R L R: 1250 books
by Ronald E. Kearns
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2011
Quick Reference for Band Directors is a go-to guide for new and experienced band directors. With tips on recruiting and retaining members, preparing lesson plans and program objectives, developing a booster group, budgeting, classroom management, using technology, and making emergency repairs, this...
Instructional Alignment
Optimizing Objectives, Methods, and Assessment for Developing Unit Plans
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2012
In response to a quagmire of jargon based and convoluted curriculum textbooks, Instructional Alignment offers a concise and basic approach to instructional design. By exploring the areas of planning, assessment, and methodology, the text explains how these three areas provide an essential framework...
Collaborative School Leadership
Practical Strategies for Principals
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
In Collaborative School Leadership, Nash and Hwang provide administrators with clear and focused ideas on making the most of collaborative leadership while on the path to continuous improvement. Recognizing that classroom instruction is at the core of any plan of improvement, this book looks at the...
Play it from the Heart
What You Learn From Music About Success In Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2011
Former students often thank their music teachers for what they were taught about music and about life. Play it from the Heart uses stories and concepts from music education as models for success. Making music together requires exceptional cooperation, and ensembles are the ultimate cooperative organizations....
by William Hayes
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2002
The perfect primer for anyone interested in becoming a superintendent. Veteran superintendent, William Hayes shares his insight and experience in areas ranging from relationships with the Boards of Education, faculty, staff, the administrative team, and the media to balancing the public and personal...
Eight at the Top
A View Inside Public Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2001
There are over 15,000 superintendents leading school districts across the United States today. Yet, despite the high visibility and prestige of the position, what superintendents actually do, on a day-to-day basis, remains mysterious to the layman and even to those in the profession. This book, authored...
by Jerry Patterson
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2000
In this unique look at leadership, Patterson shares the results of interviews he conducted with 14 highly respected superintendents about the human side of this important job. These outstanding superintendents provide insights that can't be gained in any educational administration program about the good, the bad, and the ugly parts of school leadership.
Bigger Isn't Always Better
A Leadership Guide for Small School Administrators
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2012
Bigger Isn't Always Better is designed to provide a practitioner's viewpoint of the challenges and issues lacing school administrators – particularly those who work in small districts. Based upon a combination of education theory and practical applications, the book contains many real life exampleswith...
Moving into the Superintendency
How to Succeed in Making the Transition
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2012
Too often, new superintendents—even if they have succeeded in other administrative positions—can undermine their successes by making critical novice mistakes, such as failing to recognize political stumbling blocks or unintentionally inviting school board member micromanagement. Moving into the...
Governing at the Top
Building a Board-Superintendent Strategic Governing Team
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2014
Doug Eadie’s Governing at the Top: Building a Board-Superintendent Strategic Governing Team is both a powerful addition to the K-12 governance literature and a practical guidebook for school board members, superintendents, and senior administrators. Opening with a crystal-clear, eminently practical...
Standardized Testing Skills
Strategies, Techniques, Activities To Help Raise Students’ Scores
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
The purpose of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2002 was to “drive broad gains in student achievement and to hold states and schools more accountable.” As early as third grade, students are required to master the grade curriculum while also becoming proficient in test taking skills. These young...
Survival in a Down Economy
A Budget Reduction Process for Superintendents
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2010
Dramatic reductions in the dollars available for public education require a new and systemic approach to balancing school district budgets. This manual provides numerous examples of successful budget reduction strategies based on a six-step process that has demonstrated its effectiveness in small,...
by Darla Miner, Jill Zitnay
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2012
Exploring Nonfiction with Young Learners explores the four basic nonfiction structures that the youngest learners are most likely to encounter: descriptive, recount/collection, procedural, and explanatory texts. This book also includes information to help teach four, more complex structures that younger...
Feminist Theory and Educational Leadership
Much Ado About Something!
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2013
“Who is an effective leader?” has been a question posed by scholars, educators and practitioners of leadership for centuries. Historically, leadership positions, as well as research on leadership and effective leadership, was primarily reserved for men or masculine characteristics With most societies...