R L Education: 708 books
Instructional Alignment
Optimizing Objectives, Methods, and Assessment for Developing Unit Plans
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2012
In response to a quagmire of jargon based and convoluted curriculum textbooks, Instructional Alignment offers a concise and basic approach to instructional design. By exploring the areas of planning, assessment, and methodology, the text explains how these three areas provide an essential framework...
Collaborative School Leadership
Practical Strategies for Principals
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
In Collaborative School Leadership, Nash and Hwang provide administrators with clear and focused ideas on making the most of collaborative leadership while on the path to continuous improvement. Recognizing that classroom instruction is at the core of any plan of improvement, this book looks at the...
Play it from the Heart
What You Learn From Music About Success In Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2011
Former students often thank their music teachers for what they were taught about music and about life. Play it from the Heart uses stories and concepts from music education as models for success. Making music together requires exceptional cooperation, and ensembles are the ultimate cooperative organizations....
by Jerry Patterson
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2000
In this unique look at leadership, Patterson shares the results of interviews he conducted with 14 highly respected superintendents about the human side of this important job. These outstanding superintendents provide insights that can't be gained in any educational administration program about the good, the bad, and the ugly parts of school leadership.
Moving into the Superintendency
How to Succeed in Making the Transition
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2012
Too often, new superintendents—even if they have succeeded in other administrative positions—can undermine their successes by making critical novice mistakes, such as failing to recognize political stumbling blocks or unintentionally inviting school board member micromanagement. Moving into the...
Governing at the Top
Building a Board-Superintendent Strategic Governing Team
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2014
Doug Eadie’s Governing at the Top: Building a Board-Superintendent Strategic Governing Team is both a powerful addition to the K-12 governance literature and a practical guidebook for school board members, superintendents, and senior administrators. Opening with a crystal-clear, eminently practical...
Standardized Testing Skills
Strategies, Techniques, Activities To Help Raise Students’ Scores
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
The purpose of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2002 was to “drive broad gains in student achievement and to hold states and schools more accountable.” As early as third grade, students are required to master the grade curriculum while also becoming proficient in test taking skills. These young...
by Darla Miner, Jill Zitnay
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2012
Exploring Nonfiction with Young Learners explores the four basic nonfiction structures that the youngest learners are most likely to encounter: descriptive, recount/collection, procedural, and explanatory texts. This book also includes information to help teach four, more complex structures that younger...
Feminist Theory and Educational Leadership
Much Ado About Something!
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2013
“Who is an effective leader?” has been a question posed by scholars, educators and practitioners of leadership for centuries. Historically, leadership positions, as well as research on leadership and effective leadership, was primarily reserved for men or masculine characteristics With most societies...
Student Leadership Training
A Workbook to Reinforce Effective Communication Skills
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2002
The practice of students demonstrating their care and helping each other to achieve their goals and dreams has a long historical tradition. According to Taub, communication skills are at the heart of the matter, particularly when dealing with troublesome, personal, and emotional issues. This workbook...
In Safe Hands
Bullying Prevention with Compassion for All
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
As suicide continues to be one of the leading causes of death among children under the age of fourteen, and as recent bullying statistics report a strong connection between bullying, being bullied, and suicide, it is time for society to set aside its obsession with grade-level benchmarks, test scores,...
Banishing Bullying Behavior
Transforming the Culture of Peer Abuse
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2011
Chapter 1Transforming the Culture
Chapter 2Dimensions and Overview of Bullying
Chapter 3Back to Bullying Basics
Chapter 4Getting Specific About Bullying
Chapter 5Cyberbullying: Unimagined Cruelty
Chapter 6Bully Free Summer Camps
Chapter 7Bullying from Pre-School through Adolescence
Chapter 8Helping...
Creating Positive Images for Professional Success
A Guide for Young People
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2012
Creating Positive Personal Images for Professional Success is a book filled with guidelines for success in both private and public life. It is directed to young adults just entering the work world as well as to people who want to move up in their chosen profession. Guidelines are provided for projecting...
by Gwen Schroth, Paul Terry, Anita M. Pankake
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 1997
School administrators must constantly evaluate and refine school scheduling for optimum student and teacher performance. This book is for school administrators who need appropriate management techniques for scheduling students into classes. All parts of the puzzle are presented so the administrator...