What's Good, What's Not, and How To Tell the Difference
In Making Sense of Research, the authors bring the best of two worlds to the writing of this book - the "real" world where education is practiced daily and the "research" world where the "disciplined search for knowledge" (Smith & Glass, 1987, p.6) is ongoing. Making Sense of Research is for those who make decisions - from the seemingly smallest teacher-made decision regarding time allocation during reading instruction to major national policy decisions such as reducing class size. When carefully read and thoughtfully considered, quality research can inform, enlighten, and provide direction to practitioners that will save time and money, but more importantly enhance the effectiveness of schools and increase the opportunities for student. Making Sense of Research is also about doing your own site-specific, user-driven research as a way of sustaining school improvement, keeping vision alive, and attaining your mission.
Foreword by John I. Goodlad A Joint Publication With the Ontario Principals' CouncilThe time has come to change the context of school leadership!The role of the principal is pivotal to systemic school change. This is the fundamental message in Fullan's new book, The Moral Imperati
Inspire, Enlighten & Motivate provides ideas, stories, one-liners, point makers, and points of reflection designed to spur and serve your thinking, lend you inspiration, offer you perhaps a compass on a path of thinking less commonly traveled. Inspire, Enlighten & Motivate provides ideas, stories, one-liners, point makers, and points of reflection ......
Creating High-Achievement Classrooms, Schools, and Districts
"It brings into focus the many aspects of equity and equality in one source. It makes an excellent base for some meaningful discussion of these issues by those working with aspiring educator leaders, as well as those already in the field." Deborah A. Drugan, Principal General John J. Stefanik Elementary School, Chicopee, MA When true equity ......
`Provides an important first step in helping us surface the mental modes we hold of the teaching and learning of diverse student populations' - Nelda Cambron-McCabe, Department of Educational Leadership, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio This book is about the paradox of relegating students with individual differences into seperate systems, protecting mainstream students from their influence, while at the same time trying to manage the cultural imperative of equity and excellence for all students This book helps administrators manage the separate systems of general and special education by demonstrating how to effectively unify the systems. The book proposes that each student should be addressed through personalized educational programming, rather than applying these to special education students only.
Developing Responsibility, Respect, and Self-Discipline in Grades 4-9
Help each student make the transition from child to responsible teenager and adult! Oftentimes children between the ages of 9 and 15 (grades 4-9) seem to exist in a twilight zone between a waning childhood and an impending functioning adulthood. These critical years are an ideal-and essential-time to teach those students to accept responsibility ......
This book provides a new vision and theory of educational leadership. Robert J Starratt explores the `vision' element of leadership, and examines the policies, programmes and organizational arrangements which often impede this vision. Leaders with Vision provides a unique focus for principals and teachers who wish to exercise leadership in the ongoing work of school renewal.
Improving Reading and Literacy in Grades 1-5 provides an essential resource for primary school principals, and all reading specialists charged with aligning their reading instruction with new federal requirements and best instructional practices. Improving Reading and Literacy in Grades 1-5 provides tools to help administrators evaluate their ......
In this new and original book of cartoons from Aaron Bacall, author and illustrator of The Lighter Side of Teaching, readers are invited to take a humorous look at teaching roles. With teachers as the primary audience, The Lighter Side of Educational Technology offers witty illustrations that are useful tools for presentations, staff development ......
