Building a Positive School Culture provides busy leaders with practical, tested approaches to consider and adopt in their various leadership settings. Chapters offer a common language for school leaders to assess and view school culture using the CPR framework and are informed by research and evidence from hundreds of school leaders and thousands of students. This guide serves as the foundation for connected professional learning options, such as masterclasses and school leadershi...

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Consider the possible Enneagram types of well-known figures in the Bible to discover more about yourself and gain specific wisdom about how and why you are uniquely made.Who am I? Everyone asks that question, no matter their age or status in life. If we’re truly supposed to be real with others, shouldn’t that start by learning how to be real with ourselves?The Enneagram describes nine basic personality styles which can help us better understand who...

After a lifetime preparing her frozen planet for warmer, better times, Head Guardian Milena looked into the future to see the results of her work. What she saw was not what she'd planned. Corrective action was required, extreme corrective action.

After a terrorist attack on a busy airport in the south of England, a repentant suicide bomber is taken into custody and interviewed by an MI5 handler. A thought-provoking short in response to the attack on Zaventem airport in Brussels, March 2016.All author proceeds from this short story will be donated to the Rode Kruis charity in Belgium.

A poetic and historical travelogue of Syracuse, Sicily.Twenty-five hundred years ago, the city of Syracuse on the eastern coast of Sicily was, for the Ancient Greeks, one of the centers of the classical world. It was in Syracuse that Aeschylus premiered his plays, and to Syracuse that Plato would visit from Athens, where the tyrant Dionysius bought Euripides's lyre at auction, and the languishing nymph Arethusa hid in the papyrus grove.Living in the city, t...

Songs From A Wooden House is a collection of more than forty poems which will provide both light-hearted amusement and thought-provoking distractions for people in all walks of life.With titles such as Love Is..., The Tribulations of a Hungry Buddhist Spider and Desert Island Vegetables, these poems can be read anywhere at any time, whether on a packed commuter train on your way to work or curled up with a glass of something before the fire late at night.Whether you like the ...

The Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 marked an abrupt end to decades of globalisation and international cooperation, threatening the stability of Europe, impacting global food and energy security, and creating shock waves in a world barely recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic. This book provides historical context to the current conflict through an exploration of the Red Army’s 1920 conquest of Ukraine. The book contributes to readers’ understanding of how and why the leaders ...

In this book, you'll learn the fundamentals of cryptocurrency, including its history, how it works, and its potential benefits and challenges. You'll explore the different types of cryptocurrencies, how they are traded, and the technology behind cryptocurrency, including blockchain.You'll also discover the potential applications of cryptocurrency in finance, e-commerce, and other industries, and learn about the legal and regulatory landscape surrounding cryptocurre...

Retired bureaucrat, Hendrik Glauston, has enjoyed a rewarding life. For fifty years he lived with the woman he loved in their perfect cottage at the side of a river. They worked hard, served their country well and were rewarded for their work. Now that his wife has died, Hendrik is having doubts. The country he served is going in the wrong direction. He is not the only one who thinks so. There are many who are critical, many who are more important and more vocal about the failings of the p...

Sadness is a horse who has lost herself in the grind and drudgery of a hard, working life. She is alone, listless and without hope. Having outlived her usefulness, her owner puts her on a truck and sends her away on what it is to be her final journey, but something happens along the way... A short story.

A dud bomb. An incompetent bomb maker. No obvious target. No obvious motive. So why, many years later, is newly-retired Eric Handle obsessed by the case? And he is obsessed, but not by the attempt itself. It was what happened immediately after: a subtle but clear warning to back off. With only the help of his fellow residents at the retirement village, Eric Handle has decided to restart the investigation.