R L Education imprint: 708 books
Building the Best Faculty
Strategies for Hiring and Supporting New Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 1999
Why not improve your recruiting techniques and staff development strategies? Clement describes realistic yet simple hiring strategies ranging from performing the initial interviews to making the final hiring decision. She also outlines the importance of maintaining a continuing support structure for...
Teaching Difficult Students
Blue Jays in the Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2004
Here is an easy-to-read and inspiring text that explores the nature of young people and the effects traditional discipline strategies have on them. The author recommends humanistic approaches that promote personal growth in students rather than the common system of reward and punishment that aggravates...
by Michael F. DiPaola, James H. Stronge
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2004
Superintendent evaluation is a unique process that is often neglected but critical in this era of accountability. This invaluable guide provides an overview of the entire process, including: crafting board policy, criteria for good policy, and prototype policy. It identifies the unique challenges...
Success in the Superintendency
Tips and Advice
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2010
Success in the Superintendency will help new and aspiring superintendents gain meaningful, practical information from award winning, experienced superintendents. The book's ten chapters cover topics identifiable to every superintendent_no matter how many years experience he or she has on the job....
Gaining on the Gap
Changing Hearts, Minds, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2011
Gaining on the Gap: Changing Hearts, Minds, and Practice serves as a guide along the journey taken by six individuals who each played a role in moving a school system along a path where race would not be a predictor for academic success. Join us as we share insights to challenges and victories as well as a close look at our own personal and professional growth.
Good Day, Bad Day
Teaching as a High-Wire Act
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2005
Here is the story of how Ken Winograd grappled with the uncertainties and contradictions of teaching and, in the process, began to understand himself as teacher. Winograd contends that it is crucial that teachers, especially beginning teachers, examine and reflect on the inevitable complexities of...
Vocabulary in Action
Lessons from Great Literacy Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2012
This book will take you into the classrooms of great literacy teachers from around the United States who have designed successful vocabulary instruction for their grades K-6 classrooms. Each teacher will share vocabulary routines that he or she uses on a regular basis, including his or her favorite,...
Healthy Schools
The Hidden Component of Teaching and Learning
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2013
Creating conditions for better teaching and learning to occur has become an important responsibility for today’s school leaders. Principals must attend to building and sustaining healthy school cultures.
The authors take the reader on a journey through several different situations that occur at...
The Importance of Using Primary Sources in Social Studies, K-8
Guidelines for Teachers to Utilize in Instruction
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2014
This two-part book provides teachers in kindergarten through grade eight with a valuable resource as how to include primary sources in a social studies curriculum along with a required social studies textbook. The first section of this book contains descriptions with relevant examples of primary documents...
From the Classroom to the Office
The School AdministratorOs Guide to a Successful First Year
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2009
The first year of a new leader's tenure is a critical time period. If an administrator begins their position by taking certain actions while avoiding others, he or she will get off to a positive start. This positive start leads to momentum and an increased probability of success. In this book, an...
by H. E. Holliday
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
One of America's greatest challenges is to reverse the steep decline of the intellectual performance of its young men. The dramatic increase in violent acts and the downward spiral of high stakes testing in our schools has confirmed that many of our young men have lost hope or simply given up. Reconnecting,...
by Raymond Lemley
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2004
Based on 40 years of experience, author, Raymond Lemley, provokes thinking in this guide that addresses the ground level, mundane issues that confound principals daily. The book offers simple yet provocative answers to the befuddling things that require the principal's attention and demand the principal's...
Competency-Based Leadership
A Guide for High Performance in the Role of the School Principal
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2013
Competency-Based Leadership is intended for school leaders that currently are serving as practitioners in the field. In addition, those individuals who aspire to a career in the principalship also will find the information of special value. The primary purpose of the book is to provide practicing...
The Principal's Guide to Instructional Improvement
Theory to Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2012
Beginning with an abridged history of administrative and clinical supervision, The Principal's Guide to Instructional Improvement offers principals both background information, as well as comprehensive models and examples, to analyze and improve teacher instruction. Based on the principle of teacher...