This research-based guidebook offers PreK and kindergarten teachers easy-to-implement activities to develop oral language, phonological and print awareness, emergent writing, and comprehension skills
Foster a dialogue with teachers to regularly assess leadership effectiveness and improve instruction and student performance. Includes notes for facilitators and a CD-ROM with reproducibles.
Foster a dialogue with teachers to regularly assess leadership effectiveness and improve instruction and student performance. Includes notes for facilitators and a CD-ROM with reproducibles.
Provides an in-depth examination of the causes and symptoms of degeneration and a two-part model for preventing educational collapse and crafting an effective turnaround.
This comprehensive five-step model for measuring teacher knowledge and skills helps teacher educators and school administrators prepare fair, valid, and reliable assessments of teacher performance.
Easy-to-understand theories and nontechnical language help educators and parents understand how the teenage brain thinks, feels, learns, and changes on its journey to adulthood.
Easy-to-understand theories and nontechnical language help educators and parents understand how the teenage brain thinks, feels, learns, and changes on its journey to adulthood.
This guide highlights major concepts in special education-from disability categories, identification issues, and IEPs to appropriate learning environments and the roles general and special educators
Develop and enhance Leadership Courage to exceed every expectation!Everyday Courage for School Leaders examines the inner strength, will power, and resilience with which principals and administrators
Anticipate common math questions, eliminate pat responses, and provide explanations that are certain to engage and motivate students. Al Posamentier and his coauthors have all the answers.
Culturally competent teachers know and understand each of their students. Culturally competent schools are ones where students feel welcomed and engaged. To become culturally competent, teachers and
Culturally competent teachers know and understand each of their students. Culturally competent schools are ones where students feel welcomed and engaged. To become culturally competent, teachers and
Best-selling author and educator Jason Ohler addresses how today's globally connected infosphere has broadened the definition of citizenship, and its impact on educators, students, and parents.
Using marriage as a metaphor, this lighthearted, highly practical, and teacher-friendly resource helps general education teachers and special service providers successfully set up, conduct, and maint
Using marriage as a metaphor, this lighthearted, highly practical, and teacher-friendly resource helps general education teachers and special service providers successfully set up, conduct, and maint
This field-tested teaching model merges cognition, language, and culture and demonstrates how integrating children's backgrounds with instruction can boost learning for diverse and low SES students.
This book analyzes three previous major change efforts, outlines their strengths and limitations, and offers a successful and sustainable fourth way to integrate teacher professionalism, community en
Michael Fullan and other notable experts present a cohesive model of tri-level reform-school, district, and state educators collaborating to build and strengthen capacity for change.
Combining professional learning communities and action research, this step-by-step guide provides coaches, workshop leaders, and staff developers with strategies, activities, and tools to develop inq
This book offers practical techniques that include teacher modeling, guided practice, and independent application, and provides creative reproducibles and ready-to-use tools such as graphic organizer
Identify learners' unique reading styles and use differentiated, research-based strategies to help both fluent and low-performing readers succeed while meeting NCLB and Title I requirements.
This updated edition offers strategies for developing trust, establishing a mission, managing teams, and celebrating successes, and includes new chapters on problem-solving processes and developing a
A jargon-free overview of special education's prereferral process, IEPs, eligibility services, procedural and legal safeguards, annual reviews and evaluations, and transitions from school to adult li
The author defines 15 literacy approaches, with research and best practices associated with each strategy, to teach literacy and comprehension across all grade levels and content areas.
This updated resource helps mentors develop skills for guiding new teachers and offers reflections, discussion prompts, and role plays to promote effective interactions between mentors and beginning
Formerly published by Zephyr PressProvides print and Web resources, specific ideas for charitable projects, and practical guidance for developing students' career and life skills through youth philan
This sourcebook overflows with strategies and activities for infusing enthusiasm, focus, and productivity into faculty meetings, setting a model for school wide engagement, and building team relation
Helps school leaders re-center their decision making on student achievement, mission, and goal alignment. Covers self-assessment, reflective thinking, vision and mission, motivation, and barriers to
The Principal's Guide to Curriculum Leadership is written for practicing and aspiring public and private school administrators who desire to gain relevant skills, specialized knowledge, and overall e
Fifty Web sites, lesson ideas, new resources, and real-life examples help educators use technology to expand classroom experiences and strengthen students' critical thinking, research, and problem-so
Providing a clear framework, this volume helps school leaders align assessment and reporting practices with standards-based education and develop more detailed reports of children's learning and prog
Providing a clear framework, this volume helps school leaders align assessment and reporting practices with standards-based education and develop more detailed reports of children's learning and prog
The authors illustrate how to use data as a catalyst for significant, systematic, and continuous improvement in instruction and learning. Includes a CD-ROM with slides and reproducibles.
Presents 50 fun, creative, and cost-effective fundraising strategies from schools across the country and includes savvy organizing tips, guidance on ethical issues, and advice for avoiding mishaps.
Assess teacher affect and dispositions with a comprehensive framework linked to standards. The authors provide a step-by-step implementation sequence and examples from preservice and inservice settin
Discover how to create a reading/writing oasis, blend narrative and descriptive writing, help students compose persuasive cover letters, use "Five Circles/Five Paragraphs" and "Punny Valentines," and
This book covers the following topics and provides practical hands-on material for educators and parents.*What is dyslexai? *Myths about dyslexa *Reading disabilties, dyslexia and schoolwork *Recogniz
Staff developers, literacy consultants, and former teachers Goldberg and Houser aim to help teachers of grades three through eight feel confident and intentional in their decision-making process wh
This book addresses a broad range of Google tools that encourage communicating and collaborating, creating, sharing and publishing, researching and evaluating. The new edition has been revised to incl
Covering physics/physical science, life science/biology, earth and space science, and chemistry, this research-based guide shows secondary teachers how to develop and use formative assessments to enh
