R L Education: 708 books
Surviving Internal School Politics
Strategies for Dealing with the Internal Dynamics
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2012
This book provides readers with the basic coping strategies of surviving within the political arena of their schools. If educators want to survive, they should read this book and find practical strategies from those who have collectively worked within the school setting for over 75 years—voices...
by Evelyn Hunt Ogden
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 1997
A long-term bestseller, this book is a pragmatic step-by-step guide to completing you dissertation or thesis during two semesters, in fifty workdays or less. It covers advisor and topic selection, proposal development, data collection and organization, available assistance, writing, and defense. The...
From Student to Professor
Translating a Graduate Degree into a Career in Academia
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
From Student to Professor is the doorway through which readers experience graduate school life, from both sides of the lectern. This guide not only discusses how students may adjust to- and succeed in graduate school, but comprehensively prepares such students to apply their degrees in academia.
Providing...
Quality Human Resources Leadership
A Principal's Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2000
Marrying theory and practice, this volume will help principals to maximize human potential, promote quality educational outcome, and practice effective leadership skills. This practical, research-based book provides case studies and addresses the more recent responsibilities and demands placed on...
by Jerry L. Patterson
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
An expanded, updated version of 1997's Coming Clean About Organizational Change, this version contains 50 percent new references and 40 percent new content including chapters on organizational culture, resilience, new conceptual frameworks on organizational change, and zones of individual performance....
Commonsense Questions about Instruction
The Answers Can Provide Essential Steps to Improvement
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
Parents want teachers to explain how they instruct children. They become annoyed when the teachers are silent or surly. Parents counter with explicit, common sense questions: how do teachers arouse interest, design curricula, reinforce discipline, assign grades, designate textbooks, and select technology?...
Individualized Learning with Technology
Meeting the Needs of High School Students
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2013
Today we are moving into an Information Revolution that is every bit as life altering as the previous Industrial Revolution. Students must now stay in school longer, and achieve at a much higher rate than in the past. But high school students can benefit from adult learning and instructional design...
The Myth of Accountability
What Don't We Know?
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012
School improvement that is reliant on accountability is a myth based upon falsehoods and wrong assumptions. Public educations’ increased dependence on this foundation for school reform and change has failed both students and teachers. The fact remains that people who create education policy do not...
It's All About People Skills
Surviving Challenges in the Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
Teaching, like many service professions, requires the appropriate interpersonal skills. Although academic expertise is, and always will be, the foundation of instruction, educators must be able to translate their knowledge both affectively and effectively in order to better inform their students....
Corporate to Classroom
A Career-Switcher's Guide to Teaching
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2012
Out there in the vast community of new teachers, there are career-switchers wondering why they left Egypt (their last jobs), only to be miserable in the desert (their first year or so teaching). The high turnover rate suggests that many new teachers lose focus on the promised land (successful, educated...
Foundations of Modern School Practices
A Sourcebook of Educational Wisdom
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2011
This is a book is of educational ideas, commentaries, and observations from the past. The passages recorded here come from educational writings that were produced between 1880 and 1935—a time period that began with spirited calls for school reform and ended with a new and different concept of what...
Read and Succeed
Practices to Support Reading Skills in African American Boys
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
Recent national achievement data reveal significant outcome disparities between African American boys and other student groups by grade 4. This issue has drawn much attention from teachers, parents, researchers, and policy makers all across the United States of America.
African American boys are not...
Teaching the Way Students Learn
Practical Applications for Putting Theories into Action
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
How do students truly learn? What is the best way to teach? Where do you go for help? Every day, you face the challenge of engaging students in learning, often to disappointing results. This book provides a myriad of voices at your side supporting you with sound educational philosophy and practical...
Travel On and On
Interdisciplinary Lessons on the Music of World Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2010
Incorporate the music of our global community into your classroom with Travel On and On: Interdisciplinary Lessons on the Music of World Cultures. With both traditional and newly composed music and material from other content areas, each ready-to-use lesson plan has an interdisciplinary approach to...