This book identifies the mindset, processes, and actual behaviors that contribute to successful reform efforts and provide school leaders with concrete tools enabling them to be more effective.

he Active Grammar 1 is for the teaching / learning Portuguese as a Foreign Language (PLE) and Portuguese Second Language (PL2) and covers the main structures of elementary and pre-intermediate levels - A1, A2 and B1. The Active Grammar 1 is not geared to be a book of course PLE / PL2. It is supplementary material to be used in the classroom or at home, and as such, the book should not be worked from beginning to end, following the numerical order of the units; they shall be selected and worke...

An essential guide for succeeding in today's competitive environment, this book provides beginning scientists and experienced researchers with practical advice on writing about their work and getting published. This brand new, updated edition also includes a new chapter on editing one's own work, a section on publicizing and archiving one's paper, and updates on authorship, including information on new authorship criteria and on the author identification number ORCID. The book guides readers ...

This book supports teachers to plan, assess and develop children's writing for a range of purposes in a range of styles. Chapters focus on different subjects exploring the different opportunities for writing across curriculum areas.

With this guide to mindful practice, teachers will learn how to use mindfulness in their own professional and personal lives as well as how to incorporate it in their teaching to support student wellbeing.

From experts on working with court-mandated populations, this book shows how motivational interviewing (MI) can help offenders move beyond resistance or superficial compliance and achieve meaningful behavior change. Using this evidence-based approach promotes successful rehabilitation and reentry by drawing on clients' values, goals, and strengths--not simply telling them what to do.

"Vergeet maar snel wat je op de lerarenopleiding hebt geleerd, in de praktijk gaat het heel anders", is een vaak gehoorde uitspraak. Op opleidingsscholen, waarin scholen en lerarenopleidingen intensief samenwerken bij het opleiden van studenten tot leraren, gaat deze uitspraak echter niet op.

In haar openbare les beschrijft lector Mariëlle Theunissen de manier waarop scholen voor basisonderwijs, voortgezet onderwijs en middelbaar beroepsonderwijs samenwerken met de lerarenopleidingen om aanko...

"This book could be described as an encyclopedia of service design-Erl leaves nothing to chance. Indispensable." -Steve Birkel, Chief IT Technical Architect, Intel Corp. "An absolute pleasure to read...the best SOA book I've read.

A book I would recommend to all of my colleagues; it provides much insight to the topics often overlooked by most books in this genre...the visuals were fantastic." -Brandon Bohling, SOA Architecture and Strategy, Intel Corporation "This book is a milestone in SOA l...

Introduction to Organic Chemistry, 6th Global Edition provides an introduction to organic chemistry for students who require the fundamentals of organic chemistry as a requirement for their major. It is most suited for a one semester organic chemistry course. In an attempt to highlight the relevance of the material to students, the authors place a strong emphasis on showing the interrelationship between organic chemistry and other areas of science, particularly the biological and health scien...