• Hacking School Discipline: 9 Ways to Create a Culture of Empathy and Responsibility Using Restorative Justice (Hack Learning Series)

    WASHINGTON POST BESTSELLER Eliminate old-school punishments and create a community of responsible, productive learnersAre you or your teachers frustrated with carrots and sticks, detention rooms, and suspension--antiquated school discipline practices that simply do not work with the students entering our classrooms today? Our kids have complex needs, and we must empower and embrace them with restorative practices that not only change behaviors but transform students into productive citizens, accountable for their own actions.Replace traditional school discipline with a proven  system, founded... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1948212137
    • ASIN: 1948212137
    • ISBN: 1948212137
    • Manufacturer: Times 10 Publications

  • Best Practices in Adolescent Literacy Instruction, Second Edition

    An authoritative teacher resource and widely adopted text, this book provides a comprehensive overview of adolescent literacy instruction in the era of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). Leading educators describe effective practices for motivating diverse learners in grades 5-12, building comprehension of multiple types of texts, integrating literacy and content-area instruction, and teaching English language learners and struggling readers. Case examples, lesson-planning ideas, and end-of-chapter discussion questions and activities enhance the utility of the volume. New to This Edition... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1462515347
    • ASIN: 1462515347
    • ISBN: 9781462515349
    • Brand: The Guilford Press
    • Manufacturer: The Guilford Press

  • Best Practices in Writing Instruction, Third Edition

    Well established as a definitive text--and now revised and updated with eight new chapters--this book translates cutting-edge research into effective guidelines for teaching writing in grades K–12. Illustrated with vivid classroom examples, the book identifies the components of a complete, high-quality writing program. Leading experts provide strategies for teaching narrative and argumentative writing; using digital tools; helping students improve specific skills, from handwriting and spelling to sentence construction; teaching evaluation and revision; connecting reading and writing instruct... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1462537960
    • ASIN: 1462537960
    • ISBN: 1462537960
    • Brand: The Guilford Press
    • Manufacturer: The Guilford Press

  • Best Practices in Writing Instruction, Second Edition

    This book has been replaced by Best Practices in Writing Instruction, Third Edition, ISBN 978-1-4625-3796-9.

    • ASIN: 1462510086
    • ASIN: 1462510086
    • ISBN: 1462510086
    • Brand: Guilford Publications
    • Manufacturer: The Guilford Press

  • Reading and Writing in Preschool: Teaching the Essentials (Best Practices in Action)

    This book describes effective, engaging ways to build young children's print concepts and alphabetic knowledge, which are crucial for both reading and writing development. Presenting shared reading, shared writing, and targeted instructional activities, each chapter features helpful classroom vignettes, a section debunking myths about preschool literacy, and Ideas for Discussion, Reflection, and Action. Strategies are provided for creating print-rich classroom and home environments and differentiating instruction for diverse students, including English language learners. The book also discusse... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1462523471
    • ASIN: 1462523471
    • ISBN: 9781462523474
    • Brand: The Guilford Press
    • Manufacturer: The Guilford Press

  • Unlimited Memory: How to Use Advanced Learning Strategies to Learn Faster, Remember More and be More Productive

    Kevin Horsley Broke a World Memory Record in 2013...And You're About to Learn How to Use His Memory Strategies to Learn Faster, Be More Productive and Achieve More SuccessWith over 200,000 copies sold, Unlimited Memory is a Wall Street Journal Best Seller and has been the #1 memory book on Amazon for more than two years. It has been translated into more than a dozen languages including French, Chinese, Russian, Korean, Ukrainian, and Lithuanian.Most people never tap into 10% of their potential for memory.In this book, you're about to learn:How the World's Top Memory Experts Concentrate and Rem... [Read More]

    • ASIN: B00I3QS1XQ
    • ASIN: B00I3QS1XQ
    • Manufacturer: TCK Publishing

  • 180 Essential Vocabulary Words for 3rd Grade: Independent Learning Packets That Help Students Learn the Most Important Words They Need to Succeed in School (Best Practices in Action)

    Research shows that some of the most effective words students can learn are academic vocabulary. Knowing these words boosts students' ability to understand and complete classroom work, homework assignments, standardized tests, and more. Each of these 18 ready-to-reproduce, 4-page lessons gives students multiple encounters with the new words to help kids really remember them. Also includes writing prompts and engaging activities. For use with Grade 3.

