Education and Study aids / Pedagogy

Effective Planning Strategies and Proposal Writing: A Workbook for Helping Professionals

by Salene J. Cowher & Larry S. Dickson

This book provides a comprehensive review of planning strategies and related concepts, including leadership and the role of the helping professional as 'change agent.' The text presents material in a straightforward...

Matching Your Message to the Audience: A Practical Guide to Structuring Language for New Administrators

by Robert A. Pauker & Mike Hibbard

Matching Your Message to the Audience provides school administrators with principles and practical steps for creating messages that encourage a positive response. The reader learns strategies for matching the...

Beyond the Education Wars: Evidence That Collaboration Builds Effective Schools

by Greg Anrig

Beyond the Education Wars: Evidence That Collaboration Builds Effective Schools presents the best available research examining the connections between student outcomes and organizational practices, as well as...

Grandma's Santo on Its Head / El santo patas arriba de mi abuelita: Stories of Days Gone By in Hispanic Villages of New Mexico / Cuentos de días glori

by Nasario García

In this collection of bilingual stories about the Río Puerco Valley, where Nasario García grew up, he shares the traditions, myths, and stories of his homeland.

Positive Academic Leadership: How to Stop Putting Out Fires and Begin Making a Difference

by Jeffrey L. Buller

The alternative to negative academic leadership is a style that is essentially positive, taking its cues from the movement known as positive psychology. Rather than devoting all of one’s attention to solving...

Rethinking Teacher Supervision and Evaluation: How to Work Smart, Build Collaboration, and Close the Achievement Gap

by Kim Marshall

Teacher supervision and evaluation that emphasizes fairness, excellence, and achievement

In this thoroughly revised and updated edition of his bestselling book, education expert Kim Marshall shows how to break...

Common Core English Language Arts in a PLC at Work™, Leader's Guide

by Fisher Douglas & Frey Nancy

Professional development embedded within the PLC culture is vital to successfully implementing the Common Core State Standards. Integrate the CCSS for English language arts in your school's instruction, curriculum,...

Navigating the Mathematics Common Core State Standards: Getting Ready for the Common Core Handbook Series

by Jan Christinson & Maryann D. Wiggs

Common Core State Standards (CCSS) for mathematics are rigorous. Now that most states have accepted the CCSS, they need to first understand the CCSS and then design a way to implement the CCSS in mathematics....

Innovative Ideas for School Business Officials: Best Practices from ASBO's Pinnacle Awards

by David A. Ritchey

School business officials are known for their innovative, meaningful contributions to the improvement of their profession and the efficiency of school entities. The ASBO International Pinnacle Awards were established...

Dual-Language Learners: Strategies for Teaching English

by Angele Sancho Passe

Teach young children English, maintain their home language, and develop the early literacy skills necessary for school readiness and success.

Healthy Children, Healthy Lives: The Wellness Guide for Early Childhood Programs

by Sharon Bergen & Rachel Robertson

Improve overall mental and physical health of children with this program using a series of checklists based around wellness goals.

Best Practices for Training Early Childhood Professionals

by Sharon Bergen

Specifically geared toward anyone training adults in early childhood field using developmentally appropriate practices.

Free to Learn: Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More Self-Reliant, and Better Students for Life

by Peter Gray

Our children spend their days being passively instructed, and made to sit still and take tests—often against their will. We call this imprisonment schooling, yet wonder why kids become bored and misbehave....

Handsworth Revolution: The Odyssey of a School

by David Winkley

Handsworth Revolution has been widely acclaimed as an important book. It charts the progress of an inner-city primary school over twenty three years, describing and analysing its evolution in the context of...

The School Reform Landscape: Fraud, Myth, and Lies

by Christopher H. Tienken & Donald C. Orlich

The School Reform Landscape: Fear, Mythologies, and Lies describes this nation’s policymakers awkwardly stumbling through education reforms based on highly questionable political ideology and high-stakes assessments...

An Introduction to Bilingual Development

by Annick De Houwer

Increasingly, children grow up hearing two languages from birth. This introductory textbook shows how children learn to understand and speak those languages against the backdrop of their language learning environments....

A Parents' and Teachers' Guide to Bilingualism: Third Edition

by Colin Baker

Written in a very reader-friendly style, the book is a practical introduction for parents and teachers to bilingualism. Straightforward and realistic answers are given to a comprehensive set of frequently asked...

Perspectives on the Mistreatment of American Educators: Throwing Water on a Drowning Man

by Norman Dale Norris

Pressured by a society searching for a simple solution to a complex problem, educators are constantly subjected to a double standard and their work and role marginalized as insignificant despite compelling evidence...

The Biology, Physiology and Sociology of Reproduction

by Winfield S. Hall

I. GENERAL ACTIVITIES OF LIVING ORGANISMS.

The casual observer, even if he watches thoughtfully the various activities of plants and animals, would hardly believe these activities capable of classification into...

Better Worlds: Education, Art, and Utopia

by Peter Roberts & John Freeman-Moir

This book, with its attention to literature and the visual arts as well as traditional non-fiction sources, provides a distinctive, wide-ranging exploration of utopia and education. Utopia is examined not as...