R L R: 1250 books
Social Skills Deficits in Students with Disabilities
Successful Strategies from the Disabilities Field
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
Social skills may impact a student with a disability more than the disability itself. Learn the social deficits and challenges associated with disabilities as well as strategies to support social skill development. A variety of professionals share their success strategies so readers (parents, teachers,...
Rebels in Society
The Perils of Adolescence
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
Rebels in Society: The Perils of Adolescence is a true journey into the world of adolescents gone bad. This book reveals the inner workings of adolescents who have been caught up in pathology and the juvenile justice system. The first part of the book highlights juvenile sex offenders, juvenile serial...
Educational Leadership and Moral Literacy
The Dispositional Aims of Moral Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
What makes a moral person moral? Who decides what morality means? What makes leadership practice moral? In today’s schools, what stands as moral leadership? These are questions that reflect the complexity integral to the calculus of human morality, especially in a world that is defined daily by...
Reform Doesn't Work
Grassroots Efforts Can Provide Answers to School Improvement
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
Where does education happen? In classrooms. Teachers can provide the ultimate reform of education and teachers can be the ultimate reformers of education. Still, teachers cannot create all of the needed improvements in education alone. Input from, involvement from, ideas from, and participation from...
Exploiting Children
School Board Members Who Cross The Line
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2013
America’s citizens want children to receive a high-quality education in clean, orderly and safe schools staffed with quality teachers, support staff and courageous educational leaders. In many communities, such a school experience is something the students will never have.
Why? One or more members...
The American School Superintendent
2010 Decennial Study
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2011
This must-have study offers a definitive look at the state of school leadership in the United States. It provides a detailed picture of the men and women leading the nation's schools, based on a representative sample of school leaders nationwide. The American Association of School Administrators has...
The Myth of Post-Racial America
Searching for Equality in the Age of Materialism
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2011
The Myth of Post-Racial America provides a history of race and racism in the United States. These concepts became integral parts of American society through social, psychological, and political decisions, which are documented so readers can learn about the origin of myths and stereotypes that have...
10 Models of Teacher Evaluation
The Policies, The People, The Potential
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
For the first time, school districts around the country are being required to adopt formal accountability measures to assess teacher effectiveness. In a radical shift, teacher quality will be based on outputs (student achievement; teacher observations) rather than inputs (years of service; degrees...
Effective Classroom Turnaround
Practice Makes Permanent
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
Effective Classroom Turnaround: Practice Makes Permanent, the third book in the Practices Makes Permanent series, contends that because students learn and behave differently, educators must thoughtfully approach them in the classroom in order to affect change. Like all humans, students respond to...
Teaching Students to Work Harder and Enjoy It
Practice Makes Permanent
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2012
Teaching Students to Work Harder and Enjoy It: Practice Makes Permanent points out a single, fundamental, and easily-corrected flaw that has held back American education for nearly a century—the design of instruction to achieve familiarization instead of mastery. This book explains the psychological...
And Action!
Directing Documentaries in the Social Studies Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
And Action! Directing Documentaries in the Social Studies Classroom provides social studies educators with the background knowledge, conceptual understanding, and tools necessary to design and facilitate classroom documentary projects in the K-12 social studies classroom. The authors have spent more...
Crisis Prevention and Intervention in the Classroom
What Teachers Should Know
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2011
Crisis intervention materials designed specifically for classroom teachers are still scarce, and their role in crisis prevention and intervention continues to be one for which teachers must take the initiative to educate themselves. With updates in crisis intervention programming and legislation;...
Key Legal Issues for Schools
The Ultimate Resource for School Business Officials
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
School business officials (SBOs) must, in many respects, serve as all things to all people in their workplaces. Put another way, SBOs must be knowledgeable about a wide range of legal issues ranging from contracts to setting policy to state biding laws let alone constitutional matters involving the...
by
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2013
The Handbook of Comparative Higher Education Law addresses legal issues from institutions of higher learning in seventeen countries on all six inhabited continents in a reader friendly manner. All chapters follow the same outline on institutional issues, faculty rights, student rights, and emerging...