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School Official in Dispute with State on Severance, Keansburg Superintendent Was Promised $740,000

That’s the headline and byline in an article in the New Jersey section of the New York Times dated July 6, 2008. Unless I missed something severance pay is something that people receive when they have been unexpectedly let go by their employers. They are given a few months pay to tide them over until [...]

What Is The Origin of Power Struggles?

The answer to this question is very basic. In today’s society children learn at a very early age that they can say and do almost anything they want, and they can get away with it. Children are also keenly aware that if they put up a big enough stink that their parents will eventually give [...]

Motivating Disaffected And Hard To Handle Students

Permanent Help for Educators for Managing Difficult Students
DESIGNED FOR TEACHERS, ADMINISTRATORS, GUIDANCE COUNSELORS, CHILD STUDY TEAM MEMBERS, OR ANY YOUTH CARE PROVIDER
• Learn the symptoms of difficult students and treatment plans that work
• Build respect and rapport with your most difficult students
• Understand why students don’t care
• Develop language that confronts without condemning
• Break through [...]

Becoming Your Personal Best Workshop

A conference for teachers, administrators, CST members, guidance personnel, support staff or anyone who wants to learn powerful principles in personal change
PROACTIVE EDUCATIONAL CONCEPTS
WHAT THIS IN-SERVICE WILL DO FOR EDUCATORS:
• Learn the principles of personal growth and change
• Begin to understand who you really are and what your purpose is
• Build powerful relationships with co-workers [...]

Outline For Becoming Your Personal Best

I. Understand the Basic Principals of Life
A. Design
1. How am I put together?
2. What are my strengths?
3. What are my weaknesses?
4. What are the “unchangeables” (genetic predispositions)
5. Develop self-acceptance and the habit of liking yourself
B. Authority
1. What is the correct response to those in charge (no one is exempt; everyone has a boss
2. How do I work as team to achieve the [...]