Author: Sell, Colleen Publisher: Adams Media Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Virtually everyone can recall a special teacher, coach, or mentor who opened his or her eyes to a new outlook on life. Teachers guide us to read, write, imagine, explore, and understand; they teach us...
Author: Smidt, Sandra Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This is a practical, accessible guide to early years practice. The author examines current theories about how children learn best and focuses on how we can support and extend the learning of young chi...
Author: Daulton, Kathy Publisher: Trafford Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Curricular complaints: Files are missing; the room is empty! Four years to approve change? Write another math curriculum? PreK-12 curriculum available for parents? Help is here!...
Author: Ayres-Salamon,Marilyn Publisher: Trafford Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A gripping, lively, passionate portrayal of the reality of educating students stuck in a culture of poverty, and how a business turnaround team tried to bring improvement.
Author: Baines, Lawrence Publisher: ASCD Format: Adobe PDF
Description: How can teachers help students develop the literacy skills that are necessary for learning and retaining information in any subject? Traditional memory tricks, mnemonic devices, graphic organizers, an...
Author: Paris, Louise Publisher: The WALK THE TALK Company Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A+ TEACHING: 180 Ways to Enhance Your Success as a Teacher is a powerful "must read" book filled with practical activities, tips, and strategies to apply in your daily teaching. They come from autho...
Author: Greenwood Publisher: Information Age Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Based on a research project coordinated by Jurgen Enders at the University of Kassel in Germany, the book highlights the changes taking place in higher education and examines the working conditions of...
Author: Reeves, Douglas B. Publisher: ASCD Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Accountability. The very mention of the word strikes fear in the hearts of many teachers and school leaders, leading to confusion and panic rather than improved student achievement. Author Douglas B. ...
Author: IGI Global Publisher: IGI Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: It is imperative for schools today to create a competitive advantage for both the students and their communities. Adaptation, Resistance, and Access to Instructional Technologies: Assessing Future Tr...
Author: N/A Publisher: Information Age Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The chapters included in this book were commissioned to serve as the background for the national invitational conference sponsored by the LSS at Temple University Center for Research in Human Developm...
Author: Burgett, Gordon Lee Publisher: Communication Unlimited Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Why would school administrators and teachers write articles and books unless they had at least a 75% probability of getting their words profitably in print? In fact, professional writers expect to do...
Author: Leicester, Roger Mal Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Adventure Stories for Reading, Learning and Literacy takes a unique approach to cross-curricular teaching in the primary classroom. Providing eight original adventure stories, the authors build up a s...
Author: Mooney, Nancy J. / Mausbach, Ann T. Publisher: ASCD Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "This is our THIRD school improvement plan! Why aren't we seeing any results?" "We have all of this data, but we don't know what to do with it!" "What does this workshop have to do with the goals w...
Author: Taylor, Kevin / Denig, Stephen J. / Furst, Lyndon G. Publisher: Information Age Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: American Evangelicals and Religious Diversity is a qualitative study of how religion and education intersect at one conservative Christian school. The school is Evangelical and American. The school's ...
Author: Richetti, Cynthia T. / Tregoe, Benjamin B. Publisher: ASCD Format: Adobe PDF
Description: How do you make a decision? How do you know you've made a good one? Whether you're a 7th grade student selecting a science fair project, or a school board choosing a superintendent, the basic requirem...
Author: Stewart, G. Kent Publisher: Information Age Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book can be used as a graduate school text for courses in school buildings and facilities. It is probably more suitable as a guide for practitioners especially school district superintendents in ...
Author: Stewart, G. Kent Publisher: Information Age Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book can be used as a graduate school text for courses in school buildings and facilities. It is probably more suitable as a guide for practitioners especially school district superintendents in ...
Author: Hoerr, Thomas R. Publisher: ASCD Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In this invaluable book, Tom Hoerr relates a decade's worth of MI experiences at St. Louis's New City School. We learn about the staff's initial exposure to MI theory, the many activities (some more ...
Author: Hyles-Rainford, Dr. Danielle Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Bridging the Opportunity Gap offers an empowerment tool that investigates and analyzes the experiences of school principals and the processes they underwent in their promotion from educator to princip...
