This bundle includes ACHIEVING EXCELLENCE IN SCHOOL COUNSELING THROUGH MOTIVATION, SELF-DIRECTION, SELF-KNOWLEDGE AND RELATIONSHIPS and CBA TOOLKIT ON A FLASH DRIVE
The focus of this edited book is continuing teacher education over the course of a teacher's career.
This new book from David Sousa examines source material on brain research and provides primary and secondary classroom reading strategies for teachers based on the most current findings. There are five core chapters on - what the research tells us,…
How do we engage students and ensure they understand argument writing's fundamental components? How do we take them from "Here's what I think" to "Here's what I think. Here's what makes me think that. And here's why it matters"? This book shows the…
`This is a must-read for teachers who coach, serve on committees, have families, or do all of the above. New teachers will find that it makes that first year less overwhelming. The time spent to read this book will be recovered many times over. The…
From Snorkelers to Scuba Divers in the Elementary Science Classroom: Strategies and Lessons That Move Students Toward Deeper LearningBy John Almarode and Ann M. Miller.Inspire a deep and lasting love of science in young studentsWith so much attentio…
A constructivist leader facilitates professional dialogue and inquiry to enable all teachers to make sense of their work together and to reconstruct the major purposes of schooling. Illustrating their work with vignettes of the activities of such le…
'I will be quoting many of the key points presented in the book often to others in my school' - Carol Amos, Teacher Leader/Mathematics Coordinator, Twinfield Union School, Plainfield, VT 'Makes a distinct contribution to the field of mathematics, ex…
`This book will help PDS partners keep their focus on students' need -the core of PDS work, as they take this journey together. It provides concrete suggestions for what PDS partners can do in developing, implementing, and assessing their partnershi…
This is entirely a book of the author's responses to real questions asked by student teachers, as well as first and second year teachers. The author's ideas and opinions are based on seven years on the "front lines" of teaching and three years as an…
This book operationalizes Visible Learning's Teacher Clarity and Student Expectations into five essential components: crafting learning intentions and success criteriaco-constructing learning intentions and success criteria with learnerscreating opp…
This book offers school counselors an effective and efficient approach to helping students through the use of Solution-Focused Brief Counseling (SFBC). The author presents a focused, step-by-step approach to counseling in schools that leads to rapid…
Blueprint for Student Success is a dynamic book that stresses the importance of learning through discovery, creativity, application, adaptation, and high-level thinking. Susan J Jones reiterates the need for a positive atmosphere, rituals, and proce…
This is a guide to implementing problem-based learning as a teaching method in middle schools and secondary schools. Includes sample lessons specific to grade levels and disciplines and follows the same easy-to-use style of the original volume for K…
'Pulls many areas of gifted research, knowledge, and applications together in a clear and concise manner. This is a one-stop book for teachers who have high-ability/gifted students in a classroom and need to understand how these students' brains wor…
Increasingly as important to educators as the Common Core State Standards, the new national anchor for curriculum, instruction and assessment have set a high bar of rigorous and challenging content. While most educational researchers and practitione…
Site-based management is currently a hot topic in education. This book provides administrators, teachers, parents and community members with the group decision-making skills necessary to successfully implement site-based management in their schools.
This book helps school administrators see the many contradictions between the underlying concepts of traditional collective bargaining and the important goals that many school districts seek today, especially decision making based on the informed op…
This Is Disciplinary Literacy helps content-area teachers put into action the key literacies of their specialties. Teaching science? Students must evaluate evidence and question as they read. History? Comparing and contrasting sources and interpreti…
This practitioner-focused guide to creating identity-safe classrooms presents four categories of core instructional practices:- child-centered teaching- classroom relationships- caring environments- cultivating diversityThe book presents a set of st…
This innovative guide will help teachers immediately engage students in fun, classroom-ready argumentation and take ownership of their learning. It will also facilitate deep mathematical understanding and encourage logical, clear connections between…
This is a book that gives specific step-by-step guidelines for successful school/public relations. Written so that an inexperienced person at a school can service as the public relations specialist.
Through immediately actionable tools, tasks, and strategies, this book will help grades 6 through 12 teachers know and understand their students as learners, plan for differentiation at both the macro level and the day-to-day classroom level, assess…
Based on the content and performance standards developed by the United States' National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, this is a step-by-step guide to developing performance-based curriculum. Replete with specific examples, the book reflects al…
This book addresses the important assessment themes, provides a perspective from which to view large-scale assessments, and lays the foundation for plausible interpretations of their results.
