Individual schools and entire school districts must move away from the quick fix and take a systemic approach to school improvement if they want real, sustainable improvement for all students. Long-term improvement can only happen when all pieces of the process for school improvement are in place. This book is about putting those pieces together and implementing a blueprint for school improvement. This book also focuses on how administrators, both at the school and central offi ce level, can approach their work, change what they do, and create a commitment to real lifestyle changes.
Learned Optimism shows you how to: - Attain maximum personal achievement - Boost your mood - and your immune system - with healthful thoughts - Help your children by practicing the patterns of thought that encourage optimism at an early age - Change your interior dialogue and experience the astonishing positive results
From the world's most-acclaimed expert on verbal abuse comes the first book that answers the question foremost in every woman's mind: can he really change? Combining practical applications with the latest clinical research with the trademark support and assurance of Evans, "The Verbally Abusive Man: Can He change?" shows victims of verbal abuse how to empower themselves, improve their relationships, and change their lives for the better.
The expert contributors to this cutting edge volume provide an overview of geomorphological process activity and landscape change in Britain over the past 1000 years. The range of the book is unusually broad, encompassing hillslope, valley floor and floodplain, fluvial, estuarine and coastal processes.
Provides an overview of geomorphological process activity and landscape change in Britain over the past 1000 years.
Supporting Transitions in the Early Years (Supporting Early Learning)
Added by: huelgas | Karma: 1208.98 | Non-Fiction, Medicine | 24 December 2008
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Supporting Transitions in the Early Years explores the whole range of early childhood transitions, rather than simply looking at starting school or pre-school. It helps parents, practitioners, policy-makers and Early Years students at every level, to understand and support the successive transitions made by young children from birth to five. Starting from a discussion of the rapid pace of change in current societies, and children's need to acquire flexibility and resilience in adapting to change, it offers examples of transitions such as...