Douglas Reeves: 15 books
Responding to the Every Student Succeeds Act With the PLC at Work ™ Process
(Integrating ESSA and Professional Learning Communities)
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) presents US educators and local and state legislators with a rare opportunity: to reconceive schooling and education funding to better address students’ needs. Richard DuFour, Douglas Reeves, and Rebecca DuFour showcase how to make the most of this opportunity...
Myth of the Muse, The
Supporting Virtues That Inspire Creativity (Examine the Role of Creativity in Your Classroom)
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2016
Creativity is crucial in helping students achieve academic and professional success. The authors argue that creativity is not spontaneous or inborn but a process that can be cultivated by utilizing seven “virtues” that inspire creativity: curiosity, versatility, synthesis, discipline, collaboration,...
From Leading to Succeeding
The Seven Elements of Effective Leadership in Education (A Change Readiness Assessment Tool for School Initiatives)
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
Utilizing the crucial elements of effective leadership—purpose, trust, focus, leverage, feedback, change, and sustainability—education leaders can overcome the many challenges they face in their profession and learn the skills and characteristics they need to succeed. This book synthesizes research...
by Douglas Reeves
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2015
Encourage a culture of innovation and creativity. Innovation and creativity are imperative to educational success and require the contributions of teachers, students, administrators, and policymakers. Explore the four essentials for developing a creative, mistake-tolerant culture; investigate teaching...
Elements of Grading
A Guide to Effective Practice, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
Formative assessment plays an important role in increasing teacher quality and student learning when it’s viewed as a process rather than a tool. Emphasizing the instructional side of formative assessment, this book explores in depth the use of classroom questioning, learning intentions and success...
FAST Grading
A Guide to Implementing Best Practices (Common Mistakes Educators Make with Grading Policies)
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Embrace effective grading procedures that have the power to reduce failure rates, improve student discipline, encourage learning, and enhance morale. In this three-part guide, the author presents practical strategies teachers and administrators can use to ensure their grading practices center on four...
by Xinyuan Wang, Douglas Reeves
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2015
This brief systematically examines the trackback problem and its interaction with low-latency anonymous communication. First, it provides an overview of the common techniques a network-based attack may use to hide its origin and identity. Then the authors explore the MIX-based anonymity and the building...
Finding Your Leadership Focus
What Matters Most for Student Results
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In his new book, author and international keynoter Douglas Reeves addresses a major challenge faced by today’s school leaders: an ever-growing load of programs and initiatives. Reeves contends that program overload not only taxes leadership resources, but actually hurts rather than improves...
Leading Change in Your School
How to Conquer Myths, Build Commitment, and Get Results
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2009
Guiding schools through significant change is one of the toughest challenges educational leaders face, but learning from the examples of those who have succeeded can make it less daunting. In Leading Change in Your School, distinguished author and researcher Douglas B. Reeves offers lessons learned...
The Learning Leader
How to Focus School Improvement for Better Results
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2006
“We can’t do that in our school district.” “I don’t have time to add that to my curriculum.” “We’re fighting against impossible odds with these students.” Effective school leadership does not have to be a losing battle. In The Learning Leader: How to Focus School Improvement for...
by Douglas B. Reeves
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2008
Do you want your school or district to truly become a learning organization? How do you foster lasting and meaningful change? How do you avoid rejection of your new approach to teaching and learning? If you've been involved in a school change effort, you most likely have struggled with these questions....
The Particularistic President
Executive Branch Politics and Political Inequality
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2015
As the holders of the only office elected by the entire nation, presidents have long claimed to be sole stewards of the interests of all Americans. Scholars have largely agreed, positing the president as an important counterbalance to the parochial impulses of members of Congress. This supposed fact...
by Douglas B. Reeves
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012
How can we create and sustain professional learning programs that actually lead to improved student achievement? In this thoughtful and informative guide for teachers, administrators, and policymakers, Douglas Reeves provides answers. First he casts a critical eye on professional learning that is...
Reformation Theology
A Systematic Summary
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
Five hundred years ago, the Reformers were defending doctrines such as justification by faith alone, the authority of Scripture, and God's grace in salvation—some to the point of death. Many of these same essential doctrines are still being challenged today, and there has never been a more crucial...
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