Are you striving for ultimate happiness but fall short? Do you find that yourself stepping into the same situations, or negative thoughts, over and over that lead to "crappy" feelings? More and more people are striving to seek that elusive goal of happiness and finding it increasingly more elusive to find. In the book, Crappy to Happy, Brett Novick shares his over 20 years of experience as a therapist, husband, and educator many of the common "piles" of life that we step in. Those obstacles that cause "crapiness" and prevent us from reaching our full potential of joy and contentment. These pages contain practical, direct, and helpful means that you can apply today to stepping over the piles of "crapiness" in your life and into the field of happiness.

Crappy to Happy: A Practical Guide for Finding Happiness

Self-Help

Novick, Brett J.

Self-Esteem

Train of Thought Press

Parents and Teachers Working Together: Addressing School's Most Vital Stakeholders

Whether you're an educator, CST member, administrator, or other educational professional, you share one thing in common: dealing with difficult parents and families. Every educator has experienced problematic, unproductive, and/or uncomfortable interactions with parents or families. Whether it be issues of defensiveness, noncompliance, the belief that his or her child "does no wrong," or just plain hostility, it can place an incredible stress on your job duties. Utilize this book to equip yourself with effective, practical tools geared to help productively tailor your interventions around the most common types of challenging parents and families.

Education & Teaching

Higher & Continuing Education

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Beyond the Behavior Contract: A Practical Approach to Dealing with Challenging Student Behaviors

It seems each year we are faced in dealing with more and more students who are displaying ever increasing levels of anger, anxiety, and complex behavioral issues. Why are these children so angry? So anxious? Exhibiting so many challenging behaviors? How do we deal with students when they are annoyed, frustrated, anxious or destructive? What works and perhaps, just as importantly, what does not? In this informative book we will attempt to look at the context that seems to foster these student’s behaviors. Additionally, we will take a step back and look at how to practically deal with the many factors that support or positively modify these behaviors in a productive and practical fashion.Then, and most importantly, we will look at real-world and simple tools that can be used immediately to decrease the incidents of tantrums, diminish worry, destructiveness, and angry behaviors within the school setting. How to foster communication with parents for a more positive outcome as well as what we can do as an educational system to support these vulnerable youths.The goal of this book is to supplement and enrich your existing tools with others you can quickly implement when working with these students during their most challenging states.

Schools & Teaching

The goal of this book is to supplement and enrich your existing tools with others you can quickly implement when working with these students during their most challenging states.

Now, more than ever, education on the social and emotional aspects of learning is critical. As children learn to traverse a world that is ever-flattening concurrently they are drowning with information. Unfortunately, this same information can be misleading, tinged with anger, and creating an ever-unrealistic standard youth may never be able to live up to. As educators, social-emotional learning has always been a natural element of the school day. We must now recognize it as a critical subject area that has to be integrated and reinforced in every aspect of our teaching. The distinguishing quality of social and emotional skills will determine success or failure in those who will have to enter a world ever more connected systemically and globally

Beyond Academic Success: Creating Social-Emotional Learning Balance in Elementary Students

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Books by Novick, Brett J.

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Crappy to Happy: A Practical Guide for Finding Happiness

Parents and Teachers Working Together: Addressing School's Most Vital Stakeholders

Beyond the Behavior Contract: A Practical Approach to Dealing with Challenging Student Behaviors

Beyond the Behavior Contract: A Practical Approach to Dealing with Challenging Student Behaviors

Beyond Academic Success: Creating Social-Emotional Learning Balance in Elementary Students