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This book will encourage readers to continue pushing forward to become more reflective educational leaders. It will also equip them with the success principles that have helped the author excel as a transformational leader in his career in education so that they can likewise excel.

Dave Stuart Jr.'s work is centered on a simple belief: all students and teachers can flourish. These 6 Things is all about streamlining your practice so that you're teaching smarter, not harder, and kids are learning, doing, and flourishing in ELA and content-area classrooms.

Cultural Proficiency helps establish a mindset and worldview for effectively describing and responding to inequities. Its inside-outside approach to leadership is grounded in the assumption that honest introspection is a requirement to leading equity-driven change.

This book helps readers create and implement high-quality Tier 1 systems of support, including core curriculum classroom lessons and schoolwide activities.

With 75 tasks on full-color pages, this book offers a literacy instruction plan that ensures students benefit from independent effort and engagement.

High quality leadership coaching is one of the most effective methods of professional development for leaders. Coach It Further highlights the important aspects of leadership that leaders and coaches can work on together.

With a focus on learning rather than performance and the process rather than the product, this guide will revolutionize your grading practices and provide clarity of progress.

Applicable to educators across all disciplines and grade levels, this book provides the tools to analyze, design, and refine cognitively engaging tasks of learning.

Learn to make sense of challenging change journeys and accelerate implementation with this practical framework that includes human-centered tools, resources and mini case studies.

Drawing from their coaching and facilitation experience and expertise, the authors of this book offer educators strategies for meaningful conversation in an ever-changing landscape.

This step-by-step guide helps identify students who need Tier Three support, create procedures and protocols, and develop individualized interventions.

Understanding and Evaluating Research: A Critical Guide shows students how to be critical consumers of research and to appreciate the power of methodology as it shapes the research question, the use of theory in the study, the methods used, and how the outcomes are reported.

Drawing on extensive teaching and clinical experience, this book discusses how therapists can bring about change in group settings using a well-developed organizing framework that utilizes interpersonal processes.

Crisis Intervention takes into account various environments and populations across the lifespan to provide students with practical guidelines for managing crises.

Through cases focusing on the social, reputational, and environmental consequences of corporate activities, Corporate Responsibility demonstrates how to make difficult choices, promote responsible behaviour within organizations, and understand the role personal values play in developing effective leadership skills.

This book adopts a unique strengths-based approach in teaching students to focus on the positive attributes of individual clients and incorporate those strengths, along with other essential cultural considerations, into their diagnosis and treatment.

This book addresses how to scale-up and sustain effective forms of leadership development over long enough periods of time to realize the positive effects on large numbers of students of improved school leadership.

Examining democracies from a comparative perspective helps us better understand why politics—or, as Harold Lasswell famously said, "who gets what, when, and how"—differ among democracies. American Difference: A Guide to American Politics in Comparative Perspective takes you through different aspects of democracy—political culture, institutions, interest groups, political parties, and elections—and, unlike other works, explores how the United States is both different from and similar to other democracies. The fully updated Second Edition has been expanded to include several new chapters and discussion on civil liberties and civil rights, constitutional arrangements, elections and electoral institutions, and electoral behavior. This edition also includes data around the 2016 general election and 2018 midterm election

Written with a learning-by-doing approach in mind, Yonnie Chyung’s 10-Step Evaluation for Training and Performance Improvement gives students actionable instruction for identifying, planning and implementing a client-based program evaluation. The book introduces readers to multiple evaluation frameworks and uses problem-based learning to guide them through a 10-step evaluation process. As students read the chapters, they produce specific deliverables that culminate in a completed evaluation project.

The purpose of this book is provide guidance for how to construct the incubator of normal lessons so that thoughtful minds are naturally grown.

Focusing on the methods that are commonly used by social scientists, this text introduces the regression methods for analysing spatial data.

This is a review of democracy in the European Union. It deals with the two major challenges of interest articulation in the EU, political parties and lobbying and discusses how democracy becomes the key element in the linkage between the EU and its member states, among other issues.

This is a book about collaboration by education professionals on a global scale by first establishing the need for it then outlining how that collaboration can be created.

Examines how government and administration in America's largest cities have changed between 1960 and 1990 by tracing demographic and economic changes over the period and explaining what those changes have meant for politics, policies and the general quality of life.

Gleaned from the author's experience of working with child molesters, this text provides the information for readers to recognize offenders' deceptiveness and respond with appropriate interventions. Topics include: sex offender evaluation and ways of obtaining information from offenders.

This single reference volume features every cutting-edge CQ Researcher report published in 2017. CQ Researcher is the most trusted source for in-depth reporting on current, vital issues, and is the top choice of librarians and students seeking original, comprehensive reporting and analysis on the issues shaping the world.

Effective Communication in Criminal Justice is the perfect companion for any criminal justice course that discusses communication and writing. Authors Robert E. Grubb and K. Virginia Hemby teach students how to be both effective writers and communicators-essential skills for anyone interested in criminal justice.

The Will to Kill: Making Sense of Senseless Murder is an academic, yet engrossing, exploration of extraordinary and seemingly inexplicable cases of homicide - not to sensationalize them, but because these are the cases that inform public opinion and policy.