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This fieldbook provides a plan for improving literacy for all students; students who enjoy reading become better writers, more involved learners, and joyful readers!

Trauma and stress can interfere with students' cognitive skills. Dicover how classroom activities can be used to restore feelings of safety, empowerment, and well-being.

This updated bestseller offers more than 70 easy-to-implement classroom strategies with new tips for handling standardized testing, Internet safety, classroom hygiene, parent-teacher relationships, and more!

The author shows readers how to overcome the challenge of implementing NCLB by building organizational capacity through a knowledge model.

This manual for teaching all aspects of writing provides examples, rubrics, and how-to's for helping students grow in skills and write for high stakes and "constructed response" tests.

The authors offer a practical approach to creating a reorganized, fully-integrated student support community that contributes to increasing academic success.

Effective leaders and organizations blossom in productive climates. Personal transformation, one person at a time is the key to building a team of empowered educators.

This expanded collection of letters is truly a time-saving starter kit, providing busy principals with easy-to-personalize templates on a PC- and Mac-compatible CD-ROM to revitalize your communications repertoire.

Learn to focus on essentials and strengthen your priority, time, and task management skills to create balance, enjoyment, and satisfaction in your professional life.

Offers research-based teaching strategies for introducing prekindergarten and elementary school students to the content and skills recommended by the NCTM principles and standards for mathematics. This book presents 47 learning activities, each including: a concise statement of the teaching strategy; precautions and possible pitfalls; and more.

Helps school leaders re-center their decision making on student achievement, mission, and goal alignment. Covers self-assessment, reflective thinking, vision and mission, motivation, and barriers to decision making.

Enhance classroom practice by inviting students to offer feedback on pedagogy, learning styles, and their needs and preferences.

This invaluable resource offers teachers in elementary and secondary schools a deeper understanding of "what works" when teaching students with disabilities in general education classrooms.

This enlightening text provides tips, strategies, and best practices for finding additional daily time and creating enhanced documentation through better record-keeping management.

Through lesson planning ideas, key words, resources, and visual thinking questions, this innovative resource demonstrates how visual arts can be used to teach across all subject areas.

In a detailed format, Wachter guides you through every step in the job change process and becomes the career coach who helps you get the job you've always wanted.

The Social Lens: An Invitation to Social and Sociological Theory covers the key thinkers in Western thought for the past 200 years. Written in a conversational style that is both appealing and provocative, this text uses real life examples to draw readers in and invite them to consider the ideas that have shaped our understanding of society.

Providing an outline for carrying out qualitative projects from start to finish, this work combines epistemology, theory, and methodology. It is illustrated with examples from family relations and human development research.

Describes in detail the key constructs and key skills involved in the craft of psychotherapy.

Loaded with updates, this newly revised second edition gives administrators all the tools they need to create a safe environment for both educators and students.

This practitioner friendly book concentrates on the importance of strategic listening as a critical interpersonal skill for school leaders in guiding their organizations.

Introduces the basic principles of action research and demonstrates how to identify an issue, design and carry out a course of action, and evaluate its impact.

This book is full of interesting, easy to read true-life stories, centered on various cultural dimensions, that prepare students for real clinical situations.

Filled with numerous examples, this best-selling book provides both the practical knowledge and the theoretical foundation necessary to develop successful Whole-Faculty Study Groups.

This practitioner-friendly resource offers guidelines for implementing prevention strategies in the classroom, throughout the school, and at the district level.

Takes the form of an informal dialogue, akin to students and teachers working together in a classroom. This book shows the evolution of grounded theory method over time and the influence of constructionists and post-modern trends upon the author without losing its foundations in the grounding of data and the building theory.

With this easy-to-use leadership resource, you'll find successful strategies with case studies and sample agendas to help the school change process run smoothly.

Presents a hermeneutic orientation and framework to address contextual issues in ethical decision-making in counselling and psychotherapy. This book incorporates many perspectives of ethical theories, which are grounded in various worldviews and sensitive to cultural issues.

This indispensable handbook for mentors, mentees, and new principals will jump-start the learning process of new principals by providing case stories and wisdom from leading mentors across the country.

Full of meaningful insights, this indispensable compilation of suggestions and recommendations offers counsel on everything from health to people skills, always with an eye toward the goal of instructional leadership.