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Building a Bridge to Success
From Program Improvement to Excellence
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2010
Principals want all students to bridge the achievement gap. Sometimes they just don't know how to make it happen. This book looks at what successful principals do to close the achievement gap and move their schools from one that needs improvement to one that is succeeding for all students. With current...
Breaking Away from the Textbook
Creative Ways to Teach World History
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2011
Teaching history should not simply be an endless recitation of irrelevant facts, entombed between the covers of a textbook. Instead, Breaking Away from the Textbook offers a fascinating journey through world history. Not a comprehensive, theory-heavy guide, this book instead focuses on exciting classroom...
I Don't Get It
Helping Students Understand What They Read
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2011
Literacy continues to be a hot topic for educators and parents. I Don't Get It! Helping Students Understand What They Read is a practical, easy-to-use resource for classroom teachers and literacy coaches. Parents will also find the information helpful as they assist their children with homework and...
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...
by John D. Merrifield
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2001
What does the term 'school choice' mean to you? Opponents of parental choice have muddied its definition, misleading parents and educators and drawing public debate away from the core issues. In a book geared for anyone who wants to better understand this hotly contested topic, Merrifield clarifies...
Preserving the Public in Public Schools
Visions, Values, Conflicts, and Choices
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2011
What's public about public schools? Why do we invest in educating the next generation of Americans? What is it that drives our common purpose in educating children and at the same time divides us so passionately about how to educate them? Public schools have little to do with children. Schools are...
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...
Educational Leadership at 2050
Conjectures, Challenges, and Promises
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2012
This is a practical, bold, no-holds barred look at challenges facing educational leaders and the university programs that prepare them through mid-century. It examines key continuities and discontinuities of current times for school, education, and society. Both practice and preparation occur in contested...
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...
by Robert Evert Cimera
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2002
Educating students with disabilities is a team process. By federal law, parents must be involved in the development of their child's educational plan. Unfortunately, few parents (or regular educators) understand special education_its terms, philosophies, and processes. This book explains, in layperson...