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Making the Move to eLearning: Putting Your Course Online מאת Kay Lehmann This book proposes a radical truththat online education, when taught using the methodology perfected by successful veterans of distance learningis not only equal to but surpasses traditional face-to-face teaching and learning....

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Crowd Control: Classroom Management and Effective Teaching for Chorus, Band, and Orchestra מאת Susan L. Haugland Co-published by MENC: The National Association for Music Education Crowd Control is a nuts-and-bolts manual for teachers of middle and high school performance-based classes such as band, orchestra, and chorus. This practical how-to guide shows teachers pre-serviced or experienced efficient ways to m...

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From Systems Thinking to Systemic Action: 48 Key Questions to Guide the Journey מאת Lee Jenkins AASA: The American Association of School Administrators Systems thinking is a powerful tool that helps school system leaders guide and sustain school improvement. Use this practical guide to implement systems thinking in your school system today! The first section of this book is a concise descripti...

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God in the Classroom: Religion and America's Public Schools מאת R. Murray Thomas To help readers gain a better understanding of conflicts over the proper role of religion in American public schools, this book focuses on the seven major types of conflicts that have become particularly confrontational. Thomas does not take sides; rather, he lays out the arguments, their histori...

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Learning Culture through Sports: Exploring the Role of Sports in Society מאת Brian Lampman This book provides coaches, educators, parents, and others dealing with students and athletes with an engaging and critical venue by which to examine contemporary issues and controversies surrounding sport. In this text, authors take up the challenges faced by sport in our world, especially as it re...

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The New School Counselor: Strategies for Universal Academic Achievement includes CD-ROM מאת Rita Schellenberg The CD-ROM containing SCOPE and SCORE is nestled in this timely text that provides a unified understanding of the new roles and functions of the school counselor. Each chapter includes relevant research, literature, key players, real world applications, and major developments and trends shaping cont...

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ADHD and Social Skills: A Step-by-Step Guide for Teachers and Parents מאת Esta M. Rapoport This book explains the difficulties that children with ADHD endure to those individuals who do not understand the complexities of these children's problems. Difficulties with attention, organization and social interaction are listed, defined, and described. Teachers and personnel who work with these...

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The Elements of an Effective Dissertation and Thesis: A Step-by-Step Guide to Getting it Right the First Time מאת Raymond L. Calabrese With over 100 examples of completed dissertations from well-known universities and colleges, this book allows the student to concentrate on what makes sense and what is important to completing his or her research to writing an effective doctoral dissertation or a master's thesis....

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The Caring Teacher: Tips to Motivate Student Learning מאת L. Peter Johnson The Caring Teacher: Tips to Motivate Student Learning gives concrete examples of how a teacher, no matter what grade-level, can achieve excellence in their profession. It provides tips on classroom management and teaching strategies and techniques....

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Combating Hatred: Educators Leading the Way מאת Terrance L. Furin Combating Hatred provides several practical case studies of teachers, administrators, and school board members who have successfully combated intolerance, prejudice, and hatred in their schools. Furin details innovative ways used in the case studies to create communities that sought the highest soci...

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Sex and the American Teenager: Seeing through the Myths and Confronting the Issues מאת R. Murray Thomas

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Minds on Music: Composition for Creative and Critical Thinking מאת Bennett Reimer This book offers both a rationale for the presence of composition in the music education program and a thorough review of what we know of children's compositional practices to date....

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Using Humor to Maximize Learning: The Links between Positive Emotions and Education מאת Mary Kay Morrison

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What it Means to Be a Teacher: The Reality and Gift of Teaching מאת Michael Gose The stories, anecdotes, humor, and insights found in this book capture what it means to be a teacher. The book begins with common encounters that are the hallmark of the new-teacher experience, but continues into equally entertaining tales that come with years of working with students, parents, staf...

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Real Life Bully Prevention for Real Kids: 50 Ways to Help Elementary and Middle School Students מאת Catherine DePino

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Negotiating Individualized Education Programs: A Guide for School Administrators מאת Matthew J. Jennings This book prepares school administrators to successfully negotiate complex individualized education plans between parents and school personnel, offering clear step-by-step guidelines for preparing and leading such meetings....

