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This is an essential guide to creating and sustaining a high-quality, successful early child care programme.

This substantially updated edition offers practical methods for designing professional development experiences that generate systemic change to improve teaching and learning.

The author helps teachers promote students' ability to handle emotions, regulate their own behavior, and learn in ways that meet their needs and those of the class.

The books emphasizes following a standards-based curriculum while creating a community of learners, making reflection routine, teaching content and process, and developing authentic tasks and assessments.

This book will excite teachers who want to help motivate today's secondary students. Information about the brain is presented along with the author's personal teaching experiences, tips, and creative game ideas.

This books shows how to use formative assessments to instruct, monitor and evaluate learning successfully

A comprehensive, step-by-step, ready-to-use handbook with all the models, forms, and templates needed to get block scheduling programs up and running

School and district leaders will discover how to develop, assess, and sustain a collaborative, team-based mentoring program that helps retain new teachers and improve student achievement.

This resource shows educators how to establish dynamic curriculum leadership and develop a curriculum that will transform an ordinary school into a school of excellence.

Discover how the application of eight powerful principles can motivate students, increase every learner's self-confidence, and encourage individuals to go beyond familiar goals to take manageable risks.

This resource covers reading/writing, science standards, and young people's literature, and provides practical applications and sample lesson plans that can be adapted to specific classroom needs.

The author demonstrates how to use, create, and modify graphics organizers to promote critical and creative thinking processes to raise achievement for students of all ability levels.

Offering a fun, engaging approach to grammar instruction, this guide includes clear explanations of grammatical terms and practical activities for all students, including English language learners.

Eloquently illustrates the immediate need for school improvement, examines leaders' expanded roles in the change process, and offers recommendations for turning a vision for change into reality.

This book will make teaching easier for those educating students with English as an additional language.

This concise guide offers monthly themes for reflection and professional development, advice from award-winning principals, space for planning and goal setting, and suggestions for increasing parent involvement.

Packed with stimulating activities and innovative strategies, this how-to book addresses all levels of learner-centered instruction and literacy.

Learn how co-teaching relationships with paraeducators can improve outcomes for students with special needs, and find guidelines for successful teamwork and authentic case studies of working paraprofessionals.

This comprehensive, research-based book helps teachers use standards-linked assessments to collect accurate formative data about students' strengths and weaknesses and increase mathematical understandings for all learners.

The author offers research-based strategies that empower teachers to stimulate students' interest in reading, identify common mistakes of struggling readers, and promote healthy reading habits.

This enlightening book helps educators use everyday language to create more equitable school environments, and offers exercises that strengthen communication and leadership skills.

Covering children, teaching, "school daze," college, and special occasions, this humorous collection adds fun to the job, spices up communication, and enlivens the school environment.

Combining proven strategies with new information for developing resiliency in schools, this edition emphasizes the critical role of school leaders and features updated exercises for implementing change.

Provides teachers with a framework for designing, implementing, and evaluating interdisciplinary units that integrate content and standards across multiple curriculum areas.

This wide reaching text explores the origins and development of criminality from birth to adulthood.

Written for early childhood educators, this guide provides rubrics, samples, reproducibles, and easy-to-understand procedures for developing fun, effective student assessment portfolios and integrating assessment and instruction.

The authors present a research-based approach for building reading self-efficacy and focus on four concepts necessary to learners' literacy success: confidence, independence, metacognition, and stamina.

This resource offers 20 engaging, brain-compatible strategies for teaching mathematics and includes sample activities, a lesson planning guide, and space for reflecting on individual strategies.

Provides 40 research-based methods with suggestions for easy implementation to help struggling readers, and features three tables of contents (traditional, topical, and problem-solving) formatted for quick reference.

Helping teachers informally assess gifted learners' areas of strength and weakness, this book provides hundreds of challenging activities to improve students' academic and social skills.