R L Education: 708 books
The Middle School Mind
Growing Pains in Early Adolescent Brains
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
This book is a must read for anyone in close proximity to middle schoolers. Using actual events from the lives of real teenagers, the authors (a middle school principal and a child neuropsychologist) combine perspectives to provide an engaging, light-hearted journey into the adventures and misadventures...
White Urban Teachers
Stories of Fear, Violence, and Desire
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
Stories of the lives of white teachers, as white teachers, too often simplify the complexities and conflicts of their work with students of color. Drawing on in-depth interviews with five white teachers, as well as on her own experiences, Audrey Lensmire provides generous, complex, and critical accounts...
by Craig R. Wood, David C. Thompson, Lawrence O. Picus
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2015
A must-read for anyone involved in school business management, this comprehensive textbook addresses a broad range of topics—from the basics of accounting principles to strategic planning, legal liability, taxation, purchasing, budgeting, and management information systems. Chapters focus on such...
The Cognitive Classroom
Using Brain and Cognitive Science to Optimize Student Success
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
The Cognitive Classroom describes how cutting-edge and classic research findings from the fields of brain science and cognitive psychology may be applied to classroom teaching. Using the perspective and expertise of an educational researcher originally trained as a neuroscientist, research findings...
Don't Gossip in the Teachers' Lounge
150 Tips for New Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
This book is vital for new teachers! Most of the tips in this book are not taught in education classes in college, but are learned through trial and error and only after years of experience.
This book will help the new teacher learn the inter-workings of school relationships, acquire classroom management...
by William L. Fibkins
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2011
This book address a major gap in the current mentoring programs at the secondary level. Staff development resources are often concentrated on helping new teachers be successful in their early school experience. Yes, a good idea, but a limited vision. Meanwhile many veteran teachers go without the...
Angel Teachers
Educators Who Care about Troubled Teens
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
We know teenagers face many developmental issues as they navigate their path into adult life. They sometimes find themselves heading towards the margins of school life because of academic failure, poor peer relations, acting out behaviors, school and home pressures. Problems that often lead to risky...
Stopping the Brain Drain of Skilled Veteran Teachers
Retaining and Valuing their Hard-Won Experience
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Veteran educators are being encouraged to take early retirement in order to create jobs for less-experienced, lower-paid novices. Veteran educators are not alone: early retirement promotions have become the norm for aging workers in America. Consequently, there is a brain-drain of skilled workers...
Before Conflict
Preventing Aggressive Behavior
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2002
In Before Conflict: Preventing Aggressive Behavior, John Byrnes gets to the heart of the concept of aggression prevention. Rather than look strictly at violence and all its implications_fatalities, crime, and assault_Byrnes instead chooses to look ahead, in order to prevent violence rather than simply...
Motivating Teen and Preteen Readers
How Teachers and Parents Can Lead the Way
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
Computer games, video games, Internet, iPods, DVDs, CDs, texting, social media, and surfing: No wonder reading has a hard time competing for adolescents' attention. Research studies find that interest in reading diminishes after the fourth grade and continues through high school. Throw in a testing...
Successful Schools
Achieving Excellence through STAR Theory
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2001
How can teachers ensure that every student who graduates is competent in subject matter and responsible in citizenship? Dan Kahler explains how, through the STAR theory: Successful Teachers Are Real. Not only are excellent teachers sound in pedagogy, they are genuine, empathetic, and have a high regard...
Barriers to Learning
The Case for Integrated Mental Health Services in Schools
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2010
A key concern for educators, administrators, professional support services personnel, parents and policy makers are barriers to learning, particularly student mental health. Statistics reveal that up to 20 percent of children and youth have mental health issues and up to 80 percent do not receive...
Schoolhouse Shams
Myths and Misinformation in School Reform
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2012
Written by a parent and school board member, who first embraced many of the ideas of the modern school reform movement, Schoolhouse Shams lays bare much of the mythology and misinformation that underpin many of the failed school reform policies of the last decade. Many of the top strategies of the...
by Larry Frase, Robert W. Hertzel
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2003
Management by wandering around (MBWA) is the catalyst that brings teachers, aides, parents, and administrators together in the pursuit of excellent schools. MBWA is an active person-to-person process that relies on deeds, involvement, and participation to create better schools. The leader who embraces...