Random House New Releases - Education - Secondary - Between June 20, 2012 and July 20, 2013.

I'd Like to Apologize to Every Teacher I Ever Had by Tony Danza

2012-09-11T00:30:00-05:00

I'd Like to Apologize to Every Teacher I Ever Had My Year as a Rookie Teacher at Northeast High
Written by Tony Danza

I’d Like to Apologize to Every Teacher I Ever Had is television, screen and stage star Tony Danza’s absorbing account of a year spent teaching tenth-grade English at Northeast High -- Philadelphia’s largest high school with 3600 students.

Entering Northeast’s crowded halls in September of 2009, Tony found his way to a classroom filled with twenty-six students who were determined not to cut him any slack. They cared nothing about “Mr. Danza’s” showbiz credentials, and they immediately put him on the hot seat.

Featuring indelible portraits of students and teachers alike, I’d Like to Apologize to Every Teacher I Ever Had reveals just how hard it is to keep today’s technologically savvy – and often alienated -- students engaged, how impressively committed most teachers are, and the outsized role counseling plays in a teacher’s day, given the psychological burdens many students carry. The book also makes vivid how a modern high school works, showing Tony in a myriad of roles – from lecturing on To Kill a Mockingbird to “coaching” the football team to organizing a talent show to leading far-flung field trips to hosting teacher gripe sessions.

A surprisingly poignant account, I’d Like to Apologize to Every Teacher I Ever Had is sometimes laugh-out-loud funny but is mostly filled with hard-won wisdom and feel-good tears.

I'd Like to Apologize to Every Teacher I Ever Had by Tony Danza

2012-09-11T00:30:00-05:00

I'd Like to Apologize to Every Teacher I Ever Had My Year as a Rookie Teacher at Northeast High
Written by Tony Danza

Positive Discipline for Teenagers, Revised 3rd Edition by Lynn Lott

2012-08-14T00:30:00-05:00

Positive Discipline for Teenagers, Revised 3rd Edition Empowering Your Teens and Yourself Through Kind and Firm Parenting
Written by Jane Nelsen and Lynn Lott

A Positive Approach To Raising Happy, Healthy and Mature Teenagers

Adolescence can be a time of great stress and turmoil—not only for kids going through it, but for their parents as well. It’s normal for teens to explore a new sense of freedom and to redefine the ways in which they relate to their parents, and that process can sometimes leave parents feeling powerless, alienated, or excluded from their children’s lives. These effects can be magnified even further in this modern age of social networks, cell phones, and constant digital distraction.

This newly revised and updated edition of Positive Discipline for Teenagers shows parents how to build stronger bridges of communication with their children, break the destructive cycles of guilt and blame that occur in parent-teen power struggles, and work toward greater mutual respect with their adolescents. At the core of the Positive Discipline approach is the understanding that teens still need their parents, just in different ways--and by better understanding who their teens really are, parents can learn to encourage both their teens and themselves, and instill good judgment without being judgmental. The methods in this book work to build vital social and life skills through encouragement and empowerment--not punishment. Truly effective parenting is about connection before correction.

Over the years, millions of parents have come to trust Jane Nelsen’s classic Positive Discipline series for its consistent, commonsense approach to raising happy, responsible kids. This new edition is filled with proven, effective methods for coping with such parenting challenges as:

-Fostering truly honest discussions with your teen
-Helping your teen handle the online world
-Turning mistakes into opportunities
-Keeping your sanity while raising your teen—and making sure your own teenage issues aren’t weighing you down
-Teaching your teen how to pursue the goal that make them happy…and a few that make you happy too (like chores)
-Making sure you’re on your teen’s side, and that they know that
-Avoiding the pitfalls of excessive control and excessive permissiveness

Positive Discipline for Teenagers, Revised 3rd Edition by Lynn Lott

2012-08-14T00:30:00-05:00

Positive Discipline for Teenagers, Revised 3rd Edition Empowering Your Teens and Yourself Through Kind and Firm Parenting
Written by Jane Nelsen and Lynn Lott

Random House New Releases - Education - Secondary - Between June 20, 2012 and July 20, 2013.

I'd Like to Apologize to Every Teacher I Ever Had by Tony Danza

I'd Like to Apologize to Every Teacher I Ever Had My Year as a Rookie Teacher at Northeast HighWritten by Tony Danza

I'd Like to Apologize to Every Teacher I Ever Had by Tony Danza

I'd Like to Apologize to Every Teacher I Ever Had My Year as a Rookie Teacher at Northeast HighWritten by Tony Danza

Positive Discipline for Teenagers, Revised 3rd Edition by Lynn Lott

Positive Discipline for Teenagers, Revised 3rd Edition Empowering Your Teens and Yourself Through Kind and Firm ParentingWritten by Jane Nelsen and Lynn Lott

Positive Discipline for Teenagers, Revised 3rd Edition by Lynn Lott

Positive Discipline for Teenagers, Revised 3rd Edition Empowering Your Teens and Yourself Through Kind and Firm ParentingWritten by Jane Nelsen and Lynn Lott

I'd Like to Apologize to Every Teacher I Ever Had My Year as a Rookie Teacher at Northeast High
Written by Tony Danza

I'd Like to Apologize to Every Teacher I Ever Had My Year as a Rookie Teacher at Northeast High
Written by Tony Danza

Positive Discipline for Teenagers, Revised 3rd Edition Empowering Your Teens and Yourself Through Kind and Firm Parenting
Written by Jane Nelsen and Lynn Lott

Positive Discipline for Teenagers, Revised 3rd Edition Empowering Your Teens and Yourself Through Kind and Firm Parenting
Written by Jane Nelsen and Lynn Lott