1991 Teacher of the Year Mary Renck Jalongo offers strategies that staff members can use to foster quality "learning communities" in their schools and to nurture the drive for lifelong learning in their students. Jalongo offers practical advice to teachers on how to: 1) Provide authentic learning experiences for children, 2) Take charge of their own professional development, 3) Break isolation and develop a climate of collaboration, and 4) Begin to work inside the system for change.

Creating Learning Communities: The Role of the Teacher in the 21st Century

Education & Teaching

Mary Renck Jalongo

Stanley M. Elam

Schools & Teaching

National Educational Service

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Writing for Successful Publication

Kenneth T. Henson

Creating the New American School: A Principal's Guide to School Improvement, by Richard DuFour and Robert Eaker, synthesizes research on the nation's exemplary learning organizations to outline powerful, practical means of managing change and improvement in schools.

Creating the New American School (Archaeological Series)

Business & Money

DuFour, Richard

Management & Leadership

Anger Management for Youth was written to assist grades 9 12 group leaders in teaching groups of adolescents to learn anger-management techniques. The major sections of this book include an introduction to Anger Management for Youth for group leaders, Getting Started, Anger Management for Youth modules, and monitoring and check-back tools. The introduction provides a brief history of Anger Management for Youth, key concepts about anger and anger management, and description of the model. It also covers specific leader competencies for both the group counseling and skills training approaches that are integrated in Anger Management for Youth. The overall program goals, objectives, and content of the modules are described and diagrammed.

Anger Management for Youth: Stemming Aggression and Violence

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Leona L. Eggert

Psychology & Counseling

Achievement for African-American Students helps educators deliver classroom instruction with greater sensitivity and high expectations, adapt teaching strategies to engage multicultural students, and involve African-American parents in their children s education. Achievement for African-American Students answers the questions: · Who will successfully teach America s children, particularly African-Americans? · Is there a need for comprehensive school policies designed to strengthen the cultural consciousness and intercultural competence of the teaching force? · What attitudes and skills will teachers need to reach their socioeconomically disadvantaged students, particularly African-Americans? · What instructional practices are most advantageous in classrooms where African-American students are the majority enrollment? · Can we as a nation afford to under serve our minority students?

Achievement for African-American Student

Politics & Social Sciences

Reglin, Gary L

Social Sciences

Beyond Piecemeal Improvements is a powerful guidebook to transforming the educational system from the foundation up using ideas of W. Edwards Deming. Practical presentations of key components in quality leadership will show the reader how to achieve excellence across the board from student achievement to staff performance. The book covers ideas for getting staff and students to work at full capacity, using positive alternatives for assessing student and teacher performance, creating a true community of learners by tapping people s intrinsic motivation, and collecting and analyzing data to improve your school, district, or organization.

Beyond Piecemeal Improvements

Ron Warwick

Leader's guide to building cultural competency programs in schools.

Building Cultural Bridges Leaders Guide

Stafford Robinson, Joby

Teasing and Harassment will help the reader learn how to counter and prevent low-level aggression in school and at home with the frames and scripts approach. This approach is based on social learning theory and provides easy-to-learn language for working with children and youth to unlearn the behavior that leads to teasing and harassment, change internal scripts during a situation that requires problem solving, and learn a positive problem-solving sequence. This resource covers many aspects of teasing and harassment, from the general to the very specific and the conceptual to the concrete. Although the book is divided into eight sequential chapters, it is not necessary to read the chapters in order. In some cases, it may be more helpful to read one of the later, more specific chapters so that the reader is prepared to handle a situation, and later go back to read the earlier chapters.

Teasing and Harassment

Hoover, John

Olsen, Glenn

Peacemakers: A Violence Prevention Program is an award-winning, research-based intervention that combines best practices from psychology and values education into experiences that help prevent youth violence and improve interpersonal behavior. The program, which includes a Leader s Guide and Student Workbook, is written for students in grades 4-8, and can be implemented in school, as well as in youth groups, after-school programs, residential-treatment programs, or for other groups of children led by caring adults. Peacemakers is a program that teaches children how to prevent violence by helping them to understand the psychology of violence. The program provides proven instruction in anger management, coping with stress, perspective-switching, problem solving, empathy for others, assertive behavior, communication skills, conflict resolution, dealing with bullying, resisting negative peer pressure, and using positive peer pressure. Students learn these skills within the real-world conte

Peacemakers: A Violence Prevention Program

Shapiro, Jeremy P.

Just in Time provides busy educators with practical, easy-to-use strategies for preventing and responding to misbehavior in ways that preserve dignity and promote positive behavior. If you work with challenging students, this book is required reading. Turn to Just in Time for tips on · Welcoming students · Establishing effective rules and consequences · Promoting responsibility and problem-solving methods · Motivating students · Handling tough moments and difficult situations · Helping students handle tough moments and difficult situations Just in Time also includes answers to frequently asked questions on classroom behavior. The proven and innovative strategies in this book have been developed, shared, and tested by educators throughout North America.

Just in Time: Powerful Strategies to Promote Positive Behavior

Mendler, Allen N.

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