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Thinking in Childhood and Adolescence
ISBN: 9781623964337 / Angielski / Miękka / 362 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Until recently educators were expected to provide all the knowledge students would need to ensure their future. However, the Internet has altered conditions of learning in ways that motivate students to be more self-directed and less dependent on direct instruction. Neuroscience discoveries about brain functioning also urge schools to adopt thinking as an aspect of core curriculum. Students who acquire thinking skills needed to locate information, process and organize data, generate creative and practical ideas, communicate with all age groups, and collaborate can adapt to technology change...
Until recently educators were expected to provide all the knowledge students would need to ensure their future. However, the Internet has altered cond...
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Thinking in Childhood and Adolescence (Hc)
ISBN: 9781623964344 / Angielski / Twarda / 362 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Until recently educators were expected to provide all the knowledge students would need to ensure their future. However, the Internet has altered conditions of learning in ways that motivate students to be more self-directed and less dependent on direct instruction. Neuroscience discoveries about brain functioning also urge schools to adopt thinking as an aspect of core curriculum. Students who acquire thinking skills needed to locate information, process and organize data, generate creative and practical ideas, communicate with all age groups, and collaborate can adapt to technology change...
Until recently educators were expected to provide all the knowledge students would need to ensure their future. However, the Internet has altered cond...
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Unifying Educational Systems: Leadership and Policy Perspectives
ISBN: 9780415524681 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Grounded in public policy debates, research on teaching and learning, and an emerging consensus throughout the leadership community that calls into question our current practices, chapters in this volume provide a discussion of the purpose, principles, and paradoxes extant in the implementation of current special education policy.
Grounded in public policy debates, research on teaching and learning, and an emerging consensus throughout the leadership community that calls into qu...
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The Urban School System of the Future: Applying the Principles and Lessons of Chartering
ISBN: 9781607094760 / Angielski / Twarda / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For more than two generations, the traditional urban school system--the district--has utterly failed to do its job: prepare its students for a lifetime of success. Millions and millions of boys and girls have suffered the grievous consequences. The district is irreparably broken. For the sake of today's and tomorrow's inner-city kids, it must be replaced. The Urban School System of the Future argues that vastly better results can be realized through the creation of a new type of organization that properly manages a city's portfolio of schools using the revolutionary principles of chartering....
For more than two generations, the traditional urban school system--the district--has utterly failed to do its job: prepare its students for a lifetim...
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The Dharmic Leader - Leadership Anchored in Hindu and Buddhist Secular Core Values
ISBN: 9781604145502 / Angielski / Miękka / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Violence in Student Writing: A School Administrator′s Guide
ISBN: 9781452203973 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book gives principals and other school leaders guidance in responding to student violent writing legally while still achieving their educational goals and maintaining academic integrity. Oltman highlights and explains current court cases dealing with student violent writing; shows educators how to investigate, document, and discipline student violent writing; offers strategies for responding to the writing; and shows leaders and teachers how to collaborate in this endeavor. This book: Deals with violent writing both within the classroom and outside the classroom, including... This book gives principals and other school leaders guidance in responding to student violent writing legally while still achieving their education... |
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Leading for Powerful Learning: A Guide for Instructional Leaders
ISBN: 9780807753491 / Angielski / Miękka / 153 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This title offers a practical, research-based framework for thinking about instructional leadership, along with the necessary resources and tools for improving practice. The authors identify specific structures, formats, and strategies that an instructional leader can use to support new and veteran principles and teacher leaders. They then discuss ways to think about which structures are most appropriate for particular settings, offering suggestions on the most effective way to work with these structures.
This title offers a practical, research-based framework for thinking about instructional leadership, along with the necessary resources and tools for ...
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The Myth of Accountability: What Don't We Know?
ISBN: 9781610487009 / Angielski / Miękka / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. School improvement that is reliant on accountability is a myth based upon falsehoods and wrong assumptions. Public educations' increased dependence on this foundation for school reform and change has failed both students and teachers. The fact remains that people who create education policy do not understand what is best for individual students and classrooms. Their devised curriculum standards are, in actuality, curriculum limits that prevent students from creating successful personal and academic futures because they thwart any natural learning exploration. As such, these market-inspired,...
