Books, Nonfiction, Education, Standards

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Reginald Leon Green
Practicing the Art of Leadership: A Problem-based Approach to Implementing the ISLLC Standards
by Prentice Hall (Paperback)

This self-help book introduces a number of scenarios that incorporate the behaviors supported by the ISLLC Standards. Its effective case scenario approach prepares prospective school leaders to address actual school challenges that occur on a daily basis. In addition, it familiarizes readers with the ISSLC Standards and enables them to conduct a self-assessment relative to meeting those standards. Unlike similar texts, the author provides responses to difficult and challenging issues that are grounded in theory and supported by best practice. This enables learners to examine, compare, and make decisions about well-documented responses and in turn, apply their own ideas. Chapter topics include Leadership in Today's Schools, Organizational Influences on Leadership, Communication in Today's Schools, Decision-Making: Quality and Acceptance, Managing Conflict in Today's Schools, and Facilitating Change in Schools. For education professionals preparing for leadership roles.

Bess A. Jennings, Mary Ann Joseph, Frank J. Orlando, Carol Sharp
Accomplished Teaching: The Key To National Board Certification
by Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co. (Paperback)

Accomplished Teaching: The Key to National Board Certification is the perfect professional development tool for teachers at all stages in their careers. It will help those just entering the education field to understand the Standards of the teaching profession, and will help experienced teachers review and refine their practices against those Standards whether or not they choose to seek National Board Certification. The book provides readers with a systematic approach to studying the Standards, conducting lessons, and providing evidence of the Standards in their actual classroom practices. A CD-ROM packaged with the text contains all exercise forms from the text as well as selected figures.

Murray R Spiegel, Robert Moyer
Schaum's Easy Outline: College Algebra
by McGraw-Hill (Paperback)

Boiled-down essentials of the top-selling Schaum's Outline series for the student with limited time What could be better than the bestselling Schaum's Outline series? For students looking for a quick nuts-and-bolts overview, it would have to be Schaum's Easy Outline series. Every book in this series is a pared-down, simplified, and tightly focused version of its predecessor. With an emphasis on clarity and brevity, each new title features a streamlined and updated format and the absolute essence of the subject, presented in a concise and readily understandable form. Graphic elements such as sidebars, reader-alert icons, and boxed highlights stress selected points from the text, illuminate keys to learning, and give students quick pointers to the essentials. Designed to appeal to underprepared students and readers turned off by dense text Cartoons, sidebars, icons, and other graphic pointers get the material across fast Concise text focuses on the essence of the subject ...

Adrienne Mack-Kirschner
The National Board Certification Workbook, Second Edition: How to Develop Your Portfolio and Prepare for the Assessment Exams
by Heinemann (Paperback)

The first edition of The National Board Certification Workbook offered you top-notch preparation for the National Board certification process. Now the second edition, with 40% new material, goes even further, taking you through every step of the process, and giving you the guidance you need to achieve certification.Adrienne Mack-Kirschner's work as a National Board support provider makes her the ideal person to advise certification candidates, and her workbook is the next-best thing to attending her workshops. In addition to the comprehensive forms, checklists, and step-by-step portfolio instructions from the first edition, she's now expanded the workbook to include more guidelines for documenting your instruction with video as well as many useful suggestions on understanding the assessment exams and succeeding on them. Beginning with Personal Inventory Sheets keyed to the Core Propositions, right through scoring your own work, Mack-Kirschner offers numerous helpful tools, ...

Committee on the Development of an Addendum to the National Science Education Standards on Scientific Inquiry, National Research Council
Inquiry and the National Science Education Standards: A Guide for Teaching and Learning
by National Academies Press (Paperback)

Humans, especially children, are naturally curious. Yet, people often balk at the thought of learning science - the 'eyes glazed over' syndrome. Teachers may find teaching science a major challenge in an era when science ranges from the hardly imaginable quark to the distant, blazing quasar. "Inquiry and the National Science Education Standards" is the book that educators have been waiting for - a practical guide to teaching inquiry and teaching through inquiry, as recommended by the National Science Education Standards.This will be an important resource for educators who must help school boards, parents, and teachers understand 'why we can't teach the way we used to.' "Inquiry" refers to the diverse ways in which scientists study the natural world and in which students grasp science knowledge and the methods by which that knowledge is produced. This book explains and illustrates how inquiry helps students learn science content, master how to do science, and understand the nature ...

