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Non-Coercive Classrooms
Successful Students, Successful Teachers
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Non-Coercive Classrooms is aimed at the years from kindergarten to grade twelve. It contains descriptions of best practice if our goal for students is to leave school with skills that enhance their innate intelligence. The author argues that the...
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Alternative Schools in British Columbia 1960-1975
A Social and Cultural History
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The tumultuous 1960s was an era of the counterculture, political activism, and resistance to authority. Conventions and values were challenged and new approaches to education captured the imaginations of parents, teachers, and students. Reacting...
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How to Laugh at Death and Taxes
What Executors, Willmakers, Heirs, and Beneficiaries Need to Know
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This book is for everyone at some time in their life. If you’re breathing, this book’s for you… or your parents, friends, teenagers moving into their first apartment, newlyweds, new parents, siblings, ... oh, and the person or people you name as...
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Reflections on Kindness, Connections and Lifelong Learning
Empowering Emerging Educators
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In Reflections on Kindness, Connections, and Lifelong Learning: Empowering Emerging Educators, retired Phys. Ed. and Biology teacher, Vice-principal, Principal, and Coach Michael Babb draws upon a wealth of experience and wisdom gleaned over...
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Women Thriving in Leadership
Practices for Cultivating Wholeness and Community
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Women Thriving in Leadership is for all women who lead, aspire to lead, or wonder if they can lead. Dr. Toogood takes a holistic approach to leadership development, encouraging the reader to reflect on their experience and question assumptions...
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The Effective Communicator
The Keys to Turbocharging Your Performance in Important Conversations
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Learn to have greater Courage, Confidence, and Consideration in the many important conversations at work and in your personal life. In The Effective Communicator, a formative work on developing oral communication skills, Stephen Franklin outlines...
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My Journey. My Story.
Unravel Yourself With Me From the Inside Out
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In today’s world, we are constantly juggling expectations and trying to manage the many pressures we feel around us. We all have issues, struggles, and habits that we feel guilt or shame about. We all have beliefs and expectations of ourselves...
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Writing in the Elementary Classroom Community of Learners
An Implementation Guide
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As the world continues to change and adapt, so too should the classroom. Finding an instruction methodology that can adapt to the needs of all students, however, can be challenging. Even more so when it comes to teaching elementary writing....
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Collective Bargaining Preparation Essentials (revised)
The Handbook
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We are all negotiators and while we may negotiate in many forums and have a variety of negotiating experiences, we don’t bargain collectively all the time! Unleash the power of negotiation with "Collective Bargaining Preparation Essentials...
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How to Collaborate
A Small Business Guide to Increase Profits, Build Relationships, and Stop Doing it All by Yourself
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• Are you sure there’s more to your business, but you can’t quite find what’s missing? • Do you feel stuck in the day-to-day routine? Uninspired? Or discouraged with where you find your business self? • Do you feel overwhelmed or like you’re...
