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- Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
- Format: Paperback | 208 pages
- Dimensions: 186mm x 230mm x 14mm | 399g
- Publication date: 19 August 2009
- Publication City/Country: London
- Edition: 2, Revised
- Edition statement: 2nd Revised edition
- Sales rank: 41,512
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In this new edition of his bestselling book, Bill Rogers brings together contributions from practising teachers that suggest ways to tackle disruptive and challenging behaviour. Bill introduces and comments on each chapter, setting out key principles for behaviour leadership in the style that makes him such a popular author. There are numerous case studies drawn from practice, each showing how the teacher manages the situation and what the outcome was: these examples from practice highlight the difference teachers can make to their students' behaviour, attitude, self-esteem and peer acceptance. Chapters look at: finding a way back from inappropriate behaviour; dealing with very challenging behaviour on a daily basis; creating a peaceful school and developing positive practice. New material in this book includes: - new case studies - more analysis of actions taken and skills used when managing challenging behaviour - a new chapter on working with confrontational and angry parents - opportunities for reflection, to encourage discussion with colleagues - managing anger in ourselves and our children The direct, practical and inspirational nature of these accounts will resonate with all teachers and school support staff working with any age group. Based on the everyday experiences of the teachers who have written them, these are teachers' accounts offering sound advice and guidance to fellow professionals. Dr. Bill Rogers is an Education Consultant and author who lectures widely on behaviour management, discipline, effective teaching, stress management and teacher welfare across the UK, Australia and New Zealand. All royalties from the sale of this book are donated to the charity World Vision and their children's education programmes in South East Asia.
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Bill Rogers is an education consultant. A teacher by profession, Bill now lectures widely on discipline and behaviour management issues, classroom management, stress and teaching, colleague support, developing peer-support programs for teachers and developing community-oriented policies for behaviour management, based on whole-school approaches. He works in every area of education (primary, post-primary and tertiary) conducting in-service programs for teachers, lecturing widely at Colleges of Education and Universities, working with parent groups and students in schools. He has taken seminars, in-services, lecture-programs and developed in-school workshops across Australasia, New-Zealand, U.K, Denmark, Germany, Switzerland and Estonia; in the past thirty years. You can visit Bill's website here: http://www.billrogers.com.au/
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'Well edited and short, the essays are easy to read and fit in to a busy life...The honest and thoughtful reflections of the teachers provide a sense of hope that prosocial behaviour is achievable and not a dream!' - Youth in Mind 'It's easy to see why Bill Rogers is revered by generations of teachers across the world. The stories assembled here are compelling and reflective. They will provide a stimulus and support to teachers 'cutting and chipping themselves into the shape of the key which will have the merit of unlocking the minds and opening the hearts' of the pupils they teach. Bill's overview and commentary will as usual resonate with schools and teachers. It deserves a place along with his other books in the staff library. Any one of the case studies here, along with Bill's observations, could form the basis of any school working group examining the issue of 'behaviour'. It's bound to lead to an improvement among pupils parents and staff. And it will help teachers at the end of their tether both preserve their sanity and extend the tether!' - Sir Tim Brighouse, Advisor, Hamlyn Foundation and Visiting Professor, Institute of Education, University of London