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Faculty Success through Mentoring: A Guide for Mentors, Mentees, and Leaders (American Council on Education Series on Higher Education) מאת Carole J. Bland

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The Jazz Ensemble Companion: A Guide to Outstanding Big Band Arrangements Selected by Some of the Foremost Jazz Educators מאת Michele Caniato Revisit favorite arrangements, discover new ones, and inspire your jazz ensemble with sound and adventurous music to play. This new book recommends and analyzes 67 quality jazz arrangements recommended by eighteen of the foremost jazz experts in the field today....

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A Board Game Education מאת Jeffrey P. Hinebaugh This book is an entertaining and valuable resource for parents, teachers, educators, and anyone who appreciates the fun and entertainment provided by classic, traditional board games. It provides an informative analysis of how classic board games that everyone has played_and probably owns_are not on...

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Racial Bias in the Classroom: Can Teachers Reach All Children? (Innovations in Education) מאת Darlene Leiding Racial Bias in the Classroom will enable readers to learn how to handle situations involving culturally diverse students in their schools....

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The Politically Intelligent Leader: Dealing with the Dilemmas of a High-Stakes Educational Environment מאת Patricia Clark White The Politically Intelligent Leader will help leaders at all levels understand how to operate ethically during politically volatile times and how to deal with the special groups that are unique to the educational setting elected boards, citizen groups, unions, and volunteers. And when a political cri...

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Violence in America's Schools: Understanding, Prevention, and Responses מאת R. Murray Thomas The problem of violence in schools has not gone away despite radical reductions in violent crimes throughout the country over the last decade. Students continue to harrass, haze, and harm each other in a variety of ways, disrupting classrooms and whole schools. In the wake of the Columbine massacre,...

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Debating Single-Sex Education: Separate and Equal? מאת Frances R. Spielhagen Debating Single-Sex Education provides both practitioners and policymakers with a timely, detailed, and focused compilation of the issues surrounding single-sex education. It includes qualitative case studies and quantitative evidence of the effects of single-sex education on student achievement....

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Music Education at a Crossroads: Realizing the Goal of Music for All מאת Janet Barrett This is a collection of addresses from the Centennial Congress of MENC: The National Association of Music Education. Noted leaders in music education_including Paul Lehman, Bennett Reimer, Samuel Hope, and Michael Mark_joined Brenda Welburn and Anne Bryant in addressing the challenges and opportunit...

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Bully-Proofing Children: A Practical, Hands-On Guide to Stop Bullying מאת Joanne Scaglione Bully-Proofing Children is a comprehensive guide for parents, teachers, and all caretakers on the often overlooked but pervasive issue of bullying in our culture. Parents and teachers will be able to use the questioning techniques, scripts, tips and stories for dealing with this timeless is...

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101 Facts about Bullying: What Everyone Should Know מאת Meline Kevorkian

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The Servant Leader and High School Change מאת Rocky Wallace Across the country, there is an urgent call for transformational high school reform. The Servant Leader and High School Change addresses the plea for secondary school reinvention, inspiring the reader to get more involved in local school improvement efforts. Wallace capturesin story formwhat student...

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Teach the Way the Brain Learns: Curriculum Themes Build Neuron Networks מאת Madlon T. Laster This book provides ways for teachers to link subjects and areas of learning for various teaching situations and takes readers from simple correlation through using published thematic units now available and on to developing their own interdisciplinary themes or in team efforts with other colleagues....

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Bully-Proofing Children: A Practical, Hands-On Guide to Stop Bullying מאת Arrica Rose Scaglione Bully-Proofing Children is a comprehensive guide for parents, teachers, and all caretakers on the often overlooked but pervasive issue of bullying in our culture. Parents and teachers will be able to use the questioning techniques, scripts, tips and stories for dealing with this timeless is...

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Learning From Behavior: How to Understand and Help Challenging Children in School מאת James Levine Step by step, Levine, a clinical social worker experienced as a consultant to dozens of schools, helps us take the astute advice cited in one children's song we've all heard stop, look, and listen, to first understand the behavior of challenging children. He prompts the reader to question the causes...

