Fueling the Journey with Collective Efficacy and Systems Thinking
This book challenges the current culture of constant change while providing a framework, the tools and the right conversations to support educators and school leaders in improving student outcomes.
Fueling the Journey with Collective Efficacy and Systems Thinking
This book challenges the current culture of constant change while providing a framework, the tools and the right conversations to support educators and school leaders in improving student outcomes.
A Systematic and Comprehensive Approach to Mid-Career Teacher Developmen
Transforming Professionals into Experts: A Systematic and Comprehensive Approach to Mid-Career Teacher Development provides a systematic, comprehensive program for advancing the professional skills of teachers that have already mastered foundational teaching skills.
Managing schools today is more complicated than ever. Managing Today's Schools gathers a diverse group of contributors who offer perspectives on managerially operating a school while also focusing on the interconnectedness between management and leadership. Each chapter includes case study-type scenarios with thought-provoking questions.
Dare to Connect addresses the whole teacher and how to create success in school, outside of school, and in retirement through connections with stakeholders.
This book offers teachers productive approaches to treating textual interpretation not as an effort to reach a single right view or answer, but rather as a collaborative activity involving lively discussion of texts drawn from a variety of media.
Practical Tips for Personal and Professional Situations
Communication skills are a key to success in most areas of life, and they do not get nearly enough attention. Most people would benefit from sharpening these skills in some way, and The 200 Communication Commandments can help improve an individual's ability to communicate in both personal and professional settings.
The Complexities of Forming an Identity as Professional Teacher
Understanding Teacher Identity is a collection of studies that examine the complexities of teacher identity and the role of teacher preparation programs in shaping it. Important to this is a realization that the psychological and pedagogical underpinnings of teacher identity hold importance in shaping who a teacher will become in his/her practice.
The Promises and Tensions of Disciplinary Reading Apprenticeships
This collection combines scholarship, reflection, and practitioner stories of classroom teaching. It begins by reporting the results of a survey of 86 college faculty and staff regarding breakthroughs in their teaching of reading and proposes three tentative threshold concepts and what the editors call a meta-concept undergirding those threshold ......
