Ken Reid: 14 books
by Ken Reid
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2011
In 1977, at the age of 13, Ken became passionate about the sport of bowling. Ken continues to excel in his skill, focus and competency bowling a 300 in 1984. He then joined the Professional Bowlers' Tour in 1987, cashing in the last 4 out of 5 tournaments. His highest league average was 234. In 1990...
One Night Only
Conversations with the NHL’s One-Game Wonders
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2016
Get to know the men who fulfilled their childhood dream
From the beer league to the minor league, hockey players from coast to coast often say they’d give anything to play just one game in the NHL. One Night Only brings you the stories of 39 men who lived the dream — only to see it fade...
Hockey Card Stories 2
59 More True Tales from Your Favourite Players
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
A follow-up to the 2014 national bestseller Hockey Card Stories, Ken Reid’s new offering presents 59 more stories about your favorite hockey cards from the players themselves. Hockey Card Stories 2 will take you all the way back to the 1960s and right up to the Hockey Card Boom of the 1990s. How...
An Essential Guide to Improving Attendance in your School
Practical resources for all school managers
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
In this engaging book Professor Ken Reid focuses on the needs of school professionals and leaders, providing them with workable, achievable solutions to radically reducing their truancy rates. As well as discussing the importance of regular attendance and the importance of sound leadership, Professor...
Hockey Card Stories
True Tales from Your Favourite Players
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Hockey Card Stories reveals what was really going on in your favourite old hockey cards through the eyes of the players depicted on them. Some of the cards are definitely worth a few bucks, some a few cents — but every story told here is priceless. Sportsnet’s Ken Reid presents the cards you loved...
Managing School Attendance
Successful intervention strategies for reducing truancy
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Teachers and governments all agree that if you wish to raise educational standards then it’s imperative to improve school attendance, and yet an average of around ten per cent of secondary pupils are missing school on a daily basis. Despite governments around the globe trying to address this situation,...
Truancy
Short and Long-term Solutions
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2004
Truancy: Short and Long-term Solutions is a practical and accessible guide to dealing with the problem of truancy and non-attendance. It is the first book on the issue to actively focus on solutions to the problem, rather than the causes.
Full of practical examples of the latest ways in which...
Tackling Behaviour in your Primary School
A practical handbook for teachers
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012
Tackling Behaviour in the Primary School provides ready-made advice and support for classroom professionals and can be used, read and adapted to suit the busy everyday lives of teachers working in primary schools today.
This valuable text sets the scene for managing behaviour in the primary...
Tackling Truancy in Schools
A Practical Manual for Primary and Secondary Schools
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
by Ken Reid
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2002
At present about one million pupils truant from their schools on a daily basis and this book examines why they do it. The numerous reasons for truanting discussed are:
* disadvantageous home backgrounds
* problems with settling in socially at school
* poor performance in school
* experiencing bullying...
Better Behaviour through Home-School Relations
Using values-based education to promote positive learning
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
How can we create effective partnerships between home, school and the community?
How can the relationships and communication between families and school be strengthened?
How can families help schools to improve behaviour in their children, both at home and at school?
Using a tried...
by Angela Failler, Clint Curle, Christopher Powell
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015
"The Idea of a Human Rights Museum" is the first book to examine the formation of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights and to situate the museum within the context of the international proliferation of such institutions. Sixteen essays consider the wider political, cultural and architectural...
by Doug Achterman, Marlene Asselin, Steven M. Baule
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2007
This collection of enlightening and stimulating articles, written by some of the most important figures in school librarianship, demonstrates how teacher-librarians, classroom teachers, and administrators can work together to create a 21st century school library media program. With topics that emphasize...
English in Urban Classrooms
A Multimodal Perspective on Teaching and Learning
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2004
English in Urban Classrooms is a ground-breaking text that spans a range of issues central to school English today. It extends not only to the spoken and written language of classrooms, but also to other modes of representation and communication that are important in English teaching. This includes...