School improvement that is reliant on accountability is a myth based upon falsehoods and wrong assumptions. Public educations' increased dependence on...
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Six Steps to Boost Student Learning: A Leader's Guide
ISBN: 9781138239791 / Angielski / Twarda / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For busy school leaders, this inspirational and reader-friendly book offers streamlined strategies to improve teaching and learning. Providing a blueprint for an accessible and high-impact plan of action, this guide helps you to become intentional about aligning college, career, and life challenges with good curriculum, instruction, and assessment work. Chapters include research tips, guides to action, numerous examples, reflection questions, immediate take-aways, and downloadable tools. In this practical guide, you'll:
For busy school leaders, this inspirational and reader-friendly book offers streamlined strategies to improve teaching and learning. Providing a bl... |
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Bridging the English Learner Achievement Gap: Essential Lessons for School Leaders
ISBN: 9780807753606 / Angielski / Miękka / 195 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In spite of decades of school reform, the achievement gap between English learners and English-proficient students has narrowed little. This book introduces the Sustainability Frameworka step-by-step process that will help educators at all levels increase school attendance and academic success for ELL students. This reform-navigation tool identifies patterns and trends in the deployment of a reform and subsequently allows leaders to make necessary adjustments to extend, accelerate, or terminate a given reform. Bridging the English Learner Achievement Gap offers a compelling, research-grounded...
In spite of decades of school reform, the achievement gap between English learners and English-proficient students has narrowed little. This book intr...
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Creative Scheduling for Diverse Populations in Middle and High School: Maximizing Opportunities for Learning
ISBN: 9781412995252 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Maximize time and resources to support diverse student needs This step-by-step implementation guide explains how to strategically reorganize school schedules to facilitate various programs, including RTI, small learning communities, credit recovery, special education, Advanced Placement, and ESL/ELD. The authors: Walk you through the process of developing a fully inclusive schedule to meet diverse student needsPresent a wide variety of fixed and variable scheduling frameworksProvide research-based teaching strategies designed to maximize the effectiveness of each scheduling modelInclude...
Maximize time and resources to support diverse student needs This step-by-step implementation guide explains how to strategically reorganize school sc...
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Getting There : Women's Journeys to and Through Educational Attainment
ISBN: 9789460918445 / Angielski / Miękka / 170 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book chronicles the lived experience/educational journeys of women who found themselves moving forward together pursuing doctoral degrees in Educational Leadership. Grounded in the realities of women's lives these inspirational first-person narratives have the potential to raise awareness regarding women's socialization, expectations, and the role interpersonal and community connections play in the lived female experience. This book provides a potential resource for those considering how relationships and support groups impact life's journey, and their importance in overcoming barriers...
This book chronicles the lived experience/educational journeys of women who found themselves moving forward together pursuing doctoral degrees in Educ...
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Getting There : Women's Journeys to and Through Educational Attainment
ISBN: 9789460918452 / Angielski / Twarda / 170 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book chronicles the lived experience/educational journeys of women who found themselves moving forward together pursuing doctoral degrees in Educational Leadership. Grounded in the realities of women's lives these inspirational first-person narratives have the potential to raise awareness regarding women's socialization, expectations, and the role interpersonal and community connections play in the lived female experience. This book provides a potential resource for those considering how relationships and support groups impact life's journey, and their importance in overcoming barriers...
This book chronicles the lived experience/educational journeys of women who found themselves moving forward together pursuing doctoral degrees in Educ...
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Life Skills Primer: Essays on Leadership
ISBN: 9780615658346 / Angielski / Miękka / 104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Young people in the twenty-first century face a complex world creating challenges unthinkable even twenty years ago. Challenges such as a global economy, social and cultural change, and the incessant pace of technological growth create a muddy environment for anyone living on our planet, including experienced adults Whatever our cultural, ethnic, or social background, we face similar challenges and must learn to cope, not only to gain a competitive advantage, but also to survive. Remember the old proverb give a man a fish feed him for a day, but teach a man to fish and feed him for a...
