Jossey Bass imprint: 1362 books
Power Mentoring
How Successful Mentors and Proteges Get the Most Out of Their Relationships
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2011
Written to reflect the realities of today’s business environment, Power Mentoring is a nuts-and-bolts guide for anyone who wants to create a connection with a protégé or mentor, or to improve a current mentoring relationship. Filled with illustrative examples and candid insights from fifty of...
Motivating and Retaining Online Students
Research-Based Strategies That Work
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
Finally, the first research-based book of sound strategies and best practices to help instructors motivate students to complete their online courses.
Although studies support the effectiveness of learning online, students often fail to complete online courses. Some studies have found that as...
by Katherine D. Perez
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012
Practical strategies for teachers who share classroom teaching responsibilities
Filled with down-to-earth ideas, suggestions, strategies, and techniques, The Co-Teaching Book of Lists provides educators with a hands-on resource for making the co-teaching experience a success. Written by educator...
Co-Teaching That Works
Structures and Strategies for Maximizing Student Learning
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2011
Guaranteed success for the co-taught classroom
For the increasing number of teachers working in co-taught classrooms, this book provides practical ideas for defining teacher roles, planning lessons, providing effective instruction, and maximizing the value of each team member. Former co-teacher...
Million-Dollar Hire
Build Your Bottom Line, One Employee at a Time
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2011
Tools for translating recruiting and hiring decisions into financial returns
Even in a down economy, U.S. business and government make millions of hiring decisions every year. Every decision carries risk. Every hire is an investment. Ideally, every one pays a return. In today's demanding environment,...
The Completely Revised Handbook of Coaching
A Developmental Approach
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2012
Praise for The Completely Revised HANDBOOK OF COACHING
"Pam McLean has written a jewel of a book. Its straightforward, easy-to-read style lays out an elegantly simple, effective, and agile coaching methodology. This will become a well-used ('dog-eared,' in the days before e-books) guidebook...
The Dyslexia Checklist
A Practical Reference for Parents and Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2009
Essential advice and resources for helping kids with dyslexia
The Dyslexia Checklist is a valuable guide for parents and teachers that can help them better understand children and teenagers with dyslexia and other reading- and language-based disabilities. The book relays the most current research...
The IEP from A to Z
How to Create Meaningful and Measurable Goals and Objectives
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2011
A truly comprehensive, teacher- and parent-friendly guide to creating clear and effective IEPs
With the skyrocketing diagnoses of ADHD, autism spectrum disorders, and related conditions in U.S. schools, there is a growing need for information on creating effective IEPs for exceptional students....
Effective Online Teaching
Foundations and Strategies for Student Success
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2011
Effective Online Teaching is an essential resource that offers a clear understanding of how cognition and learning theory applies to online learning. This much-needed resource provides specific strategies for incorporating this knowledge into effective learner-centered teaching that gets results....
by Bonnie S. Billingsley, Mary T. Brownell, Maya Israel
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2013
What every special education teacher needs to know to survive and thrive
A Survival Guide for New Special Educators provides relevant, practical information for new special education teachers across a broad range of topic areas. Drawing on the latest research on special educator effectiveness...
Leading School Turnaround
How Successful Leaders Transform Low-Performing Schools
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2010
Praise for Leading School Turnaround
"Going beyond their previous considerable work on the study of leadership, Kenneth Leithwood, Alma Harris, and Tiiu Strauss now get up-close and detailed. They use their powerful framework for how school leaders influence student learning, but this...
Documenting Learning with ePortfolios
A Guide for College Instructors
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2011
Documenting Learning with ePortfolios
Documenting Learning with ePortfolios provides higher education instructors with a theory-to-practice approach to understanding the pedagogy behind ePortfolios and to helping students use them to record and reflect on their learning in multiple contexts....
Social Marketing and Social Change
Strategies and Tools For Improving Health, Well-Being, and the Environment
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2013
How can we facilitate more effective, efficient, equitable and sustainable solutions to the problems that confound our communities and world? Social marketing guru R. Craig LeFebvre weaves together multi-level theories of change, research and case studies to explain and illustrate the development...
by Amanda Datnow, Vicki Park
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2014
Tools and techniques from the trailblazers in data-based education reform
Over a period of several years, Amanda Datnow and Vicki Park visited public schools with a reputation for being ahead of the pack in data-driven decision making. The results of this pioneering study reveal how education...