Reduce the stress, ease the transition, and increase the joy of your next sabbatical. After the professional arrangements have been made, Sabbaticals 101 will guide you through the nuts and bolts of planning and enjoying an academic leave. Issues such as housing, finances, and the settling-in blues are addressed with humor and understanding. A veteran of seven overseas sabbaticals and exchanges with her family, Nancy Matthews has learned what works - and what doesn't. She has supplemented this personal experience with interviews of more than fifty sabbatical veterans, as well as research on...

Aunt Happy's Garden is a children's book that wants to give your child a head start by teaching a daily happiness skill that will last a lifetime. The fun and memorable rhyme in the story teaches this simple 3 step skill that can be used by anyone, anywhere, anytime. Children will love the enchanting characters a boy meets as he follows Aunt Happy's garden path. Each character has an experience that will resonate with children and will teach them how to choose happiness even when something negative happens. The boy discovers happiness is a choice you can make each day and when you "choose...

This book presents insights into the experiences and perspectives of educators in formal positions of leadership involved in decision-making processes in an education system.