Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly Bestseller Apply the latest advances in neuroscience to your real-world persuasion and influence strategies for immediate results In Amplify Your Influence: Transform How You Communicate and Lead, celebrated keynote speaker, trainer and leadership coach Rene Rodriguez delivers an eye-opening roadmap to using applied neuroscience to improve readers’ communication ability, critical thinking, cultural awareness, and leadership skills. Based in the author’s proprietary AMPLIFII system and methodologies he has taught to over 100,000 participants around the world, the book offers practical tips, useful frameworks, guided practice, and simple application exercises to help readers create new and lasting behaviors that effect change in their life and work. Amplify Your Influence shows leaders how to: Leverage various human motivators for positive outcomes and results Frame and communicate their ideas in a way that encourages engagement and gets an active response Intentionally choose a communication style based on their influence objective Perfect for executives, managers, sales professionals, and other business leaders, Amplify Your Influence is required reading for anyone seeking to improve their ability to effect change in the people around them, whether they’re in the office, the boardroom, the classroom, or at home.

Provides specific information on how to transform schools into results-oriented professional learning communities, describing the best practices that have been used by schools nationwide.

"In Thrive: Building a Coaching Culture for Collaborative Teams in PLCs at Work authors Thomas W. Many, Michael J. Maffoni, Susan K. Sparks, and Tesha Ferriby Thomas apply the best thinking in the profession to the process of building a highly effective coaching culture for collaborative teams in Professional Learning Communities at Work (PLCs). This follow up to the authors' earlier book Amplify Your Impact: Coaching Collaborative Teams in PLCs at Work uses the team coaching structure they advocate to explore how coaches can build a coaching culture in PLCs to address adaptive challenges, providing the concrete ideas and strategies necessary for coaching teams toward effective and deeper implementation of the PLC process. Leaders and coaches will learn effective coaching strategies for essential PLC elements, as well as how readers can use the Strategy Implementation Guide (SIG) and Pathways for Coaching Collaborative Teams to develop and fully realize those elements. Through this book, coaches and leaders will learn the theory and strategies necessary to coach teams toward a fully realized implementation of the PLC process"--

Help your teams get better faster. Written for busy school leaders, instructional coaches, and teacher leaders, this ultimate "grab and grow" guide details how to bridge the gap between learning and doing at every stage of the PLC journey. Rely on the book's ample professional development activities to empower teacher teams to enhance their skills, grow together, and collectively focus on what's working and what's next. ● Understand every aspect of a professional learning community and how collaborative teams and school leadership play a role in them. ● Explore the different levels of PLCs on the PLC continuum. ● Learn a proven, effective coaching cycle that will fortify your collaborative team school improvement efforts. ● Improve team collaboration regarding all aspects of your learning community, including curriculum, assessment, and intervention. ● Determine the next steps that will help you realize the true potential of your PLC. Contents: Introduction Part I: Introduction to Coaching Collaborative Teams in a PLC at WorkⓇ Chapter 1: Energize Your Collaborative Teams Chapter 2: A Continuum of Practice for PLCs Chapter 3: The Team Coaching Cycle Part II: Modules for Coaching Collaborative Teams Chapter 4: Highly Effective Collaborative Teams Chapter 5: Guaranteed and Viable Curriculum Chapter 6: A Balanced and Coherent System Of Assessment Chapter 7: Productive Data Conversations Chapter 8: The Pyramid of Interventions Part III: One Team's Transformation Chapter 9: Willis ISD: Practical Implications of Coaching Teams Appendix References and Resources Index

The Science of Reading: A Handbook brings together state-of-the-art reviews of reading research from leading names in the field, to create a highly authoritative, multidisciplinary overview of contemporary knowledge about reading and related skills. Provides comprehensive coverage of the subject, including theoretical approaches, reading processes, stage models of reading, cross-linguistic studies of reading, reading difficulties, the biology of reading, and reading instruction Divided into seven sections:Word Recognition Processes in Reading; Learning to Read and Spell; Reading Comprehension; Reading in Different Languages; Disorders of Reading and Spelling; Biological Bases of Reading; Teaching Reading Edited by well-respected senior figures in the field

Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Table of Contents -- About the Authors -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Afterword -- References and Resources -- Index

Are you a genius or a genius maker? We've all had experience with two dramatically different types of leaders. The first type drain intelligence, energy, and capability from the ones around them and always need to be the smartest ones in the room. These are the idea killers, the energy sappers, the diminishers of talent and commitment. On the other side of the spectrum are leaders who use their intelligence to amplify the smarts and capabilities of the people around them. When these leaders walk into a room, lightbulbs go off over people's heads, ideas flow, and problems get solved. These are the leaders who inspire employees to stretch themselves to deliver results that surpass expectations. These are the Multipliers. And the world needs more of them, especially now, when leaders are expected to do more with less. In this engaging and highly practical book, leadership expert Liz Wiseman and management consultant Greg McKeown explore these two leadership styles, persuasively showing how Multipliers can have a resoundingly positive and profitable effect on organizations—getting more done with fewer resources, developing and attracting talent, and cultivating new ideas and energy to drive organizational change and innovation. In analyzing data from more than 150 leaders, Wiseman and McKeown have identified five disciplines that distinguish Multipliers from Diminishers. These five disciplines are not based on innate talent; indeed, they are skills and practices that everyone can learn to use—even lifelong and recalcitrant Diminishers. Lively, real-world case studies and practical tips and techniques bring to life each of these principles, showing you how to become a Multiplier too, whether you are a new or an experienced manager. Just imagine what you could accomplish if you could harness all the energy and intelligence around you. Multipliers will show you how.