Meet the A-Team


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Meet Alex and his friends Max, Lily, Bella and Jack who are all members of the A-Team. "A" stands for both Awesome and Autism. Join Alex as he helps us understand Autism and teaches us about his strengths and challenges in addition to those of the fellow A-Team members. Observe how social situations in school can lead to various conflicts or confusion. Then, participate each week in A-Team meetings, led by their teacher Ms. Corina. Learn how Ms. Corina helps the members of the A-Team address various social skill challenges. Review strategies, steps and actions to proactively address common social skill challenges, such as: compromising, being too silly, being too bossy, being flexible, dealing with losing and more. See how Ms. Corina uses Top Secret Mission cards to outline key steps and strategies that can increase success with school, work and friendships. This book is an introduction to "The A-Team Presents..." social skills book series and curriculum. The series helps teachers and parents proactively develop social skills as well as deal with a range of common social challenges. Notably, this is the introduction book in the "The A-Team Presents..." series of social skill books. This Intro book introduces and discusses autism, while the rest of the books in the series don't mention autism explicitly. After this Introduction book, each story unfolds from the perspective of one of the A-Team members. Every book focuses on a specific social skill, without mentioning autism. In this way, parents, teachers and administrators will find these books to be an invaluable resource for teaching social skills to ALL students, with or without autism.




The Ideal Team Player


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In his classic book, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Patrick Lencioni laid out a groundbreaking approach for tackling the perilous group behaviors that destroy teamwork. Here he turns his focus to the individual, revealing the three indispensable virtues of an ideal team player. In The Ideal Team Player, Lencioni tells the story of Jeff Shanley, a leader desperate to save his uncle’s company by restoring its cultural commitment to teamwork. Jeff must crack the code on the virtues that real team players possess, and then build a culture of hiring and development around those virtues. Beyond the fable, Lencioni presents a practical framework and actionable tools for identifying, hiring, and developing ideal team players. Whether you’re a leader trying to create a culture around teamwork, a staffing professional looking to hire real team players, or a team player wanting to improve yourself, this book will prove to be as useful as it is compelling.




The Advantage


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There is a competitive advantage out there, arguably more powerful than any other. Is it superior strategy? Faster innovation? Smarter employees? No, New York Times best-selling author, Patrick Lencioni, argues that the seminal difference between successful companies and mediocre ones has little to do with what they know and how smart they are and more to do with how healthy they are. In this book, Lencioni brings together his vast experience and many of the themes cultivated in his other best-selling books and delivers a first: a cohesive and comprehensive exploration of the unique advantage organizational health provides. Simply put, an organization is healthy when it is whole, consistent and complete, when its management, operations and culture are unified. Healthy organizations outperform their counterparts, are free of politics and confusion and provide an environment where star performers never want to leave. Lencioni’s first non-fiction book provides leaders with a groundbreaking, approachable model for achieving organizational health—complete with stories, tips and anecdotes from his experiences consulting to some of the nation’s leading organizations. In this age of informational ubiquity and nano-second change, it is no longer enough to build a competitive advantage based on intelligence alone. The Advantage provides a foundational construct for conducting business in a new way—one that maximizes human potential and aligns the organization around a common set of principles.




Mason's Greatest Gems


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"As he does every Saturday afternoon, Mason is digging next to the old swing when he finds a handful of items for his treasure collection... Mason's greatest gems is a story about finding hidden gems inside yourself, with an introduction to the concept of virtues for children."--Back cover.




Rainbow Medicine: Therapy with the A-Team!


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Everyone loves a mystical experience believing its a sign Chances are, it is! We all have an Angelic team (A-Team) of spirits who root for us, love us, want to help us manifest our desires and dreams, and see us succeed on our highest path. Ultimately, what they all want for us is to come into greater self-love, self-worth, and personal truth so that we may learn from our experiences, understand the lessons of the whys, forgive ourselves and others for any wrongdoing, clear our karmic debts, and discover and use our gifts to live a fulfilling life. Just because they are in a higher dimension with greater understanding of the larger whole doesnt mean they dont feel our pain, cry with and for us, and have lessons to learn and karmic ties and debts to make good on. When we hurt they hurt, when we shine they shine. They are with us every step of the way. So please know that when you heal yourself, you also heal your entire ancestral bloodline, in every direction of time. Together, Spirit and I developed a language to help you coheal and cocreate your best life with your A-Team, we call it Rainbow Medicine: Therapy with the A-Team. This Instructional Guide about Spirit Communication and Holistic Healing will awaken you to your True Self and Best Life Path. Through sharing up close and personal experiences, professional cases, and healing and psychic mediumship development exercises, we teach you how-to recognize the signs, decode spirit communication, conduct holistic health readings for you and your pets, discover your purpose and path, and engage in therapy with your A-Team to face your fears, heal yourself and your relationships, and live your best life, now. All exercises focus on holistic healing; psychological, emotional, physical, and spiritual. No prior experience with Spirit necessary, all levels welcome.




