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New teachers have it tough. They have a very difficult and complex job, and they must learn how to do it in front of a studio audience of unruly adolescents, anxious parents, and watchful administrators. To help new teachers navigate this daunting backdrop, Finding Success the First Year is here to...

Making Mentoring Work is a practical guide for school leaders interested in beginning or enhancing their mentoring programs for new teachers. Readers can use the mentoring program rubric to pre-assess their program and then choose the chapters that correspond to areas of growth. Each chapter provides...

An inspiring handbook, enthusiastically embraced by teachers; with a new chapter Every teacher can be a passionate teacher-one who engages young people in the excitement of learning and ideas-if teaching is not undermined by the ways we "do business" in schools. The Passionate Teacher...

It is due to the alarming college dating abuse statistics that this book is written specifically to college women but generally for all young women. Disrespect and abuse of young women is becoming so prevalent that many women are starting to accept it as normal. This book serves as a reminder that...

After a summer of fun, helping children start the school year with the right attitude can make or break their level of success that year. In 151 Ways to Start the School Year Off Right, Robin McClure offers parents easy-to-do strategies and activities for helping children start the year off on the...

Written with a fresh voice and a dash of humor, Do Good Well is an exciting and readily adaptable guide to social innovation that not only captures the entrepreneurial and creative spirit of our time, but also harnesses the insights, wisdom, and down-to-earth experience of today’s most accomplished...

Channel your passion for mentoring into action with The Spirit of Mentoring series. Each book is packed with practical suggestions and fun, easy-to-prepare activities for teachers and others who are keen to: motivate youth to believe in themselves and reach their potential; sow the seeds of mentoring...

Want that job? Then make employers want you! Cutting-edge strategies that make you stand out--and blow your competition away! In an uncertain market, job seekers need to use every tool at their disposal to find the right position. From the pre-work that gets you off on the right foot,...

If you can never find a pen but always have an electronic device, Electronic Shorthand might be for you! If you need to take notes for study, business, hobbies, or memory problems, Electronic Shorthand could be the answer to your problems. It's a quick and easy-to-learn method of taking...

Parents had questions about the tests their children took at school. They considered them to be common sense questions. They posed them to the businesspeople, publishers, and politicians who championed tests. They also posed them to the school administrators, teachers, and union leaders who criticized...

This book invites a conversation among stakeholders of public education and conveys the need for a common vision for America’s public schools. Amy Fast argues that we have never had a clear purpose for our schools and that now, more than ever, educators in America ache for a more inspiring purpose...

The guide that helps students study faster, learn better, and get top grades More than 40 million students have trusted Schaum's to help them study faster, learn better, and get top grades. Now Schaum's is better than ever-with a new look, a new format with hundreds of practice problems, and...

Be ready for the verbal and writing sections of the GRE General Test--scheduled to be revised in August 2011 McGraw-Hill’s Conquering GRE Verbal and Writing offers you intensive review for every kind of verbal question on the GRE, a well as in-depth essay-writing guidance for the Analytical...

Tools and strategies to foster transformative change for social justice Many believe that social justice education is simply the new politically correct term for diversity-focused intervention or multiculturalism. The true definition, however, is more complex, nuanced, and important to understand....