Download or read book Growing Influence written by Ron Price and published by Greenleaf Book Group. This book was released on 2018-09-18 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leadership is about influence ​Emily is a career-driven thirtysomething with big ambitions and a young family. She is making an impact as a leader at a tech company, but after being passed up for multiple promotions, she finds herself at a loss for how to improve. Fate answers her in the form of a kind—and surprisingly direct—older man in a coffee shop. A well-respected CEO before he retired, David has deep and rich leadership knowledge. Emily needs direction, and David is the perfect mentor. Growing Influence offers readers both practical advice on how to develop leadership skills and a relatable account of one woman’s growth by applying the principles in the book. Unlike nonfiction business books or business memoirs, this story is a business fable that is both impactful and transformative.

Download or read book Stacey s Extraordinary Words written by Stacey Abrams and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-12-28 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 New York Times bestseller and NAACP Image Award winner! The debut picture book from iconic voting rights advocate and bestselling author Stacey Abrams is an inspiring tale of determination, based on her own childhood. Stacey is a little girl who loves words more than anything. She loves reading them, sounding them out, and finding comfort in them when things are hard. But when her teacher chooses her to compete in the local spelling bee, she isn’t as excited as she thought she’d be. What if she messes up? Or worse, if she can’t bring herself to speak up, like sometimes happens when facing bullies at school? Stacey will learn that win or lose . . . her words are powerful, and sometimes perseverance is the most important word of all. Plus don't miss the follow-up from the same team, Stacey's Remarkable Books!

Download or read book The Therapist s Notebook Volume 3 written by Catherine Ford Sori and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2008-06-10 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Therapist's Notebook Volume 3 includes clinician field-tested activities for therapists who work with individuals, children and adolescents, couples, families, and groups. The reproducible handouts are designed to be practical and useful for the clinician, and cover the most salient topics that counselors are likely to encounter in their practices, with various theoretical approaches. Each chapter includes a "Reading and Resources for the Professional" section that guides readers toward useful books, videos, or websites that will further enhance their understanding of the chapter contents. This book is an excellent tool for both experienced and novice counselors for increasing therapeutic effectiveness.

Download or read book A Writer s Notebook written by Ralph Fletcher and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-08-24 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tap into your inner writer with this book of practical advice by the bestselling author of How Writers Work and the ALA Notable Book Fig Pudding. Writers are just like everyone else—except for one big difference. Most people go through life experiencing daily thoughts and feelings, noticing and observing the world around them. But writers record these thoughts and observations. They react. And they need a special place to record those reactions. Perfect for classrooms, A Writer’s Notebook gives budding writers a place to keep track of all the little things they notice every day. Young writers will love these useful tips for how to use notes and jottings to create stories and poems of their own.

Download or read book Welcome to the BSC Abby The Baby Sitters Club 90 written by Ann M. Martin and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2015-01-27 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trying to help her hard-working father and twin sister to adjust to life in Stoneybrook, Abby Stevenson becomes the newest member of the Baby-sitters Club and shares her first adventure.

