San Antonio College Library

A two-year longitudinal follow-up of a cluster randomized school-based anti-mental-illness stigma intervention designed to improve knowledge/attitudes and increase help seeking for mental health problems.

Kirp clarifies the importance of our investing wisely in children, and offers accounts of five big cradle-to-college initiatives that can change the arc of all children's lives.

This program is a must for viewers who are studying to become child care workers. It offers an insightful and practical introduction to caring for children in both day care and kindergarten settings. We meet Pedagogy Leader Catherine Lees and teacher Lin Xue at a typical day care center. We observe them at work and discuss important issues such as physical care, helping children understand their own physical needs, encouraging responsibility, and...

"Managing Anxiety in School Settings dives into the growing topic of anxiety and its implications on students' emotional and academic wellbeing, providing key insights into how to enable students to be successful inside and outside of the classroom. This book provides the reader with a tangible set of strategies for all grade levels that can be built into individualized anxiety survival toolkits for students to utilize in a discreet and effective...

School-based interventions that target obesity in children often have little positive effect and may inadvertently contribute to unhealthy behaviors in the attempt to lose weight. This book provides a conceptual model for understanding both obesity and eating disordered behaviors. Specifically, it advocates for body acceptance and intuitive eating a flexible, healthy eating behavior involving awareness of the body s hunger and satiety cues. Within...

The idea of literature extension--using hands-on projects from math, science, music, drama, and art to expand on literary works--is an increasingly popular teaching method (with national initiatives sprouting up from Vermont Center for the Book and the Minneapolis Children's Museum in partnerships with ALA's Office of Public Programs and ALSC). It's an innovative concept, though, and there are few resources that show children's librarians, teachers,...

One way to provide an authentic audience for young writers is to have them share their work with each other. This program shows how teachers help students respond to their peers by modeling appropriate behavior and teaching protocols for student responses.