Author: Marzano, Robert J. Publisher: ASCD Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In Building Background Knowledge for Academic Achievement, Robert J. Marzano shows how a carefully structured combination of two approaches-sustained silent reading and instruction in subject-specific...
Author: Lambert, Linda Publisher: ASCD Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In this book, Linda Lambert takes a close look at leadership in schools, which today involves far more than a single leader. The author defines leadership as the learning processes among participant...
Description: This book provides an exciting compilation of research, with a social-ecological perspective that illustrates the complexity of bullying behaviours and offers suggestions for data-based decision-makin...
Author: N/A Publisher: Information Age Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: For the first time, this book brings together three controversial topics: homogeneous grouping of students within classrooms by ability or achievement criteria, tracking of students into courses of st...
Author: N/A Publisher: IGI Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Cases on Technological Adaptability and Transnational Learning: Issues and Challenges contains case studies on divergent themes of personalized learning environments, inclusive learning for social cha...
Author: N/A Publisher: Information Age Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book, The Challenges of School Reform: Impact, Implementation, and Sustainability, explores why reforms todate have failed to live up to expectations, and it discusses promising practices and str...
Author: Pumpian, Ian Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book examines the experience of School in the Park from the perspective of different disciplines to determine how students are learning content within museums&the zoo.It provides a number of exam...
Author: Zimmer, Ron / Zimmer, Ron / Buddin, Richard J. Publisher: Rand Corporation Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Analyzes an array of issues pertaining to accessibility, student achievement, governance, and operation of charter schools in California. Four specific research questions were investigated: (1) What...
Description: This book takes the reader inside the charter school movement, answering such questions as: *What is a charter school? *How are charter schools different from other public schools? *What does it ta...
Author: Brouillette, Liane Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Investigates the strengths & limitations of charter & magnet schools as an approach to reform by focusing on the day-to-day reality of students, teachers, administrators, & parents involved with chart...
Author: Jefferson, Steve P. Publisher: Dissertation.Com. Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The purpose of this book was to describe the variables that contributed to the establishment of a charter school in an urban Arizona and rural California school district, noting the similarities and d...
Author: N/A Publisher: Information Science Reference Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Now established as an effective tool in the instructional process, multimedia has penetrated educational systems at almost every level of study. In their quest to maximize educational outcomes and id...
Author: Shariff,Shaheen Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book is directed to academics, educators, and government policy-makers who are concerned about addressing emerging cyber-bullying and anti-authority student expressions through the use of cell ph...
Author: MacBeath, John Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book returns us to some fundamental questions about the purpose of schools, the nature of learning and the qualities of leadership which make schools authentic places of learning.
Author: Willis, Jerry Publisher: Information Age Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book is about emerging models of design that are just beginning to be used by ID types. They are based on constructivist and chaos (non-linear systems or "soft systems") theory. This book provide...
Author: N/A Publisher: Information Age Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book is the fifth in a series on research and theory dedicated to advancing our understanding of schools through empirical study and theoretical analysis. Scholars, both young and established, ar...
Author: Hill, Dave Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book, written by an impressive international array of scholars and activists, explores the mechanisms and ideologies behind neoliberal education, while evaluating and promoting resistance on a lo...
Author: Bonnici, Charles A. Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Education Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Creating a Successful Leadership Style gives practical applications supported by real experiences. It presents the actual situations a principal or assistant principal faces on a day-to-day basis and ...
Author: N/A Publisher: Information Age Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book introduces pre-service and in-service foreign language teachers to the basic concepts of critical educational study as applied to the sociological position occupied by foreign language educa...
Author: Hughes, Larry W. Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Current Issues in School Leadership examines controversies about, and affecting, school practices. Focusing on two essential questions-what is important to today's school leaders? and what is interfer...
Author: Jacobs, Heidi Hayes Publisher: ASCD Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "What year are you preparing your students for? 1973? 1995? Can you honestly say that your school's curriculum and the program you use are preparing your students for 2015 or 2020? Are you even prepar...
Author: Shariff, Shaheen Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book looks in depth at the emerging issue of Cyber bullying. This practical book grounded in comprehensive scholarship addresses the policy-vacuum and provides practical educational responses to ...
Author: N/A Publisher: Information Age Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book is about deep change. In a series of research reports and commentaries, it mainly features case studies of powerful reform for the most part in local districts and in individual schools. The...
