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The Positive Side of Special Education

Minimizing Its Fads, Fancies, and Follies

This book provides a description of special education practices that have had significant impact but lacked scientific validation.

before 2 years of age are highly unreliable, they are not accurate predictors of
later IQ scores (Rheingold & Pearce, 1939). ... These SD differences tend to
influence outcomes; an individual scoring 1 SD below the mean at age 6 and
scoring at ...

Working with Student Teachers

Getting and Giving the Best

Supervising student teachers effectively assures that vital professional experience will be of maximum benefit to the pre-service teacher. Mentor teachers and university faculty who work with student teachers need specific training to make the experience rewarding, while the student teacher requires specific information for professional success. The primary focus of this text is based on conferences, strategies, and specific techniques that mentors can use while working with pre-service interns. Several appendices provide resources for mentors to use with the student teachers they work with and bibliographic resources are included with each chapter for additional reference. Written for mentor teachers, principals, university faculty, and anyone working with student teachers.

Working with a student teacher experiencing problems in the classroom is a
concern of most supervisors. By identifying the cause of the incompetence and
formulating appropriate plans for remediating the situation, supervisors can
maximize ...

Research-Based Unit and Lesson Planning

Maximizing Student Achievement

By integrating the best of current research and practice in curriculum planning this book presents that comprehensive topic in a manageable form. Examples throughout are representative of different grade levels and subjects areas. It should be understood at the outset that the content offered for curriculum planning is not a rigid prescriptive formula but a careful and purposeful thought process that must be considered to obtain optimal results. In addition to developing knowledge about curriculum and instructional planning (what teachers should know), this book offers an innovative method for translating that knowledge into performance (what teachers are able to do). Knowledge is implemented by the use of coaching rubrics, sets of criteria for developing performance. Though readers will receive a thorough background in the planning process just from the content itself, its potential will be fully realized when readers also use the coaching rubrics.

Maximizing Student Achievement Marie Menna Pagliaro. I Research-Based Unit
and Lesson Planning MAXIMIZING STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT MARIE MENNA
PAGLIARO Research-Based Unit and Lesson Planning Research-Based Unit ...

The Principal as School Manager, Second Edition

Designed to teach the principal to become efficient and effective in accomplishing noninstructional roles, this book offers advice on expectations and survival techniques to ensure the principal's longevity in the district. Like the previous edition, it provides a practical guide to practice and procedure in these vital areas. This second edition has updated the chapter on law dealing with pertinent issues such as: Internet usage, drug testing, off-campus searches. Other chapters include topics on: the role of the assistant principal, the importance of maintaining safe schools in a climate of violence, the relationship between the principal and the superintendent. Will be appropriate for graduate courses in the principalship, educational administration, educational leadership, and personnel administration.

“We traveled this forenoon over the roughest and most desolate piece of ground that was ever made,” wrote Amelia Knight during her 1853 wagon train journey to Oregon.

From the Principal's X-Files

The Unexpected Tales of a Practical Principal

From the Principal's X-Files examines day-to-day, real-world situations and events that are often humorous and, at times, poignant as a point of reference for implementing best practices to create and maintain effective and nurturing school cultures. The ultimate goal of this guide for practical principals is to help all stakeholders productively and cooperatively interact and achieve the mission and vision of their schools. Hollaway and Hollaway strive to assist novice and seasoned administrators in creating and maintaining high performing school communities in which every stakeholder—from students, to parents, to staff members, to school leaders, and to community members—feels invested in his school. Throughout the book, the quality of the relationships between stakeholders is reiterated as the greatest predictor of school success. School administrators must enhance those vital relationships within their schools to establish a single-minded and effective school culture that values inclusion and connectedness among all actors in the pursuit of a common goal.

The Unexpected Tales of a Practical Principal Deana Hollaway, Werner M.
Hollaway ... The recurring theme throughout this book has been the importance
of connecting every stakeholder in a positive qualitative way to reach the school's
goals and the higher purposes it seeks to achieve. ... The days of the “Manager
Steward” serving as the custodian of a stable and unchanging process has long
passed.

