| Description |
1 online resource (304 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Contents; List of Tables and Figures; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1: Emergence, Growth, and Current Uses of Strengths-Based Educational Systems; 2: The Strengths Mindset: Understanding the Nature of Strengths; 3: Brain Development, Emotion, and Learning; 4: The Strengths-Based School's Component 1: A Strengths-Building Pyramid; 5: Component 2: Improving Instruction--The Academic Curriculum; 6: Component 3: Caring and Empathic Classrooms; 7: Component 4: Preventing Failure; 8: Component 5: Increasing Home, School, and Community Partnerships |
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9: Assuring Teachers Understand Their Own Strengths10: Creating and Communicating a Strengths-Based School Vision: Getting Involved; Notes; Index |
| Summary |
This book explains how a teaching system focused on identifying and stoking each student's strengths--rather than concentrating on deficits--can bring remarkable academic improvement and achievement |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Individualized instruction.
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School improvement programs.
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Multiple intelligences.
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Academic achievement.
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Educational change.
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Educational change
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Academic achievement
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Individualized instruction
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Multiple intelligences
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School improvement programs
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780313391545 |
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0313391548 |
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