Student Student Life category: 717 books
Empowerment Starts Here
Seven Principles to Empowering Urban Youth
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2011
Empowerment Starts Here covers an experimental approach to social change within urban communities by way of seven distinct principles for student empowerment. Turning classroom methods into a school model, Preparatory School for Global Leadership was the first to experience student empowerment at...
Chasing Rainbows
A student guide to New Zealand
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2015
NEW ZEALAND is the world's most exciting education destination. Students from all around the world flock to the country to study. Why do they come to New Zealand? How do they select their institute and program? What do they study? What work do they do? Do they survive and thrive or crash and burn? And...
Teacher and Student Behaviors
Keys to Success in Classroom Instruction
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
This book provides data and uses stories and personal insights gleaned from nearly 6,000 observations in real classrooms across the nation. The mix of data and descriptions provide a clear picture of the rich interaction of teacher and student behaviors – and how one predicts the other. Graphs and...
Securing the Schoolyard
Protocols that Promote Safety and Positive Student Behaviors
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2018
This book was written as a resource guide for educational and mental health professionals and policymakers, as well as families and communities seeking to develop programming to reduce school violence and promote safe, engaging, and effective schools. This book explores the growing crisis in school...
The Student Success Action Guide
A Daily Guide to Help You Succeed This School Year
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
Achieve Student Success by applying these simple steps. This quick and easy read gives students strategies, techniques and tips to succeed in school today and every day. There are 180 steps students can take each day for the entire school year. Each step is easy yet profoundly powerful. Each step...
EMPOWER Your Students
Tools to Inspire a Meaningful School Experience, Grades 6-12
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
Discover how to motivate students in the classroom, using the elements of EMPOWER—exploration, motivation, participation, openness, willingness, empathy, and resilience. Make school a positive, meaningful experience in your students’ lives and cultivate intrinsic motivation. This highly practical...
Ethnicity in College
Advancing Theory and Improving Diversity Practices on Campus
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
This book explores the importance, and construction, of ethnic identity among college students, and how ethnicity interfaces with students’ interactions on campus, and the communities in which they live.
Based on qualitative interviews with White, Latina/o, African American and Asian students,...
by Abhishek Thakore
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Success today depends a lot on your academic achievements. And to excel in studies, you do not have to be just an intelligent student — but also one who knows how to manage studies and time. This book, brings you an innovative system specifically designed for super achievement.
The Everything College Checklist Book
The Ultimate, All-in-one Handbook for Getting In - and Settling In - to College!
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2013
Maximize your college experience!
The path to higher education is filled with college visits, paperwork, letters of recommendation, essays, and application fees--and that's just to get in! After that comes the financial aid paperwork, student loan notes, scholarship applications, and vouchers--and...
Entering the Real World
Timeless Ideas Not Learned in School
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
Entering the Real World is a collection of practical ideas to empower young adults as they enter and adjust to the real world. The ideas are simple, straightforward and easy to adapt; no major life changes are needed (though some could result). Most high schools and colleges still focus primarily...
The Infographic Guide to College
A Visual Reference for Everything You Need to Know
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2017
For fans of the popular Show Me How series, this illustrated guide to college life has everything a student needs to excel in their first year, from tips on getting involved around campus to advice about applying for loans and studying for exams.
College survival just got graphic!
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Studying at University
How to Adapt Successfully to College Life
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Studying at University is an essential guide for anyone wanting to know how they can make the very best of their university experience. This highly informative book offers guidance to those in sixth form and college on what universities are all about and what being a student actually involves. The...
Young, Educated & Broke
An Introduction to America's New Poor
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
Jamie Borromeo is a Millennial (those born between the years 1980-2000) with a uniquely illuminating perspective on her generation and its interaction with the business, political, and social spheres. "Young, Educated, and Broke", a travel journal memoir, is the intertwined journey in self-exploration...
Now What, Grad?
Your Path to Success After College
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2018
Many soon-to-be graduates are worried about their future. They stress about whether they’ll find a job, if it will be fulfilling, whether they will earn enough to pay off their student loans, and whether they will fail and disappoint their families. Young people need to learn many things that colleges...