Ensure Educational Success: Innovative and Common Sense Strategies for Leading a School Culture Where Teachers and Students Thrive

Ensure Educational Success: Innovative and Common Sense Strategies for Leading a S chool Culture Where Teachers and Students Thrive

Students are our future – but what if our current methods of instruction are jeopardizing that future?

When students struggle, frustrated teachers often tend to assign more work or extra exam practice to improve grades, but this type of traditional instruction fails to ensure high-performance.

When teachers struggle, frustrated administrators often tend to focus on technical solutions to adaptive problems, but this type of leadership fails to produce quality teachers.

In a world of constant new initiatives and expensive “teach the teachers” courses, educators need to do more to effectively facilitate real connection that inspires learning for their students and results in lasting change for their classroom.In Ensure Educational Success, Chief of Schools Dr. Samuel Nix shares a new way of thinking for leaders that will positively impact student achievement and transform your school. A practical approach for comprehensive educational reformation, this guide will empower your learners, teachers, and yourself to facilitate more successful learning environments.

You’ll discover:

  • The Leadership Cycle, a research-based process to create sustainable learning and teaching success in your education system.
  • How to promote a growth mindset and awareness of adaptive challenges to motivate your classroom.
    Seven principles of strategic planning that aid in setting meaningful priorities, monitoring, and navigating them with flexibility.
  • Positive measurement strategies to assess impact, reinforce progress, and provide effective feedback.
  • How to create and grow a culture of accountability for students, faculty, and administration that encourages problem-solving and ensures clear expectations.

Challenge the traditional approach to educational leadership! Get Ensure Educational Success and transform your teachers into effective facilitators of more successful learners. $0.99 on Kindle.
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Free: Trapped with the Duke

Trapped with the Duke

Collette Jones, the illegitimate daughter of a baron, is determined to become a respectable teacher.
The Duke of Bedwell isn’t interested in respectable teachers. He’s interested in being proper—in fulfilling his duties to his title.
So what is Bedwell to do when honor demands he shows more than a little interest in one of them? Marry her? Free on Kindle.
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Free: On His Bended Knee

On His Bended Knee

In order to save his beloved ranch for wounded veterans, Dylan must get married. Maggie needs to find a home for her and her special needs dogs. A marriage of convenience could solve both their problems, but can two wounded souls believe in the power of true love? Free on Kindle.
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Cottage in the Keys

Cottage in the Keys

Life was never easy for Evelyn Carpenter…

After her husband, Pete, left her when the kids were young, Evelyn’s life mission became to provide for her four children. She spent most of her adult life working two jobs.

Thanks to her father, Stanley, every year the family got a break from reality in the form of a trip to the Florida Keys. This year’s family vacation is different. The Carpenters are shaken to the core when Stanley announces his health has taken a turn for the worse.

Just when Evelyn thinks she can’t take another step forward, her world is flipped upside down for the better.

Evelyn uncovers a secret that will change her life forever.

Will she be able to find forgiveness and rediscover love? $0.99 on Kindle.
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My Fake Fling

My Fake Fling

The world is concerned with my bachelor status more than my wealth.
Time to get a fake date to shut them up.
There’s no one better for the job than my ex-girlfriend.
I know everything about her, every curve, every sigh, every way to make her blush.
Even though we have a hard time getting along, the tension adds the right amount of heat in my life.
With that in place, I can focus on my next billion-dollar luxury project.
Until my father goes missing. No way in hell he would miss out on the opening of our next venture.
And it’s far worse than him skipping town for a bit of fun.
A ransom call sends us all in a panic, and my fake fling is the only person I want to cling to. $0.99 on Kindle.
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Play It Like You Mean It! Supercharge Your Playing and Let Your Piano Work for You

 Play It Like You Mean It! Supercharge Your Playing and Let Your Piano Work for You

Every proficient pianist can master technique, musical theory, and muscle memory. But to evolve into a remarkable pianist requires more than reading sheet music and playing scales.

You’ve practiced the library of classical music and improved your skill. Now elevate your playing to transcend melody and tell a story that reaches the hearts of your listeners—not just their ears.