Deborah Meier
In Schools We Trust: Creating Communities of Learning in an Era of Testing and Standardization
by Beacon Press (Hardcover)

We are in an era of radical distrust of public education. Increasingly, we turn to standardized tests and standardized curricula—now adopted by all fifty states—as our national surrogates for trust. Legendary school founder and reformer Deborah Meier believes fiercely that schools have to win our faith by showing they can do their job. But she argues just as fiercely that standardized testing is precisely the wrong way to that end. The tests themselves, she argues, cannot give the results they claim. And in the meantime, they undermine the kind of education we actually want.In this multilayered exploration of trust and schools, Meier critiques the ideology of testing and puts forward a different vision, forged in the success stories of small public schools she and her colleagues have created in Boston and New York. These nationally acclaimed schools are built, famously, around trusting teachers—and students and parents—to use their own judgment.Meier traces the enormous ...

Douglas B. Reeves
Making Standards Work, 3rd Edition: How to Implement Standards-Based Assessments in the Classroom, School, and District
by Advanced Learning Press (Paperback)

Making Standards Work leads educators through the steps of creating and using performance assessments to determine students' achievement throughout the school year. Dr. Reeves' straightforward approach to improving student achievement begins with using performance assessments that contain real-world scenarios, multiple tasks, and clear, consistent scoring guides. Thousands of educators have used this book as an essential guide to creating effective standards-based classrooms, schools, and districts.

Carolyn B. Stone, Carol A. Dahir
School Counselor Accountability: A MEASURE of Student Success (2nd Edition)
by Prentice Hall (Paperback)

Practical Strategies for Building Accountability. This book provides strategies for designing and implementing accountability as a cornerstone of a school counseling program. Based on an action research model, it provides school counselors with methods to connect to the mission of schools and MEASURE the school counselors' contributions to student success. Learn how to lead, advocate, and collaborate with colleagues. Learn strategies for building accountability standards into counseling programs. Learn how to design and implement accountable programs and how to measure and report results.In this edition you will find: *A simple step-by-step process for school counselors to connect their work with the expectations of school improvement and accountability *Discussion of how to create data-driven school counseling programs and make data-driven decisions *A proven method of linking school counseling to the instructional program and student achievement *Action research techniques ...

Kathryn Parker Boudett
Data Wise: A Step-by-Step Guide to Using Assessment Results to Improve Teaching And Learning
by Harvard Educational Pub Group (Paperback) (Release Date: 2005-11-30)

In the wake of the accountability movement, school administrators are inundated with data about their students. How can they use this information to support student achievement? This book presents a clear and carefully tested blueprint for school leaders. It shows how examining test scores and other classroom data can become a catalyst for important schoolwide conversations that will enhance schools' ability to capture teachers' knowledge, foster collaboration, identify obstacles to change, and enhance school culture and climate.

National Association for Sport and Physical Education, National Association for Sport, Physical Education
Moving Into The Future: National Standards for Physical Education
by McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages (Paperback)

An essential tool for every quality physical education program for Kindergarten through 12th grade, this text establishes content standards that clearly identify consensus statements on what students should know and be able to do as a result of a quality physical education program. The second edition, based on input from practitioners who have been using the standards in their programs for the past eight years, reflects the current thought and the most recent research in physical education. . . . . The National Association for Sport and Physical Education seeks to enhance knowledge and professional practice in sport and physical activity through scientific study and dissemination of research-based and experiential knowledge to members and the public. . .

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