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99 Activities and Greetings
Magic Number, Chicka Boom, Mystery World, Galaxy Greeting, Name Four, In Search of a Noun... With these and other activities, chants, greetings, and games, students will develop language skills, self-control, and problem-solving abilities. They'll practice risktaking, reading, math, and cooperation, all while having fun and building community. [Northeast Foundation for Children]$22.00 detailsbuy |
A Connected School Facilitator's Guide for Study Groups
This facilitator's guide, subtitled "Keys to Unlocking New Ways of Thinking," is a comprehensive model for conducting study groups, based on the book A Connected School.$35.00 detailsbuy |
A Connected School: Achieving, Caring & Safe
Improve school culture, and you'll increase achievement. In this book, you'll learn how achievement is connected to care and safety, and strategies based on the model of internal motivation and purposeful behavior will help you improve these three elements in your own school. $15.00 detailsbuy |
A People Primer
Untangle the mystery of human behavior with perceptual control theory, and learn a new way of thinking about people. Shelley Roy challenges readers to re-examine their beliefs about behavior. $18.00 detailsbuy |
ACT I Intensive Seminar in Hilton Head Island, SCJanuary 17-20, 2011, Hilton Head Island, SC
First step towards certification introduces PCT principles and applications. Prerequisite for ACT I Practicum and ACT II Intensive Seminar. $550.00 detailsbuy |
ACT II Intensive Seminar in Hilton Head Island, SCJanuary 17-20, 2011, Hilton Head Island, SC
Second step in the certification process builds upon ACT I. Prerequisites: ACT I Intensive Seminar and ACT I Practicum. $550.00 detailsbuy |
ACT III Intensive Seminar (Certification) in Hilton Head Island, SCJanuary 17-20, 2011, Hilton Head Island, SC
Third and final seminar in the certification process. Participants are certified in ACT upon completion. Prerequisites: ACT II Intensive Seminar and ACT II Practicum.$550.00 detailsbuy |
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ACT IV (The Loop: Practicum Supervision & Beyond) in Hilton Head Island, SCJanuary 17-20, 2011, Hilton Head Island, SC
An advanced seminar for particpants who want to learn more about perceptual control theory and/or becoming an IAACT faculty member. Prerequisite: ACT III Intensive Seminar.$550.00 detailsbuy |
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Activities That Teach
A collection of sixty creative, innovative, and user-friendly lesson plans from Active Learning which will influence student behavior and attitudes for a lifetime. This teaching strategy is part of the educational trend which promotes cooperation, collaboration, problem-solving, critical thinking, and experiential learning. The Active Learning approach has worked with urban as well as suburban, elementary as well as secondary, and at-risk as well as gifted students. [Red Rock Publishing]$15.95 detailsbuy |
America's Schools: Making Them Work
What's wrong with our schools and how can we improve them? Dr. Rauhauser and Dr. McLennan answer these tough questions in this examination of thirty-five current educational practices. They argue that many practices are actually holdovers from the industrial age - they don't work in today's information age and need desperately to be replaced. A more sensible practice is suggested in every case.$9.00 detailsbuy |
Behavior: The Control of Perception
William Powers's seminal 1973 work that lays the scientific and technical foundation for Perceptual Control Theory. Incorporating information from numerous scientific disciplines, Powers explores the theoretical, empirical, and humanistic basis of PCT. This text remains required reading for any serious student of PCT, and New View is proud to offer it in a new paperback edition.$34.95 detailsbuy |
Beyond Discipline: From Compliance to Community
A vital alternative to all the traditional manuals that consist of techniques for imposing control, Beyond Discipline has earned the status of an education classic. Just as memorizing someone else’s right answers fails to promote students’ intellectual development, so does complying with someone else’s expectations for how to act fail to help students develop socially or morally. Kohn contrasts the idea of discipline, in which things are done to students to control their behavior, with an approach in which we work with students to create caring communities where decisions are made together.$23.95 detailsbuy |
Bridges: Building Relationships & Resolving Conflicts
Conflict is inevitable. We see it every day - at work, in schools, within our government, even at home. One of life's most valuable skills is the ability to resolve conflicts and build relationships. Award-winning author Joseph Hester teaches you theses skills using powerful but easy-to-grasp techniques. Dr. Hester's approach has been used successfully in a wide variety of professions, from management to education. Devise a win-win outcome every time!$12.00 detailsbuy |
Counseling Theories: Practical Applications with Children and Adolescents in School Settings
