Sentences with phrase «book design practices»

When moving from blog to book, adjust the formatting of your manuscript to conform to standard book design practices.

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As New Urbanists came to realize that existing zoning ordinances, street design manuals and housing industry practices were all impediments to making traditional towns and neighborhoods, they began developing new kinds of zoning ordinances; found sympathetic traffic engineers to help write a different set of street design standards; renewed the practice of creating high - quality pattern books to guide home - builders; and learned how to persuade lending institutions of the economic advantages of financing traditional neighborhoods.

«Grocers can benefit from encouraging healthy shopping practices because they can sell more perishable items like fruits and vegetables rather than tossing them in the dumpster after a few days,» says lead researcher Brian Wansink, PhD, director of the Food and Brand Lab at Cornell University and author of the new book, Slim by Design: Mindless Eating Solutions for Everyday Life, «The benefit to shoppers is obvious; healthier groceries result in healthier eating!»

Subsequently I spent years editing, writing, and designing a series of self - healing books based on Taoist practices.

This newest book is called The Biggest Loser Bootcamp.The same diet, nutrition, and fitness practices used at the Ranch were condensed by The Biggest Loser trainers and experts into an 8 - week program designed to deliver life - changing results at home.

We're thrilled to welcome Elena Brower back to Five Pillars for a nourishing evening practice designed around her gorgeous new book, Practpractice designed around her gorgeous new book, PracticePractice You.

Published in 2011, this book by Ron Ritchhart, Mark Church, and Karin Morrison provides dozens of practices and learning routines for K — 12 classes that are designed to deepen comprehension.

If you want to learn about evaluating your learners, assessing their needs, and providing accurate and timely feedback, get a copy of the Instructional Design For eLearning: Essential Guide To Creating Successful eLearning Courses book where you will find numerous Instructional Design and eLearning tips, suggestions, and best practices that will help you create better training materials.

These are an introductory book called eLearning 101 and offering a comprehensive introduction to eLearning; and Delivering highly effective eLearning courses, discussing tools and best practices for effective course design.

Black and Wiliam conducted a review of 250 book chapters and journal articles, finding firm evidence that innovations designed to strengthen the practice of formative assessment yield substantial and significant learning gains.

If you want to learn about various interactive ways to develop eLearning, get a copy of the Instructional Design For eLearning: Essential Guide To Creating Successful eLearning Courses book where you will find instructional design and eLearning tips, tricks, suggestions, and best pracDesign For eLearning: Essential Guide To Creating Successful eLearning Courses book where you will find instructional design and eLearning tips, tricks, suggestions, and best pracdesign and eLearning tips, tricks, suggestions, and best practices.

If you want to learn about creating successful simulations for leadership, get a copy of the Instructional Design For eLearning: Essential Guide To Creating Successful eLearning Courses book where you will find instructional design and eLearning tips, tricks, suggestions, and best pracDesign For eLearning: Essential Guide To Creating Successful eLearning Courses book where you will find instructional design and eLearning tips, tricks, suggestions, and best pracdesign and eLearning tips, tricks, suggestions, and best practices.

The Instructional Design for eLearning: Essential Guide to Creating Successful eLearning Courses book provides additional examples and best practices for designing instructionally sound eLearning courses using Gagne's Nine Events Of Instruction.

CAST Professional Publishing produces books that help educators at all levels improve their practice — and change students» lives — through Universal Design for Learning (UDL).

This part of the assessment also gave students the opportunity to practice their design and collaboration skills, as some of them integrated videos with partners into their books.

By Dylan Wiliam Why I wrote my new book My latest book, written with Siobhán Leahy, is designed specifically to help individual teachers who want to develop their practice of formative assessment on their own or with small groups of colleagues.

Classroom Discipline is the second book in Origins» Best Practices Series reflecting the foundational beliefs and practices of the Developmental Designs for Middle School approach to integrating social and academic teaching and learning.

Designed based on years of careful research to help teachers introduce students to the magic of books and reading, Accelerated Reader products are the most widely used K — 12 reading practice programs.

This book is designed to help schools assess their practices.

While the information is helpful for anyone interested in reflective practice, the book is designed for pre-service educators.

My latest book, written with Siobhán Leahy, is designed specifically to help individual teachers who want to develop their practice of formative assessment on their own or with small groups of colleagues.

Designed for classroom teachers, the book focuses on specific grade bands and includes information on creating an effective classroom environment, aligning teaching to various standards and practices.

Based on Baruti Kafele's ASCD book The Teacher 50: Critical Questions for Inspiring Classroom Excellence, this empowering, introspective webinar takes teachers on a reflective journey designed to challenge them to think deeply about their current practices relative to how they inspire classroom excellence.

Thomas and Seely Brown's book will appeal to prospective and practicing teachers, school leaders, graduate students, post-secondary teachers, and leaders who need to understand how complex learning happens beyond school in order to design participatory learning environments.

