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The Teacher's Handbook
Strategies for Success
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2010
Good teaching is much more than a college degree and a collection of lesson plans. This book is unique in that it focuses on the basic and essential elements of quality teaching. It's designed specifically for teachers (both novice and experienced) looking for down-to-earth practical answers to their...
101 Facts about Bullying
What Everyone Should Know
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2008
Everyone involved with the care and welfare of children and young adults is confronted with the issue of bullying, which is one of life's major pressures facing children. Bullying behaviors create an uncomfortable, threatening, and even hostile environment that make it difficult for children to learn....
Understanding and Teaching the At-Risk Adult Student
Strategies to Improve Retention and Success
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013
This is a guide for teachers entering or continuing in the specific realm of adult education of students who are at-risk due to their criminal backgrounds, substance abuse issues or undiagnosed learning disabilities. The book provides readers with an overview of the teaching challenges for this population...
Exceptional People
Lessons Learned from Special Education Survivors
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2012
Exceptional People: Lessons Learned from Special Education Survivors is a unique work that describes disabled (exceptional) students’ and their parents’ perspectives as they journeyed through the education system. For educators, it provides a window to the souls of the children whose lives they...
Charter School Leadership
Elements for School Success
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Leadership is a critical piece of managing a high performing public charter school. Understanding the issues and the challenges faced daily by school leaders takes on a significant role when creating, managing, and sustaining high expectations and performance. With limited resources available on this...
Measuring Up
Advances in How We Assess Reading Ability
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2012
In recent decades, the science of reading acquisition has been advancing through interdisciplinary research in cognitive, psycholinguistic, developmental, genetic, neuroscience, cross-language, and experimental comparison studies of effective instruction. Some of the science of reading has emerged...
Kids in the Middle
The Micro Politics of Special Education
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2012
Kids in the Middle: The Micro-Politics of Special Education takes the reader on a fascinating journey through special education in the past, present, and future. On this journey, the micro-politics of special education are seen through the eyes and experiences of children with disabilities, their...
by Gerard Giordano, PhD, professor of education
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
Teachers Go to Rehab examines the advice given to teachers from multiple critics both historically and recently. This book looks at the scope, cost, and impact of this advice to teachers, as well as the motives behind it. It poses precise questions about the groups that gave the advice. Who were they?...
Respect for Teachers
The Rhetoric Gap and How Research on Schools is Laying the Ground for New Business Models in Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2012
For over 30 years we have been in the midst of a paradox. Following a questionable logic that sees education as a means to economic ends, efforts to reform education have focused on keeping the US from slipping in international economic competition. Relying on testing as a standard, in the end we...
African American Women Educators
A Critical Examination of Their Pedagogies, Educational Ideas, and Activism from the Nineteenth to the Mid-twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
This book examines the lived experiences and work of African American women educators during the 1880s to the 1960s. Specifically, this text portrays an array of Black educators who used their social location as educators and activists to resist and fight the interlocking structures of power, oppression,...
Beyond Books, Butts, and Buses
Ten Steps to Help Assistant Principals Become Effective Instructional Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
Beyond Books, Butts, and Buses: Ten Steps to Help Assistant Principals Become Effective Instructional Leaders is intended for ambitious future principals who recognize the importance of researching and preparing for that esteemed position. It contains ten steps that will lead those who are stuck in...
Team Leadership
School Boards at Work
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 1998
Local school boards are responsible for the two most important issues in most people's lives: their children and their money. Why do these governing bodies fail to develop into high-performance teams? This book answers this question and provides techniques for districts to solve their underlying governance...
Law and American Education
A Case Brief Approach
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2012
This third edition expands coverage on such topics as the law and students with disabilities, confidentiality, sexual harassment, student searches and tuition vouchers. It also includes some new topics such as bullying, copyright law, and the law and the internet.
Both public and nonpublic...
The Turnaround Mindset
Aligning Leadership for Student Success
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2011
This book provides a valuable balance between what one must know and what one must do to turn around low-performing schools. The 3-E framework simplifies this complex process by focusing resources on the environment, the executive, and the execution of the turnaround plan. Central to each of these...