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This book concerns itself with the daily dilemmas of the elementary school principal and understanding the practical application of school leadership while improving the Professional Standards for Educational Leaders (2015) competency. In order to improve PSEL (2015) competency, each case study is aligned to multiple standards.

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This book is designed to meet the needs of future elementary teachers preparing to teach science using an assets-based approach to science teaching and tools for advocating for scientific teaching and learning with respect to the NGSS.

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This book examines how a group of ten-year-olds attending public school engaged in a mindfulness project over the course of an academic year. The young peoples informative and inspiring dialogue, as well as their use of creative modes of expressions, reveals their varied understandings and lived experiences with mindfulness practices.

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Eliminating the Achievement Gap is designed to be the first book to base society's efforts to reduce the achievement gap on meta-analytic analysis. It proposes an interdisciplinary approach to this problem that is rare, refreshing, and insightful, including solutions generally overlooked.

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This book will guide elementary school leaders to create an enriching STEAM experience for their students. Detailed information is provided about teaching and learning philosophies that makerspace incorporates, budgeting, and professional development strategies and ideas to engage teachers.

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This book will guide elementary school leaders to create an enriching STEAM experience for their students. Detailed information is provided about teaching and learning philosophies that makerspace incorporates, budgeting, and professional development strategies and ideas to engage teachers.

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This book contains essential information on understanding the autistic mind, promising evidence-based practices, critical components to developing programming for the autistic student, and the importance of transitional services and supports for this population.

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This book contains essential information on understanding the autistic mind, promising evidence-based practices, critical components to developing programming for the autistic student, and the importance of transitional services and supports for this population.

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Embracing Social Media: A Practical Guide to Manage Risk and Leverage Opportunity is a practical guide for anyone wishing to facilitate the embrace of social media in a school system. Included are steps for creating policy, procedures, and guidelines, as well as specific strategies to help open the minds of reluctant colleagues and leaders.

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Embracing Social Media: A Practical Guide to Manage Risk and Leverage Opportunity is a practical guide for anyone wishing to facilitate the embrace of social media in a school system. Included are steps for creating policy, procedures, and guidelines, as well as specific strategies to help open the minds of reluctant colleagues and leaders.

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Examines the life and work of four intellectual giants in 20th-century American education: John Dewey, Howard Gardner, Carol Gilligan, and John Ogbu.

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Discusses the role of empathy in learning throughout all levels of education and its crucial relationship to motivation, values development and achievement, impacting from the micro to the macro levels of society. The author considers the intrinsic nature of affect and empathic human relationships in learning.

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This book highlights the urgent need to expand conceptions of leadership in early childhood to emphasize postmodern epistemology, a belief that equity starts by acknowledging and making diversities visible, and to unite leadership in a commitment to work for social justice.

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Pressure on schools to develop has never been greater, and this series brings to the attention of teachers, heads, policy makers and researchers the latest knowledge in the fields of school improvement and school effectiveness. Teachers are provided with practical knowledge whilts the ideas presented will also stimulate debate.

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Teachers, administrators, and education professors will find ideas that will transform classrooms into places where students are filled with confidence and empowered to strive for excellence.

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Empowering Students Through Questioning examines the art of question construction so teachers can plan more effective lessons and achieve greater student engagement. Addressed is the purpose of questioning, pitfalls in developing questions, types of questions to use for assessments, and activities to use to determine question effectiveness.

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A much-needed examination of the impact on teachers and parents of the effort to improve our schools through restructuring, this book looks at professionalization and parent empowerment programs from the ground level rather than from the large-scale policy level.

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Anyone who reads with young children will benefit from this book designed to provide a fun, evidence-based approach to shared reading. Empowering Young Readers offers a straightforward approach for creating meaningful dialogues while reading as well as practical recommendations for getting the most out of your cherished reading experiences.

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This book offers thought-provoking and instructive insights into the personalities and policies that enhance, or detract from, institutional evolution and provides practical insights into key levers for targeted, transformational growth.