R L Education: 708 books
The Myth of Post-Racial America
Searching for Equality in the Age of Materialism
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2011
The Myth of Post-Racial America provides a history of race and racism in the United States. These concepts became integral parts of American society through social, psychological, and political decisions, which are documented so readers can learn about the origin of myths and stereotypes that have...
Effective Classroom Turnaround
Practice Makes Permanent
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
Effective Classroom Turnaround: Practice Makes Permanent, the third book in the Practices Makes Permanent series, contends that because students learn and behave differently, educators must thoughtfully approach them in the classroom in order to affect change. Like all humans, students respond to...
Teaching Students to Work Harder and Enjoy It
Practice Makes Permanent
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2012
Teaching Students to Work Harder and Enjoy It: Practice Makes Permanent points out a single, fundamental, and easily-corrected flaw that has held back American education for nearly a century—the design of instruction to achieve familiarization instead of mastery. This book explains the psychological...
Key Legal Issues for Schools
The Ultimate Resource for School Business Officials
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
School business officials (SBOs) must, in many respects, serve as all things to all people in their workplaces. Put another way, SBOs must be knowledgeable about a wide range of legal issues ranging from contracts to setting policy to state biding laws let alone constitutional matters involving the...
Measuring Up
Advances in How We Assess Reading Ability
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2012
In recent decades, the science of reading acquisition has been advancing through interdisciplinary research in cognitive, psycholinguistic, developmental, genetic, neuroscience, cross-language, and experimental comparison studies of effective instruction. Some of the science of reading has emerged...
by Gerard Giordano, PhD, professor of education
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
Teachers Go to Rehab examines the advice given to teachers from multiple critics both historically and recently. This book looks at the scope, cost, and impact of this advice to teachers, as well as the motives behind it. It poses precise questions about the groups that gave the advice. Who were they?...
African American Women Educators
A Critical Examination of Their Pedagogies, Educational Ideas, and Activism from the Nineteenth to the Mid-twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
This book examines the lived experiences and work of African American women educators during the 1880s to the 1960s. Specifically, this text portrays an array of Black educators who used their social location as educators and activists to resist and fight the interlocking structures of power, oppression,...
The Turnaround Mindset
Aligning Leadership for Student Success
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2011
This book provides a valuable balance between what one must know and what one must do to turn around low-performing schools. The 3-E framework simplifies this complex process by focusing resources on the environment, the executive, and the execution of the turnaround plan. Central to each of these...
Team Strategies for Success
Doing What Counts in Education
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2001
Break down the barriers within your school organization! Teaming is a collaborative educational model necessary for the increasingly sophisticated world of the Information Age. This book is a primer—containing both theory and practice—for the educator looking for team strategies and success. It...
Tomorrow's Innovators
Essential Skills for a Changing World
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2012
Profound societal changes in the economic, technological, social, and educational fronts pose challenges for educators in their ability to equip young students with the skills and capabilities needed to navigate a digitally connected and complex world. Tomorrow’s Innovators: Essential Skills For...
The New School Leader for the 21st Century
The Principal
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2002
Veteran educators Seifert and Vornberg utilize the six standards created by the Interstate School Leaders Consortium (ISLLIC) and used in developing and redesigning preparation programs and state certification examinations to discuss those issues faced by practicing elementary and secondary school...
Human Resource Management
In-Basket Exercises for School Administrators
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2002
Research has shown that adult learners prefer a problem solving approach to learning rather than subject centered. This text provides a non-traditional approach to teaching and learning the basics of human resource management through a series of 120 'in-basket' exercises and guided questions. The...
Understanding Gay and Lesbian Youth
Lessons for Straight School Teachers, Counselors, and Administrators
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2005
Understanding Gay and Lesbian Youth assists the classroom teacher, school counselor, and administrator in relating to gay and lesbian youth and creating accepting and supportive learning climates. David Campos begins with a discussion of the current state of affairs regarding gay and lesbian youth...
The Teacher's Journal
A Workbook for Self -Discovery
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
Teachers begin the professional journey with a treasure chest full of experiences, hopes, and expectations gathered from early childhood. Yet the everyday stresses and challenges of 21st century classrooms often leave teachers with neither time nor energy to recall their initiating dreams and desires.
In...