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  • The Essential School Board Book

    Better Governance in the Age of Accountability

    by Nancy Walser ...
    **2009 Notable Education Book, American School Board JournalThe Essential School Board Book highlights effective practices that are common to high-functioning boards around the country—boards that are working successfully with their superintendents and communities to improve teaching and learning.**Amid today’s heightened attention on student achievement, school boards find their responsibilities ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • Strategic Priorities for School Improvement

    No. 6 in the Harvard Education Letter Spotlight Series

    Edited by Nancy Walser, Caroline Chauncey ...
    Series Book 6 - HEL Spotlight Series
    Organized around the four key areas outlined in the U. S. Department of Education’s Race to the Top program, Strategic Priorities for School Improvement presents a collection of seminal articles on standards and assessment; using data to improve learning; recruiting and retaining great teachers and leaders; and turning around failing schools.Contributors include Karin Chenoweth, Stacey Childress, ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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  • 10 Critical Factors in Fundraising: The Little Green Book for Chief Executive Officers

    by J. Terry Johnson ...
    10 CRITICAL FACTORS IN FUNDRAISING outlines a crash course in the art of raising gift support for schools, colleges, universities, and other types of nonprofit organizations. Although designed especially for presidents and chief executive officers, the book will be of great interest to trustees and development personnel who are charged with the task of raising more funds for their respective ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Visionary Director, Second Edition

    A Handbook for Dreaming, Organizing, and Improvising in Your Center

    by Margie Carter, Deb Curtis ...
    An inspiring and practical guide to creating a larger vision in early child care, this popular professional development tool has been thoroughly revised and offers a concrete framework for organizing an early childhood center director's ideas and work. Updated and expanded, it reflects new requirements and initiatives for center directors and addresses topics including cultivating a vision, ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • Peer Coaching

    Unlocking the Power of Collaboration

    by Lester J. Foltos ...
    Teachers are better together!Nationally and internationally, educators are excited about Les Foltos’ techniques for effective peer coaching. The model for Peer Coaching outlined in his 2011 TED talk has been implemented in 40 countries and counting with powerful results.Now you have it in this concise guide to effective coaching! Train teachers to help each other refine their classroom strategies ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • The Elements of Teaching

    Second Edition

    by James M. Banner, Harold C. Cannon ...
    A newly revised edition of this classic work, exploring the diverse qualities essential for teaching in today’s educational environment. According to Banner and Cannon, to be an effective teacher requires much more than technical skill. Great teaching is an art that combines a wide range of intellectual, moral, and emotional components. This classic work explores the qualities of mind and spirit ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

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  • The Wrong Kind of Different

    Challenging the Meaning of Diversity in American Classrooms

    by Antonia Randolph ...
    How can multiculturalism go wrong? Through extensive interviews conducted in a large Midwestern district, Antonia Randolph explores how teachers perceive students from diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds and the unintended consequences of a kind of “colorblind multiculturalism.” She unearths a hierarchy of acceptance and legitimacy that excludes most poor Black students and favors certain ... Read more

    $40.99 CAD

  • Random Musings

    Reflections of a Black Intellectual

    by Bernard Grenway ...
    Random Musings: Reflections of a Black Intellectual focuses on the various racial and cultural challenges facing African-Americans in the context of present day educational, political, and historical realities. The text touches on a wide array of issues, including the psychology of race and power, the plight of the modern black intellectual, and the need to enhance the educational standing of ... Read more

    $50.99 CAD

  • The Public Professor

    How to Use Your Research to Change the World

    by M. V. Lee Badgett ...
    The work of academics can matter and be influential on a public level, but the path to becoming a public intellectual, influential policy advisor, valued community resource or go-to person on an issue is not one that most scholars are trained for. The Public Professor offers scholars ways to use their ideas, research and knowledge to change the world. The book gives practical strategies for ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Finding Your Leadership Focus

    What Matters Most for Student Results

    by Douglas B. Reeves ...
    In his new book, author and international keynoter Douglas Reeves addresses a major challenge faced by today’s school leaders: an ever-growing load of programs and initiatives. Reeves contends that program overload not only taxes leadership resources, but actually hurts rather than improves student performance. Drawing on recent research findings, this book shows how leaders can pare down from a ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • The Mindful Teacher

    by Dennis Shirley, Elizabeth A. MacDonald ...
    Series series the series on school reform
    This new and expanded edition of the bestselling The Mindful Teacher provides educators everywhere with practical ideas for improving teaching and learning. Dennis Shirley and Elizabeth MacDonald have created “Mindful Teacher” seminars that enable teachers to focus their craft so that students can learn with dignity and purpose. This updated second edition includes completely new sections on the ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Educational Leadership and Technology

    Preparing School Administrators for a Digital Age

    by Virginia E. Garland, Chester Tadeja ...
    Providing models of exemplary use and the latest research, Educational Leadership and Technology reveals the transformational power of emerging technologies to improve student learning, and explores how leaders can bring about this technology integration. This book provides an overview of roles and strategies expected of effective school leaders, as well as some of the complex issues they face. ... Read more

    $122.99 CAD