Offers specific counseling applications for children and adolescents from leading experts and school counselors. Together, they explain individual, group, and classroom applications of several theories. $42.00 detailsbuy |
Creating the Conditions: Leadership for Quality Schools
A must for educators who want to move their school in a new direction! Gossen and Anderson start with a strong, theoretical foundation - a lucid explanation of internal motivation and purposeful behavior. From this proceeds a discussion of the most powerful leadership tools: creating vision, resolving conflicts, and reaching consensus. Includes valuable hints on how to improve your curriculum.$15.00 detailsbuy |
Find Your Natural Weight the Nectar Way
Sick of crash diets? Let Judy McFadden teach you how to eat naturally and manage your weight effectively - without resorting to starvation and gimmicky fad techniques. The secret lies in changing your thinking, not in dieting. Step by step, learn to tune into your body's signals so you can avoid eating from habit, or emotion. Also sold in Australia under the title Diet No More.$13.00 detailsbuy |
Helping Kids Help Themselves
Follow along in this popular book as Perry Good explores the basic psychological needs all children have and how you can help kids avoid self-destructive behaviors. Includes practical solutions to common teen problems.$13.00 detailsbuy |
Helping Kids Help Themselves Facilitator's Guide
This guide shows you how to design, organize, and conduct parent programs or in-service workshops for teachers and counselors based on the book Helping Kids Help Themselves. Adults will learn how to foster self-discipline and independence in kids.$25.00 detailsbuy |
Hold That Thought!
With lots of examples, illustrations, and a lighthearted style, Carey shows readers how to get themselves better using the Method of Levels, an approach to psychotherapy based on a comprehensive model of the behavior of living organisms.$15.00 detailsbuy |
How to Create Positive Relationships with Students
This handbook is a fun collection of teaching strategies for use by counselors, teachers, and others working with children of all ages. Karns introduces us to her tantalizing repertoire of games and activities to captivate youthful audiences. With these activities, you too can teach new skills and self-understanding, and kids will have fun while learning. [Research Press]$25.95 detailsbuy |
I'm Learning to Be Happy
This fun workbook companion to Teach Them to Be Happy helps children apply the concepts of control theory to their own lives. Children will enjoy the illustrations and activities while they learn about their basic needs. Appropriate for children ages three to eight.$6.00 detailsbuy |
In Pursuit of Happiness
Perry Good explains what you can do if you want to have a happier life. Explore the four parts of your behavioral system and discover how basic psychological needs motivate all of our actions.$13.00 detailsbuy |
Influencer: The Power to Change Anything
This New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today best-seller reasons that if internal motivation drives human behavior, then understanding such behavior must become the impetus for change.$26.95 detailsbuy |
Introduction to Modern Psychology: The Control Theory View
The first textbook based on Control Theory. The basic Control Theory model provides the foundation for chapters on learning, development, perception, personality, social psychology, and psychotherapy. Edited by William T. Powers and Richard J. Robertson.$29.95 detailsbuy |
It's Finally OK to Be the Boss
Become the leader you want to be. Manage people effectively! An easy-to-read manual for anyone who supervises one or more people in the workplace. E. Perry Good explains - in simple terms - human motivation and behavior and gives you the tools to apply them effectively to the task of supervision. Teachers have found this book has helped them become better classroom managers, too. New revised edition!$13.00 detailsbuy |
Life Lessons for Young Adolescents: An Advisory Guide for Teachers
Across the country, teachers are being asked to be advisors as well as instructors to their students. The teacher is expected to teach the whole child, providing compassionate support to master various life skills. This guide is written to help teachers learn to fill this role. It includes short, simple activities that deal in a practical way with everyday concerns of adolescents.$29.95 detailsbuy |
Living Control Systems I
This collection of fourteen papers provides a great introduction to Powers' model of living control systems. Selections range from the seminal article "A General Feedback Theory of Human Behavior" to a recent overview of biological Control Theory and its relationship to other ideas in cybernetics. Several of the papers included in this volume are now difficult to obtain elsewhere.$19.95 detailsbuy |
Living Control Systems II
This second selection of Powers' papers contains material that has not previously been published. Powers critiques the theories of mainstream behavioral scientists and shows how Perceptual Control Theory can be used to avoid their mistakes. He also demonstrates the necessity for constructing truly generative models if a genuine science of living control systems is to be developed.$19.95 detailsbuy |
