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Quick view Promoting Social and Emotional Learning: Guidelines for Educators The authors provide a straightforward, practical guide to establishing high-quality social and emotional education programs. Such programs will help students meet the many unparalleled demands they face today. The authors draw upon the most recent... View Details
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Quick view Problems as Possibilities: Problem-Based Learning for K-16 Education Problem-based learning (PBL) is an authentic, experiential form of learning centered around the collaborative investigation and resolution of real-world problems. In PBL, students address a problematic situation from the perspective of a stakeholder in... View Details
Quick view Principals Who Learn: Asking the Right Questions, Seeking the Best Solutions As a principal, you know how challenging it is to build a dedicated staff, encourage parental support, help students get excited about learning, and create a working school culture. In this book, former principals Barbara Kohm and Beverly Nance... View Details
Quick view Principals and Student Achievement: What the Research Says Principals and Student Achievement identifies 26 essential traits and behaviors of effective principals to show how they achieve success as instructional leaders. Based on a review of 81 key research articles from the last 20 years, this concise book... View Details
Quick view The Principal Influence: A Framework for Developing Leadership Capacity in Principals A guide to professional growth for school principals that focuses on these roles: visionary, instructional leader, engager, and learner and collaborator. View Details
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Quick view Preventing Early Learning Failure In Preventing Early Learning Failure, expert educators describe practices that can help children find success in school. Topics include a look at whatÂ’s important in reading and math; the nature of true learning disabilities; and problem solving using... View Details
Quick view The Power of the Adolescent Brain: Strategies for Teaching Middle and High School Students Adolescents are called moody, reckless, impractical, insecure, and distracted. However, they also possess insight, passion, idealism, sensitivity, and creativity. Award-winning author Thomas Armstrong looks at the teenage brain from an empathetic,... View Details
Quick view The Power of Extreme Writing: How Do I Help My Students Become Eager and Fluent Writers? Are your students excited about writing? Do you want them to be? Do you want them to ask for more writing opportunities and assignments? Do you want them to engage in writing tasks more quickly and with more fluency? The traditional five-step writing... View Details