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"Now I have the tools with [this] book to make [my students] more confident and love the language."--Keith Bauman, honors English teacher, The Villages Charter High School, The Villages, Florida.
Are you attending more meetings and getting less done? Even with our busy schedules, meetings can be a productive use of time when we follow some simple guidelines. Based on her work with thousands of educators, meetings expert Ann Delehant′s indispensable guide is packed with tools, strategies, tips, and ideas that fit the unique context of schools, learning communities, and instructional leaders. Offering step-by-step planning processes designed for principals, teacher leaders, staff developers, and trainers, this book provides guidelines for determining whether to have a meeting, helping groups work together to make decisions, and developing action plans. Demonstrating how effective mee...
Ensure singleton teachers feel integrally involved in the PLC process. With this user-friendly guide, you’ll discover how small schools, full of singleton teachers who are the only ones in their schools teaching their subject areas, can build successful PL
The themes of attending to individual needs, providing assessment-driven instruction, and creating long-term, focused professional development plans are solid and consistent throughout.
This well-rounded collection of research-based reading intervention strategies will support and inform your RTI efforts. The book also includes teacher-friendly sample lesson plans and miniroutines that are easy to understand and adapt. Many of the strategies motivate average and above-average students as well as scaffold struggling readers. Maximize the power of these interventions by using them across grade-level teams or schoolwide.
This updated edition offers strategies for developing trust, establishing a mission, managing teams, and celebrating successes, and includes new chapters on problem-solving processes and developing agendas.
"This is a must-read for all of the practitioners who do not want to ′teach to the test.′ The book offers a sure-fire way to create lifelong learners who are motivated to come to school and who enjoy being part of an energized community."--Joan E. Anderson, Reading InstructorOakridge Middle School, Naples, FL "If teachers ever wondered how to integrate standards, high-stakes testing, and student learning, they need wonder no more. This book has something for everyone."--Randy Cook, Chemistry and Physics TeacherTri County High School, Morley, MI Apply user-friendly tools to create a stimulating environment for student growth while implementing standards! How can teachers successfully crea...
This updated edition shows school leaders how to become powerful agents of school change. The author provides 55 tools to aid in the transformation and reform process, allowing all participants to develop skills that foster communication, consensus, and schoolwide support. This valuable resource outlines twelve roles based on the four main functions of effective facilitators: leading the collaboration and change process, providing skills training, acting as a resource consultant, and motivating and energizing the group.
Family support staff need a broad range of knowledge and skills and an understanding of the multiple psychosocial, biological, and cultural factors influencing human behavior, development, and relationships. This training curriculum, based on concepts of adult learning and the assumption that feeling and self-reflection are at the core of learning, is designed to introduce new staff to the principles and practices of family support, providing a basic survey of issues and concepts that practitioners are likely to encounter in direct family support work. The interactive curriculum is comprised of 8 modules, designed to take 5 days for groups of 10 to 30 participants. Two additional modules on ...
Through a unique seven-step process, administrators and literacy leaders will gain a solid understanding of how to assess and build instructional capacity, overcome roadblocks, develop professional growth opportunities, and create a balanced literacy program. Learn how to identify the look-fors that provide evidence of effective literacy instruction, and bring all students to grade level or well above.