 | 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.
Regular price: 37.00
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 | Advocating for Mental Health Supports in Schools
Advocating for Mental Health Supports in Schools: A Step-by-Step Guide
Author: Katherine A. Dockweiler
Advocating for Mental Health Supports in Schools shows readers how to advocate for, and achieve, more mental health supports in schools.
This timely book takes an actionable stance on the mental health issues schools are facing today, offering concrete strategies on how to advocate and what to advocate for. It contains model policy examples and expert advice from policy makers and practitioners across the country who are leaders in advocacy work. The book is divided into three sections. "Advocacy Truths" orients the reader as to what advocacy is and how to do it. "Policy Making" breaks down the complexity of the policy making process using simple terms and language, making it feel accessible and feasible. Finally, "Levels in Action" provides examples of federal, state, and local policy options to increase school-based mental health supports in schools. This section also outlines the ARTERY Pipeline Framework, showing readers how to systemically create workforce solutions to successfully recruit, train, and retain more school-based mental health professionals.
Within this guide, educators; school-based mental health professionals; graduate students in school psychology, counseling, and social work; school board members; policy makers; families and others will find concrete solutions to incorporate into their advocacy work at all levels of policy making.
ISBN 9781032311883
Release Date: 31 January 2023
Regular price: 53.00
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 | Agents to Agency
Agents to Agency: A Measurable Process for Cultivating Self-Directed Learner Agency
Author: Lee Crockett
Release date: 15 Feb 2023
Lee Crockett’s highly-anticipated new book Agents to Agency: A measurable process for cultivating self-directed learner agency follows on from his best-selling book Future-Focused Learning: 10 essential shifts of everyday practice. The transformation of classroom practice and moving the responsibility for learning from the teacher to the learner is examined in greater detail with an emphasis on the specific learning practices that successfully underpin the transition.
Agents to Agency: A measurable process for cultivating self-directed learner agency explores how to adopt learning practices that develop and enhance learner agency and will provide the understanding you need to move forward with it in your classroom. The reader is guided through the content with clear summaries, key points and tangible examples of each level of agency.
Lee provides a well-structured and systematic framework for developing agency in our classrooms and enabling students to become capable and independent learners. Lee breaks down what agency is and discusses why it is essential to successful and meaningful learning. The book then examines the crucial topic of learning intentions and success criteria which is pivotal to students knowing what proficiency will look like and guiding them towards achievement.
The final chapters present a series of learner agency continuums for facilitating and measuring learner agency as sensible and practical progressions for building self-directed learner agency with your learners. Case studies are included at the back of the book and an invitation to join the Future-Focused Learning Network, to provide you with ongoing support in your quest to help students move from agents to agency.
ISBN: 9781761411595
Publish Date: 15 February 2023
Regular price: 52.00
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 | Disability Studies and the Inclusive Classroom
Disability Studies and the Inclusive Classroom
Critical Practices for Embracing Diversity in Education
Author: Susan Baglieri
Disability Studies and the Inclusive Classroom integrates knowledge and practice from the fields of disability studies and special education to provide readers with a comprehensive understanding of inclusive education. Now in its third edition, this critical volume has been revised and updated to include expanded discussion of disability models and contemporary perspectives on disability. Each chapter features a dilemma to capture the complexities of the field of educational practice to inspire critical thinking and contemplation of inclusive education.
ISBN 9780367682590
Release Date: 22nd December 2022
Edition: 3
Regular price: 78.00
Discounted member price: 73.00
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 | Helping Teens and Young Adults with Anxiety
Helping Teens and Young Adults with Anxiety: A Ten Session Programme
Author: Elizabeth Herrick, Barbara Redman-White, Helen Hudson
Helping Teens and Young Adults with Anxiety provides a unique structure for a complete ten-week programme, equipping secondary school, college, and university staff with the tools to support students who are experiencing anxiety.
