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Breaking Away from the Math and Science Book
Physics and Other Projects for Grades 3-12
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2003
Breaking Away from the Math and Science Book: Physics and Other Projects for Grades 3-12 provides materials that teachers can use directly in their classrooms without expensive or specialized equipment. The material is presented in a modular format that allows one to adapt it to different levels of...
Planning in Reverse
A Viable Approach to Organizational Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2011
Planning in Reverse is an innovative concept designed to make organizations more successful by altering the perspective utilized in the strategy process. What is needed for organizations to thrive in this new environment of change and uncertainty is a short-term approach for long-term viability. In...
by Roy A. Edelfelt, James Dr. Raths
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2004
With the current emphasis on standards in the schools, one may think that this is a new phenomenon. However, as this pamphlet clearly demonstrates, while standards in American schools have a long history dating back to Reconstruction, the recommendations for what is needed to improve teacher education...
A Glorious Revolution for Youth and Communities
Service-Learning and Model Communities
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2010
A Glorious Revolution integrates the ideas of service-learning, positive youth development, and model communities into a book with a comprehensive message about making communities more democratic. Specifically, the book argues that through service-learning an educator can teach higher-order thinking,...
Changing Attitudes and Behavior
Practice Makes Permanent
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2012
Changing Attitudes and Behavior: Practice Makes Permanent, the second of the Practice Makes Permanent series, argues that school performance is directly correlated to student motivation. If school administrators and teachers adopt Jensen’s easy, direct, and effective ways to help students manage...
Diversity Awareness for K-6 Teachers
The Impact on Student Learning
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2011
Diversity Awareness for K-6 Teachers: The Impact on Student Learning is a resource guide for elementary teachers and college-level student teachers for teaching diversity awareness across the various areas of content. It contains many exciting activities teachers can use to enhance learning while...
Shake-Up Call
The Need to Transform K–12 Classroom Methodology
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2012
Traditional, teacher-centered classrooms are not serving the needs of our students. Their futures will increasingly demand skill sets in the areas of communication, collaboration, and critical thinking; worksheets, videos, and lectures will not prepare them for the challenges they will face in an...
Students with Disabilities Can Meet Accountability Standards
A Roadmap for School Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2009
This book provides a road map for all school leaders as they attempt to improve the achievement of students with disabilities. In today's accountability system, school personnel are responsible for ensuring that all groups of students, including students with disabilities, show sufficient progress....
Bound-for-Career Guidebook
A Student Guide to Career Exploration, Decision Making, and the Job Search
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2010
While the American workplace affords many and varied career options, the process of determining what to do with one's life remains a significant challenge. The Bound-for-Career Guidebook views career identification, selection, entry, and progression as part of a larger developmental process—the...
Seeking the Significance of Music Education
Essays and Reflections
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2009
Noted music educator Bennett Reimer has selected 24 of his previously published articles from a variety of professional journals spanning the past 50 years. During that time, he's tackled: -generating core values for the field of music education; -the core in larger societal and educational contexts;...
by Sally Cox Mayberry, Brenda Belson Lazarus
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2002
The inclusive schools movement has been around since the mid 1980s, yet many teachers find themselves ill-equipped to make the transition. This superb book offers information, guidance, and training ranging from history of the inclusion movement to recommended activities for use with students. The...
High-Poverty, High-Performing Schools
Foundations for Real Student Success
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
In a recent international comparative study, the United States public schools did not fare well with the rest of the world. To the disappointment of many, the No Child Left Behind law did little to improve student achievement. Nevertheless, a small pocket of poverty schools worked against the odds...
Supervising Student Teachers
The Professional Way
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2010
Supervising Student Teachers clearly defines the role of cooperating teachers and guides them through their responsibilities. From preparing for the arrival of the student teacher through the writing of the letter of recommendation, the cooperating teacher learns how to create an environment that...
Blundering Leadership
Missteps by School Administrators
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2010
Often new leaders commit a series of missteps that create dissention and dissatisfaction, ultimately alienating staff. This book is designed to steer future leaders and newly promoted leaders away from these missteps. The authors share ideas to aid new leaders in making fewer mistakes that alienate...