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Tim Brown is the CEO and president of IDEO. Ranked independently among the ten most innovative companies in the world, IDEO is the global consultancy that contributed to such standard-setting innovations as the first mouse for Apple and the Palm V.

Today IDEO applies its human-centered approach to drive innovation and growth for the world's leading businesses, as well as for government, education, health care, and social sectors. Tim advises senior executives and boards of Fortune 100 companies and has led strategic client relationships with such corporations as Microsoft, PepsiCo, Procter & Gamble, and Steelcase.

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In Change by Design, Tim Brown, CEO of IDEO, the celebrated innovation and design firm, shows how the techniques and strategies of design belong at every level of business. Change by Design is not a book by designers for designers; this is a book for creative leaders who seek to infuse design thinking into every level of an organization, product, or service to drive new alternatives for business and society.

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"An enthusiastic, example-rich argument for innovating in a particular way-by deliberately experimenting and taking small exploratory steps in novel directions. Light, bright, and packed with tidy anecdotes" ( The Wall Street Journal).

What do Apple CEO Steve Jobs, comedian Chris Rock, prize-winning architect Frank Gehry, and the story developers at Pixar films all have in common? Bestselling author Peter Sims found that rather than start with a big idea or plan a whole project in advance, they make a methodical series of little bets, learning critical information from lots of little failures and from small but significant wins.

Reporting on a fascinating range of research, from the psychology of creative blocks to the influential field of design thinking, Sims offers engaging and illuminating accounts of breakthrough innovators at work, and a whole new way of thinking about how to navigate uncertain situations and unleash our untapped creative powers.

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"An enthusiastic, example-rich argument for innovating in a particular way-by deliberately experimenting and taking small exploratory steps in novel directions. Light, bright, and packed with tidy anecdotes" (The Wall Street Journal).What do Apple CEO Steve Jobs, comedian Chris Rock, prize-winning architect Frank Gehry, and the story developers at Pixar films all have in common?

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Are you above average? Is your child an A student? Is your employee an introvert or an extrovert? Every day we are measured against the yardstick of averages, judged according to how closely we come to it or how far we deviate from it.

The assumption that metrics comparing us to an average-like GPAs, personality test results, and performance review ratings-reveal something meaningful about our potential is so ingrained in our consciousness that we don't even question it. That assumption, says Harvard's Todd Rose, is spectacularly-and scientifically-wrong.

In The End of Average, Rose, a rising star in the new field of the science of the individual shows that no one is average. Not you. Not your kids. Not your employees. This isn't hollow sloganeering-it's a mathematical fact with enormous practical consequences. But while we know people learn and develop in distinctive ways, these unique patterns of behaviors are lost in our schools and businesses which have been designed around the mythical "average person." This average-size-fits-all model ignores our differences and fails at recognizing talent. It's time to change it.

Weaving science, history, and his personal experiences as a high school dropout, Rose offers a powerful alternative to understanding individuals through averages: the three principles of individuality. The jaggedness principle (talent is always jagged), the context principle (traits are a myth), and the pathways principle (we all walk the road less traveled) help us understand our true uniqueness-and that of others-and how to take full advantage of individuality to gain an edge in life.

Read this powerful manifesto in the ranks of Drive, Quiet, and Mindset-and you won't see averages or talent in the same way again.

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Are you above average? Is your child an A student? Is your employee an introvert or an extrovert? Every day we are measured against the yardstick of averages, judged according to how closely we come to it or how far we deviate from it.The assumption that metrics comparing us to an average-like GPAs, personality test results, and performance review ratings-reveal something meaningful about our potential is so ingrained in our consciousness that we don't even question it.

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Most startups fail. But many of those failures are preventable. The Lean Startup is a new approach being adopted across the globe, changing the way companies are built and new products are launched. Eric Ries defines a startup as an organization dedicated to creating something new under conditions of extreme uncertainty.

