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  • Raising the Stakes

    From Improvement to Transformation in the Reform of Schools

    by Brian J. Caldwell, Jim Spinks ...
    Series series Leading School Transformation
    Raising the Stakes provides an understanding of the breadth of resources that are needed in order to provide a quality education to all students so that every individual, organisation and institution can become a stakeholder in the enterprise.This comprehensive book draws on best practice in several countries to show how resources can be allocated to help achieve high expectations for all schools. ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

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  • The Highly Engaged Classroom

    by Robert J. Marzano, Debra J. Pickering ...
    Series series Classroom Strategies
    Student engagement happens as a result of a teacher’s careful planning and execution of specific strategies. This basic premise drives The Highly Engaged Classroom, a self-study text that provides in-depth understanding of how to generate high levels of student attention and engagement. Using the suggestions in this book, every teacher can create a classroom environment where engagement is the ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Teaching & Assessing 21st Century Skills

    by Robert J. Marzano, Tammy Heflebower ...
    Series series What Principals Need to Know About
    As the 21st century unfolds, the pace of change in the world is accelerating. The authors believe a combination of cognitive skills (skills students will need to succeed academically) and conative skills (skills students will need to succeed interpersonally) is necessary for the 21st century. This clear, practical guide presents a model of instruction and assessment based on these skills. ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • 50 Ways to Be a Better Teacher: Professional Development Techniques

    by Chris Mares ...
    Whether you’re just starting out, a mid-career teacher, or a seasoned veteran of the classroom, you can find ways to make your teaching more effective and require less effort. 50 Ways to Be a Better Teacher offers humanistic advice to nurture the teacher’s soul while improving your professional performance.The examples are drawn from the author’s experience teaching English as a Second Language, ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Total Leaders 2.0

    Leading in the Age of Empowerment

    by Charles J. Schwahn, William G. Spady ...
    Total Leaders 2.0 is the twenty-first-century's quick guide to leadership and successful change. It places the best thinking of several dozen, cutting-edge leadership and change gurus of the past two decades into an integrated, compelling, easily understood, and practical leadership framework: the Total Leader 2.0 Model. The model's five domains and fifteen performance roles enable leaders in any ... Read more

    $42.09 USD

  • Reassessing the Impact of Teaching Assistants

    How research challenges practice and policy

    by Peter Blatchford, Anthony Russell, Rob Webster ...
    Over the last decade, teaching assistants (TAs) have become an established part of everyday classroom life. TAs are often used by schools to help low-attaining pupils and those with special educational needs. Yet despite the huge rise in the number of TAs working in UK classrooms, very little is known about their impact on pupils.This key and timely text examines the impact of TAs on pupils’ ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Distributed Leadership According to the Evidence

    Edited by Kenneth Leithwood, Blair Mascall, Tiiu Strauss ...
    Although not new, the concept of distributed (shared) leadership has re-emerged in recent years as one highly promising response to the complex challenges currently faced by schools. Responding productively to these challenges far exceeds the capacities of any individual leader. If schools are to flourish in the future, they will need to enlist the collective expertise of many more of their ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Managing Your Classroom with Heart

    A Guide for Nurturing Adolescent Learners

    by Katy Ridnouer ...
    Teaching is as much about students as it is about curriculum, and no one understands this better than middle and high school teachers. But even the most dedicated teacher can sometimes feel defeated by the challenge of reaching distracted, disconnected, and defiant adolescents.Drawing on her own experience as a high school teacher, Katy Ridnouer shares an approach to classroom management that will ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Teacher Leadership

    New conceptions for autonomous student learning in the age of the Internet

    by Kokila Roy Katyal, Colin William Evers ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Education
    In recent years teacher leadership has undergone one major revolution and is in the process of undergoing another. The first came about as schools turned out to be far too complex for the responsibility of formulating and achieving their goals to be vested entirely in principals and head teachers. As a consequence, the rise of distributed leadership as an alternative model for understanding ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Improving Pupil Motivation Together

    Teachers and Teaching Assistants Working Collaboratively

    by Susan Bentham, Roger Hutchins ...
    Improving Pupils Motivation Together provides a refreshing and much-needed focus on how motivation can be enhanced by teachers and teaching assistants working both individually and collaboratively. Written in an accessible and engaging manner, the book explores various theories of motivation from a range of perspectives, applying academic theory to real life classroom situations. Using a ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Accelerated Goal Achievement: An Authentic Approach to Set and Achieve Goals Faster

    by Virend Singh, Verusha Singh ...
    We all have dreams and aspirations for a better life, but for most people they remain so – just dreams and aspirations – until they die. It doesn't have to be like that. You are essentially a "goal-achieving mechanism" capable of achieving just about any outcome you set for yourself. Accelerated Goal Achievement: An Authentic Approach to Set and Achieve Goals Faster will help you take your dreams ... Read more

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  • Standing and Delivering

    What the Movie Didn't Tell

    by Henry Gradillas, Jerry Jesness ...
    Series series New Frontiers in Education
    We often hear about the need to make demands on all students, especially those of color, of different cultural backgrounds, and from low income families. A lot of educators talk the talk, but only a few have actually walked the walk. One of the few American schools that actually made substantial strides in improving education for low-income students was Garfield High school in the 1980s. The ... Read more

    $28.39 USD