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This book describes the leadership practice of professional baseball coaches as a way to illustrate situational leadership theory, offering the reader examples of leadership behavior in the four leadership frames suggested by Bolman and Deal's situational leadership theory.

Turning Average Instruction into Great Instruction details a clear and concise approach to school improvement, focusing school leaders on the critical factor that has the greatest impact on student achievement: classroom instruction. Decades of research demonstrate that what happens between teachers and students in our nation's classrooms has the greatest impact on how well those students learn.

The School Administrator's Guide to Blogging is a delightful, easy-to-read, jargon-free manual on how educational leaders can connect with their public and use blogging as another tool in their communication toolkit. Sprinkled with personal examples and insights, this book is an enjoyable read. Even technophobes will find it easy to understand!

Twice Exceptional Kids provides strategies for all educators and parents interested in providing the appropriate education for these special children and helping them achieve to their fullest potential.

The Art of War application to education is about solving (fighting) problems (the enemy) to improve student and school success. The Art of War describes the significance of a leader and his knowledge and prudent application of the strategies.

This book introduces CLICK (Comprehensive Learning and Interventions for Correcting Kids), a school discipline, that is based on actual teaching practices and sound theory and research. It will help educators focus on a new way of thinking about discipline and how to resolve it in the classroom.

Featuring detailed steps for developing and implementing a literacy program for primary students (grades K-3), this title includes chapters on looping, or continuous progress, at higher levels (grades 4-5). It shows how looping at these levels proves to be an effective practice in increasing student achievement in all subject areas.

Seeks to dispel the notion that behavior is the only issue to consider when putting together a good, solid classroom management plan. This book answers questions such as: How does one turn ineffective classroom management around? And, how do educational leaders help their staff to improve classroom behavior?

Written in simple, accessible language, this book provides a chronological history of China from the Neolithic Age to the present, including major challenges, and current political developments.

Based on the authors' experiences with the School Turnaround Specialist Program as well as a review of research on successful school improvement projects, Teachers' Guide to School Turnarounds contains a wealth of tips and warnings for those engaged in, or anticipating being engaged in, the process of turning around a low-performing school.

Written for professors of school administration, Preparing School Leaders provides an overview of the three key dimensions of leadership preparation in school administration: the history of how we arrived at where we are, a critical analysis of current state of affairs, and an agenda for improvement.

This book sheds light on the philosophical, pedagogical, and cultural causes of reading failure and reveals the scientific findings that point to promising solutions.

This book gives readers insight into the problems, solutions, and decision-making processes of education and educational administration.

This book provides needed information for those involved in creating or administering an independent school by laying out the issues that must be addressed, but may not be considered.

Presents the way in which faculty members can design web-based and web-assisted instructional delivery approaches to provide students with the opportunity to learn anytime and anyplace. This book stresses the paradigm shift in using technology as an alternative instructional delivery tool.

Here is a comprehensive perspective on the scope of student aggression. This book provides a framework to conceptualize the etiology of violence from a systemic nature and an outline to limit the potential of violence.

Here is a book about a program of structured independent activities that engage students while the teacher works closely with a small group. The program is essentially a system of centers of managing children's individual practice of skills.

Here is an easy to understand guide to elementary education. This book is the first of its kind to take the language of education and define all the words, phrases, and processes involved in a child's school. This book will teach parents how to better support their child in the classroom and at home to ensure his or her educational success.

Here, Robert Brower counters the misdirection of the present reform movement in education. This book details the errors of the present movement and gives a prescription for how to do it right.

Here, the author helps readers understand the relationship between the perception of our senses and the thinking that makes it possible for teachers and children to learn within a pedagogical relationship.

This book introduces the ASSIST-ME Model, an instructional design model for web-based instruction and gives a step-by-step procedure that explains how online instruction may be designed.

We need a more creative approach to teaching writing. A methodology incorporating creativity, as modeled by students in this text, demonstrates the kind of progress we are all seeking, offering an exciting challenge for young writers and educators alike.

Published in partnership with the American Association of School Administrators.

Mastery Teaching Skills is a professional development book that will help teachers and principals implement the Common Core State Standards. This book will help you to achieve a comprehensive set of pedagogical skills to deliver successfully the Common Core Standards.