 | 10 Perspectives on Innovation in Education
10 Perspectives on Innovation in Education : 1st Edition
Edited by Jimmy Casas, Todd Whitaker, Jeffrey Zoul
How do great educators bring about real change to make a difference in students’ lives? In this first volume of the Routledge Great Educators Series, 10 of education’s most inspiring thought-leaders come together to share their top suggestions you need right now to innovate in your school or classroom. You will gain fresh insights and practical strategies on these essential topics:
Personalizing professional learning (Jeffrey Zoul)
Promoting a positive school culture (Todd Whitaker)
Improving our hiring practices (Jimmy Casas)
Designing spaces that maximize learning (Thomas C. Murray)
Empowering students in their learning and assessments (Starr Sackstein)
Flipping the classroom to reach each student (Kirk Humphreys)
Positioning libraries as learning hubs (Shannon McClintock Miller)
Helping others embrace technology changes (Katrina Keene)
Developing personal, not just professional, skills (Dwight Carter)
Embracing each student's passions and strengths (LaVonna Roth)
Filled with inspiring stories throughout, the book will leave you feeling motivated to take risks and try new things in your own school or classroom. As the authors say, if we want to make a real difference, it’s not enough to do the things we do better; we must also do new and better things!
"Imagine you have the opportunity to learn from the most exciting, innovative and inspiring educators today…..all in one book! 10 Perspectives on Innovation in Education is an exciting project that brings today’s brightest educators together to share ideas, resources, and practices that can be tried tomorrow. Be ready to be engaged and inspired, and to innovative your practices tomorrow." — Jessica Cabeen, Principal, 2017 Minnesota Nationally Distinguished Principal, Author and Speaker
Published: 7th January 2019
ISBN: 9781138598836
Number Of Pages: 162
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 | 100 Day Leaders
100-Day Leaders :
Turning Short-Term Wins Into Long-Term Success in Schools (a 100-Day Action Plan for Meaningful School Improvement)
Douglas Reeves, Robert Eaker
Foreword by Michael Fullan
Within 100 days, schools have dramatically increased student achievement, transformed faculty morale and school culture, reduced discipline issues, and much more. Begin leading focused, meaningful change in your own school with the support of 100-Day Leaders by Douglas Reeves and Robert Eaker. Using this book to guide your school improvement plan, you will learn how to achieve a series of short-term wins that combine to form long-term success.
Begin a 100-day action plan for educational leadership to effect significant school improvement:
Become familiar with the 100-day leadership plan and the six stages of implementation.
Understand the importance of a collaborative culture in creating strong leadership in schools.
Develop an understanding of high-leverage leadership techniques and strategic planning.
Study the personality traits and leadership qualities that support successful change management and school improvement.
Access reproducible rubrics that can be used to measure progress of the 100-day leadership action plan and your school leadership development.
Contents:
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Foreword
Introduction: Why One Hundred Days?
Part 1: Exploring 100-Day Leadership
Chapter 1: Why Before How
Chapter 2: The Six Steps of 100-Day Leadership
Chapter 3: The 100-Day Leader in Action
Part 2: Creating the Environment for Success
Chapter 4: A Strong Foundation
Chapter 5: How to Begin From Within
Published: 15th July 2019
ISBN: 9781949539257
Number Of Pages: 168
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 | 12 Ways Your Child Can Get the Best Out of School
12 Ways Your Child Can Get the Best Out of School
Adrian Piccoli
A jargon-free guide to your child's education and how you can help them thrive at school.
For Australian children to achieve their full potential in a rapidly changing world, they need a high-quality education. However, experts and teachers can't do it alone. In fact, all the research shows that parents and carers have a big part to play.
In 12 Ways Your Child Can Get the Best Out of School, Professor Adrian Piccoli, Director of the Gonski Institute for Education and former NSW education minister, sets out clearly what you need to know to ensure your child receives the quality education they deserve. Jargon-free and easy to understand, this book will empower you with the knowledge and advice you need to make a difference, including:
* What to look for when choosing a school
* What questions to ask at parent-teacher interviews
* What is NAPLAN and does it matter
* Homework - why, why not, and how much
* Supporting children with special needs
* What does the ATAR really mean
* Setting high expectations and handling stress
* Managing screen time and the role of technology at school.
