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99 Activities and Greetings
Magic Number, Chicka Boom, Mystery World, Galaxy Greeting, Name Four, In Search of a Noun... With these and other activities, chants, greetings, and games, students will develop language skills, self-control, and problem-solving abilities. They'll practice risktaking, reading, math, and cooperation, all while having fun and building community. [Northeast Foundation for Children]$22.00 detailsbuy |
A Connected School Facilitator's Guide for Study Groups
This facilitator's guide, subtitled "Keys to Unlocking New Ways of Thinking," is a comprehensive model for conducting study groups, based on the book A Connected School.$35.00 detailsbuy |
A Connected School: Achieving, Caring & Safe
Improve school culture, and you'll increase achievement. In this book, you'll learn how achievement is connected to care and safety, and strategies based on the model of internal motivation and purposeful behavior will help you improve these three elements in your own school. $15.00 detailsbuy |
ACT I Intensive Seminar in Hilton Head Island, SCJanuary 17-20, 2011, Hilton Head Island, SC
First step towards certification introduces PCT principles and applications. Prerequisite for ACT I Practicum and ACT II Intensive Seminar. $550.00 detailsbuy |
ACT II Intensive Seminar in Hilton Head Island, SCJanuary 17-20, 2011, Hilton Head Island, SC
Second step in the certification process builds upon ACT I. Prerequisites: ACT I Intensive Seminar and ACT I Practicum. $550.00 detailsbuy |
ACT III Intensive Seminar (Certification) in Hilton Head Island, SCJanuary 17-20, 2011, Hilton Head Island, SC
Third and final seminar in the certification process. Participants are certified in ACT upon completion. Prerequisites: ACT II Intensive Seminar and ACT II Practicum.$550.00 detailsbuy |
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ACT IV (The Loop: Practicum Supervision & Beyond) in Hilton Head Island, SCJanuary 17-20, 2011, Hilton Head Island, SC
An advanced seminar for particpants who want to learn more about perceptual control theory and/or becoming an IAACT faculty member. Prerequisite: ACT III Intensive Seminar.$550.00 detailsbuy |
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Activities That Teach
A collection of sixty creative, innovative, and user-friendly lesson plans from Active Learning which will influence student behavior and attitudes for a lifetime. This teaching strategy is part of the educational trend which promotes cooperation, collaboration, problem-solving, critical thinking, and experiential learning. The Active Learning approach has worked with urban as well as suburban, elementary as well as secondary, and at-risk as well as gifted students. [Red Rock Publishing]$15.95 detailsbuy |
America's Schools: Making Them Work
What's wrong with our schools and how can we improve them? Dr. Rauhauser and Dr. McLennan answer these tough questions in this examination of thirty-five current educational practices. They argue that many practices are actually holdovers from the industrial age - they don't work in today's information age and need desperately to be replaced. A more sensible practice is suggested in every case.$9.00 detailsbuy |
Beyond Discipline: From Compliance to Community
A vital alternative to all the traditional manuals that consist of techniques for imposing control, Beyond Discipline has earned the status of an education classic. Just as memorizing someone else’s right answers fails to promote students’ intellectual development, so does complying with someone else’s expectations for how to act fail to help students develop socially or morally. Kohn contrasts the idea of discipline, in which things are done to students to control their behavior, with an approach in which we work with students to create caring communities where decisions are made together.$23.95 detailsbuy |
Bridges: Building Relationships & Resolving Conflicts
Conflict is inevitable. We see it every day - at work, in schools, within our government, even at home. One of life's most valuable skills is the ability to resolve conflicts and build relationships. Award-winning author Joseph Hester teaches you theses skills using powerful but easy-to-grasp techniques. Dr. Hester's approach has been used successfully in a wide variety of professions, from management to education. Devise a win-win outcome every time!$12.00 detailsbuy |
Counseling Theories: Practical Applications with Children and Adolescents in School Settings
Offers specific counseling applications for children and adolescents from leading experts and school counselors. Together, they explain individual, group, and classroom applications of several theories. $42.00 detailsbuy |
Creating the Conditions: Leadership for Quality Schools
A must for educators who want to move their school in a new direction! Gossen and Anderson start with a strong, theoretical foundation - a lucid explanation of internal motivation and purposeful behavior. From this proceeds a discussion of the most powerful leadership tools: creating vision, resolving conflicts, and reaching consensus. Includes valuable hints on how to improve your curriculum.$15.00 detailsbuy |
Helping Kids Help Themselves
Follow along in this popular book as Perry Good explores the basic psychological needs all children have and how you can help kids avoid self-destructive behaviors. Includes practical solutions to common teen problems.$13.00 detailsbuy |
Helping Kids Help Themselves Facilitator's Guide
This guide shows you how to design, organize, and conduct parent programs or in-service workshops for teachers and counselors based on the book Helping Kids Help Themselves. Adults will learn how to foster self-discipline and independence in kids.$25.00 detailsbuy |