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PART ONE: CHALLENGING BEHAVIOUR: OUR THINKING, ATTITUDES AND STRATEGY We Cannot Predict Where Our Students May End up - Bill Rogers The 'Pygmalion Effect': Where Expectancy Can Lead - Bill Rogers 'Dear Luke': What I Saw at the Outset and How Children's Behaviour Challenges us in Positive Ways - Elizabeth McPherson My Global Classroom - Peter D'Angelo 'William' and 'Muddling through' - Jim Gilbert Parents: The Difficult Chat - Bill Rogers PART TWO: UNDERSTANDING CHALLENGING CHILDREN AND CHILDREN WITH EMOTIONAL AND BEHAVIOURAL DISORDER Understanding emotional and behavioural disorder in mainstream schools - Bill Rogers Measurement of difference or meaning (when working with challenging children) - Ken Sell Changing perceptions of challenging behaviour: Tom and his teacher - Larry Taylor Finding a connection point for change in behaviour: Alex 'wins a race' - Karen Kearney Choosing to teach: choosing to make a difference - Elizabeth McPherson PART THREE: TEACHING CHILDREN WITH EMOTIONAL AND BEHAVIOURAL DISORDER Introduction - Bill Rogers One, two, three, four, out the door - or STOP (Straight To the Office Please) - Bette Blance There is always a way back: an individual behaviour management plan - Mara Smart, Mariette West and Pamela Curtain Helping a child change his behaviour and his short attention span - Kerrie Miller AD/HD and teaching academic survival behaviours - Bill Rogers A tall order: a challenging student on day one and after - Patsy Finger Individual behaviour management plans and group support with infant-age children: Troy's story - Debbie Hoy PART FOUR: THE HARD-TO-MANAGE CLASS: WHEN IT IS MORE THAN ONE OR TWO The hard-to-manage class: reasons, options, support - Bill Rogers My most challenging Year 8 class ever - Leanne Wright The 'class from hell' - Denise Frost Classroom meetings to the rescue - Carmen Price A winner - in a hard class - Heather Fraser PART FIVE: WORKING TO BUILD A CO-OPERATIVE CLASSROOM GROUP: CLASSROOM MEETINGS AND BUILDING RELATIONSHIPS Introduction - Bill Rogers Friendship problems: using a solving circle - Carmen Price Relationships and conflict-solving (classroom and playground) with infants - Debbie Hoy and Ros Daniels Creating the peaceable school - Carmel Ryan A beautiful place: building a multicultural school - Larry Schwartz A human story - Unsourced PART SIX: PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICES THAT ENABLE US TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE WITH INDIVIDUAL CHILDREN AND CLASSROOM GROUPS - Bill Rogers PART SEVEN: SUPPORTING PARENTS OF CHILDREN WITH CHALLENGING BEHAVIOURS Communicating with parents who challenge... - Bill Rogers Dealing with - and supporting - difficult parents - Gail Doney Supporting the parents of children with challenging behaviour - Cathy Whalen Working with difficult parents - Maureen Smyth Working with parents/ca/carers of children with challenging behaviours (primary) - Alysan Dermody Palmer An extended note on anger (primarily from Aristotle) - Bill Rogers PART EIGHT: NARRATIVES: HOW TEACHERS' STORIES CONNECT US, SUPPORT US, ENCOURAGE US AND ENABLE US AS TEACHERS - Sharn Donnison


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No surprise here: the Philadelphia Transportation Authority is suing Gilead, maker of the expensive new hepatitis C drugs Sovaldi and Harvoni, over the cost of those drugs. A course of Sovaldi, not including drugs you might have to take in combination with it, as some patients do, costs $84,000. Harvoni, which won FDA approval more recently, costs $94,000.
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The Derrickson-penned script tells of "An Irish Catholic cop (Bana) working a case when he meets a renegade priest. Despite the cop's beliefs, he's convinced by the priest that there is a demonic element and together they work to solve the case and combat the paranormal forces working against them. Ramirez plays the priest. Munn plays the cop's wife, who also has a tie to the case."
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- Edward HavensNov 6, 2013
A think tank researcher has a commentary on the "philly dot com" site that explains why SEPTA is important to the Delaware Valley and Pennsylvania's economy. If SEPTA has to implement its "doomsday" plan for lack of adequate state capital funding, such communities as Doylestown, Media and Thorndale will lose rail service:
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Posted: Wednesday, November 6, 2013, 2:01 AMLawmakers in Harrisburg have been unable and unwilling to adequately fund mass transit. (Bloomberg photo)How do we know when people value something? Answer: They use it.
By this measure, the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA), the commuter rail and public transportation provider for the greater Philadelphia region, is something of great value.
