Product Description: The Six-C process allows educators to take progressively more assertive steps as needed to resolve a conflict, using the least amount of time and energy while preserving relationships.

Product Description: INVITING SCHOOL SUCCESS is built around a specific model of teaching and counseling known as "invitational education," which is intellectually grounded in the work of John Dewey, Carl Rogers, and Albert Bandura, among others. Using this model, Purkey and Novak advocate that the process of education is as important as the product, that cooperation and collaboration are absolutely essential to teaching, and that students have untapped possibilities...read more

Product Description: This first-of-its-kind resource shows educators how to teach these unique learners while also leveraging their humor to improve classroom management and student motivation.  

Product Description: This book offers a fresh and innovative model based on a single theoretical framework. This model shifts from emphasizing control and dominance to one that focuses on connectedness, cooperation, and communication. Based on sound philosophical and psychological assumptions, this model has been tested and successfully applied by leaders in numerous fields, including administration, business, nursing, dentistry, counseling, and other professions...read more

Product Description: William Purkey and Betty Siegel have written much more than a guidebook to becoming a healthier and more effective leader. The book is radical and profound in its compelling argument that it is time for people in positions of authority to forge a new kind of relationship with others based on dialogue, respect and collaboration...read more

This book is about the inner voice of the self. It addresses the ways students, teachers, and others speak to themselves about who they are and how they fit in the world. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Founded on the perceptual tradition, self-concept theory, and an emerging view of human development called invitational theory, this book offers a fresh approach for today's counselors. The authors cover the skills and techniques required of the counselor, and they demonstrate the wyas in which the counselor's beliefs and attitudes about people--including trust, respect, optimism, and internationality--are paramount in enabling the client to become his/her best self...read more

Product Description: Founded on invitational theory, this book offers a fresh approach for todays teachers. The authors cover the teaching skills and techniques necessary to invite the student to participate in the learning process. They demonstrate the ways in which the teachers beliefs and attitudes about people--including trust, respect, optimism, and intentionality--are paramount in enabling the student to become his/her personal best...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Provides more than one thousand simple suggestions to improve school administration, teaching, and morale

Product Description: Book by Purkey, William Watson, Stanley, Paula Helen

Product Description: Book by Purkey, William Watson, Schmidt, John J.

Product Description: Book by Purkey, William Watson, Strahan, David B.

Stresses the importance of students developing positive self-concepts, teachers encouraging this development, and schools providing warmth, cooperative spirit, and positive expectations

Draws a parallel between a student's scholastic performance and his self concept, and offers teachers a guide to humanistic education