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This do-it-yourself guide offers specific tasks, exercises, and brief case studies to guide educators step by step through the process of establishing a PLC in nine to twelve months

A primer that helps educators and counsellors understand and respond to the extraordinary challenges that children and adolescents may face when dealing with loss and grief. It explains how children and adolescents are affected by various forms of loss, such as divorce; loss of a parent, relative, or pet; violence; and, chronic illness.

This timely handbook helps students and teachers connect content to real life through new resources and learning relationships available through technology.

Filled with reproducible resources and real-life vignettes, this unique book focuses on coaching new teachers in culturally and linguistically diverse school settings, but can be used in any setting.

This book provides numerous approaches for starting a meaningful needs assessment

This book takes the reader through a journey of getting results utilized and then evaluating the needs assessment itself.

Latest update of this internationally popular anthology from George Ritzer.

A completely revised and updated edition of this unique analysis of the world of consumption, from one of the biggest names in sociology today

This book provides a collection of readable, empirically-based selections on treatment effectiveness for substance-abuse clients from diverse backgrounds.

Offers an overview of how to: analyze two distinct types of data; pull them together in a meaningful way; and to derive priorities from the collation of the information that has been generated by the needs assessment. This text can help needs assessment committees (NACs) work through the complexities of analysis and subsequent prioritization.

This book presents the argument that the creative and cultural inquiry undertaken by artists is a form of research.

In A Gendered Choice the author uses his first-hand experience to detail his step-by-step process of implementing single-sex programmes in schools

This book covers key areas of coaching and provides practical suggestions for implementing differentiated and ongoing professional learning for teachers.

Developed for teaching learners of all abilities, this guide presents a powerful approach to literacy development for primary students based on individual coaching, classwide discussions, and assessment.

Brain-Compatible Activities for Mathematics, Grades 4-5 provides teachers with ready-to-use, brain-compatible lessons for mathematics teaching.

Contemporary Readings in Literacy Education provides students with high-quality journal and research articles in literacy education.

This book synthesizes the most current research to help headteachers understand the achievement gap and provides strategies to address the external society factors and internal school factors that contribute to this issue.

This sequel to the bestseller provides extended perspectives, activities, and guidelines for changing schools.

This book proposes a new model in classroom management which helps teachers foster leadership in themselves and their students.

This book guides superintendents in Texas through the Superintendent TExES Exam, but it will also be useful to others across the nation and around the world

Cutting edge, student friendly exploration of the relationship between media and politics, relying on a comprehensive review of the news coverage of the wars in Afghanistand and Iraq as case study.

Providing students with in-depth coverage of families, groups, and communities, this text encourages readers to understand the nature of key macro institutions' impact on human behaviors (and vice versa). Students develop a solid knowledge of different macro HBSE theories including community, human conduct, inequality, and group theories.

Providing a clear framework, this volume helps headteachers align assessment and reporting practices with standards-based education and develop more detailed reports of children's learning and progress.

This book begins with the context of an agency-based evaluation and describes the method within that context. Students will gain a more complete understanding of this contextual challenge and will learn techniques for operating in the face of these challenges.

This guide for head teachers integrates evolutionary change theory with research on continuous improvement to enable school change that improves teaching and learning.

Examines contemporary immigration across the globe, focusing on 20 major nations. This title introduce students to important topics of inquiry at the heart of the field, including movement; settlement; and, control.

A supplemental resource for the text: Family Therapy: Models, Skills and Techniques: A Comprehensive Introduction, and the Instructors Manual.

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How important is family structure? Does the perception that children of divorced parents suffer hold true under the scrutiny of research? Is the traditional two parent/two child family ideal in terms of well-being? In this volume, two leading family researchers analyze these crucial questions. Using the United States National Survey of Families and Households, they examine the four most common family types - two parent families, divorced mothers with children, remarried families and unmarried mothers - to analyze the impact of family structure versus other factors.

The phrase `production of culture' is concerned with how the organizations in which culture is produced and disseminated affect the nature of culture itself. Yet there is no clear consensus on what is meant by this phrase. Crane, in reviewing and synthesizing current research, provides a systematic and accessible approach to this complex subject.She examines the issue on both popular and elite levels. The reader is thus allowed to see how the notion of `production' changes depending on the size of the audience and the structure of the particular cultural industry.