From First-Year to First-Rate: A Principal's Guiding Beginning Teachers, Third Edition

by Barbara Brock & Marilyn Grady (2007, Corwin Press, 24.95)
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Beginning teachers are often filled with self-doubt and questions regarding school culture and principals' expectations. This book helps principals and teachers answer questions and gain strategies to prevent the isolation that many new instructors experience. Notable sections of this second edition include: a look at real-life problems facing every new teacher, self-assessment tools for principals, and references to data sources and activities to use in training. [6" x 9"...160 pages]

The New Taxonomy of Educational Objective: Second Edition

by Robert Marzano & John Kendall (2007, Crystal Springs Books, 32.95)
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This book is based on three domains of knowledge: information, mental procedures, and psychomotor procedures. Six levels of processing: retrieval, comprehension, analysis, knowledge utilization, metacognitive system, and self-system. This guide offers specific applications for designing and classifying educational objectives, creating assessments, redesigning state and district standards, formulating curriculum, and outlining a thinking-skills curriculum. [7" x 10"...193 pages]

Surviving Your Dissertation: A Comprehensive Guide to Content & Process, Third Edition

by Kjell Rudestam & Rae Newton (2007, Corwin Press, 39.95)
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This book offers readers guidance that other dissertation guides often miss, from ways to improve one's writing, to identifying one's learning preferences, to dealing with emotional blocks. Using examples from a wide range of disciplines, the authors give readers expert advice on the entire dissertation process: selecting a suitable topic; conducting a literature review; managing data overload; building an argument; presenting the material, data, and results; and working with faculty committees. The entire text has been updated and fresh examples have been added to it. This edition features an up-to-the-minute discussion of online research and the use of software packages. The authors have expanded their coverage of qualitative work, and added information about the use of mixed methods to the book. [6" x 9"..328 pages]

Building Effective Learning Communities: Strategies for Leadership, Learning, & Collaboration

by Susan Sullivan & Jeffrey Glanz (2006, Corwin Press, 32.95)
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This groundbreaking text demonstrates how to build collaborative environments that not only help schools achieve national standards, but also help the school community realize high academic standards. Centered on a conceptual framework focused on modeling reflective practice, each chapter provides practicing and prospective school leaders with: Approaches that can be employed at all educational levels; Materials that educate leaders about themselves; Tactics for building a reflective learning community; Suggestions for promoting individual and group development. [7” x 10”...200 pages]

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