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Introducing Corwin Press Classroomuan innovative new imprint offering practical strategies for all grade levels. Derived from highly successful Corwin Press professional resources, Corwin Press Classroom books are full of research-based activities that make it easy for you to energize and improve learning for all your students!

To reach even the most challenging students, this book offers ten student archetypes to help teachers understand and work with learners who exhibit certain kinds of behaviors.

This excellent resource provides a realistic and systematic process that educators can immediately implement for improving reading and writing while enhancing content knowledge and skills.

Offers school leaders lessons, case studies, practical tools, advice, vignettes, and step-by-step instructions for developing new schools or converting existing ones, plus guidance for forging partnerships with the community.

Within the field of Evaluation, performance measurement is a prevalent framework or set of tools to use in implementation analysis, formative and summative evaluations, and even needs assessments. Dealing with performance measurement in the US, this text represents examples of performance measurement in Canada, Latin America, and Europe.

Filled with words of wisdom, practical advice, and action steps to achieve success, this title distills the teaching and consulting experience of an international author. It includes strategies for novice and veteran practitioners. It acts as a tool covering topics from writing rubrics to communicating with parents to planning for the unexpected.

This resource provides teachers with a step-by-step guide to creating and using rubrics as an instructional tool, with more than 40 sample rubrics for specific literacy skills.

This invaluable guide offers step-by-step, research-based strategies that will help you increase your students' reading comprehension, strengthen writing skills, and build vocabulary across content areas.

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Emphasizing the school leader's role in student learning, this new edition covers the principalship, accountability, leadership effects, distributed leadership, political leadership, resource allocation, and more!

This resource helps school leaders focus on critical technology leadership issues and practical solutions for integrating technology into any school, administration, or professional development program.

Connects the poor to the rest of society. Through real examples, this book illustrates how anyone can practice consensus organizing and help the poor, forgotten, and disempowered. It demonstrates how consensus organizing can be applied to a variety of settings. It shows methods to bring seemingly opposite people together.

The Curriculum Topic Study (CTS) process provides a professional development strategy that links mathematics standards and research to curriculum, instruction, and assessment.

This timely handbook presents evidence and recommendations to make informed decisions for planning, funding, and operating high-quality educational programs for children ages 3-8.

An illustrated collection of 61 strategies-and the where, what, why, how, and when to use each one-plus examples of plans in action for results-oriented teams.

Based on the Parallel Curriculum Model, this book provides curriculum units in social studies, science, art, and language arts for use in primary, elementary, middle, and high school settings.

This updated edition of the bestseller features a five-step NCLB-based process that demonstrates how skillfully administered annual program evaluations result in lasting educational benefits.

Provides students with a sociological study of contemporary life for families of African descent living in the United States. This book aims to capture the complexities and nuances of a web of factors, thereby helping students explore both structural and individual explanations for problems facing many African American families.

Discover how to create a reading/writing oasis, blend narrative and descriptive writing, help students compose persuasive cover letters, use "Five Circles/Five Paragraphs" and "Punny Valentines," and more!

Spark students' interest in math with intriguing and winning strategies that include animated learning icons, money-based systems, human number lines, "sweet" solutions, and much more.

This sourcebook overflows with strategies and activities for infusing enthusiasm, focus, and productivity into faculty meetings, setting a model for school wide engagement, and building team relationships that can transform school culture.

Stakes out the boundaries of media research and scholarship and provides a definitive statement.

Solomon offers a simple-to-follow matrix for aligning activities, problems, and assessments with NCTM standards, plus scaffolds for building student understanding and suggestions for using manipulatives and educational software.

This guide illustrates solutions in action with examples, scenarios, and practice assignments to help teachers differentiate content, process, assignments, and assessments in high school classrooms.

The Handbook of Clinical interviewing with Children presents a combination of theory and practice plus concern with diagnostic entities for readers who work, or one day will work, with children (and their parents and teachers) in clinical settings.

Save time and frustration with this definitive special education resource to locate specialized clearinghouses and disability organizations, toll-free numbers, publications, state-specific entities, and more.

This authoritative guide discusses the "do's," "don'ts," and "can'ts" that school leaders must consider when creating and implementing new school policies for wellness, nutrition, fitness, and health.

Presents a framework for strategy in entrepreneurial organizations that incorporates new venture emergence, early growth, and reinvention and innovation in established ventures. This text focusses on entrepreneurial strategies that can be crafted and implemented within various organizations as these firms proceed through the stages of development.

This guide for school leaders is filled with examples, best practice, and reflective questions on strategic planning, data-driven decision making, and transformational leadership.