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This concise handbook offers over 100 ready-to-use performance lists, holistic rubrics, and analytic rubrics appropriate for K-12 science classroom programs.

Organizational Citizenship Behavior (OCB) has become a foundation for concepts in Organizational Studies. This book deals with OCB. It is suitable for teachers, scholars, and graduate students interested in OCB.

A practical introduction to multi-level modelling, this title offers an introduction to HLM and illustrations of how to use this technique to build models for hierarchical and longitudinal data.

Leadership in Nonprofit Organizations is about exemplary leadership as found in both corporate and nonprofit organizations. The authors look at nonprofit organizations both to understand and appreciate their complexities, and to reach conclusions about the nature of leadership in any context, including for-profit and governmental entities.

Providing students with a system for thinking about crime, this book shows how crime draws from the larger ecosystem, how offenders forage for targets and how they depend on one another. It considers how crime feeds off legal activities and shows how crime ecology can help shut off crime opportunities and reduce crime in local areas.

The perfect accompaniment to existing textbooks for courses on human resource management.

The goal of this book is to help students and practitioners see difficult moments as learning experiences and to empower them to be imaginative, creative and flexible counsellors. It uses illustrations, humour and a common sense approach, making it stand out from the competition.

Examines the work of feminist theorists who have challenged traditional communication theory, contributing to the development of feminist communication theory by identifying its important contours, shortcomings, and promise. This book argues that feminist communication theory must address theories of gender, communication, and social change.

Written by leading academics in organization theory, this book contains definitions of all the key terms a student studying organization theory needs to understand, along with discussions of each area and further reading.

The essential guide for all who wish to understand better the debates, or who seek a practical and up-to-date guide to contemporary thought and practice.

Follows the stories about good practice, to reflect on the lessons learned, and to feel uplifted by social work's potential for positive change and social justice. This book includes case examples from a wide range of service user groups, including people with mental health problems, disabilities, parenting difficulties, and those living in care.

Aimed at readers with minimal experience in computer programming, this book provides a theoretical and methodological rationale for using ABM in the social sciences. It concludes with practical advice about how to design and create ABM, a discussion of validation procedures, and some guidelines about publishing articles based on ABM.

Provides a step-by-step process for conducting practitioner inquiry projects by collecting, analyzing, and using data, and offers guidelines for developing counselors' advocacy, leadership, and collaboration skills.

This how-to handbook defines what school culture is, how it works, and why it is critically important, and helps you assess how your school measures up.

Provides a synthesis of the literature on forgiveness in relationships, with emphasis on the role of interpersonal communication. This book defines forgiveness as a communication process which allows partners to confront relational wrong doing, manage intense emotional responses, forgo legitimate claims to revenge, and repair the relationship.

Captures the interdisciplinary realities that the public face, and the means in which a risk balance is evident in the security decisions made to deal with crime, terrorist activities and environmental disasters.

The SAGE Course Companion on Financial Accounting is an accessible introduction to the subject that will help readers to master key concepts and enhance their thinking skills in line with course requirements.

Offers an overview of the leadership and management of learning in social care education and practice. This book provides the knowledge necessary for candidates following post-qualifying awards for social work in leadership, management and practice education. It is also useful for social care practitioners responsible for staff development.

Various social workers encounter complex and diverse forms of loss throughout their practice. This book helps trainee and practitioners navigate these difficult situations by developing the skills and values necessary for practice. It explores definitions and assessment of loss, and psychological aspects of loss and grief.

Taking readers through the practical history of ethnography from its anthropological origins through to its use in a variety of organizational, academic and business contexts, this book covers the research project process, starting with research design, and dealing with such practical issues as gaining access, note-taking, and project management.

Examines the transformations in our experience of time and space which are brought about by the capacity of broadcasting to bring us the world in the moment in which it is unfolding, situating the live television event in the context of an expanding and increasingly complex global communicative framework.

Brief Cognitive Behaviour Therapy

Providing ten steps to develop portfolios that demonstrate professional growth, this complete resource presents tips and strategies for using digital technology and guidelines for creating portfolios.

Engaging analysis the of the process of globalization and its impact on the world's most popular sport.

Translating brain research into best practice, this book offers teachers a concise Strategic Learning Model for the active transfer of knowledge to students' long-term memory.

Presents the newest research on the adolescent brain and offers a framework for linking brain-based teaching to students' social, emotional, and cognitive needs.

This standards-based, teacher-friendly second edition offers step-by-step procedures that make this effective teaching model highly doable for all teachers, with examples showing problem-based learning in action.

Offers teachers NCTM-aligned projects and lessons to re-energize mathematics education. This title includes research about effective methods for teaching mathematics, a chapter that focuses on algebra concepts, 15 student activities, and streamlined information for teachers preparing to implement the activities.