This book enables practicing leaders to build and support effective special education programs to include supervising and supporting teachers, review programs, and implement special education law.
It's critically important that teachers attend to both content and language development when introducing new subject matter, especially for English learners. Here's your opportunity to get started tomorrow and every day thereafter: Alison Bailey and Margaret Heritage's all-new Progressing Students' Language Day by Day.
A Professional Learning Infrastructure to Support Sustainable Change
Blended Learning expert Catlin Tucker provides a clear path for professional learning that is embedded in the school's culture, blending targeted training (the "spark"), 1:1 coaching, and professional learning communities. This comprehensive approach to professional learning ensures that teachers in a blended environment work continually to improve learning outcomes for students, stay up-to-date on current technology, and learn with their colleagues. This text is full of concrete resources and strategies for leaders and blended learning coaches.
Empowering K-12 Learners With Positive Classroom Management Routines
More than ever before, students are coming to school with social, emotional, and behavioral issues that could have a negative impact on their learning. What's more, the pressure on teachers for their students to perform well on high-stakes testing can take the focus away from addressing behavioral issues. This book provides an inclusive approach to behavior focused on building relationships, community, behavior skills, and academic achievement. The CALM framework provides teachers with successful behavior strategies that will create a comfortable, safe, respectful, and encouraging learning environment for students and teachers alike.
This action-oriented guide provides school and regional leaders with the background, practices, and tools for leading instructional coaching efforts that measurably impact student and teacher learning.
Apps and advanced algorithms can't replace teachers - more accurately, they can't replace good teachers. However, based on the way many teachers often spend their time, adaptive hardware and software can and will automate many traditional teaching and learning tasks such as delivering content, assessing learning, and communicating with parents. This book considers how visual learning; social learning; the age of super-mobility; and big data, gaming, and personalization are changing the face of education. Educational leaders will have to help create a vision to change traditional schools. Technology learning specialists will have to help educators and leaders alike in embracing tools to improve modern-day teaching, learning, and assessment.
What Matters MOST in Learning, Teaching, and Leading
Shared expertise can make every classroom and teacher more effective. This informative book illustrates how educators can come together to bolster achievement in the 21st century.
Truisms That Help Students Write About Abstract Concepts . . . and Live Happily Ever After, Grades 4-12
This book teaches students how to write using a text structure to organize their writing, then how to choose a text structure. With a little practice, students go from completely dependent on teacher guidance to completely autonomous designers of their pieces. The scaffolding leads the student, but also the teacher, toward more student choices.
Just as the digital landscape is constantly evolving, the second edition of Digital Leadership moves past trends and fads to focus on the essence of leading innovative change in education now and in the future. As society and technology evolve at what seems a dizzying pace, the demands on leaders are changing as well. With a greater emphasis on leadership dispositions, this revamped edition also features: New structure and organization emphasizing the interconnectivity of the Pillars of Digital Leadership to drive sustainable change Innovative strategies and leadership practices that enhance school culture and drive learning improvement Updated vignettes from digital leaders who have successfully implemented the included strategies New online resources, informative graphics, and end of chapter guiding questions Now is the time to embrace innovation, technology, and flexibility to create a learning culture that provides students with 21st century critical competencies!