    • ASIN: 0439897343
    • ASIN: 0439897343
    • ISBN: 0439897351
    • Brand: HarperCollins
    • Manufacturer: Scholastic Teaching Resources (Teaching

  • Lost at School: Why Our Kids with Behavioral Challenges are Falling Through the Cracks and How We Can Help Them

    From the renowned authority on education and parenting, “an in-depth approach to aid parents and teachers to work together with behaviorally challenging students” (Publishers Weekly)—now revised and updated.School discipline is broken. Too often, the kids who need our help the most are viewed as disrespectful, out of control, and beyond help, and are often the recipients of our most ineffective, most punitive interventions. These students—and their parents, teachers, and administrators—are frustrated and desperate for answers.Dr. Ross W. Greene, author of the acclaimed book The Explo... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1501101498
    • UPC: 884750327699
    • ASIN: 1501101498
    • ISBN: 1501101498
    • Brand: Scribner
    • Manufacturer: Scribner

  • Literacy Learning Clubs in Grades 4-8: Engaging Students across the Disciplines (Best Practices in Action)

    Literacy learning clubs are highly motivating small-group collaborations that can improve tweens' and teens' academic achievement, support their social-emotional development, and increase their enjoyment of reading and writing. This book explains the research basis for the author's approach and offers practical instructions for implementation in English language arts, social studies, science, and mathematics classrooms, illustrated with detailed case examples. Links to the Common Core State Standards are identified, and multimodal methods and new literacies emphasized throughout. User-friendly... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1462529933
    • ASIN: 1462529933
    • ISBN: 1462529933
    • Brand: The Guilford Press
    • Manufacturer: The Guilford Press

  • Better Than Carrots or Sticks: Restorative Practices for Positive Classroom Management

    Classroom management is traditionally a matter of encouraging good behavior and discouraging bad by doling out rewards and punishments. But studies show that when educators empower students to address and correct misbehavior among themselves, positive results are longer lasting and more wide reaching. In Better Than Carrots or Sticks, longtime educators and best-selling authors Dominique Smith, Douglas Fisher, and Nancy Frey provide a practical blueprint for creating a cooperative and respectful classroom climate in which students and teachers work through behavioral issues together. After a c... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1416620621
    • ASIN: 1416620621
    • ISBN: 1416620621
    • Manufacturer: ASCD

  • Best Practices in Early Literacy Instruction

    Bringing together prominent scholars, this book shows how 21st-century research and theory can inform everyday instructional practices in early childhood classrooms (PreK-3). Coverage includes foundational topics such as alphabet learning, phonological awareness, oral language development, and learning to write, as well as cutting-edge topics such as digital literacy, informational texts, and response to intervention. Every chapter features guiding questions; an overview of ideas and findings on the topic at hand; specific suggestions for improving instruction, assessment, and/or the classroom... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1462511562
    • ASIN: 1462511562
    • ISBN: 1462511562
    • Brand: The Guilford Press
    • Manufacturer: The Guilford Press

  • Antisocial Behavior in School: Strategies and Best Practices

    This book describes best practices for coping with antisocial behavior patterns among children and youth in school. Designed to enhance educators understanding of the nature, origins and causes of antisocial behavior, this book offers interventions and model programs that can be used in preventing or remediating this growing problem in the schools. .Universal intervention approaches aimed at prevention are offered in Chapters 3, 4, and 5 and cover: 1) establishing a school-wide discipline plan; 2) implementing practices and strategies that contribute to effective schooling and academic achieve... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0534256449
    • ASIN: 0534256449
    • ISBN: 0534256449
    • Manufacturer: Wadsworth Publishing

  • Best Practices in Literacy Instruction, Fifth Edition

    This book has been replaced by Best Practices in Literacy Instruction, Sixth Edition, ISBN 978-1-4625-3677-1.  

