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"Transform the act of cooking into a dance worthy of both Nijinsky and the Buddha." This is the essence of Will Johnson's handbook for living in your body. Aligned, Relaxed, Resilient combines the body awareness of yoga, the life force, as Johnson puts it, of Taiji, and the mindfulness of Thich Nhat Hanh into a single and simple practice of attentive movement. Too often meditators and spiritual practitioners from all religions retreat into the head or heart, neglecting not only the health but the spiritual potential of the body. Through carefully constructed exercises, Johnson reintegrates body and mind, bringing the senses of vision, hearing, and tactile sensation into what he calls a unified field of shimmering awareness. After alignment and relaxation, the capstone of Johnson's practice is resilience, a harnessing of life force in every natural movement. Free of tension and buoyed by the earth's gravity, the body, a mass of coordinated activity, moves like a flock of starlings. When resilient movement is combined with unified sensation, the ground of being opens up to every moment's joyful apprehension. Learn and indulge. --Brian Bruya.
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This sampler presents assessment tasks that are appropriate for use with students from age 4 through age 8. The book provides teachers of primary grades mathematics with examples of assessment tasks that reflect the various ways assessments can be used prior to, during, and following mathematics instruction. Teachers can then consider the potential of these tasks to uncover the mathematical understandings of their students for the purpose of planning further instruction. Each task can be altered by changing the context, breaking the task into subparts, limiting the scope or complexity of the task, or extending the task to provide more challenge or enhance the depth of understanding being assessed..
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The sample assessment items in this volume are sorted according to the strands of number and operations, algebra, geometry, measurement, and data analysis and probability Because one goal of assessment is to determine students abilities to communicate mathematically, the writing team suggests ways to extend or modify multiple-choice and short-answer items to elicit students thinking. The writers also present various rubrics as examples of how teachers might score extended-response questions. When students know in advance how their answers will be evaluated, they will strive to meet expected criteria. The hope is that teachers will find this material useful as they plumb their students thinking and consider how students responses can guide their instructional decisions..
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A trusted advisor to 90 of the Fortune 100 companies, Jac Fitz-enz is renowned as "the father of human performance benchmarking." He now turns his incisive eye toward performance in the e-World--especially as it is evolving from the industrial "i-World"--and shows how to manage an organization for maximum measurable results in times of head-spinning change.

"How can we measure true return on investment in a faster-moving, open-system world? How do we improve results in this new world using the same intellectual capital--our people?" These are the questions that far-sighted executives are asking. Fitz-enz answers by examining four key areas, each culminating in a Scorecard that lets readers gauge their own ROIs:

* Leadership argues that better communication and a high-touch approach--hardly traditional ROI focus points--are imperative for engaging the e-workforce.
* Strategy explores the links between innovation and risk, offering new ideas for rising above "commodity" status.
* Human Capital reveals that by combining continual learning and knowledge management, companies become Employers of Choice.
* External Relationships shows how to measure success with customers, partners, and alliances.

The final section shows "how to do it," wrapping the challenge into a practical methodology for making the transformation from the traditional to the e-savvy company..
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Training Budgets Step-by-Step is a useful guide that walks you through each phase of the process, so that you will have the information you need to develop a successful training plan and accurate budget that will get results for your organization. Training Budgets Step-by-Step gives you

• Clear-cut instructions on how to perform each step
• An illustrative case study that helps define every phase of the process
• Blank templates that you can tailor to your organization

Written by training expert Diane Valenti, the book shows you everything from how to conduct the data gathering process to help determine the types of training to create to how to present a completed budget¾one that aligns strategically with your organization's goals. Every step of the way the author provides a wealth of templates, worksheets, lists of questions to ask, action plans, flow charts, interview summary sheets, and other helpful job aids. Training Budgets Step-by-Step also includes a CD-ROM that contains the book's worksheets and templates that can be easily reproduced and customized..
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Most people in today's workforce are experts in their own right. Whether it's mastering a complicated piece of software or managing a critical relationship, individuals have specific information, skills and knowledge that their managers - who are one step removed from the day-to-day work - often lack, As such, people must now work more independently of management, yet more interdependently with their peers. This situation raises difficult issues of how to generate a sense of accountability and create organizational alignment among such semi-autonomous workers. The Accountability/ Alignment process described in this book is an attempt to address these issues, and to bring current management practices in line with this evolving reality..
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