Sentences with phrase «author of work hard»

-- Washington Post columnist Jay Mathews, author of Work Hard.

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We asked the author of That's What She Said: What Men Need to Know (and Women Need to Tell Them) about Working Together for the lessons she learned the hard way.

In Saudi Arabia, there is no incentive for boys to work hard in school because the government will provide most men with jobs when they grow up, explains Madawi Al - Rasheed, the author of A Most Masculine State: Gender, Politics and Religion in Saudi Arabia and a visiting professor at the London School of Economics.

The author of The Happiness Advantage and CEO of Good Think Inc., a research and consulting firm, points out that the common understanding that happiness as the last thing to happen after success achieved by working hard has the order all wrong.

The author may make a nice salary, but unless you can dig up some more detailed account of his life and work, it's hard to say he's uncharitable, or that he shouldn't have written this article.

Whenever I start to think to myself that perhaps Donald Miller is overrated, that surely his degree of success is available to any hard - working author, Miller comes along and writes another book that catches me off guard.

Ultimately I fell into a suicidal depression and got helped in a secular environment (I personally have a hard time with the term secular as I believe all the graceful elements of help be they Christian with a cross on the building or secular w / out the cross have as their origin God and His Son and Spirit even working through people unaware of the Author of the graces they extend).

Laura, the author of the post, is a kind, witty and brilliant friend who is doing some of the hardest pastoral work there is and sometimes must lovingly serve others who would hate her.

Those readers who are none too literary may fnd this hard going, but it is the heart of the book and carries its own summaries of, and quotations from, the authors and so does not need any prior knowledge of them, though this book is likely to send its readers hastening to their works.

It is, in many regards, a good response to the Dawkins outpouring of vitriol, being a work temperate in tone and neatly ordered — the very antithesis of Dawkins's book — and yet at times the authors are hard - pressed to contain their exasperation at the continual misrepresentations Dawkins offered his readers.

Tough, a former editor at The New York Times Magazine and the author of Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada's Quest to Change Harlem and America (2008), believes that students from schools like KIPP may have «character advantages» over their wealthier counterparts because of the hard work it takes for them to succeed.

The CUNY Urban Food Policy Institute applauds the Mayor, the City Council, the Office of School Food and Nutrition Services, and all of the advocates in the Lunch For Learning Campaign who have worked so hard to bring us to this day,» said Jan Poppendieck, Senior Fellow, CUNY Urban Food Policy Institute and author, Free For All: Fixing School Food in America.

«Whether it has been shepherding through passage of historic health care legislation, authoring Empowerment Zone legislation, or leading the fight for affordable housing and 9/11 legislation, no one has worked harder than Charlie Rangel to improve the lives and well - being of working men and women.»

All the authors nominated for their work deserve credit for combining the hard graft, dedication and raw talent that are needed to produce a book of merit.

Chris Hewett, a Green Alliance associate and author of the report, said that apart from pledges to increase energy savings, none of these policies had been explicitly outlined by either the Labour government or the Conservatives, who under David Cameron's leadership have worked hard to position themselves as a much greener party.

«People have tried really hard to figure out why it's working so fast, because understanding this could perhaps lead us to the core mechanism of depression,» says Hailan Hu, a neuroscientist at Zhejiang University School of Medicine in Hangzhou, China, and a senior author on the new study.

«When I started working on gall crabs, I had a hard time finding them because of their small size», says Sancia van der Meij, the author of the study.

«Humans are profoundly social creatures and much of humans» success results from our ability to work together in complex communities — this would be hard to do if we were not able to rapidly empathize with each other and predict one another's thoughts, feelings and motivations,» authors write.

«It was very hard to get sufficient samples,» said Hongjun Yu, a postdoctoral scientist working with Li and the first author of the paper, noting that the proteins make very small crystals with a hard to solve structure.

«Its unique attributes, for instance, could theoretically enable notebooks with hard drives the size of peanuts, and yet consume little energy,» said Meng Hau Kuok of the National University of Singapore and one of the work's authors.

For me, collaborations will be essential, because right now I feel like a fish out of water — a physicist working with a bunch of biologists (Author's note: Scientific disciplines have been altered to protect the guilty)-- so it's hard to find people close to my new scientific home to exchange ideas with.