    • ASIN: 1462517196
    • ASIN: 1462517196
    • ISBN: 9781462517190
    • Brand: The Guilford Press
    • Manufacturer: The Guilford Press

  • Principles: Life and Work

    #1 New York Times Bestseller “Significant...The book is both instructive and surprisingly moving.” —The New York Times Ray Dalio, one of the world’s most successful investors and entrepreneurs, shares the unconventional principles that he’s developed, refined, and used over the past forty years to create unique results in both life and business—and which any person or organization can adopt to help achieve their goals.In 1975, Ray Dalio founded an investment firm, Bridgewater Associates, out of his two-bedroom apartment in New York City. Forty years later, Bridgewater has made mor... [Read More]

    • ASIN: B071CTK28D
    • ASIN: B071CTK28D
    • Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster

  • 180 Essential Vocabulary Words for 5th Grade: Independent Learning Packets That Help Students Learn the Most Important Words They Need to Succeed in School (Best Practices in Action)

    Research shows that some of the most effective words students can learn are academic vocabulary. Knowing these words boosts students' ability to understand and complete classroom work, homework assignments, standardized tests, and more. Each of these 18 ready-to-reproduce, 4-page lessons gives students multiple encounters with the new words to help kids really remember them. Also includes writing prompts and engaging activities. For use with Grade 5.

    • ASIN: 043989736X
    • ASIN: 043989736X
    • ISBN: 043989736X
    • Brand: HarperCollins
    • Manufacturer: Scholastic Teaching Resources (Teaching

  • The Fifth Discipline : The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization

    Presenting an empowering approach to work, this MIT professor's pathbreaking book is about building "learning organizations"--corporations that overcome inherent obstacles to learning and develop dynamic ways to pinpoint the threats that face them and to

    • UPC: 4215863
    • Rating: 4.7

  • The Definitive Personal Assistant & Secretarial Handbook : A Best Practice Guide for All Secretaries, Pas, Office Managers and Executive Assistants

    "The ultimate guide for all management, personal, and executive assistants and secretaries, The Definitive Personal Assistant and Secretarial Handbook places specific emphasis on career development, providing guidance and advice on career advancement. Author Sue France

    • UPC: 45143850
    • Rating: 4.0

  • Maintenance and Reliability Best Practices

    Drawing upon the authors many years of shop floor and management experience in a variety of industries,

    • UPC: 17374072

  • Implementing Diversity: Best Practices for Making Diversity Work in Your Organization

    This practical and provocative guide provides the strategies and tactics used by organizations committed to implementing diversity from the top down. Focusing on the necessity for a strategic change initiative, Loden discusses: how to position

    • UPC: 25455699

  • The Perfect Close : The Secret to Closing Sales - The Best Selling Practices & Techniques for Closing the Deal

    If you want to discover how to close sales using the absolute best practice (one that's non-pushy, flexible, natural & easy to learn) then read this book.Author James Muir shares unique insights on how 'closing

    • UPC: 980820227

  • Detonate : Why - And How - Corporations Must Blow Up Best Practices (and Bring a Beginner's Mind) to Survive

    "This book explains how organizations built up bad habits, identifies which ones masquerade as "best practices," and suggests alternatives that can contribute to winning in the marketplace. With a focus on optimism and empowerment, it

    • UPC: 408349604

  • A Trainer's Guide to PowerPoint : Best Practices for Master Presenters

    A Trainer's Guide to PowerPoint: Best Practices for Master Presenters is Mike Parkinson's master class on the art of PowerPoint. Learn his award-winning PowerPoint process as he guides you through three phases of presentation development--discover,

    • UPC: 223507660

  • Handbook for Strategic HR : Best Practices in Organization Development from the OD Network

    The role of human resources is no longer limited to hiring, managing compensation, and ensuring compliance. Learn the skills HR professionals need to become key partners in leading their

    • UPC: 20973946

  • Operational Risk Management : Best Practices in the Financial Services Industry

    "Sales handles - DROP IN TITLE: the manuscript is complete and ready to go, and will publish this fiscal - BUYBACK POTENTIAL: this is a complete handbook for the author's training and teaching, and she

    • UPC: 310287164

  • Building a World-Class Compliance Program : Best Practices and Strategies for Success

    Written by a long-standing practitioner in the field, this timely and critical work is your best source for understanding all the complex issues and requirements associated with corporate compliance. It provides clear guidance for those

    • UPC: 8041910

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