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Teaching English in the Block (Teaching In The Block Ser.)
by Dan Walker, Jr Jeff Newton Joe StrzepkProvides detailed instructional strategies, sample lesson plans, and sample assessments which can be adapted in your classroom to help create better readers and more effective writers.
Middle School English Teacher's Guide to Active Learning
by Marc Moeller Victor MoellerThis book show you how you can foster reflective, independent thinking in your class; boost the number of students who actively participate; and prevent the discussions from falling flat or degenerating into "bull sessions." This volume features 20 student-centered lesson plans and includes answer keys for teachers. Each lesson plan engages students in active learning.
What Schools Should Do to Help Kids Stop Smoking
by William FibkinsThis book identifies successful tobacco intervention programs and strategies which have been implemented at schools across the country. It shows principals, counselors and other educators how to implement a school-based program with direct links to the community.
Philosophical and Cultural Values: Ethics in Schools
by George Crawford Janice NicklausThe principal's value system should guide every decision that is made in the school. This book shows that the ways in which school leaders influence student achievement are guided by their philosophical and cultural beliefs and their value systems.
Performance-Based Learning & Assessment in Middle School Science
by K. Michael HibbardThis book contains a collection of performance tasks and easy-to-use assessment tools, ready to be photocopied and distributed to your students. The tasks in this book ask students to write letters, prepare posters, create charts and graphs, prepare 3D models, write skits, take surveys, and otherwise apply what they have learned.
Measurement and Evaluation
by David A. Erlandson James Mc Namara Maryanne Mc NamaraWritten in a conversational style for principals who are not statisticians, this book will help you use measurement and evaluation to propel your school towards educational excellence.
Delegation and Empowerment
by Michael Ward Bettye MacPhail WilcoxThis book shows you how to harness the energy and knowledge distributed among your school's stakeholders. It helps you identify opportunities for delegation and provides real life situations to illustrate the principles.
Directory of Programs for Students at Risk
by Thomas WilliamsThis book summarizes over 40 programs which enhance the success of students at risk. The emphases of these programs include individual students' learning skills, whole-school improvement, professional development, and parent and family improvement. Names and addresses of key people at each site are also included.
Questions & Answers About Block Scheduling
by John Brucato Donald GaineyFor administrators and others involved in the transition to block schedules, this book provides answers to the complex and challenging questions raised by the curious and the skeptical. It demonstrates how to overcome obstacles to systemic school improvements.
Best Practices From America's Middle Schools
by Charles WatsonThis book provides easy-to-skim profiles of innovative programs and practices which have been implemented at middle schools across the country.
School Portfolio, The: A Comprehensive Framework for School Improvement
by Victoria. L BernhardtA school portfolio is the most effective way to ensure your school's success at systemic reform. Extensively tested, it is a non-threatening self-assessment tool which exhibits a school's goals, achievements, and vision for improvement. This book will show you how to develop a school portfolio tailored to your particular school and vision.
Working in a Legal & Regulatory Environment
by David J. SperryThe books in this series describe what successful principals must know and be able to do. Written by teams of nationally recognized experts and accomplished practitioners, they include practical materials such as checklists, sample letters, model forms, case studies, and action plans.
Transforming Schools into Community Learning Centers
by Stephen ParsonThis book shows how schools can provide services to all members of the community, not just to children of school age. It also demonstrates how a school's instructional program and facilities can include community resources.
The Paideia Classroom
by Laura Billings Terry RobertsWith sample lesson plans, student assessment forms (with rubrics), and other practical materials, this book shows how the principles of the Paideia Program can result in student learning and understanding.
Implementation
by Anita PankakeThis book shows school leaders how to put programs and change efforts into action; facilitate and coordinate tasks; monitor progress; and support those responsible for carrying out projects and plans.
Teaching Foreign Languages in the Block
by Deborah BlazProvides detailed instructional strategies, sample lesson plans, and sample assessments so that foreign language teachers can make the best use of the additional time.
Teaching Mathematics in the Block
by Carla Hunt Susan GilkeyProvides detailed instructional strategies, sample lesson plans, and sample assessments so that mathematics teachers can make the best use of the additional time.
Student Guidance & Development
by Dode Worsham Mary Ann WardThis book provides information about best practices in guidance and counseling. It provides examples of innovative programs which meet students' personal needs, such as school-wide discipline programs, peer mediation, student activities. etc.
Information Collection
by Paula Short Kenneth Brinson, Jnr Rick ShortThis book describes the various strategies and procedures for collecting, analyzing, and organizing information to improve education.
Written Expression Disk with Workbook
by India PodsenThis workbook provides principals with the tools they need to put into practice the concepts outlined in Written Expression: the Principal's Survival Guide, a volume in Eye On Education's hardcover series, The School Leadership Library. The workbook expands the topics covered in the hardcover book and provides additional examples. On the diskette you will find many of the sample documents printed in both the hardcover book and this workbook. You may use these files as templates for your own writing tasks.
Judgement
by James Sweeney Diana BourisawWith practical tools and strategies, this book assists readers in identifying their own thinking styles and shows how to overcome roadblocks to good judgment.
Problem Analysis
by John Reynolds Susan Achilles Charles AchillesThis book explores the relationship between problem analysis, leadership, decision making, and change. It contains many problem scenarios, case studies, and vignettes.
Resource Allocation
by Scott, M Norton Larry KellyThis book shows you how your school can maintain its high standards despite financial obstacles. It shows you how to investigate various types and sources of money available to your school; monitor the use of scarce school resources; develop a school improvement plan which incorporates financial needs; and recruit, assign, and develop teachers and staff for maximum effectiveness.
Written Expression
by Charles Allen India Podsen Glenn PethelThis book offers concrete advice and handy examples to sharpen your writing skills. Filled with sample letters, memos, and reports (also available on an accompanying disk with workbook), this book will help you successfully attack your in?basket. The writing samples are organized according to the particular audience you want to reach: faculty and staff, parents, central office, peers, local community, etc.
Leadership Through Collaboration: Alternatives to the Hierarchy
by Jeanne Baxter Michael KoehlerWith a foreword by Thomas Sergiovanni, this book exposes the myths about school leadership which impede educational improvement. It also profiles 8 successful schools at which student achievement has flourished after collaboration was introduced.