Living Control Systems III: The Fact of Control
The third in a series of books by William T. Powers about perceptual control theory (PCT), the robust theory of behavior he originated in the 1970s. This book is about control theory and how it explains human behavior and perhaps behaviors of all organisms, and it includes an extensive mathematical appendix, index, and over 50 illustrations (more than half in full color), plus a CD of free open-source computer programs of interactive models and simulations.$65.00 detailsbuy |
Making Sense of Behavior: The Meaning of Control
This book is a simplified look at Perceptual Control Theory (PCT) written in a clear conversational style. Powers uses simple examples to peel back the layers of control theory and reveal universal truths.$19.95 detailsbuy |
Mind Readings: Experimental Studies of Purpose
Introduced by William T. Powers |
More Mind Readings: Methods and Models in the Study of Purpose
Dr. Marken is an author and senior behavioral scientist at the RAND Corporation. With the publication of Marken's third book, there is now one more basic, accessible, and enjoyable resource for those who want to learn to see through PCT glasses.$18.00 detailsbuy |
My Gift in Return
Barnes Boffey, author of Reinventing Yourself: Becoming the Person You Want to Be, shares his unique thoughts, tales, and reflections on being human in a complicated world. A beautiful book to share with those you care about.$16.00 detailsbuy |
New View Posters: Balance and Variety
Caption: Balance and variety are the spice of life. This poster by Sesame Street animator and artist Jeff Hale has been reproduced from E. Perry Good's In Pursuit of Happiness. It can be purchased individually or as a part of a set of 5, to hang in school halls, library, or an individual classroom. Kids love these posters.$5.00 detailsbuy |
New View Posters: Decide What You Want
Caption: Decide what you want. This poster by Sesame Street animator and artist Jeff Hale has been reproduced from E. Perry Good's In Pursuit of Happiness. It can be purchased individually or as a part of a set of 5, to hang in school halls, library, or an individual classroom. Kids love these posters.$5.00 detailsbuy |
New View Posters: If You Can Imagine
Caption: If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it. This poster by Sesame Street animator and artist Jeff Hale has been reproduced from E. Perry Good's In Pursuit of Happiness. It can be purchased individually or as a part of a set of 5, to hang in school halls, library, or an individual classroom. Kids love these posters.$5.00 detailsbuy |
New View Posters: Things Could Be Worse
Caption: Things Could Be Worse This poster by Sesame Street animator and artist Jeff Hale has been reproduced from E. Perry Good's In Pursuit of Happiness. It can be purchased individually or as a part of a set of 5, to hang in school halls, library, or an individual classroom. Kids love these posters.$5.00 detailsbuy |
New View Posters: Use Your Imagination
This poster by Sesame Street animator and artist Jeff Hale has been reproduced from E. Perry Good's In Pursuit of Happiness. It can be purchased individually or as a part of a set of 5, to hang in school halls, library, or an individual classroom. Kids love these posters.$5.00 detailsbuy |
New View Posters: set of 5
This set of five posters by Sesame Street animator and artist Jeff Hale have been reproduced from E. Perry Good's In Pursuit of Happiness. They can be purchased individually (listed separately) or as a set to hang in the school halls or library or your individual classroom. Kids love them.$20.00 detailsbuy |
Overall Direction
We all go through tough times - the loss of a loved one, a career change, relationship problems. Don't despair - it may be that you just need a new direction! Using E. Perry Good's flexible, interactive approach you'll learn the six overall directions that point the way toward a more fulfilling life. Each chapter has specific questions and techniques to help you choose the right road, as well as examples of real people who found their way out of difficult situations. This unique book is structured for maximum effectiveness. Learn how you can take control of your life!$15.00 detailsbuy |
Overall Direction Counselor's Guide
Offers counselors a new way to help clients tap into their quality world. Learn how overall direction questions allow counselors to zero in on what their clients really want.$10.00 detailsbuy |
PETALS Parent's Guide
The PETALS program is designed to help parents discover how their child learns and to help them implement appropriate strategies to improve their child's learning process. Ages six to eighteen. |
Parents & Teachers Working Together
How can teachers build positive relationships with parents and work with them to support their children's learning? This book offers a wealth of manageable ways. It combines the voice of a master teacher with spotlights of a dozen other teachers in action in rural, urban, and suburban schools. Sample letters and forms are included throughout. [Northeast Foundation for Children]$24.00 detailsbuy |
People as Living Things: The Psychology of Perceptual Control Theory
