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From Onjali Q. Rauf, the award-winning and best-selling author of The Boy at the Back of the Class, comes another incredible story, told with humour and heart. Told from the perspective of a bully, this book explores themes of homelessness, while celebrating kindness, friendship ...and the potential everyone has to change for the good. Read more
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This practical book for 15-25-year-olds helps you make good decisions about your career. It contains easy exercises to help you: * understand who you are and who you want to become, * explore options that are right for you, * create an action plan, * identify the strategies your ...need to create the future that YOU want. Read more
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Capturing the energy, vitality and idealism of young people, this book presents practical and positive changes teens can make to help transform the world around them. Tackling political activism, body image, cyberbullying, and more, this toolkit provides positive role models to h...elp teens see what is possible and build their resilience. Read more
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A practical and inspiring introduction to the use of restorative practice in schools in order to improve behaviour, foster a more caring culture and forge relationships that work.
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With hit books that support strategic reading through conferring, small groups, and assessment, Jen Serravallo gets emails almost daily asking, Isn't there a book of the strategies themselves? Now there is. Strategies make the often invisible work of reading actionable and visibl...e, Jen writes. In The Reading Strategies Book, she collects 290+ strategies to share with readers in support of thirteen goals-everything from fluency to literary analysis. Each strategy is cross-linked to skills, genres, and Fountas & Pinnell reading levels to give you just-right teaching, just in time. With Jen's help you'll: develop goals for every reader give students step-by-step strategies for skilled reading guide readers with prompts aligned to the strategies adjust instruction to meet individual needs with Jen's Teaching Tips craft demonstrations and explanations with her Lesson Language learn more with Hat Tips to the work of influential teacher-authors. Whether you use readers workshop, Daily 5/CAFE, guided reading, balanced reading, a core reading program, whole-class novels, or any other approach, The Reading Strategies Book will complement and extend your teaching. Rely on it to plan and implement goal-directed, differentiated instruction for individuals, small groups, and whole classes. We offer strategies to readers to put the work in doable terms for those who are still practicing, writes Jen Serravallo. The goal is not that they can do the steps of the strategy but that they become more comfortable and competent with a new skill. With The Reading Strategies Book, you'll have ways to help your readers make progress every day. Read more
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The animals were mighty and magnificent, but they were miserable! For way too long, theyd been forced to become something that didn't feel right - something that felt too much like bad days and scratchy things. The animals needed a hero, or someone to show them that a hero was in... each of them all along. A book about boundaries, peer pressure, self-esteem, and self-acceptance, and a reminder for all kids that the very best thing about them, is them. Read more
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Offering an innovative approach built on years of experience working with troubled teenagers, this book aims to unravel the mysteries surrounding teenage behaviours and defences. It supports schools and child welfare professionals to build positive relationships with at-risk youn...g people. Read more
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An accessible, engaging how-to guide for building a personalised mental health 'workout'. Includes tried and tested therapeutic techniques, simple strategies and healthy thinking habits teenagers can use to boost their mental health fitness and emotional well-being.
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Hope for overcoming teacher burnout, from a mindfulness expert.
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Generation Alpha applies to children born between 2011 and 2025. Raising Generation Alpha Kids looks at how this generation of young children presents new opportunities and challenges, and supports and informs the two principal groups of adults in children's lives - their familie...s and early childhood educators. Read more
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