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  • - The Education Leader's Guide to Using Data and Research
    av Carrie Conaway & Nora Gordon
    421 - 757

    Written by two leading experts in education research and policy, Common-Sense Evidence is a concise, accessible guide that helps education leaders find and interpret data and research, and then put that knowledge into action.

  • - Advancing Quality in America's Schools
    av Anthony S. Bryk
    461 - 797

    Illustrates how educators have effectively applied the six core principles of continuous improvement in practice. The book highlights relevant examples of rigorous, high-quality improvement work in districts, schools, and professional development networks across America.

  • - Designing and Using Simulated Encounters
    av Elizabeth A. Self & Barbara S. Stengel
    421 - 757

    Introduces an innovative approach for using live-actor simulations to prepare preservice teachers for diverse classroom settings. Based on the SHIFT Project at Vanderbilt University, the book highlights the promise of these encounters to empower preservice teachers to become more culturally responsive.

  • - A Strategic and Organizing Perspective
    av Leo Casey
    461 - 797

    Addresses how the unexpected wave of recent teacher strikes has had a dramatic impact on American public education, teacher unions, and the larger labour movement. Leo Casey explains how this uprising was rooted in deep-seated changes in the economic climate, social movements, and, most importantly, educational politics.

  • - Perspectives on Youth, Identity, and Education
    av SADOWSKI
    421 - 757

    Brings together the perspectives of scholars, educators, and researchers to address the many issues that affect adolescents' emerging identities, especially in relation to students' experience of and engagement with school.

  • - A Universal Design Toolkit
    av Sheryl E. Burgstahler
    427 - 761

    Provides a practical, step-by-step guide for putting the principles of universal design into action. The book offers multiple ways to access, engage with, and transform the higher education environment, and is filled with applications, examples, recommendations, and above all, a framework in which to conceptualize UDHE.

  • - How Racialized STEM Education Stifles Innovation
    av Ebony Omotola McGee
    407 - 731

    Drawing on narratives from hundreds of Black, Latinx, and Indigenous individuals, Ebony Omotola McGee examines the experiences of under-represented racially minoritized students and faculty members who have succeeded in STEM.

  • - Framing a Continuum of Professional Learning
    av E. Caroline Wylie & Margaret Heritage
    421

    Explores the interconnection of ambitious teaching, formative assessment, and disciplinary knowledge. The authors outline a framework to help teachers develop and extend their proficiency in enacting discipline-based formative assessment practices across the continuum of preservice and professional learning.

  • - Systemic Practices for Connecting Social-Emotional and Academic Learning
    av Stephanie L. Brown, Stacey A. Rutledge, Marisa Cannata & m.fl.
    407 - 757

    Makes a powerful case for the implementation of a school reform that bridges academic and social-emotional learning systems in high schools. Based on a multi-year project, the book describes how the biggest difference in academic success from school to school was in the systematic attention to personal relationships between adults and students.

  • - A Challenge to Postsecondary Educators
     
    571

    Argues that educational institutions need to make the topic of employment a central element in their educational offerings. The book demonstrates that a far greater emphasis on teaching students about the work world will be necessary if colleges are to give disadvantaged students a realistic chance for professional and economic success.

  • - A Challenge to Postsecondary Educators
     
    771

    Argues that educational institutions need to make the topic of employment a central element in their educational offerings. The book demonstrates that a far greater emphasis on teaching students about the work world will be necessary if colleges are to give disadvantaged students a realistic chance for professional and economic success.

  • - The Challenge and Promise of Building Equitable STEM Transfer Pathways
    av Xueli Wang
    421 - 771

    Provides a detailed, on-the-ground examination of the difficult paths - curricular, interpersonal, and institutional - that students must chart through community college. The book follows 1,670 two-year college students over four years as they begin STEM programs and documents their educational and life experiences.

  • - The Making of Oakland's Full-Service Community School District
    av Milbrey W. McLaughlin, Kendra Fehrer & Jacob Leos-Urbel
    451

    Offers an in-depth profile of America's most ambitious community school initiative. The book focuses on a nearly ten-year effort to transform all eighty-six district schools in Oakland, California into community schools in order to better meet the academic and personal needs of all students.

  • - A Common Sense Approach for School Leaders
    av Nathan Levenson
    407 - 757

    Offers a set of bold, new ideas for dramatically raising the achievement of students with mild to moderate disabilities and students experiencing serious academic, social and emotional, and behavioural difficulties. This book is both a call to action and a critical guide for administrators looking to close the achievement gap.

  • - A Teaching and Learning Approach
    av Lydia R. Rainey & Meredith I. Honig
    407 - 757

    Specifies the conditions that district leaders can implement to help principal supervisors take a teaching and learning approach to their work. In particular, Meredith Honig and Lydia Rainey explore how these supervisors can most effectively support principals in becoming instructional leaders and developing the capacity to lead their own learning.