How to Create Positive Relationships with Students
This handbook is a fun collection of teaching strategies for use by counselors, teachers, and others working with children of all ages. Karns introduces us to her tantalizing repertoire of games and activities to captivate youthful audiences. With these activities, you too can teach new skills and self-understanding, and kids will have fun while learning. [Research Press]$25.95 detailsbuy |
I'm Learning to Be Happy
This fun workbook companion to Teach Them to Be Happy helps children apply the concepts of control theory to their own lives. Children will enjoy the illustrations and activities while they learn about their basic needs. Appropriate for children ages three to eight.$6.00 detailsbuy |
In Pursuit of Happiness
Perry Good explains what you can do if you want to have a happier life. Explore the four parts of your behavioral system and discover how basic psychological needs motivate all of our actions.$13.00 detailsbuy |
It's Finally OK to Be the Boss
Become the leader you want to be. Manage people effectively! An easy-to-read manual for anyone who supervises one or more people in the workplace. E. Perry Good explains - in simple terms - human motivation and behavior and gives you the tools to apply them effectively to the task of supervision. Teachers have found this book has helped them become better classroom managers, too. New revised edition!$13.00 detailsbuy |
Life Lessons for Young Adolescents: An Advisory Guide for Teachers
Across the country, teachers are being asked to be advisors as well as instructors to their students. The teacher is expected to teach the whole child, providing compassionate support to master various life skills. This guide is written to help teachers learn to fill this role. It includes short, simple activities that deal in a practical way with everyday concerns of adolescents.$29.95 detailsbuy |
Making Sense of Behavior: The Meaning of Control
This book is a simplified look at Perceptual Control Theory (PCT) written in a clear conversational style. Powers uses simple examples to peel back the layers of control theory and reveal universal truths.$19.95 detailsbuy |
New View Posters: Balance and Variety
Caption: Balance and variety are the spice of life. This poster by Sesame Street animator and artist Jeff Hale has been reproduced from E. Perry Good's In Pursuit of Happiness. It can be purchased individually or as a part of a set of 5, to hang in school halls, library, or an individual classroom. Kids love these posters.$5.00 detailsbuy |
New View Posters: Decide What You Want
Caption: Decide what you want. This poster by Sesame Street animator and artist Jeff Hale has been reproduced from E. Perry Good's In Pursuit of Happiness. It can be purchased individually or as a part of a set of 5, to hang in school halls, library, or an individual classroom. Kids love these posters.$5.00 detailsbuy |
New View Posters: If You Can Imagine
Caption: If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it. This poster by Sesame Street animator and artist Jeff Hale has been reproduced from E. Perry Good's In Pursuit of Happiness. It can be purchased individually or as a part of a set of 5, to hang in school halls, library, or an individual classroom. Kids love these posters.$5.00 detailsbuy |
New View Posters: Things Could Be Worse
Caption: Things Could Be Worse This poster by Sesame Street animator and artist Jeff Hale has been reproduced from E. Perry Good's In Pursuit of Happiness. It can be purchased individually or as a part of a set of 5, to hang in school halls, library, or an individual classroom. Kids love these posters.$5.00 detailsbuy |
New View Posters: Use Your Imagination
This poster by Sesame Street animator and artist Jeff Hale has been reproduced from E. Perry Good's In Pursuit of Happiness. It can be purchased individually or as a part of a set of 5, to hang in school halls, library, or an individual classroom. Kids love these posters.$5.00 detailsbuy |
New View Posters: set of 5
This set of five posters by Sesame Street animator and artist Jeff Hale have been reproduced from E. Perry Good's In Pursuit of Happiness. They can be purchased individually (listed separately) or as a set to hang in the school halls or library or your individual classroom. Kids love them.$20.00 detailsbuy |
PETALS Parent's Guide
The PETALS program is designed to help parents discover how their child learns and to help them implement appropriate strategies to improve their child's learning process. Ages six to eighteen. |
Parents & Teachers Working Together
How can teachers build positive relationships with parents and work with them to support their children's learning? This book offers a wealth of manageable ways. It combines the voice of a master teacher with spotlights of a dozen other teachers in action in rural, urban, and suburban schools. Sample letters and forms are included throughout. [Northeast Foundation for Children]$24.00 detailsbuy |
Punished by Rewards
Do this and you'll get that. That's how we try to motivate our children and - guess what - it doesn't work. Alfie Kohn is here to tell you why. In this brilliant book, he dissects the whole idea of "carrot and stick" discipline. Instead build self-esteem and teach self-discipline, and maybe we can start to climb out of this hole we've dug for our children and ourselves. [Houghton Mifflin]$15.00 detailsbuy |
Quality Time for Quality Kids
This counseling guidebook for children ages four to ten presents helpful ideas for conducting group activities and teaching children to discover their own special qualities. Contains delightful illustrations by Jeffrey Hale and many creative activities to help build self-esteem. The activities encourage involvement, affirmation of self, and problem solving.$25.00 detailsbuy |
