Inspire adolescents' participation and boost their academic, research, metacognitive, and social skills through proven motivators, brain-compatible activities, study skills strategies, and the effect
This timely handbook presents evidence and recommendations to make informed decisions for planning, funding, and operating high-quality educational programs for children ages 3-8.
Excellent for use in both elementary and secondary classrooms, this resource provides updated research and the tools for building a successful schoolwide anti-bullying program.
Educators will find an expert analysis of Section 504 and the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) and their impact on educational opportunities for persons with disabilities.
Billingsley highlights the problems that drive many special educators out of teaching and outlines practical recommendations that leaders can use to increase retention.
Provides educational leaders with a framework for hiring Generation Y teachers, developing appropriate instructional and professional development programs, and successfully building a multigeneration
The updated edition of Sprenger's bestseller demonstrates how to optimize achievement by using brain-based strategies that address students' social/emotional, cognitive, and physical learning prefere
The authors take a complex, under-discussed topic and give teachers and administrators useful, basic guidelines they can put to use quickly in understanding, identifying, and helping this special gro
Written by experienced administrators, this resource shows how to help marginal employees improve their performance and behavior and discusses what steps to take when termination becomes necessary.
Inspired by the pioneering work of Nicholas Hobbs of Vanderbilt University, the contributors of these 16 articles review methods used in the US and the UK to identify those requiring special education
The author explores common concerns about bullying, provides sample dialogues with parents of bullies and victims, and presents an eight-point plan for communicating with parents.
This systematic approach to classroom management provides evidence-based strategies for assessing student insubordination and offers guidelines for developing individual intervention plans that impro
This comprehensive manual offers direction for every step of the thesis or dissertation process, from choosing an appropriate topic to adapting the finished work for publication.
Provides educators with the knowledge to understand spoken language development to meet the needs of students who are deaf or hard of hearing in their classrooms.
Emphasizing a reflective practice, this book presents an eclectic model for evaluating student information and selecting the most effective interventions from a variety of therapeutic approaches.
Emphasizing skill development through practice and feedback, this concise book offers new and experienced counselors a reflective practitioner model and introduces the fundamentals of behavioral anal
Develop a sustainable principal mentoring program that produces effective school leaders, high retention rates, and supportive mentoring relationships-without a lot of extra costs, paperwork, or time
Achieve consistent, positive teaching results using these brain-compatible methods that are readily adaptable to individual learning styles, aligned with current research, and applicable to all grade
The revised classic for designing mathematics and science professional development presents an updated planning framework and many professional development strategies and emphasizes continuous progra
Use teacher-made tests, appropriate testing accommodations, technology-based testing, and classroom-based assessments to give students with diverse needs the opportunity to achieve!
With session transcripts, in-depth case studies, and practice exercises, this concise guide gives counselors solution-focused techniques that help students use their strengths to attain goals.
Offering an accessible overview of phonemic awareness, this book provides elementary teachers with scripted lesson plans, progress charts, reproducible forms, and "phun" activities for teaching parti
Covering the major content areas, this resource shows how to develop measurable, standards-based lesson objectives and appropriate assessments that tap into all levels of Bloom's Taxonomy.
Featuring interactive exercises and user-friendly tools, this research-based guide helps educators leverage resources and build teams to improve student behavior and academic achievement schoolwide.
Imagine all professionals in all schools engaged in continuous professional learning!Education experts Shirley M. Hord and William A. Sommers explore the school-based learning opportunities offered to
Offers classroom layout suggestions for optimal learning, procedures that promote positive behavior, guidelines for designing curriculum and instruction, methods for effective assessment, and much mo
Provides new real-life examples, intervention techniques, and ready-to-use worksheets for addressing potential problems before learning is disrupted and demonstrates ways to foster student leadership
Covering various disciplines and accompanied by classroom examples, these strategies help secondary teachers improve students' content learning and literacy skills before, during, and after reading.
Examines the principal's essential role in developing equitable and sustainable school-community partnerships, synthesizes research on partnerships and principal leadership, and addresses the inclusi
Strengthen gifted girls' potential by exploring characteristics of girls' giftedness; factors affecting development; issues of resilience, self-efficacy, and personal ethics; and the importance of su
Through specific examples, qualitative research, and portraiture, the author illustrates how and why some schools are able to achieve significant, sustainable change while others cannot.
Provides 40 research-based, illustrated lessons and demonstrates how to design units that help students apply analytical, creative, and practical thinking skills to solve problems and make decisions.
A practical guide for creating, implementing, and evaluating school policy.This invaluable resource brings to life the process of making and enacting educational policy. The authors present a conceptu
This resource for education professionals, evaluators, and concerned citizens describes a practical approach to evaluating all sorts of education-related programs. The authors outline a four-phase act
Filled with reproducible resources and real-life vignettes, this unique book focuses on mentoring new teachers in culturally and linguistically diverse school settings, but can be used in any setting
Best-selling author Bonnie M. Davis provides strategies for teaching bi- and multiracial students and deepens readers' understanding of race, ethnicity, and the development of racial identities.
This updated volume provides fourteen core thinking skills that increase students' cognitive capacity and shows educators how to "bridge" these skills to the home and community.
The author demonstrates how to use, create, and modify graphics organizers to promote critical and creative thinking processes to raise achievement for students of all ability levels.
Discover how to engage teenagers in course content using this resource's updated research, new sample activities, and tips for designing and evaluating interactive learning experiences.