  • - A Framework for Educators and Teacher-Educators
    av Nancy LouriA (c) Markowitz & Suzanne M. Bouffard
    407 - 761

    Goes beyond existing social emotional learning programs to introduce a new framework for integrating the development of key skills needed for academic success into daily classroom practice. The framework spells out the competencies, processes, and strategies that P-12 educators need to employ to build students' social and emotional learning.

  • av Larry Cuban
    451 - 797

    Provides a thorough examination of, and challenge to, past and present definitions of what constitutes educational success in the US. Larry Cuban argues that in the history of American education, standards of achievement and inadequacy have been neither stable nor consistent. Nor are these standards untainted by political considerations.

  • - Creating Intentionally Diverse Schools That Benefit All Children
    av Genevieve Siegel-Hawley
    421 - 771

    Explores the leadership, policies, and practices that support contemporary school integration. Drawing on a wide range of sources, as well as her own experience, Genevieve Siegel-Hawley provides a richly layered account of four schools, each committed to building successful, diverse communities as a foundation for a just, democratic society.

  • - Lessons from the School-to-Work Movement
    av Stephen F. Hamilton
    451 - 757

    In an effort to ensure future success for career pathways (CP), a strategy to ensure college and career readiness skills, Stephen Hamilton examines the School-to-Work movement of the 1980s and 1990s and explores how the lessons learned from that campaign's demise can pave the way for a CP program that endures and serves the most deserving.

  • - Bullying and Violence Prevention Around the World
     
    777

    Presents policy and practice recommendations for supporting children and adolescents to feel and be safe in school. Featuring analysis and commentaries from experts in public health, psychology, and school improvement, Feeling Safe in School addresses social, emotional, and intellectual aspects of safety as well as physical safety.

  • - Bullying and Violence Prevention Around the World
     
    421

    Presents policy and practice recommendations for supporting children and adolescents to feel and be safe in school. Featuring analysis and commentaries from experts in public health, psychology, and school improvement, Feeling Safe in School addresses social, emotional, and intellectual aspects of safety as well as physical safety.

  • - Engaging Black and Latinx Youth in Analyzing, Navigating, and Challenging Racial Injustice
    av Scott Seider & Daren Graves
    407 - 757

    Addresses how schools can help youth of colour resist the negative effects of racial injustice and challenge its root causes. Scott Seider and Daren Graves draw on a four-year longitudinal study examining how five different mission-driven urban high schools foster critical consciousness among their students.

  • - A Guide for Education Leaders
    av Sharon M. Ravitch & Nicole Mittenfelner Carl
    461

    Offers an incisive guide to practitioner-led qualitative research. The authors make the case for ""local knowledge generation"" - inquiry-based, school-level research that can contextualize quantitative data, enrich insight, and guide leaders in making more effective decisions leading to sustainable organizational change.

  • - A Developmental Approach to Exploring Race and Racism
    av Sarah E. Fiarman & Tracey A. Benson
    407 - 757

    Describes the phenomenon of unconscious racial bias and how it negatively affects the work of educators and students in schools. Through personal anecdotes and real-life scenarios, Unconscious Bias in Schools provides education leaders with an essential roadmap for addressing this issue directly.

  • - A Framework for Quality and Equality in Education
    av Jennifer A. O'Day & Marshall S. Smith
    451

    Drawing on decades of research, policy, and practice, Jennifer O'Day and Marshall Smith show how strategies for pursuing educational quality and equal outcomes for all students can be linked, presenting an ambitious idea of the future of American education and a comprehensive theory of change for enacting that vision.

  • - Organizing Schools for Success
    av Susan Moore Johnson
    461

    Outlines a powerful argument about the importance of the school as an organisation in nurturing high quality teaching. Based on case studies conducted in fourteen high-poverty, urban schools, the book examines why some schools failed to make progress, while others achieved remarkable results.

  • - Hope and Possibility in Teacher-Family Partnerships
    av Soo Hong
    421 - 771

    Offers a paradigm shift in how we think about family engagement with schools. Soo Hong challenges the conventional depiction of parents and teachers as "natural enemies", and shows how, through teachers' initiative and commitment, they can become natural allies instead.

  • - A Leader's Guide to Collaborating for Improvement
    av John B. Nash
    407 - 731

    Based on a decade of work teaching school leaders nationally and internationally, Design Thinking in Schools shows how leaders can adopt a design thinking mindset to uncover problems and harness the ideas and energy of students and other stakeholders to create unique, effective solutions within a single semester or school year.

  • - Creating Safe and Inclusive Playtime for All Children in School
    av Rebecca A. London
    451 - 797

    Argues that recess has been overlooked as an essential part of the elementary school experience, with major implications for how well schools serve all students equitably and responsively. Given its potential to support students' social and emotional learning and physical activity, Rebecca London says, recess should be designed intentionally.

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