R L Education: 708 books
Rethinking Teaching
Classroom Teachers as Collaborative Leaders in Making Learning Relevant
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Let’s face it: learning is a high-stakes venture. True learning — the kind that stays with students long after the grades are in — requires risk. Ownership. Change. But what does it look like for students to really understand your subject? How can you structure assignments so that Googling becomes...
Innovative Ideas for School Business Officials
Best Practices from ASBO's Pinnacle Awards
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2003
School business officials are known for their innovative, meaningful contributions to the improvement of their profession and the efficiency of school entities. The ASBO International Pinnacle Awards were established to recognize outstanding practices and new ideas that result in significant contributions...
School Finance Elections
A Comprehensive Planning Model for Success
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2010
Whether it is requests for bricks and mortar or more operating money, each election type and context is unique with no guarantee that a set of campaign strategies_successful in one district_will not fail in another community. If successful campaigns were not such a delicate balance of science and...
Selecting a Basal Reading Program
Making the Right Choice
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 1989
This book capitalizes on the authors' longitudinal perspective in program development in approaching a K-12 reading strategy, The school administrator and classroom teacher will find the book's guidelines right to the point. They hit the key issues involved in selecting a reading program: from forming...
Clues to Achieving Consensus
A Leader's Guide to Navigating Collaborative Problem Solving
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2005
Here is a step-by-step guide to effective action in school districts, agencies, companies, organizations, and communities by using consensus decision-making. This book is based on the advice of experienced public and private leaders and participants who have used consensus approaches to solve problems...
by Paul D. Houston, Doug Eadie
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2002
The Board-Savvy Superintendent's hard-hitting, no-nonsense, advice on school board leadership capitalizes on Houston and Eadie's hands-on experience working with hundreds of boards and superintendents over the past quarter-century. It is a practical, survive-and-thrive book that will help school district...
by Oran Tkatchov, Michele Pollnow
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
A Practical Guide to Teaching and Learning contains a compilation of fifteen main ideas or concepts that will help teachers to become better at what they do to help learners reach their potential. Each concept is a common sense approach that is backed by research and provides an understanding of what...
Boards that Matter
Building Blocks for Implementing Coherent Governance' and Policy Governance'
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2011
The challenge of governing a complex organization is difficult enough in itself, without layering on top of that challenge the struggle to make the board's own operating system seem natural and meaningful. Making Your Governance Model Work is a practical guide that takes the mystery out of that process....
Marketing 101
How Smart Schools Get and Keep Community Support
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2011
Marketing 101: How Smart Schools Get and Keep Community Support is a compact, practical handbook created to guide educators in the application of marketing strategies that get results. For many years, marketing has been implemented in school settings with a fragmented, piecemeal approach_only to have...
Executive Intelligence
The Leader's Edge
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
Executive Intelligence zeros in on leadership smarts and notes that in all lists compiled by leadership experts, head hunters, and boards of directors the one and only trait that appears in all is intelligence. Obvious? No, because typically leadership savvy regularly trumps smarts. That is unfortunate...
by Irving H. Buchen
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
The Hybrid Leader brings a whole new perspective to the theoretical framework of leadership development. Buchen challenges the conventional wisdom of leadership as singular and fixed forever. He claims that leaders at all stages in fact change and adapt; and if they don't then—and only then—is...
by Stephen G. Barkley, Terri Bianco
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2010
This book expands on the framework established in the original volume of Quality Teaching in a Culture of Coaching. It provides many examples that can be incorporated into any educational environment. It outlines the why, who, what, and how of a sound coaching program. The new edition adds sections...
Shaping the Future with Math, Science, and Technology
Solutions and Lesson Plans to Prepare Tomorrows Innovators
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2011
Shaping the Future with Math, Science, and Technology examines how ingenuity, creativity, and teamwork skills are part of an intellectual toolbox associated with math, science, and technology. The book provides new ideas, proven processes, practical tools, and examples useful to educators who want...
Improving Test Scores in Five Easy Steps
The Silver Bullet
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2010
The chapters in this book outline a plan that, if followed, will improve test scores in any school district. The amount of improvement is determined by various variables, including present level of achievement, previous implementation of some of these concepts, the level of implementation, the vision...