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Taking a practice-based approach that is grounded in research and theory, this text offers current and future educational leaders operational knowledge they can employ to construct and sustain a highly effective school culture focused on enhanced student performance.

Taking the evidence based approach - this is the first book to fully focus on social work practice with women.

This guide, packed-full with practical tools such as mini-lessons, technology resources and prompts for discussion, is an indispensible resource when teaching children aged five to 14. The literature-based strategies are based in theory and research, as well as being thoroughly classroom-tested.

This thoroughly updated new edition of the bestselling text trains students to critically read a research article from start to finish. Containing twenty-five engaging articles of both ideal and flawed research, it discusses how to assess them in terms of soundness of the design and appropriateness of the statistical analyses.

From Silos to Systems provides specific application steps for engaging all staff in a systematic approach to dealing with the various causes of school-wide problems.

This contributed book provides a broad-based, practical guide to treating criminal offenders in a correctional mental health practice.

Looking at the multigraph representations of loglinear models, this is a clear, introductory text on the area of graphical models and is an ideal text for those new to the field.

A clear introduction to the principles of using computational and mathematical models in psychology and cognitive science.

Examining the use of technology in health promotion, this text includes case studies and exercises to further develop students' understanding.

Using real cases, narratives, and biographical material, this text examines issues related to the mental health intersect with race and ethnicity. It draws on the experiences of ethnic minority therapists.

A timely exploration of the social context of environmental change and it's effect on mankind. A unique mix of both social and environmental science approaches.

Engaging all communication media this one-volume encyclopedia includes around 250 essays on the varied experiences of social movement media internationally in the 20th and 21st centuries.

A guide to Israel's rich past, unpredictable present, and promising but undoubtedly turbulent future. Informed by opinion polls, survey data, and election results, it clarifies the major issues facing Israeli culture and politics, and explains the complexities of Israel's political institutions, political behavior, and public policies.

The authors provide powerful models of leadership that are effective in developing schools where positive interethnic relations can flourish.

Educators seeking ways to update their presentation skills will find the keys to enriching their workshops with movement, laughter, and learning that lasts.

Featuring a comprehensive six-step process for moving from standards to rubrics, this updated bestseller helps teachers build tasks, checklists, and rubrics; differentiate for special needs; and more.

Combining classroom anecdotes and advice from experienced teachers, this guide demystifies the early stages of an education career and offers strategies for common challenges.

This easy-to-use guide features 75 research-based strategies that will help teachers to engage their students' creativity and build their science literacy.

Written for parents and educators, this guide explains the latest neuroscience research regarding how a child's brain works and how to nurture children for optimal development.

Containing hundreds of colour illustrations and a map section, the six volumes of this encyclopedia cover a very diverse array of topics and give a useful summary of the state of the discipline in the early 21st century.

This new edition presents an up-to-date description of differential item functioning. It describes varying procedures for addressing this process in practical testing contexts and presents useful examples and studies that readers may employ as a guide in their own work

This book demonstrates how to estimate and interpret fixed-effects models in a variety of different modeling contexts.

Formerly published by Peytral PublicationsEducators will discover how emotions affect learning and behavior, recognize the symptoms and sources of imbalance, and promote students' physical, mental, emotional, and social development.

Containing numerous step-by-step examples throughout, this new edition introduces readers to how to use IBM SPSS to plan a study, prepare data for analysis, perform the analysis and interpret the output.

An interdisciplinary textbook focused on providing students with a toolkit of strategies and methodologies for managing environmental disputes.

This volume reviews the policy reforms necessary in the United States for children's homes to become reliable solutions for many of the nation's disadvantaged and abused children. The contributors explore a variety of topics including: judicial issues; child maltreatment; the history of children's homes; regulation and funding; and solutions for reform.

A student-focused reader organized around both established and contemporary areas of intercultural communication research and theory.

The authors want students to understand how Ohio fits into the country's system of federalism vis-a-vis other states, as well as to understand why Ohio plays such a pivotal role in national politics.

Takes an integrated, cross-cultural approach that weaves various developmental and neuroscience research into every chapter. This book includes separate chapters on bilingualism and sign language and offers integrated coverage of the social aspects of language acquisition and language use.

Comprising theories from the various schools of thought classified as cognitive-behavioral (including REBT), this book covers the historical development, theory, process, evaluation and application of the various methods falling under this approach.