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Synthesizes knowledge about the nature of environmental influences upon children's development. This title explores such issues as individual differences in response to stress, medical treatment, parenting styles and teaching approaches.

Anorexia nervosa, obesity, failure to thrive and psychosocial dwarfism are among the major growth disorders considered in this volume. It describes the emergence and course of each specific disorder, discusses known or suspected risk factors and highlights unsolved clinical and research issues.

Aims to examine the knowledge and skills a practitioner requires to work in a nursing home, including patient-family concerns, administrative tasks, work with other nursing home staff and community relations. The text is intended for use by students and professionals involved in nursing home work.

A revised edition of this account of the development of an instrument to measure assumptions about people in general. It places the study of assumptions of human nature within the context of the ever-increasing cynicism in society and considers insights gained from other disciplines.

Building Effective Afterschool Programs

Successful schools are built on a strong foundation of Quality. In this book, Bonstingl outlines the blueprints for creating such a foundation and provides practical tools and examples for putting the Quality Philosophy to work at every level.

A comprehensive program that leads directly and swiftly to better practices, better decision making, improved staff morale, and higher student achievement.

Highlights include a comprehensive exploration of more than 60 proven practices, results-oriented programs, policies, and innovative movements/theories.

Offers a practical plan to pair experienced administrators with struggling colleagues to support continuity of leadership and create effective education. Featuring three-phase model of planning, implementing, and assessing, this title focuses on promoting more multicultural schools responding to critical concerns for school administrators.

Drawing from their 20 years of experience working with parents, community volunteers, teachers, and school site administrators, the authors present a concise, easy-to-understand approach to building and working with these powerful allies.

This book is a must-read for teachers and educators who recognize that it takes more than scholarly achievement to help shape a student into a successful adult.

This easy-to-use guide to evaluating compensatory education programs offers a synthesis and an expansion of handouts, reports, graphs and charts, and communiques related to the authors' work with 50 school districts.

This book contains the tools you need to provide an environment that leads to productivity, academic success, and learning.

Beginning with July, this reference provides a month-to-month checklist of tasks that if properly addressed, will make the school year run smoothly from opening to end.

The Second Edition provides lively and inspiring views of school leadership that is both grounded in reality and compellingly hopeful that this reality can be redefined for the better.

School-tested ways to stretch curriculum dollars, get better administration for less money, and more.

Maximize children's learning potential by tapping into all of the resources of school and home - win at the reading game when parents become effective partners.

Even the beginning teacher can use this fresh perspective on assessment to help students focus on strengths and overcome weaknesses.

Now aspiring, new, and veteran principals can learn to use intuitive leadership as a vehicle to go beyond traditional leadership roles and produce greater results.

Expert teacher and trainer Susan J. Jones presents a no-nonsense, reality-based approach to classroom instruction that will help learners at all levels achieve lifelong success.

This user-friendly, authoritative guide for cheating features specific techniques for identifying, deterring, and responding to this detriment to learning and assessment.

This guidebook offers teachers eight ready-to-use strategies to help students make good choices for good behavior in the classroom as well as in the real world.

Improve your leadership skills through performance-based activities, exercises, analysis, and simulations.

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This unique A-Z guide provides at-a-glance medical information about 150 illnesses, injuries, and medical conditions that affect adolescents in middle schools and high schools, providing details about signs and symptoms, attendance, medications, and more.