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Eyes for Learning: Preventing and Curing Vision-Related Learning Problems מאת Antonia Orfield Eyes for Learning explains how parents and teachers can spot a vision-related learning problem and how to treat it. Dr. Antonia Orfield provides answers about referrals, required vision tests, and vision-improvement techniques. The bottom line is that good vision is a learned skill that is best deve...

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Innovative Interventions for Today's Exceptional Children: Cultivating a Passion for Compassion מאת Anthony Scannella

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A White Teacher Talks about Race, Classroom Edition מאת Julie Landsman Veteran teacher and writer Julie Landsman takes the reader through a day of teaching and reflection about her work with a group of ethically and racially diverse high school students in an inner city school....

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Books, Blackboards, and Bullets: School Shootings and Violence in America מאת Marcel Lebrun

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From Leadership Theory to Practice: A Game Plan for Success as a Leader מאת Robert Palestini This book describes the leadership practices of football coaches as a way to illustrate the theory the author expounds, offering the reader examples of leadership behavior in the four leadership frames suggested by Bolman and Deal's situational leadership theory....

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Dewey's Democracy and Education Revisited: Contemporary Discourses for Democratic Education and Leadership מאת Patrick M. Jenlink

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School Crisis Case Studies, Volume Two: Before Another School Shooting Occurs מאת Helen M. Sharp Rather than a theoretical approach or one based on scientific investigation or a specific model, the author describes events and circumstances that are present and problematic in many schools here and abroad. This book provides readers with the opportunity to anticipate specific crisis situations an...

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Conquering College: A Guide for Undergraduates מאת Victor L. Cahn With singular candor, this book discusses the potential pitfalls and rewards of campus life, including the transition from high school; the challenges of academic, personal, and social freedom; and the opportunities offered by courses, professors, and extracurricular programs. All this information i...

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American Schools: The Art of Creating a Democratic Learning Community מאת Sam Chaltain In American Schools, Sam Chaltain interweaves the leading ideas from the education, business, and scientific communities to outline a framework for leadership that helps educators and organizational leaders create the optimal conditions for transformational change....

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Big Ideas for Little Kids: Teaching Philosophy Through Children's Literature מאת Thomas E. Wartenberg Big Ideas for Little Kids includes everything a teacher, a parent, or a college student needs to teach philosophy to elementary school children from picture books. Written in a clear and accessible style, the book explains why it is important to allow young children access to philosophy durin...

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The Music and Literacy Connection מאת Elaine Bernstorf This is a practical text with ideas that can immediately be put to use in the classroom. This book goes beyond a thematic link between reading and music to an examination of those skills that are directly parallel in music learning and text reading. Including instructional examples, it provides spec...

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Effective Communication for School Administrators: A Necessity in an Information Age מאת Lance D. Fusarelli In Effective Communication for School Administrators: A Necessity in an Information Age the authors blend research, theory, and practice as they examine the critical nature of communication in contemporary practice for administrators. Divided into two parts, it examines relationships among communica...

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A Power Shift in Public Education: Seven Strategies for Dealing with Broken Promises מאת Herbert F. Pandiscio This _no holds barred_ book about big ideas makes the case that billions of dollars and millions of man hours have been spent chasing the wrong solutions. Pandiscio makes a direct assault on what he believes to be the primary causes of the failed public school system in America....

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Students with Disabilities Can Meet Accountability Standards: A Roadmap for School Leaders מאת John O'Connor This book provides a description of what instruction should look like in every classroom across the school for students with disabilities and how to make this happen....

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What Teachers Expect in Reform: Making Their Voices Heard מאת Penny Ann Armstrong

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Protecting Your Children on the Internet: A Road Map for Parents and Teachers מאת Gregory S. Smith The Internet and technologies that enable online interaction and access to a variety of content can be a perilous place for minors between 8 and 18. Parents and teachers are often ill-equipped to deal with the variety of devices and applications such as email, instant messaging, browsing, blogs, cel...

