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Qualities of Effective Principals
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 336

Qualities of Effective Principals

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2021-04-28
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  • Publisher: ASCD

This book shows principals how to successfully balance the needs and priorities of their schools while continuously developing and refining their leadership skills.

Principal Evaluation
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 171

Principal Evaluation

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-03-11
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  • Publisher: ASCD

Effective principals run effective schools. Accurately measuring principal effectiveness has long been an elusive goal for school administrators. Here are detailed steps and resources necessary for designing a comprehensive principal evaluation system that is based on sound research and established best practices.

What Makes a World-Class School and How We Can Get There
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 153

What Makes a World-Class School and How We Can Get There

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2017-06-15
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  • Publisher: ASCD

For years, students in the United States have lagged behind students in many other countries on such measures of achievement as the PISA and TIMSS assessments. In an increasingly globalized world, such a gap is worrisome. Armed with statistics, examples, and cautionary tales from Scandinavia to Japan, James H. Stronge and Xianxuan Xu have written a book that can help educators better prepare students and close that gap. In What Makes a World-Class School and How We Can Get There, you will find * Careful analysis of recent international assessment results—what they mean and what can be done to improve them. * In-depth profiles of high-achieving education systems around the globe—their his...

Smart from the Start
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 357

Smart from the Start

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2023-07-21
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  • Publisher: ASCD

The ultimate new teacher's guide to surviving and thriving in the classroom, Smart from the Start is the springboard to help you establish and improve your practice in meaningful ways. Teachers have a wide range of responsibilities—not all of which can be addressed in teacher preparation programs—and for new and returning educators especially, it can be daunting to think about all that is required throughout the school year. This book provides more than 100 easy-to-incorporate tools spread across six major points of concern: * Beginning of the year: set up your classroom and establish rules and procedures. * Classroom management: establish a healthy learning environment. * Instructional ...

Contemporary Perspectives on Research in Assessment and Evaluation in Early Childhood Education
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 467

Contemporary Perspectives on Research in Assessment and Evaluation in Early Childhood Education

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2015-08-01
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  • Publisher: IAP

Researchers, educators, professional organizations, administrators, parents, and policy makers have increased their involvement in the assessment and evaluation of early childhood education programs. This interest has developed swiftly during the last decades. The National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) and the National Association of Early Childhood Specialists in State Departments of Education (NAECS/SDE) developed a position statement titled, “Early childhood curriculum, assessment, and program evaluation: Building an effective, accountable system in programs for children birth through age 8,” to address related trends, issues, guiding principles, and values. ...

West Meets East
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 195

West Meets East

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-04-03
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  • Publisher: ASCD

Erik Palmer presents an approach to teaching long-neglected but essential language arts that is aligned with the Common Core but focused on preparing K-12 students in all subject areas for 21st century communication inside and beyond the classroom.

Evaluating What Good Teachers Do
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 157

Evaluating What Good Teachers Do

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-08-06
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  • Publisher: Routledge

This book is based on author James H. Stronge's 20-plus years of consulting with school districts and other educational organizations in designing, piloting, and training educators in the use of teacher-performance evaluation systems. Its primary purpose is to help both teachers and their evaluators collect more comprehensive and accurate assessment data for judging teacher effectiveness. The author provides field-tested teacher-evaluation systems based on performance standards which include data collection tools and performance appraisal rubrics.

Investigating the Roles of School Management Teams in Curriculum Delivery
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 333

Investigating the Roles of School Management Teams in Curriculum Delivery

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2021-06-25
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  • Publisher: IGI Global

The COVID-19 pandemic has introduced a new paradigm in education that has forced school management teams to re-imagine their curricula delivery functions and obligations during and post COVID-19. Now there are concerns about the state to which curriculum delivery in schools is likely to become planned, implemented, and managed. Investigating the Roles of School Management Teams in Curriculum Delivery improves the quality of planning, implementation, and management of curriculum delivery to advance the quality of teaching and learning in schools. Particularly, it envisages innovative strategies, best practices, and addresses problems in the planning, implementation, and delivery of curricula ...

Qualities of Effective Teachers
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 363

Qualities of Effective Teachers

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2018-03-21
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  • Publisher: ASCD

Every teacher seeks to be an effective teacher. Every teacher wants to have a positive, remarkable, and lasting influence on students' lives. But what makes for an effective teacher? What role does teacher preparation play in teacher effectiveness? What do effective teachers do during planning, instruction, and assessment? How do they create a learning environment that engages and supports students? And how do effective teachers interact with their students to promote the best opportunities and results for all? In Qualities of Effective Teachers, 3rd edition, James H. Stronge explores these questions and more as he synthesizes the literature on teacher effectiveness. The result? A research-b...

Educating for Global Competence
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 273

Educating for Global Competence

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2022-11-28
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  • Publisher: ASCD

Preparing students to participate fully in today's and tomorrow's world demands that we nurture their global competence, and this book shows teachers how to do just that. In a world rife with rapid change, environmental vulnerabilities, and racial inequities, this second edition of Educating for Global Competence poses an urgent question: What matters most for students to understand about our complex and interconnected world so they can participate fully in its future? Veronica Boix Mansilla and Anthony W. Jackson identify the key skills, values, and attitudes that K–12 students must cultivate to thrive in the 21st century. The book features a practical framework for global competence educ...