Following on from the authors’ best seller Supporting Children and Young People with Anxiety, this companion resource is tailored to meet the complex needs of teenagers and young people and provides a programme which can be run entirely independently. The intervention draws on a range of theoretical backgrounds and practical models of working and reflects recent improved understanding of the neuropsychology of stress and anxiety and an understanding of the effect that trauma can have on the body and mind. Presuming no prior experience on the part of the reader, the authors acknowledge the challenges involved in recognising anxiety and delivering tailored treatment and emphasise the roles of prevention and early intervention. All resources are photocopiable and downloadable and can be easily customised for use with children and parents.
Helping Teens and Young Adults with Anxiety provides an eclectic approach to managing anxiety and serves as an important text for education professionals working with young people in both academic and non-academic sectors.
ISBN 9781032018393
Published January 31, 2023 by Routledge
Regular price: 45.00
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 | Rigor in Your Classroom: A Toolkit for Teachers
Rigor in Your Classroom: A Toolkit for Teachers
Author: Barbara Blackburn
How can you ensure students are engaged and learning at deeper levels? This book from bestselling author Barbara R. Blackburn is a treasure chest of more than 250 practical and effective tools that can be used across grade levels and subject areas to increase rigor, leading to higher levels of learning and success.
Topics include scaffolding, differentiation, higher-level questions, high expectations, gradual release of responsibility, and more. This essential second edition offers more than 50 additional tools, updated research, and new topics such as teaching academic discourse, creating an environment of respect, and building students’ social and emotional learning.
Rigor in Your Classroom will be your go-to resource throughout the school year, as you continually use new tools with your students. Bonus: The tools are accompanied by graphic organizers, charts, templates, and reproducibles for easy implementation.
ISBN 9780367559236
Release Date: 27th December 2022
Edition: 2
Regular price: 50.00
Discounted member price: 45.00
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 | Becoming a Totally Inclusive School
Becoming a Totally Inclusive School: A Guide for Teachers and School Leaders
Author: Angeline Aow, Sadie Hollins, Stephen Whitehead
Educators are at a crossroads and the global call for institutions to address their inequitable structures is ringing loudly. For teachers and school leaders who are hearing that call, this book offers knowledge and guidance for becoming a Totally Inclusive school.
Each chapter delves into key ideas that are fundamental to addressing the complex challenge of achieving Total Inclusivity – one which encompasses and values racial diversity, gender equality, LGBTQ+ inclusivity, neurodiversity and more. Across the three sections, the authors introduce key terms and concepts important to inclusivity, focused on mindsets, behaviours and systems and structures. Explore how interactions contribute to or impede progress, and engage with tools, stories and reflection points to translate knowledge into practice.
Written in an accessible style with reflective exercises in every chapter, the book will guide educational professionals along the pathway to becoming advocates for inclusivity in their schools and communities.
ISBN 9781032136745
Release Date: 10th November 2022
Regular price: 47.00
Discounted member price: 42.00
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 | Cultures of Thinking in Action - Pre Order
Cultures of Thinking in Action: 10 Mindsets to Transform our Teaching and Students' Learning
Release Date: 12th June 2023
Author: Ron Ritchhart
From leading educational researcher Ron Ritchhart, a deep dive that illuminates what the foundational mindsets needed to create cultures of thinking really looks like in action.
Building on the framework presented in the best-selling Creating Cultures of Thinking, Ron Ritchhart’s new book, Cultures of Thinking in Action, takes the next step in helping readers not only understand how a culture of thinking looks and feels, but also how to create it for themselves and their learners. Arguing that no set of practices or techniques alone is sufficient to create a culture of thinking in and of itself, Ritchhart explores the underlying beliefs that motivate the creation of cultures of thinking, presenting key mindsets every educator and leader needs to embrace if they are serious about creating powerful thinkers and learners.
Much more than just an instructional guide, Cultures of Thinking in Action offers readers a reflective journey into their own teaching, leading, and parentingwhile providing the foundation and concrete strategies needed to create and develop a culture of thinking for all learners.