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Defending and Parenting Children Who Learn Differently: Lessons from Edison's Mother מאת Scott Teel Teel incorporates the fascinating story of Nancy Edison's love for her son Thomas, who had been labeled unteachable, then presents us with the wider array of and issues for children who learn differently. We all know Thomas Edison was a genius of seemingly limitless imagination. Yet ...

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Growing Up White: A Veteran Teacher Reflects on Racism מאת Julie Landsman

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Literacy in the Student-Centered Classroom: A Practical Approach to Set-up, Design, and Implementation מאת Julie Williamson

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Integrating Science and Literacy Instruction: A Framework for Bridging the Gap מאת Gene Freeman This book provides applicable strategies to merge literacy and science instruction allowing teachers the necessary time to build comprehension skills among their students....

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A History of American Music Education: Third Edition מאת Michael Mark Co-published by MENC: The National Association for Music Education A History of American Music Education covers the history of American music education, from its roots in Biblical times through recent historical events and trends. It describes the educational, philosophical, and sociological aspects...

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Bullying: A Handbook for Educators and Parents (Handbooks for Educators and Parents) מאת Ian Rivers Addressing the issue from three perspectives: the student, the teacher, and also the parent or family member, this work provides background information, advice and resources about the causes and nature of school bullying along with strategies to address the behavior successfully. It utilizes both...

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Improving Human Learning in the Classroom: Theories and Teaching Practices מאת George R. Taylor

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Choosing the Right Educational Path for Your Child: What Are the Options? מאת Paula J. Carreiro

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Overcoming Student Apathy: Motivating Students for Academic Success מאת Jeff C. Marshall Overcoming Student Apathy guides the reader toward success with the disenfranchised, the downtrodden, the devalued, and the demoralized. Eight archetypes are used in narrative form to represent the various forms that apathy assumes in our classrooms (e.g., The Rebel, The Downtrodden, The Invisible)....

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No More Theories Please!: A Guide for Elementary Teachers מאת L. K. Masao

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From the Classroom to the Office: The School AdministratorOs Guide to a Successful First Year מאת Matthew J. Jennings

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Educating African American Students: Foundations, Curriculum, and Experiences (Critical Black Pedagogy in Education) מאת Abul Pitre

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Enhancing the Professional Practice of Music Teachers: 101 Tips that Principals Want Music Teachers to Know and Do מאת Paul G. Young If you want to improve your professional performance and set yourself apart from your colleagues-in any discipline-these tips are for you. If you desire anything less than achieving the very best, you won't want this book....

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Sleep and Learning: The Magic that Makes Us Healthy and Smart מאת Gary R. Plaford If we want to make an impact on both the physical and mental health of individuals in our society (which impacts mortality rates, health care, health insurance rates, the aging process, etc.) we need to begin by educating our youth about the relevance of sleep on these issues....

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The Struggle for Identity in Today's Schools: Cultural Recognition in a Time of Increasing Diversity מאת Patrick M. Jenlink

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A Board Game Education מאת Jeffrey P. Hinebaugh This book is an entertaining and valuable resource for parents, teachers, educators, and anyone who appreciates the fun and entertainment provided by classic, traditional board games. It provides an informative analysis of how classic board games that everyone has played_and probably owns_are not on...

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A Recipe Book for Tutors: Teaching the Kinesthetic Learner מאת Cynthia Parsons

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Planning Educational Facilities: What Educators Need to Know מאת Glen Earthman This book provides a detailed discussion of all of the processes involved in planning a school building. From a discussion on how to organize the local staff to the final evaluation of the building, the separate processes are described in detail....

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Hidden Dangers to Kids' Learning: A Parent Guide to Cope with Educational Roadblocks מאת Betsy Gunzelmann This book describes many of the subtle problems sabotaging children's educations and what parents can do to find solutions for a broken system....

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A Graduate Student Guide: Making the Most of Mentoring מאת Carol A. Mullen This book offers a reader-friendly resource for graduate students who are seeking strategies and opportunities to be effectively mentored....

