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Account aliases. Ryan McCaan. Realtors in Edmonton, Alberta. Lara Lee. Lara Lee. Across industries, companies are using the vast amounts of user-generated data to guide innovation of new products and services.

Lara Lee

But data mining does not equate to developing “customer intelligence.” Human behavior is nuanced and complex, and no matter how robust it is, data can provide only part of the story. Desire and motivation are influenced … Read more FOUR KEYS TO PRAGMATIC INNOVATION “Pragmatic Innovation” is about innovation made real. Innovation efforts too often fail when leadership’s aspirations outstrip the capacity of the organization or good ideas can’t make it through the corporate gauntlet. FOUR KEYS TO PRAGMATIC INNOVATION “Pragmatic Innovation” is about innovation made real. Farhad Mohit. Stanton Rowe.

Nigel Nisbet. Articles by Nigel Nisbet - Getting Smart. Learning System Upgrade: What Math Can Do For You “Why do we have to learn Algebra?”

Articles by Nigel Nisbet - Getting Smart

Was the question a student asked me one day in the middle of class. I hadn’t been teaching very long so I wasn’t entirely sure what to say. I tried to ignore it but he asked again so I came up with some lame reasons like, “you’ll need it later,” or, “lots of jobs use a... one year ago by Nigel Nisbet Game Change: How Game-based Learning Helps Common Core One of the exciting things that leaps out to me when reading the new Common Core standards for Mathematics is that the spirit of inquiry and curiosity is back, hardwired into a document that will likely form the basis for mathematics teaching and learning for a long time. Common Core: Blended Learning Solves Math The two Common Core assessment consortia, Smarter Balanced and PARCC, have both recently released material giving us an insight into the upcoming Common Core math tests. How the Best Math Software Avoids the Worst Teaching Mistakes. Pascal Finette. Pascal Finette // You found me.

Joanne Tawfilis. Painting Outside The Lines: Joanne Tawfilis at TEDxOrangeCoastWomen. Christine Marie. Cm. Ally Woodard. Ally is an award-winning speaker, writer and advocate for children’s rights.

Ally Woodard

She has traveled to Haiti, Mexico, the Philippines, India and China as an Ambassador for The Art Miles Mural Project. In that role she has personally deliver thousands of pairs of new Art Miles Shoes of Hope. Ally has written and produced two documentaries. Her first, “Shoes of Hope – Hope for Peace” profiles her effort to deliver shoes as part of a peace-building project between countries. Her 2012 short film, “Saving the Children” chronicles her recent journey to one of the world’s most dangerous cities, Nuevo Laredo, Mexico. Suza Scalora. Suza Scalora is a life coach, speaker and the best-selling author of: “The Fairies” (1999), which was named by Newsweek magazine as one of the 10 best picture books of the year; “The Witches and Wizards Of Oberin‚” (2001); “Evidence of Angels,” (2009).

Suza Scalora

Suza has been profiled in: American Photo, PDN, Communication Arts, Elle, GQ, and Forum. In 2001, Suza underwent a transformational spiritual shift that resulted in 10 years of intense spiritual study and development. After a life-altering health challenge that radically changed her perception of life; she awakened to her life’s purpose to serve and share her gifts with others. She Co-Founded Love 365™, with Kelly Thornton Smith to assist people in “Being the Love they wish to see in the world,” by focusing on their relationship with themselves. Suza has taught at The International Center for Photography in NYC and The Omega Institute in NY.

MYTH by Suza Scalora - Author and Photographer, The Fairies, Witches and Wizards of Oberin, Evidence Of Angels. Kelly Thornton Smith. Kelly Thompson. Gerald Ishibashi. California’s largely agricultural Imperial Valley isn’t the most likely of places to jumpstart a young boy’s musical dreams, but for Gerald Ishibashi, life was all about the music.

Gerald Ishibashi

He was only 13 years old when hecommitted to his career path by choosing an electric guitar over a dirt bike as payment for a summer job with his father. With early influences such as Elvis, Tom Jones, Bill Medley and a heavy doseof Frank Sinatra – one of his mother’s favorites – he always knew a lifetimeof music was “in the cards.” And though day-to-day life was filled withpopular American music, weekends were spent listening to his grandparentsentertaining friends with special performances of traditional Okinawan music. My Website. Sohrab Vossoughi. Perspectives. Brittany Ishibashi. Brittany Ishibashi. Kal Raustiala. Biography.