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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...
A Wake Up Call for Schools
A New Order in Public Education
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2010
In the United States, 30 percent of students drop out of school prior to graduation. Unrest is evidenced as stakeholders in education wrestle concurrently with financial restraints, changing student demographics, and escalating accountability expectations for achievement. Patricia Anne Duncan Parrish's...
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...
Teaching Writing in the Middle School
Common Core and More
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2013
More than 670,000 middle school teachers (grades 6-8) are responsible for educating nearly 13 million students in public and private schools. Thousands more teachers join these ranks annually, especially in the South and West, where ethnic populations are ballooning. Teachers and administrators seek...
The HM Learning and Study Skills Program
Level 2: Student Text
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
The hm Learning and Study Skills Program: Level II was designed to provide an introduction to learning and study skills for 8th, 9th, and 10th grade students through a series of activity-oriented units. It is structured on the assumption that an activity-oriented lesson is the most effective instructional...
Mentoring Matters
A Toolkit for Organizing and Operating Student Advisory Programs
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2011
As schools are trying to connect with their students and assure that every student has an adult mentor in the building, the need for school-based mentoring programs could not be
by Jane Bumpers Huffman, Kristine Kiefer Hipp, Shirley M. Hord
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2003
This important work documents and examines evidence of efforts taking place in rural, urban, and suburban Pre-K-12 schools that are actively engaged in creating professional learning communities (PLCs). Literature is reviewed that defines and identifies the distinguishing dimensions of PLCs. A five-year,...
Understanding Poverty in the Classroom
Changing Perceptions for Student Success
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2011
People who live in poverty consider life in different ways than those who have adequate basic resources. Many educators tend to see the world through their middle-class worldview. Because of this, they do not understand these significant and often rational differences. They may misinterpret behavior...
Mentoring the Educational Leader
A Practical Framework for Success
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2011
This book provides short, pertinent content relevant to everyday events within a school. Based on theory and experience, the practical application is directly aligned to administrative duties, and chapters can be read as needed. The format allows the administrator to read the content, apply the information...
Internships for Today's World
A Practical Guide for High Schools and Community Colleges
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
Educators and employers are increasingly concerned that too many young people do not have the skills needed to succeed as they enter the world of work and higher education. A well-structured, robust internship can help students build those critical work and life skills. Under the protective umbrella...
What Works!
Successful Writing Strategies for National Board Certification
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2014
WHAT WORKS! offers dozens of writing strategies to clearly and convincingly explain your teaching practice to the National Board Assessors. Writing for the National Board is a type of technical writing teachers rarely use elsewhere and this book lifts the mysterious fog surrounding how to provide...
by Robert N. Kratz, Charles A. Scott, Harry T. Zechman
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 1998
Does the prospect of preparing your school district's budget seem daunting? Beginning school administrators, often having only one theoretical course on the subject under their belt, see the budget development process as a nightmare. New administrators, teachers, and board members who have little...
Finding the Time for Instructional Leadership
Management Strategies for Strengthening the Academic Program
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2010
Finding the Time for Instructional Leadership is centered on the principalship and is designed to offer busy school leaders time management strategies for finding the time to be genuine instructional leaders. Leonard provides a set of tactics_called keys_that will guide readers' reflection on the...
Educational Genocide
A Plague on Our Children
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2010
Across our country educational policies and practices are killing our students' desire to learn and teachers' passion to teach. The central theme of this book is that high-stakes testing is having a critically deleterious effect on our students. The fallout impacts parents, teachers, schools, districts...