problem children

Eleven-year-old Eva's arrest for shoplifting prompts her mother to move them out of Manhattan to a quiet town in upstate New York where Eva meets a reclusive beekeeper who helps mother and daughter face their past and move forward into the future.

Provides guidance for principals in handling difficult students, presenting a ten-step problem-solving process and discussing rewards, punishment, critical teaching behaviors, student boredom and confusion, and other related topics.

Presents methods based on neuroscience for helping behaviorally challenged kids that explain why traditional disciplinary measures are ineffective, and argues that they lack the skills to adapt their behavior and overcome their frustration with parents, teachers, and peers, and includes dialogues, tools for identifying triggers, and more.

Describes four special students with learning problems who do not fit into regular classrooms.

A teacher of six emotionally troubled kids describes the disasters and growth she faced with each one.

A guide to using the Response to Intervention system for educational redesign, providing an overview of Response to Intervention, and discussing the components of leadership, problem-solving teams, interventions, data use, parent involvement, special education, evaluation, and sustainability.

Child psychologist Jeffrey Bernstein presents a ten-day program designed to help parents regain control of their defiant child using simple, non-confrontational methods.

Challenges the labeling of millions of children as victims of Attention Deficit Disorder and the use of psychoactive medication to control their behaviors, and offers fifty alternative ways of helping children learn to channel their creative energies in a productive manner.