Product Description: With 29 real life and relatable stories at its heart, this practical resource is designed to help build self-esteem and body confidence in children aged 5-11. Each story is the focus of a ready-to-use lesson plan, covering common issues that affect children such as a lack of body confidence, feeling pressured by peers and worries about puberty...read more

Product Description: School transition is a life changing event for children - they are rarely faced with such a powerful set of personal and social changes. These underpin the immediate and longer term wellbeing of children, peer groups, teachers and schools...read more

Product Description: What is the nature of children’s social life in school? How do their relationships and interactions with peers, teachers and other school staff influence their development and experience of school? This book, written by leading researchers in educational and developmental psychology, provides answers to these questions by offering an integrated perspective on children’s social interactions and relationships with their peers and teachers in school...read more

Product Description: Based in systems thinking and an ecological-public health approach, this book outlines skills needed for choosing evidence-based interventions appropriate for all students, and for coordinating prevention efforts among staff, educators and administration.

Product Description: Challenging behaviors and poor student performance are often attributed to many of society's ills. As a result of the presence of such factors in some students' lives, changing these students' behavior in the classroom is seen as futile unless one can change their nonschool environment...read more

Product Description: Understanding how children think and feel is the key to buiding good relationships in the classroom. This book looks at: underlying causes of emotional conflicts the nature of maladaptive coping mechanisms why boys tend to "act out" and girls ten to "act in" interventions to promote the use of adaptive coping styles...read more

Product Description: School is an institution through which all children in modern industrial societies must pass, and it also has an important effect on their later lives. The authors present children's social interactive processes as a key dimension of their lives in school...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Kimmy's family is having chicken as the evening's main course. As Kimmy eats, she pauses. "How do they make chicken bones?" she asks as she casually inspects the piece she is holding. "They're part of chickens," her mom says, matter-of-factly...read more

Product Description: Used as a tool for teachers to start the day off right, this is a book of brief, meaningful and enjoyable activities to cure the morning blahs, add excitement during homeroom and end the day on a positive note. It includes 52 themes, (one for each week), each with an introduction, five quick activities, an inspiring quotation related to the theme, discussion questions, an affirmation and resources...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Is childhood harder now than years ago? What will children of today remember of their childhood, poverty, drugs, family discord, violence, racism? Is it possible to teach hope to children today? In The Optimistic Classroom, authors Deborah Hewitt and Sandra Heidemann examine these questions and argue that the important issue is not whether life is harder today, but rather how we can learn from the struggles of children in the past to help children meet the challenges they face today...read more

Product Description: Book by Balaban, Nancy