Rainbow Rangers: Meet the Team


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Summer Greene's Rainbow Rangers: Meet the Team is an original adventure based on the hit animated series on Nick Jr.! Meet seven girls who work as a team. They live in a magical land. They help protect Earth and save the animals. They are the Rainbow Rangers and they are nature’s superheroes! Learn about each Ranger’s personality and power in this character guide. The clear text and colorful illustrations make this book a perfect fit for new and emerging readers. An Imprint Book




Transformers Prime: Meet Team Prime


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In this follow-up novel to Switching Gears, 12-year-old Kevin Bowman is now working with the Autobots to fight the evil Decepticons and search for his missing brother. Kevin is starting to lose hope until he gets help from the most unexpected person-his nemesis, Douglas. Douglas informs the team of a secret cave of ancient Cybertronian weapons located at Battle Mountain, Nevada. Kevin and Gears believe the cave might have clues to the disappearance of Kevin's brother and other missing soldiers. Will the team find what they are looking for or has Douglas set a trap for them at Battle Mountain?




The NEW Team Habits


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Leading teams in a rapidly changing world To achieve their ambitious goals, it is essential that education leaders build effective teams. Many leaders want to shift the way their teams collaborate, make decisions, and learn together, but struggle to make lasting change. Written for leaders who want to improve their teams, this guide is a follow-up to the best-seller, The NEW School Rules, a framework for transitioning to a more responsive, innovative organization. The NEW Team Habits goes further, providing battle-tested practices the authors have used with hundreds of leadership teams to build better team habits. Readers will find • a five step learning cycle for building team habits • videos, readings, and other resources to build knowledge • engaging team activities to drive learning With tools leaders and teams can use right away, this guide provides the inspiration, steps, tools, and activities you need to improving your team habits for learning, meetings, and projects.




Meet Your Inside Team


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Inside all of us is a collection of internal voices, parts, and beliefs, that sometimes work in harmony and sometimes doesn't. When your Inside Team is working together everything can be great and life wonderful. But when your Inside Team isn't aligned you can feel stuck, anxious, confused, or judge and beat up on yourself. Here is an example: Part A: This could be amazing. I want to go for it! Part B: Are you insane? You can't leave your job and go back to school. Part C: You should just buckle down and work harder! Part D: But I'm not happy. It's time to change that. Part E: And have your hopes crushed again? Part A: Hey, wait a minute. When you've taken on something new in your life, you've always made it work. You could do this! Can you relate to the above example? What if you had a way to turn toward these parts with curiosity and respect, and find out what they're really trying to say and then bring them into alignment? The Inside Team approach shows you how to go behind the curtain, so that you can discover the way you think and understand what these parts of you really want. By doing so your creativity and resourcefulness will have room to grow, turning internal conflict into clarity, negative thoughts into positive ones, and moving forward with more ease and fun in your life. For over 25 years, Master Coach Cynthia Loy Darst has been helping people achieve what they really want in their lives. Known as a "coach's coach" her Inside Team trainings are highly sought after by life coaches, executive coaches, therapists, and those wanting to make meaningful change in their lives.




Relating to Adolescents


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Teaching teenagers can be very rewarding; it can also be very challenging. Relating to Adolescents helps adults who work with teenagers to understand what happens in their dynamic with students. From the 'Five Things Teens Need from Grown-Ups' to the 'Seven Grown-Up Skills,' this book covers all aspects of the adult-teenager relationship and provides educators with guidance and practical tips on how to increase their effectiveness in their work with teenagers in schools.