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Teacher Retention: What is Your Weakest Link?
by India PodsenThis book is for you if you are: challenged by the number of teacher vacancies at the start of your school year, finding that your most promising teachers are resigning before they complete their first few years on the job, or no longer willing to accept that your veteran teachers are just marking time until their retirement. Best-selling author India Podsen shows you how to uncover and analyze retention risks at your school; implement induction programs to help novices master the realities of full-time teaching; engage your experienced teachers in the retention process; and apply the Professional Educator Career Framework, consisting of Four Career Stages: teacher inductee, teacher specialist, teacher leader, and teacher steward. This book provides school leaders with practical suggestions and easy-to-use tools such as checklists and action plans, sample meeting programs and agendas, evaluation templates, benchmarks and standards, and all designed to help you deal successfully with teacher shortages and related problems.
Navigating Comprehensive School Change
by Robert Everhart Thomas ChenowethThis book, an accessible resource for busy practitioners, is a unique hybrid of two genres. As a "tourist guide," it shows you how to prepare for the journey, what to pay attention to upon arrival, and how to deal with the unexpected. As a "consumer report", it helps you identify some of the best tools and sources about change, access useful information about the change process, and find information about the strengths and challenges of various strategies. Thorough and comprehensive, it offers essential information about how to form leadership teams, identify high stakes problems, build commitment, create a school-wide vision and establish school-wide goals, handle setbacks, maintain the vision and sustain change, and evaluate and assess comprehensive school change. Also included is a section called "Ports of Call," which provides sources of information to help you implement comprehensive school reform at your site.
Assessment in Middle and High School Mathematics: A Teacher's Guide
by Daniel BrahierIt describes each strategy and clarifies its advantages and drawbacks. Also included is a large sample of classroom-tested examples along with sample student responses. These examples can be used "as is" - or you can customize them for your own class. This book will help prepare your students for standardized tests that include items requiring evidence of conceptual understanding. The strategies reflect the assessment Standards benchmarks established by the NCTM. In addition, an entire chapter is devoted to help teachers use these assessments to arrive at their students' grades.
Constructivist Strategies: Meeting Standards & Engaging Adolescent Minds
by Chandra Foote Catherine Battaglia Paul VermetteThis book demonstrates how student-centered learning activities can help your middle and high school students meet curriculum standards. Its vivid and authentic examples will appeal to you if you embrace active learning and want to apply constructivist methodologies in your classroom. This book explains the links between constructivism and other innovative teaching practices such as: - cooperative learning - multiple intelligences - portfolio assessment - curriculum mapping - culturally relevant teaching - and many others Applications of these practices in classrooms are demonstrated and displayed by: - sample lesson and unit plans - summary charts - classroom management models - examples of student assessments
Buddies: Reading, Writing, and Math Lessons
by Pia HansenThis book provides opportunities for older and younger children in different grades to work together on standards-based activities. It contains over 40 lessons in which elementary school students of different ages can learn together. Each activity can be assigned as a special project or as part of an organized program in which teachers work together on a regular basis. For each activity, you will be provided with: standards -- reading, writing, or mathematics, and assessment rubrics, student handouts, ready for photocopying. To help you assess your students objectively and confidently, about a quarter of the lessons are accompanied by samples of student work along with its score and an explanation of why the work deserved that score.
Emerging Principalship, The
by David A. Erlandson Linda Skrla Eileen ReedThis book makes a distinction between the "principal" - the man or woman who occupies the position - and the "principalship", the entire leadership function which, although overseen and coordinated by the principal, also includes activities of assistant principals, teachers, counselors, and others. It explains and applies the 21 domains recommended by the National Policy Board and demonstrates how they relate to the ISLLC standards.
Teaching Science in the Block
by Alvin Pettus Myron BlosserThis book provides detailed instructional strategies, sample lesson plans, and sample assessments to help science teachers make the best us of the additional time available in a block schedule.
Collections of Performance Tasks & Rubrics: Foreign Languages
by Deborah BlazThis book features 68 performance tasks and rubrics, all designed to motivate and engage your students. Also included are samples of student work to help you apply the rubrics and develop your grading and scoring skills. The performance assessments in this book were contributed by teachers like you from all over the country and they include:- open-ended and extended response exercises- projects and portfolios- behavioral assessments (skits, debates, discussions, etc.)- authentic assessments- and student self-assessments, in addition to those administered by teachers.
Creating Connections for Better Schools: How Leaders Enhance School Culture
by Douglas FioreThis book demonstrates that student achievement depends on school culture, the one element of your school at the foundation of everything that happens there. School culture is the system of beliefs, values, and expectations that governs the feelings and actions of everybody there. This book shows how principals can build relationships and connections to enhance school culture. Practical and accessible, this book provides guidelines which will show you how to:- communicate with teachers, students, and parents on a regular basis - be "visible" - recognize, utilize and empower your faculty
Beyond Vocational Education: Career Majors, Tech Prep
by David PucelThis book provides the practical information you need to make the transition from traditional "vocational" education programs to the new approaches to career and technical education. It shows you how to organize your schools around relevant career majors using a variety of evolving school formats such as Career Major programs, Tech Prep programs, Academies, and Magnet Schools.
Developing Parent and Community Understanding of Performance-Based Assessment
by Kathryn AlvestadThis book takes the reader step-by-step through the process of helping parents understand the role of performance-based assessment in student learning. Included are suggestions about what to emphasize during one-to-one meetings with parents, speeches and presentations you can deliver at PTSA meetings and school board sessions, transparency masters and handouts to enhance your presentations.
Standards-Based Learning for Students with Disabilities
by Marsha Craft- Tripp Allan GlatthornThis book describes in detail how educators can apply curriculum standards, performance standards and opportunity standards to improve education of special learners. It provides practical examples which show you how to develop and implement standards-based IEPs, use curriculum standards and benchmarks to develop long term plans, develop performance tasks for students with disabilities, and develop curriculum units for students with disabilities. This book shows you that students with disabilities can profit from and be involved with the types of standards currently used with other students.
English Teacher's Guide to Performance Tasks and Rubrics: Middle School
by Amy BenjaminThis book provides step-by-step procedures, student hand-outs, and samples of student work.
English Teacher's Guide to Performance Tasks and Rubrics: High School
by Amy BenjaminThis book provides step-by-step procedures, student hand-outs, and samples of student work.
Example School Portfolio, The: A Companion to The School Portfolio
by Victoria BernhardtThis book presents a prototype school portfolio, along with annotated explanations and suggestions. Although this book describes a hypothetical elementary school, the data and examples come from real schools at which the authors worked, and the recommendations can be applied to any level school engaged in systemic reform.
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.