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Preparing to Be Next in Line
A Guide to the Principalship
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2012
Every building administrator must be proactive to accomplish the demands of educating children for the twenty-first century. This entails making ethical decisions, building relationships, prioritizing school safety, and developing excellent communication skills that utilize data as a baseline. As...
Making Large Schools Work
The Advantages of Small Schools
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2009
American schools are undergoing huge changes, among the most significant of which is that their size is increasing rapidly. This book lays out very practical approaches to making our ever-increasingly large schools work more effectively. By closely analyzing the advantages and disadvantages of large...
The Warrior Principal: New Leadership for Urban Schools
New Leadership for Urban Schools
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
The Warrior Principal: New Leadership for Urban Schools is a marriage between the Art of War and effective school leadership principles. It describes the mentality and actions school principals need in order to spearhead the process of successfully reforming a failing and/or struggling urban public...
The Hard Truth
Problems and Issues in Urban School Reform
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
The Hard Truth is a book written for principals and school administrators who want to implement effective change. The topics of the book candidly discuss the problems, people, and issues that get in the way of true school reform; and what building level principals can personally do attain the best possible outcomes.
The Systems Thinking School
Redesigning Schools from the Inside-Out
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2013
This book examines the school as an operational organization through the lens of systems thinking. In this way it serves as an invitation to look again at schools and how they operate as learning systems. It begins by showing exactly why our inherited, industrial school model, can never be made to...
Passing the Leadership Test
Strategies for Success on the Leadership Licensure Exam
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012
Passing the Leadership Test: Strategies for Success on the Leadership Licensure Exam is a study guide for the School Leaders Licensure Examination (SLLA.) The book presents a comprehensive, practical guide for preparing for the SLLA. It is divided into two sections: basic principles of test preparation...
The Truth About Special Education
A Guide for Parents and Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2003
Few parents and educators understand special education_its terms, philosophies, and process. This easy-to-read book contains a step-by-step discussion of the special education process and has hundreds of additional resources for parents including professional organizations, support groups, and useful...
The HM Learning and Study Skills Program
Level 2: Teacher's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
The hm Learning and Study Skills Program: Level II was designed to provide an introduction to learning and study skills for 8th, 9th, and 10th grade students through a series of activity-oriented units. It is structured on the assumption that an activity-oriented lesson is the most effective instructional...
Doing What Works
Literacy Strategies for the Next Level
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2013
Doing What Works: Literacy Strategies for the Next Level will assist educators as they support students in the mastery of vocabulary, comprehension, and study skills required by the Common Core State Standards. All strategies have been carefully selected based on their ease of use, utility in terms...
Dream! Create! Sustain!
Mastering the Art and Science of Transforming School Systems
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2010
Dream! Create! Sustain! is written for courageous, passionate, and visionary change leaders working in school systems throughout the world. It provides those change leaders with essential concepts, principles, strategies, and tactics for how to create and sustain whole-system change in their school...
When Teacher Voices Are Heard
The Future of the Literacy Landscape
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
Moving towards the Common Core Standards in reading and writing, the time is right for school districts to reform literacy instruction by focusing their instruction around the needs of their diverse student population and the teaching styles of their teachers. There is no better way to do this than...
Individualized Learning with Technology
Meeting the Needs of High School Students
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2013
Today we are moving into an Information Revolution that is every bit as life altering as the previous Industrial Revolution. Students must now stay in school longer, and achieve at a much higher rate than in the past. But high school students can benefit from adult learning and instructional design...
by Geoffrey Caine, Renate Nummela Caine
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2001
Everyone agrees that improving education is vital, but people disagree on what to do. Business, parents, politicians, the media and educators all voice strong and conflicting opinions. The public needs to have the issues clarified, and to see a path that will work. There ARE ways to raise standards,...
The Myth of Accountability
What Don't We Know?
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012
School improvement that is reliant on accountability is a myth based upon falsehoods and wrong assumptions. Public educations’ increased dependence on this foundation for school reform and change has failed both students and teachers. The fact remains that people who create education policy do not...