This 3rd edition of the award winning Adaptive Schools Sourcebook provides both a theoretical & practical guide for groups & teams to develop & focus their collaborative energies to improve teaching practices & enhance student-learning outcomes In five sections Becoming Adaptive Collaboration Matters Meetings are Teachers' Work Resources for Inquiry & Conflict Change & Community the authors draw on decades of personal experiences in schools & research from multiple disciplines to present powerful tools & useful templates for structuring the work of productive professional communities in schools Readers will learn ways to develop & sustain the fundamental elements for enhancing social capital in schools distinguishing between dialogue & discussion establishing seven norms of collaboration automating language patterns for inquiry & problem solving facilitating groups & data teams engaging in productive conflict & building community The book offers links to video clips demonstrating key skills inventories for assessing groups instruments for assessing personal skills & a collection of over 150 meeting strategies & facilitator moves for engaging group members in productive interactions ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play Looking for something creepy spooky kooky & altogether ooky? When long-lost Uncle Fester (Christopher Lloyd) reappears after 25 years in the Bermuda Triangle Gomez (Raul Julia) & Morticia (Anjelica Huston) plan a celebration to wake the dead But Wednesday (Christina Ricci) barely has time to warm up her electric chair before Thing points out Fester’s uncharacteristically “normal” behaviour Could this Fester be a fake part of a diabolical scheme to raid the Addams fortune? ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Looking for something creepy spooky kooky & altogether ooky? When long-lost Uncle Fester (Christopher Lloyd) reappears after twenty-five years in the Bermuda Triangle Gomez (Raul Julia) & Morticia (Anjelica Huston) plan a celebration to wake the dead But Wednesday (Christina Ricci) barely has time to warm up her electric chair before Thing points out Fester’s uncharacteristically “normal” behaviour Could this Fester be a fake part of a diabolical scheme to raid the Addams fortune? ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play A delicious double-dose of effervescent vintage comedy-drama starring Britain&s blondest bombshell the one-&-only Diana Dors at her saucy best Laughter & thrills mingle in Miss Tulip Stays the Night as gorgeous Kate Dax (Dors) & her crime-writer husband Andrew (Patrick Holt) investigate the murder of eccentric spinster Miss Tulip (Cicely Courtneidge) at a remote country cottage With the help
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- of bumbling PC Feathers (deftly played by British comedy legend Jack Hubert) will they ever crack their crazy case & finally figure out whodunit? Goals & glamour go together in The Great Game a high-scoring drama of football league corruption shot on location at Griffin Park historic home of Brentford FC With fine performances from James Hayter as Burnville United&s unscrupulous team chairman Thora Hird as his long-suffering assistant & Dors enjoying herself as man-eating secretary Lulu not to mention a splendid eyeball-rolling turn from John Laurie the final result is a nostalgic Saturday afternoon treat for movie buffs & football fans alike Transferred in High Definition from the best archive materials available this Diana Dors double bill is accompanied by a fully illustrated 36-page booklet that

Includes:: original promotional materials & newly commissioned essays by authors Jenny Hammerton Huw Prall & BFI Curator Vic Pratt



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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Paradise Lagoon is the American release title of the British The Admirable Crichton In this Technicolor adaptation of James M Barrie&s oft-filmed stage play Kenneth More stars as Crichton the super-efficient butler for a family of haughty British aristocrats Though More is true master of the household he keeps his place honoring the tightly regulated social structure of turn-of-the-century England When the family & its servants are shipwrecked & marooned on a desert island only Crichton has the skill & resourcefulness to keep everyone alive Within a few months the social order has been reversed Crichton is the "governor" while his former employers are his willing & eager servants Lady Mary (Sally Ann Howes) assuming that she will never be able to return to her veddy proper fiance falls in love with Crichton But once the castaways are rescued & returned to their London estate the original master-servant status quo is restored His marriage to Lady Mary now an impossibility-a fact stressed in no uncertain terms by the young lady herself-Crichton calmly packs his bags & leaves in the company of maidservant Tweeny (Diane Cilento) who has loved him all along Barries& satirical jabs at class consciousness (notably in the closing "interrogation scene" conducted by the imperious Lady Brocklehurst Martita Hunt) were not altogether relevant in 1957; thus Paradise Lagoon concentrates on the property&s farcical & romantic elements Taking advantage of its tropical setting the film also permitted the tired businessmen in the audience to gaze upon the luscious Sally Ann Howes & Diane Cilento in halter tops & short-shorts The Admirable Crichton (Paradise Lagoon ) ...

THE ADOPTED folows a family of women who over time come closer & through their connection their lives are made easier However when one of the women falls in love with a man their family is thrown out of balance & no matter what they try they seem unable to regain the equilibrium ...

Jackie Kay tells the story of a black girl's adoption by a white Scottish couple from three different viewpoints the mother the birth mother & the daughter 64 pages Kay Jackie ...

A central source of frustration for most adults with ADHD is that they know what they need to do but they have difficulties turning their intentions into actions These difficulties also interfere with their ability to use self-help books & to get the most out of psychosocial treatments that provide coping strategies that promise to improve their functioning Drs Ramsay & Rostain are experts in the assessment & treatment of adult ADHD & are leaders in the development of effective psychosocial treatments for this group of patients Their newest book The Adult ADHD Tool Kit Using CBT to Facilitate Coping Inside & Out is a coping guide for adults living with ADHD one that does not just present useful coping strategies but also provides specific tactics designed to help readers implement these skills in their daily lives & brings them to life in a user-friendly format The authors discuss many different settings in which ADHD may cause difficulties including work school matters of physical health & well-being & the issue of excessive use of technology Although written for consumers clinicians will find the book to be a clinically useful tool for their adult patients with ADHD serving as a companion to the newly updated & expanded second edition of Drs Ramsay & Rostain's professional treatment manual Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Adult ADHD An Integrative Psychosocial & Medical Approach ...

Fresh sharp & wickedly funny a tragicomic tale of modern living from the author of Submarine Ray is not a bad guy He mostly did not cheat on his heavily pregnant wife He only sometimes despises every one of his friends & though his career as a freelance tech journalist is dismal & he spends his afternoons churning out third-rate listicles in his boxer briefs he dreams of making a difference But Ray is about to learn that his special talent is for making things worse Brace yourself for a wickedly funny look at the modern everyman The Adulterants is an uproarious tale of competitively sensitive men & catastrophic open marriages riots on the streets of London & Internet righteousness & one man's valiant quest to come of age in his thirties With lacerating wit & wry affection Joe Dunthorne dissects the urban millennial psyche of a man too old to be an actual millennial ...

Go from ordinary to extraordinary with 7 essential soft skills You need Adaptability Resilience Optimism Integrity Critical thinking Pro-activity & Empathy to stay one step ahead Our world is changing
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