Exploring the Myths and the Realities of Today's Schools

A Candid Review of the Challenges Educators Face

Exploring the Myths and Realities of Today's Schools presents a strong case regarding the strengths and successes of our schools, while also addressing the major challenges currently facing our teachers and school administrators. This sympathetic look at the daily work life of our educators directly confronts issues with our changing student population, teacher unions, poor family dynamics, financial inequities, and student performance on international achievement tests. The author offers data and insights that counter the conventional wisdom that significant improvements will occur simply by expanding charter schools, by implementing merit pay for teachers more widely, or by emulating foreign educational systems. The book offers recommendations for school improvement that are both practical and effective. While many books on public education are written from the perspective of academics or political pundits, this book offers perspectives from the viewpoint of teachers, school principals, school superintendents, and school board members. The author brings his experience and insights from forty plus years in public education as a teacher, principal, and superintendent to provide his from-the-trenches perspective on the true nature of public schooling in the United States.

One difference between a typical middle manager and a school principal is that
the principal is not simply dealing with twenty to fifty adults in a self-contained
environment. The principal must cope with personality and conflict issues
involving ...

The School Superintendent

The Profession and the Person

Covers how to become a superintendent and be successful at it and presents a personal view of the superintendency. This down-to-earth book is intended for use in graduate education classes on the superintendency. Both practicing and aspiring superintendents should find it useful.

He has written two books, Collective Bargaining in the Public Schools ( 1993)
and Winning at Collective Bargaining: ... Can Live With (2003), and he has coau-
thored the following books with James K. Walter: The Principal as School
Manager ...

The Principal as School Manager

The Principal as School Manager offers advice on expectations and survival techniques to ensure the principal's longevity in the district. Like the previous editions, this book is an essential guide to practice and procedure. Its chapter on school legal issues will be especially useful for principals dealing with improper Internet usage, drug testing, and off-campus searches. Other chapters will explain the role of the assistant principal, the importance of maintaining safe schools in a climate of violence, and the relationship between the principal and the superintendent. This third edition contains new chapters and sections on managing the school curriculum, special education, classroom walk-throughs, creating a healthly school environment, and cyberbullying. Appropriate also for graduate courses on the principalship, educational administration, educational leadership, and personnel administration, The Principal as School Leader is the go-to guide for both novice and veteran school principals.

The Principal as School Manager offers advice on expectations and survival techniques to ensure the principal's longevity in the district. Like the previous editions, this book is an essential guide to practice and procedure.

Exploring Nonfiction with Young Learners

Exploring Nonfiction with Young Learners explores the four basic nonfiction structures that the youngest learners are most likely to encounter: descriptive, recount/collection, procedural, and explanatory texts. This book also includes information to help teach four, more complex structures that younger readers sometimes encounter during read-alouds: comparison, response, causation/cause and effect, and persuasive genres. This book is organized to help plan lessons using each type of nonfiction structure. Strategies and suggestions for activities to use before, during and after reading are included. Templates and graphic organizers are also provided in order to facilitate planning, and offer additional resources. Detailed information about each text structure as well as mentor texts to illustrate each type is included. Text structures, as well as text access features, are defined and located in easy reference charts. Whole class and small group planning ideas are included throughout the book in order to allow for differentiation. Additionally, assessment ideas, sample think-alouds, lesson planning templates, and sample lessons with completed graphic organizers are included for each text structure.

To differentiate for students that need support, phrase your next question
appropriately: The main idea in the first paragraph was insects have three body
parts, because all of the text talked about insects having three body parts. ]oey
said the ...

Reaching an Understanding

Innovations in How We View Reading Assessment

Reaching an Understanding: Innovations in How We View Reading Assessment builds upon the editors previous book Measuring Up: Advances in How We Assess Reading Ability by representing some early attempts to apply theory to help guide the development of new assessments and measurement models. Reaching an Understanding is divided into two sections: “assessment, learning, and instruction: connecting text, task, and reader/ learner” and “how to build for the future”. These sections identify ways to assess students reading comprehension through multiple text sources, purpose readings, and assessment while a student is reading in order to determine deficits. In light of federal legislation towards common core standards and assessments, as well as significant national investments in reading and literacy education, it is a critical and opportune time to bring together the research and measurement community to address fundamental issues of measuring reading comprehension, in theory and in practice.

Innovations in How We View Reading Assessment John Sabatini, Elizabeth
Albro, Tenaha O'Reilly ... and cautions the diagnostician to use multiple
measures of reading comprehension skill when making decisions about the
presence or absence of a reading disability. ... Gorin and Svetina discuss a novel
approach to test construction, cognitive psychometric models (CPM), in which
items and responses ...