Thanks to our wonderful friends at
Arfstrom Consulting and
Girls Thinking Global, we are
excited to host a special book giveaway during Speak Up America week! All
participating parents, educators, and community members are eligible to enter
the giveaway – all you’ll need to do is take the Speak Up survey (
http://bit.ly/SU15survey) and enter your
information the webforms below. Once you hit the submit button, you’ll be
entered into the giveaway for the book of your choice! Feel free to submit your
name for each book.
Click on the book title to submit your entry:
It started with a
simple observation: students need their teachers present to answer questions or
to provide help if they get stuck on an assignment; they don't need their
teachers present to listen to a lecture or review content. From there, authors
Jonathan Bergmann and Aaron Sams began the flipped classroom-students watched
recorded lectures for homework and completed their assignments, labs, and tests
in class with their teacher available.
What Bergmann and Sams
found was that their students demonstrated a deeper understanding of the
material than ever before. This is the author’s story, and they're confident it
can be yours too. Learn what a flipped classroom is and why it works and get
the information you need to flip a classroom.
You'll also learn the
flipped mastery model, where students learn at their own pace-furthering
opportunities for personalized education. This simple concept is easily
replicable in any classroom, doesn't cost much to implement, and helps foster
self-directed learning. Once you flip, you wont want to go back!
A groundbreaking
examination of the growing inequality gap from the bestselling author of
Bowling Alone: why fewer Americans today have the opportunity for upward
mobility.
It’s the American
dream: get a good education, work hard, buy a house, and achieve prosperity and
success. This is the America we believe in—a nation of opportunity, constrained
only by ability and effort. But during the last twenty-five years we have seen
a disturbing “opportunity gap” emerge. Americans have always believed in
equality of opportunity, the idea that all kids, regardless of their family
background, should have a decent chance to improve their lot in life. Now, this
central tenet of the American dream seems no longer true or at the least, much
less true than it was.
Robert Putnam—about
whom The Economist said, “his scholarship is wide-ranging, his intelligence
luminous, his tone modest, his prose unpretentious and frequently funny”—offers
a personal but also authoritative look at this new American crisis. Putnam
begins with his high school class of 1959 in Port Clinton, Ohio. By and large
the vast majority of those students—“our kids”—went on to lives better than
those of their parents. But their children and grandchildren have had harder
lives amid diminishing prospects. Putnam tells the tale of lessening
opportunity through poignant life stories of rich and poor kids from cities and
suburbs across the country, drawing on a formidable body of research done
especially for this book.
In Real Women,
Real Leadership, twenty-four women
leaders describe their personal journeys to the top, providing deep insight and
a fascinating perspective on "making it" as a woman in the
male-dominated business environment. They discuss their experiences and offer
guidance on topics such as balancing family and career, building alliances,
mentoring and being mentored, and overcoming obstacles in the business world
which is still dominated by men in the senior levels of management. Drawn from
a range of industries including higher education, technology, law, the
military, politics, the media, and more, these stories provide the details that
every ambitious woman needs to know. You'll learn which skills, attributes, and
relationships served these women best, how they overcame the obstacles thrown
into their paths, and the people they credit as instrumental along the way. A
self-assessment chapter helps you discover your own leadership attributes, and
determine which skills you need to acquire as you formulate your own personal
roadmap to the top.
Girls Thinking Global (GTG), a global community of organizations serving girls and young women by leveraging technology to create a collaborative space that connects best practices, knowledge, and expertise.