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Teaching History with Big Ideas
Cases of Ambitious Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2010
In the case studies that make up the bulk of this book, middle and high school history teachers describe the decisions and plans and the problems and possibilities they encountered as they ratcheted up their instruction through the use of big ideas. Framing a teaching unit around a question such as...
The Teacher Portfolio
A Strategy for Professional Development and Evaluation
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 1998
Follow three very different teachers through the process of creating a reflective teacher portfolio. This book covers all the basics of portfolios. Chapters cover each of the standard parts of a portfolio—Introduction, Influences, Instruction, Individualization, and Integration—and explore how...
Remembering What's Important
Priorities of School Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2011
In Remembering What's Important: Priorities of School Leadership, Charles A. Bonnici addresses several issues facing school leaders through strategies supported by real-life examples and anecdotes. The issues addressed include questions such as: What is the most urgent issue faced by a new school...
Schools That Succeed, Students Who Achieve
Profiles of Programs Helping All Students to Learn
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2010
Schools That Succeed, Students Who Achieve compares the academic achievements of students in the United States to those of students in other countries. Examining fundamental questions and educational issues, James Deneen identifies what all students should learn and discusses what American students...
Teachers As Owners
A Key to Revitalizing Public Education
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2002
'What if teachers were owners, not employees?' Teacher-ownership is a revolutionary way to put excitement and meaning back into the teaching profession and to revitalize public education. This book demonstrates how being an owner rather than an employee can give teachers control of their professional...
Connecting with Students
Strategies for Building Rapport with Urban Learners
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
Connecting with Students: Strategies for Building Rapport with Urban Learners focuses on how educators can efficiently establish ongoing rapport with each student through three simple steps: Seeing beyond barriers, sharing their intentions, and showing their "face". Chapter details are narrated...
by Ronald Hans Pahl
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2005
History does not have to be boring. Kids who are excited about history learn more. History is also far more than facts to memorize for the most recent standardized test. That is where Creative Ways to Teach the Mysteries of History comes in—to make the teaching and learning of history a powerful...
Leadership with a Conscience
Educational Leadership as a Moral Science
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2011
Leaders and aspiring leaders are constantly searching for role models who are successful in placing leadership theory into effective practice. This book identifies ten such role models whose heroic leadership behavior is analyzed in order to reveal what particular abilities and skills made them successful...
On Grades and Grading
Supporting Student Learning through a More Transparent and Purposeful Use of Grades
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Too often teachers and schools operate with grading systems that are vestiges of an antiquated educational model with little fresh thinking as to how grades affect student learning. In On Grades and Grading, Timothy Quinn addresses this problem head on, offering an in-depth and nuanced analysis of...
The Principal's Hot Seat
Observing Real-Life Dilemmas
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
The Principal's Hot Seat: Observing Real-World Dilemmas transcends traditional educational leadership case study books, featuring video footage of fifteen aspiring principals assuming the principal's role to face unique, unpredictable dilemmas recreated by real principals. One by one, the principals...
School Leadership
Case Studies Solving School Problems
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2011
Parents, lawmakers, supervisors, and unions are among the many constituencies that demand influence, if not control, of the educational process. How does the school administrator balance all the needs of the various groups and still remain true to the ultimate, though most powerless constituency:...
School District Master Planning
The Teaching Supplement
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2012
School District Master Planning: The Teaching Supplement—a guide to the book of the same name—is designed for instructors of graduate level courses in school district demographics and facilities planning, as well as for school district administrators in need of a practical reference text. Discussing...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2012
As editors of Breaking the Mold of School Instruction and Organization: Innovative and Successful Practices for the 21st Century (2010) and Breaking the Mold of Preservice and Inservice Teacher Education: Innovative and Successful Practices for the 21st Century (2011), we have explored innovative...
The Urban School System of the Future
Applying the Principles and Lessons of Chartering
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
For more than two generations, the traditional urban school system—the district—has utterly failed to do its job: prepare its students for a lifetime of success. Millions and millions of boys and girls have suffered the grievous consequences. The district is irreparably broken. For the sake of...