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Strengthen gifted girls' potential by exploring characteristics of girls' giftedness; factors affecting development; issues of resilience, self-efficacy, and personal ethics; and the importance of supportive adults.

This book provides teachers with an in-depth understanding of the many behaviours students exhibit in the classroom, especially noncompliance and defiance.

This easy-to-read book contains tips, suggestions and guidance for those with responsibility for literacy in primary and early years settings.

Examines the principal's essential role in developing equitable and sustainable school-community partnerships, synthesizes research on partnerships and principal leadership, and addresses the inclusion of diverse family groups.

Helps prospective headteachers, counsellors and teachers to grasp the legalities of public school law. This book contains case studies with discussion questions and provides an overview of the legal area in a dialectic format.

In the context of the accountability and testing era, many school leaders have become fearful and feel disenfranchised. This book introduces a model of leadership as part of a transformation process arising from a learner-centered system.

The fifth edition of this bestseller brings the reader up-to-date with newly researched Web sites and effective strategies for writing government, foundation, and private grants.

Award-winning superintendents detail proven best practices covering transformational leadership, community building and outreach, responding to change, and developing strategies for effective school reform.

This third edition covers implementing portfolios that incorporate standards. Includes examples for students with special needs, plus expanded information on e-portfolios and NCLB's impact on assessment.

Use these practical and effective ideas to avoid the "rules and punishment" trap, establish win-win authority relationships, and encourage student cooperation, motivation, accountability, and on-task behavior.

This resource is ideal for helping teachers build a greater understanding of the unique needs of gifted kids, particularly their intensities as identified by psychologist Kazimierz Dabrowski and the impact of those intensities on their social and emotional development.

The author offers exercises, examples, handouts, and basic tips to help both learners and educators find and evaluate information on the Web for quality and validity.

Digs into salient research that examines learning contexts within critical literacy, scientific literacy, and teacher education. This title highlights the importance of leveraging research to explore ways in which education institutions can structure positive learning environments for diverse students.

Providing a comprehensive evaluation of NCLB, this book examines test-based accountability, considers state-level capacity to carry out mandates, and discusses ideas for improving the law.

Linked to standards, these proven activities and strategies for reading, writing, social studies, mathematics, science, and the arts help teachers promote creativity and higher-level thinking.

This comprehensive yet accessible reference covers the three tiers of RTI, schoolwide screening, progress monitoring, challenges to implementation, and changes in school structures and individual staff roles.

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Illustrates how teachers and community members can foster positive inclusive experiences by differentiating not only instruction, but attitudes too. This book demonstrates the impact of literature, self-advocacy, role playing, and strategic interventions that make the most of learners' potential by acknowledging and advocating their assets.

A humorous, readable treatment of problem behaviors and how to change themAddresses behavior support strategies in an easy-to-read way while reminding us of the importance of keeping a sense of humor and flexibilityPresents positive behavior support strategies and techniques that are research-proven and effective

Balances theory and pedagogy to demonstrate the historical evolution of the human resources function in education, the link between human resources and organizational effectiveness, and the trends in human resources accountability.

This resource offers practical methods for helping ELLs succeed in reading, with strategies to increase fluency and comprehension, teach vocabulary and text structure, and more.

Help struggling readers succeed by teaching four research-based comprehension strategies with sample lessons and a gradual-release approach leading to student-directed learning.

This book takes an original approach to teaching about qualitative research by providing rich examples of stories of various student qualitative research experiences.

This unique resource helps teachers balance personal and professional priorities and master essential skills such as preventing behavior problems, differentiating instruction, and partnering with families.

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This revised edition shows educators how to integrate assessment with teaching and learning and offers new chapters that discuss a variety of assessment and grading techniques.

This revised edition shows educators how to integrate assessment with teaching and learning and offers new chapters that discuss a variety of assessment and grading techniques.

Synthesizing information from neuroscience, cognitive psychology, and child development, this reader-friendly guide explains the basics of early brain development and provides brain-compatible teaching practices.

Examines administrators' critical role in ensuring successful RTI implementation and shows how to motivate staff, formulate a comprehensive assessment plan, and design a yearlong staff development plan.

Examines administrators' critical role in ensuring successful RTI implementation and shows how to motivate staff, formulate a comprehensive assessment plan, and design a yearlong staff development plan.