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"The 4 Disciplines of Execution is a book every leader should read." -Clayton Christensen, Professor, Harvard Business School, and author of The Innovator's Dilemma For fans of Good to Great and The First 90 Days, The Four Disciplines of Execution is the foundational text for creating lasting organizational change. A #1 Wall Street Journal bestseller with more than 500,000 copies sold, The Four Disciplines of Execution will radically change your business.
Do you remember the last major initiative you watched die in your organization? Did it go down with a loud crash? Or was it slowly and quietly suffocated by other competing priorities? By the time it finally disappeared, it's likely no one even noticed. What happened?

Often, the answer is that the "whirlwind" of urgent activity required to keep things running day-to-day devoured all the time and energy you needed to invest in executing your strategy for tomorrow. The 4 Disciplines of Execution can change that forever.

The 4 Disciplines of Execution (4DX) is a simple, repeatable, and proven formula for executing your most important strategic priorities in the midst of the whirlwind. By following the 4 Disciplines-Focus on the Wildly Important; Act on Lead Measures; Keep a Compelling Scoreboard; Create a Cadence of Accountability-leaders can produce breakthrough results, even when executing the strategy requires a significant change in behavior from their teams.

4DX is not theory. It is a proven set of practices that have been tested and refined by hundreds of organizations and thousands of teams over many years. When a company or an individual adheres to these disciplines, they achieve superb results, regardless of the goal. 4DX represents a new way to think and work that is essential to thriving in today's competitive climate. The 4 Disciplines of Execution is one book that no business leader can afford to miss.

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"The 4 Disciplines of Execution is a book every leader should read." -Clayton Christensen, Professor, Harvard Business School, and author of The Innovator's Dilemma For fans of Good to Great and The First 90 Days, The Four Disciplines of Execution is the foundational text for creating lasting organizational change.

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"Design is the rendering of intent." What if education leaders approached their work with the perspective of a designer? This new perspective of seeing the world differently is desperately needed in schools and begins with school leadership.

Alyssa Gallagher and Kami Thordarson, widely recognized experts on Design Thinking, educational leadership, and innovative strategies, call this new perspective design-inspired leadership-one of the most powerful ways to ignite positive change and address education challenges using the same design and innovation principles that have been so successful in private industry.

Design Thinking for School Leaders explores the changing landscape of leadership and offers practical ways to reframe the role of school leader using Design Thinking, one step at a time. Leaders can shift from "accidental designers" to "design-inspired leaders," acting with greater intention and achieving greater impact. You'll learn how viewing the world through a more empathetic lens-a critical first step on the path to becoming a design-inspired leader-can raise your awareness of the uniqueness of your teachers and students and prompt you to question the ways in which they experience your school.

Gallagher and Thordarson detail five specific roles to help you identify opportunities for positively impacting students, teachers, districts, parents, and the community:

* Opportunity Seeker. Shifts from problem solving to problem finding.

* Experience Architect. Designs and curates learning experiences.

* Rule Breaker. Challenges the way things are "always" done.

* Producer. Gets things done and creates rapid learning cycles for teams.

* Storyteller. Captures the hearts and minds of a community.

Full of examples of Design Thinking in action in schools across the country, Design Thinking for School Leaders can help you guide your school to the forefront of the new design + education movement, one that will move traditional education into the modern world and drive the future of learning.

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"Design is the rendering of intent." What if education leaders approached their work with the perspective of a designer?

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"ESC Liaisons". Please enter the access key that was given to you with this link. If you have not received an access key, please contact the author of this binder.

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Special Education Updates and Information

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ESC Region 11 - Workshop Information 013286

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Learn what a Specific Learning Disability looks like and feels like. The course opens by establishing "the why." The learning journey continues with hands-on interactions/simulations, video examples, guiding prompts, and learner reflection. Learners walk through high-yield support strategies for struggling students.

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Create a new spreadsheet and edit with others at the same time -- from your computer, phone or tablet. Get stuff done with or without an internet connection. Use Sheets to edit Excel files. Free from Google.

