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The Strategic Teacher: Selecting the Right Research-Based Strategy for Every Lesson

The Strategic Teacher offers a repertoire of strategies designed and proven to meet today’s high standards and reach diverse learners. Twenty reliable, flexible strategies (along with dozens of variations) are organized into these groups of instruction:

· mastery style to emphasize the development of student memory;
· understanding style to expand students’ capacities to reason and explain;
· self-expressive style to stimulate and nourish students’ imaginations and creativity;
· interpersonal style to help students find meaning in the relationships they forge as partners and team members, united in the act of learning; and
· four-style strategies that integrate all four styles.

To guide teachers in delivering content to students, the authors started with the best research-based teaching and learning strategies and created a tool called the Strategic Dashboard. The dashboard provides information about each teaching strategy in a concise, visual profile; it is also designed to document how one incorporates current, highly respected research into instructional plans.
For each strategy, the book offers the following information:
a brief introduction to the strategy;
an example of a teacher using the strategy in a classroom;
the research base supporting the strategy and how the strategy benefits students;
how to implement the strategy using a list of clear steps;
guidance through the planning process, providing steps, examples, and suggestions for designing superior lessons; and
additional tools, strategies, and resources for adapting and expanding the use of each strategy.

The authors have combined their years of research and practice to deliver reliable, high-impact, flexible teaching and learning strategies grounded in current, highly regarded research to teachers at all levels of experience.

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Project Portfolio Management (PPM) goes beyond the typical project management approach to offer a set of proven business practices that can help executives, program managers, and project managers bring projects into alignment with the strategies, resources, and executive oversight of the overall enterprise. Step by step, this book shows how to take a project from the inception of a vision to the realization of benefits to the organization. Project Portfolio Management draws on project management expert Harvey A. Levine’s years of research and distills the knowledge and best practices from dozens of leaders in the field to show how to select and implement the projects that will garner the best results. Throughout this important resource, Levine tackles the many challenges associated with PPM, including
Ranking value and benefits
Determining the size of the portfolio pipeline
Assessing the impact of uncertainty on projects and portfolios
Understanding the benefit and risk relationship
Establishing a portfolio governance capability
Managing the portfolio to maximize benefits
Implementing PPM