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Education for the Human Brain
A Road Map to Natural Learning in Schools
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2013
Education for the Human Brain: A Road Map for Natural Learning in Schools is an all inclusive book on understanding and implementing a natural and brain-compatible instructional strategy from early childhood to adult learners. It informs the reader on the science, motivates the reader with the evidence...
by Rosemary S. Callard-Szulgit, EdD, University at Buffalo; author
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
Parents and educators expect gifted children to be well-behaved, studious, and hard working. Why, then, do so many have trouble in school? According to Dr. Rosemary Callard-Szulgit, perfectionism—the number one social-emotional trait of gifted children—can actually immobilize some children and...
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...
Using Humor to Maximize Learning
The Links between Positive Emotions and Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
What is humor exactly? How do you use it to maximize learning? If it is so important, why is it rarely mentioned in teacher preparation without some clues for finding and using it? The purpose of this book is to affirm, sustain, and encourage educators in the practice of humor not only as a personal...
Educator or Bully?
Managing the 21st Century Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2011
Educator or Bully? offers a comprehensive approach to classroom management for both novice and veteran teachers who are interested in examining their current classroom management performance, especially with respect to how it reflects the characteristics of the 21st century classroom. Practices presented...
The Human Touch in Education Leadership
A Postpositivist Approach to Understanding Educational Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2003
Palestini advances a new theory of educational leadership seen through the dual lens of critical theory and the Ignatian vision and its practical implications. A truly novel approach, the author strives to acquaint administrators and students of educational administration with a different way of thinking...
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...
Differentiated Instruction
Meeting the Needs of All Students In Your Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2003
Drawing upon her extensive experience and numerous national presentations, author Marcie Nordlund shares her ideas, creativity, and proven methods of differentiated instruction to help teachers reach each student. Divided into 10 chapters, this book deals with topics ranging from general methods of...
by Gregory P. Hickman, Randy S. Heinrich
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2011
For years, we have considered school dropout rates as a problem occurring at the high-school level. However, this is actually an issue that originates and develops in elementary school. In Do Children Drop Out of School in Kindergarten? Gregory Hickman and Randy Heinrich show how high school dropouts...
Capping Costs
Putting a Price Tag on School Reform
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
Early and recent school reformers demanded greater funding. They insisted that they needed it to protect children, the economy, and the nation. This book uses the case method to analyze the budgets that they proposed, the rhetoric that they employed, and the resistance that they encountered.
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...
Preventing Disruptive Behavior in Colleges
A Campus and Classroom Management Handbook for Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Over 50 percent of KD12 teachers leave the profession in four years due to classroom discipline problems. Unfortunately, with pressure to pass these students on, with colleges' dire needs for admissions and financial pressures, and with the often rough culture of adolescence, higher education teachers/professors...