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It's All About People Skills
Surviving Challenges in the Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
Teaching, like many service professions, requires the appropriate interpersonal skills. Although academic expertise is, and always will be, the foundation of instruction, educators must be able to translate their knowledge both affectively and effectively in order to better inform their students....
Empowerment Starts Here
Seven Principles to Empowering Urban Youth
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2011
Empowerment Starts Here covers an experimental approach to social change within urban communities by way of seven distinct principles for student empowerment. Turning classroom methods into a school model, Preparatory School for Global Leadership was the first to experience student empowerment at...
Promising Partnerships
Ways to Involve Parents in Their Children's Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2010
The research on parent involvement in education indicates that, in most cases, when parents play an active role in their children's education, academic achievement improves. As a result, schools are now mandated to incorporate parent involvement in the educational process. Educators are faced with...
Building the Best Faculty
Strategies for Hiring and Supporting New Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 1999
Why not improve your recruiting techniques and staff development strategies? Clement describes realistic yet simple hiring strategies ranging from performing the initial interviews to making the final hiring decision. She also outlines the importance of maintaining a continuing support structure for...
Foundations of Modern School Practices
A Sourcebook of Educational Wisdom
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2011
This is a book is of educational ideas, commentaries, and observations from the past. The passages recorded here come from educational writings that were produced between 1880 and 1935—a time period that began with spirited calls for school reform and ended with a new and different concept of what...
Teaching Difficult Students
Blue Jays in the Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2004
Here is an easy-to-read and inspiring text that explores the nature of young people and the effects traditional discipline strategies have on them. The author recommends humanistic approaches that promote personal growth in students rather than the common system of reward and punishment that aggravates...
by Michael F. DiPaola, James H. Stronge
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2004
Superintendent evaluation is a unique process that is often neglected but critical in this era of accountability. This invaluable guide provides an overview of the entire process, including: crafting board policy, criteria for good policy, and prototype policy. It identifies the unique challenges...
Success in the Superintendency
Tips and Advice
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2010
Success in the Superintendency will help new and aspiring superintendents gain meaningful, practical information from award winning, experienced superintendents. The book's ten chapters cover topics identifiable to every superintendent_no matter how many years experience he or she has on the job....
Read and Succeed
Practices to Support Reading Skills in African American Boys
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
Recent national achievement data reveal significant outcome disparities between African American boys and other student groups by grade 4. This issue has drawn much attention from teachers, parents, researchers, and policy makers all across the United States of America.
African American boys are not...
Gaining on the Gap
Changing Hearts, Minds, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2011
Gaining on the Gap: Changing Hearts, Minds, and Practice serves as a guide along the journey taken by six individuals who each played a role in moving a school system along a path where race would not be a predictor for academic success. Join us as we share insights to challenges and victories as well as a close look at our own personal and professional growth.
Teaching the Way Students Learn
Practical Applications for Putting Theories into Action
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
How do students truly learn? What is the best way to teach? Where do you go for help? Every day, you face the challenge of engaging students in learning, often to disappointing results. This book provides a myriad of voices at your side supporting you with sound educational philosophy and practical...
Good Day, Bad Day
Teaching as a High-Wire Act
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2005
Here is the story of how Ken Winograd grappled with the uncertainties and contradictions of teaching and, in the process, began to understand himself as teacher. Winograd contends that it is crucial that teachers, especially beginning teachers, examine and reflect on the inevitable complexities of...
Today's Youth, Tomorrow's Leaders
How Parents and Educators Can Influence and Guide the Learning Process
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
Today’s Youth, Tomorrow’s Leaders is for parents, teachers, caregivers, directors, educators, administrators and all who work with children to encourage learning. This book has examples of effective practices in early childhood education from different countries worldwide. This book will emphasize...
Innovative Voices in Education
Engaging Diverse Communities
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
Diverse schools offer enriched academic and social environments, as students and families of different backgrounds and experiences provide a vibrant mosaic of insights, perspectives, and skills. To take advantage of the unique opportunities that diversity brings, schools must value and effectively...