Welcome to our book review site go-pdf.online!
You may have to Search all our reviewed books and magazines, click the sign up button below to create a free account.
Creating Innovators
Reveals the importance of innovation in American global competitiveness, profiling some of today's most compelling young innovators while explaining how they have succeeded through the unconventional methods of parents, teachers, and mentors.
Most Likely to Succeed
An urgent call for the radical re-imagining of American education so that we better equip students for the realities of the twenty-first century.
The Global Achievement Gap
Despite the best efforts of educators, our nation's schools are dangerously obsolete. Instead of teaching students to be critical thinkers and problem-solvers, we are asking them to memorize facts for multiple choice tests. This problem isn't limited to low-income school districts: even our top schools aren't teaching or testing the skills that matter most in the global knowledge economy. Our teens leave school equipped to work only in the kinds of jobs that are fast disappearing from the American economy. Meanwhile, young adults in India and China are competing with our students for the most sought-after careers around the world. Education expert Tony Wagner has conducted scores of intervie...
Learning by Heart
“A page turner. With candor and clarity, Tony Wagner tells the story of his remarkable life and, in so doing, tells the story of our education system.” —Angela Duckworth, Founder and CEO, Character Lab, and New York Times bestselling author of Grit One of the world's top experts on education delivers an uplifting memoir on his own personal failures and successes as he sought to become a good learner and teacher. Tony Wagner is an eminent education specialist: he has taught at every grade level from high school through graduate school; worked at Harvard; done significant work for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; and speaks across the country and all over the world. But before he fou...
Change Leadership
The Change Leadership Group at the Harvard School of Education has, through its work with educators, developed a thoughtful approach to the transformation of schools in the face of increasing demands for accountability. This book brings the work of the Change Leadership Group to a broader audience, providing a framework to analyze the work of school change and exercises that guide educators through the development of their practice as agents of change. It exemplifies a new and powerful approach to leadership in schools.
How Schools Change
The first edition of How Schools Change chronicled the efforts of three very different high schools to improve teaching and learning in the early 1990's. Now, in a new second edition, Wagner concisely summarizes the decade-long history of education reform efforts and revisits the three communities at the beginning of a new century.
Creating Innovators
From a prominent educator, author, and founder of Harvard’s Change Leadership Group comes a provocative look at why innovation is today’s most essential real-world skill and what young people need from parents, teachers, and employers to become the innovators of America’s future. In this groundbreaking book, education expert Tony Wagner provides a powerful rationale for developing an innovation-driven economy. He explores what parents, teachers, and employers must do to develop the capacities of young people to become innovators. In profiling compelling young American innovators such as Kirk Phelps, product manager for Apple’s first iPhone, and Jodie Wu, who founded a company that bu...
The Reverend Delivers
Violence strikes close to home for park ranger Tony Wagner, when a couple is brutally murdered and their teenage daughters kidnapped. Tony finds evidence that the kidnappers took the girls into the mountains, rather than leaving by road. Widely scattered signs keep him searching until he finds a clear trail. FBI agent Wyatt Garret joins Tony as he tracks deep into the Rockies. The unstable spring weather is the least of their problems. And finding the girls is just the beginning. Tony will face the greatest challenges of his life. And the things he does to survive will change him forever.
The Reverend and the Kidnapped Girl
FBI consultant Tony Wagner is called to the White Mountains of Arizona where his tracking skills are needed. Someone has kidnapped a cabinet secretary's daughter, murdered her bodyguard, and disappeared into the rugged landscape. With 72 hours before the ransom drop, Agent Garret's team scours the sparsely populated region, encountering residents both cooperative and antagonistic. They begin to unravel an elaborate plot involving multiple conspirators. Meanwhile, Tony tries not to let memories of his own kidnapping distract him. The investigation takes them across east central Arizona, from Pinedale to St. Johns, Holbrook to Alpine, and beyond. In this, the 9th Tony Wagner mystery, the author brings her protagonist to Arizona's Colorado Plateau where she makes her home.
Creating Innovators (Enhanced eBook)
In this groundbreaking book, education expert Tony Wagner provides a powerful rationale for developing an innovation-driven economy. He explores what parents, teachers, and employers must do to develop the capacities of young people to become innovators. In profiling compelling young American innovators such as Kirk Phelps, product manager for Apple’s first iPhone, and Jodie Wu, who founded a company that builds bicycle-powered maize shellers in Tanzania, Wagner reveals how the adults in their lives nurtured their creativity and sparked their imaginations, while teaching them to learn from failures and persevere. Wagner identifies a pattern—a childhood of creative play leads to deep-seat...