Young people in the twenty-first century face a complex world creating challenges unthinkable even twenty years ago. Challenges such as a global econo...
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Transformational Servant Leadership
ISBN: 9781622305520 / Angielski / Miękka / 130 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Who needs another book on leadership? After reading Dr. Parolini's manuscript, I concluded that I did. This personal, thoughtful and challenging book takes two well recognized leadership models, puts them in dialog, and synthesizes a more robust model. Using her research, consulting experience, and life story, Dr. Parolini challenges leaders to grow their character as a basis for growing their skills as a leader. This is not a book to skim. The reader will gain the most from interacting with the frequent questions and exercises that link the material with the leader's character and style....
Who needs another book on leadership? After reading Dr. Parolini's manuscript, I concluded that I did. This personal, thoughtful and challenging book ...
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The Refractive Thinker: Vol VII: Social Responsibility
ISBN: 9780984005420 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The latest volume of the peer-reviewed academic chronology, The Refractive Thinker(r) Volume VII: Social Responsibility, is available to scholars and researchers this summer. The book is part of the multiple award-winning series six awards and counting ] published by The Refractive Thinker(r) Press. Retailing for $18.95, U.S., and found under the category of Business & Economics/Leadership publications, the volume features the following authors: The Benefits of Collaborative Doctoral Research Celebrate the diffusion of innovative refractive thinking through the writings of these doctoral...
The latest volume of the peer-reviewed academic chronology, The Refractive Thinker(r) Volume VII: Social Responsibility, is available to scholars and ...
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Large Scale School Reform and Social Capital Building
ISBN: 9780415636551 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book introduces and explores the nature of large scale reform, and offers a fresh insight into the importance of social capital and professional development leadership for teachers and school management. It synthesizes research on the role of the professional development leader and the importance of social capital in schools, and examines its potential to impact large scale, system-wide, reform projects. The text presents a range of international examples and theories from renowned researchers and educationists, which illustrate the challenge of raising the prominence of education...
This book introduces and explores the nature of large scale reform, and offers a fresh insight into the importance of social capital and professional ...
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Keeping It Simple: A Principal's Story of Change: A Guide for Closing the Achievement Gap, Creating High Performing Schools, and Laying t
ISBN: 9781477474921 / Angielski / Miękka / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Keeping It Simple" is a step by step guide for school reform and preparing a school for the upcoming common core curriculum. It tells a principal's true stories of change and the steps for closing the achievement gap at two very different public schools. The stories details how a junior high moved into the top ten percent in its respective school rank, and explains how an underachieving high school became one of the top performing schools in the nation. You will get a view from the trenches, in the war that is school reform. You will gain an understanding of the real challenges of raising...
"Keeping It Simple" is a step by step guide for school reform and preparing a school for the upcoming common core curriculum. It tells a principal's t...
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The Culturally Proficient School: An Implementation Guide for School Leaders
ISBN: 9781452258386 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The first edition of The Culturally Proficient School was designed as a brief guide for school leaders on implementing the principles and practices of Cultural Proficiency at the building level. Unlike the Lindsey's first book, Cultural Proficiency: A Manual for School Leaders, which is summative in nature, this book was meant to be more 'how-to.' The authors describe it as a 'handbook' for building level leaders (including teacher leaders) who are 'seeking opportunities to have meaningful conversations about developing culturally proficient practices.' It was also assumed that the majority...
The first edition of The Culturally Proficient School was designed as a brief guide for school leaders on implementing the principles and practices of...
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Theory into Practice : Case Stories for School Leaders
ISBN: 9789462090477 / Angielski / Miękka / 100 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book does exactly what its title suggests: it takes the theoretical and conceptual nature of leadership and positions it in the real world of school governance - where teachers, administrators and community stakeholders grapple with issues of change, diversity, influence, motivation, policy, and law.
Organized around the widely accepted Interstate School Leaders Licensure Consortium (ISLLC) Standards, Theory into Practice: Case Stories for School Leaders offers a rich combination of literature on educational leadership, real-life school-based situations, and a framework for... This book does exactly what its title suggests: it takes the theoretical and conceptual nature of leadership and positions it in the real world of sch...
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