Tap the psychology of human connection to drive meaningful workplace communication Human beings are born to connect—but in today’s increasingly polarized world, we’re losing sight of the importance of building and maintaining professional relationships. And that’s bad for business. In Bridge the Gap, two prominent Fortune 500 coaches explore how your biology and biography define and refine your behavior in relationships where you struggle to connect. Focusing on personal responsibility and awareness, meta-cognition, and curiosity, they provide a reliable and replicable framework to enhance open communication. And they illuminate the inner workings of the human brain and mind, and how they impact the way you connect, communicate, and collaborate. Inside, you’ll find eye-opening techniques to help you: Master your biological reactions when pressure, stress, and anxiety hijack your efforts to connect Understand how you and others can better learn from and listen to each other Lead with curiosity in all your communication strategies and learn how to give authentic feedback Feel more comfortable working on diverse team and embrace all cultural backgrounds What makes this book different from others is that it focuses on the how rather than just the why of fostering better communication. And, whether you’re entry level staff or a C-Suite executive, these techniques can be applied at all levels and all capacities. Filled with practical exercises, colorful stories, and illustrative case studies, Bridge the Gap reveals how to harness the real and raw power of your mind to build solid workplace relationships in any situation.

In Bridging the Gap from Rehab to Performance, physical therapist Sue Falsone walks the reader through the thought process and physical practice of guiding an injured athlete from injury through rehab and back to the field of play. To both health care professionals and strength and conditioning experts alike, she describes the path as her athletes move through pain and healing toward optimal function and advanced performance.

Bridging the Gap One Prayer at a Time is the second devotional written as an extension of a Bible study group that began on a bridge outside author Tini Siders’ office. She and colleagues around the world began bridging the gap for others through prayer and forming the Bridge Prayer Group. These spiritual guides will help you begin to dive into God’s Word and enhance your walk with Christ as you too become a Bridge Builder! These devotions are very casual in nature as Tini shares what God has shown her. Written in a relaxed format, they can be read as if you are having a conversation with Tini, making you feel comfortable studying your Bible and sharing your thoughts with God through prayer. Tini encourages you to feel comfortable writing your thoughts and prayers as you meditate on His Word, helping you to put into action the things the Holy Spirit brings to your mind as you study. Build bridges and allow God to change your life—you will never regret it.

This book is a written format of great concern that deals with the generational gaps that exist in our churches. If you are a pastor,lay member or general member this book is for you. With all of the generational differences we have, we can come together as one and become a church of unity that God has designed. In Bridging The Gap it states the facts about how we can get on one accord and have all things common. If you are tired of your church dying due to a lack of vision and mission Bridging The Gap helps deals with these subjects.

Given the academic perils facing our Black and historically oppressed students of color in the United States, the need to bridge the gap between classroom-based culturally relevant practices and culturally responsive leadership has never been greater. How is this done? Answering that question is the goal of this book. Explicit tactics are shared for university and site level leaders in mobilizing the heavy lifting in creating a transformational base – supporting teachers’ enactment of culturally responsive pedagogy. With first-hand testimonies and frameworks from research, this book allows practitioners to regain an understanding of culturally relevant practices, as well as the overlay of culturally responsive transformational leadership (Khalifa, 2016; Northouse, 2019), creating an equitable school climate where Black and historically oppressed students thrive academically.

One of the most popular literary genres, memoir can provide literary and literacy access to reluctant adolescent readers and writers, and help bridge the achievement gap by motivating students to read more critically and write more meaningfully about what matters most to them. The introspective nature of memoir helps students learn about themselves and connect with their environment or community, while also meeting a variety of Common Core standards. In this way, memoirs and creative nonfiction can provide a bridge between fiction and nonfiction reading, narrative and informative writing, reading and writing, and can afford a “way in” to literacy for all adolescents. Special features of the book: examples of multiple mentor texts in each chapter teacher examples with think-aloud exercises a variety of student samples from diverse learners activities to engage all learners an appendix of teacher resources a reference list of over 150 full-length memoirs for grades 5-12 for whole-class, book club, or independent reading a list of writing resources for students and teachers 12 full-size reproducible materials for teacher and student use a variety of reading, writing, speaking, and listening strategies and activities across-disciplines applications and adaptations for diverse learners daily writing focus lessons in gradual-release-responsibility format Common Core State Standard connections at the end of each chapter

Bridging the Gap gives ways to deal with and reduce stress and ways to take traumatic events and rephrase them so they can be shared safely, thus, bridging the gap in communication that has been created.

Between 1980 and 2005, 45 states were involved in lawsuits around equity of funding and adequacy of education provided to all students in the state. Indeed, this investigation could have included any cities in America, and the themes likely would have been the same: Lower funding and resources, disproportionate numbers of teachers and school leaders who do not look like the students they serve, debates over the public’s responsibility to provide fair and equitable education for all students in the jurisdiction, implicit biases from the top to the bottom and a resegregation of schools in America. Integration for Black families was never about an idea that Black students were better off if they could be around White students, it was about the idea that Black students would be better off if they could have access to the same education that White students had — but residential segregation still enables de facto school segregation, when it isn’t coded into policy. For the overwhelming majority of Black students, they’re stuck in segregated, underperforming schools. Schools where the teachers are dedicated to the mission, but where the cities and districts and states have failed to uphold their basic responsibility to maintain the upkeep of the schools and provide enough desks for each child and current textbooks.

Offers a study of Nonverbal Learning Disorder, describing its symptoms and impact on victims, and offers parents advice and information on diagnosing the disorder, finding a therapist, and designing a workable treatment program.