As described in the Old Testament, God promises Hebrews eternal bliss if they follow ten commandments and associated rules. The New overhauls the Old, defining the way to Heaven via the heart rather than the hand. These promises became known as “covenants” over time. And like in any contractual engagement, anyone signing onto such agreement is best served by fully understanding both the terms and parties involved. We rarely do, however. Yet, when our eternal life is on the line, is a littl...

This book offers a selection of stories about teaching, learning, and school life that you can use in a variety of PD formats and settings.Grouped into four categories—students, teachers, administrators, and parents—these tales offer a powerful entry point for thinking and reflecting on your school environment in a new and meaningful way. Each brief tale is presented to spark a 10–15 minute group discussion that will help educators think more deeply about the complex, human problem...

Kevin never smiles at school, but he is different at home. He jumps up and down when his favorite football team scores a touchdown, and screams "CANNONBALL!" when he jumps into the swimming pool. But at school he feels that he isn't 'okay.' Other kids in his class are much quicker at putting their hands up and answering the teacher's questions, and Kevin feels that he will never catch up. One day, his reading teacher asks him to help out with the school store, and Kevin slowly begins to re...

Mactaggart is the rascally skipper of the puffer The Maggie, a flimsy rust-bucket which hauls freight up and down the west coast of Scotland. When wealthy American businessman Calvin B. Marshall, General Overseas Manager of World-International Airways, wants to transport a precious cargo to his newly bought mansion on Kiltarra in the Western Isles, Mactaggart manages to trick Marshall's agent into hiring The Maggie for GBP300, a sum that might be useful for some much-needed repairs. Marsha...

FDNY Captain Nolan Daly was in trouble with the good folks at EEO. Again. He could have attended the annual class, sat still, kept his mouth shut for two hours and gone home. But he was tired of being told how to think. Daly wasn't racist, sexist, homophobic or any of the other labels they threw at him. It always amazed him that the people who preached acceptance, inclusion and diversity were only talking about those who agreed with them. If your opinion differed from theirs, you were not ...

Tackle underlying issues to get to the root of bullyingBy reframing bullying prevention, you can make significant progress in addressing the underlying issues causing bullying and aggression in your school. In this resource, James Dillon digs into the work that busy educators often have little time for: translating rich and insightful research on the dynamics of change into practical terms. He probes deeply into the issues and why they persist in our schoo...

This book takes readers on a tour of a day in the life of a public elementary school in an effort to give parents and other stakeholders a sense of the realities of the classroom. The tour reveals ten worrisome things about today’s schools and considers what to do about them. Dillon emphasizes the need for future schools to be places filled with adventure and high purpose, with classrooms small enough to waste only a minimum of time. They should be free from stifling levels of bureaucracy,...

Nolan Daly believes he has the dream life. He's got a beautiful wife, two adorable children, and the job he always wanted. As a lieutenant in the FDNY, on the list for promotion to captain, he feels the sky's the limit. Then 9/11 happens. Daly loses seven brothers from his Brooklyn firehouse and well over one hundred friends out of the 343 firefighters killed that horrible day. While still reeling from that tragedy, he wakes up in a hospital with a pair of detectives asking him what he did...

Discover the keys to successful bullying prevention!No Place for Bullying describes the paradigm shifts a school administrator needs to create in order to develop and lead a schoolwide bully prevention program. Preventing and counteracting bullying should be a top priority for every school leader, but anti-bullying efforts often fail because they do not have full support from all stakeholders, including parents.This access...

This book presents a lively and accessible way to use the ancient figure of Socrates to teach modern psychology that avoids the didactic lecture and sterile textbook. In the online age, is a living teacher even needed? What can college students learn face-to-face from a teacher they cannot learn anywhere else? The answer is what most teachers already seek to do: help students think critically, clearly define concepts, logically reason from premises to conclusions, engage in thoughtful and ...

This collection of essays examines the way complexes and archetypes manifest in the particulars of our personal and social lives. Through theoretical chapters and practical case analyses, the book’s authors provide key insights which address questions of personal identity, gender in the psyche, individuation in the unmarried, to have or not to have children, the mythical dimensions of university unrest, as well as the psychological significance of video games, pop culture icons, and declin...

Jade Fulton and Ethan Garrett are opposites in every sense of the word. Ethan is an all-American poster boy—a star athlete dating the most popular girl in school and a devout Christian. Jade keeps mostly to herself. She abhors joining “things,” hates everyone at their high school except her best friend, Gia, and considers herself agnostic.When Ethan and Jade find themselves locked in an aerobics room overnight, their confinement forces them to push past the labels they’ve given eac...