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Create a new spreadsheet and edit with others at the same time -- from your computer, phone or tablet. Get stuff done with or without an internet connection. Use Sheets to edit Excel files. Free from Google.

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Special Ed Student Achievement - Resources, Professional Development, and More by Coral Wilkens | This newsletter was created with Smore, an online tool for creating beautiful newsletters for educators, nonprofits, businesses and more

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Paratroopers Boot Camp

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Get access to files anywhere through secure cloud storage and file backup for your photos, videos, files and more with Google Drive.

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Cognition and Learning

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Cognition and Learning: Adapting Instruction for Students With Disabilities

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This course is a hands on learning experience that will teach you to adapt instruction for students with disabilities through a basic understanding of general intelligence "G's" and executive functioning. In addition, you'll create a learning tool and adapt a lesson plan through a format that can be used with any lesson.

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Reading the Four Blocks Way- Duncanville

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Indroduction: The Four-Blocks Literacy Framework (Cuningham, Hall, and Defee) was originally created to develop daily instruction that allowed for differentiation in the reading classroom. The Four-Blocks; Guided Reading, Self-Selected Reading, Writing, and Working with Words are four different approaches used in teaching children to read.

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Each state is required to develop a six-year performance plan that evaluates the state's efforts to implement the requirements and purposes of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act of 2004 (IDEA 2004), Section 616(b). The Texas Performance Plan (SPP) illustrates how our state will continuously improve upon this implementation, and includes updates through the Annual Performance Report (APR) submitted annually each February.

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Face to Face Pilot Summer 2018

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The Special Education Academic and Behavior Strategist, level 1 (ABS-1) courses are a set of courses designed to provide a hands-on, application based learning experience that will challenge you to apply new knowledge and skills in real time while working in the education setting.

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Design Thinking for Special Populations: Student Centered Design

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Design Thinking for Special Populations: Student Centered Design

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Web-based app for making ebooks in the classroom. Teachers can get started for free and invite students to join their library. Add text, images, audio and video and easily publish your books online.

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Liaiason Collaborative

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This course is a book study.
The Paraprofessional's Handbook for Effective Support in Inclusive Classrooms
Author: Julie Causton-Theoharis

Purpose: To prepare paraprofessionals with the tools to support individual student needs, create collaborative relationships, and facilitate conversations between the paraprofessional and the classroom teacher.

Introduction: "Paraprofessionals are too critical to our schools to leave on the margins of our planning, conversations, and training," Paula Kluth Ph.D.

This book study is designed to provide paraprofessionals with strategies and tools for supporting all students in the inclusive classroom.

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Facilitators using this book study will need to purchase the handbook for each individual participant.

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This course is a book study. The Paraprofessional's Handbook for Effective Support in Inclusive Classrooms Author: Julie Causton-Theoharis Purpose: To prepare paraprofessionals with the tools to support individual student needs, create collaborative relationships, and facilitate conversations between the paraprofessional and the classroom teacher.

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Curriculum Writing for the 9 Attractions

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Morgan's Wonderland - The World's First Ultra-Accessible™ Theme Park

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Morgan's Wonderland is the world's first Ultra-Accessible™, family fun park located in San Antonio, Texas. Visit our park to experience accessible rides.

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Special Ed Student Achievement - Information, Ideas & Innovation by Coral Wilkens | This newsletter was created with Smore, an online tool for creating beautiful newsletters for educators, nonprofits, businesses and more

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The Paraprofessional's Handbook for Effetive Support in Inclusive Classrooms

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The Paraprofessional's Handbook for Effetive Support in Inclusive Classrooms

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Behavior Program Review DISD (Spring 2019)

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Behavior Program Review DISD (Spring 2019)

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Staffing Program Review DISD (Spring 2019)

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Staffing Program Review DISD (Spring 2019)

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2019 Q2 Statewide Liaision Regional Trends

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2019 Q2 Statewide Liaision Regional Trends