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Sunsout Fairy Tales James Christensen 1500 Piece Jigsaw Puzzle
$16.99
If you're a puzzle fan, Sunsout is a dependable brand for being colorful and for detail. It's also a very nice quality.

Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns
$32.95
Clayton Christensen and colleagues point the way toward innovation in education by applying lessons learned through studying innovation in business.

Christensen, author of The Innovator's Dilemma, calls for philanthropies and foundations to fund the kind of research that helps us learn how different people learn, how to identify those differences, and how different students can best educate themselves and each other.

Future teachers will need skills to work one-on-one with different types of learners as they study in a student-centric way, Christensen says. Graduate schools of education must train researchers to go beyond doing descriptive research that seeks average tendencies. Instead, they should study the anomalies and outliers, where the richest insight often is found.

Some major messages in this book:
1. Few education reforms have addressed the root cause of students' inability to learn.
2. Previous studies of innovation showed that direct attacks on existing systems do not lead to effective disruptive innovation. Instead, innovation must go around and underneath the system.
3. We know that all children learn differently, but the way schooling is currently arranged discourages educating children in customized ways. We need a modular system.
4. Emerging online user networks offer a model for circumventing the education system and creating a new, modular system that facilitates customization. Decentralized user networks democratize development and purchase decisions to the end users in the system--in this case students, parents, and teachers.

Online courses offer the kind of customized, student-centric instruction that students most need, Christensen and colleagues argue. They propose that each school designate one person whose sole job is to implement online courses.

The Innovator's Prescription: A Disruptive Solution for Health Care
$32.95
This book is a must read for anyone in the healthcare field. It is a manifesto of change for our sector

The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book that Will Change the Way You Do Business (Collins Business Essentials)
$17.99
Every person intimately involved in any organization should read this book.

This book changed most management thinking and many organizational structures of corporate America. It should change more. This book should be required reading for anyone involved or studying profit and non-profit organizations.

If you have 5 books on your management shelf, this should be one of them.