Böcker av Michael McCauley

Tales from middle school, the ring, the arena and the farm. Suggestions for becoming a better middle school teacher. Well researched and thoughtful.

Middle school is a land of opportunity, a universe of high energy, flux and change. It is the happening place of education and brain growth, but all too often middle school is a place that is misunderstood by parents and school districts. Middle school doesn't have be the ugly forgotten middle stepchild squeezed between the flag ship older brother high school and the cute beloved little sister elementary school.If you are a parent of a middle school student or a teacher at a middle school then you need to be relaxed and be an optimist.

Turn Knowledge to Profit: The Six Secrets of Successful Speakers, Coaches and Authors brings together the insights of more than 30 successful entrepreneurs, providing the reader with knowledge and ideas they can immediately apply to their business.The publishing authors produce and host a weekly podcast, Turn Knowledge to Profit, available on the eWN Podcast Network. Through their podcast, they have interviewed more than 100 entrepreneurs who have created success in their business and personal lives. While each podcast guest has a unique perspective on what it takes to be successful, there are six insights, or "secrets," that the authors heard far more than any others. This book presents these six secrets, providing examples, quotes and graphics to fully describe and discuss each one. But this book goes further. For each insight, the perspectives of 4-5 successful entrepreneurs extend the discussions by providing their experiences discovering and applying each insight to create their own business and personal success.

The people who shaped America's public broadcasting system thought it should be "a civilized voice in a civilized community" - a clear alternative to commercial broadcasting. This book tells the story of how NPR has tried to embody this idea. Michael P.