Now in its forth edition, this best seller has helped successive cohorts of principals create the best possible curriculum. The authors examine four levels of curriculum - state, district, school, and classroom - to explain how effective principals influence curriculum at every stage. The authors re-examine the key issues that continue to influence principals in the "real world", and include examples of ways principals can incorporate curriculum leadership into their organizational behaviour. This book will guide principals in working with teachers to generate meaningful curricula which will raise the level of learning - and teaching - in your school.
Creating Innovative Schools for Digital-Age Students
Merging best practice with innovation, renegade leadership demands a call to action in the digital age by creating student-centered instructional leadership that connects equity, culture, and technology. Using research and real-life renegades, this book challenges you to lead in the digital age by applying transformational tenets of connected pedagogy.
This book discusses ways to educate students, faculty, staff, school leadership, and parents about digital citizenship and make it part of a school culture. This book meets school leaders "where they are" - whatever their comfort and skill level with technical tools - and helps them move their schools forward by educating themselves and their school community about the issues surrounding digital citizenship.
Learn effective techniques to improve students' ability to problem solve, construct viable arguments, use tools strategically, attend to precision, and more.
This book teaches how to build a globalised learning environment that leverages experts and school partnerships to foster students' entrepreneurial competencies with this resource-packed follow up to Zhao's World Class Learners.
How should learning spaces change to allow for learning styles, global skills, and technology? Discover design principles for both "thinking" and "learning" spaces in the 21st Century.
This accessible book is one volume of a four-book series enabling understanding of Academic Language development among English Language Learners and speakers of non-standard English
By now it's a given: if we're to help our ELLs and SELs access the rigorous demands of today's content standards, we must cultivate the "code" that drives school success: academic language. Look no further for assistance than this much-anticipated series from Ivannia Soto, in which she invites field authorities Jeff Zwiers, David and Yvonne Freeman, Margarita Calderon, and Noma LeMoine to share every teacher's need-to-know strategies on the four essential components of academic language. The subject of this volume is conversational discourse. Here, Jeff Zwiers reveals the power of academic conversation in helping students develop language, clarify concepts, comprehend complex texts, and fortify thinking and relational skills. With this book as your roadmap, you'll learn how to: Foster the skills and language students must develop for productive interactions Implement strategies for scaffolding paired conversations Assess student's oral language development as you go It's imperative that our ELLs and SELs practice academic language in rich conversations with others in school, especially when our classrooms may be their only opportunities to receive modeling, scaffolding, and feedback focused on effective discourse. This book, in concert with the other three volumes in the series, can provide both a foundation and a framework for accelerating the learning of diverse students across grade levels and disciplines.
By now it's a given: if we're to help our ELLs and SELs access the rigorous demands of today's content standards, we must cultivate the "code" that drives school success: academic language. Look no further for assistance than this much-anticipated series from Ivannia Soto, in which she invites field authorities Jeff Zwiers, David and Yvonne Freeman, Margarita Calderon, and Noma LeMoine to share every teacher's need-to-know strategies on the four essential components of academic language. The subject of this volume is culture. Here, Noma LeMoine makes clear once and for all how culturally and linguistically responsive pedagogy validates, facilitates, liberates, and empowers ethnically diverse students. With this volume as your roadmap, you'll learn how to: Implement instructional strategies designed to meet the linguistic and cultural needs of ELLs and SELs Use language variation as an asset in the classroom Recognize and honor prior knowledge, home languages, and cultures The culture and language every student brings to the classroom have vast implications for how to best structure the learning environment. This guidebook will help you get started as early as tomorrow. Better yet, read all four volumes in the series as an all-in-one instructional plan for closing the achievement gap.