Esteemed pianist Emile Pandolfi shares his holistic philosophy that harmonizes method and mindset to help you mature into a well-rounded musician beyond training and music lessons. A light-hearted and humorous guide for any serious piano student, Play It Like You Mean It teaches you how to musically communicate through every chord and make your music resonate more passionately with your listeners—for an encore-worthy performance each time you play.

You’ll discover:

  • How to effectively infuse emotion and dynamics into basic and higher-level techniques.
  • A complete approach to memorizing a new piece—and overcoming stage fright to wow the crowd (or living room).
  • Life lessons to dig yourself out of the doldrums and rekindle lost inspiration.
  • Three essential ingredients for honing natural aural acumen so you can play by ear, improvise, and arrange.
  • The beginners’ course into a commercial music career, from easy programming tips to creative income ideas.

Change your mind and change your playing with this piano student’s constant companion. Get Play It Like You Mean It to learn the language of piano and speak through every push of the keys. $0.99 on Kindle.
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Bayou New Year (Miss Fortune World: Bayou Cozy Romantic Thrills Book 7)

Bayou New Year (Miss Fortune World: Bayou Cozy Romantic Thrills Book 7)

It’s out with the old and in with the new when Fortune, Ida Belle, and Gertie are summoned to neighboring Wasteland to save Celia Arceneaux. Prepared to bargain with an assassin, they put together last-minute plans, but even the best laid plans can be derailed, especially when motive and opportunity are not what they seem.

*Bayou New Year is based on a series created by Jana DeLeon. The author of this short story has the contractual rights to create fan fiction stories using the Miss Fortune world.

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Backyard Homestead & Prepper’s Long Term Survival Handbook

Backyard Homestead & Prepper's Long Term Survival Handbook

4 Books in 1

1) Prepper’s Long Term Survival Bible

2) Backyard Homestead Handbook

3) Raising Chickens For Beginners

4) Raising Goats For Beginners $0.99 on Kindle.
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Sun, Sea, the Billionaire and Me

Sun, Sea, the Billionaire and Me

A vacation fling with a billionaire is all well and good, but back in the real world, where Franchesca Potts is an accounting intern with a hectic schedule and no love of the limelight, will billionaire investor Jonah Wells turn out to be an equation she can’t solve? $0.99 on Kindle.
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Ranger

Ranger

Ranger was now a king. Once he hit the rank of general on his home planet, he had known eventually he would be king. But at that time, he had thought he would be a king at home. That just shows that life can change directions easily. He’d found his faded mate and he had no intention of leaving her behind and he knew at this point she was not ready to leave here so he would stay as well. She would be his.

Toni had thought at one time there was chemistry between her and her Ranger, but he ran hot and cool and had finally convinced her that it was all in her head. He was running hot right now, but that didn’t really mean anything. She had accepted the offer to help them manage their country.

It wasn’t like she didn’t owe them something because she did. They had saved her and her brother from being terrorized and trying to make it with very little money. Her brother was now going to college in the country she was headed to. They had also told her that she could go to college part time and eventually get our medical license. She would work on her life and try to get things straightened out and she wouldn’t worry about Ranger because she knew he would be running cold before long.

Would they ever be able to get together? Could Ranger ever get a whole country under control? And with the rebels and the mob out to get them, could they keep their enemies from learning their lives. $2.99 on Kindle.
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Free: Ruthless Positivity

Ruthless Positivity

TWO PEOPLE SEEKING ESCAPE IN A VIRTUAL WORLD

In eScape, Kam has it all — a body that works, beautiful friends, her own space, and a wealth of stolen credits. In the real world, she’s terminally ill and living in the rundowns, a place where hope goes to die.

In the real world, Lyle seems to have it all. As the son of a famous self-help guru, Julia Grace, strangers envy his perfect life and perfect relationship with his mother. Nobody knows the torture she’s put him through. All Lyle wants is the escape of anonymity in eScape — where he can be himself by hiding behind an avatar.

CONNECTED BY TRAGEDY, DESPERATE FOR LOVE

When Kam and Lyle meet, they each might be the escape the other is looking for.