Download or read book The Therapist s Notebook for Family Health Care written by Deanna Linville and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-05 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Effective interventions to help your clients deal with illness, disability, grief, and loss The Therapist’s Notebook for Family Health Care presents creative interventions for working with individuals, couples, and families dealing with illness, loss, and disability. This book offers creative resources like homework, handouts, and activities, and effective, field-tested interventions to provide counselors with useful information on specific family dynamics and topics. It equips mental health clinicians with practical therapeutic activities to use in their work with clients struggling with health care or grief issues. The effects of illness, disability, and loss in everyday life can be profound. Besides the individual repercussions, these challenges also affect the lives of the family and social networks of those individuals experiencing them. The Therapist’s Notebook for Family Health Care brings together the knowledge and experience of over 30 experts in the field for a unique collection that therapists and clients alike will find immediately useful. Situated in four unique subject-specific sections for quick reference, this text covers a broad scope of common problems. Also included is a bonus section focusing on thoughtful suggestions for self-care and professional development. Some of the many topics and techniques presented in The Therapist’s Notebook for Family Health Care include: conducting interviews using the biopsychosocial-spiritual method using the Family System Test (FAST) to explore clients’ experiences with their healthcare system and providers increasing social support to manage chronic illness coping and adapting to developmental changes, challenges, and opportunities using a patient education tool in family therapy helping children (and their families) to manage pain through knowledge and diaphragmatic breathing creating a personal “superhero” for a child as a means to empowerment and relief of anxiety facilitating family problems using scatterplots building functional perspective of self and others in clients with Asperger Syndrome quilting as a meaning-making intervention for HIV/AIDS empowering terminally-ill patients to say goodbye to their young children in meaningful ways and many more! With a wealth of tables, charts, handouts, and bibliotherapy resources for clients; readings and resources for clinicians; and case vignettes, The Therapist’s Notebook for Family Health Care is an excellent resource for a wide variety of practitioners, including, counselors, psychologists, social workers, grief workers, hospice workers, health psychologists, and medical social workers. It is also an ideal text for psychotherapy and counseling students and educators.

Download or read book Stacey s Secret Friend The Baby Sitters Club 111 written by Ann M. Martin and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2015-07-28 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite her busy fall schedule, Stacey takes on the project of helping the fashion clueless newcomer Tess to become better educated about clothing and makeup, but the well-meaning baby-sitter is soon frustrated by Tess's resistance.

Download or read book Stacey s Choice The Baby Sitters Club 58 written by Ann M. Martin and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2014-05-27 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The hit series is back, to charm and inspire another generation of baby-sitters! Since Stacey's parents got divorced, it hasn't been easy. Stacey hates being put between them, and she misses her dad sometimes even though she gets to see him often.And now both of her parents are depending on Stacey. They each need her badly. And she can't be in Stoneybrook and in New York at the same time. How will Stacey choose between her mom and her dad . . . again?The best friends you'll ever have--with classic BSC covers and a letter from Ann M. Martin!

Download or read book Stacey s Broken Heart The Baby Sitters Club 99 written by Ann M. Martin and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2015-04-28 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hired for a week-long baby-sitting job in New York City, Stacey finds her enthusiasm quelled by her boyfriend's strange behavior, and begins to fear that he may be seeing another girl.

Download or read book Good Bye Stacey Good Bye Classic Edition The Baby Sitters Club 13 written by Ann M. Martin and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The hit series is back, to charm and inspire another generation of baby-sitters! Oh no! Stacey McGill is moving back to New York! That means no more Stoneybrook Middle School, no more Charlotte Johanssen, and worst of all . . . no more Baby-sitters Club!Claudia is crushed that her best friend is moving away. How will the BSC cope without Stacey? What kind of going-away present is good enough for someone as special as she is? And now . . . who could fill her shoes as the next member of the Baby-sitters Club?The best friends you'll ever have--with classic BSC covers and a letter from Ann M. Martin!

Download or read book Stacey s Ex Best Friend written by Ann M. Martin and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2014-04-29 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this entry in the classic hit series, Stacey worries her best friend is growing up too fast and they’re drifting apart. Stacey can’t wait! Her best friend from New York, Laine Cummings, is coming to Stoneybrook for a whole week. She can spend a day at SMS, attend club meetings, and maybe go to the Valentine Dance. But from the minute Laine arrives, nothing goes as planned. She thinks Stacey’s sleepover with her friends is childish, and can’t believe Stacey’s still into baby-sitting. Laine’s more used to hanging out at high school parties with her fifteen-year-old boyfriend. Stacey doesn’t want to lose her childhood friend, but Laine’s growing up way too fast for Stacey. Is this the end of their friendship? The best friends you’ll ever have—with classic BSC covers and a letter from Ann M. Martin!

