Deliberate practice exercises provide trainees and students an opportunity to build competence essential rational emotive behavior therapy (REBT) skills while developing their own personal therapeutic style. These exercises present role-playing scenarios in which two trainees act as a client and a clinician, switching back and forth under the…

As more students experience trauma and anxiety, the toll of teachers' compassion fatigue cannot be overlooked. This important book explores what compassion fatigue looks and feels like for teachers, who can become mentally and physically exhausted from caring and loving their students and may not want to stay in the profession as a result. Topics…

This survey is designed to assess your institution's efforts to prevent and respond to campus sexual violence. It covers practices and policies mandated by federal law as well as those recommended by experts in the field. Questions are organized around the six pillars of the Culture of Respect CORE Blueprint. Survey questions are included to…

When we implement a grading system that prioritizes completion and compliance and penalizes students who take risks, we "disrupt" the learning journey--not further it. It's time to align how we grade with what we know from research works best and help move learning forward for all students. "Grading Visible Learners" provides…

Asking open-ended questions for research purposes might be very tempting because the answers can provide valuable authentic information not only about participants' responses to the asked questions but also about their unintentionally expressed feelings and emotions. However, analyzing answers to open-ended questions given in free form will very…

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the theoretical issues and existing research in relation to the emotions that learners' experience when learning and using a FL, highlighting the two emotions under investigation, enjoyment and anxiety, which are the focus of the empirical research reported later in the book. Highlighting the crucial…

This research methods Case Study is based on an Exploratory Practice (EP) inquiry that I conducted into peer feedback processes, collaborating with my undergraduate English-language learners as co-researchers. I introduce EP, focusing on its core principles and processes while offering an insider account of how these played out when applied in a…

The EQ Way is a reflection tool for leaders navigating difficult times--and difficult emotions--in their schools. In education, challenges surround you every day, but they don't have to define you. When the negative, frightful, or unknown happens--when you're confused because you aren't sure where things are headed--that's when you want to focus…

How is it possible to research emotions with minimal disruption? In the research that was the basis for this Case Study, the researcher wanted to understand how participants in a writing group experienced emotions during their academic writing and how they used emotion regulation and interpersonal emotion regulation during writing group sessions.…

This book responds to the urgent need for instructional practices that recognize student diversity and cultural backgrounds as valuable assets. As the United States continues to grapple with policies that promote culturally dominant ideologies, the opportunity gaps continue to widen for minoritized, marginalized, and otherized PK-12 students. This…

Learning knows no boundaries. The potential for learning exists whenever and wherever we interact with our environment. So how can we infuse school learning with the authenticity and excitement associated with real-life experiences? In "Questioning for Formative Feedback," Jackie Acree Walsh explores the relationship between questioning…

"A Little Guide for Teachers: Efficient Marking" is full of highly innovative, practical and labour-saving strategies that shows busy teachers exactly how to provide feedback which moves learning forward, but which also inspires and motivates pupils to want to improve. "The Little Guide for Teachers" series is little in size…

Scientific research relies on funding, and everyone who conducts research must become adept at funding their research. This book explains how to attain the number one source of research funding: grants. Readers will learn how to prepare grant proposals, how and when to interact with funding institutions, how to interpret and respond to peer review…

"Improving Teacher Morale and Motivation" discusses a key issue for school leaders: motivating teachers to improve learning for students. Immense and unprecedented changes in education--primarily with the pandemic and "great resignation"--have affected all areas of teaching and learning, including teacher morale and motivation.…

We offer this case study as an example of the important work that often happens quietly, and without grants or public recognition, and that only rarely appears in academic literature, and reflect to theorize our practices (Stepney & Thompson, 2021), making space for culturally relevant and impactful research practices by moving from practice…