By exploring what close reading is and how to teach it, this book helps teachers implement it in their classroom to enrich students' literacy learning. The book is broken down into three parts:Part I gives readers a clear definition of close reading…
RESULTS COACHING is the new essential for today's school leaders. Being a "coach-leader" is a key competency, a new identity, for anyone in the business of developing teachers, staff, and students. Because coaching language and skills require alignm…
This book offers not only a hands-on training agenda that can be adapted to primary or secondary schools, but also a step-by-step approach to introducing peer mediation to administrators, faculty and staff, students, parents, and the community. The…
Seal the gaps in student learning with targeted interventionThis practical resource addresses the gap between school-wide disciplinary policies and interventions individually tailored to the most problematic students. Focusing on proactive strategie…
School reform efforts in the United States during the last decade have tended to concentrate on issues including professionalizing teaching, site-based decision-making, increasing the school day and academic year, and national assessments. The curri…
The author has written an easy-to-read delightful book on the subject of self-esteem that can be enjoyed by people of all ages. It has been proven especially helpful for teachers working with students and parents, school counsellors, and school admi…
In this comprehensive guide to using data to plan differentiated instruction, the authors present step-by-step techniques and planning tools to help teachers design learning that allows all students to grow and achieve to their maximum potential. Fo…
This short book will be a guide for school leaders on how to flip communication with staff members, parents, and the larger school community. The author emphasizes that flipping information - or providing information in digital form so that recipien…
`Teaching Is an Art can help new teachers adjust more smoothly into the education profession and can provide new ideas and insights for veteran teachers' - John Thompson, Assistant Principal, El Camino High School, South San Francisco, CA The author…
The face of educational leadership is now changing significantly as more women and people of diverse ethnic backgrounds are moving into administrative roles traditionally held by white men. Using interviews with women who have achieved success in su…
This is a practical guide on how to plan, develop and implement a `tech prep' programme. The book illustrates how schools can work collaboratively with business and industry to organize a programme that provides students with the core technical and…
Exciting professional development that works!Discover Edcamp, a model of professional development that's never one- size-fits-all-and always productive. In Edcamp, "unconference" participants create the agenda and lead the sessions, drawing on their…
Insights on inclusion from acclaimed authorsThe Best of Corwin series showcases key chapters from critically acclaimed Corwin publications for a powerful compilation of perspectives on important education issues and topics. The Best of Corwin: Inclu…
Using the authors' expertise from 25 years in the field, as well as current research and evaluation of phonics programs in schools, A Fresh Look at Phonics provides the ingredients needed for success, and underlines the common reasons for failure. I…
As teachers, we often take ourselves a bit too seriously, so veteran educator and illustrator Aaron Bacall offers a little perspective with these lighthearted cartoons. Whether used as overheads for staff development meetings or as an individual bre…
`We especially liked the introductions to each chapter with small and wise citations like: "there is very little access to the brain when the heart is in pain" or "laughter is better". We believe this book to be a good practical resource for teacher…
Grow your leadership skills to bring out the best in your school!Help your staff get "unstuck" no matter what challenges they are facing through solutions-focused coaching techniques that help them envision desired outcomes and the actions needed to…
Build every student's ability and opportunity to achieve! We've all heard the stories of extraordinary teachers that reach struggling students and set them on a new path. Now in its third edition, this powerful book features timely new content from…
In this book, John Hattie, Doug Fisher, Nancy Frey, team up with mathematics experts Linda M. Gojak, Sara Delano Moore, and William Mellman to walk teachers through the key research-based moves they should focus on in their mathematics classrooms -…
Instructional leadership begins in the classroom Donald B. Bartalo reveals the experiences of school leaders and teachers who have discovered that meaningful school improvement does not necessarily come from the top-it comes from effective teaching…
This is a step-by-step guide to developing performance-based curriculum for science. The book is based on the adopted United States national standards in science. It is filled with benchmarks and specific curriculum examples which reflect all the re…
This book pulls together the common themes of the many attempts at educational reform in the United States. It looks particularly at today's North American high school, where reform seems less tenacious compared to elementary and middle schools.
Exposing common myths and misconceptions about school violence and security threats, this book discusses the changing nature of school security and how to safely take action to deal with it.
Read! Read! Read!, outlines a programme to address a need among educators to involve parents in the process of helping their children learn to read and write. Although the at-risk reader is provided with supplemental support at school, additional re…
