This book presents a reality-based approach to classroom instruction designed to help learners at all levels achieve lifelong success. It offers teaching strategies, activities, and applications to enhance student achievement, stressing the importance of learning through discovery, creativity, application, adaptation, and high level thinking. It also reiterates the need for a positive atmosphere, rituals, and procedures enabling educators to strengthen students' knowledge and achievement for lifelong success. Nine chapters focus on: (1) "Laying the Groundwork for Learning: Meaning and Memory"; (2) "Fertile Fields for Learning: Supple as Cotton, Rigid as Steel"; (3) "First Get 'Em on the Line--Then You Can Reel 'Em In!"; (4) "Add it Up: The Whole is Greater Than the Sum of its Parts"; (5) "Paint Me a Picture, Show Me the Way: Reconciling the New with the Known"; (6) "Get Real! Transforming Learning to Real Life"; (7) "Who Said It Couldn't Be Done? Blueprints for Student Success"; (8) "I've Got It! Now How Do I Keep It?"; and (9) "Hey, How Am I Doing? Feedback in the Learning Process." (Contains 24 references.) (SM).

The smart city movement, during the last decade and a half, advocated the built environment and digital technology convergence with the backing of institutional capital and government support. The commitment of a significant number of local governments across the globe, in terms of official smart city policies and initiatives, along with the constant push of global technology giants, has reinforced the popularity of this movement. This two-volume treatment on smart cities thoroughly explores and sheds light on the prominent elements of the smart city phenomenon and generates a smart city blueprint. The first volume, with its 12 chapters, provides a sound understanding on the key foundations and growth directions of smart city frameworks, technologies, and platforms, with theoretical expansions, practical implications, and real-world case study lessons. The second companion volume offers sophisticated perspectives on the key foundations and directions of smart city policies, communities, and urban futures, with theoretical expansions, practical implications, and real-world case study lessons. These volumes offer an invaluable reference source for urban policymakers, managers, planners, practitioners, and many others, particularly to benefit from it when tackling key urban and societal issues and planning for and delivering smart city solutions. Moreover, the book is also a rich and important repository for scholars and research and undergraduate students.

This outstanding resource looks in-depth at major existing nursing models. Contributors outline blueprints from these models that are applicable to real situations in practice. An essential tool for introducing the range of nursing models to students, or for their implementation in practice.

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An important addition to the research on how libraries can work with their communities to provide critical services and resources. Providing valuable insights about the diverse ways that outreach can be accomplished within and through communities, this volume serves as a significant resource for library managers, staff and their partners.

Venture Clienting provides a practical, step-by-step guide to how organizations can drive innovation and unlock value through venture clienting. Venture clienting enables companies to tap into new technologies, business models and ideas and foster a culture of agility and growth. This book presents a set of frameworks, tools and methodologies designed to help readers master venture clienting in their organizations. It takes a deep dive into the fundamental building blocks of venture clienting, exploring everything the reader needs to systematically build and run a successful venture client unit. From strategy and organization to infrastructure, communication, process, enabling processes, governance and control, culture and stakeholder management, the book delves into the practicalities of each component. Venture Clienting answers key questions such as: how can you build effective venture client units? What are the secrets to running a venture client unit that is lean, agile and cost-efficient? What are the key challenges in venture clienting and how can they be overcome? It is packed with practical insights, examples and cases such as the Microsoft and OpenAI Moonshot Partnership, BSH Startup Kitchen and AVL. Empower your business to innovate faster and more efficiently with this essential guide for companies and startups seeking to drive strategic growth through venture clienting.

Introduction to Emergency Management, Eighth Edition sets the standard for excellence in the field and has educated a generation of emergency management professionals. This trusted resource provides a comprehensive overview of core concepts in emergency management and instructs in their application, addressing why the emergency management profession exists, what actions its professionals and practitioners are tasked with performing, and what achievements are sought through the conduct of these various efforts. Students and new professionals alike will gain an enhanced understanding of key terminology and concepts, enabling them to work with emergency management specialists.Fully updated throughout, the new edition includes revised workflows and communications; explanations of FEMA, state, and local emergency management organizational policies; the growing role of the private sector in emergency management; Covid-19 pandemic preparedness and response; and the impact of climate change on emergency management policies and practices, among other timely examples and application areas. Each chapter features all-new case studies on recent disasters, key terms, summary points, and self-review questions. Student and faculty use is supported by an expanded ancillary package, featuring a fuller instructor manual, lecture PowerPoint Slides, and linked documents, data sets, references, and video examples. - Empowers the next generation of emergency management professionals, applying core disaster management approaches and principles across timely, illustrative case studies - Considers the impact of climate change, among other current global challenges, on emergency management policies and practices - Reviews and instructs in emergency management communication, workflows, and organizational policy best practices - Contains an updated, online instructor manual, lecture PowerPoint Slides, further case studies, video examples, and other supporting materials

This volume explores higher level, critical, and creative thinking, as well as reflective decision making and problem solving -- what teachers should emphasize when teaching literacy across the curriculum. Focusing on how to encourage learners to become independent thinking, learning, and communicating participants in home, school, and community environments, this book is concerned with integrated learning in a curriculum of inclusion. It emphasizes how to provide a curriculum for students where they are socially interactive, personally reflective, and academically informed. Contributors are authorities on such topics as cognition and learning, classroom climates, knowledge bases of the curriculum, the use of technology, strategic reading and learning, imagery and analogy as a source of creative thinking, the nature of motivation, the affective domain in learning, cognitive apprenticeships, conceptual development across the disciplines, thinking through the use of literature, the impact of the media on thinking, the nature of the new classroom, developing the ability to read words, the bilingual, multicultural learner, crosscultural literacy, and reaching the special learner. The applications of higher level thought to classroom contexts and materials are provided, so that experienced teacher educators, and psychologists are able to implement some of the abstractions that are frequently dealt with in texts on cognition. Theoretical constructs are grounded in educational experience, giving the volume a practical dimension. Finally, appropriate concerns regarding the new media, hypertext, bilingualism, and multiculturalism as they reflect variation in cognitive experience within the contexts of learning are presented.