Administrator's Professional Bookshelf

By ReLeah Cossett Lent

Administrator's Professional BookshelfBuild your professional bookshelf for less. Purchase all four of these titles, bundled exclusively for administrators, and save 30 percent. Our resources for administrators help you with both large-scale challenges and the nitty-gritty issues of being a school leader. From authors with decades of experience - and success - in the field these books are filled with big-picture thinking, actionable suggestions, and new ways to look at nagging problems. In other words, resources you'll turn to again and again for inspiration, practical advice, and great ideas from people who have been there. A School Leader's Guide to Excellence Collaborating Our Way to Better SchoolsCarmen Farina and Laura Kotch Foreword by Lucy Calkins and Foreword by Carmen Farina and Laura Kotch have made a career of turning struggling schools in New York City into excellent ones. Now they share exactly how they go about energizing schools for change, making reform happen, and making it last - including step-by-step instructions, implementation and evaluation advice, artifacts of their own reform efforts, and modifiable forms and documents. Literacy Coaching The EssentialsKatherine Casey Foreword by Anthony J. Alvarado Foreword by This book achieves something which is rare.... It demonstrates how to integrate core instructional elements into successful practice.... It should become a central text for study at the classroom, school, and district level. - Anthony J. AlvaradoFormer Superintendent, District 2, New York and former Chancellor of Instruction, San Diego City Schools Literacy Learning Communities A Guide for Creating Sustainable Change in Secondary SchoolsReLeah Cossett Lent Schools nationwide are using PLCs to revitalize staff development, and Literacy Learning Communities shows how you can adapt this framework to target the literacy strengths and needs of your own school. It shows how to make an LLC happen, why it works, and how to sustain it for lasting change. Best Practice, Third Edition Today's Standards for Teaching and Learning in America's SchoolsSteven Zemelman, Harvey Smokey Daniels, and Arthur Hyde, and Best Practice, Third Edition, provides fresh, inspiring examples of state-of-the-art teaching. It also carefully examines state, national, and discipline-specific standards and to show why engaging, interactive classroom instruction is still the best way to meet standards in reading, writing, math, science, social studies, and the arts.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 032502720X
• ISBN13: 9780325027203
• Release Date: February 2009
• Publisher: Heinemann
• Weight: 1.11 lbs.