Jossey Bass imprint: 1362 books
Banishing Burnout
Six Strategies for Improving Your Relationship with Work
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011
In this book Michael P. Leiter and Christina Maslach, the leading experts on job burnout prevention and authors of the landmark book The Truth About Burnout, outline their revolutionary new program for helping everyone in the workplace overcome everyday stress and pressures and achieve their career...
Reading in the Wild
The Book Whisperer's Keys to Cultivating Lifelong Reading Habits
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2013
In Reading in the Wild, reading expert Donalyn Miller continues the conversation that began in her bestselling book, The Book Whisperer. While The Book Whisperer revealed the secrets of getting students to love reading, Reading in the Wild, written with reading teacher Susan Kelley, describes how...
Bullying Prevention for Schools
A Step-by-Step Guide to Implementing a Successful Anti-Bullying Program
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2010
A Step-by-Step Guide to Implementing a Successful ANTI-BullyING Program
Bullying can be found in every school system, school, and classroom. It is destructive to the well-being of students, creates unsafe schools, and impacts learning. School personnel, parents, and others are increasingly...
Tap, Click, Read
Growing Readers in a World of Screens
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2015
A guide to promoting literacy in the digital age
With young children gaining access to a dizzying array of games, videos, and other digital media, will they ever learn to read? The answer is yes—if they are surrounded by adults who know how to help and if they are introduced to media designed...
Forces of Change
New Strategies for the Evolving Health Care Marketplace
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2012
American health care has made great strides in the past hundred years. Life expectancy has increased dramatically and advances in medicine and treatments have eradicated many life-threatening diseases. However, in today's health care arena there is divergence between our health needs, the structure...
Partners in Health
How Physicians and Hospitals can be Accountable Together
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2010
Praise for Partners in Health
"The combination of visionary leadership, knowledge, and superb timing makes this book a winner. Health care is evolving toward collaboration and integration, and this book is essential reading for anyone wishing to change the relationships between hospitals and...
Sustainability Policy
Hastening the Transition to a Cleaner Economy
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
A complete guide to sustainability policy at the federal, state, and local levels
Sustainability Policy: Hastening the Transition to a Cleaner Economy is a fundamental guide for public sector professionals new to sustainability policy development, implementation, strategy, and practice. Featuring...
Invaluable
The Secret to Becoming Irreplaceable
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2010
A business fable for anyone feeling overwhelmed, underpaid, and frustrated in their job
From the author of The Myth of Multitasking comes Invaluable, a business fable that empowers the frustrated and overworked to understand the value of their time. At the fictitious company GreenGarb, twenty-something...
The Transparent Teacher
Taking Charge of Your Instruction with Peer-Collected Classroom Data
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
A new paradigm for teachers to open their classrooms and cultivate deep professional learning
Teaching is an isolating profession. Most educators receive minimal feedback on their craft, typically limited to one or two short visits from the administrator each year. While some schools do encourage...
Teaching Naked Techniques
A Practical Guide to Designing Better Classes
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
Put Teaching Naked to work in your classroom with clear examples and step-by-step guidance
Teaching Naked Techniques (TNT) is a practical guide of proven quick ideas for improving classes and essential information for designing anything from one lesson or a group of lessons to an entire course....
Smart But Stuck
Emotions in Teens and Adults with ADHD
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014
Compelling stories that present a new view of ADHD
Smart but Stuck offers 15 true and compelling stories about intelligent, capable teens and adults who have gotten "stuck" at school, work, and/or in social relationships because of their ADHD. Dr. Brown highlights the often unrecognized...
First-Generation College Students
Understanding and Improving the Experience from Recruitment to Commencement
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2012
FIRST-GENERATION COLLEGE STUDENTS
"…a concise, manageable, lucid summary of the best scholarship, practices, and future-oriented thinking about how to effectively recruit, educate, develop, retain, and ultimately graduate first-generation students."
—from the foreword by JOHN...
Digital Games: A Context for Cognitive Development
New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, Number 139
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2013
In the United States and in many other countries around the world, digital games have become an integral part of children’s lives. Discussions of research on youth and digital games often focus solely on negative effects (e.g., of violent video games), but this is far from the whole story. As natural...
by George D. Kuh, Stanley O. Ikenberry, Timothy Reese Cain
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
American higher education needs a major reframing of student learning outcomes assessment
Dynamic changes are underway in American higher education. New providers, emerging technologies, cost concerns, student debt, and nagging doubts about quality all call out the need for institutions to...