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131 Creative Strategies for Reaching Children with Anger Problems

Years ago Charles H. Spurgeon noted, "Anger is temporary insanity." For most people, blouts of anger are temporary. For children , anger is quite common as they learn to deal with life's frustrations. Many children learn how to cope with anger at a young age while others will take several years to finally gain self-control. The children that struggle need to be surrounded by caring and patient adults who are willing to teach anger management skills and who also model positive ways of dealing with anger.

This book provides counselors, teachers, parents, and other professionals numerous strategies for reaching children with anger problems. Although, this book can be useful with children of all ages, its main focus is on children in grades k-8.

The 17 Essential Qualities Of A Team Player- Becoming the Kind of Person Every Team Wants

From schoolrooms to boardrooms, the word teamwork is becoming more and more important. Organizations of all types accomplish more when people work together. But ultimately, a team is simply a collection of individuals. The challenge for each individual- each team member- is to become the kind of person who can maximize his or her contribution an push the team forward to fulfull its mission. The 17 Essential Qualities of a Team Player can help you meet that challenge by helping you develop into a true team player.

As in previous books, John Maxwell teaches by taking a look at what works. He examines the triumphs of wiining team players such as Quincy Jones, Ronald Regan, Bob Taylor (founder of Taylor guitars), and many others, identifying the character traits that brought success their way. Learn how qualities such as discipline, enthusiasm, communication, preparation and commitment in individuals can improve a team's effectiveness as a whole.

Teamwork is an integral part of business, family, church, and recreation. By guiding you to improve your value as a team member, The 17 Essential Qualities of a Team Player can have a positive impact on every part of your life.

Getting Excited About Data- Combining People, Passion and Proof to Maximize Student Achievement

Getting Excited About Data builds upon the bestselling first edition to provide additional guidance and support for educators who are "ready, willing and able" to explore more sophisticated uses of data. New tools and activities facilitate active engagement with data and a collaborative culture of collective responsibility for the learning of all students.

Precise and on target, this excellent new resource enables educators to effectively use their schools' data to respond to the challenges of the No Child Left Behind Act, providing:

A knowledge base emphasizing the role of data in school effectiveness and successful change; A focus on tapping the professional passion of dedicated educators who want to work for the benefit of students from an intrinsic motivation prespective; Group activities that energize people in collaboratiave efforts; Key questions to identifiy sources of the proof of success necessary to stimulate confidence and further action; A clear understanding of the need for "up close, in real time: assessment to balance high stakes, external tests; and Information on how to utilize data to establish priorities and integrate accountability requirements with goals that are data based and grounded in school values.

How Do I Teach This Kid?

Visual work tasks for beginning learners on the autism spectrum is the first in a series of books designed to share ideas for using visual strategies to teach children with autism. This resource provides special education teachers, therapist, parents, and home-based therapists with practical, easy-to-implement ideas for creating over 80 different work tasks or boxes to be used to teach stuents to work independently and for an established length of time. This book contains classroom and home-testes ideas for addressing skills in six different areas: sorting, matching, reading writing, mathematics and motor tasks. The ideas are designed for early learners, ages two to ten. Other books in the series will focus on teaching young learners beginning reading, writing, math skills and appropropriate play skills using visually structured techniques.

How Full Is Your Bucket? Positive Strategies for Work and Life

How did you feel after your last interaction with another person? Did that person- your spouse, best friend, coworker, or even a stranger- "fill your bucket" by making you feel more positive? OR  Did that person "dip from your bucket," leaving you more negative than before?

This book reveals how even the briefest interactions affect your relationships, productivity, health and longevity. Organized around a simple metaphor of a dipper and a bucket, and grounded in 50 years of research, this book will show you how to greatly increase the positive moments in your work and your life- while reducing the negative.

Filled with discoveries, powerful strategies, and engaging stories, How Full Is Your Bucket? is sure to inspire lasting changes and has all the makings of a timeless classic.  

 

Whatever It Takes: How Professional Learning Communities Respond When Kids Don't Learn

This book examines the question, "What happens when, despite our best efforts in the classroom, a student does not learn?" This exceptionally practical book addresses the tough issues every teacher and school leader must face if they are committed to improved student achievement. Readers will find a treasure trove of specific strategies that can make an immediate impact in any school. With rich case studies and abundant evidence, the authors make a compelling case for moving from theory to action."

Teaching Student-Centered Mathmatics

Volumes One - three of the Van de Walle Professional Mathematics Series provides practical guidance along with proven strategies for practicing teachers of grades k-3, 3-5 and 5-8. The expanded grade specific coverage and unique page design allow readers to quickly and easily locate information to implement in the classroom. Nearly 200 grade appropriate activities are included. The student centered, problem based approach will help students develop real understanding and confidence in mathematics, making this series indispensable for teachers!

Fish! Sticks

Effecting change in an organization is a piece of cake- compared to the real challenge of getting change to stick. Now, the authors of Fish! and Fish! Tales, the two million plus copy international bestselling book and video phenomena, have returned with an all-new, stand alone business parable that shows how anyone can do exactly that. Here is a remarkable way to keep your work vital, alive, and fresh as you navigate staff turnover, tough times, and general run-of-the mill cynicism and burnout.

-from the Introduction to Fish! Sticks

 

Revisiting the Reading Workshop (Grades 1-5)

Reading workshop is a highly effective approach to teaching reading. The planning, organizing, and teaching behind it is what makes it so powerful. This book provides everything teachers need to make reading workshop the best it can be- a dynamic, supportive environment in which students grow into independent, proficient readers.

 

Craft Lessons- Teaching Writing K-8

What are the elements of craft can we teach student writers and at what age are they ready to learn them? This book answers both questions. Craft Lessons is the practical text for the over scheduled writing teacher who wants to give students fresh challenges for their writing but doesn't have time to pore over dozens of trade books to do so.

There are three main sections in the book- one geared for teachers of primary students, one for teachers of grades 3-4, and one for teachers of middle school writers. This developmental structure allows teachers to go directly to those craft lessons most applicable and adaptable to their own students

Craft lessons also explores the  context- the crucial classroom conditions- for successfully bringing rich ideas to young writers. It will appeal to both experienced writing teachers seeking new horizons for their writers and teachers who are relatively new to teaching writing.

 

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