Michael Strong

During the post-WW2 period, change came about swiftly. Money, opportunity, and jobs were available for most who wanted to benefit. However, there were those in society who still played race against race and country against country. During a challenging time in 1958, much would happen, and an evil secret Caucus of seven men became formed to influence and control an ever-changing modern society. Over many decades, this secret Caucus built its domination, success, and financial strength through strategic partnerships and streams of well-calculated decisions that only benefitted them. Whether the benefits gained were by peaceful means or subtle barbarism. The name applied to this seven-person Caucus was-The Grandfathers. The Rebel Brigade denounced everything The Grandfathers represented, fighting in vain for many years against the brutal consequences of The Grandfathers' calculating, self-serving interests. Often, in the dark-of-the-night, silent raids by The Effectuators, The Grandfathers' loyal and elite Police Force, would punish the Rebel Brigade and their sympathizers, dragging them off to secret Stewardship Farms and Detention Centers, for re-education before releasing them back into a changing society. The struggle continues until a man who once served The Grandfathers and now seeks revenge for lives lost and promises broken unwittingly becomes a driving force for justice. But can this reluctant stranger bind together a tattered Rebel force? Or must he first continue his struggle to discover redemption from his past sins?

This book provides a photographic summary of the benthic marine life in the Bay of Fundy with a focus on the Deer Island archipelago in New Brunswick. Five dive sites and their benthic species assemblages are described. The ecological factors contributing to the high biodiversity found at these sites is discussed. The authors hope that this book will raise awareness of the region's beauty and significance as an ecologically unique area.

This is a transcription of the war diary of Percy Storey, a soldier that landed at Suvla Bay Gallipoli in 1915. He served with the 53rd Welsh Division, a Regiment of the Flintshire Battalion called the Royal Welsh Fusiliers. This battalion was later amalgamated to form the 158th North Wales Brigade for the landing at Suvla Bay in August 1915.

This book contains a series of narratives and anecdotes about a career in DFO Fisheries research. The book also expresses the author's views of DFO's approach to fisheries management, and what scientific research should be considered relevant and supported for achieving sustainable fisheries.

In this follow-up to Effective Teacher Induction and Mentoring, Michael Strong tackles the major issues surrounding teacher quality and effectiveness. The Highly Qualified Teacher provides an accessible overview of the research related to teacher quality, and introduces a new method for evaluating teachers based on extensive fieldwork in schools. This timely work clarifies the different definitions of teacher quality and distinguishes between good teaching and successful teaching. Strong thoroughly examines the empirical evidence responsible for identifying the qualities associated with positive student outcomes, including observational measures that are able to predict a teacher’s ability to raise student achievement in mathematics. This comprehensive, up-to-date volume is essential reading for students of education, as well as school administrators, educational policy specialists, and anyone wrestling with the federal mandate to provide a highly qualified teacher in every classroom.

What if the distinction between business and doing good vanished? What if all those who engaged in business were committed to a deeper purpose, and all those committed to doing good were entrepreneurial and enterprising? What would it take for a world of seven billion such people to solve all the world’s problems? More and more people are looking for meaning and purpose in their lives as employees, as consumers, and as investors. More and more people have more than enough material goods and are more interested in the qualities of the goods they buy; in the experiences associated with the services they provide and buy; in the way the companies they buy from act as citizens; and in self-actualization—rising up Maslow’s hierarchy. As an increasing percentage of the population reaches the point at which they no longer need more stuff, what will they do, how will they live their lives? If you are one of these people, wondering where to go from here, how to “be the solution” in the twenty-first century, Be the Solution provides an original perspective on how to create a better world. Focused entirely on entrepreneurial and Conscious Capitalist solutions to the challenges and opportunities facing humanity, Be the Solution shows how the entrepreneurial passion to create a better world, in combination with Conscious Capitalist business practices, can solve far more of the world’s problems than any other approach. In combination with leading Conscious Capitalists such as John Mackey writing on “Conscious Capitalism,” leading social entrepreneurs such as Muhammad Yunus writing on “Social Business,” and leading legal reform experts such as Hernando de Soto writing on “Is Economic Freedom for Everyone?,” entrepreneurial educator Michael Strong lays out a philosophical, social, and legal framework for a FLOW vision through which all problems may be solved entrepreneurially. FLOW, Inc., is an organization cofounded by John Mackey and Michael Strong to promote Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s concept of flow as optimal experience—the state in which we are so immersed in challenging, creative activity that we forget that time is passing. To be engaged in flow activities is happiness itself. Whether we are creators of enterprises or entrepreneurially creative within our life as employees, we can embody the entrepreneurial spirit and, in the words of Michelangelo, “criticize by creating.” In addition, FLOW refers to the global flow of goods, services, capital, humans, ideas, and culture, in a positive win-win-win world based on love rather than fear. Combining the best of the positive psychology and human potential movements with the best of free market thinking, FLOW offers a unique perspective on how to Be the Solution in the twenty-first century.

A well-known authority on teacher induction programs offers the most comprehensive, up-to-date review of all recent research on the effectiveness of mentoring and induction support for new teachers. Michael Strong provides a revealing analysis of teacher induction programs and their consequences for education, teacher quality, teacher effectiveness, and teacher development. Because mentoring programs can be costly, particularly in large urban school districts with high teacher turnover rates, there is a rapidly growing body of research on program structures and their outcomes. This valuable book synthesizes the relevant research in a manner that is accessible, straightforward, and useful.