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The Bound for College Guidebook: A Step-by-Step Guide to Finding and Applying to Colleges מאת Frank Burtnett The Bound for College Guidebook offers information about the school-to-college transition in a complete, organized, and reader-friendly approach not found in any other college admissions guide. Burtnett has assembled frequently asked questions and their answers from school counselors who understand ...

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Dewey's Democracy and Education Revisited: Contemporary Discourses for Democratic Education and Leadership מאת Patrick M. Jenlink

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Leading America's Branch Campuses (American Council on Education Series on Higher Education) מאת Samuel Schuman

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Bringing History to Life: First-person Historical Presentations in Elementary and Middle School Social Studies מאת Ronald Vaughan Morris Imagine a Founding Father visiting a classroom today, or a sailor from the War of 1812, an Amish man, a 19th Century pioneer, or even a Civil War veteran. Ronald Morris has spent more than 25 years bringing these characters into classrooms and inspiring other educators to do the same. He now is syn...

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Bringing History to Life: First Person Historical Presentations in Elementary and Middle School Social Studies Ronald Morris

Bringing History to Life: First Person Historical Presentations in Elementary and Middle School Social Studies מאת Ronald Morris Imagine a Founding Father visiting a classroom today, or a sailor from the War of 1812, an Amish man, a 19th Century pioneer, or even a Civil War veteran. Ronald Morris has spent more than 25 years bringing these characters into classrooms and inspiring other educators to do the same. He now is syn...

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The Definitive Guide to Getting a Teaching Job: An Insider's Guide to Finding the Right Job, Writing the Perfect Resume, and Nailing the Interview מאת Mary C. Clement The Definitive Guide to Getting a Teaching Job is just what the title says - one-stop shopping for everything you need to know to become a teacher. Covering where to find jobs, how to write teacher resumes and cover letters, and the most comprehensive list of specific interview questions, this book ...

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Succeeding as a Female Superintendent: How to Get There and Stay There מאת Suzanne L. Gilmour

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Musical Experience in Our Lives: Things We Learn and Meanings We Make מאת Jody L. Kerchner

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Designing School Systems for All Students: A Toolbox to Fix America's Schools מאת Robert J. Manley This book provides a clear methodology for school leaders, teachers, and school board members to follow as they redesign their schools for the benefit of students....

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Curriculum on the Edge of Survival: How Schools Fail to Prepare Students for Membership in a Democracy מאת Daniel Heller Daniel Heller contends that public education is in a downward spiral because we have failed to notice the erosion of the basic curricular dimensions which support the preparation of students as active participants in our ever-changing world. While many books explain procedural knowledge such as how ...

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The Principal's Office: A Primer for Balanced Leadership מאת Jan Irons Harris

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Practicing Sucks, But It Doesn't Have To!: Surviving Music Lessons מאת Phyllis R. Sdoia-Satz

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Education's Missing Ingredient: What Parents Can Tell Educators מאת Victoria M. Young This book takes on the issues of our failures from the dangers associated with a lack of classroom discipline to the failings of the people to recognize and defend their schools from an overstepping federal government. This book clarifies the answers to our education system's woes and our republic's...

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The Peril and Promise of Performance Pay: Making Education Compensation Work מאת Donald B. Gratz

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Straight Talk to Teachers: Twenty Insane Ideas for a Better Classroom מאת Bruce Gevirtzman In a no-holds-barred, candid delivery, this book drives directly to the core of what makes an extraordinary teacher, and presents an honest appraisal of why some teachers fail....

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Making Large Schools Work: The Advantages of Small Schools מאת Arthur Shapiro This book lays out very practical approaches to making our ever-increasingly large schools work more effectively. By closely analyzing the advantages and disadvantages of large schools, the author can provide effective tools and strategies for dealing with them....

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Equity Issues for Today's Educational Leaders: Meeting the Challenge of Creating Equitable Schools for All מאת Patrick M. Jenlink This book returns the reader to an agenda for addressing equity in schools, emphasizing the need to reexamine past reform efforts and the work ahead for educational leaders in reshaping schools and schooling....

