Student Life & Student Affairs

Innovative Interventions for Today's Exceptional Kids provides teachers, parents, administrators, and school counselors with an intervention framework to help the struggling children. The focus of the Scannella and McCarthy's approach is preventative...

Why are so many public school teachers, administrators, and coaches choosing to become romantically and sexually involved with teenage students and players? Since 2000, numbers of intimate relationships between teachers and students have skyrocketed...

Bullying prevention is a priority for all who work with our youth in our schools, parks, organizations, and athletic fields. Tackling Bullying in Athletics will help athletic directors, coaches, parents, and all those who help youth enjoy the benefits of...

Asal and Harwood explore how today's information technology is changing how we educate and are educated. Focusing on the United States, with useful insights from the classroom digital revolution in a few other key places (the United Kingdom, Australia,...

This book was written as a resource guide for educational and mental health professionals and policymakers, as well as families and communities seeking to develop programming to reduce school violence and promote safe, engaging, and effective schools...

Teenage years can be difficult, but military-connected adolescents have added obstacles growing up within the military culture. They are essentially conscripted into serving their county - whether they want to or not - from the moment they are born. For...

The purpose of this book is to provide readers with an overview of basic group dynamics and techniques that are effective in Higher Education and Student Affairs settings. Student affairs professionals frequently engage in group work and team projects...

Parents wondered exactly what was transpiring in classrooms. Although they asked their children, they did not have complete confidence in their responses. When they quizzed teachers, school administrators, school board members, and politicians, they...

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Today's educators-pre- and in-service teachers and teacher educators serve increasing percentages of adolescents who have limited relationships to school. These young people are often our most diverse youth; they are frequently English Language Learners...

The 7 Steps to Help Boys Love School: Teaching to their Passion for Less Frustration is an easy to follow, humorous book with practical, researched strategies for ensuring boys success in school, home, and in their future pursuits. This book is built...

This book will serve as a "Think Button" for any educator who has ever heard a student say, "I can't think" or "I can't decide!" Fifty prompts or thinking conduits are the catalysts that will give students a chance to practice thinking. The prompts (many...

This book will serve as a "Think Button" for any educator who has ever heard a student say, "I can't think" or "I can't decide!" Fifty prompts or thinking conduits are the catalysts that will give students a chance to practice thinking. The prompts (many...

Strong Spirits, Kind Hearts is the first practical teacher resource to provide comprehensive coverage of all aspects of developing strong spirits and caring young people. It is focused on middle years' students but most lessons can be adapted for older...

In this second edition of Job One, editors Peter M. Magolda and Jill Ellen Carnaghi place new professionals' stories "center stage." The book focuses on narratives written by new professionals about their introduction and transitions into Student Affairs...

Indian Subjects: Hemispheric Perspectives on the History of Indigenous Education brings together an outstanding group of anthropology, history, law, education, literature, and Native studies scholars. This book addresses indigenous education throughout...

Racial Opportunity Cost turns critical attention to the specific challenges faced by high-achieving students of color and gives educators a framework for recognizing and addressing these issues. Terah T. Venzant Chambers roots her discussion in the...

This much-needed book will help schools, and by extension society, better understand and identify the promise, potential, and possibilities of Black boys. Drawing from their wealth of experience in early childhood education, the authors present an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807411698Author Jeffrey S KressFormat PaperbackPage Count 305Imprint Urj PressPublisher Urj PressWeight(grams) 408g

The notion of class attendance has largely been ignored, where students, faculty, and administrators substitute assumptions for empirical evidence. The data is clear: attendance matters, more so than any other known contributor to student success. Yet,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781423228660Author Rachel JacobsPage Count 6Imprint Barcharts, IncPublisher Barcharts, Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781423228646Author Misa LindbergPage Count 6Imprint Barcharts, IncPublisher Barcharts, Inc

Do you want to: Learn how to embed mindfulness in your everyday life?Understand how to manage feelings of anxiety or depression? Find a healthy balance between course work, job and social life?Face the future with a positive attitude? More than ever...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781507210321Author Stephanie Kaplan LewisFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Adams Media CorporationPublisher Adams Media CorporationWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781475869583Author Jim WassermanFormat PaperbackImprint Rowman & Littlefield EducationPublisher Rowman & Littlefield

Understanding Radicalism: How It Affects What's Happening in Education and Student's Overall examines and explores the ever-growing trend to use education, outside groups, and social media as agencies of indoctrination and moral suasion, to capture the...

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...

Since 1879, Indian children from all regions of the United States have entered federal boarding schools-institutions designed to assimilate them into mainstream society. Chemawa Indian School in western Oregon, one of the nation's oldest and the longest...

Universities are usually considered bastions of the free exchange of ideas, but a recent tide of demonstrations across college campuses has called this belief into question, and with serious consequences. Such a wave of protests hasn't been seen since...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780883911839Author Lauren SalamoneFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Frederick FellPublisher Frederick FellWeight(grams) 299g

This book asks Christian educators-particularly those involved in the student affairs profession-to become more engaged with the idea that the programs offered, classes taught, disciplinary actions dispensed, policies framed, and the like, are the arenas...

As a lifelong teacher, Malcolm Gauld has watched thousands of kids go off to college. Some return to visit after their first year exuding the vibe of conquering heroes. Others look, well, pretty bummed out. This book offers a plan to help the new...

Curious about the world around you? Brushing up for Trivia Night? Studying for a test? Looking for new dinner-table discussion topics? Take a deep-dive into subjects you may have learned about in school, but not in the kind of depth you wanted or...

The transition from high school to college can be difficult for many students. This book shares examples of situations that students might face during their transitions and ways in which teachers, parents, administrators, and mentors can help students...

Everyone celebrates the Christmas holidays in their own way, and that includes the President of the United States. Some have enjoyed large gatherings, while others took part in a quiet, relaxing atmosphere. This book takes a look at each of the country's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935166238Author William W AllenFormat PaperbackPage Count 159Imprint Parkhurst Brothers Publishers IncPublisher Parkhurst Brothers Publishers...

The purpose of this book is to provide readers with an overview of basic group dynamics and techniques that are effective in Higher Education and Student Affairs settings. Student affairs professionals frequently engage in group work and team projects...

Kids grow up today in a media-saturated environment. Even as they are first discovering who they are and learning about the greater world, they are nudged and swayed by messaging like young trees blown by invisible winds. To help empower children to be...

Title IX prohibits federally funded educational institutions-- from elementary to university level-- from discriminating against students or employees based on sex. Title IX applies to pregnant and parenting students. It prohibits discrimination against...

There is lots of popular and scholarly concern today about why black students aren't doing better in school. The most popular explanation, the "acting white" thesis, is that they have a culture that rejects achievement-that students' peer...