Designs for job - embedded learning include analyzing student data, case studies, peer observation or visitations, simulations, co-teaching with peers or specialists, action research, peer and expert coaching, observing and analyzing demonstrations of practice, problem - based learning, inquiry into practice, student observation, study groups, data analysis, constructing and scoring assessments, examining student or educator work, lesson study, video clubs, professional reading, or book studies.

The book is designed to help teachers «look under the hood» at practices embedded throughout the curriculum.

If you want to learn about creating valuable eLearning courses, get a copy of the Instructional Design For eLearning: Essential Guide To Creating Successful eLearning Courses book where you will find instructional design and eLearning tips, tricks, suggestions, and best pracDesign For eLearning: Essential Guide To Creating Successful eLearning Courses book where you will find instructional design and eLearning tips, tricks, suggestions, and best pracdesign and eLearning tips, tricks, suggestions, and best practices.

2011 The Advisory Book Study Guide, the first in a series of professional development guides that support school - wide implementation of Developmental Designs core practices The Circle of Power and Respect Advisory Meeting DVD, the first in a series of Developmental Designs instructional DVDs

This practice occurs during guided reading in small ability groups (Fountas & Pinnell, 1996) and during independent work designed for practicing skills and honing strategies as students tackle extended writing and inquiry activities related to the Book Club unit theme.

Our goal in designing the Book Club Plus framework was to manage this dilemma (Lampert, 1985) so that all youngsters would learn to read with teacher support at their instructional level, and could practice comprehension skills and strategies in conversation and writing in response to age - appropriate literature.

This book reflects the foundational beliefs and practices of the Developmental Designs approach to integrated social and academic learning for adolescents.

Where some books on school leadership get caught up in a quagmire of quantitative data analysis, and others read more like sermons for salvation, Design Thinking for School Leaders provides a relatable and conversational guide, informed by best practices of empathy fueled innovation.»

«This book links a wealth of best practices in lesson design to the latest research on how the brain learns new information.»

Critical Questions for Inspiring Classroom Excellence (THE TEACHER 50) Based on Principal Kafele's new book, The Teacher 50: Critical Questions for Inspiring Classroom Excellence, this empowering, introspective workshop takes teachers on a self - reflective journey designed to challenge them to think deeply and critically about their current practices relative to how they inspire classroom excellence.

Eight full - color, nonconsumable Activity Books and a specially designed see - through Answer Case appropriate for young children combine to provide independent, self - correcting practice activities that match most states» standards.

This section of the book is designed for direct application and offers tools to put into practice the effective teacher practices discussed throughout the book.

But, at the same time, there's a lot of companies out there that don't do a great job and, in fact, engage in practices designed to make them money and create books that are unsellable and unmarketable.

FEATURES - Tap, drag, and tilt your device to find playful surprises throughout the book - Practice spelling, phonics, rhyming, and reading comprehension in new Learning Activities - Read along with highlighting narration, or read it yourself - Explore new vocabulary by tapping words and pictures - Track minutes spent reading, pages read, and more in the Parents section LEARNING ACTIVITIES - Hidden stars on every page reveal fun Learning Activities - Developed in collaboration with early literacy experts - Designed specifically for beginning readers - Aligned with kindergarten level English Language Arts (ELA) standards - Enjoy activities again and again, right from the main menu!

I assume you realize that I am writing this as a creative professional with over 40 years of graphic design experience, as a book designer with over 30 years of practice, and as an author with over 20 years writing, designing, producing, and publishing my own books — both traditionally and self - published.

We often advise our clients on best practices for book packaging, including design, format, size, and cover finishing.

The conference aims to start a conversation about ebook design, standards, and best practices — aspects of publishing that are well - established for print books, but currently lacking for ebooks.

Truly mastering the nuances and practice of book design takes at least one well - stocked library and one long lifetime, but everybody has to start somewhere.

He's been launching the careers of self - publishers since 1994 from his book design and consulting practice at Marin Bookworks in San Rafael, California.

This is book 2 in the Set Apart series which are designed to make practice reading fun!

Behind the self - effacing practice of book design lies the history of the printed book, and all the marvelous innovators and printers who came before us.

Then we will apply the standards and best practices for cover design and the precise specifications our printers require as we create a cover designed to capture the potential reader's attention and help them quickly understand why they should buy your book.

Joel Friedlander is an award - winning book designer and blogger who has been launching the careers of self - publishers since 1994 from his book design and consulting practice at Marin Bookworks in San Rafael, California.

Clout is also an example of numerous book content & design best practices at work.

The interior layout is designed according to international best practices by our specialist book formatters.

About the Author: Joel Friedlander's blog, TheBookDesigner.com, has become a leading resource for authors, publishers and designers on book design and the best practices for self - publishing.