Restitution: Restructuring School Discipline
Diane Gossen presents a groundbreaking approach to discipline based on the recognition that young people will make mistakes and that emphasizes positive strategies when problems do occur. Help foster self-discipline in students.$13.00 detailsbuy |
Restitution: Restructuring School Discipline Facilitator's Guide
Help your staff learn how to lead students to fix their own mistakes, focus on self-discipline, and build self-esteem. Expands on the ideas in the book Restitution and provides activities to conduct your own staff-development program. Contains invaluable reproducible handouts. New and revised Second Edition now available!$20.00 detailsbuy |
Silver Bullets
A guide to initiative problems, adventure games, and trust activities. Used by teachers, counselors, and therapists to build trust. This book features 165 activities that require few props. All have been field tested and offer many helpful hints for implementation. [Kendall/Hunt Publishing]$37.95 detailsbuy |
Take Charge! Workshop in Hilton Head Island, SCJanuary 21-22, 2011, Hilton Head Island, SC
A curriculum for building self-discipline and promoting positive behavior in teens.$950.00 detailsbuy Includes Implementation Workshop and Kit for 15 students |
Teach Them to Be Happy
Expanded text offers even more ideas and activities to help teach young children how to lead happier, healthier lives. It is never too early to learn how people are motivated and why they behave as they do. Using the concepts of applied control theory, Sullo explains how we can help children learn to self-evaluate their behaviors and meet their basic needs in responsible, balanced ways. Ideal for home or classroom.$13.00 detailsbuy |
Teacher and Counselor Guide to In Pursuit of Happiness
Provides teachers and counselors with activities based on In Pursuit of Happiness for children in grades six to twelve. Contains cooperative learning activities, group discussions, writing exercises, role plays, lectures, and novel ways to use multimedia as an instructional tool in the classroom.$15.00 detailsbuy |
Teaching with the Brain in Mind (2nd Edition)
Connects brain research and classroom practices. Readers will better understand the significance of healthy and safe student-teacher relationships, the experience of social interactions, and the internal motivation behind human behavior. $27.95 detailsbuy |
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The First Six Weeks of School
Learn how to structure the first six weeks of school to lay the groundwork for a productive year of learning. Discover how taking the time to build a solid foundation in the early weeks of school can pay off all year long in increased student motivation, cooperation, responsibility, and self-control.$24.00 detailsbuy |
The Habit of Thought
In this thought-provoking book, Michael Strong introduces and describes an approach to classroom instruction called Socratic practice, which fosters a culture of learning and independence within students. $15.00 detailsbuy |
The Happy Hour Guide
A valuable tool for group leaders, counselors, and teachers. The Happy Hour Guide is designed to help group facilitators teach the ideas presented in In Pursuit of Happiness. Follow the ten group meetings exactly as presented or use the guide as a springboard to design a format to fit the specific needs of your group. Appropriate for group work with both adults and teenagers.$15.00 detailsbuy |
The Morning Meeting Book
Build a sense of connectedness and create a climate of trust in your classroom. Morning classroom meetings can become a daily routine that brings students and teachers together in a circle to greet one another, share news, and look forward to the day ahead. This powerful teaching tool includes step-by-step guidelines, suggestions for communicating with parents, thirty-four greetings and forty-two activities$24.00 detailsbuy |
The Paideia Seminar Guide
Discover a new approach to teaching with this concise, informative introduction to conducting Paideia Seminars. Based on the Socratic method of inquiry, the Paideia Seminar is a forum in which students are asked to articulate, justify, and clarify their own thoughts about classical texts. This process leads improvement in their reading, writing, and thinking skills.$15.00 detailsbuy |
Transformative Classroom Management
In this groundbreaking book, John Shindler presents Transformative Classroom Management, a model that can be implemented by educators to restore the natural positive feelings in his or her classroom and to create a productive learning environment in which all students can achieve. $29.95 detailsbuy |
Waging Peace
This implementation guide is a collection of ten introductory trust-building activities and thirty-two bullying prevention lessons based on best practices and the Olweus Bullying Prevention Program. These activities and lessons are designed to be delivered through class meetings in elementary schools, adviser/advisee sessions in middle schools, or specific subject-area classes. The guide is focused on the silent majority, the bystanders who can make a difference.$29.00 detailsbuy |
When A Butterfly Sneezes
Author Linda Booth Sweeney explores systems thinking, guiding children and adults alike through an interconnected world. When A Butterfly Sneezes teaches children to think about complexities using a simple and attractive model: the picture book. This is an invaluable resource for the educator or parent. [Pegasus Communications]$14.95 detailsbuy |
Who2Bee: The Inside Story
Who2Bee: The Inside Story is the first book of a new series which aims to teach basic concepts of Perceptual Control Theory to elementary school students. $15.00 detailsbuy Available now for pre-order. |
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