But Kam can never let Lyle see the REAL her or the hovel she lives in. If he realizes she’s a criminal who’s stolen everything she has, he’ll leave her.

She has no idea Lyle is lying, too – caught in a web of his mother’s manipulations. Each of them loses everything if they tell the truth – but admitting their lies could get them killed.

And not even eScape can protect them from what’s coming.

Ruthless Positivity is a new stand-alone SciFi Thriller from Avery Blake, author of Vicarious Joe, Family Royale, and Analog Heart. Free on Kindle.
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Free: Grace Everywhere: Finding Traces of the Divine

Grace Everywhere: Finding Traces of the Divine by Stephanie Vaccaro: Does God send you messages? What does He convey and how would He deliver them? The author shares 75 brief stories that answer these questions. After reading, you’ll smile and start to wonder. And soon, you’ll find traces of the Divine in your own life. (Free on August 27-31) Free on Kindle.
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What Your Doctor Wants You to Know to Crush Medical Debt: A Health System Insider’s 3 Steps to Protect Yourself from America’s #1 Cause of Bankruptcy

What Your Doctor Wants You to Know to Crush Medical Debt: A Health System Insider's 3 Steps to Protect Yourself from America's #1 Cause of Bankruptcy

Medical bills can bury you in debt for the rest of your life, but it doesn’t have to be that way.

No matter how much you owe, there’s a better way to get rid of your medical debt beyond bankruptcy.

When Dr. Virgie Bright Ellington became a cancer patient, she faced insurmountable medical bills. That’s when she took her insider industry knowledge and put it to work. In Crush Medical Debt, she shares her secrets to help individuals, families, and veterans protect against America’s number one cause of bankruptcy—medical debt. Filled with practical and step-by-step strategies, this guide provides the tools you need to stop spending money you don’t owe and save yourself from becoming a victim of a predatory healthcare system.

You’ll discover:

  • How to get rid of your medical debt and hospital bills in three simple steps—without going bankrupt.
  • Definitions to help you catch common CPT code and medical bill mistakes.
  • How to effectively communicate with your provider to fix mistakes in your bills or coverage, including COVID-19 and pandemic-related costs.
  • What to do when your private insurance company, Medicaid, or Medicare won’t cover your medical costs.
  • Debt management tips to negotiate a lower bill and set up an interest-free payment plan regardless of your credit score.

Get the healthcare you need while taking care of your financial health at the same time. Fight back against predatory billing practices! Uncover the secrets in Crush Medical Debt to free yourself from a lifetime of bills and save your financial life.

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You Complicate Me

You Complicate Me

En route to break up her brother’s wedding, Grace finds herself in an altercation with air marshal Nick. Despite a near-arrest, sparks fly… but there’s just one problem: Nick is Grace’s future in-law! Will a road trip force this pair of opposites to give in to their mutual attraction and take a shot at happily ever after? $4.99 on Kindle.
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Make Me Whole

Make Me Whole

I had a perfect life. Schoolteacher. Married to my high school sweetheart. Little starter house that we called charming but was really just old. All I needed was the 2.5 kids, and I’d be living my perfect dream. Then my husband died.

After the funeral, I had a breakdown that lasted for a month…or 12. But now I’m reemerging, healing, finding my way. It’s time to learn who I am now and whether or not I can fix a leaky sink. And by my side, the entire time, is my husband’s best friend, Liam. The single dad knows a thing or two about personal struggles and about how to replace faucets.

With Liam, I feel alive again. Confident. Capable. Liam has become my best friend, too. Except if my parents, my in-laws, and the rest of the town had any say, I’d stay far away from him and his bad-boy reputation.

How do I admit to them what’s so hard to admit to myself? That I’m starting to look at him like he’s more than a friend. That the heat in his eyes when he looks at me is far beyond friendly. That like it or not, Liam makes me feel whole again. $0.99 on Kindle.
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Free: A Picture of Her: If You Stay Forever

A Picture of Her: If You Stay Forever
Liv made it clear: Liv and Thomas. Always and only. No babies. Liv is determined to stick to the plan, but when a surprise pregnancy throws the plan out the window, Liv is forced to make a decision: give the baby to Thomas and walk away forever or become the woman Thomas thinks she is. Free on Kindle.
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Free: A Chance to Get it Right

A Chance to Get it Right

Katrina has it all — she’s beautiful, has a great job, and a wealthy boyfriend, Richard. Yet something is missing.

