 | 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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Regular price: 55.00
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| 9781949539257 |
 | 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 |
 | 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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 | Ambitious Instruction
Ambitious Instruction :
Teaching with Rigor in the Secondary Classroom
Brad Cawn
Ambitious Instruction: Teaching With Rigor in the Secondary Classroom offers a blueprint for how to use rigour to reinvigorate daily learning and instruction. Author Brad Cawn makes rigor visible, accessible and actionable to readers so that all grade 6–12 students will have opportunities to engage in meaningful intellectual work across the disciplines. By infusing the tenets of problem-based learning and synthesis into lessons, secondary teachers develop teaching and learning practices to teach not only with rigour but for rigour, jump-starting students’ success.
Readers will:
* develop a working understanding of rigour that will serve as the basis for instructional excellence
* study both academic and instructional rigour, including their unique qualities and implications for instruction
* become familiar with actionable strategies to develop and increase rigour in the classroom
* learn the importance of talk in supporting rigour in the classroom
improve students’ college and career readiness.
194 Pages | Pbk | Published April 2020
Regular price: 37.00
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| 9781760941031 |
 | Authentic Teaching and Learning for PreK–Fifth Grade
Authentic Teaching and Learning for PreK–Fifth Grade: Advice from Practitioners and Coaches
Edited by Angela K. Salmon
Authentic Teaching and Learning for PreK–Fifth Grade provides examples of pedagogical approaches to enhance rich curriculums based around frameworks such as Teaching for Understanding, Making Thinking and Learning Visible, Artful Thinking, and Out of Eden Learn. You will learn about real classrooms that have successfully transformed cutting-edge ideas from these different frameworks into powerful learning experiences. A highly practical resource based on Harvard’s Project Zero ideas, this book shares how research findings have been complemented and implemented in the field, and will teach you how to apply best practices that lead to meaningful and authentic learning experiences in the classroom that promote Habits of Mind.
CONTENTS
1. Frameworks that Promote Authentic Learning Angela K. Salmon 2. If I Would Have Learned This Way! Silvia Lopez Angel 3. Same and Different: An Out of Eden Learn Experience (Kindergarten) Maria Victoria Gangotena and Angela K. Salmon 4. Using Technology to Create a Thoughtful Classroom Kiriaki Melliou 5. Order in the Court! Sarah Evans 6. Learning for Change Natalie Belli 7. Image to Inference in Informational Text: Reasoning with Evidence in 5th Grade Social Studies Janet J. Navarro and Tamara Lantz 8. Shifting Teaching and Learning Paradigms in the Process of Listening and Reflecting Angela K. Salmon 9. How to Develop Understanding Through Reflection and Collaboration in an Online Environment Patricia Leon Agusti and Maria Ximena Barrera
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| 9780815380962 |
 | Balance
Balance: Building Positive Relationships within Educational Protocols
Author: Andrew Oberthur
The roles and responsibilities of educators grow more complex every year. School leaders and teachers are tasked with creating high-performing schools that foster a culture of trust, collaboration and enquiry for students, parents and staff - all while working within prescribed protocols of safety, equity, transparency and fiscal responsibility. How do they do it? There's no simple solution, but balance is the key.
Andrew Oberthur draws on his rich experience as a principal and teacher to unpack a range of scenarios where a balance must be struck between following the rules and building relationships. His insights on ethical and courageous leadership - including when to follow and when to flex - offer new and experienced educators a proven framework for difficult decision-making.
Exploring real-life dilemmas of communication, enrolment, staffing, budgeting, behaviour management, parent-teacher relationships, managing through uncertainty and more, Balance provides tested strategies for navigating the system's myriad rules and regulations while building positive relationships and improving outcomes for all students.
Published: 25th May 2022
ISBN: 9781922607263
Number Of Pages: 200
Regular price: 71.00
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 | Battling Boredom
Battling Boredom : Part 1:
99 Strategies to Spark Student Engagement : 1st Edition
Bryan Harris
Drive boredom out of your classroom – and keep it out – with the student-engagement strategies in this book. You’ll learn how to gain and sustain the attention of your students from the moment the bell rings. Perfect for teachers of all subjects and grade levels, these ready-to-use activities go head-to-head with student boredom and disengagement, resulting in class time that’s more efficient, more educational, and loads more fun!
Contents include:
* Strategies to Begin a Lesson
* Strategies to End a Lesson
* Strategies for Solo/Independent Work
* Strategies for the Whole Group
* Strategies for Engaging Reluctant Learners
Bonus: The book also features a Quick Guide to Parent Engagement, with loads of suggestions for increasing student engagement by partnering with families.
148 Pages | Pbk
Regular price: 40.00
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| 9780367151973 |