In 2012, area residents took more than 339 million trips on buses, subways, commuter trains, and trolleys.
Over the past six years, annual trips have increased by 42 million, or 14 percent.
In short, SEPTA provides critical mobility for millions of people every day, connecting them to work, family, recreation, and health care.
Unfortunately, this vital backbone of the community faces stark fiscal challenges.
Without new money, SEPTA will be forced to shut down multiple high-use transit lines, leaving many without any viable option to get where they need to go.
According to a recent brief by SEPTA, the lack of adequate funding will mean (among other reductions) eliminating service on nine of 13 regional commuter rail lines, including Cynwyd in 2014, Media/Elwyn in 2015, Chestnut Hill West in 2018, and West Trenton, Airport, Warminster, Wilmington/Newark, Fox Chase, and Chestnut Hill East in 2023.
When implemented, these cuts would leave 89,000 daily riders - more than 40 million each year - without rail service.
The loss of service would mean more congestion on already overburdened roadways and an inability for many low-income, elderly (about 80,000 seniors take SEPTA daily), and other transit-dependent residents to meet their most basic needs.
Agency managers and planners deserve great credit for keeping the legacy system running as well as it does.
The $300 million budget for construction and repair needs is the lowest it has been in 15 years.
At a certain point, dollars just can't stretch any further.
SEPTA is rapidly reaching that point.
The fiscal challenges facing the region stem from a lack of leadership in Washington and structural barriers to success emanating from Harrisburg.
Let's start with Washington.
\Beginning 15 years ago, Congress eliminated the ability of big-city public transportation authorities to use their federal money to cover daily operating costs.
This resulted in service cuts, including lost routes, reduced hours, and long wait times between buses and trains.
For some agencies, this also meant increased deferred maintenance, as planners shifted money from repairs to ensure that remaining buses and trains kept running.
The bill for deferred maintenance is coming due. The American Society of Civil Engineers recently rated the condition of transit infrastructure in Pennsylvania a D-minus.
Congress has also failed to provide enough money for basic system repair or the kind of long-term funding stability that agencies need to conduct meaningful planning.
The most recent transportation bill provided only two years of funding and will expire in September 2014.
The next bill should boost total funding for transit and guarantee money for at least six years.
With little help from Washington, SEPTA has turned to state legislators.
Unfortunately, Harrisburg has been both unable and unwilling to provide enough assistance.
One of the largest barriers to improving transit service is written into the state constitution.
Currently, none of the money collected from the state tax on gasoline may be used for public transportation.
Moreover, neither Gov. Corbett's transportation proposal nor those introduced in the legislature will provide real money for transit.
And while highway construction and repair are important, the densely developed Philadelphia region needs a mix of road and transit money.
Yet the constitution does not allow this - forcing legislators to rob Peter to pay Paul.
Reversing the dire situation facing SEPTA will not be easy.
The agency estimates it will need roughly $6.5 billion over the next 10 years to address maintenance needs and avoid major service cuts.
And while these numbers may seem daunting, the consequences of inaction are unacceptable.
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And without leadership in Harrisburg and Washington, Southeastern Pennsylvania's economy will be stuck in the mud.
State leaders should begin the process of amending the constitution and, in the short term, advance a transportation bill that meets the needs of all Pennsylvania residents by providing robust money for both highways and public transportation.
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Respondu 0.0.4
A cross browser platform for implementing and creating gracefully degrading Responsive techniques
New Features in 0.0.4
- Full uncustomized R.js minified and gzipped weighs at 2.8kb
- This can be reduced with custom builds - e.g. just including picture and not srcset brings us down to 2.4kb
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- The closing
- Behavioural changes
- Instead of putting all content in
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- This leads to a more familiar, progressive loading experience
- It also means R.base has been trimmed down, there's no need for loadScripts, doclate, window.open hackarounds etc
- Infrastructure examples have been removed, since this functionality is no longer needful
- Any scripts should go outside the noscript tag, the contents of the noscript tags should only be for assets you wish to responsively select the source for
- Instead of putting all content in
- Stronger compatibility for source elements
- It turns out some browsers cough iOS Safari cough sometimes strip source tags unless they're in a video element, this is secured against
- Picture/srcset now check for a browser implementation before processing (i.e. Respondu can now be used as a polyfill)
- Includes matchMedia polyfill for use in plugin implementations (and could be used anywhere in a project)
TODO for 0.0.5
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- Create your own responsive techniques (implementations)!
