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This indispensable guide demonstrates how to turn students into investigators of history, rather than memorizers and regurgitators of dates and disconnected facts.

A comprehensive text that allows headteachers and school mamangers to monitor teacher quality

A brief, practical how-to guide to developing a learning culture in not-for-profit organizations.

This user-friendly handbook focuses on five facets essential to successful organizations-mission, strategy, organizational structure, people, and leadership-to help principals become proactive, effective school leaders.

Aligning leadership with current research on human intelligence, this book provides school leaders with insight into understanding how attentive leadership significantly impacts growth and achievement in school communities.

Sample units demonstrate how to use the Parallel Curriculum Model to design high-quality curriculum in language arts. Each unit includes instructions, assessments, and skills/standards.

A challenging book that will help students on counselling courses think about different approaches to race and diversity

This teacher-friendly book presents a step-by-step approach for implementing the Explicit Direct Instruction (EDI) approach in diverse classrooms. Based on educational theory, brain research, and data analysis, EDI helps teachers deliver effective lessons that can significantly improve achievement all grade levels.

This comprehensive, practical book provides user-friendly tools for creating transition plans to help students with disabilities successfully put their goals into action and navigate postsecondary environments.

Insightful, relevant and comprehensive, this book explains how offender rehabilitation has developed historically and in recent years.

From highly renowned authors whose writing style is a proven success, ensuring theoretical content is combined with extensive case examples.

This book offers a comprehensive overview and steps for conducting classroom research. It shows teachers how to use the research to assess and adapt literacy teaching.

Offering a child-centered approach for teaching 8- to 12-year-olds, this detailed resource discusses child development, instruction and assessment, and professional growth and advocacy.

Combines theoretical sophistication with empirical detail to provide an essential overview of the content of contemporary political geography. A unique overview of the incorporation of socio-cultural theory into the discipline.

Written by a highly experienced editor in academic publishing, this book contains just what students and academics need to know to get their work into print, with lots of practical advice and examples.

A comprehensive account of power and organizations, unlocking power as the central relation of modern organizations and society. The authors present an excellent synthesis of organization, social and political theory to offer an overview of power and organizations that is historically informed, addresses current issues and is comprehensive in scope.

Ideas, strategies, and words of wisdom gleaned from practical experience to help prepare you for anything a new school leader might encounter.

This easy-to-read resource describes several popular approaches to coaching, including literacy coaching, cognitive coaching, instructional coaching, content-focused coaching, and classroom-management coaching, and features contributions from leaders in each field.

Description of 29 group work practice techniques which have applicability in clinical, support, and organizational groups.

Accessible, lively and rich with the latest research ideas this textbook introduces students to the core theories, approaches, and findings that are the necessary foundations for developing an understanding of evolutionary psychology

Offers a detailed presentation of theoretical perspectives and theorists, but also includes a history of the social environment for each theoretical perspective and biographies of the various theorists. This book includes discussions of the levels of analysis and the assumptions of the theorists regarding society and people.

Co-authored by Albert Ellis - a founder of modern psychology who has originated his own personality theory. All theories are critically evaluated against current research, making them meaningful to aspiring clinicians.

Critical, provocative and up to date, this book will stimulate debate about the current penal crisis.

This book is a much-needed reappraisal of the Williams approach, correcting misinterpretations and demonstrating its singular relevance to the problems and potentials facing cultural studies today. What emerges is a logically consistent and penetrating way of `doing cultural studies' that successfully challenges many of the dominant approaches in the field.

This book provides the first accessible introduction to neural network analysis as a methodological strategy for social scientists. The author details numerous studies and examples which illustrate the advantages of neural network analysis over other quantitative and modelling methods in widespread use. Methods are presented in an accessible style.

This work analyzes the state in terms of its component parts and shows the interaction of subnational, national and supernational actors in the emerging European polity. This approach offers a view through which to assess the future course of European integration.

This resource presents a step-by-step, four-phase model for developing effective prereferral intervention teams and presents methods for evaluating the effectiveness of a prereferral intervention program.