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This book primarily focuses on gaining a deeper understanding of the kinds of difficulties that can attend the reading process, especially for at-risk readers and those with reading disabilities.

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This book primarily focuses on gaining a deeper understanding of the kinds of difficulties that can attend the reading process, especially for at-risk readers and those with reading disabilities.

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(Paperback)

The fields of gifted education and talent development have numerous theories and conceptions for how to identify and serve students. This book helps introduce and apply these ideas to help reflect theory in practice.

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Helps readers to make sense of the various written and Web-based resources that are available to improve the quality of proposals and find successful funding. This book contains chapters that cover the origins and early development of an idea, drawing up a proposal, finding a funding source, submitting a proposal, and evaluation of a project.

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Positive school culture is at the heart of effective teaching and learning. As such, improving a schools culture is a critical component to school transformation. This resource provides school leaders with a concrete professional development plan for staff and students designed to eliminate power struggles in order to improve school culture.

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Positive school culture is at the heart of effective teaching and learning. As such, improving a schools culture is a critical component to school transformation. This resource provides school leaders with a concrete professional development plan for staff and students designed to eliminate power struggles in order to improve school culture.

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The purpose of this book is to persuade leaders that action research is leadership.

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The purpose of this book is to persuade leaders that action research is leadership.

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This book is an antidote to other books that purport to show teachers an exact formula to follow to get amazing results in the classroom. It will help to create a classroom that is more like play, with much more freedom and less scripting in order to engage students at a deeper level, and still get excellent results by using arts-based research.

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Keep students happily focused on learning during two of the most exciting holidays of the year for the elementary classroom-Halloween and Valentine's Day. Reproducible language arts strategies teach word play, interviewing, letter writing, research skills, problem solving, and metaphorical language while encouraging divergent thinking.

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From Risk to Resiliency offers continuation school developers and classroom teachers a wide range of in-depth choices in which to create resilient, school-wide change. It offers educational leaders research-based evidence in which to overcome common, closely-held beliefs as to...

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This book explains how school organization by age (grade) alone, sets schools on a factory course that is harmful and ultimately self-defeating to all involved and to ecology. It returns us to three systems thinking concepts; purpose, measures, and method.

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This book explains how school organization by age (grade) alone, sets schools on a factory course that is harmful and ultimately self-defeating to all involved and to ecology. It returns us to three systems thinking concepts; purpose, measures, and method.

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From race to speech, from religion to school funding, from discipline to special education, few aspects of education policy have escaped the courtroom over the past fifty years.

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Supplying a foundation for understanding the development of the brain and the learning process, this text examines the physical and environmental factors that influence how we acquire and retain information throughout our lives. The book also lays out practical strategies that educators can take directly into the classroom.

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Prominent school-of-education faculty researchers provide perspectives on the school reform movement. The contributors represent a wide range of disciplines and address controversial issues in education - including equity and excellence, parental choice and pre-school education.

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Here are a wealth of ideas, resources, and teaching techniques that promote multiple intelligences, techniques, and problem- and product-based learning.

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From the Marine Corps to College: Transitioning from the Service to Higher Education offers clear and accessible information transitioning Marines need in order to find success in their pursuit of higher education. From available state and federal veterans education benefits to navigating the maze of higher education, all pathways are explored.

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For decades, teachers, though underpaid, were among the most respected, esteemed professionals in the United States. But things have changed. As schools fail to meet the needs of a growing, diverse population, teachers have taken the hit. Popular movies have sensationalized th...

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For decades, teachers, though underpaid, were among the most respected, esteemed professionals in the United States. But things have changed. As schools fail to meet the needs of a growing, diverse population, teachers have taken the hit. Popular movies have sensationalized th...