Bøker av William L. Fibkins

This book seeks to educate principals, counselors, teachers, coaches, and support staff about sexual misconduct, while providing a training model to prepare school staff to avoid sexual misconduct, to encourage school leaders to upgrade their supervision efforts, and to provide needed outreach and intervention before sexual misconduct occurs.

By reviewing lessons learned from other failed reforms and analyzing successful reforms, Fibkins new book addresses issues and presents doable models for education reformers to succeed and deliver what administrators, staff, parents, students, and community members need to make their schools the best they can be.

This book is designed as a nuts and bolts guide for school counselors. Fibkins highlights for secondary school counselors the "how's" and "why's" for using group counseling intervention to help the increasing numbers of troubled teenagers.

We need to examine the role of "Angel Teachers" and make the case that they are now needed to take a primary role in the schools intervention efforts. This book will explore how they arrive at this role, their skills, how they help kids and how they avoid becoming saviors, self-promoters, and in the helping process for their own self-esteem

This book is about the unintended consequences that can occur when the "good news" process becomes heavily embedded in school life-a process that creates two different worlds in a school community that often prides itself on fostering unity and belonging.

This guide helps educators gain a better understanding of several issues impacting on teacher-student relationships so that they will be better prepared to help students improve academically and socially. Understanding these issues will help students take their place as contenders in an ever-changing and complex world. The following are the issues that must be addressed in order to help each of our students successfully navigate through the risks and challenges of adolescence and follow their star: 1. Why historically teachers have not utilized their bully pulpit and skills to lead the way in addressing the personal and well-being problems. 2. Why changes in our students'' families and communities have now created the need for teachers to be the primary source of intervention for underachieving and failing students. 3. Why school guidance counselors and social workers need to step back from their unattainable role as the primary source of student intervention and shift this role to teachers on the front lines. 4. Why we need to help teachers and administrators improve the quality of teacher-student relations right now and not postpone needed intervention until secondary school enrollment and class size are reduced. 5. How we can proceed to train and expect teachers to better understand how their students learn, develop, and effectively address the non-academic issues that get in the way of learning. An Educator''s Guide to Better Understanding the Personal Side of Students'' Lives is a road map on how to elevate the teacher''s advising role, the most underutilized helping resource in the school, to its rightful place as a source of academic and non-academic help for students. Students need teacher advisers who can help them successfully navigate through the risks of adolescent life. This guide will help. The book includes 36 case studies of high school students that support why it is important for educators to be advisors and mentors. To learn more, visit www.williamfibkins.com.

This book is a call to education officials and professionals to address the need to provide ongoing mentoring for all teachers, especially veteran teachers, who are often overlooked.