When helping out her sister takes her to the sleepy rural town of Willows, she begins to see a different side of life: more thoughtful and less frantic.

She is quite taken with the town, and further intrigued when she meets quiet horse trainer, Terry.

What sort of life suits her best? And who will help her decide? Free on Kindle.
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On Your Mark, Get Set, INVEST: A Kid’s Guide to Saving Money, Spending Wisely, and Investing in the Stock Market

On Your Mark, Get Set, INVEST: A Kid's Guide to Saving Money, Spending Wisely, and Investing in the Stock Market
Slow and steady wins the race? An intro to personal finance and investing for kids ages 8 to 12.

Feet thumping and arms swinging, Thrifty Tortoise and Ritzy Rabbit set off on a race to the finish line. At the end awaits a brand-new bike! Follow this competition to see who can earn, save, and invest their way to the ultimate prize. Lots of money decisions will be made along the way—some good and some bad—but you’ll get to learn from them all! $2.99 on Kindle.
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Tiger Enemy’s Dirty Secret

Tiger Enemy’s Dirty Secret

I’d heard the rumors about Morgville.
I just didn’t realize I’d be walking into a cursed town.
Or into the arms of a deadly tiger shifter with a dirty secret.
He doesn’t like me. And he will do everything he can to get me out of his way.
But it’s not this sexy shifter I have to worry about.
It’s the monsters.
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Building Supernatural Success: Replace Your Weak Foundations

Building Supernatural Success: Replace Your Weak Foundations

Discover, in 4 easy steps, what is getting in the way of you being successful at everything you do. Learn how to replace your weak foundations or flawed beliefs with supernatural foundations. Then you will be able to fulfill all the desires of your heart and accomplish unimaginable things that only God can do. $0.99 on Kindle.
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Free: Greed

Greed

Washburn County Deputy Amber Monroe is following in the footsteps of her sister, Jade. She devours everything she can during her detective training in hopes of being promoted soon.

Living in small-town USA has its advantages, like a sense of security, and disadvantages, like being close to Milwaukee and its crime. Washburn County has become the dumping ground of murder victims, courtesy of its neighboring county to the south.
When two men are discovered on the outskirts of North Bend, each with a bullet to the head, Amber’s team, led by Lieutenant Jack Steele, hits the highway in search of a killer.

Assisted by the Milwaukee PD, they go deep into Brew City’s underbelly, which reveals far more than anyone ever expected. Crimes involving murder and counterfeiting keep the team running in every direction, but it’s Amber’s attraction to a new man in North Bend that puts her front and center on the killer’s short list. She doesn’t get far before the entire case turns upside down.
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Free: Forbidden Tales : A Three Book Collection

Forbidden Tales : A Three Book Collection

Lose yourself in the world of forbidden romances. This boxset features three STANDALONE romances:

The Unrequited – Student/teacher romance

Gods & Monsters – Good girl/bad boy romance

Medicine Man (Heartstone Series 1) – Doctor/patient romance Free on Kindle.
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Free: Fatal Decision

Fatal Decision

Retired DI Gus Freeman returns to head up a Crime Review Team investigating cold cases. He can’t resist the chance to return to the fray. First case of twenty-four in The Freeman Files Series. Free on Kindle.
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Wolf Boss

Wolf Boss
In order for wolf shifter Alec Patterson to claim his fated mate, he has to win her over, charm her young daughter, dump his fiancée, and withdraw from a corporate merger. Challenge accepted. $0.99 on Kindle.
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Free: Unending Havoc (Montana Mayhem Book 1)

Unending Havoc (Montana Mayhem Book 1)

After an EMP turns her life upside down, Tamra just wants to go home…easier said than done in the apocalypse. Can she survive this dangerous journey? Free on Kindle.
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