R L Education: 708 books
Six Steps to Preparing Exemplary Principals and Superintendents
Leadership Education at Its Best
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2010
Six Steps to Preparing Exemplary Principals and Superintendents is the first book to inspire and guide professors and program administrator's proven ways to prepare exemplary principals and superintendents for schools. The authors review issues surrounding extreme criticism of leadership education...
by Paula M. Short, Jay Paredes Scribner
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2002
Preparing school administrators for the challenges they will face requires materials well-informed about the nuts and bolts of education in real life. Only a richly detailed case study book like Short and Scribner's will provide them with the opportunity to analyze current issues. Each narrative chapter...
Renewal
Remaking America’s Schools for the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2012
Harold Kwalwasser has put together a call to action for education reform that makes a clear case for what has to be done in order to educate all children to their full potential. He visited forty high-performing and transforming school districts, charters, parochial, and private schools to understand...
by Bruce Gevirtzman
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2011
The problems in our nation’s schools, and the cures for those problems, have been mired in confusion, innuendo, and deception. It is time someone separated the truths about our schools from the lies. Now retired from education, and finally free to speak up, veteran high school teacher Bruce J. Gevirtzman...
by William Hayes
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2002
The perfect primer for anyone interested in becoming a superintendent. Veteran superintendent, William Hayes shares his insight and experience in areas ranging from relationships with the Boards of Education, faculty, staff, the administrative team, and the media to balancing the public and personal...
Passport to Success
Strategic Planning at the Personal and Professional Levels
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2012
Tim L. Adsit’s Passport to Success is the resource that will help educators and administrators successfully move from one destination to the next, in both professional and personal worlds. Use this helpful guide to clarify personal, career, and financial goals. Adist provides key strategies that...
Teaching Genius
Redefining Education with Lessons from Science and Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2012
The history and philosophy of science provide a deep well of lessons and analogies for educators. Historically, geniuses are produced by certain recurring historical patterns which, once understood, can be synthesized into practical curricular and professional development guides for teachers and administrators....
Dissertation Solutions
A Concise Guide to Planning, Implementing, and Surviving the Dissertation Process
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
New graduate students are often unaware of the many hazards and pitfalls that occur during the dissertation process: intensive schedules, dwindling motivation, difficult or unavailable mentors, and research and publication complications. Lacking the experience and wherewithal to successfully overcome...
Education Disrupted
Strategies for Saving Our Failing Schools
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2013
Failing schools have become the latest academic cottage industry, and they serve as lightning rods for the controversy that continues to surround the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001. Surprisingly, there are only a handful of books that address the topic of turning around failing schools and even...
Understanding and Teaching the At-Risk Adult Student
Strategies to Improve Retention and Success
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013
This is a guide for teachers entering or continuing in the specific realm of adult education of students who are at-risk due to their criminal backgrounds, substance abuse issues or undiagnosed learning disabilities. The book provides readers with an overview of the teaching challenges for this population...
Next Practices
An Executive Guide for Education Decision Makers
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2014
N3xt Practices is a ground-breaking advisory book for education decision makers. Its purpose is to challenge the top trends and initiatives of the previous decade in educational technology and bring light to their short-falls and misses. It also highlights successful endeavors and strategies and details...
Debunking the Middle-Class Myth
Why Diverse Schools Are Good for All Kids
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2002
Many parents search for a 'good' school to enroll their children. They look at the school's standardized test scores and check out demographic statistics, but fail to investigate the strengths of these schools that have a vibrant mix of races and cultures. Eileen Gale Kugler offers a unique perspective...
Unlock the Genius Within
Neurobiological Trauma, Teaching, and Transformative Learning
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2005
Here, Daniel S. Janik, MD, PhD, argues replacing education and teaching with non-traumatic, curiosity-based, discovery-driven, and mentor-assisted transformational learning. Unlock the Genius Within is an easy read that explains—in conversational manner—the newest ideas on neurobiological and...
No More "Us" and "Them"
Classroom Lessons and Activities to Promote Peer Respect
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2012
It is imperative that teachers build community in their classrooms and across their academic teams and grades in order to make school a safe and supportive place for adolescents. Teachers must help their students acknowledge that they belong to a group together, that they are part of a “we” or...