R L Education: 708 books
Reaching an Understanding
Innovations in How We View Reading Assessment
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2012
Reaching an Understanding: Innovations in How We View Reading Assessment builds upon the editors previous book Measuring Up: Advances in How We Assess Reading Ability by representing some early attempts to apply theory to help guide the development of new assessments and measurement models. Reaching...
Creating Brain-friendly Classrooms
Practical Instructional Strategies for Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2002
Educators have an incredible opportunity to influence the development of neural pathways within the brain of each student. Biller's guide to brain-friendly learning promotes an understanding of how the neuroscience discoveries of the past decade can be applied in today's classrooms. His four-step...
Journey to a High-Achieving School
Eliminate Destructive Excuses
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013
Journey to a High-Achieving School: Eliminate Destructive Excuses examines the range of devastating excuses often expressed for failure to attain significant improvement in our schools. Using the methods of systems thinking and leadership practices that are employed in high-performing organizations...
Transforming Early Learners into Superb Readers
Promoting Literacy at School, at Home, and within the Community
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2012
Transforming Early Learners into Superb Readers: Promoting Literacy at School, at Home, and within the Community aids elementary educators, reading specialists, school administrators, private and public educators, parents, and caregivers who want to help early learners become proficient readers. The...
Reality Calling
The Story of a Principal’s First Semester
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2013
Crafted from authentic experiences shared by principals, Reality Calling: The Story of a Principal’s First Semester reveals fictional Principal Joe Gentry’s first few months on the job. We see his efforts to establish relationships with students, staff and community, handle unexpected (and sometimes...
Responsive Curriculum Design in Secondary Schools
Meeting the Diverse Needs of Students
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2001
More than ever before, as they teach to an increasingly diverse population, educators need a clear, concise guide to designing and implementing responsive curriculum. This book, built around the lessons of classroom teachers, provides the 'how' of instruction design. The first section identifies the...
by Perry A. Zirkel, Zorka Koranxha
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2009
Student teaching is the key phase in the preparation of the professional instructional personnel of the nation's schools. Yet, the burgeoning literature of education law lacks a comprehensive and current source specific to student teaching. This volume fills that gap. The first part of this volume...
Wake Up Counselors!
Restoring Counseling Services for Troubled Teens
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2013
Providing individual and group counseling for secondary school students was once a major priority for secondary school counselors. However, many guidance programs have abandoned this role, and counselors have become quasi-administrators who spend most of their time scheduling students for classes,...
The New American School
Breaking the Mold
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 1995
The New American School will emerge from the ashes of the old. An underlying premise of the present book is that such a rebirth will occur in the process of restructuring. Restructuring in education is the designing, staffing, programming, and building of the school around learning, the central function...
by Thomas F. Evert, Amy E. Van Deuren
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2011
School board members and superintendents face the reality of providing all students access to a quality education and carefully requesting and allocating public funds to finance excellent educational opportunities. One of the key resources available to boards and superintendents are external experts...
Burning Cash
How Costly Public School Failures have Charred the American Dream
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
With the Common Core poised to markedly amplify the accountability stakes in public education, the pressure to post steep outcomes gains has never been fiercer. Unsurprisingly, flashy and expensive school improvement initiatives that promise quick fix solutions have become pervasively en vogue across...
The Wireless Age
Its Meaning for Learning and Schools
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2002
Whether you're an Internet guru, novice web-surfer, or lost in the digital world, The Wireless Age will give you insight into the gold mine of educational resources on the web. Cutting through the usual technical jargon, Breck demonstrates how anyone can utilize the Internet for education. At the...
College Presidents Reflect
Life in and out of the Ivory Tower
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
College presidents lead taxing and complex, though enormously fulfilling and rewarding, lives. The story that unfolds in College Presidents Reflect: Life in and out of the Ivory Tower is fashioned from the perspectives of over two-dozen retired former college presidents. The over-their-shoulders view...
Resistant Students
Reach Me Before You Teach Me
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Resistant Learners: Reach Me Before You Teach Me focuses on those students whose behavior limits their learning and challenges their teachers while perhaps interrupting the learning cycle of their peers. Each chapter explains the theoretical and research background for each topic. Most importantly,...