Product Description: The go-to resource for school board members’ greatest challenges! This invaluable guide addresses the top challenges experienced by nearly every school board, and shows how professional learning can support positive change throughout a school system...read more

Product Description: Everyone knows that boys are falling behind in education. Largely left out of the discussion are parents of boys, who are most aware that their bright, eager sons hit an invisible wall somewhere near fourth grade, after which they become disengaged, discouraged, and disaffected...read more

Product Description: Empathy in Education discusses the role of empathy in learning throughout all levels of education and its crucial relationship to motivation, values development and achievement, impacting from the micro to the macro levels of society...read more

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Product Description: In this book, the authors present current research in the study of the predictors, learning strategies and influences of gender in academic achievement. Topics discussed in this compilation include the interlay between cognitive and non-cognitive processes; elementary school students' achievement emotions and influences of gender to motivation achievement; understanding inclusive learners' perceptions of their own academic ability; and the gender aspect of justice about grades...read more

Product Description: Research has shown that when young people know their sparks (their unique interests, passions, and talents), and have adults in their lives who support them in pursuing those sparks, they tend to have greater academic success and school attendance, lead happier and healthier lives, and contribute more to society...read more

Product Description: A large body of research in disciplines from sociology and policy studies to neuroscience and educational psychology has confirmed that socioeconomic status remains the most powerful influence on children’s educational outcomes...read more

Research evidence indicates that formative assessment is one of the most effective ways of enhancing student learning. It is, however, difficult to implement successfully, principally because what is tested through summative assessment has such a powerful influence on teacher and student actions. This book scrutinizes the relationship between testing and learning from alternative perspectives to the dominant literature from the major Anglophone countries. It develops the notion of contextually grounded formative assessment practices by analyzing data from schools in the Confucian-heritage setting of Hong Kong. It explores questions such as: • Under what circumstances do tests support or hinder student learning? • How can teachers effectively prepare students for tests and appropriately follow up after tests? • What are the key socio-cultural influences impacting on testing and student learning in the classroom? • How do teachers change in their orientation towards assessment and what support do they require? This text is a valuable resource for education students, professionals and researchers, policy-makers and curriculum developers.

Product Description: Do you have what it takes to be a successful eLearner? Online classes can be convenient, but that doesn't mean that they are easy. You can succeed as an online student, but you must be honest with yourself about your technical abilities, priorities, responsibilities as a student, and just how much you can take on...read more

Product Description: Expanding a principal's formal education and training, The Principal as Learning-Leader is a administrator's guide to improving student achievement, showing practitioners how to focus on the individual academic performance of each and every student and to work with the school staff and community to develop a learning culture that supports student success...read more

Product Description: Everyone needs to be aware of the kind of information that is left behind when one uses technologywhether its a smartphone or laptopand the Internet. This volume enables readers to enhance their academic reputations online. They learn what constitutes an academic digital footprint and how various employers and institutions use the Web to research people they might want to hire, admit to college, or offer an internship to...read more

Product Description: Expanding a principal's formal education and training, The Principal as Learning-Leader is a administrator's guide to improving student achievement, showing practitioners how to focus on the individual academic performance of each and every student and to work with the school staff and community to develop a learning culture that supports student success...read more

Product Description: Formative assessment and differentiated instruction made manageable We all recognize the countless benefits of differentiated instruction. The challenge is in its implementation. This start-to-finish guide will show you how through formative assessment and seven classroom-tested practices for maximizing student learning...read more

Product Description: In Character Compass, Scott Seider offers portraits of three high-performing urban schools in Boston, Massachusetts that have made character development central to their mission of supporting student success, yet define character in three very different ways...read more

In spite of decades of school reform, the achievement gap between English learners and English-proficient students has narrowed little. This book introduces a ''Reform Sustainability Framework'' that focuses on the examination of fundamental school structures required to ensure English learner success while guiding the school leader in handling the reform terrain deftly. This reform-navigation tool identifies patterns and trends in the deployment of a reform and subsequently allows leaders to make necessary adjustments to extend, accelerate, or terminate a given reform. Bridging the English Learner Achievement Gap offers a compelling, research-grounded way for schools with an English learner population to successfully educate their students. Book Features:* Highlights the leadership challenge of meeting the academic needs of English Learners.* Introduces a step-by-step process for educators at any level to ensure reform sustainability. * Examines the processes, tools, and structures needed to anchor successful school reform.

Product Description: Book annotation not available for this title.Title: Top 10 Tips for Enjoying Success in SchoolAuthor: Henneberg, SusanPublisher: Rosen Pub GroupPublication Date: 2012/08/10Number of Pages: 64Binding Type: LIBRARYLibrary of Congress: 2012003026

Product Description: In Learning Targets, Connie M. Moss and Susan M. Brookhart contend that improving student learning and achievement happens in the immediacy of an individual lesson--what they call "today's lesson"--or it doesn't happen at all.The key to making today's lesson meaningful? Learning targets...read more

Product Description: Research-Based Strategies for Improving Outcomes in Academics, 1e is an authoritative collection of the best techniques known to work for students with disabilities.A volume unlike any other, it helps practitioners, teacher-educators, and policymakers combat the gap between research and practice by gathering the most meaningful findings regarding academic outcomes in a single source...read more