for educators who work with disenchanted and disengaged youths.

Authors: Judith Allen Brough, Sherrel Bergmann, and Larry C. Holt

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This book provides practical tools for educators who work with disenchanted and disengaged youths. It offers clear, research-based, and explicit strategies for motivating, connecting, and intervening with these students. The practical wisdom in this book demonstrates what you can do to connect these students to their schools and to a promising future.

Table of Contents
1. Understanding Those Who Dare Us
2. Identifying Why The Dare Is Made
3. Motivating Those Who Dare Us
4. Connecting With Those Who Dare Us
5. Minimizing the Dare: Teaching For Success
6. Intervening with Those Who Dare Us
7. Evaluating Change
Appendix and Index
2006, 120 pp.

“This book is a life-saver not only for frustrated teachers, but also for students who desperately need adult help but don’t know how to ask for it or accept it when it’s offered. It inspires confidence....”
- From the Foreword by J. Howard Johnston

“Useful and to the point, this book contains specific strategies for teachers to implement in the classroom.”
- Eve Ford, Principal
Hallsville Junior High School, TX

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120 pages © 2006