You may have to Search all our reviewed books and magazines, click the sign up button below to create a free account.
A field-tested curriculum designed to assist in 'restructuring' your middle school program to prevent at-risk students from dropping out. Through the diversity and expertise of many contributorsover years of collaborative field researchcomes a proven curriculum that outlines and gives you examples of a school-based approach to providing your students with a solid foundation of social decision making and problem solving skills.
"School counseling staff, as well as teachers and others running advisory or related groups, will find this manual to be useful for helping students succeed in middle school. At this critical point in their lives, young adolescents can move in a positive and hopeful direction, or they can enter into a negative, downward spiral." "SDM/SPS provides students with basic school survival skills and research-based strategies for responsible decision making and problem solving. SDM/SPS uses a positive, project-oriented approach to help reduce school violence, foster social and emotional intelligence, improve academic effort and attention, develop multicultural perspectives, and prevent at-risk students from giving up on school." "The authors present a thoroughly tested and effective approach for working with a broad spectrum of learners, including those with emotional and behavioral disorders. The manual includes numerous reproducible worksheets and assessment tools for tracking progress. It provides strategies for supporting academic achievement, improving media literacy skills, encouraging parent involvement, and implementing a school-community service project."--BOOK JACKET.
None
"Angels in Action" is a delightful children¿s book about what angels do. Their jobs, gleaned from the Bible, are told through poetry that can be sung to the tune of ¿Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star.¿ The book is illustrated with various art genres, including children¿s drawings and classical art. The first angels presented are from the Old Testament and then the focus moves to the work of angels at Christmas and Easter. (Ages 4-8) (46pp. full-color illus. Masthof Press, 2017.)