Feinstein, Sheryl

Describes four leadership styles--executer, relationship builder, influencer, and strategic thinker--and explains how to recognize and capitalize on these styles in educational environments.

Provides a series of instruction strategies for teachers and administrators to teach, support, and guide at-risk teenage students.

Collects nearly one hundred alphabetically arranged entries that discuss education and child development issues for kindergarten through twelfth grade students; and covers curriculum development, learning theories, the prenatal brain, classroom management, and more ; and includes cross-references, bibliography, and glossary.

Explains the biological and neurological changes that occur during the teenage years and provides educators with practical strategies for dealing with those changes and the impact they can have on individual students and the classroom environment.

Presents one hundred eighty-eight strategies to help teachers and administrators understand the basic reasons for disruptive and distracting behavior among middle and high school students.