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African American Perspectives on Leadership in Schools
Building a Culture of Empowerment
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2009
This book fills an educational void in the school leadership literature as it relates to historical, theoretical, intellectual and cultural understandings among those who prepare individuals for leadership in schools and for those who practice leadership in schools attended by significant numbers...
Six Steps to Preparing Exemplary Principals and Superintendents
Leadership Education at Its Best
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2010
Six Steps to Preparing Exemplary Principals and Superintendents is the first book to inspire and guide professors and program administrator's proven ways to prepare exemplary principals and superintendents for schools. The authors review issues surrounding extreme criticism of leadership education...
The Teachers We Need vs. the Teachers We Have
The Realities and the Possibilities
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2010
Misinformation and propaganda abound about the quality of teacher preparation in the United States. The Teachers We Need vs. the Teachers We Have reveals exactly how American teachers are taught, describes the wide disparities in the preparation of teachers across states, depicts how market-driven...
by Paula M. Short, Jay Paredes Scribner
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2002
Preparing school administrators for the challenges they will face requires materials well-informed about the nuts and bolts of education in real life. Only a richly detailed case study book like Short and Scribner's will provide them with the opportunity to analyze current issues. Each narrative chapter...
Renewal
Remaking America’s Schools for the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2012
Harold Kwalwasser has put together a call to action for education reform that makes a clear case for what has to be done in order to educate all children to their full potential. He visited forty high-performing and transforming school districts, charters, parochial, and private schools to understand...
Conflicts in Culture
Strategies to Understand and Resolve the Issues
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2013
The changing demographics of students and educators in schools today suggest that much of what we do as educational leaders revolves around the complex issues related to our various cultural understandings. In this book the authors discuss the relationship between culture and conflict and provide...
Common Core State Standards for Grades K-1
Language Arts Instructional Strategies and Activities
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2013
Common Core State Standards for Grades K-1: Language Arts Instructional Strategies and Activities is designed to help teachers teach CORE standards using research-based, effective instructional strategies in combination with ready-to-use activities. These strategies include identifying similarities...
Can I Be in Your Class?
Real Education Reform to Motivate Secondary Students
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
With education reform in the forefront of societal issues, virtually everyone is seeking methods to augment students' academic performance. Yet, real reform begins in individual classrooms, where the difference between the ordinary teacher and the extraordinary lies not in the content they teach,...
The Savvy Superintendent
Leading Instruction to the Top of the Class
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2010
The Savvy Superintendent examines the art of district leadership from the perspective of top practitioners in the field of education. Insights and comments from in-depth interviews with over fifty current and former successful superintendents_including American Association of School Administrators...
Teaching, the Hardest Job You'll Ever Love
Helpful Ideas for Teachers In and Out of the Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2010
Teaching Is The Hardest Job You Will Ever Love! is a realistic guide that can help the high school teacher and community. It includes ways to maintain one's health, how to balance one's personal and school life, and how to interact in a better, successful manner. In order to become successful, it...
Extreme Writing
Discovering the Writer in Every Student
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2010
In recent years, educators have become increasingly concerned about the writing skills of students in elementary, middle, and high school. They wonder what can be done to build proper writing skills, particularly in a generation of students who may consider text messaging to be the only writing a...
The Power of Middle School
Maximizing These Vital Years
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2012
The middle school years are a maze of academic duties, human growth and self-development, discovering self identity, and increasing social interaction with other people. This maze can be an adventure of achievement and opportunity, or it can be a struggle of difficulty and disappointment. As these...
Reading Their Way
A Balance of Phonics and Whole Language
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2003
Increasing reading achievement is a universal goal of educators. This book fulfills the goal as it explains a balanced literacy program for kindergarten through third grades that incorporates research-based components, utilizing the best of the phonics and whole language approaches. Donat presents...
by Denny G. Bolton, Gary W. Harmer
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2003
Using a set of budgeting guidelines created specifically for school entities, this how-to publication takes readers through the steps necessary to develop an annual budget that meets today's most rigorous demands. The guidelines provide a means for the business management staff, school board, and...