Strategies for addressing bullying—ready when you need them.Before bullying surfaces in your school, you need to be ready. This book is organized so you can find the answers you need to make meaningful changes in the way you prevent and respond to bullying.The authors know the challenges educators face. Here they’ve distilled nearly 15 years of research into bite-sized chapters, with strategies and real-world examples to put ideas into action. You’...

Technology keeps changing, and cyberbullying is as prominent as ever. It’s time to up your game.As social media apps, gaming platforms, and other online environments have given present more opportunities to adolescents to cause harm to their peers, the proportion of youth who’ve experienced cyberbullying continues to rise. This bestselling guide from the co-directors of the Cyberbullying Research Center provides the tools you need today to keep your studen...

Just as the previous generation was raised in front of televisions, adolescents at the turn of the 21st century are being raised in an internet-enabled world where blogs, social networking, and instant messaging are competing with face-to-face and telephone communication as the dominant means through which personal interaction takes place. Unfortunately, a small but growing proportion of our youth are being exposed online to interpersonal violence, aggression, and harassment via cyberbully...

The authors connect the teens’ technology use to the school environment and provide tools (including a companion website) for creating a positive school climate that counteracts cyberbullying and sexting.

A Step-by-Step Guide to Implementing a Successful ANTI-BullyING ProgramBullying can be found in every school system, school, and classroom. It is destructive to the well-being of students, creates unsafe schools, and impacts learning. School personnel, parents, and others are increasingly realizing the importance of putting effective anti-bullying strategies and policies in place that will create safe, caring, and peaceful schools where all students feel a sense of belonging and ac...

Offers best practices for implementing RTI at the school-wide level-to ensure success for all learnersResponse-to-Intervention is now mandated at schools across the country. While there are a handful of books offering tips on implementation, schools are still struggling to find the best approaches. This book, from a prominent RTI researcher, explains how the most successful schools using RTI manage the process. Sailor offers best practices for implementing RTI not only at ...

Headlines are filled with tragic stories of senseless murders and suicides that have resulted from child and teen bullying. As social networking and technology add to the ways that kids can be bullied, parents feel powerless against this insidious force that compels even "good" kids to participate in or enable bullying in schools, in extracurricular activities, online, and at home.The Essential Guide to Bullying Prevention and Intervention brings together the wisd...

What principles should guide an empowerment evaluation? And how can these principles actually be put into practice? One of the primary tasks in an empowerment evaluation (EE) is to increase the capacity of program stakeholders to plan, implement, and evaluate their own programs. This book presents the most current formulation of the 10 principles of EE and provides professionals and students with the tools to put these principles into practice. Through case studies of diverse evaluation pr...

Action research, explored in this book, is a seven-step process for improving teaching and learning in classrooms at all levels. Through practical examples, research tools, and easy-to-follow "implementation strategies," Richard Sagor guides readers through the process from start to finish. Learn how to uncover and use the data that already exist in your classrooms and schools to answer significant questions about your individual or collective concerns and interests. Sagor covers each step...

Classroom Management and Aggressive BehaviorI will like to describe my book on classroom management. The book defines classroom management as approaches used by teachers to maintain order during classroom lessons in the event of distractive behavior caused by students. My book gives account of the importance of classroom management, with particular attention addressed to aggressive behavior. Therefore, the role played by classroom management in ensuring that non-educational issues ...

"Chadwell′s book is a very useful guide for principals and administrators seeking to launch single-gender programs."—Leonard Sax, Executive DirectorNational Association for Single Sex Public Education"Any administrator following the process outlined in this book will impress teachers, parents and the board with their well thought out approach."—Kathy Tritz- Rhodes, PrincipalMarcus-Meriden-Cleghorn SchoolsMarcus and Cleghorn, IA

In this volume, Stephanie W. Cawthon and Carrie Lou Garberoglio discuss the individual and systemic factors that both facilitate and inhibit the attainment of postsecondary education, training, and career goals for deaf individuals. Real-life examples and current research are combined in this consideration of the interactions between individuals and the many layers of the overall system in which they navigate.In addition to using a systems theory approach, the authors employ resilie...