With clear and concise advice, case studies and more, 12 Ways Your Child Can Get the Best Out of School is for every parent and carer who wants to help their child flourish and do well. And, surely, that's all of us.
Pbk | 228 Pages
Regular price: 29.99
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| 9780733339462 |
 | 7 Strategies for Improving Your School
7 Strategies for Improving Your School
*SPECIAL OFFER*
By Ronald Williamson, Barbara R. Blackburn
This book provides the busiest leaders with an accessible set of tools that can immediately be deployed to positively impact their school. Authors Ronald Williamson and Barbara R. Blackburn explore the COMPASS model—Culture; Ownership and Shared Vision; Managing Data; Professional Development; Advocacy; Shared Accountability; and
Structures to Sustain Success—as an overall framework for school improvement. Chapters include in-depth discussions of easy-to-implement, useful strategies for improvement and address the most common concerns facing today’s school leaders. Supplemented with templates, charts, and other adaptable tools for ongoing, practical use, 7 Strategies for Improving Your School is your key guide to school improvement.
Regular price: 27.00
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| D9781138391482 |
 | 75 Ways to be a Better Teacher Tomorrow
75 Ways to Be a Better Teacher Tomorrow :
With Less Stress and Quick Success : 1st Edition
Annette Breaux, Todd Whitaker
Highly effective teachers have something in common: They do simple things extraordinarily well—simple, uncomplicated things on a daily basis. In this new book by bestselling authors and presenters Annette Breaux and Todd Whitaker, you’ll learn the secrets of these tried-and-true techniques that will help to improve your teaching, your students’ learning, and your students’ behavior. Annette and Todd, who have years of experience working in schools across the globe, reveal 75 easily-implemented strategies that will improve teaching and instruction, classroom management, student motivation, student achievement, parent communication, and more--with no new programs! Each tip provides practical takeaways that can be used immediately and with remarkable success.
Annette Breaux (@AnnetteBreaux)is a well-known speaker and consultant in education today. She is a former classroom teacher, curriculum coordinator, and Teacher Induction Coordinator. She has written several bestsellers including 101 Answers for New Teachers and Their Mentors, Seven Simple Secrets: What the BEST Teachers Know and Do, and 50 Ways to Improve Student Behavior.
Todd Whitaker (@toddwhitaker) is a professor of educational leadership at the University of Missouri. He is a leading presenter in the field of education and has written more than 50 books including the national bestsellers What Great Teachers Do Differently and Your First Year: How to Survive and Thrive as a New Teacher, co-written with Madeline Whitaker and Katherine Whitaker.
Regular price: 41.00
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| 9781138363380 |
 | A Dialogic Teaching Companion
A Dialogic Teaching Companion
Robin Alexander
Building on Robin Alexander’s landmark Towards Dialogic Teaching, this book shows how and why the dialogic approach has a positive impact on student engagement and learning. It sets out the evidence, examines the underpinning ideas and issues, and offers guidance and resources for the planning, implementation and review of effective dialogic teaching in a wide range of educational settings.
Dialogic teaching harnesses the power of talk to engage students’ interest, stimulate their thinking, advance their understanding, expand their ideas and build and evaluate argument, empowering them for lifelong learning and for social and democratic engagement. Drawing on extensive published research as well as the high-profile, 5000-student trial and independent evaluation of Alexander’s distinctive approach to dialogic teaching in action, this book:
* Presents the case for treating talk as not merely incidental to teaching and learning but as an essential tool of education whose exploitation and development require understanding and skill;
* Explores questions of definition and conceptualisation in the realms of dialogue, argumentation and dialogic teaching, revealing the similarities and differences between the main approaches;
* Discusses evidence that has enriched the debate about classroom talk in relation to oracy, argumentation, student voice and philosophy for children as well as dialogic teaching itself;
* Identifies what it is about dialogic teaching that makes a difference to students’ thinking, learning and understanding;
* Presents the author’s rationale and framework for dialogic teaching, now completely revised and much expanded;
* Proposes a professional development strategy for making dialogic teaching happen which, like the framework, has been successfully trialled in schools;
* Lists resources from others working in the field to support further study and development;
* Includes an extensive bibliography.
