Student Student Life category: 717 books
by John J. Schmidt Ed.D.
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2010
An expanded edition filled with ideas, strategies, and tools for school counselors
This Survival Guide helps counselors plan and implement an effective counseling program tailored to the needs of all students. Step by step, the book walks readers through every aspect of the school counselor...
Graduate Study in the USA
Surviving and Succeeding
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
The premise of this book is simple: if the chapter writers could go back in time and talk with themselves when they began their studies, what advice would they give? Isn’t hindsight a bonus? Each chapter offers this hindsight. The chapters are not personal stories, but useful lessons learned through...
CriticalService Learning as a Revolutionary Pedagogy
An International Project of Student Agency in Action
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
This volume will be a valuable resource to instructors who teach in the fields of teacher education, social studies, educational leadership, social work, social, cultural and philosophical foundations of education, sociology, political science, and global studies as well as their students. Due to...
Education is Special for Everyone
How Schools can Best Serve all Students
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2014
Reform in education has focused mainly on development of new programs and procedures to increase the achievement of the student in the classroom. Teacher evaluations are now based on how students perform in their classrooms on yearly standardized tests. The advent of integrating students with special...
Emotionally Intelligent Leadership for Students
Facilitation and Activity Guide
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2015
A how-to guide to help for facilitators and instructors develop emotionally intelligent leadership capacities in their students
The Emotionally Intelligent Leadership for Students: Facilitation and Activity Guide delivers a comprehensive curriculum for those who want to help students foster...
They're Not Stupid
Unleashing the Genius of Each Student
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
It has long been assumed that school redesign can’t happen in already existing comprehensive high schools. The thought has been, if you want to make real change, start your own school. While it seems expedient to follow this path, two decades of pursuing change by building new schools has left the...
Creating Effective Transitions
Moving from the Elementary Grades to Middle School
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2018
This book focuses primarily on elementary to middle school transitions. This book was developed with a two-fold premise: one, that educators and parents understand the role they play in meeting the basic developmental needs of individual students during times of transition; and two, that school leaders...
Dissent in the Heartland, Revised and Expanded Edition
The Sixties at Indiana University
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2017
During the 1960s in the heartlands of America—a region of farmland, conservative politics, and traditional family values—students at Indiana University were transformed by their realization that the personal was the political. Taking to the streets, they made their voices heard on issues from...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
The Autistic Self Advocacy Network is honored to join The Daniel Jordan Fiddle Foundation in presenting Empowering Leadership: A Systems Change Guide for Autistic College Students and Those With Other Disabilities, a resource for equipping the next generation of leaders in the disability rights movement....
by Lee Cuba
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
Undergraduates do not experience college as having a clear beginning and end. Their engagement with higher education is at best episodic. But as Practice for Life shows, the disruptions provide opportunities for reflection and course-correction as students learn to navigate the future uncertainties of adulthood.
by Marcy Levy Shankman, Scott J. Allen, Rosanna Miguel
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2015
The only instrument that measures behaviors associated with emotionally intelligent leadership
The Emotionally Intelligent Leadership for Students: Inventory is an evidence-based assessment of the capacities of emotionally intelligent leadership (EIL). Research that spans the globe has demonstrated...
Summer versus School
The Possibilities of the Year-Round School
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2015
As American educational reformers continue to find innovative ways to address the global achievement gap, many experts seem to agree that increasing instructional time is a viable option. In addition to extending the school day, some educational leaders have looked to modifying the traditional academic...
Exploring Leadership
For College Students Who Want to Make a Difference
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
Exploring Leadership For College Students Who Want to Make a Difference, Facilitation and Activity Guide
Based on the third edition of the best-selling text Exploring Leadership, this companion Facilitation and Activity Guide is designed to help educators work with students to develop their...
Parent Involvement
Collaboration Is the Key for Every Child's Success
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
In today’s economy, where getting a good education has never been more important and school resources are stretched beyond points that most of us can remember, it is imperative that parents be fully engaged in their child’s education, both at home and at school. Parents play an integral role regardless...