design to Engage is a revelation and an inspiration.

Admissions by Design is a poignant, unorthodox, and thorough guide that upends the traditional paradigm of college admissions. Incorporating the latest research in brain science and human development and using stories from her nearly 20 years of work with students, Lisa Fisher offers students practical tools to reframe the college admissions process to one of an inspired and authentic journey toward self-discovery.

In The AI Mosaic of Career & Life Design, Hassan Akmal invites you to embark on a transformative journey through the most profound and innovative framework for career and life mastery.

In an age dominated by spectacle, speed, and disposable design, Architecture Without a Scar offers a profound and timely reflection on what it means to build with conscience. Leaford Leven Blevins, Jr.—architect, memoirist, and cultural steward—invites listeners into a world where architecture is not merely functional or fashionable, but sacred. Drawing from decades of professional experience and the ancestral wisdom of the Yowani Choctaws and Wind Clan, Blevins challenges the modern impulse toward excess, erasure, and aesthetic violence.

Traditional career ladders are changing fast—“titles & credentials” no longer tell the full story. In a volatile, digitized economy, the professionals who win opportunities are the ones who can show clear outcomes. DRIVE: Your Action - Your Impact is a practical playbook for building autonomy and turning your work into undeniable evidence—whether you’re seeking a better role, launching independent work, or building a portfolio career.

Learn the simple steps to make strong arguments that win people over in any talk. They'll Say Yes: Persuasion by Design shows you how to build arguments that get results without being pushy.