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This book helps bridge the gap between classroom practice and educational psychology with an integrated model that helps teachers and administrators transform data into actionable knowledge.

A dynamic guide to improving student achievement through high impact teaching practices and school improvement

Ideal for inclusive settings, this newly retitled edition of Wanna Play provides many easily implemented and fun-filled ways to enhance children's social skills.

Updated to look at the changes that have happened in higher education that affect adjunct faculty, this second edition provides a practical resource that will help staff manage their roles effectively.

Offers an introductory qualitative research for social science disciplines. This book covers the full range of methodologies and viewpoints about the field, including coverage of social media as a tool to facilitate research or as a venue for study.

The Encyclopedia of School Health offers quick access to health and wellness information most relevant to children in America's K-12 school setting. Valuable guidance is provided on: developmental stages; acute and chronic illnesses; special education; nutrition; crisis response; prevention; and more.

Turn RTI research into practice with interventions linked to the Common Core; strategies for screening and progress monitoring; and a companion website with additional resources.

This book helps bridge the gap between the theory of evaluation and its practice, giving students the specific skills they need to use in different evaluation settings.

A new edition for science teachers on teaching science through an inquiry-based process.

This book addresses the body of statutory and case law covering both the military and military conduct. Four chapters discuss the relationship between the Supreme Court and military justice, covering the Civil War era, World War II, the post-war period from 1956 to 1987, and developments since the September 11, 2001, attacks.

This book will identify the elements that are basic to any plan and will apply these elements within an ongoing example.

Providing insightful coverage of diversity and multicultural issues, How to Form a Group focuses on all aspects of forming an effective group.

This book explores how group leaders can foster a culture of change within their settings.

This accessible book details the competencies, functions, and strategies that help members benefit from a positive group culture as they pursue their own learning.

This easy-to-understand book provides practical strategies for helping members learn from their ongoing group experience, including guided illumination of selected group events.

How to Evaluate Groups provides practical guidance on how you can establish-or collaborate with researchers to accomplish-research designs aimed at evaluating group process and outcomes.

This accessible book Demonstrates how the full range of group work, from remedial through preventive groups, is manifested in an array of community settings.

The authors emphasize remedial, developmental, and preventive applications of groups-including psychoeducation group formats-and cover groups that have an educational and/or career focus.

This seminal text is like no other, successfully blending the best of what technology has to offer with guidelines for meeting the objectives set forth by the Common Core.

Common Core CPR is needed. Urgently. Embracing what is best about the standards, Lent and Gilmore explicitly connect ideal outcomes to strategies for coaxing reluctant learners into engagement and achievement.

A guide designed to deepen school board members' understanding of high quality professional learning, its impact on student achievement, and its relation to key responsibilities and decisions of school boards.

A book to guide special education teachers in their preperation for the TExES certification examination but also useful for students studying to be special educators or seeking to be a more effective practitioner.

Making an important new contribution to the field of narrative research, this text provides both a new theoretical orientation as well as a set of practical techniques that students can use to conduct narrative inquiry.

A one-of-a-kind guide for teachers on how to motivate and inspire students in every science class.

This book focuses on the questions: What is the self? When the self is supported and developed, students are more apt to reach their full potential. The authors provide concrete ideas that inspire academic success, stimulate curiosity, and develop a strong sense of self among students AND teachers.

A handy five-step wellness guide helping busy teachers to optimize their classroom effectiveness and breeze through stressful and busy times.

Thoroughly examining children's social and problem-solving skills in a unique way, this book builds on students' own problem-solving successes. Dwelling on the child's unique life experience and what has worked successfully thus far, this provides a reinvigorating and enriching of existing neural connections.

Packed with skill building activities, this guide takes you through all the stages of producing your social or behavioural sciences dissertation, from start to finish.

This title brings together leading family communication researchers to review 12 different types of family relationships, presenting a fuller understanding of relationships that fall outside of the boundaries of traditional family communication textbooks.

This book encourages students to adopt a particular mindset towards journal articles., a mindset that recognizes the many strengths of social research-especially its advantages over ordinary ways of knowing things.