Jossey Bass imprint: 1362 books
The Breakthrough Challenge
10 Ways to Connect Today's Profits With Tomorrow's Bottom Line
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014
The world’s most forward-looking CEOs recognize the real challenge facing business today: a fundamental shift in the nature of commerce. While sustainability programs, government action, and nonprofits are all parts of the solution, CEOs and other leaders must focus on social, environmental, and...
Three Moves Ahead
What Chess Can Teach You About Business
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2010
Three Moves Ahead shows how classic chess strategies address the #1 problem of Information Age executives: how to move quickly in the face of incalculable complexities and unexpected change. This witty and novel guide, written for non-players, is packed with scores of real-world examples showing how...
Social Skills Success for Students with Autism / Asperger's
Helping Adolescents on the Spectrum to Fit In
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
The only evidence-based program available for teaching social skills to adolescents with autism spectrum disorders
Two nationally known experts in friendship formation and anxiety management address the social challenges faced by adolescents with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). The book helps...
Schools for All Kinds of Minds
Boosting Student Success by Embracing Learning Variation
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2010
This book shows how schools can--and must--develop expertise in "learning variation" (understanding how different kinds of minds learn) and apply this knowledge to classroom instruction in order to address the chronic learning challenges and achievement gap faced by millions of students....
Strategies for Teaching Boys and Girls -- Elementary Level
A Workbook for Educators
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2010
In his best-selling classic Boys and Girls Learn Differently, Michael Gurian explained the origin and nature of gender differences in the classroom. His important book explored the behavior teachers observed and the challenges they faced with both boys and girls in their classrooms. Taking the next...
Lead Positive
What Highly Effective Leaders See, Say, and Do
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2014
How to implement effecitve, magnetic leadership by applying asset-based thinking and shifting your mindset from the negative to the positive
Lead Positive takes the fundamentals of Asset-Based Thinking (ABT) and turns them into a playbook for successful leadership. ABT is a simple mindset management...
Big Questions, Worthy Dreams
Mentoring Emerging Adults in Their Search for Meaning, Purpose, and Faith
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2011
Praise for Big Questions,Worthy Dreams
"The things at stake in this tenth anniversary edition are even more profound and urgent than they were the first time around. This is not a little story about young people. It is a big story about humanity and the persistent quest for meaning and...
Helping College Students Find Purpose
The Campus Guide to Meaning-Making
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2009
??PRAISE FOR HELPING COLLEGE STUDENTS FIND PURPOSE
"A generous and inspiring book! In the spirit of 'convocation,' Nash and Murray call together both university faculty and student affairs professionals to provide them new means for helping more college students realize the highest purpose...
What Our Stories Teach Us
A Guide to Critical Reflection for College Faculty
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
Praise for What Our Stories Teach Us
"In her new book What Our Stories Teach Us, Linda Shadiow invites college faculty to use their personal and professional stories to reflect more critically and meaningfully on their teaching practice. Guiding her readers with a gentle but sure hand,...
The Blended Workbook
Learning to Design the Schools of our Future
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2017
Successfully implement a blended learning program with this step-by-step guide!
The Blended Workbook: Learning to Design the Schools of Our Future is the practical companion to Blended: Using Disruptive Innovation to Improve Schools. Through real-world implementation exercises it will help...
Health Care Quality Management, Enhanced Edition
Tools and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2013
In today’s challenging health care environment, health care organizations are faced with improving patient outcomes, redesigning business processes, and executing quality and risk management initiatives. Health Care Quality Management offers an introduction to the field and practice of quality management...
Engaged
Unleashing Your Organization's Potential Through Employee Engagement
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
A non-biased, grounded, and practical approach to employee engagement
For managers and business leaders who want to enhance performance, this easy-to-use guide to employee management offers real solutions for getting workers engaged and increasing productivity. It explains what employee engagement...
The Brand IDEA
Managing Nonprofit Brands with Integrity, Democracy, and Affinity
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2013
Offering a new framework for nonprofit brand management, this book presents the Brand IDEA (Integrity, Democracy, and Affinity). The framework eschews traditional, outdated brand tenets of control and competition largely adopted from the private sector, in favor of a strategic approach centered on...
by Kathleen R. Hopkins
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2010
Practical ideas for teaching students the skills they need to really learn
This vital teachers' resource answers such questions as "Can intelligence be developed? Do teacher expectations shape student learning? How can I make learning 'stick' for my students?" Drawing from theory...