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Resiliency in Schools
In eight concise chapters, the authors show how caring people in an educational setting can foster resiliency in themselves, in the classroom, and among individual children. Also provided is a broad range of activities that have been tried in school and community settings, and which provide assessment and evaluations tools with which to monitor the process of changing schools to enhance protective factors in the lives of students and teachers. --foreword, p. ix.
Resiliency in Schools
In this updated edition of Resiliency Education, Henderson and Milstein offer scores of new resources for resilience education as well as an action plan you can use right now to build inner strength and flexibility in your students and staff.
Changing the Way We Prepare Educational Leaders
Educational practitioners in America have become disillusioned with university preparation programmes that fail to prepare them for the realities of the workplace. This volume summarizes the knowledge gained from five of the programmes instigated by the Danforth Foundation in its efforts to stimulate new approaches to the training of educational leaders. The ramifications of what has been learned is discussed and an analysis of future issues for American schools is provided.
Leadership for Resilient Schools and Communities
Combining proven strategies with new information for developing resiliency in schools, this edition emphasizes the critical role of school leaders and features updated exercises for implementing change.
Resilient Aging
As George Burns tells us, you can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old". The desire to live well as we age is widespread. But we need guidance to make our later years meaningful and positive. Many people are looking for ways to improve the quality of their lives as they age. If you are unwilling to settle for a mediocre life in your older years, it's time to discover: How to approach retirement Ways to improve your life if you already are retired The importance of refl ection as well as action How to respond to negative myths about aging Strategies to promote a quality older life Whether you are preparing for retirement or are already experiencing it firsthand, it is important to discover proven methods and strategies to help you improve your life as you pursue Resilient Aging.
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The Pfeiffer Book of Successful Team-Building Tools
Year after year, consultants, trainers, and human resource professionals have come to rely on The Pfeiffer Annuals to provide them with the most current and quality tools on a wide variety of topics. In this book, editor Elaine Biech and contributors to the Annuals have honed in on the important theme of team building to create the first topic-specific book in The Pfeiffer Annuals series. The Pfeiffer Book of Successful Team-Building Tools, 2nd Edition, includes an innovative ten-block model for building a high-performance team and draws on the best-on-the-topic articles from thirty-five years of Annuals volumes.
Closed Education in the Open Society
Preliminary Material -- Giving Our Children the Benefit of the Doubt -- Back to Basics -- The Quest for the Good Society -- The Quest for the Good Education -- Closed Education in the Open Society -- The Kibbutz: A Closed Open Society -- Between Kibbutz and Kibbutz Education -- Faith -- The Ethical Dimension -- The Critical Approach -- The Answer from Liberalism -- The Benefits of Doubt: All That We Truly Have -- Bibliography -- Name Index -- Subject Index.
The Oxford Handbook of New York State Government and Politics
The Oxford Handbook of New York State Government and Politics brings together top scholars and former and current state officials to explain how and why the state is governed the way that it is. The book's thirty-one chapters assemble new scholarship in key areas of governance in New York, document the state's record in comparison to other U.S. states, and identify directions for future research.
