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The Savvy Principal
What Streetwise Principals Know
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
This book is a manual on how to become a streetwise and savvy principal. These leaders do things very differently from other principals and what they do that distinguishes them is not found in studies on effective principals. There are two reasons for this: 1.) researchers aren’t asking the right...
by Leo H. Bradley
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2005
Here is a book to serve educators from all types of schools in either pre-service or professional development that is designed as a text for master's and licensure (post-master's) level. This book covers all the relevant issues in school law: _
by Teresa Coffman
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Engaging Students through Inquiry-Oriented Learning and Technology is designed for anyone interested in integrating both inquiry and technology as a tool into a teaching and learning environment. This book will provide easy to follow step by step procedures to both plan and create an inquiry activity...
Next Practices
An Executive Guide for Education Decision Makers
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2014
N3xt Practices is a ground-breaking advisory book for education decision makers. Its purpose is to challenge the top trends and initiatives of the previous decade in educational technology and bring light to their short-falls and misses. It also highlights successful endeavors and strategies and details...
Writing with At-Risk Youth
The Pongo Teen Writing Method
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2014
This book describes a specific program for teaching and mentoring expressive writing by at-risk youth—a program that can generate transformative change in the teens, and generate significant new satisfactions for you. When young people write personally and creatively, it helps them to overcome challenges...
Story Power
Breathing Life into History
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2011
Not every teacher loves history and the same can be said about students. It doesn't have to be that way. People love a good story. History is a collection of stories that trace the path people, famous and little known, took as they faced the challenges of life. The choices they made teach us about...
Team Strategies for Success
Doing What Counts in Education
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2001
Break down the barriers within your school organization! Teaming is a collaborative educational model necessary for the increasingly sophisticated world of the Information Age. This book is a primer—containing both theory and practice—for the educator looking for team strategies and success. It...
Value and Validity in Action Research
A Guidebook for Reflective Practitioners
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2003
As more teachers undertake action research projects, serious questions need to be raised about the value and validity of these projects. How can teachers ensure that their results are valid? Are teachers drawing conclusions supported by data? The purpose of this book is to guide teachers through the...
Tomorrow's Innovators
Essential Skills for a Changing World
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2012
Profound societal changes in the economic, technological, social, and educational fronts pose challenges for educators in their ability to equip young students with the skills and capabilities needed to navigate a digitally connected and complex world. Tomorrow’s Innovators: Essential Skills For...
Learn to Think and Write
A Paradigm for Teaching Grades 4-8, Advanced Levels
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2011
The EPILLAW Paradigm is a practical method for developing writing skills. It consists of an original nine-level taxonomy and sequential methodology of listening, speaking, writing and reading. In this method, the development of writing precedes the development of reading. The work consists of two...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2012
Teacher Educators as Members of an Evolving Profession focuses on the overall role of teacher educators who might be seen as leaders involved in the transformation of schools and schooling in a manner appropriate for the requirements of the 21st century. Teacher education is perceived in this book...
Debunking the Middle-Class Myth
Why Diverse Schools Are Good for All Kids
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2002
Many parents search for a 'good' school to enroll their children. They look at the school's standardized test scores and check out demographic statistics, but fail to investigate the strengths of these schools that have a vibrant mix of races and cultures. Eileen Gale Kugler offers a unique perspective...
Reality and Education
A New Direction for Educational Policy
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
A poorly designed system produces poor results. Problems with the public education system are reported every day in periodicals and books. Improving student achievement is too important a societal issue to continue stumbling along the same unending path of let’s try this educational fad and then...
Designing School Systems for All Students
A Toolbox to Fix America's Schools
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2009
Designing School Systems for All Students provides a clear methodology for school leaders, teachers, and school board members to follow as they redesign their schools for the benefit of students. The authors demonstrate how school leaders set the expectations for all students to learn and grow as...