This book:
* Presents ten foundational mindsets of a culture of thinking
* Includes the latest research of the Cultures of Thinking Project
* Includes questions, exercises, and discussion prompts to inspire reflection by individuals and teams
* Provides case studies and best practice scenarios to exemplify each mindset
* Provides useful data collection tools to inform one’s teaching practice
Edition Number: 1
Available: 12th June 2023
ISBN: 9781119901068
Regular price: 54.00
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 | Fighting Fake News - Pre Order
Fighting Fake News: Teaching Students to Identify and Interrogate Information Pollution
Release Date: 7th March 2023
Author: Jeffrey D. Wilhelm, Michael W. Smith, Hugh Kesson, Deborah Appleman
Fake news, false and distorted news material; is nothing new. It's been a part of media history long before the advent of social media. But with the speed and reach that powerful digital technology and social media provide, information pollution has spread like wildfire in our rapidly changing world.
Now more than ever, students need to develop their critical reading and thinking skills. This extensively researched book will provide educators in all subject areas and grade levels, the tools and lessons to:
help learners become highly competent critical readers of all kinds of texts, and critical consumers of data
help students recognize, interrogate, and responsibly deal with fake news, the New Propaganda or information pollution
help learners understand how these kinds of mis-, dis- and mal-information work and how they are powerfully tailored, curated, and disseminated to them in highly targeted and manipulative ways by artificial intelligence (AI) and social media
help learners understand how these kinds of mis-, dis- and mal-information work and how they are powerfully tailored, curated, and disseminated to them in highly targeted and manipulative ways by artificial intelligence (AI) and social media
and help to recognize and fight ungrounded skepticism: the ignorance or dismissal of established, credible data from across reliable sources, including the pretense that science does not exist or that established scientific findings can be roundly discounted.
Available: 7th March 2023
ISBN: 9781071854655
Regular price: 44.00
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 | Head and Heart: The Art of Modern Leadership
Head and Heart: The Art of Modern Leadership
Author: Kirstin Ferguson
Leadership is simply a series of moments and every moment gives you the opportunity to leave a positive legacy for those you lead.
In this ground-breaking book, award-winning leadership expert and business leader Kirstin Ferguson has written a much needed practical guide for every modern leader. Whether you are the head of one of the largest companies in the world, supervising a small team or guiding your family, it will be your ability to integrate your head and heart that will influence your success in leading others and navigating our complex world.
Combining studies from leading thinkers in the field with her own research, and more than three decades of personal experience, Kirstin explains the eight key attributes of a head and heart leader, and provides the tools to measure your own approach. Along the way, she shares her conversations with modern leaders from a broad range of backgrounds whose stories will surprise you, challenge your thinking and inspire you to be the type of leader the world needs today.
Published: 31st January 2023
ISBN: 9781761046063
Regular price: 35.00
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 | How Scaffolding Works - Pre Order
How Scaffolding Works: A Playbook for Supporting and Releasing Responsibility to Students
Release Date: 28th February 2023
Author: Nancy Frey, Douglas Fisher, John T. Almarode
Provide the perfect structure and support to develop student independence.
Effective scaffolding leads to learner autonomy-but too many educators have been airlifting students to right answers, perpetuating a generation who don't know how to learn. Yes, we know the sweet spot for learning involves giving our students the right blend of productive failure and productive success, but how to do it is cloaked in misconceptions.
How Scaffolding Works unveils the essential moves and methods. Ten interactive modules help every K-12 educator structure support in new ways, including knowing how to:
Gradually release responsibility to students through intentional and purposeful scaffolding
Design lessons and experiences that attend to the affective, metacognitive, and cognitive aspects of learning
Collect data before, during, and after learning, so we can place, move, and take away scaffolds with greater intention
Promote independence with front-end scaffolds, distributed scaffolds, back-end scaffolds, peer scaffolds, and fading scaffolds
Use a blend of demonstration, modeling, coaching, explaining, questioning and choice
Promote purposeful practice-in which learners knows where they're going and how to get there
Perhaps we rush in to rescue learners because the world seems fraught; we want to help our students reach the safety of academic success. Our intentions are good, but it's time to step back, gradually and purposefully, and let them pilot their own learning.
Available: 28th February 2023
ISBN: 9781071904152
Regular price: 58.00
Discounted member price: 53.00
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