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Inclusive Implementations
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Examples can be found at http://respondu.davidmarkclements.com
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The end dashes in
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The positioning of the Respondu call in the body, just before the noscript tag is also essential. See How It Works.
Basic usage will apply the default breakpoints
breakpoints: typical: 500 //typical will leave src unchanged medium : 1000 //configurable properties, will be reflected in requested image e.g. name.medium.png large : Infinity //largest size set to infinity
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For picture we would do something like
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doc parameter is a DOM object (but not the actual DOM)
done paremeter is called as a function when processing is complete
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We could then use it with
Here's how we could implement picture (already included):
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Wrapping content in
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On some browsers its possible to extract and process the content of the
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We do this by dynamically wrapping the
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#content# technique, once Respondu has been called
we have
<--#content#. The dashes in the closing noscript tag enables us to close a dynamically inserted comment opener.
Dynamically wrapping the noscript tags in a comment prevents browsers such as IE and Safari from stripping the contents out of noscript. Respondu reliest on being called just before the noscript tags, so that it
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As a result, we can't put HTML comments inside our noscript tags (which means conditional comments are out). If we really want to have
comments within our noscript HTML we can use

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The ghost DOM doesn't load any src's. We can manipulate this ghost DOM as the
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If you're using Respondu, you want them to be just before the closing
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Just include doclate.js after jQuery, but before R.js

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Any calls to any variations of jQuery's DOM ready (
$(document).bind('ready', fn) or simply
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|Reviews for Dark Winds
| keller12917 chapter 9 . 11/16/2014
That was all a dream?! or was it?!
| keller12917 chapter 8 . 11/16/2014
This was a very intense chapter! I too wish Steve his revolver right then and even though it is not in him to kill an unarmed person or whatever this was I wish Mike would have let Steve take the thing out.
| keller12917 chapter 7 . 11/16/2014
OMG I have never seen Steve raise a hand to Mike no matter what!
| keller12917 chapter 6 . 11/16/2014
I am glad Trundle is going with Mike I got a feeling it would not be good for Mike to go alone.
| keller12917 chapter 5 . 11/16/2014
I don't like this Steve is acting too weird and not like how he normally would I mean sort of like he is under some sort of spell.
| keller12917 chapter 4 . 11/16/2014
For something totally made up you sure wrote it totally believable.
| keller12917 chapter 3 . 11/16/2014
Oh man this is getting stranger and stranger :S First he is watching game shows and zoning out and now he is talking Chinese...
| keller12917 chapter 2 . 11/16/2014
Steve should know when Mike makes up his mind there is no changing it and Mike has had longer to practice his glare. :)
| keller12917 chapter 1 . 11/16/2014
I can't believe I missed this story! That was hugely traumatic I bet for Steve having a hold of her and her fighting to get away from him and then her dropping. Excellent!
| TheNaggingCube chapter 9 . 10/19/2013
non no no nonono you do not get to end this one here! I must have more!
This was really a great spooky story. A sequel perhaps?
| Tanith2011 chapter 9 . 11/10/2012
I was going to say "Phew! what a relief that this was all a nightmare!" until you had Steve speaking in a foreign language and his eyes turning dark! Arghhh! Sequel, please!
This was very cleverly written. What a twist! I very much like how you are experimenting with your genres.
Something I would like to suggest is, perhaps listing this story under "horror/drama" in the genre criteria? It's definitely worthy of being listed as a horror story, deliciously suitable for Halloween. Supernatural is good too...but that was one creepy tale right up to the ominous ending you left us with!
