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This book provides 25 easily administered assessments of learners' math knowledge that help teachers monitor learning in real time and improve all students' math skills.

In eighteen inspiring essays, the former director of the American Association of School Administrators shares a vision for turning schools back into places that nurture children.

Using case studies, strategies, and activities, this book shows how to acquire the powerful personal leadership characteristics that the best headteachers use to lead their schools to greatness.

A book that will help educational leaders visualize, understand, guide, and sustain professional learning so they can navigate the shift to providing individualized learning for all students.

A strategic plan to implement classroom managment strategies in an engaging and easy-to-implement way.

A book that provides clear and comprehensive guidance on how to make the standards accessible to ELLs and other at-risk learners.

Defines the distinctive set of psychometric and operational principles which, when combined with specialized statistical applications of correlation and factor-analysis techniques, provide researchers with a systematic and rigorously quantitative means for examining human subjectivity.

This single volume set answers questions surrounding community policing, including the evolution of community policiing, how police departments engage with the public and how effective have efforts in community policing been.

In this peer-mentoring program, featuring more than 100 specific interventions, student ambassadors help students with autism spectrum disorders feel at home-and find success-in school.

This text covers the consequences of violating one of the key assumptions of Ordinary Least Squares regression (equal error variances), diagnostic tools to assess the existence of the problem of heteroskedasticity, and statistical techniques to analyse the data correctly.

Guides students through cases and exercises that explore crisis communication and management in action, building the necessary skills for effective crisis management.

A detailed and comprehensive resource, outlining the high impact, research-based strategies proven to increase student achievement.

Unlike other publications, this is a book on using propensity scores without using matrix or vector algebra.

Provides incisive commentary on the 2005 general elections in the United Kingdom. This title also provides a measured analysis of the key issues and events that affected the election results. It examines the behavior and performance of each of the main political parties, and look at the impact of regional political parties in the UK.

An easy-to-use primer looking at an area that has frequently been neglected in standard research methods books.

This unique text is the first book designed to systematically help students and clients integrate the 12-step treatment process with psychotherapy.

An ideal supplementary textbook for upper-division undergraduate and graduate courses on family and child violence.

These classroom-ready lesson plans-complete with literature lists, directions, forms, assessments, and adaptations-connect literacy learning with students' lives and the community.

This resource helps teachers to learn how current research and theory from educational psychology can be applied to create child-centered learning environments and developmentally appropriate practices.

By looking at how metaphors have been used to identify leadership, this book helps school leaders to examine and learn from various leadership models and behaviours.

Based on the RTI model, this comprehensive book provides seven steps to determining appropriate instruction, intervention, and services for culturally and linguistically diverse students.

Gain a deeper understanding of the dynamic potential for increasing student learning through digital media such as social networking platforms, YouTube, Wikipedia, and more!

Collects 345 network scripts that feature problems in grammar, news judgment, broadcast style, and storytelling, not to spotlight sinners, but sins that can be remedied. This title offers corrections, comments, and suggestions for improvement.

This book provides everything needed to implement a team-based approach to schoolwide behavior management and reduce discipline problems in Grades 6-12.

Provides a comprehensive set of learning activities that address issues related to workplace diversity.

This book presents a general approach to missing data problems in event history analysis which is based on the similarities between log-linear models, hazard models and event history models.

This text shows how to put discursive theoretical and methodological insights to work in the investigation of concrete problems in psychology. A range of traditional psychological topics are examined, from decision-making, memory and attributions to emotions, learning and the self.

This text allows readers to become power teachers by using tests effectively to define learning targets, build standards-based assessments, and develop data-driven teaching strategies for enhanced student achievement.

Snapshots of Research is a cutting-edge textbook comprised of scholarly articles exemplifying research methods in criminology and criminal justice. The wide-ranging examples provide students with a grasp of the fundamentals of research, as well as a more in-depth understanding of each of the specific methods used in everyday life.

This how-to guide for aspiring and new superintendents provides examples and covers the full range of topics from preparation through strategic planning.