R L Education imprint: 708 books
Hidden Dangers
Subtle Signs of Failing Schools
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
The Hidden Dangers in our schools have grown and intensified over the last few years; so much so that I was compelled to write a second edition to Hidden Dangers: Subtle Signs of Failing Schools. Our schools are complex places; each with its own unique climate, administration, faculty, students, parents...
Pivot Principal
A Principal's Guide to Excellence
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2014
This book will guide the reader to develop a personal leadership style for entrepreneurial success. The practical strategies and implementation notes will guide the reader to define a personal success style, promote team support and keep life in balance while working in a position that can feel chaotic...
Creating a Successful Leadership Style
Principles of Personal Strategic Planning
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2011
Creating a Successful Leadership Style gives practical applications supported by real experiences. It presents the actual situations a principal or assistant principal faces on a day-to-day basis and provides strategies to address them. These strategies derive from a leadership style that is people...
Getting and Keeping New Teachers
Six Essential Steps from Recruitment to Retention
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2009
Retaining new teachers has never been easy and when the teachers are on the fast track in urban settings, turnover and retention are real problems. This book examines how schools can work to recruit, support, and somehow hold on to new teachers, many of whom have only limited formal preparation and...
Writing Creatively
A Guided Journal to Using Literary Devices
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
Holding thought loops, metaphoric maneuvers, startling juxtaposition, and clever catachresis, a guided journal allows students of the art of discourse a place to test the waters before leaving safe harbor.
Nancy Dafoe’s guided journal is designed to complement her book Breaking Open the**Box:...
Betwixt and Between
Understanding and Meeting the Social and Emotional Development Needs of Students During the Middle School Transition Years
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2014
Educators, parents, and those who work with middle school students in various settings will find this book to be a valuable addition to their library. Early adolescence is a time of tremendous change with the potential for positive development in the academic, social, and emotional domains; yet, often...
Emergent Teaching
A Path of Creativity, Significance, and Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2013
Emergent Teaching inspires teachers to teach with more spontaneity and creativity within an educational environment that is highly constrained. It demonstrates, through descriptive stories, creative strategies and provides an intellectual foundation for emergent teaching. The authors show how teachers...
Engaging All Families
Creating a Positive School Culture by Putting Research Into Practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2003
Families are a child's first and best teachers. A significant amount of research exists that strongly links the engagement of families in the educational lives of their children as a strong foundation to the successful achievement of all students. Educators cannot expect total engagement and high...
Sexual Misconduct in Children
An Intervention Model That Works in Schools and Communities
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2013
Concerning sexual behavior in children can be challenging to understand, difficult to talk about, and hard to manage in school and community settings. Without a systematic best-practice approach for addressing these behaviors, communities run the risk of exposing their children to harm and their organizations...
Teaching What Can't Be Taught
The Shaman's Strategy
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2002
The current educational culture of standards, accountability, and creeping educational capitalism finds teachers increasingly teaching laundry lists of facts and skills. Less attention is being paid to the 'big picture' or worldview. Author David Rigoni offers an alternative perspective. Using a shaman...
Get a Teaching Job NOW
A Step-by-Step Guide
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2013
There ARE jobs for teachers, and this step-by-step guide will help college students and career changers find those jobs and get them. Whether you seek a job as a substitute teacher or full-time pre-school, elementary, middle, or high school teacher, the strategies needed to win a job are here.
The...
The Use of Literary Sources in Social Studies, K-8
Techniques for Teachers to Include Literature in Instruction
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
The Use of Literary Sources in Social Studies, K-8 is a resource for teachers who wish to include varied literary genres in their social studies instruction along with a required social studies textbook. The literature described and exemplified in this book includes fiction, nonfiction, biographies,...
Children in Crisis
Violence, Victims, and Victories
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
Today's world creates challenges that are overwhelming for so many kids and their families. Living without the necessary supports and sometimes the basics forces kids to go out and seek what they believe they need to survive. Many have become throwaway s and move to the streets and the underbelly...
by Susan Chenelle, Audrey Fisch
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
The new Common Core State Standards mean major changes for language arts teachers, particularly the emphasis on “informational text.” How do we shift attention toward informational texts without taking away from the teaching of literature?
The key is informational texts deeply connected...