Many students learn content like math and history in school, but not how to learn such content. Consequently, many students use weak learning strategies and struggle academically. SOAR to College Success and Beyond teaches students how to learn any type of content effectively and helps them thrive in school and in the real world. At the book's core is a unique learning method called SOAR that Dr. Kiewra developed, scientifically validated, and has disseminated through his writings and teachings to thousands of students. When students Select, Organize, Associate, and Regulate, they SOAR to success. The text introduces students to SOAR, offers a chapter about each SOAR component, and shows how to apply SOAR across academic subjects and outside academia. In addition, it covers vital SOAR-related topics such as memory, mindset, motivation, and life and time management. The book is written in an engaging and enjoyable way, features memorable stories and powerful examples, and includes chapter objectives, focus questions with answers, and activities that guide the student learning experience. SOAR to College Success and Beyond is ideal for freshman orientation courses, academic success courses, and any student seeks to become an expert learner.

"SOAR study skills is a comprehensive program that empowers students to manage their time, schoolwork, and extra-curricular activities more efficiently."--Back cover.

The definitive presentation of Soar, one AI's most enduring architectures, offering comprehensive descriptions of fundamental aspects and new components. In development for thirty years, Soar is a general cognitive architecture that integrates knowledge-intensive reasoning, reactive execution, hierarchical reasoning, planning, and learning from experience, with the goal of creating a general computational system that has the same cognitive abilities as humans. In contrast, most AI systems are designed to solve only one type of problem, such as playing chess, searching the Internet, or scheduling aircraft departures. Soar is both a software system for agent development and a theory of what computational structures are necessary to support human-level agents. Over the years, both software system and theory have evolved. This book offers the definitive presentation of Soar from theoretical and practical perspectives, providing comprehensive descriptions of fundamental aspects and new components. The current version of Soar features major extensions, adding reinforcement learning, semantic memory, episodic memory, mental imagery, and an appraisal-based model of emotion. This book describes details of Soar's component memories and processes and offers demonstrations of individual components, components working in combination, and real-world applications. Beyond these functional considerations, the book also proposes requirements for general cognitive architectures and explicitly evaluates how well Soar meets those requirements.

Learn all about Turners Syndrome so you can feel knowledgable and equipped moving forward - whether you have the condition or know someone who does.What is Turners Syndrome What is different about girls with TS, internally or externally? What are the symptoms and concerns - medically, mentally, socially......? How do they cope in their everyday lives?

Discover how to guide and enhance the job performance of teachers in your school or district. The authors share highly practical strategies for providing teachers meaningful feedback and encouraging their improvement. You’ll discover how to evaluate teacher effectiveness, use multiple forms of data for evaluation, and communicate evaluation findings to teachers in a way that fosters their professional growth.

Now available in a new format and fresh package: a children's book by the authors of the New York Times best-selling children's book Incredible You. This book offers 10 lessons for children for leading fulfilled, self-actualized lives. Dr. Wayne W. Dyer believed that if children could hold on to the no-limit thinking they were born with rather than trying to fit in, they could learn to truly enjoy life and become unstoppable as they strive to attain their dreams. Newly repackaged with a fresh format and cover, Unstoppable Me! is based on 10 important lessons, including the value of taking risks, dealing with stress and anxiety, and learning to enjoy each moment. Each point includes an example showing how a child might apply the concept in his or her everyday life. At the end of this book, a reader's guide offers 10 questions to help spark discussion and to further reinforce Wayne's message. Whimsically illustrated by Stacy Heller Budnick.

On soaring . . . A soaring bird is free to travel in any direction, simply by using tiny muscles to adjust the shapes of its wings and tail in relation to moving air. It’s not working against gravity. It’s dancing lightly with air. If you want the freedom of being able to fly as high and go as far as you wish, in any direction, at any time, almost effortlessly, and if you want your life to feel like soaring, then this book is for you. This book does NOT ask you to: • Follow step-by-step instructions for reaching any particular destination • “Believe in” any kind of gods, healing entities, transcendent spirits, or parallel dimensions • Chant endlessly, repeat mantras, or recite affirmations • Change your diet, get more exercise, meditate, or schedule times for regular practice. The approach is imminently right-here, right-now, let’s-do-this practical. It’s a functional response to the circumstances in which you’ve always been immersed. It’s based on what you’ll discover for yourself if you stop and take a good hard look at what goes on in your own mind. This book is a smorgasbord of observations, insights, ideas, and helpful ways of thinking about how to soar. It includes many suggestions, with appropriate illustrative examples and stories, but leaves you free to choose your own path. It’s primarily intended as a resource for your totally personal journey to wherever you want your life to go. It’s about helping you learn to soar in your own life.