As the subtitle suggests, Educating America is a collection of quotes from the icons of the education - from groundbreakers like Dewey, Freire, Vygotsky, Montessori, Piaget, Bourdieu, Noddings, Bloom, Clay, Sarason, et al, to more contemporary educators of note like Darling-Hammond, Fullan, Glasser, Sizer, Gardner, Ladson-Billings, Sergiovanni, ......
This is a quick-start manual for teachers who are working with bilingual learners for the first time or who want a refresher course. The book is practical, jargon free, easy to navigate, and it contains strategies that teachers can implement immediately and without fuss. The book is not tied to state-specific immersion programmes but instead ......
Supportive Supervision approaches all facets of instructional leadership in a step-by-step process by offering clear, fully developed, and focused plan as a guide to supervising teachers through countless examples, practical illustrations, realistic situations, sample documents, and useful forms. It is the intent of this book to establish a ......
Supportive Supervision approaches all facets of instructional leadership in a step-by-step process by offering clear, fully developed, and focused plan as a guide to supervising teachers through countless examples, practical illustrations, realistic situations, sample documents, and useful forms. It is the intent of this book to establish a ......
"At last we have a book that realistically, empathically, and interestingly describes leadership and the professional development work that needs to accompany it-for principals. It is all here: readings, web sites, theory, practice, helpful forms to use, vignettes of principals. Lindstrom and Speck are both 'insiders' and 'outsiders' teaching us ......
"At last we have a book that realistically, empathically, and interestingly describes leadership and the professional development work that needs to accompany it-for principals. It is all here: readings, web sites, theory, practice, helpful forms to use, vignettes of principals. Lindstrom and Speck are both 'insiders' and 'outsiders' teaching us ......
Combining People, Passion, and Proof to Maximize Student Achievement
The aim of Getting Excited About Data is best captured by its subtitle, Combining People, Passion and Proof to Increase Student Achievement. The book explains how the goal in collecting more data should be to increase student success, not to be "a more research-based, data-driven school." The book focuses on the human elements, such as hopes and ......
Second Edition of best-seller Behaviour Recovery from top selling author Bill Rogers Teachers frequently face the challenge of children with behaviour disorders in their classes. Behaviour Recovery Second Edition gives teachers an educational model for teaching behaviour specifically to those children based on whole-school support. The Second Edition of this well-known book has been revised and updated throughout. New features include: - the practical options and programmes teachers use to address the challenge of children with emotional and behavioural disorders - attention deficit disorder (ADD), particularly with older primary and lower-secondary age children - issues relating to task avoidance, task-focus and organization - discipline and behaviour management in an expanded form - photocopiable masters in the Appendix. Behaviour Recovery Second Edition develops a structured approach that enables students to develop positive behaviours. Bill Rogers' inclusion of real school experiences - both his own and others - makes the book informative, practical and easy to follow. ?
Save 25% When you buy all eight volumns in the American Presidents Reference Series Set. Each volume in this series is organized around an individual presidency and gathers a host of biographical, analytical, and primary source historical material that analyzes the presidency and brings the president, his administration, and his times to life. The series focuses on key moments in U.S. political history as seen through the eyes of the most influential presidents to take the oath of office. Unique headnotes provide the context to data, tables and excerpted primary source documents.'' ''The format of each book follows the same organization and includes:''''Introduction ''Biographical Sketch''Campaigns and Electoral Strategies''Administration Policies''Crises and Flashpoints''Relationship with Major Institutions''After the White House (or presidential legacy)''Key Figures in the Administration''Chronology ''Index'''''' ''This is a valuable series for academic and high school libraries as well as public libraries and their patrons interested in American presidential history.'' ''The American Presidents Reference Series Set includes:'' ''Abraham Lincoln ''Andrew Jackson''Franklin Delano Roosevelt''George Washington''Harry S. Truman''Lyndon Baines Johnson''Theodore Roosevelt''Woodrow Wilson''
