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This book provides a comprehensive examination of the barriers that prevent students from becoming proficient readers. Pedriana describes evidence-based reading instruction, the conditions under which that instruction is most effective, and for which kids it is most effective.

This book explores the rules and patterns that govern complex systems that, when properly understood and applied, result in more effective leadership than what is offered from traditional leadership models.

This book includes a step-by-step guide to selecting the best students, creating a pre- and post-assessment of student learning, a well-designed procedure to pretest and assure that all masters degree students actually acquire a strong knowledge base and score well on state licensure exams.

Lopsided Schools introduces readers to the case method. It is intended for school administrators, instructors, guidance counselors, teacher trainers, school board members, parents, and the general public. It helps them use the case method to examine the scholastic challenges that critics posed from World War I to the present.

This book draws upon resilience research and best practices to answer the question: 'How can leaders move ahead in the face of adversity?' and aims to help leaders thrive in the face of adversity.

School change can be rough around the edges and extremely difficult and contentious in the beginning, especially if it is not initiated in the correct manner. Whether the transition to change is very rough or very smooth, if you can survive the initial implementation and the actual process that follows, the end can be a hugely successful and beautiful thing.

This book frames the problem of cost and effectiveness in America's public schooling system, and provides a strategy to address it.

This book describes how teachers can build upon the eagerness and skills that students apply to recreational, social, and friendly writing, bringing enjoyment back into writing for students.

Through the chapters in this book, a plan will be outlined, that if followed, will improve test scores in any school district. The amount of improvement will be determined by various variables including present level of achievement, previous implementation of some of these concepts, the level of implementation, the vision from the top and the focus on the plan.

"Published in partnership with MENC: The National Association for Music Education."

Revisit favorite arrangements, discover new ones, and inspire your jazz ensemble with sound and adventurous music to play. This new book recommends and analyzes 67 quality jazz arrangements recommended by eighteen of the foremost jazz experts in the field today.

This book provides ways for teachers to link subjects and areas of learning for various teaching situations and takes readers from simple correlation through using published thematic units now available and on to developing their own interdisciplinary themes or in team efforts with other colleagues.

In a no-holds-barred, candid delivery, this book drives directly to the core of what makes an extraordinary teacher, and presents an honest appraisal of why some teachers fail.

This book proposes a radical truth_that online education, when taught using the methodology perfected by successful veterans of distance learning, surpasses traditional face-to-face teaching and learning.

This book describes the leadership practice of professional baseball coaches as a way to illustrate situational leadership theory, offering the reader examples of leadership behavior in the four leadership frames suggested by Bolman and Deal's situational leadership theory.

Turning Average Instruction into Great Instruction details a clear and concise approach to school improvement, focusing school leaders on the critical factor that has the greatest impact on student achievement: classroom instruction. Decades of research demonstrate that what happens between teachers and students in our nation's classrooms has the greatest impact on how well those students learn.

The School Administrator's Guide to Blogging is a delightful, easy-to-read, jargon-free manual on how educational leaders can connect with their public and use blogging as another tool in their communication toolkit. Sprinkled with personal examples and insights, this book is an enjoyable read. Even technophobes will find it easy to understand!

Twice Exceptional Kids provides strategies for all educators and parents interested in providing the appropriate education for these special children and helping them achieve to their fullest potential.

The Art of War application to education is about solving (fighting) problems (the enemy) to improve student and school success. The Art of War describes the significance of a leader and his knowledge and prudent application of the strategies.

This book introduces CLICK (Comprehensive Learning and Interventions for Correcting Kids), a school discipline, that is based on actual teaching practices and sound theory and research. It will help educators focus on a new way of thinking about discipline and how to resolve it in the classroom.

Featuring detailed steps for developing and implementing a literacy program for primary students (grades K-3), this title includes chapters on looping, or continuous progress, at higher levels (grades 4-5). It shows how looping at these levels proves to be an effective practice in increasing student achievement in all subject areas.

Seeks to dispel the notion that behavior is the only issue to consider when putting together a good, solid classroom management plan. This book answers questions such as: How does one turn ineffective classroom management around? And, how do educational leaders help their staff to improve classroom behavior?

Written in simple, accessible language, this book provides a chronological history of China from the Neolithic Age to the present, including major challenges, and current political developments.