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For educators who want to shift from providing costly special learning programs for a few students, to providing excellent educational services for all students.

Bestselling author W. James Potter challenges media scholars and students to change the way they think about the media.

This resource presents a proven mentoring model for recruiting, supporting, and retaining effective principals.

This hands-on resource answers paraprofessionals' most common questions and offers over 400 inclusive strategies, a new chapter on reading, and a CD-ROM with reproducible forms

This resource presents an overview of how three-, four-, and five-year-olds learn to read and shows school leaders how to implement and support quality early literacy programs.

This resource provides principals with practical support, step-by-step plans, and hands-on strategies to lead the development of thriving professional learning communities in their schools.

This a practical guide to multicultural counselling from a variety of perspectives.

Provides a comprehensive treatment, using multiple theoretical perspectives to understand and examine all workplace relationships.

Based on a program that has benefited over 2 million children, this updated edition outlines steps for school reform and achievement through prevention, intervention, and assessment to promote reading.

Student's learn best when they are supported by a community that values education. Based on solid educational research, this book offers teachers and administrators practical strategies for forming effective partnerships with every type of family group.

One in three schools now provides extended services - access to health and social care services, childcare, sports clubs, etc - and this book is for managers of these schools: it shows them how to adapt their current practices and how to make the most of the new framework in which they are operating.

This book provides opportunities for principals and assistant principals to develop a shared vision for their relationship and school, and to design a plan for communication and professional growth.

An easy to use guide to radio theory and the relatively new field of 'Radio Studies', one of the most important growth areas in British and American Media Studies at present.

Presents information about relevant Biological Science in a way that a non-medical professional can understand.

Lively and critical study of the main approaches to Dementia Studies, examining current principles and ideologies as well as presenting alternative ideas for future care and understanding.

This book examines five Title I primary schools that have sustained outstanding achievement gains over time and shows how other schools can duplicate their success.

Reflecting the broad nature of this area, this book goes beyond merely looking at organised crime and terrorism to present readers with a wide-ranging introduction, explaining the real-world relevance of all key theories and providing plenty of guidance for wider reading

Presented through exciting examples, with an emphasis on understanding rather than computation, the Second Edition provides a crystal clear introduction to the main statistical procedures used in the psychological and social sciences.

An unrivalled and entertaining introduction to the essentials of critical theory in marketing

Methods in Psychological Research 3e is pedagogically driven, interactive, and highly applied to engage and motivate students taking what is often considered a "drudge" requirement.

From Pulitzer-nominated journalist and international best-selling author, Noah benShea, this quick-reference collection of quotes belongs on the desk or in the briefcase of every school administrator.

`Darryl Glaser supplies an illuminating overview of the scholarship since 1970 on South Africa's political history. His emphasis is on the debates between liberals, Marxists, and to a lesser extent "post-structuralists" about the origins and the course of South Africa's racial order' - Tom Lodge, University of Witwatersrand

Written from the authors' experience in conflict intervention in their private consulting practice, this book addresses insights and methods in private mediation, small group facilitation, system design, large-scale interventions, and public-issue management. It discusses numerous methods and principles in conflict resolution.

This Second Edition updates the techniques of assessment and includes more coverage of interventions following on from assessment. The book considers the various roles of statutory agencies, the legal framework, and provides practical advice on interviewing children and making assessments.

This expanded and updated second edition of Legal Issues in Child Abuse and Neglect Practice offers a state-of-the-art exploration of what role the law can play in bettering the lives of victimized children.

Positions issues management as an essential part of strategic planning and management for any organization

Provides specific strategies for counsellors working with boys and male adolescents from different cultural backgrounds. This title examines how psychological, career and athletic development of boys is shaped by a complex interaction of biological, social, cultural and economic forces.