Proven and Promising Programs for America's Schools
Designed to help educators, policy makers and researchers evaluate the effectiveness of various programmes and policies intended to improve student achievement, this book presents reviews of programmes for primary and secondary schools that are widely available and have some evidence of effectiveness.
Restructuring America's Secondary Schools Through Time Management
Intensive scheduling or block scheduling has become a controversial educational reform initiative in the United States. This book centres on the difficult questions that surface about intensive scheduling and addresses important concerns and common successes. Unlike other books that cover this topic from a theoretical standpoint, the book provides a blueprint from a practitioner's perspective.
In school reform, students are seldom consulted. This book presents a step-by-step process for involving students in transforming schools - for empowering them to make substantive decisions that affect their education. The book is filled with specific strategies for developing a vision, building a positive school-wide culture, developing effective teamwork and decision-making skills, evaluating progress on reform efforts, and using feedback for continuous improvement. Each chapter is illustrated with vignettes of student empowerment. This book reflects the practical application of current organizational development theory. This book will be useful to grade 7-12 administrators, teachers, central office curriculum and staff developers, and postsecondary faculty in administrator preparation programs.
Exposing common myths and misconceptions about school violence and security threats, this book discusses the changing nature of school security and how to safely take action to deal with it.
New role changes resulting from school reform agandas such as site based managment, school choice and collaboration present an urgent need for school administrators to develop strategies to help them `find their way'. The authors offer mentoring. Their approach is based on understanding the socialization and mentoring literature and their belief that socialization, and therefore mentoring, should be a career-long experience.
Practical Strategies and Inspiration for K-6 Teachers
This is an 8 part audio tape series and user's guide, providing strategic advice and inspiration to new elementary, primary and junior school teachers. The user's guide is available separately.
The author explains how to base teaching on an understanding of learning style differences, and how to attend the needs of the individual whilst teaching for the needs of the whole class.
