The EQ Way is a reflection tool for leaders navigating difficult times--and difficult emotions--in their schools.

In education, challenges surround you every day, but they don't have to define you. When the negative, frightful, or unknown happens--when you're confused because you aren't sure where things are headed--that's when you want to focus on EQ, or emotional intelligence: self-awareness, self-regulation, motivation, empathy, and social skills.

Educational psychologist and school leader Ignacio Lopez explores how you can lead from a place of calm clarity and strength. Lopez relies on his own experience to guide you through enacting EQ strategies in your school or district, no matter what kinds of challenges you face. You can learn to control your reactions and keep emotional intelligence central to your work by

* Recognizing and improving your own emotional intelligence.
* Continually assessing the clarity of your vision and communication.
* Enforcing accountability across the school community.
* Refining, communicating, and monitoring school values.
* Deliberately engaging with external stakeholders.
* Finding ways to work with and stand up to naysayers and resisters.
* Sustaining the emotional intelligence of the school community.

The key to successfully navigating your school through difficult times and managing high-conflict situations is being an emotionally intelligent leader.The EQ Way helps you be that leader.

How can we ensure that all students, regardless of cultural background or socioeconomic status, are granted equitable opportunities to succeed in the classroom and beyond? In Keeping It Real and Relevant: Building Authentic Relationships in Your Diverse Classroom, author and veteran educator Ignacio Lopez offers hard-won lessons that educators at all levels can apply to teaching, assessing, counseling, and designing interventions for learners from all walks of life. These insights are all rooted in the same core principle: building deep and meaningful relationships with students is the key driver of their success.

In addition to examining the pivotal role of relationship-building among teachers and students in preparing the latter to perform at the highest level, this book offers

• Real-life examples of challenging classroom situations, each with a detailed breakdown of how they were peacefully and non-punitively resolved;
• Strategies for designing learning environments suited to the individual needs of students and reflective of their cultural backgrounds;
• Ideas for scaffolding students as they experience and internalize epiphanies about what works and what doesn't, both academically and behaviorally; and
• Activities and reflection questions for use in professional development.

Many teachers find balancing the needs of increasingly diverse classrooms made up of learners from increasingly diverse backgrounds to be a difficult and often thankless task--and one that takes precious time away from instructional planning. Here, Lopez outlines simple but ingenious steps for addressing these needs holistically, in a way that takes no extra time yet amply enhances the learning experience for students. Clear, practical, and much-needed, Keeping It Real and Relevant is the ultimate blueprint for creating a harmonious and successful classroom for kids of all colors, creeds, and cultures.

Dark, disturbing, deft, irreverent, and revelatory, Ignacio Lopez's monologue is at once a coming-of-age story, a horror story, and a highly theatrical experiment in radical empathy. Weaving together two very different voices grappling with strikingly similar crises of sexuality and conscience, Severed asks: where do we draw the line between human and monster, severing, as we do so, the possibility of empathy, forgiveness, and understanding? What happens when we see ourselves reflected in the monster's eye?

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2014 im Fachbereich VWL - Geldtheorie, Geldpolitik, Note: 1,6, Duale Hochschule Baden-W rttemberg, Villingen-Schwenningen, fr her: Berufsakademie Villingen-Schwenningen, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Selten wurde ein Thema in einem derart kurzen Zeitraum so viele Ausarbeitungen, Theorien und Bücher gewidmet, wie über die seit 2007 angehende Finanzkrise. Eine Phase in der Grö en der Weltwirtschaft in Bedrängnis kamen, fielen und nicht mehr aufstanden. Eine Zeit in der Staaten kollabierten, aber auch private Haushalte die Folgen des Abschwungs zu spüren bekamen. Kündigungen, Einnahmenreduzierungen, Zwangsvollstreckungen und schlie lich Schulden waren und sind noch alltägliche Themen. Dabei war eine Zweihundert Jahre lange Forschung, in der selbst die modernen Institute für Konjunkturforschung aktiv sich mit dem Thema befassen, nicht in der Lage diesen Ausnahmezustand der globalen Märkte vorherzusehen. Mit der Krise war der Auftritt der Nationalbanken von gro er Bedeutung. Die Stützpfeiler und Vertrauensbewahrer einer Ökonomie, wie es die Federal Reserve System (Fed) für die Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika (USA) oder die Europäische Zentralbank (EZB) für den Euroraum sind, greifen mit Hilfe deren Handlungsspielräume in das aktive Marktgeschehen ein und beeinflussen den Verlauf der Ökonomie. Dazu existieren theoretische Ansätze, wie z.B. die Marktregulierer, die in bestimmte Situationen agieren sollten um einen gewünschten Effekt zu erzwingen. Eine geldpolitische Strategie beinhaltet diese theoretische Vorgehensweise und einen Handlungsrahmen.

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