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Created from the first half of Rebecca M. Warner's popular Applied Statistics: From Bivariate Through Multivariate Techniques, this introductory statistics text reflects current thinking in the field and uses a contemporary approach that differs from other well-worn texts in the market.

This resource looks at every aspect of intercultural communication from extensive number of insightful angles, including of contexts such as cultural or ethnic, geographic and situational, covering both verbal and non-verbal interaction, alongside a range of theories and perceptions. The 8th edition continues to be a proven resource for media, culture and communications students.

Cultivate emotional intelligence and eliminate barriers to coaching successChallenging times demand we change how we teach, and research shows that coaching is the best way to bring about robust change in instructional practice. The second edition of Evocative Coaching helps skillful coaches develop trust and unearth the values and fears that both motivate and block teachers from achieving all that they hope.Using the LEAD (listen, emphasize, appreciate, and design) process, Evocative Coaches take a partnership role, ask questions, and co-create designs. This person-centered, no-fault, strengths-based model is grounded in adult learning theory and positive psychology and emphasizes the emotional intelligence needed to establish trust.This hands-on guide for coaches  ·         is grounded in research·         includes real-life vignettes and sample dialogues ·         provides tools designed to invite reflection

Envision and enact transformative change with an iterative visioning process, thought-provoking vignettes, case studies from exemplary schools, key strategies and tools, and practical implementation ideas.

Discover how to create a reading/writing oasis, blend narrative and descriptive writing, help students compose persuasive cover letters, use "Five Circles/Five Paragraphs" and "Punny Valentines," and more!

A manual for instructors whose classroom resides online

With articles by Alan M. Blankstein, Pedro A. Noguera, Mavis G. Sanders, Paul D. Houston, and others, this volume examines educators' pivotal role in leading family and community involvement in school success.

With information for administrators and authentic tools for teachers, this hands-on resource demonstrates how student achievement increases when an entire school focuses on making differentiation work.

Full of intervention strategies, this resource helps teachers understand ADHD, make accommodations, promote appropriate behaviour, and deal with impulsivity, attention problems, hyperactivity, and more.

Examines strategies and techniques from the perspective of those who are lobbied - the people who know what resonates and what falls upon deaf ears in congressional offices. This title offers a behind-the-scenes perspective on what constitutes the art of lobbying.

This resource is ideal for helping teachers build a greater understanding of the unique needs of gifted kids, particularly their intensities as identified by psychologist Kazimierz Dabrowski and the impact of those intensities on their social and emotional development.

This research-based study helps administrators create a school environment that responds to teacher emotions and results in higher teacher retention, instructional effectiveness, and student achievement.

Thinking and Acting Like a Solution-Focused Counselor provides counsellors with a practical guide to learning to think and then act like an expert counsellor.

International coverage of the dilema between race, ethnicity and crime.

Focuses on how to manage human service organizations in ways that lead to the provision of high quality and effective services to consumers. This book offers information on practice innovations, theoretical perspectives and empirical research to suggest the key elements of an effectiveness driven approach to management in the human services.

A strong superintendent is critical to the success of an entire school district, and this exciting new resource details the issues surrounding the state policies that appoint superintendents.

Gifted students who are at risk because of learning disabilities, gender issues, or economic disadvantages are highlighted in this volume.

Activate learning in all adolescents-including advanced learners-with these practical, developmentally appropriate techniques based on brain research, technology, and a six-point differentiation model.

Offering grade-level activities and creative reproducibles for teaching children to read fluently, independently, and with comprehension, this book contains standards-based, ready-to-use activities to strengthen students' development in: phonemic awareness and phonics; comprehension and fluency; vocabulary; and, spelling and word analysis.

With contributions from content teachers, this insightful book discusses instructional approaches, student activities, and textbooks that can motivate reluctant learners to become active readers.

Offers a collection of 27 essays that explores the range of theorizing about communication, cutting across all lines of traditional division in the field.

Gives teachers a real-world context for learning about and accommodating children with diverse backgrounds and abilities. To help teachers practice working with diverse students, the authors have developed a set of biographies and simulated cumulative files of six students at three levels (early childhood, middle school, and high school).

This resource offers supportive intervention strategies for counselors and administrators committed to working effectively with bullies and the students they victimize.

Conducting Health Research: Principles, Process, and Methodsand consumers of health research. Through real-world examples and step-by-step guidance, Frederick J. Kviz provides students with the skills they need to: identify and evaluate research strengths and limitations as practitioners; to actually perform the various core aspects of research; and to choose among alternative methods when making decisions about health practice, policy, and future research needs.

Formerly a SkyLight PublicationThe author describes what "intelligence-focused" lessons look like and examines the process for creating them.

Deviant Behavior covers the social forces that shape deviance, the motivations and consequences of deviant behaviors, and how our definition of deviance changes over time. Authors John A. Humphrey and Frank Schmalleger discuss a wide range of deviant behaviors¿from criminal acts to extreme forms of everyday behavior¿and provide students the necessary foundation to understand the impact of globalization on traditional and emerging forms of deviance.

Drawing on examples from across the social and behavioral sciences, Statistics With R: Solving Problems Using Real-World Data introduces foundational statistics concepts with beginner-friendly R programming in an exploration of the world's tricky problems faced by the "R Team" characters.

Program Evaluation: Embedding Evaluation into Program Design and Development provides an in-depth examination of the foundations, methods, and relevant issues in the field of evaluation. With an emphasis on an embedded approach, where evaluation is an explicit part of a program that leads to the refinement of the program, students will learn how to conduct effective evaluations that foster continual improvement and enable data-based decision making.

In Crime Prevention: Programs, Policies, and Practices, criminologists Steven E. Barkan and Michael Rocque present a well-rounded exploration of evidence-based policies, programs, and practices. Grounded in criminological theory and emphasizing the social, psychological, and biological roots of crime, this text presents current research, perspectives, and examples that capture the key crime prevention concepts, including the public health model for crime prevention and strategies that integrates theory and practice.

Crisis, Trauma and Disasters teaches counselors how to respond and intervene with individuals, groups and organizations. The book begins with a description of the counselor¿s role and responsibilities and then presents chapters on crisis, trauma and disasters with corresponding chapters on working with those affected. Each chapter defines the issue and contrasts it with general counseling requirements, and then presents the history and theory as well as common interventions. Each chapter contains The Counselor¿s Toolkit and presents assessment, case conceptualization and treatment approaches followed by case illustrations. The text concludes with a chapter on emerging trends and a chapter on caring for those who care.