Delivering on the Promise of High-Impact Practices

Delivering on the Promise of High-Impact Practices
Author: John Zilvinskis
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 331
Release: 2023-07-03
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1000971872

Research shows that enriching learning experiences such as learning communities, service-learning, undergraduate research, internships, and senior culminating experiences – collectively known as High-Impact Practices (HIPs) – are positively associated with student engagement; deep, and integrated learning; and personal and educational gains for all students – particularly for historically underserved students, including first-generation students and racially minoritized populations. While HIPs’ potential benefits for student learning, retention, and graduation are recognized and are being increasingly integrated across higher education programs, much of that potential remains unrealized; and their implementation frequently uneven. Colleges are eager to use the HIP nomenclature for recruitment, promoting equity for traditionally underserved student populations, and preparing lifelong learners and successful professionals. However, HIPs defy easy categorization or standardized implementation. They rely on fidelity, quality, and consistency – being “done well” – to achieve their learning outcomes; and, above all, require attention to access and equity if they are to fulfill their promise of benefitting all student populations equally.The goal of Delivering on the Promise of High-Impact Practices is to provide examples from around the country of the ways educators are advancing equity, promoting fidelity, achieving scale, and strengthening assessment of their own local high-impact practices. Its chapters bring together the best current scholarship, methodologies, and evidence-based practices within the HIPs field, illustrating new approaches to faculty professional development, culture and coalition building, research and assessment, and continuous improvement that help institutions understand and extend practices with a demonstrated high impact. For proponents and practitioners this book offers perspectives, data and critiques to interrogate and improve practice. For administrators it provides an understanding of what’s needed to deliver the necessary support.

Transforming Students

Transforming Students
Author: Charity Johansson
Publisher: JHU Press
Total Pages: 125
Release: 2014-03-11
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1421414376

It is preparation for life.--Rachel A. Heath "Reflective Teaching"

Leadership and the Liberal Arts

Leadership and the Liberal Arts
Author: J. Wren
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 238
Release: 2009-03-30
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0230620140

A collection of essays by presidents of prominent liberal arts colleges and leading intellectuals who reflect on the meaning of educating individuals for leadership and how it can be accomplished in ways consistent with the missions of liberal arts institutions.

The Promise of Adolescence

The Promise of Adolescence
Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 493
Release: 2019-07-26
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0309490111

Adolescenceâ€"beginning with the onset of puberty and ending in the mid-20sâ€"is a critical period of development during which key areas of the brain mature and develop. These changes in brain structure, function, and connectivity mark adolescence as a period of opportunity to discover new vistas, to form relationships with peers and adults, and to explore one's developing identity. It is also a period of resilience that can ameliorate childhood setbacks and set the stage for a thriving trajectory over the life course. Because adolescents comprise nearly one-fourth of the entire U.S. population, the nation needs policies and practices that will better leverage these developmental opportunities to harness the promise of adolescenceâ€"rather than focusing myopically on containing its risks. This report examines the neurobiological and socio-behavioral science of adolescent development and outlines how this knowledge can be applied, both to promote adolescent well-being, resilience, and development, and to rectify structural barriers and inequalities in opportunity, enabling all adolescents to flourish.

Realizing the Promise of 21st-Century Education

Realizing the Promise of 21st-Century Education
Author: Bruce Joyce
Publisher: Corwin Press
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2011-11-23
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1412988241

The authors outline the steps to building a new generation of courses and schools that prepares children to learn and work in the 21st century.

The Promise of Purpose

The Promise of Purpose
Author: Karen Conrad
Publisher: Destiny Image Publishers
Total Pages: 175
Release: 2021-05-18
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1680317660

God has a personal and unique purpose for your life. It is powerful, meaningful, exciting, and deeply fulfilling. He wants you to have it all-happiness and success! Discovering your purpose is easier than you think. Entrepreneur and business consult Karen Conrad is passionate about helping others bring vision to reality. She will encourage you to recognize the gifts, talents, and grace God has already deposited in you and how He's been preparing you all along. In The Promise of Purpose, Karen shares strategies for how you can... Find direction for life decisions Walk out your dreams on a biblical foundation Eliminate fear that hinders dreaming big Identify and break through glass ceilings Walk in blessings that are yours in Christ You aren't meant to be just one of the crowd. You were designed to stand out and influence the world around you. The time is now. Unlock your purpose and step boldly into your destiny!

