Michael Harris

Revision with unchanged content. Rural small business owners are faced with a variety of obstacles in all stages of development. Fortunately, research has shown that counseling from outside agencies often has a positive affect on the performance of small businesses. The purpose of this study was to determine the types of problems encountered by rural small business owners and the relationship between these problems and selected business characteristics. Based on prior research by Ansoff (1965) and Chrisman and Leslie (1989), the classification system used to categorize business problems included administrative, operating, and strategic problems. The data were taken from businesses that received assistance from Small Business Centers in rural eastern North Carolina. The results indicated that the majority of small business owners sought assistance for strategic issues that are core to the development of a successful enterprise, and that the types of problems varied according to the stage of business development. These findings and subsequent recommendations should be of interest to professionals involved in small business assistance programs and reseachers interested in rual business development.

Not all students are the same. Choose the learning pathway that best suits your class. Choices gives teachers the flexibility to adjust the course to their teenage students' individual needs

"Falling Down Getting Up" is about an incredible journey in life. It begins with a personal and revealing story of the author, Michael Harris, and his falling down in life. There were a few big falls like losing more than half of his liver in an accident at 12 years old, becoming an alcoholic by 16, and nearly losing his legs from vascular disease at 27. Once Michael gets you through the gory details of the mess he found himself in, he'll tell you what he did to get back up out of that mess. Perhaps as you read "Falling Down Getting Up," you will chuckle a little (or a lot) and be entertained as Michael shares his journey of falling down and getting back up. If you find yourself falling down in life, hopefully the suggestions in "Falling Down Getting Up" just might help you get back up too. Michael Harris is a writer, business coach, and popular yoga teacher. He is driven by an incredible enthusiasm for living a full life. Michael has been interviewed by a broad range of media including NBC, NPR, BBC, The Los Angeles Times, The Oregonian, and The Bend Bulletin. Michael loves to travel and, in his spare time, you can find him hiking the mountains near his home in Bend, Oregon.

THE LEARNER-CENTERED CURRICULUM “If an institution is to be truly learner-centered, all processes and practices need to be learner-centered, and the curriculum is no exception.”—From the Preface The Learner-Centered Curriculum is for educators and administrators who envision an educational environment that produces students who are creative and autonomous learners. By encouraging an appreciation and adoption of learner-centered practices, educators can transform their curricula to become more focused on the learner. The book presents a framework for curriculum design based on learner-centered principles while at the same time offering technical advice on implementation as well as the strategic use of assessment, technology, and physical spaces to support innovative design. The authors include several examples of existing curricula that illustrate their framework in practice. Throughout the book, they emphasize the need for assessment, both formative and summative, stressing the point that assessment is an effective driver of change. The book includes a wide variety of options both for individual classroom practice and for programmatic assessment. The Learner-Centered Curriculum explores the current technology and tools available to educators that can support learner-centered practices and foster autonomous learning and demonstrates how technology can assist in removing some of the obstacles to achieving a learner-centered design. In addition, the authors explain the importance of physical spaces in relation to learner-centered curricular design and show how to tie renovation to curricular implementation to foster incentive to innovate and provide a physical manifestation of learner-centered principles.

Not all students are the same. Choose the learning pathway that best suits your class. Choices gives teachers the flexibility to adjust the course to their teenage students' individual needs

Not all students are the same. Choose the learning pathway that best suits your class. Choices gives teachers the flexibility to adjust the course to their teenage students' individual needs

Not all students are the same. Choose the learning pathway that best suits your class. Choices gives teachers the flexibility to adjust the course to their teenage students' individual needs

Not all students are the same. Choose the learning pathway that best suits your class. Choices gives teachers the flexibility to adjust the course to their teenage students' individual needs

Medical and Health Science Statistics Made Easy provides health professionals and students with easy-to-understand explanations of key statistical techniques used in medical literature. In a concise and user-friendly format, readers will grasp firm knowledge of medical statistics, including confidence intervals and probability values, numbers needed to treat t tests and other parametric tests, survival analysis, and more. Highlighted examples, exam tips, and items of difficulty make this an ideal primer for all health-related students and professionals.

YOU CAN DO IT! Challenges is a course for teenagers which gives them everything they need to be successful in learning English. Written by the authors of the global bestseller, Opportunities

YOU CAN DO IT! Challenges is a course for teenagers which gives them everything they need to be successful in learning English. Written by the authors of the global bestseller;Opportunities

YOU CAN DO IT! Challenges is the new course for teenagers which gives them everything they need to be successful in learning English. Written by the authors of the global bestseller, 'Opportunities'.

YOU CAN DO IT! Challenges is the new course for teenagers which gives them everything they need to be successful in learning English. Written by the authors of the global bestseller: Opportunities

YOU CAN DO IT! Challenges is the new course for teenagers which gives them everything they need to be successful in learning English. Written by the authors of the global bestseller, 'Opportunities'.