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Walden Authors From classroom skills for nurse educators to applied change management, Walden faculty and alumni are sharing their expertise in new books.
 The Sherpa Leadership Model: A Model of Disempowerment
“Front feed” is a newly introduced term defined with this study. This new concept is used to explore whether determining employees' perceptions and priorities prior to the development of programs, policies or processes is beneficial to management. This multiple–case study research project introduces the concept of front feed in relation to the development of cultural diversity programs. Three nonprofit 501(c)3 agencies, tax-exempt organizations governed by a board of directors committed to meeting a public need, participated in separate case studies. The findings indicate that front feed, with additional steps, may offer a tool for managers to enhance the management-worker relationship, improve the quality of programs and processes developed and save valuable time overall. This research was designed for replication and analytical generalization. The forms, surveys and interview questions are included to ease furthering the research. This study can be modified for use in research related to management, evaluation processes and employee development and to continue research on development of cultural diversity programs within all management sectors.
 Academic Achievement, Perceptions and the Arts
Nderu-Boddington’s book is about using arts education as a tool to achieve academic success. The author shows how high school students perceive themselves as part of the assessment process and how educators and policy makers can use this knowledge to create policies to keep the arts in school and make it a core course.
 Leading from the Inside-Out
After years of self-inquiry, discovery, and academic research in the field of leadership development, Dr. Barrett is ready to teach you what it takes to become the leader of your life. By embracing the concepts and developing the 11 leadership practices discussed in this book, you will begin to function as a leader by taking charge of your life and all it encompasses. The Barrett Leadership Model™ is not a feel-good motivational theory; rather, it is a practical guide to achieving sustainable happiness through the creation and pursuit of your life’s vision.
 Complex Decision Making: Theory and Practice
The increasingly complex environment of today's world, characterized by technological innovation and global communication, generates countless possible and actual interactions while limited physical and intellectual resources impinge on decision-makers, both in the public and private domains. At the core of the decision-making process is the need for quality information that allows the decision-maker to better assess the impact of decisions in terms of outcomes, nonlinear feedback processes, and time delays related to the performance of the complex system invoked. This volume reviews the principles underlying complex decision-making, the handling of uncertainties in dynamic environments, and the various modeling approaches used.
 Learning to Predict and Predicting to Learn: Cognitive Strategies and Instructional Routines
Featuring practical instructional routines that are clearly linked to cognitive strategies that students need in order to make sense of text, this book combines a rationale written from the perspective of current research that supports the use of the strategy or instructional routine with clear step-by-step directions and multiple examples from the classroom. These experiences appear as boxed features that are easily identifiable by the reader. The text is written in such a way that readers may start on the first page and work through the end of the book or use the book as a reference for their own practice or as an inservice tool. Each cognitive strategy is linked via convenient matrices to the instructional routines that promote precision thinking on the part of students.
 Roanoke Colony: America' s First Mystery
Walter Raleigh had a dream of starting a colony in the New World. With help from the Queen of England and explorers willing to go, Raleigh starts his journey. But founding his colony doesn’t prove to be as easy as he first thought. From warfare with local Indians to being stranded on an uninhabited island far across the ocean, Raleigh wonders whether he should give up his dream. When Raleigh locates 117 colonists, including women and children, willing to start their homes in an uninhabited land, he feels sure his luck is changing. As he watches the ships sail out of the English harbor, he has faith in their success. So what happened three years later when all 117 colonists are missing? One must read within the covers of the book to see the true journey of Walter Raleigh and his ill-fated colonists.
 John’s Jamestown Journey
Relive the story of Jamestown through John Smith’s own words. Learn how he tried to run away from home as a lad. Read about his accounts of fighting as a soldier in distant lands and being captured by the enemy, and of course live his epic adventure in Jamestown.
In John’s Jamestown Journey, you will go with John Smith as he travels across the ocean to the New World. You will follow in his footsteps as he first meets with the majestic Chief Powhatan. You will witness his strong leadership of the colonists and his occasional cruelty toward the "savages" who lived around him. And of course you will read about his classic fate with a particular fish and his eventual return trip to England.
Enjoy reliving this important part of American history with a man who was largely responsible for making the colony a success. Hear what he had to say about some of his experiences in Jamestown, and find yourself in his lifetime, with his adventure unfolding before your eyes.
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Front Feed: A Research Process for Organizational Change (Paperback)