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Author
Publisher
Portfolio
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Listening, like any communication skill, can be improved. Drawing from her own research sessions, as well as from stories and interviews with marriage counselors, life coaches, filmmakers, podcast hosts, and other listening experts, the author of Listen Like You Mean It discusses how to quickly build rapport with strangers, which questions help people unlock what they need to say, when it's time to throw out the script entirely, and how to recover...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"At work, we're taught to lead the conversation. On social media, we shape our personal narratives. At parties, we talk over one another. So do our politicians. We're not listening. And no one is listening to us. Despite living in a world where technology allows constant digital communication and opportunities to connect, it seems no one is really listening or even knows how. And it's making us lonelier, more isolated, and less tolerant than ever...
Author
Publisher
Jossey-Bass
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Listen Wise is written from the perspective of a veteran NPR reporter who has been in love with audio storytelling her whole life and created a company to support teachers and students in improving listening skills. It will provide personal anecdotes about listening, as well as classroom stories and teacher viewpoints. It will include research on the neuroscience of listening and auditory learning. It will also offer clear teaching strategies for...
9) Lecture
Author
Series
Publisher
Transit Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Mary Cappello's Lecture is a song for the forgotten art of the lecture. Brimming with energy and erudition, it is an attempt to restore the lecture's capacity to wander, question, and excite. Cappello draws on examples from Virginia Woolf to Mary Ruefle, Ralph Waldo Emerson to John Cage, blending rigorous cultural criticism with personal history to explore the lecture in its many forms-from the aphorism to the note-and give new life to knowledge's...
10) Wordy birdy
Author
Series
Wordy Birdy volume 1
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Wordy Birdy loves to talk, but will she ever learn to listen?"--
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
c2014.
Language
English
Description
"The bestselling authors of the classic Difficult Conversations teach us how to turn evaluations, advice, criticisms, and coaching into productive listening and learning We swim in an ocean of feedback. Bosses, colleagues, customers-but also family, friends, and in-laws-they all have "suggestions" for our performance, parenting, or appearance. We know that feedback is essential for healthy relationships and professional development-but we dread it...
Author
Series
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"In fierce prose and poetic fragments, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson's 'Noopiming' braids together humor, piercing detail, and a deep, abiding commitment to Anishinaabe life to tell stories of resistance, love, and joy. Mashkawaji (they/them) lies frozen in the ice, remembering the sharpness of unmuted feeling from long ago, finding freedom and solace in isolated suspension. They introduce the seven characters: Akiwenzii, the old man who represents...
14) Counselors
Author
Publisher
Bellwether Media
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Developed by literacy experts for students in kindergarten through grade three, this book introduces counselors to young readers through leveled text and related photos"--Provided by publisher"--
Author
Publisher
Aguilar
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
"Lo que más anhelamos los seres humanos es comprender y ser entendidos, No me estás escuchando nos enseña cómo."--Amazon.
"What we human beings crave most is to understand and be understood, You're not listening to me teaches us how."--Amazon.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Essentials
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A 6-week Artist's Way Program from legendary author Julia Cameron. The newest book from beloved author Julia Cameron, The Listening Path is a transformational journey to deeper, more profound listening and creativity. Over six weeks, readers will be given the tools to become better listeners--to their environment, the people around them, and themselves. The reward for learning to truly listen is immense. As we learn to listen, our attention is heightened...
Author
Publisher
Annick Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Into a world where it often seems nobody is listening comes a poignant story that celebrates the power of silence. "Why are you so quiet?" Her teacher implores it, her classmates shout it, even her mom wonders it. Everyone, it seems, is concerned for Myra Louise. So, in search of an answer to the tiresome question nobody will stop asking, she invents a listening machine. If the raindrops, or the crickets, or the dryers at the laundromat can tell...
18) Listen
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Illustrations and easy-to-read text urge the reader to go beyond the noise of the city to listen to a crow's caw, rain dripping onto a sidewalk, and whispered goodnights. Includes notes about listening.
Author
Publisher
Aguilar
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
"The Listening Path es un viaje de transformación hacia una escucha y una creatividad más profundas y profundas. Durante seis semanas, los lectores recibirán las herramientas para convertirse en mejores oyentes: de su entorno, de las personas que los rodean y de ellos mismos. La recompensa por aprender a Escuchar de verdad es inmenso. A medida que aprendemos a escuchar, nuestra atención aumenta y ganamos curación, perspicacia y claridad. Pero,...
Author
Series
Publisher
PowerKids Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"It isn't always easy to deal with people we disagree with, but knowing how to listen to other points of view is a critical life skill. In this book, students will learn why respectfully listening to other people's opinions is important for the common good."-- provided by publisher.
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