School District Master Planning: The Teaching Supplementa guide to the book of the same nameis designed for instructors of graduate level courses in school district demographics and facilities planning, as well as for school district administrators in need of a practical reference text.
The middle school years are a maze of academic duties, human growth and self-development, discovering self identity, and increasing social interaction with other people.
When the Sisters Said Farewell tells an important story of the contributions of Catholic elementary schools to the United States by chronicling the experiences and insights of religious women (nuns) who were the last members of their communities to serve in parish elementary schools, and of those lay men and women who were the first to serve in those roles traditionally filled by the sisters.
The Hidden Dangers in our schools have grown and intensified over the last few years; so much so that I was compelled to write a second edition to Hidden Dangers: Subtle Signs of Failing Schools.
This second edition to Hidden Dangers to Kid's Learning: Parent Guide to Cope with Educational Roadblocks gives more insight into waysparents can understand and help their academically struggling child.
Surviving the Move and Learning to Thrive: Tools for Success in Secondary Schools, Grades 6-12 is collection of seven chapters that provide tools for all students, especially struggling and reluctant learners, to find a better path to learning while moving through middle and high school.
Diversity Awareness for K-6 Teachers: The Impact on Student Learning is a resource guide for elementary teachers and college-level student teachers for teaching diversity awareness across the various areas of content.
In History and Imagination, elementary school social studies teachers will learn how to help their students break down the walls of their schools, more personally engage with history, and define democratic citizenship.
Urban Schools: Crisis and Revolution describes America's inner-city public schools and the failure of most to provide even a minimally adequate education for their students.
This book explores the parallel issues for public school and higher education teachers as well as the different challenges they both face as they work toward systemic school change.
Instructors using the textbook, Supervising Student Teachers: The Professional Way, 7th Edition, will find its companion instructor's guide a helpful resource.
Small Schools, Education, and the Importance of Community focuses on three successful approaches for using the school as a catalyst for community development and revitalization, particularly in rural areas.
This book explores the complex ways in which belonging, identity and time are entangled in shaping young people engagement with the middle years of school.
This book closely examines the ways in which many popular, internationally-published Japanese young adult manga graphic novel titles frame instances of K-12 school-situated violence and bullying.
While research and common sense tells us that experiential learning is more effective than the more traditional process of information assimilation (where teachers lecture, test, and grade), high school, college, and university teachers continue to use paper-and-pencil tests as their primary grading and assessment tool.
If you have more questions than answers about online learning for K-12 students, then you need this comprehensive guide that takes you through all of the planning and implementation steps need to go from vision to actual delivery of online courses.
This book provides a comprehensive account of the educational experiences of students, parents, and educators-transgender and cisgender-in the context of current debates about the inclusion of transgender people in schools.
Knowledge under Construction investigates how young children develop spatial, geometric, and scientific thinking skills-particularly those associated with architecture.
Awarded Best Book prize by CIES Globalization and Education SIGAwarded 2nd Prize in the Society of Educational Studies Annual Book PrizeElite schools have always been social choreographers par excellence.
This new edition contextualizes Lareau's original ethnography in a discussion of the most pressing issues facing educators at the beginning of the new millennium.
An in-depth look at academically selective public high schools in AmericaWhat is the best education for exceptionally able and high-achieving youngsters?
This book is the perfect starting point for anyone looking to promote and encourage mental health in their school, or evaluate their existing provision, in line with current government priorities.
This fully updated third edition of Learning Through Child Observation is a handbook for professionals working in, or students preparing to work in, children's services.