Robin Alexander’s A Dialogic Teaching Companion, like its popular predecessor Towards Dialogic Teaching, aims to support the work of all those who are interested in the quality of teaching and learning, but especially trainee and serving teachers, teacher educators, school leaders and researchers.
236 Pages | Pbk | Published March 2020
Regular price: 42.00
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| 9781138570351 |
 | Accountability and Culture of School Teachers and Principals
Accountability and Culture of School Teachers and Principals:
An Eight-country Comparative Study
Author: Theo Wubbels, Zehava Rosenblatt
Accountability and Culture of School Teachers and Principals studies the degree to which teachers and principals in eight countries view themselves as taking responsibility, working by clear standards, reporting transparently, and accepting feedback at work.
The book focuses on cultural values that explain variation in accountability levels of school educators, drawing on data from Canada, China, Hungary, Israel, the Netherlands, Spain, South Africa, and Zimbabwe. It addresses the question of whether cultural values, specifically collectivism and individualism, are related to teachers’ and principals’ external and internal accountability dispositions. It also explores the intriguing role of organizational support and key school personnel in school reforms across the world, providing a new way to understand school accountability.
The book will be of great interest for academics, post-graduate students, and scholars in the field of education policy and international and comparative studies in education.
ISBN: 9780367762056
Published on: 9 January 2023
Number of Pages: 190 Pages
Regular price: 37.00
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| 9780367762056 |
 | Achieving Equity and Excellence
Achieving Equity and Excellence :
Immediate Results from the Lessons of High-Poverty, High-Success Schools
Douglas Reeves
Achieve high performance for all in your school. In Achieving Equity and Excellence, author Douglas Reeves outlines how to make dramatic improvements to student learning, behavior, and attendance in a single semester. Study the mindset of high-poverty, high-success schools and follow their example to implement the equitable and just practices necessary to make student success a sustainable reality.
Use this resource to empower students, teachers, and administrators:
* Study the landmark research on the practices of high-performing, high-poverty schools, and discover updated research showing how these results can be applied.
* Discover what high-poverty schools do differently to achieve high performance, and learn how to implement these strategies in your classroom.
* Transform any school into an effective and productive school through learner-centered teaching.
* Learn the importance of action during the change process and why action must come before belief to implement equitable teaching practices.
* Explore effective accountability systems, the different levels of accountability, and how these systems should be implemented to meet the needs of diverse learners.
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ISBN: 9781760569976
No of Pages: 196
Publish Date: 06 April 2020
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| 9781949539431 |
 | Action Research: Improving Schools and Empowering Educators
Action Research: Improving Schools and Empowering Educators 6ed
Craig A. Mertler
SAGE Publications, Inc
Action Research: Improving Schools and Empowering Educators introduces both novice and experienced practicing educators to the process of designing and conducting classroom-based action research in order to make their instructional practices more effective. This practical text focuses on the research methods and procedures that educators can use in their everyday instructional practices, classroom activities, and school procedures. Using over 20 years of teaching experience, author Craig A. Mertler provides insightful coverage of the knowledge and skills needed to design research studies, conduct research, and communicate findings to relevant stakeholders.
PBK | 360 Pages | FP
Regular price: 300.00
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| 9781544324395 |
 | Activate
Activate: Deeper Learning Through Movement, Talk, and Flexible Classrooms
Author: Katherine Mills Hernandez
Discover what happens when your students step out of their daily routines and activate their engagement. Author Katherine Mills Hernandez argues that movement, talk and the physical environment of the classroom all contribute to and influence students’ learning. The ideas in Activate will help you create a classroom optimised for deeper engagement and lasting learning.
No matter what subject you teach, Katherine invites you to shift your attention from what you are doing in the classroom, to what your students are doing as the catalyst for learning. She provides insights into instruction through real classroom lessons as she gives you the tools to better assess your students’ engagement and energy levels. The book describes practical ways to incorporate movement into the classroom routine, based on research on how an active brain generates true learning.
Katherine welcomes you into her own classroom by sharing vignettes from lessons and activities, opening up the pages of her own learning journal, sharing pictures from her classroom and examples of classroom charts. She also provides a comprehensive bibliography on the research behind the science of movement and talk and how they affect learning.
Published: 16th December 2019
ISBN: 9781760568535
Number Of Pages: 168
Regular price: 38.00
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