Download or read book Stacey s Ex Boyfriend The Baby Sitters Club 119 written by Ann M. Martin and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2015-09-29 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stacey and Robert had a stormy breakup. Months later, Robert is moody and depressed, and the only person he'll talk to about it is Stacey.

Download or read book Teaching Science With Interactive Notebooks written by Kellie Marcarelli and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2010-05-18 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Increase student learning in the inquiry-based science classroom! Interactive notebooks allow students to record observations, reflect on learning, and self-assess their work. Packed with student examples, this detailed guide explains the unique features that make interactive notebooks more effective tools than conventional notebooks for science classrooms. This resource: Describes the nuts and bolts of implementing interactive notebooks, including execution, time management, and grading Uses the 5E Learning Cycle as the framework for science instruction Emphasizes the importance of writing in science and provides strategies for modeling effective writing Explores strategies to encourage collaborative student inquiry and foster whole-class discussions

Download or read book Show Business Kills written by Iris Rainer Dart and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2009-09-26 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A hard-driving movie executive, a beloved soap opera diva, a screenwriter nominated for an Oscar, and a well-known actress married to TV's King of Late Night. Four friends who have led charmed Hollywood lives facing middle age. They have always shared a "Girl's Night Out", but suddenly it becomes a painful vigil as three of the women watch their friend fight for her life in an intensive care unit. She has been attacked by a stalker who is obsessed with all four women. Will the bonds of friendship that have linked them together for years enable them to survive this chilling night?

Download or read book Stacey and the Bad Girls The Baby Sitters Club 87 written by Ann M. Martin and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2015-01-06 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stacey quits the club, but suddenly realizes that her new "friends" are using her as a cover for their drinking, shoplifting, and other ideas of summer fun.

Download or read book The Downstairs Girl written by Stacey Lee and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Reese's Book Club YA Pick and New York Times Bestseller From the critically acclaimed author of Luck of the Titanic, Under a Painted Sky, and Outrun the Moon comes a powerful novel about identity, betrayal, and the meaning of family. By day, seventeen-year-old Jo Kuan works as a lady's maid for the cruel daughter of one of the wealthiest men in Atlanta. But by night, Jo moonlights as the pseudonymous author of a newspaper advice column for the genteel Southern lady, "Dear Miss Sweetie." When her column becomes wildly popular, she uses the power of the pen to address some of society's ills, but she's not prepared for the backlash that follows when her column challenges fixed ideas about race and gender. While her opponents clamor to uncover the secret identity of Miss Sweetie, a mysterious letter sets Jo off on a search for her own past and the parents who abandoned her as a baby. But when her efforts put her in the crosshairs of Atlanta's most notorious criminal, Jo must decide whether she, a girl used to living in the shadows, is ready to step into the light. With prose that is witty, insightful, and at times heartbreaking, Stacey Lee masterfully crafts an extraordinary social drama set in the New South. "This vividly rendered historic novel will keep readers riveted as witty, observant Jo deals with the dangers of questioning power." --The Washington Post "Holds a mirror to our present issues while giving us a detailed and vibrant picture of life in the past." --The New York Times "A joyful read . . . The Downstairs Girl, for all its serious and timely content, is a jolly good time." --NPR

Download or read book Jessi s Wish The Baby Sitters Club 48 written by Ann M. Martin and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2014-03-25 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The hit series is back, to charm and inspire another generation of baby-sitters! When Jessi volunteers to help supervise the Kids Can Do Anything Club, she meets nine-year-old Danielle. Danielle has a beautiful smile and a great sense of humor. And she has cancer.Jessi has never met anyone like Danielle before. Even though she's very sick, Danielle is courageous and hopeful. She even has two wishes. The first is to go to Disney World. The second is to graduate from elementary school. Jessi knows she has to be strong for Danielle, and so she makes a very special wish of her own.The best friends you'll ever have--with classic BSC covers and a letter from Ann M. Martin!