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This groundbreaking guide reveals innovative techniques to confidently meet people, break the ice effortlessly when meeting new people, and harness the latest apps and social media for finding kindred spirits. With this audiobook's game-changing friendship techniques, students can build fulfilling relationships, learn how to handle social drama and toxic relationships with emotional intelligence, and ultimately get the most out of the college experience.

"A valuable reassessment of America's educational system." —PUBLISHERS WEEKLY What if you didn't have to go to college? You may have heard that a college degree is the only path to success. But many college graduates end up mired in debt and underemployed, working jobs that don't even require...

The road to college admissions may seem daunting, but fear not! With Ace Your College Admissions, you'll have a trusty resource to help you successfully apply to schools that interest you.

Get ready to embark on an adventure that will shatter the conventional boundaries of learning and transport you to a world of immersive experiences that will awaken your curiosity and deepen your understanding. Discover how these immersive learning experiences can revolutionize your educational journey, transforming the way you engage with complex subjects and unlocking your full potential.

This is a must-listen book for anyone considering higher education or looking to understand the value of a college degree. Written by Dr. David K. Ewen, an esteemed educator with several decades of professional experience in the field, this book offers profound insights into the positive aspects and significance of a college education.

On Your Mark, Get Set, Goal takes evidence-based strategies to provide easy-to-digest, self-help exercises to improve any classroom. This book is a must-listen for any teacher or leader seeking to add to his or her instructional toolbox, set and achieve goals, enhance communication skills, and ultimately increase self-performance and student achievement.

You're off to college! Congratulations! This book is just for you! This book was designed to help you navigate your college experience, and have fun while doing it.

¿Estás a punto de empezar a estudiar y ya sientes una buena dosis de agobio a la vez que anticipación al pensar en ello? ¿Acabas de empezar y necesitas una guía sobre cómo equilibrar tus estudios y tu tiempo libre lo mejor posible? ¿Llevas mucho tiempo deseando empezar de nuevo porque el ciclo recurrente de motivación, procrastinación y aprendizaje estresante te está agotando? ¿Ya no sabes cuál es tu verdadero problema y cómo puedes abordarlo? No desesperes todavía, porque los conocimientos que se te imparten en este libro pueden dar un vuelco a todos tus estudios.

In Developing Scholars, Domingo Morel explores the history and political factors that led to the creation of college access programs for students of color in the 1960s. Through a case study of an existing community-centered affirmative action program, Talent Development, Morel shows how protest, including violent protest, has been instrumental in the maintenance of college access programs.

Drawing on principles of Universal Design for Learning (UDL), this book helps you help your students become expert learners in the new and rapidly changing world we inhabit, where AI is a part of the toolset everyone can draw upon. Pandora's Box is well and truly open, and AI will be used, whether we like it or not.

In Hope and Healing, former Morehouse College president John Silvanus Wilson, Jr. looks to Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) to examine what it takes not only to survive as a relevant institution of higher education, but to thrive. Wilson draws on pivotal moments in the timelines of HBCUs and the work of past visionaries to yield important perspectives on the future of higher education and the role of HBCUs within it.

Much more than a collection of cool tools and apps, The Distance Learning Playbook for College and University Instruction mobilizes decades of Visible Learning® research to reveal those evidence-based strategies that work best in an online environment. Supplemented by opportunities to self-assess and reflect, the book addresses every dynamic that must be in place for students to learn, even at a distance.

Some of the most important things you need to know in order to succeed in graduate school—like how to choose a good advisor, how to get funding for your work, and whether to celebrate or cry when a journal tells you to revise and resubmit an article—won't be covered in any class. They are part of a hidden curriculum that you are just expected to know or somehow learn on your own—or else.

After devoting half of his lifetime transforming his start-up business into a multi-million dollar industry leader, author John McLaughlin set out in a new direction: to teach what he had learned to others. Due to a lack of teaching experience, his only job offer was to teach entrepreneurship to prisoners at a minimum-security camp in North Carolina. John gradually builds an effective program until a scandal involving prison officials blindsides his progress and threatens to bring his teaching career to an unceremonious end.

This qualitative research study is the culmination of three years of research centered around the question, “What are the struggles of Black Male Educational leaders on their journey to becoming an Educational Leader?” The purpose of this research is to understand the journey for Black males, the environment of education, and how both have intertwined for generations.

This question-and-answer ambulatory care nursing certification resource reinforces and highlights information you need to know in order to be successful on the examination.

Your Ivy competitive edge. The most effective college application strategies ever published. Transform your college applications into Bam! Pow! Wow!—without high-priced consultants, tutors, or prep courses. Using actual common application personal essays, activities and honors sections, supplemental essays, and letters of continued interest from accepted applications to University of Virginia, Duke, and Princeton, Coach Mom Top College Admission Playbook shows you how to stand tall above thousands in one quick listen.

Student life can be overwhelming, with so many issues to deal with including living away from home, workload, deadlines and exams, family pressures and challenging relationships. It is not surprising that you might struggle to cope sometimes. But there are simple and effective ways that you can take ownership of your mental health, meaning you stay stress free, enjoy your university experience and achieve academic success.

BeMo's Ultimate Guide to CASPer® Test Prep is the most comprehensive resource for CASPer preparation. Written by former CASPer test raters, admissions committee members and award-winning scientists, this guide is a must-listen for all applicants required to take the CASPer test.

Un manual práctico y fascinante para que padres, abuelos y maestros descubran las pasiones y habilidades innatas de los más pequeños. Cada niño es especial y único. Pero ¿cómo identificamos los talentes específicos de nuestros hijos? ¿Qué podemos hacer para ayudarlos a expresar, cultivar y disfrutar de sus pasiones?