Formerly published by Peytral Publications This insightful resource helps educators, parents, and childcare providers discover how emotions affect learning and behavior, recognize the symptoms and sources of imbalance, and promote students' physical, mental, emotional, and social development. Readers will learn more about the body-mind-heart connection, the importance of nutrition, and options for correcting and preventing imbalance.
A Handbook for Change, Elementary and Middle School Edition
This fieldbook provides comprehensive information for principals and teachers in elementary and middle schools to administer, score and interpret climate measures as they engage in organizational and professional development. The authors present instruments to measure the climate of schools, a brief review of the conceptual underpinnings of each tool, scoring procedures, contemporary norms for climate assessment and strategies for change.
High-profile author Excellent companion to new projects in Autism and Asperger's Syndrome. Including students with severe disabilities in mainstream classrooms has become more and more common. These severe disabilities include both physical and intellectual, and the Downing project tackles the most common subject area for inclusion - literacy. Covering a wide age spectrum the author looks at: accessing the general curriculum; literary activities; parental involvement; pre- and post-assessment; IEPs; peer support; school-wide approaches; evaluation and grading; goal-setting. The project also includes very practitioner-oriented pedagogy, including Frequently Asked Questions, chapter by chapter references, bibliography with short summaries, and relevant websites.
Problem solving has always been a fundamental element of mathematics. This innovative book challenges the perception that solving a problem is merely a means to an end. Focusing on problem solving as a subject in its own right, the contributors present a broad range of practical, theoretical, simple, intricate and purely mathematical examples.
Action research is a reflective tool for examining current and future practices in a systematic way. This book assists teachers and administrators in adopting action research as a strategy to explore the causes of problems in schools, and thereby take a more active role in determining the best solutions. The author explains how to implement a strategy, providing numerous illustrations at both the classroom and school system level.
PLACE THIS NEXT TO DONALDSON AND MARNIK IN BROCHURES!!! Intended as a companion to Becoming Better Leaders, this book recounts the experiences and challenges of a group of educators from Maine in their evolving identities as leaders.
In this book, Madeline Hunter presents five factors to help students remember what they have learned: meaning; feeling tone; degree of original learning; practice schedule; and transfer.
Collective Bargaining in an Age of Public Discontent
This book helps school administrators see the many contradictions between the underlying concepts of traditional collective bargaining and the important goals that many school districts seek today, especially decision making based on the informed opinions of all stakeholders in the school.