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Twice-Exceptional Kids: A Guide for Assisting Students Who Are Both Academically Gifted and Learning Disabled מאת Rosemary Callard-Szulgit Twice Exceptional Kids provides strategies for all educators and parents interested in providing the appropriate education for these special children and helping them achieve to their fullest potential....

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From Leadership Theory to Practice: A Game Plan for Success as a Leader מאת Robert Palestini This book describes the leadership practices of football coaches as a way to illustrate the theory the author expounds, offering the reader examples of leadership behavior in the four leadership frames suggested by Bolman and Deal's situational leadership theory....

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Choosing Excellence in Public Schools: Where There's a Will, There's a Way מאת David W. Hornbeck This book explains the origins of the low expectations we have of children, including, notably, children of color, those for whom English is a second language, poor children and children with disabilities. The book dispels the basis for low expectations and makes clear the economic, demographic, civ...

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Gamesmanship for Teachers: Uncommon Sense is Half the Work מאת Ryan A. Donlan In this book, teachers discover the power of uncommon sense that this author shares with respect to pedagogy, politics, and the personal health of professionals....

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Educating Today's Overindulged Youth: Combat Narcissism by Building Foundations, Not Pedestals מאת Chad Mason This book examines narcissistic, self-absorbed attitudes and behaviors of individuals and the effects of these attitudes and behaviors on the American school system, discussing multiple strategies to combat narcissism in schools....

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The Truth About Bullying: What Educators and Parents Must Know and Do מאת Jan Urbanski This book includes a straightforward yet comprehensive approach to bullying prevention and intervention outlining the role of the educator, the parent, the community, and the student. Each chapter concludes with action steps and questions to generate discussion providing all that is needed for a suc...

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Getting and Keeping New Teachers: Six Essential Steps from Recruitment to Retention מאת Janet D. Mulvey Retaining new teachers has never been easy and when the teachers are _fast track_ in urban settings, turnover and retention are real problems. This book examines how schools can work to recruit, support, and somehow hold on to new teachers, many of whom have only limited formal preparation and exper...

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Keeping Kids Safe, Healthy, and Smart מאת Kimberly Williams

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A Guide to Teacher Evaluation: Structured Observations for All Educators מאת Yamina Bouchamma

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Overcoming the Senior Slump: Meeting the Challenge with Internships מאת Randall G. Glading

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The Magic of Middle School Musicals: Inspire Your Students to Learn, Grow, and Succeed מאת Victor V. Bobetsky MENC: The National Association for Music Education Working on a musical is exciting for students, teachers, and the entire middle school community! As the first musical theater book especially for middle school productions, The Magic of Middle School Musical provides a step-by-step guide for success...

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Turning Average Instruction into Great Instruction: School Leadership's Role in Student Achievement מאת John O'Connor Turning Average Instruction into Great Instruction details a clear and concise approach to school improvement, focusing school leaders on the critical factor that has the greatest impact on student achievement: classroom instruction. Decades of research demonstrate that what happens between teachers...

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Presidential Transitions: It's Not Just the Position, It's the Transition (The Ace Series on Higher Education) מאת Patrick H. Sanaghan This book is designed to provide assistance to presidents, trustees, faculty, and other important stakeholder groups and help them avoid the pitfalls of poorly managed transitions....

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Relating to Adolescents: Educators in a Teenage World מאת Susan Eva Porter

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Activating Assessment for All Students: Innovative Activities, Lesson Plans, and Informative Assessment Mary Hamm

Activating Assessment for All Students: Innovative Activities, Lesson Plans, and Informative Assessment מאת Mary Hamm

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Lexicon of Online and Distance Learning מאת Lawrence A. Tomei This is a desktop resource focusing specifically on distance education for researchers and practitioners. Its focus on all levels of education (i.e., K-12, higher education, proprietary education, and corporate training), which allows the lexicon to provide comprehensive coverage of the discipline o...

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The Truth About Bullying: What Educators and Parents Must Know and Do מאת Jan Urbanski This book includes a straightforward yet comprehensive approach to bullying prevention and intervention outlining the role of the educator, the parent, the community, and the student. Each chapter concludes with action steps and questions to generate discussion providing all that is needed for a suc...