Delivering on the Promise of Democracy

Delivering on the Promise of Democracy
Author: Sukhwant Jhaj
Publisher: Open Book Publishers
Total Pages: 163
Release: 2019-01-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1783745975

Many educators can recite the faults of their schools or universities, but far fewer can recognize and develop existing strengths to benefit a wider audience. Sukhwant Jhaj has crafted a refreshing new look at how imaginative leadership and a shift in perspective can propel institutions to reach at-risk or underrepresented members of their communities. Delivering on the Promise of Democracy pulls back the curtain on seven high-performing universities to reveal which daily decisions, including listening to the community, embracing conflict, and implementing effective strategies through routine, guide administrators in achieving exceptional results. Through in-depth interviews that offer a close look at these seven universities, Jhaj traces a new trajectory for higher education: a call to question a university's effectiveness through its accessibility to the community it serves. Jhaj's book will inspire anybody interested in widening access to education with its call to renew their institution's mission through powerful and effective leadership.

The Promise of a Pencil

The Promise of a Pencil
Author: Adam Braun
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2015-02-03
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1476730636

This the story of how a young man turned $25 into more than 200 schools around the world and the guiding steps anyone can take to lead a successful and significant life. The author began working summers at hedge funds when he was just sixteen years old, sprinting down the path to a successful Wall Street career. But while traveling he met a young boy begging on the streets of India, who after being asked what he wanted most in the world, simply answered, "A pencil." This small request led to a staggering series of events that took the author backpacking through dozens of countries before eventually leaving one of the world's most prestigious jobs at Bain & Company to found Pencils of Promise, the organization he started with just $25 that has since built more than 200 schools around the world. This book chronicles the author's journey to find his calling, as each chapter explains one clear step that every person can take to turn your biggest ambitions into reality, even if you start with as little as $25. His story takes readers behind the scenes with business moguls and village chiefs, world-famous celebrities and hometown heroes. It is filled with compelling stories and shareable insights. All proceeds from this book support Pencils of Promise.

Alcoholics Anonymous

Alcoholics Anonymous
Author: Bill W.
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 418
Release: 2014-09-04
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 0698176936

A 75th anniversary e-book version of the most important and practical self-help book ever written, Alcoholics Anonymous. Here is a special deluxe edition of a book that has changed millions of lives and launched the modern recovery movement: Alcoholics Anonymous. This edition not only reproduces the original 1939 text of Alcoholics Anonymous, but as a special bonus features the complete 1941 Saturday Evening Post article “Alcoholics Anonymous” by journalist Jack Alexander, which, at the time, did as much as the book itself to introduce millions of seekers to AA’s program. Alcoholics Anonymous has touched and transformed myriad lives, and finally appears in a volume that honors its posterity and impact.

Realizing the Promise of Work

Realizing the Promise of Work
Author: Donna McIntosh-Fletcher
Publisher:
Total Pages: 372
Release: 2009-12-15
Genre:
ISBN: 9781682735886

Realizing the Promise of Work...with this book, concepts are put into action, workplace principles are put into practice. Work Alignment is a process that allows for the continual assessment and integration of relationships between Societies, Work Environments and People -- each drawing strength from and contributing to the other. The alignment (relationship) between the workplace and the workforce has changed radically as work structures and operating practices bend to the realities of truly global work. Workforce demographic changes have also served as a catalytic force for new forms of work and the incorporation of diverse cultures and languages. The established vertical structure has been 'tipping' toward greater agility and integration of work processes. In this ever-shifting global workplace, learn from this book what people and their work environments are experiencing and accomplishing with McFletcher's Work Alignment solutions for work of lasting value. This book offers a wide range of work-related issues and alignment solutions. It includes the 'WHY', the 'WHAT' and the 'HOW' for aligned work. * The WHY: A summary of global trends and more than three decades of WorkStyle Pattern® (WSP(tm)) research provide the 'WHY' workplace shifts are occurring. * The WHAT: A workplace Dialog Client Group tells of the 'WHAT' with their actual Workplace of Action experiences - processes and results. * The HOW: The solution-based 'HOW' is demonstrated by the authors' workplace projects with World-Class performance results.