This comprehensive text is a superb overview of Perceptual Control Theory (PCT) and its practical applications for individuals, groups, schools, and organizations of all kinds. Runkel's style is personal, immediate, and often humorous. The book is written for the layperson and professionals interested in obtaining a deeper understanding of PCT and its meaning for people and society. [Living Control Systems Publishing]$75.00 detailsbuy |
Perceptual Control Theory CD
This CD produced by Living Control Systems Publishing is an inexpensive way to access much of the early research and explanations of Perceptual Control Theory. It includes introductions to PCT, tutorials, simulations, articles, and links. The CD is optimized to work with Adobe Acrobat Reader 5.0 for Windows and Apple computers. [Living Control Systems Publishing]$10.00 detailsbuy |
Punished by Rewards
Do this and you'll get that. That's how we try to motivate our children and - guess what - it doesn't work. Alfie Kohn is here to tell you why. In this brilliant book, he dissects the whole idea of "carrot and stick" discipline. Instead build self-esteem and teach self-discipline, and maybe we can start to climb out of this hole we've dug for our children and ourselves. [Houghton Mifflin]$15.00 detailsbuy |
Purpose, Meaning, and Action: Control Systems Theories in Sociology
This book marks an important milestone in the growing interest in Perceptual Control Theory among academic researchers -- in this case, seventeen leading sociologists. As one reviewer summarized, the research in this volume "exhibits a remarkable array and depth of empirical applications." The chapters in this volume point to new directions in sociological thinking and research grounded in an understanding of negative feedback. It is encouraging to see that PCT is gaining wider acceptance within disciplines concerned with human behavior and a better understanding of the world. (Palgrave Macmillan). edited by Kent A. McClelland and Thomas J. Fararo$90.00 detailsbuy |
Quality Time for Quality Kids
This counseling guidebook for children ages four to ten presents helpful ideas for conducting group activities and teaching children to discover their own special qualities. Contains delightful illustrations by Jeffrey Hale and many creative activities to help build self-esteem. The activities encourage involvement, affirmation of self, and problem solving.$25.00 detailsbuy |
Reinventing Yourself
Become the person you want to be! Barnes Boffey shows you how to make profound personal changes through the process of reinventing yourself. Learn how to examine your "blueprints" and evaluate whether these basic assumptions and behaviors will lead you to a fully functional life. Avoid the pitfalls of denial and recognize when your behavioral choices are working against you. An essential reference for counselors or anyone struggling with addiction and other tough problems.$13.00 detailsbuy |
Restitution: Restructuring School Discipline
Diane Gossen presents a groundbreaking approach to discipline based on the recognition that young people will make mistakes and that emphasizes positive strategies when problems do occur. Help foster self-discipline in students.$13.00 detailsbuy |
Restitution: Restructuring School Discipline Facilitator's Guide
Help your staff learn how to lead students to fix their own mistakes, focus on self-discipline, and build self-esteem. Expands on the ideas in the book Restitution and provides activities to conduct your own staff-development program. Contains invaluable reproducible handouts. New and revised Second Edition now available!$20.00 detailsbuy |
Scalding Heart
The Nuyorican Press is launching its new poetry series with Carlton T. Spiller's Scalding Heart. His poetry explores humanity in all its loose and startling passions. The book reads like a road map of experience. It scolds and soothes. Here is a new American voice for the ages.$12.95 detailsbuy |
Silver Bullets
A guide to initiative problems, adventure games, and trust activities. Used by teachers, counselors, and therapists to build trust. This book features 165 activities that require few props. All have been field tested and offer many helpful hints for implementation. [Kendall/Hunt Publishing]$37.95 detailsbuy |
Take Charge! Workshop in Hilton Head Island, SCJanuary 21-22, 2011, Hilton Head Island, SC
A curriculum for building self-discipline and promoting positive behavior in teens.$950.00 detailsbuy Includes Implementation Workshop and Kit for 15 students |
Teach Them to Be Happy
Expanded text offers even more ideas and activities to help teach young children how to lead happier, healthier lives. It is never too early to learn how people are motivated and why they behave as they do. Using the concepts of applied control theory, Sullo explains how we can help children learn to self-evaluate their behaviors and meet their basic needs in responsible, balanced ways. Ideal for home or classroom.$13.00 detailsbuy |
Teacher and Counselor Guide to In Pursuit of Happiness
Provides teachers and counselors with activities based on In Pursuit of Happiness for children in grades six to twelve. Contains cooperative learning activities, group discussions, writing exercises, role plays, lectures, and novel ways to use multimedia as an instructional tool in the classroom.$15.00 detailsbuy |
