R L Education: 708 books
Shake-Up Call
The Need to Transform K–12 Classroom Methodology
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2012
Traditional, teacher-centered classrooms are not serving the needs of our students. Their futures will increasingly demand skill sets in the areas of communication, collaboration, and critical thinking; worksheets, videos, and lectures will not prepare them for the challenges they will face in an...
Blundering Leadership
Missteps by School Administrators
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2010
Often new leaders commit a series of missteps that create dissention and dissatisfaction, ultimately alienating staff. This book is designed to steer future leaders and newly promoted leaders away from these missteps. The authors share ideas to aid new leaders in making fewer mistakes that alienate...
by Rosemary Papa, Fenwick W. English
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
There's no mystery in turning around low-performing or failing schools, but there are also no recipes. In Turnaround Principals for Underperforming Schools Rosemary Papa and Fenwick English identify the essential ingredients for success. The causes of failure are complex and interactive. Schools are...
Creating Effective Presentations
Staff Development with Impact
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2011
Creating Effective Presentations: Staff Development with Impact presents a comprehensive approach to creating compelling, interactive staff development sessions. The book is highly practical, summing up important research in the field of visual communication, graphic design, and presentation skills...
Why Students Underachieve
What Educators and Parents Can Do about It
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2006
Here is a timely response to the research findings of the last decade. Why Students Underachieve: What Educators and Parents Can Do about It focuses on the need to understand how prevalent trauma is in the lives of our students and how it impacts the brain, subsequent learning, and behavior. This...
Empowering the Voice of the Teacher Researcher
Achieving Success through a Culture of Inquiry
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2010
Empowering the Voice of the Teacher Researcher through a Culture of Inquiry is essentially a description of one school's initiatives to use collaborative communities and action research to empower teacher research and a culture of collective inquiry. It is written by teachers primarily for teachers...
Meaningful Conversations
The Way to Comprehensive and Transformative School Improvement
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012
Imagine a school in which gathering around the table to have meaningful conversations is commonplace and unencumbered by roles and positions. Such discourse is not only meaningful, but also significant, purposeful, valuable, filled with intention, and result oriented. There is a spirit of trust that...
The Standards-Based Administrative Internship
Putting the ISLLC Standards into Practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2002
As an applied field, educational administration must be learned through experiencing its myriad tasks and challenges. Whether you are the mentor or the intern, you will find a wealth of helpful information and guidance about designing field experiences for individuals who are involved in the clinical...
The Professoriate: Challenges and Promises
The Third Yearbook of the National Council of Professors of Educational Administration
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 1998
The 1995 NCPEA Yearbook is organized into five major sections. The first, The Landscapes of Change: Challenges for Professors of Educational Administration, contains four chapters that frame the major themes and issues of the 1994 conference. In Section 2, Educational Leadership and Development Program:...
by William Bailey
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 1997
Provides information to help administrators organize school structure, advance effective techniques, increase worker satisfaction, and promote productivity.
The Curriculum Management Audit
Improving School Quality
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2000
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Using Test Data for Student Achievement
Answers to No Child Left Behind
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2011
Schools are drowning in test data, but many schools do little with test results other than sort students into various categories of proficiency or lack thereof. Some educators feel testing has taken the joy out of teaching. Others believe valuable instructional time has been lost as a result of testing....
How to be Involved in Program Evaluation
What Every Adminstrator Needs to Know
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2005
The purpose of this book is to improve the direction and utility of the evaluation by program directors in charge, and the implementation of the evaluation by the evaluator. The authors contend that both of these goals can best be met by understanding each individual role.
How to be Involved...
by Sandra Phifer
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2002
This book is designed for the career teacher interested in designing positive learning environments. For the teacher facing challenges in the classroom, this essential text goes far beyond background experiences and training programs in providing knowledge with an impact. Planning, organizing, and...