Advice on education

Today's educators-pre- and in-service teachers and teacher educators serve increasing percentages of adolescents who have limited relationships to school.

The new millennium has seen a variety of parenting styles that differ greatly from previous generations.

Similar to the previous three volumes, Breaking the Mold of School Instruction and Organization: Innovative and Successful Practices for the 21st Century (Honigsfeld & Cohan, 2010), Breaking the Mold of Preservice and Inservice Teacher Education: Innovative and Successful Practices for the 21st Century (Cohan & Honigsfeld, 2011), and,Breaking the Mold of Education for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students: Innovative and Successful Practices for the 21st Century (Honigsfeld & Cohan, 2012), the purpose of this book is to offer a carefully selected collection of documented best practices for empowering students.

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.

Since September 11, 2001, the profile of religion's role in our global society has increased significantly.

Students' early morning decisions about what to wear to school have led many school districts into legal issues and policy challenges.

Hanging Out and Hanging on: From the Projects to the Campus chronicles the progress of students from Hartford and Manchester, Connecticut, who are enrolled in the Dual College Enrollment Program (DCEP) at Eastern Connecticut State University.

Breaking Down the Barriers is the story of supervision and intervention in the public schools system.

Today's educators-pre- and in-service teachers and teacher educators serve increasing percentages of adolescents who have limited relationships to school.

Understanding Gay and Lesbian Youth assists the classroom teacher, school counselor, and administrator in relating to gay and lesbian youth and creating accepting and supportive learning climates.

In Basic Needs: A Year With Street Kids in a City School, Julie Landsman chronicles one year as a teacher in a program for students in such serious trouble they are asked to leave their middle schools and attend a special program for disruptive students.

Urban Dreams: Stories of Hope, Resilience, and Character is a collection of essays written by students in an urban community in New Jersey.

Military spouse education is an often overlooked topic.

Military spouse education is an often overlooked topic.

The Air Force can be the initial platform of a lifelong career pathway for individuals interested in serving one contract or those who stay on active-duty for a full career.

This book provides six different strategies for teaching the fundamentals of reading with social-emotional learning in mind.

Student Success: From Board Rooms to Classrooms analyzes the emerging body of scholarly research on student success in an accessible and readable way that community college leaders will find both interesting and relevant.

This volume provides a comprehensive and evenhanded overview of the escalating college affordability crisis in the United States.

Teaching Mindfulness to Teens as a Path of Empowerment is a teacher-level perspective on mindfulness instruction that has systems-level implications.

Today's educators face challenges unparalleled by previous generations of teachers.

Do you teach math to Spanish-Speaking ELLs (especially K-8)?

This handbook is a guide and recourse of strategies, tips, and how-to-do's for parents/caregivers, teachers, and school leaders.

If we want our students to be prepared for a life involved with artificial intelligence, global awareness, cultural understanding, racial, religious and lifestyle diversity, and changing economic and political realities, then we have to change what we are doing in our schools from pre-school to graduate school.

Who says learning can't be fun?

Ensuring Learning: Supporting Faculty to Improve Student Success is the second book in a two-book series.

Young people today know trouble from a host of sources: poverty, sexism and racism; the storms of a climate in turmoil; the loss of loved-ones to incarceration, addiction and suicide.

This book is a social-emotional education manual for middle and high school educators.

After a half-a-century of school reform, a majority of Americans consider the public schools as worse today than when they attended school.

The Burden of Being a Boy: Bolstering Educational Achievement and Emotional Well-Being in Young Males is written for everyone who has a stake in the health and well-being of contemporary American boys and adolescents-parents, educators, counselors, educational administrators, student services personnel, higher education faculty, and students studying education and psychology.

Using assessment systems to improve student outcomes requires shared understanding and collaboration among education stakeholders at multiple levels.

Creating Calm Classrooms presents easy-to-follow and guaranteed to succeed strategies, teacher behaviors and class management practices that the author successfully deployed to create oases of peace and tranquility in his classrooms in more than twenty years of teaching in urban schools.

This book will help you design and create the best version of yourself.

Inquiry Units for English Language Arts is an engaging and relevant collection of instructional units that delve into contemporary problems related to equity, justice, identity, freedom, and social reform.

This book provides school principals and those responsible for pedagogical supervision the necessary tools for their professional development, whether in formal (continuing education) or informal (self-taught) contexts.

All teens today, born after 2000, were thrust into a world with challenges and opportunities non-existent for previous generations.

School shootings are on the increase and it often seems like another shooting is just a matter of time.

The chief purpose of this book is to explain how public education in this country became dysfunctional as a result of the education policies and programs funded by the federal government to address low academic achievement.

America's Sex Culture: Its Impact on Teacher-Student Relationships analyzes recent trends.

iPads are powerful tools for engaging students, encouraging creativity, stimulating critical thinking, and making significant strides in learning.

iPads are powerful tools for engaging students, encouraging creativity, stimulating critical thinking, and making significant strides in learning.

School uniform polices, often associated with private schools, are increasingly being adopted in public schools; but not without controversy.

Everyone involved with the care and welfare of children and young adults is confronted with the issue of bullying, which is one of life's major pressures facing children.

Academic Culture introduces students to the demands of university study in a clear and accessible way, and helps them understand what is expected of them.

Net-Generation Student Motivation to Attend Community College explores the factors that affect student retention rates in community college by presenting net-generation (or millennial) students with the opportunity to tell their stories and give insight into why they chose and completed their respective community college programs.

In this second edition of Job One, editors Peter M.

Spirituality Research Studies in Higher Education offers two uniquely designed sections that showcase a group of talented scholars from major research institutions.

This groundbreaking book edited by Terence Hicks, a quantitative research professor, and Abul Pitre, a qualitative research professor, builds upon the usefulness of each research method and integrates them by providing valuable findings on a diverse group of college students.

What Do You Do Around Here Anyway?

Over the course of ten years, this extensive qualitative study focused on the academic resilience phenomenon.

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