Another suggestion: Please write more and soon! You're a terrific writer!
| Tanith2011 chapter 8 . 11/10/2012
Action packed chapter and superbly delivered sequences. But...
OMG what have you done to Keller?! This does not bode well!
| Mounty Swiss chapter 9 . 11/9/2012
Thank you for ending it this way ;-)
| mcatB chapter 9 . 11/9/2012
I'm not sure if I like this anymore! Loved the fight scene, but the dream sequence... no so much! And then the teaser ending! You're driving me crazy here! Lovehatelove! I will eagerly and patiently wait for anything else you write.
| carismum chapter 7 . 11/4/2012
Oh wow, this was so intense! I really feel for Mike who is totally unable to help Steve!


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I have played here for a little while now, and it seems my inital theory regarding rematches could be more true than i thought.
Since white pieces indisputably have a bigger winning chance in chess it seems only fair that a match, when possible is followed by a rematch. Even more so if the first match was an even one, or the loosing side played black pieces.
Now this, Im also asking, is not the case....?
In my experience, I would be offered, or have my offer for a remacth accepted, 8 or 9 times out of 10 if I played with white pieces, whilst if I played a game with black pieces only around 50% would end up in a rematch. Less if I would loose a tight game.
I dont want to be a cynic, but the reasons seems obvious.
Am I right in this observation, and if so;
Must I simply accept this as a part of the internet chess players reality?
What can we, the players, do to improve our comunity?
I don't think we can really do anything about it. But at least in tournaments you play 2 games against each opponent.
I don't feel one should expect a rematch. To me, it seems like one might be taking games personally if it matters whether they play their next game against the same person or a different person. Just play someone else. Why does it really matter? You'll get white in your next game most likely, whether it's against that person or a different person.
In a tournament where standings vs. a particular opponent of course do matter, fine. In casual play, that stuff doesn't matter. Just play someone else.
"What can we, the players, do to improve our comunity?"
Well you can start by accepting remaches!
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I think we can safely say this theory is nonsense.
I really don't understand this rematch thing. Why would you care if you play your next game against the same opponent or against another? Is it about revenge? That's not very sportsmanlike!
Neither is chess.
I rarely accept a rematch, but I have never given a thought to what color pieces my opponent had. It's just that I simply prefer to play with lots of different people, so I only grant a rematch to an opponent if I have a good reason to do so. For example, if I have enjoyed good chat with the person and he seems to be a particularly nice guy, then I might say yes. I don't think anyone has a right to expect a second game.
I thought this one was gonna be about a rematch between 2 world champs or something.
What's the BFD? I offer rematches if I lose to someone about my rating or higher, for some reason I'd feel odd about offering a rematch to someone rated much lower than me but if they request a rematch I'll usually accept. There isn't a shortage of players here so I'm having a hard time grasping why there are some many threads about rematches.
No-one seems to have noticed the question you posed -"What can we, the players, do to improve our comunity?". I think the answer is that we don't need to do anything. Our community is wonderful, just the way it is.
Maybe turning into a busybody nagging policeman would improve things.
OTB/Irl chess games - Rematch is expected
Online - No need for rematch, I mean c'mon its just an online game. Also there are people who want to analyse their game before playing another one. However, if its a bullet game where its harder to find opponents, then a rematch would make sense than to look for new opponent.
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Swap Page - did you notice?!?
K8OrlandoFebruary 27, 2012
For those of you who are interested in swaps, did you notice that Tamara is testing an Exchanges page for this forum? Pretty cool!
Hope that helps,
Marie, it's at the top of the message column. That's where you get access to all of the pages associated with this particular forum. Just click on the one you want, like Exchanges, then when you want to come back to this page, click on Discussions. Gallery is for posting pictures of quilts; Conversations is for off-topic stuff, like recipes, diets, grandchildren stories, etc. None of them are widely used on this forum but some of the forums have a very active Conversation page.
Hope that helps,
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