Student Life & Student Affairs

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...

Millions of students of noncitizen status or with undocumented family members experience financial, cultural, and socioemotional hardships that can result in profoundly adverse effects upon their academic performances and emotional well-being. In turn,...

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...

What should teachers do on the days after major events, tragedies, and traumas, especially when injustice is involved? This beautifully written book features teacher narratives and youth-authored student spotlights that reveal what classrooms do and can...

Curating a Literacy Life spotlights the idea of curation as a process for inspiring student-centered learning with digital media. Young people need to learn to become purposeful collectors and, thus, curators of their own learning. In this book, Kist...

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 Behrman HouseFormat PaperbackPage Count 1Imprint UAHC PressPublisher UAHC Press

A primary mission of universities is promoting student success and well-being. Many college and university personnel have implemented initiatives that offer students the documented benefits of positive human-animal interaction (HAI). Accumulating...

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 9781594548987Author Rukhsana ZiaFormat HardbackPage Count 305Imprint Nova Science Publishers IncPublisher Nova Science Publishers IncWeight(grams) 793g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781423228660Author Rachel JacobsPage Count 6Imprint Barcharts, IncPublisher Barcharts, IncDimensions(mm) 279mm * 4mm * 215mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781423228646Author Misa LindbergPage Count 6Imprint Barcharts, IncPublisher Barcharts, IncDimensions(mm) 279mm * 4mm * 215mm

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)...

In this book, we describe the online world that youth begin to encounter, often without adult oversight. It is a critical time where they are first getting to know both the outside world and form their own identity. We explain the social forces and...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781260541823Author Donna J YenaImprint McGraw-Hill EducationPublisher McGraw-Hill EducationWeight(grams) 9g

Who has access to higher education today? At what financial and personal cost? Based on what conditions and criteria? How do students describe and interpret their experiences? And how can institutions facilitate and constrain successful participation and...

There is an old song that goes, "Look down, look down, that lonesome road, before you travel on." Facing that lonesome road, the adult might travel on. Often, the child can't. During her twenty-year career as a school social worker, Anne Stilwell...

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 9781624175978Author Greg WigganFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Nova Science Publishers IncPublisher Nova Science Publishers IncWeight(grams) 466g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612096735Author Greg WigganFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Nova Science Publishers IncPublisher Nova Science Publishers IncWeight(grams) 198g

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781571745927Author Doreen BanaszakFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Hampton Roads Publishing CoPublisher Hampton Roads Publishing CoDimensions(mm) 216mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781260541861Author Donna J YenaPage Count 704Imprint McGraw-Hill EducationPublisher McGraw-Hill EducationWeight(grams) 726gDimensions(mm) 274mm * 208mm *...

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 cultures hold...

Pledge and Promise documents the important historical significance of fraternity, sorority, and cooperative life at Purdue University. Featuring more than 250 photos, this pictorial volume tells the fascinating stories of how Greek and cooperative...