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Understanding by Design, Expanded 2nd Editionby Grant Wiggins; Jay McTighe
ASCD 2005; US$ 32.95Wiggins and McTighe provide an expanded array of practical tools and strategies for designing curriculum, instruction, and assessments that lead students at all grade levels to genuine understanding. more...
Discipline with Dignityby Richard L. Curwin; Allen N. Mendler
ASCD 1999; US$ 15.95This update to the best-selling ASCD book features a new introduction written by the authors and an index. Educators know that we must have safe schools. Teaching and reinforcing responsible human behavior is the core of Discipline with Dignity . more...
Fair Isn't Always Equalby Rick Wormeli
Stenhouse Publishers 2006; US$ 18.40Differentiated instruction is a nice idea, but what's both fair and leads to real student learning? Fair Isn't Always Equal answers this question and much more. Rick Wormeli offers the latest research and common sense thinking that teachers and administrators seek when it comes to assessment and grading in differentiated classes. With real examples and ?gray? areas that educators will easily recognize, Rick tackles important, sometimes controversial assessment and grading issues constructively. more...
Classroom Assessment and Grading That Workby Robert J. Marzano
ASCD 2006; US$ 27.95Robert J. Marzano distills 35 years of research to bring you expert advice on the best practices for assessing and grading the work done by today's students. more...
Personality in the Classroomby David Hodgson
Crown House Publishing 2011; US$ 36.44Brilliant teachers really understand themselves and their students. By uncovering personality types teachers can transform learning in their classroom. This practical book helps teachers improve communication, develop creativity, build positive relationships and boost flexibility and organisational skills to become the best teacher they can be. David has introduced this model to hundreds of schools, primary and secondary, both across the UK and abroad to inspire students, classroom teachers and leadership teams. more...
No Easy Answersby Brooks Brown; Rob Merritt
Lantern Books 2002; US$ 8.99On April 20, 1999, Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris, two seniors at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, walked into their school and shot to death twelve students and one teacher, and wounded many others. It was the worst single act of murder at a school in U.S. history. Few people knew Dylan Klebold or Eric Harris better than Brooks Brown. Brown and Klebold were best friends in grade school, and years later, at Columbine, Brown was privy to some of Harris and Klebold's darkest fantasies and most troubling revelations. After the shootings, Brown was even accused by the police of having been in on the massacresimply because he had been friends with the killers. Now, for the first time, Brown, with journalist Rob Merritt, gets... more...
Change Mattersby Geoff Scott
Allen & Unwin 1999; US$ 36.35The pressure for individuals and organizations to engage in continuous adaptation and innovation in education is relentless, yet there is more failure in implementation of change than success. This book is a guide to managing change across the education and training sector. more...
Learning to Changeby Andy Hargreaves; Lorna Earl; Shawn Moore; Susan Manning
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2002; US$ 39.00The success of school reform measures greatly depends on the support and commitment of teachers. This book examines the realities of educational change from the frontline perspective of reform-minded teachers. It charts the perceptions and experiences of twenty-nine teachers in grades 7 and 8 from four school districts--showing how they grappled with such initiatives as integrated curriculum, common learning standards, and alternative modes of assessment. This book moves beyond the bandwagons of rhetorical change and examines how these changes work in practice for better and for worse. Authors Andy Hargreaves and Lorna Earl focus on how reform proposals have brought new complexities to teaching practice and why major investments of time and... more...
All Children Can Learnby Roger S. Pankratz; Joseph M. Petrosko
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2002; US$ 36.00Now educators, school board members, and policymakers can refer to a single volume for key lessons from the nation's most comprehensive and longest-running school reform model. Written by a nationally prominent group of educators, researchers, and policy analysts, All Children Can Learn presents important research findings from the Kentucky reforms, examines major program elements, and analyzes initiatives that worked or didn't work. Throughout the book, the authors explore the challenges of implementing statewide school change initiatives, offer sound advice for overcoming reform hurdles, and share valuable recommendations for future policy and practice. Reform-minded educators from every type of community will find valuable insights as they... more...
Appraising Teachers in Schoolsby Les Bell
Routledge 1988; US$ 44.95The contributors of this book provide practical guidance on the introduction of staff appraisal into a range of schools, outline a planning process for the establishment and preparation for staff appraisal itself. more...









