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In a succinct question and answer format, the authors provide affordable solutions to the increasingly complex systemic issues facing primary and secondary schools, students, and school counseling programs.

Shift from trifling tasks to winning leadership strategies. Learn how to turn your school around with steps and stories from a turnaround principal who has been there.

Building on the authors' experience with their own doctoral students, this easy-to-read guide, helps and encourages students to write and complete their thesis faster.

This straightforward guide helps school leaders and district stakeholders confidently translate the Common Core and the 21st Century Skills into a comprehensive K-12 instructional system.

Systematically address common mathematical misunderstandings by children ages 8 to 11, with 20 easy-to-implement assessments for continuously monitored learning.

A succinct overview and practical guide to building relationships with children who are at risk for failure in schools-both academically and socially.

Offering an interdisciplinary approach to child advocacy, this book nurtures key skills through a proven six-step process that has been used to train child advocates and create social change around the world.

This is the first attempt to apply the powerful framework and tools of polarity management to the field of educational reform.

Containing original chapters written by experts and scholars in the field, this text will highlight the current debates about criminal justice policy and discuss the implications for the system and society at large.

Provides coverage of state government and politics, along with the states' current and future public policies. This book offering students, scholars, citizens, policy advocates, and state specialists accessible information on state politics and policy in 33 topical chapters written by experts in the field.

A popular text/reader hybrid, combining the major writings of sociology's core contemporary theorists with a historical and theoretical framework.

This book engages teachers in a thoughtful exploration of motivation in the classroom, showing how to apply principles, practices, and strategies which motivate in a dynamic way, actively involving students, teachers and the school.

A practical guide for educational leaders on deeply understanding, and implementing, the Learning Forward Standard for Professional Learning: Learning Communities.

This book shows educators how to use textbooks in an engaging and meaningful way so that students no longer feel daunted by the sheer volume of information.

This book explores the practical application of distributed school leadership, combining theory and practice to demonstrate how this approach can result in better learner outcomes.

A highly practical book for courses on human service/social work administration which takes students through the nuts and bolts of managing a human service agency.

This companion to the bestselling differentiated instruction guide features step-by-step training activities, guidelines for individualized support, research-based responses to concerns, evaluation tools, and coaching tips.

This text covers all historically and current classroom assessment approaches and includes a review of compelling evidence for the use of each classroom assessment approach, demonstrating why the approaches are considered best practice and research-based.

The ideal core text for courseS on Families in Later Life, this is the only book on the subject that addresses the diversity of aging experiences in society by race, gender, and social class, and in a form which combines insight from the humanities as well as the social sciences.

For teachers, policy makers and education leaders who want to use technology to support in school learning in a dynamic and creative way.

Presents research that explores the varied intersections between Education, Democracy, and the Public Good. This book gives readers a broader perspective on how the three constructs are interconnected and applied in the United States and in other countries around the world.

This essential text extracts key concepts in the management of people in a global context and presents them in a concise volume.

Suitable for undergraduate students in the field of sociology, women's and gender studies, human sexuality studies, gay and lesbian studies, cultural studies, and media studies.

Collection of practical articles on best practices in STEM education by the premier researchers and authors in the US and UK.

This book highlights the elements of effective Rounds and provides facilitators with specific skills that will enable them to develop well-functioning teacher Rounds groups that improve instruction and student learning in their schools.

Presenting excerpts from documents on the important events of each year for the US and the world, this title includes approximately 70 events with well over 100 documents from the previous year, from official or other influential reports and surveys, to speeches from leaders and opinion makers, to court cases, legislation, testimony, and more.

Focussing on applied knowledge and providing straightforward coverage of R objects and functions, this introduction helps students with little or no background in statistics or programming to develop real-world R skills.

Putting an emphasis on using in-depth interviews in qualitative research, this book shows readers how to expand the scope of their research

The authors take a fresh new look at the relationships between school counseling standards, school counseling research, and the best research on student success.

Looking beyond the individual office holders to the office itself, this Fourth Edition of Vital Statistics on the Presidency allows readers to recognize major themes across presidential administrations and to reach overall conclusions about the nature of the institution and its future.