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Presents specific cases in K-12 school settings that require urgent solutions. This book explains control procedures and offers strategies for resuming normal school function.

Examines the critical nature of communication in contemporary practice for administrators. Divided into two parts, this book deals with relationships among communication, public relations, and school reform and addresses effective communicative behavior in relation to areas such as learning organization, democratic leadership, and others.

Covers strategies, techniques, and activities that have been proven successful in the classroom.

Extreme Economics identifies what children and teenagers need to know about personal finance. This book can show educators how to design instructional activities which enable students to learn about personal finance in real, fascinating, and meaningful ways.

In this book, Keen Babbage explores the realistic demands of teaching and the unlimited possibilities within the profession. This book will challenge and inspire new and experienced teachers to become results-driven in order to benefit students and to create a productive and rewarding career.

Devoted to steel band pedagogy, this title intended for educators addresses a variety of topics, including instrumentation, personnel, basic pan technique, repertoire, and rehearsal strategies.

In Mis-Education in Schools: Beyond the Slogans and Double-Talk, Howard Good uses his experiences as a parent, teacher, and school board member to explore what's gone wrong with education and how to make it right. Readers will be challenged by Good's candid perspective and engaged by his energetic prose.

In this book, Judith T. Witmer and Steven A. Melnick provide an overview of adult learning and its impact on professional development. The chapters provide a theoretical foundation along with practical advice on implementing team-based professional development among educators within school districts.

Readers of this book will be able to provide effective leadership to transform their school systems in ways that improve student, faculty and staff, and whole-system learning.

Learning to Lead provides ten traits of effective principal leadership. This book will encourage those who work as school leaders to continue to inspire others.

This book provides an enhanced understanding of the NCLB major features and suggests resources in the areas of: History of Accountability and Achievement; Adequate Yearly Progress; Highly-Qualified Teachers; Title I; Reading and Early Childhood; School Reform including Charters and Vouchers; Restructuring; School Finance; and High School Reform.

In this book, William Hayes takes a look at the past, present, and possible future of the progressive education movement.

Managing Middle School Madness is a compilation of tips, advice, and information to help parents prepare for the behavioral, social, and academic adjustments that students may encounter. Included are worksheets for parents and children and resources that can be used throughout the middle school years.

This book will help school administrators understand and more effectively deal with the ethical compromises that arise as a result of the complex organizational and interpersonal demands of their leadership roles.

This book focuses on matching the needs of a school organization with the right leader and relates the leadership theories of servant leadership, emotional intelligence, and change to issues highlighted in the case studies provided.

Suggesting that due to multiple unfavorable circumstances, public schools have been unable to educate America's most disadvantaged student population - Latinos, this book contends that it is imperative to reinvent schools in order to provide a viable education for these students.

More than ever before, urban school districts are changing leaders at an alarming rate which makes it difficult for city schools to find stability. Turnover at the Top examines both the reasons for this turnover and its ramifications.

The book provides readers with an overview of the teaching challenges for this population of students, presents research on their unique challenges as learners, and provides teachers with evidence-based practices to enhance the success of this adult learner population.

Intended for parents and teachers who are looking for ways to battle the continual exposure to school violence that may leave kids desensitized to mean behavior, this book is designed to foster feelings that allow children to put themselves in someone else's shoes and help them recognize the difference between right and wrong in social situations.

This book is designed to be a reference to help teachers make their career more enjoyable and rewarding. Teachers can pick it up at anytime and find something new to add to their "bag of tricks."

Provides advice on surviving the common and problematic situations occurring within the school system. This how-to-guide offers suggestions on how to deal with issues from the administrator's office to the teacher's lounge and from upset parents to jealous colleagues. It is useful for new and veteran teachers.

This book suggests practical approaches for connecting with young people at the level of the heart through the utilization of myths, stories, movies, and songs.

Here is an easy reference guide for teacher to utilize in order to provide students with more than 180 writing activities that can be assigned in U.S. History classes.

Success in College provides important information and advice that students need in order to learn more and receive higher grades.

This user-friendly book provides poems and stories accompanied by dramatic activities to help elementary school teachers create and maintain a peaceful classroom environment.

The Hard Truth is a book written for principals and school administrators who want to implement effective change. The topics of the book candidly discuss the problems, people, and issues that get in the way of true school reform; and what building level principals can personally do attain the best possible outcomes.