ASPB further grants to authors the permission to make digital or hard copies of part or all of a work published in Plant Physiology ® or The Plant Cell without fee for personal or classroom use.

«It's not so long ago it was very hard work to do a genomic study in any organism,» said Leif Andersson of Uppsala University, an author of the second published paper.

«Human hepatocytes are almost impossible to work with as they don't grow and are hard to maintain in culture,» explains senior author Inder Verma, Ph.D., a professor in the Laboratory of Genetics and holder of the Irwin and Joan Jacobs Chair in Exemplary Life Science.

Thanks to these authors for all their hard work on behalf of the CCMG.

«When women spend their days working hard, they often pay little attention to their sensual selves,» says Lisa Schrader, author of Kama Sutra 52.

«This may be because, while the muscles are working hard, the trampoline makes the activity less jarring,» said lead author John Porcari, PhD, professor of exercise and sport science, in an article published on the ACE website.

In addition to having up to 13 pesticides detected on the fruit, according to an Environmental Working Group (EWG) analysis, conventional «strawberries have a large surface area and all those tiny bumps, which makes the pesticides hard to wash off, so you're ingesting more of those chemicals,» explains Marion Nestle, PhD, a professor of nutrition and public health at New York University and author of What to Eat.

Lori Harder is an author and cover model who's a leading expert in the field of fitness, transformational work, mindfulness, and self - love.

The author is hard at work on her latest book - to - film adaptation, The Host, and, according to EW, the project has locked two of its main men.

When Author and Apple Evangelist Guy Kawasaki said, «A good idea is about 10 % and implementation, hard work, and luck is 90 %», he wasn't exaggerating; and with eLearning implementation, it's definitely what defines the success (or failure) of your venture.

Author of the article, Geoff Masters, argues that high expectations model the outcome of hard work for students and show a belief in the child's abilities.

A lead author of that study, Tony Bryk, refers to relational trust as a «lubricant for organizational change» and a «moral resource for sustaining the hard work» of local educational improvement.

Robyn Jackson (p. 6), author of the intriguing Never Work Harder Than Your Students (ASCD, 2009), proposes new vocabulary for what teachers need to understand about students.

Bring Robyn R. Jackson, the author of ASCD's wildly popular book Never Work Harder Than Your Students, to your school with this channel!

Summary: This is an interview with the author, Paul Tough, whose new book «Helping Children Succeed» explores the importance of connection and meaningful hard work that will help children persevere when the going gets tough.

Jackson is the author of Never Work Harder Than Your Students and Other Principles of Great Teaching (2009), the REVERE Award — winning Never Underestimate Your Teachers: Instructional Leadership for Excellence in Every Classroom (2013), You Can Do This: Hope and Help for New Teachers (2014), and The Instructional Leader's Guide to Strategic Conversations with Teachers (2008), as well as the how - to guides in the Mastering the Principles of Great Teaching series.

Reminiscent of Seymour Papert's ideas about hard fun, the authors argue that when students feel passion for a topic, they will seek out the tough problems, work hard to solve them, and have fun doing it.

Robyn R. Jackson is president of Mindsteps and author of How to Support Struggling Students (ASCD / Mindsteps, 2010) and Never Work Harder Than Your Students and Other Principles of Great Teaching (ASCD, 2009); [email protected].

