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By presenting a variety of approaches and strategies, this book is an important guide to how to conduct professional development within schools

Based on the workshop, Nurturing Creativity: Seven Practices for Educators and Students, this book affirms the conviction that creative teachers are effective teachers and emphasizes that every child's creative self must be valued-regardless of a child's cultural and linguistic background.

The author's triangular framework based on federal policy compliance, effective leadership, and innovation helps schools and districts achieve continuous improvement in the 21st century.

Homework Done Right provides teachers with step-by-step guidance on constructing homework assignments that are engaging, motivational and promote real life applications of knowledge.

Prensky presents a model for 21st-century teaching and learning, in which students become learners and creators of knowledge through technology while teachers guide and assess student learning.

Comprehensive yet introductory survey text appropriate for undergraduate students who need historical context, theoretical grounding, critical issues perspective, and the how-to application for community development.

Written for K-5 principals and teachers, this all-inclusive resource introduces a nationally tested discipline plan that emphasizes a team approach to managing student behavior.

This text guides pre-service and in-service teachers in conducting and assessing classroom-based self-study research.

Informed by new research on the brain's plasticity and new insights on how culture relates to student motivation, this resource focuses on engaging even the most reluctant students!

Packed with instructional strategies for students with significant disabilities, this research-based resource helps teachers adapt their curriculum, work collaboratively, develop accurate assessments, track student progress, and more.

Suitable for scholars, graduate students, and general readers interested in the intersections of communication and instruction, irrespective of paradigm, method, or disciplinary background, this title compiles original research and reviews of research in the intersections of communication and instruction from key figures in the disciplines.

This book is dedicated to providing readers with the knowledge and skills to maximize the educational opportunities for children raised in low socio-economic conditions.

A wealth of strategies and ideas help school administrators create a culture that inspires teachers throughout the seasons through fun school-ground activities, celebratory events, and end-of-the-year rewards.

An essential collection of seminal and contemporary studies on the nature of news today, by leaders in the fields of mass communication and media studies.

Designed to support appropriate use of technology for teaching and learning, this reader-friendly resource helps school leaders create, implement, and maintain effective instructional technology policies.

This comprehensive guide for educators and policy makers provides a clear understanding of what the research says about promoting academic success among English Language Learners.

This book is prepares preservice and inservice teachers to address the social, cultural, and critical issues of our times through the use of multicultural children's books.

This comprehensive text helps prepare pre-service and in-service teachers to build and sustain family, school, and community partnerships that are vital to student success.

An indispensable international resource for students and researchers of all levels studying the rapidly developing, interdisciplinary field of criminology.

Offers an alternative view of transsexuality from a psychiatric and European point of view. This book draws together the insights of depth psychology, psychoanalysis, history, anthropology and sociology for rethinking transsexualism in terms of identity, subjectivity and the wider socio-historical world.

Offers coverage of the key theories, concepts and issues in social policy. This text has been designed to provide students with the essential tools to gain a clear understanding of the theoretical debates surrounding the discipline.

The study of digital games is a lively area of research and theorising which draws upon perspectives from a range of disciplines, including sociology, psychology, media and film studies, economics, business, gender studies and computer science. This book brings together these perspectives to offer a unique survey of this field.

Presents an introduction to the study of ageing. This book reflects trends in gerontology, incorporating developments in theory and research as well as international and interdisciplinary perspectives. It also examines cognitive ageing, social protection, retirement, health and illness, and cultural images of old age.

This new edition of a highly acclaimed book blends vision statements, stories, and strategies to guide teachers in creating diverse, inclusive classrooms where all children can experience success.

An inter-disciplinary and international handbook dealing with one of the central themes of social science, edited by two of the leading academics in race and ethnic studies.

A student focused exploration of economic, political, social, and ethical perspectives on advertising, covering issues such stereotyping, controversial products, consumer culture, and new technology.

With the increasing amount of cyberbullying in today's schools, this text provides educators with the means to confront this growing problem, and explains how student's can develop 'cyberbalance'.

A comprehansive resource on counseling practices throughout the world which has been endorsed by the International Division of the American Psychological Association

Fred C. Pampel describes how age combines with other components of inequality by comparing the influence of group membership on social inequality before and after the life course transition to old age. He looks at the differences in public policy and how age inequality -- more than the other sources of inequality -- relates closely to government policies and studies other societies in which both age group differences and overall inequality differ from those in the United States. Pampel makes a comparison of the United States with other nations a central component of the book, providing greater understanding of the larger forces that shape old age.

This book aims to help college students understand how their lives are shaped by the complexities of global social forces in our new century. It will enable students to develop an approach to thinking about social issues and evaluating claims and arguments. It demonstrates the power and value of thinking sociologically about societies today and helps teach the process of investigation, the sociological craft of research, critical thinking, and careful analysis.