Product Description: Founded in 1943, the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) is an international, nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that represents 160,000 educators from more than 135 countries and 66 affiliates. Its members span the entire profession of educators-superintendents, supervisors, principals, teachers, professors of education, and school board members...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: What attracts good teachers and keeps them in the profession? What makes schools better places for students to learn and for teachers to work? These questions are at the heart of Keeping Good Teachers. To answer them, many of the authors in this book have surveyed fellow educators to find out which practices and policies are most beneficial and practical to implement in schools...read more

Describes how to rapidly establish a crisis response team, develop a response plan, provide clinical and mental health supports, and disseminate information to staff, students, parents, and the media.

Examines issues related to early learning failure, describes practices that can help children find success in school, and looks at programs of prevention and intervention. (view table of contents)

Provides educators with answers to ninety questions on the First Amendment, covering such issues as school prayer, holidays, student groups, censorship, speech, dress codes, and the Internet. (view table of contents)

Product Description: This book offers middle school educators practical information about inquiry-based, interdisciplinary learning. The authors explore the underlying cognitive, social, and moral reasons why it is developmentally appropriate for young adolescents to become active researchers; how the I-Searchone kind of inquiry-based, interdisciplinary unittranslates theory into practice in a manageable way so that it fits into the real lives of middle school teachers; what teaching, learning, and assessment within an I-Search Unit look like in practice and how this relates to technology use, content-area standards, and current theories of education; and how to promote successful implementation by having facilitators and administrators create the supportive structures teachers need to engage in cycles of curriculum design, implementation, and evaluation...read more

Product Description: Great ideas and great programs are as varied as the minds that conceive them and try them out. In that spirit, this book brings together articles from ASCD's Update newsletters on some of the most interesting and ambitious ideas and trends in education today, including bilingual education, constructivism, inclusion, integrating the curriculum, multi-age classrooms, multiple intelligences, and preparing students for the workplace...read more

Product Description: What effect will national curriculum standards have on schools? Should curriculum favor depth over coverage? Experts on curriculum answer these questions and discuss the effect of technology on curriculum, the future of "skill and drill," and other instructional approaches.

Concepts of systems thinking, continued learning, mental models, shared vision, and team building are featured in a collection providing new perspectives on the benefits of assessment.

Product Description: Designing Places for Learning

A guide to service learning describes specific service-learning projects that have enhanced the curriculum in schools across the United States and that have improved student learning in the process. (view table of contents)

Product Description: A fine review of Assessment

Product Description: Book by Milwaukee Curriculum Theory Conference University of Wisconsin-milwauk, Zahorik, John A., Molnar, Alex