R L Education: 708 books
by Teresa Coffman
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Engaging Students through Inquiry-Oriented Learning and Technology is designed for anyone interested in integrating both inquiry and technology as a tool into a teaching and learning environment. This book will provide easy to follow step by step procedures to both plan and create an inquiry activity...
Writing with At-Risk Youth
The Pongo Teen Writing Method
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2014
This book describes a specific program for teaching and mentoring expressive writing by at-risk youth—a program that can generate transformative change in the teens, and generate significant new satisfactions for you. When young people write personally and creatively, it helps them to overcome challenges...
Story Power
Breathing Life into History
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2011
Not every teacher loves history and the same can be said about students. It doesn't have to be that way. People love a good story. History is a collection of stories that trace the path people, famous and little known, took as they faced the challenges of life. The choices they made teach us about...
Value and Validity in Action Research
A Guidebook for Reflective Practitioners
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2003
As more teachers undertake action research projects, serious questions need to be raised about the value and validity of these projects. How can teachers ensure that their results are valid? Are teachers drawing conclusions supported by data? The purpose of this book is to guide teachers through the...
Learn to Think and Write
A Paradigm for Teaching Grades 4-8, Advanced Levels
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2011
The EPILLAW Paradigm is a practical method for developing writing skills. It consists of an original nine-level taxonomy and sequential methodology of listening, speaking, writing and reading. In this method, the development of writing precedes the development of reading. The work consists of two...
Designing School Systems for All Students
A Toolbox to Fix America's Schools
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2009
Designing School Systems for All Students provides a clear methodology for school leaders, teachers, and school board members to follow as they redesign their schools for the benefit of students. The authors demonstrate how school leaders set the expectations for all students to learn and grow as...
by Gloria E. Jacobs
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2011
Writing Instruction for Generation 2.0 addresses many of the concerns teachers have about the impact of the digital world on student writing and suggests ways for teachers to approach these issues within a 21st century literacies framework. This book is not about teaching the writing process, running...
Educational Administration
Leading with Mind and Heart
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2005
Educational Administration: Leading with Mind and Heart, 2nd edition takes an organization-development approach to producing effective leadership. Picture yourself standing in the middle of a dense forest. Suppose you were asked to describe the characteristics of the forest; what types of trees are...
The At-Risk Student
Answers for Educators
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 1994
An excellent resource that should be on the desk of every student assistant professional as well as every administrator. It gives step-by-step procedures in identifying high risk students who are a challenge for our schools.
by Alice Healy Sesno
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2011
In this book, Alice Healy Sesno's experience as a counselor and administrator provides powerful insights to both counselors and administrators. Start right, stay right, and build a distinguished counseling program in your school. Avoid the mistakes that can put an essential service in jeopardy. Discover...
Leadership Standards in Action
The School Principal as Servant-Leader
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2011
Leadership Standards for Action: The School Principal as Servant-Leader is a powerful resource for aspiring principals, practicing principals, district leadership, and university faculty. The book responsibly unpacks the metaphor of principal as servant leader to the school’s people and purpose....
The Flourishing Principal
Strategies for Self-Renewal
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
The work of a school principal is a blend of nonstop demands, heart-opening connections, near-constant stress, passionate commitment, and a merry jumble of projects that flop or flourish. It’s easy to forget that the principal’s own health and harmony are among the things that also need attention.
In...
Teaching Challenging Texts
Fiction, Non-fiction, and Multimedia
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2013
Teaching Challenging Texts shows how to increase reading comprehension and enhance student engagement, even with the most challenging texts. Every chapter features ready-to-use, research-based lessons, replete with explicit instructions, handouts, Common Core correlations, and assessments.
"Exploring...
Going Back to the Future
A Leadership Journey for Educators
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2011
It was Edmund Burke, the British Statesman and philosopher, who said that those who don't know history are destined to repeat it. In this book, at least as far as educational leadership is concerned, Robert Palestini helps ensure that we do not fall into the trap of ignoring history. Dr. Palestini...