She is the author and co-author of several articles and books about the role of families and community members in the work of student achievement and school improvement including: A New Wave Of Evidence: The Impact of School, Family and Community Connections on Student Achievement (2002); «Having Their Say: Parents Describe How and Why They are Engaged in Their Children's Learning» (2003); Beyond the Bake Sale: The Essential Guide to Family - School Partnerships (2010); «Debunking the Myth of the Hard to Reach Parent» (2010); «Title I and Parent Involvement: Lessons from the Past, Recommendations for the Future» (2011); and A Match on Dry Grass: Community Organizing as a Catalyst for School Reform (2011of several articles and books about the role of families and community members in the work of student achievement and school improvement including: A New Wave Of Evidence: The Impact of School, Family and Community Connections on Student Achievement (2002); «Having Their Say: Parents Describe How and Why They are Engaged in Their Children's Learning» (2003); Beyond the Bake Sale: The Essential Guide to Family - School Partnerships (2010); «Debunking the Myth of the Hard to Reach Parent» (2010); «Title I and Parent Involvement: Lessons from the Past, Recommendations for the Future» (2011); and A Match on Dry Grass: Community Organizing as a Catalyst for School Reform (2011of families and community members in the work of student achievement and school improvement including: A New Wave Of Evidence: The Impact of School, Family and Community Connections on Student Achievement (2002); «Having Their Say: Parents Describe How and Why They are Engaged in Their Children's Learning» (2003); Beyond the Bake Sale: The Essential Guide to Family - School Partnerships (2010); «Debunking the Myth of the Hard to Reach Parent» (2010); «Title I and Parent Involvement: Lessons from the Past, Recommendations for the Future» (2011); and A Match on Dry Grass: Community Organizing as a Catalyst for School Reform (2011of student achievement and school improvement including: A New Wave Of Evidence: The Impact of School, Family and Community Connections on Student Achievement (2002); «Having Their Say: Parents Describe How and Why They are Engaged in Their Children's Learning» (2003); Beyond the Bake Sale: The Essential Guide to Family - School Partnerships (2010); «Debunking the Myth of the Hard to Reach Parent» (2010); «Title I and Parent Involvement: Lessons from the Past, Recommendations for the Future» (2011); and A Match on Dry Grass: Community Organizing as a Catalyst for School Reform (2011Of Evidence: The Impact of School, Family and Community Connections on Student Achievement (2002); «Having Their Say: Parents Describe How and Why They are Engaged in Their Children's Learning» (2003); Beyond the Bake Sale: The Essential Guide to Family - School Partnerships (2010); «Debunking the Myth of the Hard to Reach Parent» (2010); «Title I and Parent Involvement: Lessons from the Past, Recommendations for the Future» (2011); and A Match on Dry Grass: Community Organizing as a Catalyst for School Reform (2011of School, Family and Community Connections on Student Achievement (2002); «Having Their Say: Parents Describe How and Why They are Engaged in Their Children's Learning» (2003); Beyond the Bake Sale: The Essential Guide to Family - School Partnerships (2010); «Debunking the Myth of the Hard to Reach Parent» (2010); «Title I and Parent Involvement: Lessons from the Past, Recommendations for the Future» (2011); and A Match on Dry Grass: Community Organizing as a Catalyst for School Reform (2011of the Hard to Reach Parent» (2010); «Title I and Parent Involvement: Lessons from the Past, Recommendations for the Future» (2011); and A Match on Dry Grass: Community Organizing as a Catalyst for School Reform (2011).

Jackson is the author of Never Work Harder Than Your Students and Other Principles of Great Teaching, The Differentiation Workbook, and The Instructional Leader's Guide to Strategic Conversations with Teachers, as well as the how - to guides in the Mastering the Principles of Great Teaching series.

A lot of content authoring tools are able to automatically package your work so that it's AICC - compliant, doing the hard work for you!

Such naivete explains why the Obama Administration has continually promoted case studies of reform - minded school leaders working closely with NEA and AFT locals, why Class Struggle author Steve Brill floated the laughable idea of Weingarten becoming chancellor of New York City's traditional district three years ago, and why organizations such as Educators4Excellence and Teach Plus — which represent younger, reform - minded teachers who now make up the majority of NEA and AFT rank - and - filers (and are staffed by teachers who are themselves centrist and progressive Democrats)-- work so hard to aim to lead reform from within union ranks.

Indie authors will have to work hard just to get their book in front of readers for a fraction of a second — and the only point of contact is going to be the book cover design.

I was discussing this with someone yesterday, going back and forth at possible explanations, which included that self - pubbed authors tend to work the review mines harder than their trad pubbed peers, or have more support from other indie authors reviewing, or get higher ratings due to the generally lower price of the work (greater satisfaction due to a price / performance expectation).

Since 2002, we have been working hard to tear down barriers of entry for publishing and help authors sell more books, and we've been succeeding.

Hard work is one of the many things that authors and startups have in common.

Now she wasn't complaining, just sharing the reality of being an ordinary working author and the cold hard facts of the figures for her first few books — for every $ 10 paperback, she earns around $ 0.50

But most of the time, you don't hear anything about it — except thanks, from authors to editors and publishing house staff, for all their hard work.

Five or so years into the disruption of the publishing industry, we should be seeing the first wave of authors who are working harder while earning less.