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School-tested ways to stretch curriculum dollars, get better administration for less money, and more.

The Second Edition provides lively and inspiring views of school leadership that is both grounded in reality and compellingly hopeful that this reality can be redefined for the better.

Maximize children's learning potential by tapping into all of the resources of school and home - win at the reading game when parents become effective partners.

Even the beginning teacher can use this fresh perspective on assessment to help students focus on strengths and overcome weaknesses.

Now aspiring, new, and veteran principals can learn to use intuitive leadership as a vehicle to go beyond traditional leadership roles and produce greater results.

The author of this work contends that an important responsibility of social enquiry is to engage critically with the moral difficulties and ethical dilemmas which have arisen with modernity. He discusses the work of theorists including Foucault, Beck, Derrida, Giddens and Levinas.

Expert teacher and trainer Susan J. Jones presents a no-nonsense, reality-based approach to classroom instruction that will help learners at all levels achieve lifelong success.

This user-friendly, authoritative guide for cheating features specific techniques for identifying, deterring, and responding to this detriment to learning and assessment.

This guidebook offers teachers eight ready-to-use strategies to help students make good choices for good behavior in the classroom as well as in the real world.

Improve your leadership skills through performance-based activities, exercises, analysis, and simulations.

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This unique A-Z guide provides at-a-glance medical information about 150 illnesses, injuries, and medical conditions that affect adolescents in middle schools and high schools, providing details about signs and symptoms, attendance, medications, and more.

Experienced teacher and researcher Johanna Haver shows how easy it is to ensure that English Language Learners gain mastery of English, as well as learn the essentials of the mainstream curriculum.

This unique resource marries knowledge about testing and test preparation with school improvement, providing a comprehensive guide for administrators.

The first to make the connection between the new standards and the principal's leadership role in creating and sustaining a school's culture and values, this simple, consistent format includes a standard, followed by the philosophical framework and case studies.

Help students be more focused and team-oriented and become the true drivers of their own learning by directing their learning and planning down one of several broad career avenues.

Full of field-tested implementation tools, this comprehensive handbook shows how schools and districts can use the Balanced Curriculum process to put their schools on the track to success.

This newly updated edition features a tried-and-true plan for effective instruction; encompasses independent learning; integrates instruction, learning, and assessment into an effective model for teaching; and more!

If you are looking for ideas and tips that can impact your students' reading and writing, this outstanding resource book provides hundreds of classroom-proven suggestions.

The authors provide principals with the tools needed to help teachers and staff enhance their skills and improve student learning.

This easy-to-use book provides practical strategies for initializing, maximizing, and evaluating Professional Development Schools-from meeting the standards, to hands-on tool kits and "quick-check" self-assessments.

Specifically designed for the K-12 inclusive classroom, this timely handbook demonstrates how to easily and effectively capitalize on available technology.

This highly usable, hands-on guide offers that much-needed and fully integrated support system for the building-level supervisor to truly become a teacher of teachers.

The first of its kind, this unique text identifies the knowledge needed by current and aspiring school district CEOs to become high performers.

This volume presents an examination of both the common and unusual acts of murder in light of society's changing norms, values, attitudes, and customs. Each chapter explores a specific type of murder by examining trends, methods, motives and statistics, and concludes with suggestions aimed at prediction and prevention.

In the course of analysis the case will be faceted either by different perspectives of inquiry or by several sub-units. This book presents different methodological approaches to organize this faceting process.