This is a vital resource for any teacher or administrator looking to help students tackle issues of race, class, gender, religion, and cultural background.
This book explores how school leaders-both formal and informal-can create a supportive culture that leverages teamwork and empowers teachers to become leaders.
This indispensable practitioners guide helps to build the capacity of school psychologists, administrators, and teachers to use data in collaborative decision making.
The internet has made the possibility of sharing information about others and their products and services more readily available at significantly less cost than any other form of media exposure.
Going beyond other bullying prevention resources, this book presents an approach grounded in evidence-based best practices, together with concrete guidance for weaving it sustainably into the fabric of a school.
Presenting a comprehensive examination of the historical origins and development of schooling and teacher preparation in Papua New Guinea (PNG), the authors explore the unique education history of PNG - starting from indigenous education in villages, the influence of European colonization and the role of missionaries in providing education, and the implications for education policies and practices.
In this accessible and informative step-by-step guide, early years consultant Debbie Garvey provides leaders and managers with best practice tips and advice for developing their performance management skills in early years settings.
The definitive practitioner resource and text for developing excellence as a PreK12 literacy/reading specialist is now updated to reflect key changes in the field.
The Handbook of Mental Wellness Strategies for Educators offers health-giving ways to reframe teaching work and the stresses that come with it, examining specific evidence-based strategies for dealing with teaching anxieties and trauma-related stressors.
New or inexperienced teachers enter classrooms brimming with passion but often face challenges in engaging students, managing behavior, and developing effective lessons.
Most educators intuitively understand the critical relationship between thinking and writing: writing allows us to express what we think, but the very act of writing spurs a process of exploration that changes our thinking and helps us learn.
Empowering Students for the Future: Using the Right Questions to Teach the Value of Passion, Success, and Failure arms educators with the tools to teach what we all wish we had learned in school.
Best-selling author Shirley Clarke provides a wealth of high quality ideas, practical strategies, classroom examples and whole-school case studies for teachers in primary and secondary schools.
Leading School Culture through Teacher Voice and Agency helps school leaders uncover, understand, and build the skill set to engage teachers in the work of school culture as they navigate the changes needed to improve the achievement for all students.
This unique learning tool lets students read and listen to a popular folktale, analyze the structure through story mapping, and create a board game based on their analysis.
Although administrators have many responsibilities, none is more critical to the school, student, and their personal success than the hiring, supervising, and evaluating teachers.
This practical K12 teacher resource explains the whats, whys, and how-tos of using Questioning the Author (QtA), a powerful approach for enhancing reading comprehension and engagement.
El libro VIVIR EN EL AGUA: Cultura Acuática para el Desarrollo Humano, es una obra en la que participan profesionales de diversas ciudades, universidades y organismos internacionales de la Educación Física.
cTransformative Teachers offers an insightful look at the growing movement of civic-minded educators who are using twenty-first-century participatory practices and connected technologies to organize change from the ground up.
