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Bringing Learning to Life by Louise Boyd Cadwell
Category: No Category | Series: Early Childhood Education Series
Here, Cadwell helps American educators understand what it means to use ideas from the Reggio Approach in their classrooms. She describes the growth and evolution of the work in the St Louis Region collaborative since the early 1990s.
Bringing Reggio Emilia Home by Louise Boyd Cadwell
Category: No Category | Series: Early Childhood Education Series
This book is the first to integrate the experiences of one American teacher on a year-long internship in the preschools of Reggio, with a four-year adaptation effort in one American school. The lively text includes many "mini-stories" of preschool and kindergarten-age children, teachers, and parents who ...Show more
Continuing Bonds: New Understandings of Grief by Edited by Dennis Klass, Phyllis R. Silverman, Steven L. Nickman
Category: Health and Wellbeing | Series: Series in Death Education, Aging & Health Care
This book gives voice to an emerging consensus among bereavement scholars that our understanding of the grief process needs to be expanded. The dominant 20th century model holds that the function of grief and mourning is to cut bonds with the deceased, thereby freeing the survivor to reinvest in new re ...Show more
Dealing with Difficult People by Dr. Rick Brinkman & Dr. Rick Kirschner
Category: Business | Series: McGraw-Hill Professional Education Series
"Dealing with Difficult People" provides specific strategies and actions you can take to understand difficult people, recognize why they act the way they do, and influence them to change their behavior toward the positive. Written by Doctors Rick Brinkman and Rick Kirschner, today's most respected autho ...Show more
GradeGetting organised at work by Kenneth Zeigler
Category: Business | Series: McGraw-Hill Professional Education Series
Provides you with 24 tips, tools, ideas and strategies for becoming more organized with your tasks and priorities, gaining efficiency in what you do, and getting more done in less time. This handbook helps you to: set goals; think realistically; plan your work and work your plan; use and manage a master ...Show more
How To Manage Performance by Robert Bacal
Category: Business | Series: McGraw-Hill Professional Education Series
"How to Manage Performance" contains 24 Lessons for improving performance dramatically. Increased productivity is the primary driver of growth in today's workplace. But productivity improvements don't occur in a vacuum - they require knowledge, action, and a commitment to performance on the part of fron ...Show more
How To Motivate Every Employee - 24 Proven Tactics to Spark Productivity in the Workplace by Anne Bruce
Category: Business | Series: McGraw-Hill Professional Education Series
Think about the managers who influenced your career. They were successful because they infused employees - and organizations - with passion for work and motivation to achieve. This title provides two dozen creative and ready-to-use tools and techniques for ensuring that same enthusiasm, energy, and empl ...Show more
Knitted Animals by Anne-Dorthe Grigaff
Category: Craft | Series: Education Series
This enchanting book provides instructions for making more than twenty different knitted animals, including a mother duck and ducklings; a family of rooster, hen, and chicks; a shaggy brown bear; lambs; teddy bears; cat and kittens; dog; squirrel; goose; rabbit; horse; fox; pig and piglets; hedgehog; an ...Show more
Leadership When the Heat's on by Danny Cox
Category: Business | Series: McGraw-Hill Professional Education Series
Provides readers with the techniques for infusing their company with results-driven leadership at various levels, especially during times of mergers, layoffs, and other organizational turmoil.
Making Teams Work by Michael D. Maginn
Category: Business | Series: McGraw-Hill Professional Education Series
These quick reads, based on McGraw-Hill bestsellers, are designed to meet the needs of busy people. Titles in the series focus on each book's main themes and action ideas, reduced to a manageable page count for on-the-go readers. It includes proven rules for encouraging teamwork, from forging a common g ...Show more
Managing in Times of Change by Michael D. Maginn
Category: Business | Series: McGraw-Hill Professional Education Series
In this book, managers learn a three-step method to help their employees deal with change in the workplace. They will learn how to face change head-on and be honest with their employees about the current situation and offer desirable outcomes.
Mindfulness for Teachers: Simple Skills for Peace and Productivity in the Classroom by Patricia A. Jennings
Category: Health and Wellbeing | Series: The Norton Series on the Social Neuroscience of Education
Teaching is one of the most rewarding professions, but also one of the most demanding. This book offers simple, ready-to-use, and evidence-proven mindfulness techniques to help educators manage the stresses of the classroom, cultivate an exceptional learning environment, and revitalize both their teachi ...Show more