Rowman Littlefield Publishers: 5578 books
Knowing People
The Personal Use of Social Psychology
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2006
Social psychology studies one of civilization's most central concerns: human relationships. By understanding people's beliefs, attitudes, and desires, individuals can fashion relationships that benefit all involved, rather than one person or group at the expense of another. Written with a friendly...
by Jared M. Scherz
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014
This workbook offers a comprehensive review of existing violence prevention programs, which can help schools evaluate their existing programs and select the right approach for them. Author Dr. Jared M. Scherz offers practical guidance on building a prevention paradigm that integrates into the existing...
Creating Excellence
Becoming an A+ School
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2018
Creating Excellence: Becoming an A+ School is intended to be used by first year principals who have inherited a school that is failing or not achieving to a desired level, as well as by seasoned principals who are struggling to improve their school’s academic performance. It can also be used effectively...
How the Police Generate False Confessions
An Inside Look at the Interrogation Room
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Despite the rising number of confirmed false confession cases, most people have a hard time grasping why someone would confess to a crime they did not commit, or even why a guilty person would admit to something that could put them in jail for life. How the Police Generate False Confessions takes...
Tried and Convicted
How Police, Prosecutors, and Judges Destroy Our Constitutional Rights
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2012
When an individual is accused of a crime he is provided, at least in theory, with numerous constitutional rights throughout the legal process. These constitutional rights, however, are soft and flexible, and are subject to a tremendous amount of manipulation by police, prosecutors, and judges. The...
Teach Me How to Work and Keep Me Kind
The Possibilities of Literature and Composition in an American High School
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2015
Teach Me How to Work and Keep Me Kind offers the content of AP English classes. This book intends to serve as a guide and encouragement to educators by showing what can be possible when a teacher enjoys the freedom to find their own voice. Poems, novels, short stories, essays, and plays become the...
Professional Development Schools
Researching Lessons From the Field
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2011
Professional Development Schools: Researching Lessons from the Field provides a comprehensive analysis of PDS research that can aid PDS stakeholders in designing and sustaining meaningful research in their partnerships. Breault and Breault used an extensive qualitative meta-synthesis to examine the...
The Feedback Fix
Dump the Past, Embrace the Future, and Lead the Way to Change
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
The secret to giving better feedback isn’t what we say – it’s what others hear. Too often, people hear about a past they can’t control, not a future they can. That changes with “feedforward” – a radical approach to sharing feedback that unleashes the performance and potential of everyone...
Inclusion
Teachers' Perspectives and Practices
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2014
Inclusion: Teachers’ Perspectives and Practices delineates timely strategies that address teachers’ concerns regarding the inclusive environment. Prior research is amalgamated with author Faith Andreasen’s investigation to arm the reader with a variety of appropriate student supports with the...
Academic Language Literacy
Developing Instructional Leadership Skills for Principals and Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
Marjorie C. Ringler describes a professional development framework to teach principals and teachers the value of Academic Language Literacy (ALL) as the key to academic success. Typically mainstream classroom teachers and principals do not purchase books solely on academic language literacy because...
Activating the Learner's Brain
Using the Learner's Brain Model
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2018
Activating the Learner’s Brain promotes a “Learner’s Brain Model”, using brain research to understand the nature to the learner. This book goes beyond lesson planning as it addresses instructional delivery, use of assessments, Consolidation for Closure, reflection and includes rubrics for...
by Eli Johnson, Arthur L. Costa
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2014
Academic conferences increase collaboration and support collegial dialogue between teachers, principals, and district administrators, while providing a forum for education professionals to consider school practices old and new, and plan ways to best utilize them all in the future. This book, by experienced...
Moods, Emotions, and Aging
Hormones and the Mind-Body Connection
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2013
Despite the backlash against hormone replacement therapy, the depletion of natural hormones in the female body continues to be a problem for women at middle age and beyond. Remedying the problem has proved difficult for women and doctors who are unaware of, or reluctant to prescribe, bioidential hormones—those...
Sex and Cancer
Intimacy, Romance, and Love after Diagnosis and Treatment
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2017
An intimate partnership has physical and psychological components, both of which often take a hit when cancer enters the union. The prospect, and then the process, of treatments tend to alter the way the two people relate to each other. When the diagnosis is one of gynecologic or reproductive cancer...