Jossey Bass imprint: 1362 books
by Martha Stone Wiske, Lisa Breit
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2013
Teaching for Understanding with Technology shows how teachers can maximize the potential of new technologies to advance student learning and achievement. It uses the popular Teaching for Understanding framework that guides learners to think, analyze, solve problems, and make meaning of what they've...
Learning That Lasts
Challenging, Engaging, and Empowering Students with Deeper Instruction
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
A practical guide to deeper instruction—a framework for challenging, engaging, and empowering students of all ages
For schools to meet ambitious new standards and prepare all students for college, careers, and life, research has shown unequivocally that nothing is more important that the...
Church Unique
How Missional Leaders Cast Vision, Capture Culture, and Create Movement
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
Written by church consultant Will Mancini expert on a new kind of visioning process to help churches develop a stunningly unique model of ministry that leads to redemptive movement. He guides churches away from an internal focus to emphasize participation in their community and surrounding culture....
So Smart But...
How Intelligent People Lose Credibility - and How They Can Get it Back
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2011
This fascinating book demonstrates that to be a good communicator and therefore an effective manager, a person must have five qualities in order to be viewed as totally credible–competence, character, composure, sociability, and extroversion. While some executives seem to possess all these qualities...
Developing Your Conflict Competence
A Hands-On Guide for Leaders, Managers, Facilitators, and Teams
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2010
A practical resource, this book combines tips, checklists, exercises, and stories to outline concrete processes that improve the way leaders, managers, and anyone within an organization responds to conflict. Beginning with a series of questions and self-diagnostics, the authors show you how to: maintain...
The Ten-Minute Inservice
40 Quick Training Sessions that Build Teacher Effectiveness
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013
Quick, easy, specific steps that make a difference in teaching and learning
Busy school leaders need an easy-to-apply resource to increase teacher effectiveness quickly and efficiently. This book shows principals and staff developers how to improve teaching school-wide through high-impact inservices...
by Julia G. Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2010
Ideas for creating an orderly classroom where learning can thrive
This unique, hands-on book is packed with tested ideas and strategies to help you create a classroom environment where good conduct and high achievement are the norm and where students become self- motivated and take responsibility...
Rethinking Teacher Supervision and Evaluation
How to Work Smart, Build Collaboration, and Close the Achievement Gap
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2013
Teacher supervision and evaluation that emphasizes fairness, excellence, and achievement
In this thoroughly revised and updated edition of his bestselling book, education expert Kim Marshall shows how to break away from the typical and often ineffective evaluation approaches in which principals...
Breakthrough Principals
A Step-by-Step Guide to Building Stronger Schools
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
Bridge the achievement gap with proven strategies for student success
Breakthrough Principals debunks the myth of the 'superhero' principal by detailing the common actions and practices of leaders at our nation's fastest-gaining public schools. Based on the authors' Transformational Leadership...
The First-Year Teacher's Survival Guide
Ready-to-Use Strategies, Tools & Activities for Meeting the Challenges of Each School Day
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
The Updated Fourth Edition of the Award-Winning Book that Offers Beginning Educators Everything They Need in Order to Survive and Thrive!
Designed for new educators, this award-winning book covers the basic strategies, activities, and tools teachers need to know in order to succeed in the classroom....
Drucker on Leadership
New Lessons from the Father of Modern Management
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2009
Although Peter Drucker, “The Father of Modern Management,” died in 2005, his timeless teachings are studied and practiced by forward-thinking managers worldwide. His lessons and wisdom on the topic of leadership—the central element of management—are in constant demand, yet he wrote little...
Transparency
How Leaders Create a Culture of Candor
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2010
In Transparency, the authors–a powerhouse trio in the field of leadership–look at what conspires against "a culture of candor" in organizations to create disastrous results, and suggest ways that leaders can achieve healthy and honest openness. They explore the lightning-rod concept...
When the Headline Is You
An Insider's Guide to Handling the Media
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2010
Proven strategies for managing all types of media encounters!
Award-winning journalist and Fortune 500 consultant Jeff Ansell provides a how-to guide for leaders, executives, and other professionals whose high-visibility requires frequent contact with the media. Drawing on nearly four decades...
The Power of Framing
Creating the Language of Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2010
Praise for The Power of Framing
"The primary work of leadership involves managing meaning through framing. Fairhurst shows that the way leaders use language to frame people, situations, and events has important consequences for the way individuals make sense of the world and their actions....