Too often, the relationship between school officials and the media is a tense one, but this doesn't have to be the case. Julie Blair provides a step-by-step manual for reaching out to the media and working effectively with the press.

Building Bridges with the Press (A Guide for Educators) (Guide for Educators Series)

Education & Teaching

Julie Blair

Schools & Teaching

Editorial Projects in Education

Ted Kolderie writes that the current arrangement of K-12 public education is an obstacle to school and district improvement and that state leaders have an important role to play in shaping system-wide change.

Creating the Capacity for Change: How and Why Governors and Legislatures Are Opening a New-Schools Sector in Public Education

Ted Kolderie

Linda Kaboolian and Paul Sutherland use real-world examples from school districts to highlight innovative practices in school labor-management relations. They also provide contact names, addresses, and telephone numbers for school and union leaders.

Win-Win Labor-Management Collaboration in Education: Breakthrough Practices to Benefit Students, Teachers, and Administrators

Linda Kaboolian

Jane David and Larry Cuban examine 20 different school reforms, the pros and cons of each, and what it takes to make the reforms-including smaller classes, mayoral control of schools, and standards-based change-successful.

Cutting Through the Hype: A Taxpayer's Guide to School Reforms

Larry Cuban

Jane L. David

This book provides step-by-step guidelines for initiating a new mentor program or improving a current program. It provides answers to questions about the importance of a mentor program and about the support needed to make your program successful. You will learn what decisions need to be made early in establishing your program, what makes a good mentor, how to pair mentors with new teachers, and how to embed your mentor program into existing professional development programs. The Appendices include practical checklists, sample applications, rating sheets, evaluations, templates, and more that will help you get your mentor program up and running.

The Mentor Program Kit: Lessons from Districts Successfully Meeting the Challenge

Mary C. Clement

The second edition of this best-selling resource, part of the NAESP Essentials for Principals series, highlights the growing sophistication in the use of data by school leaders for instructional and programmatic decisions. The types of data discussed include classroom and large-scale assessments, early literacy testing, RTI data, observational data, and program evaluations. This analysis also addresses early warning indicators and the preconditions necessary for effective data use.

Data-Based Decision Making 2.0

Draper, John C.

Behrens, Katherine A.

A Winning Formula for Mathematics Instruction: Converting Research Into Results presents both research-based and practice-based information on the creation of effective schoolwide or districtwide mathematics education programs. In addition to research-based recommendations, it offers insights on establishing or improving programs based on the author's many years of experience as a mathematics teacher, mathematics teacher educator, and professional development provider for mathematics education. The book is ideal for professional development at the teacher, school, or district level. Each chapter ends with a series of questions or tasks that are designed to focus the reader's thinking.

A Winning Formula for Mathematics Instruction: Converting Research into Results

Jacobs, Judith E.

The purpose of this book is to improve reading success... at an early age. It is designed for teachers, principals, and other administrators who work with children in preschool or the early elementary grades. What We Know About: Effective Early Reading Instruction focuses on a variety of strategies, approaches, and programs that constitute sound literacy instruction and that are designed to result in the prevention of reading difficulties. Recognizing that there will always be children at risk for reading failure, the book also suggests ways of identifying those students, along with strategies and programs for early intervention.

What We Know About: Effective Early Reading Instruction

Elizabeth A Wilson

Nancy Prothero

If you want to ensure a high-quality teacher in every classroom, every day, then you need to develop and implement an effective substitute teacher program. This report tackles head on what has come to be widely known as the "substitute teacher problem"-the very real likelihood that on any given school day the teaching and learning process will be disrupted for both students and staff-for lack of enough qualified teachers. Identify ways to more effectively recruit, hire, train, and retain quality substitute teachers.

What We Know About: Developing an Effective Substitute Teacher Program:

Elizabeth Henderson

This ERS report, which spotlights research on successful school districts, provides districts with a road map to reach their destination of improved student achievement. Supporting School Improvement: Lessons from Districts Successfully Meeting the Challenge, presents the findings of four studies highlighting school districts--most high poverty and at risk--that have achieved academic progress. As the authors attest, "school districts can have a profound and positive impact on school improvement efforts." For improvement efforts to work, district-level leadership and support are critical, according to the report. The four studies focus on the key characteristics of successful district-level programs. The districts profiled in the report prove student success is indeed an achievable goal. In the wake of NCLB, this is a much-needed piece of good news for many districts that may be found to be ""low-performing.

Supporting School Improvement: Lessons from Districts Successfully Meeting the Challenge

Gordon Cawelti

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