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Dr. Jane Bluestein
I created Instructional Support Services, Inc. and I.S.S. Publications in April of 1983 to provide resources and instructional programs to educators, counselors, parents and the general public.
Our mission is to provide practical, helpful and meaningful information –as well as inspiration, encouragement and hope– in areas related to relationship building, effective instruction and guidance, and personal development.
We are continually grateful for opportunities to serve those whose goals include improving their own lives as well as the lives of children and other adults.
My Calendar
Click here (or on the image to the left) to see my schedule. Click here for a map with links to dates that I will be in your area.
Spectrum Podcasts: Free audio programs
Dr. Jane Bluestein chats with experts on topics relevant to educators, counselors, and parents. Available on this site: Audio chats and PDF handouts with comments, tips, show highlights, and additional resources.
Subscribe to Spectrum Podcasts on on iTunes or download the audio for these programs there.
Now FREE: A whole wide world of Positivity
Since 1986, we have sold thousands “Pads” on the Back. We’re now proud to offer reproducible templates in 25 languages for you to download and share as you wish. Click here or on the image for more information.
Book of Article Reprints is now available as eBook in PDF format. Order the download and print your own copy!
New: Listas Para Padres: The Parent’s Little Book of Lists IN SPANISH
The Parents Little Book of Lists has helped thousands of parents avoid and resolve problems with children of all ages. This book is now available in Spanish. Click here for Listas Para Padres: Qué Hacer y Qué No.
New: Classroom Management compilation
Chapters from nine of Corwin’s critically acclaimed classroom management books, including two chapters from my “win-win” books as well as work by Renee Rosenblum-Lowden and Felicia Lowden Kimmel, David A. Sousa, Kay Burke, Donna Walker Tileston, J. Allen Queen and Bob Algozzine, Marilyn E. Gootman, Roger Pierangelo and George Giuliani. Introductions to each chapter and preface to the book written by Dr. Bluestein to tie together these various perspectives on classroom management. Pre-order today.
Article Reprints now available as Downloads
20 of Dr. Bluestein’s articles are now available for individual purchasing, either as downloads or hard copies (mailed to you). Buy the entire set and get five bonus articles in The Book of Article Reprints, which will soon be available as a download!
Booster Shots®
Blackline masters for award stickers, buttons, certificates. Makes it easy to connect with kids, enourage commitment, build community, and increase positivity in your classroom! Elementary and secondary sets available for download.
Listen to Dr. Bluestein LIVE!
Click here for more information about Dr. Bluestein’s live, full-day audio seminar with practical strategis for working successfully with difficult students. Package comes with four CDs and a comprehensive resource handbook. Click here for Dr. Bluestein’s 90-minute keynote on being a successful teacher. Previously available only on cassette, this humorous, informative program is now available as an mp3 download.
Great gift for beginning teachers!
The newest book in the “win-win” series is here! Becoming a Win-Win Teacher: A Guide for First-Year Teachers is now available. Click here for more information or to order your copy. (Be sure to request an autograph!)
Specialty items (while they last)
Hand-made pins for educators, parents, and others. A great gift idea.
Forum: Other Voices and Experiences
Read what other teachers are saying about their own experiences in the profession. See responses to the survey used to collect data for my new book, including answers to the following questions:
If you had it to do over again, would you still go into teaching?
How does teaching get easier after the first year?
I wish someone had told me this (about teaching)...
What’s New?
Click here to see what’s new on this site. Meanwhile:
Spectrum Podcasts are here! Click here for conversations between Dr. Jane Bluestein and a variety of experts on a range of topics relevant to educators, parents, and counselors. Handouts with tips, notes, highlights, and additional resources are available on this site for each show. You can also download the audio and subscribe to the series on iTunes.
“Parents as Allies: Building your Support Team.” Excerpt from Becoming a Win-Win Teacher with practical tips for creating win-win, supportive relationships with your students’ parents.
“How to Attend Your High School Reunion.” Interview with Dr. Jane Bluestein
Two new free articles on money and kids:
5 Tips for Raising Financially Sound Children by Judy Lawrence, M.S.Ed.
11 ways to avoid problems with your children over money or buying by Dr. Jane Bluestein
Booster Shots® blackline masters with award certificates, stickers, and buttons— elementary and secondary versions available.
En français! 12 new handouts for educators
New Articles and Handouts on the site:
- Increasing success for ALL students
- Personality Types and Myers-Briggs Personality Inventory Scales
- Building Classroom Community: effective, positive, common-sense alternatives to reactivity and finger-pointing
- Positive Consequences: a new spin on the traditionally negative approach to motivating cooperative student behavior
- Parenting Teens: where do you draw the line?
- Test-Time: Bringing balance and sanity to our schools
- Student Behavior Profiles: includes associated goals, power plays, power tools, feelings, and effects
Plus these recent additions:
What’s a Purchase Order: Confessions of an Accidental CEO (teacher-turned-business-owner)
Tips for Would-Be Writers (and Speakers)
2011 holiday newsletter online!
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