R L Education imprint: 708 books
Making Classroom Inquiry Work
Techniques for Effective Action Research
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2010
Teachers are the single most important element in helping every child succeed in school. Making Classroom Inquiry Work: Techniques for Effective Action Research is designed to serve those who wish to delve deeper into their action research or as leaders in teacher research and reflective practice....
Advancing Your Career
Getting and Making the Most of Your Doctorate
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
Entering a doctoral program can be an important first step in advancing your career. You will create a network of support that will include professors, intern advisors, and others who will have a vested interest in your success. From this support group will emerge one or more mentors who will guide...
Navigating the New Pedagogy
Six Principles that Transform Teaching
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2011
In the early 21st Century, a new vision for classroom practice emerged that looks very different from the teaching that existed previously. This new teaching is a synthesis of effective curriculum, big ideas, nurturing relationships, differentiated instruction, appropriate assessment, teaching to...
First Time in the College Classroom
A Guide for Teaching Assistants, Instructors, and New Professors at All Colleges and Universities
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2010
People who teach in higher education are subject matter specialists, but they often have little preparation in how to teach. This book presents the knowledge base of college teaching in a user-friendly, easy-to-read, yet well-researched format. From sample syllabi to the creation of an effective grading...
Learning Communities 2.0
Educating in the Age of Empowerment
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2010
Learning Communities 2.0 is an insightful, incisive, and paradigm-shifting critique of today's coercive, 'inside-the-box,' Industrial Age testing and accountability movement, which authors Spady and Schwahn describe as a politically driven, backward-facing juggernaut masquerading as reform. They call...
by John Elling Tufte
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Crazy-Proofing High School Sports examines the often troubling high school sports phenomenon in two parts. Part one focuses on the problems facing educators, students, and parents as they struggle to make high school sports worthwhile. Few if any strategies for improvement in education are effective...
Engaging Musical Practices
A Sourcebook for Middle School General Music
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
Middle school general music may be a student’s last encounter with school music. A practical book with accessible pedagogical resources on middle school general music is needed for methods courses and music practitioners' use. The book Engaging Musical Practices: A Sourcebook for Middle School General...
Re-Awakening the Learner
Creating Learner-Centric, Standards-Driven Schools
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
Transformation of public education requires the reawakening of the sleeping giant in the room: the learners. Students, teachers, and principals must develop a learner-centric, standards-driven school. Reawakening the Learner is a guide to creating just such an environment. Continua describe the journey...
Witnessing Whiteness
The Need to Talk About Race and How to Do It
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2010
Witnessing Whiteness invites readers to consider what it means to be white, describes and critiques strategies used to avoid race issues, and identifies the detrimental effect of avoiding race on cross-race collaborations. The author illustrates how racial discomfort leads white people toward poor...
Rubric Assessment Goes to College
Objective, Comprehensive Evaluation of Student Work
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2013
On campuses across the United States and beyond, schools of business, education, law, liberal arts, management, medical professions, pharmacy, and physical or social sciences are beginning to use assessment rubrics for purposes of formative and summative evaluation. A concise yet comprehensive guide...
Excuse Me, Your Participle's Dangling
How to Use Grammar to Make Your Writing Powers Soar
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Excuse Me, Your Participle’s Dangling will give you all the bare essentials of grammar that you need to write like a pro. The book also offers a simple yet foolproof method of writing under pressure, the key to success in any college program or workplace. If you’re a businessperson, college student,...
Faulty Assumptions
Taking Custody of Your Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2013
Why do some students thumb their nose at a good education, disrupt everyone’s day at every turn, and pretty much subject themselves to a lifetime of compromise and want? This unique book is based on a decade of hands on experience and research dealing with thousands of students in regular education,...
Teachers As Owners
A Key to Revitalizing Public Education
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2002
'What if teachers were owners, not employees?' Teacher-ownership is a revolutionary way to put excitement and meaning back into the teaching profession and to revitalize public education. This book demonstrates how being an owner rather than an employee can give teachers control of their professional...
The War against Excellence
The Rising Tide of Mediocrity in America's Middle Schools
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2005
Here, veteran teacher Cheri Pierson Yecke details the chronological history of the middle school movement in the U. S. by tracing its evolution from academically-oriented junior high schools to the dissolution of academics in the middle schools of the late 1980s and beyond. In this book, evidence...