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This book describes a humanistic approach to implementing programs and systems that bring academic press, social support, and relational trust together in unique ways. Based on the understanding that old beliefs are changed by supporting new behaviors, the approach includes ac...

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The author shows that although combat strategy and tactics receive high profile attention, it is "lift" capability and capacity, as a prerequisite, that is fundamental to attaining military objectives. He uses the US forces' six-month build-up to Desert Storm to demonstrate his arguments.

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This collection examines some of the classic questions of international relations_the role of interests, ideals, power balances, and norms in determining the actions of nations_though the lens of a set of powerful countries. Given the writers' expertise in these regions of the...

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A description of practical and inexpensive ways of individualizing staff development by capitalizing on adults' individual learning styles.

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A challenge to the traditional instructional process of lecture and discussion within the college classroom. This text describes the theory, practice and research that support a wider variety of approaches, accommodating the learning-style preferences of each student.

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The book introduces the concept of practical biopolitics and discusses its applicability for anti-pandemic crisis management in Indonesia and Russia. The authors scrutinize the functioning of sovereign power and governmentality during the state of exception.

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Evaluation is essential to library management: it provides the data that underlies informed and effective decision-making. This book is a one-volume, how-to guide to library evaluation techniques, planning, and reporting.

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Practical Incident Management for Schools will help prepare every school leader for their important role in keeping students safe in their school, teaching the exact same system that fire chiefs have used to command emergencies for more than three decades, but with customized information to meet your specific needs as a school leader.

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Practical Incident Management for Schools will help prepare every school leader for their important role in keeping students safe in their school, teaching the exact same system that fire chiefs have used to command emergencies for more than three decades, but with customized information to meet your specific needs as a school leader.

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This book describes the leadership practice of professional baseball coaches as a way to illustrate situational leadership theory, offering the reader examples of leadership behavior in the four leadership frames suggested by Bolman and Deal's situational leadership theory.

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A handbook for everyone involved in Jewish education about how to confront such issues as classroom discipline, improving the quality of Jewish Studies, and current controversies in Jewish education.

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Using portfolios is a great way to build skills, reinforce learning, communicate achievements, and prepare students for future challenges. It gives directions for students on how to assemble, organize, and maintain their portfolios and offers teachers convenient mini-lessons for developing and completing rubrics for evaluation.

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This volume consists of a selection of the writings of Christopher Winch on topics on and related to the philosophy of education from 1988 until the present.

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The third and final book in Stanley's three-volume group for all grade levels, this work simplifies teaching the research process with step-by-step instructions that are adaptable and comprehensive, geared especially for your youngest students.

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These hands-on lessons for teaching the research process will help you effectively teach information skills, while implementing current national information literacy standards.

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Stanley applies the same user-friendly format that made her popular guide to teaching the six steps of the research process to high school students such a success.

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By situating this work in research and classroom-based experiences Practical Steps Toward Culturally Responsive K-12 Literacy Instruction: Resisting Barriers, Using Texts, and Making Space provides examples of each chapter topic and opportunities for reader reflections to consider their role as more culturally responsive educators.

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By situating this work in research and classroom-based experiences Practical Steps Toward Culturally Responsive K-12 Literacy Instruction: Resisting Barriers, Using Texts, and Making Space provides examples of each chapter topic and opportunities for reader reflections to consider their role as more culturally responsive educators.

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This book takes an applied approach to budgeting and fiscal administration in P-12 public education. It presents new and aspiring P-12 educational leaders with the fundamental knowledge and skills to supervise, analyze, and implement budgets that make the best and most effecti...

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This book takes an applied approach to budgeting and fiscal administration in P-12 public education. It presents new and aspiring P-12 educational leaders with the fundamental knowledge and skills to supervise, analyze, and implement budgets that make the best and most effecti...

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A guide to the theory and practice of teaching minds-on practical work in secondary science. It considers the effectiveness of practical work and suggests that it is essentially a 'hands-on', rather than 'minds-on' activity. It is suitable for those on M-level secondary science PGCE programmes.

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Practical work is an essential feature of science education. Questions have however been raised by some science educators about its effectiveness as a teaching and learning strategy. This book considers the effectiveness of practical work and suggests that it is essentially a 'hands-on', rather than 'minds-on' activity.

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Practice What You Preach: Teacher Accountability and Personal Values helps teachers determine what values are of most importance to preach in the classroom as well as provides practical strategies for putting those values into practice.