Teaching with the Brain in Mind (2nd Edition)
Connects brain research and classroom practices. Readers will better understand the significance of healthy and safe student-teacher relationships, the experience of social interactions, and the internal motivation behind human behavior. $27.95 detailsbuy |
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The First Six Weeks of School
Learn how to structure the first six weeks of school to lay the groundwork for a productive year of learning. Discover how taking the time to build a solid foundation in the early weeks of school can pay off all year long in increased student motivation, cooperation, responsibility, and self-control.$24.00 detailsbuy |
The Habit of Thought
In this thought-provoking book, Michael Strong introduces and describes an approach to classroom instruction called Socratic practice, which fosters a culture of learning and independence within students. $15.00 detailsbuy |
The Happy Hour Guide
A valuable tool for group leaders, counselors, and teachers. The Happy Hour Guide is designed to help group facilitators teach the ideas presented in In Pursuit of Happiness. Follow the ten group meetings exactly as presented or use the guide as a springboard to design a format to fit the specific needs of your group. Appropriate for group work with both adults and teenagers.$15.00 detailsbuy |
The Method of Levels
This book is the first in-depth effort to explain an emerging therapeutic approach known as the Method of Levels which is based specifically on Perceptual Control Theory (PCT). In his foreward to the book, William T. Powers, the originator of PCT, explains: "The basic idea behind PCT is that organisms act to control a world presented to them as perceptions, rather than reacting to stimuli or planning their action or being conditioned or any of those other ideas that have been proposed since before I was born." The book includes two DVDs, one which includes introductions to PCT, tutorials, simulations, articles, and links; and another which includes actual MOL sessions. [Living Control Systems Publishing]$45.00 detailsbuy |
The Morning Meeting Book
Build a sense of connectedness and create a climate of trust in your classroom. Morning classroom meetings can become a daily routine that brings students and teachers together in a circle to greet one another, share news, and look forward to the day ahead. This powerful teaching tool includes step-by-step guidelines, suggestions for communicating with parents, thirty-four greetings and forty-two activities$24.00 detailsbuy |
The Paideia Seminar Guide
Discover a new approach to teaching with this concise, informative introduction to conducting Paideia Seminars. Based on the Socratic method of inquiry, the Paideia Seminar is a forum in which students are asked to articulate, justify, and clarify their own thoughts about classical texts. This process leads improvement in their reading, writing, and thinking skills.$15.00 detailsbuy |
Transformative Classroom Management
In this groundbreaking book, John Shindler presents Transformative Classroom Management, a model that can be implemented by educators to restore the natural positive feelings in his or her classroom and to create a productive learning environment in which all students can achieve. $29.95 detailsbuy |
Waging Peace
This implementation guide is a collection of ten introductory trust-building activities and thirty-two bullying prevention lessons based on best practices and the Olweus Bullying Prevention Program. These activities and lessons are designed to be delivered through class meetings in elementary schools, adviser/advisee sessions in middle schools, or specific subject-area classes. The guide is focused on the silent majority, the bystanders who can make a difference.$29.00 detailsbuy |
When A Butterfly Sneezes
Author Linda Booth Sweeney explores systems thinking, guiding children and adults alike through an interconnected world. When A Butterfly Sneezes teaches children to think about complexities using a simple and attractive model: the picture book. This is an invaluable resource for the educator or parent. [Pegasus Communications]$14.95 detailsbuy |
Who2Bee: The Inside Story
Who2Bee: The Inside Story is the first book of a new series which aims to teach basic concepts of Perceptual Control Theory to elementary school students. $15.00 detailsbuy Available now for pre-order. |
Your Leadership Legacy: Why Looking Toward the Future Will Make You a Better Leader Today
Authors Robert Galford and Regina Maruca argue that leaders should not wait until late in their careers to worry about their legacy. Rather, leaders should think about their legacy now in order to become a better leader today. Your Leadership Legacy explores the art of "legacy thinking" and the ways it can positively influence your work immediately. The authors' approach will help leaders to craft their work and build their legacies without a catalyzing crisis. In fact, the strategies in Your Leadership Legacy will strengthen your impact and pass along the best of yourself, leading to personal satisfaction and achievement throughout your working life. (Harvard Business School Press).$26.95 detailsbuy |
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