school based practice in action

Best Practices in Action Series: Breaking Through the Language Arts Block : Organizing and Managing the Exemplary Literacy Day (Hardcover)

This innovative book helps K-6 teachers infuse the entire school day with research-based literacy best practices. Classroom-tested strategies are presented for planning and implementing each component of the exemplary literacy day --vocabulary and... more

School-Based Practice in Action Implementing Response-to-Intervention to Address the Needs of English-Language Learners: Instructional Strategies and As (Hardcover)

There is considerable concern surrounding the complex issue of how to meet the learning needs of English-language learners within general and special education programs. Implementing Response-to-Intervention to Address the Needs of English-Language... more

School-Based Practice in Action: Implementing Response-To-Intervention in Elementary and Secondary Schools: Procedures to Assure Scientific-Based Practices Second Edition (Other)

An update to the bestselling first edition this practical guidebook for implementing a school-wide Response-to-Intervention (RTI) model clearly and concisely presents issues from assessment and decision-making to Tiers I II and III interventions.... more

School-Based Practice in Action Working with Traumatic Brain Injury in Schools: Transition Assessment and Intervention (Paperback)

Every day children and adolescents worldwide return to the educational setting having sustained a traumatic brain injury (TBI). The possible negative consequences of TBI range from mild to severe and include neurological cognitive emotional social... more

School-Based Practice in Action Conducting Student-Driven Interviews: Practical Strategies for Increasing Student Involvement and Addressing Behavior Pr (Hardcover)

This user-friendly book equips school practitioners with practical skills and strategies for conducting student-driven interviews-conversations that invite students of all ages to take charge of school-behavior problems and build solutions based on... more

Research in Professional Development Schools: Clinically Based Teacher Education in Action: Cases from Professional Development Schools (Paperback)

Teacher education in the United States is changing to meet new policy demands for centering clinical practice and developing robust school-university partnerships to better prepare high-quality teachers for tomorrow s schools. Professional... more

Restorative Literacy Practices: Cultivating Community in the Secondary Ela Classroom (Hardcover)

What happens when learning is approached as a creative transaction between teachers students texts and methods? Based on classroom action research conducted in a diverse suburban school district the author shares a framework that encourages teachers... more

School-Based Practice in Action Conducting Student-Driven Interviews: Practical Strategies for Increasing Student Involvement and Addressing Behavior Pr (Paperback)

This user-friendly book equips school practitioners with practical skills and strategies for conducting student-driven interviews--conversations that invite students of all ages to take charge of school-behavior problems and build solutions based on... more

How Schools Transform: Practices Research and Actions That Change Schools (Paperback)

How Schools Transform explores the process of transformation. This book moves beyond the why of transformation to consider how it is achieved by a range of schools around the world. Each chapter showcases a school-based example of transformation.... more

School-Based Practice in Action Working with Traumatic Brain Injury in Schools: Transition Assessment and Intervention (Hardcover)

Every day children and adolescents worldwide return to the educational setting having sustained a traumatic brain injury (TBI). The possible negative consequences of TBI range from mild to severe and include neurological cognitive emotional social... more

Financing Schools and Educational Programs: Policy Practice and Politics (Paperback)

This book will be great for preparing for entry-level school administration positions as well as candidates for advanced degrees who need more research based theoretical content. Ramirez offers a more in depth historical context for school finance;... more

Human Well-Being Research and Policy Making: Community Prevention of Child Labor: Evidence-Based Practices to Promote the Psychological Well-Being of Minors (Paperback)

This book discusses preventive actions that have led to reduction in the prevalence of child labor across the world over the 21st century. It identifies exemplary programs in the area of community prevention that have had exceptional results; for... more

Pre-Owned Antisocial Behavior in School: Evidence-Based Practices (Paperback) 0534258840 9780534258849

CONDITION – USED: Books sold are in GOOD or better condition. Good Condition: Minimal damage to the cover dust jacket may not be included minimal wear to binding most of the pages undamaged(e.g. minimal creases or tears) highlighting / underlining... more

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in K-12 School Settings: A Practitioner s Workbook 2nd ed. (Paperback)

The second edition (like the first edition) is well written and based upon up-to-date research. It provides a comprehensive description of best practice and is a must read/must have book for mental health experts who work with students in school... more

School-Based Teacher Training: A Handbook for Tutors and Mentors (Paperback)

Covering both primary and secondary teaching this handbook offers support to those delivering school-based teacher training. By identifying best practice the book shows you how to develop your professional knowledge and become an effective teacher... more

Reinventing Crediting for Competency-Based Education: The Mastery Transcript Consortium Model and Beyond (Paperback)

Many argue that the conventional high school transcript has become irrelevant to today s best practices in teaching learning and assessment. With more and more school leaders turning to alternate competency-based approaches for learning crediting... more

Teaching Eal: Evidence-Based Strategies for the Classroom and School (Paperback)

This book offers an evidence-based guide to EAL for everyone who works with multilingual learners. It offers a concise introduction to the latest research underpinning three key areas of EAL practice: How children acquire additional languages How... more

Advancing Evidence-Based Practice Through Program Evaluation: A Practical Guide for School-Based Professionals (Paperback)

Given the current climate of results-driven accountability school-based professionals have a significant contribution to make in improving the impact of programs and initiatives through the application of program evaluation methods and tools to... more

Unpublished: The Capstone that s (Paperback)

This capstone is a comparative analysis supporting the development of an instructional website for teacher professional development (PD) as a pilot for a rural school in Kentucky that is based on professional development best practices and Kentucky... more

Pre-Owned Intrapreneuring in Action: A Handbook for Business Innovation Paperback Gifford Pinchot Ron Pellman

Based on the authors experience helping companies launch over 400 new products and businesses Intrapreneuring in Practice gives managers at all levels examples and instructions on how to identify people within their organisations who behave like... more

Connecting Teacher Leadership and School Improvement 9780761988304 Used / Pre-owned

Increase student learning by developing teacher leaders! This is the first book to synthesize theoretical empirical and practice-based literature in order to provide a comprehensive look at what is known about teacher leadership and what works to... more

Pre-Owned Organizing for Power and Empowerment 9780231067188

Designed to help build powerful community organizations empower ordinary citizens to become leaders and bring about major social and economic change this book offers a coherent practice-based framework for understanding social action with power and... more

Soldier Ants of War : 40 Years After (Hardcover)

Soldier Ants of War is a story about a war which lasted for 30 months in the heart of Africa. It is fiction that is based on actual experiences of two participants who were friends in School who participated in different capacities in actual action... more

The School Music Program : A New Vision 9781565450394 Used / Pre-owned

Contains the K-12 national standards and MENC prekindergarten standards; provides a blueprint for a music curriculum based on the best practices of the past but modified to meet the needs of the future. Includes details about what the standards mean... more

Pre-Owned Total School Cluster Grouping and Differentiation: A Comprehensive Research-Based Plan for Raising Student Achievement and Improving Teacher Practice (Paperback) 1931280096 9781931280099

Total School Cluster Grouping is a specific form of cluster grouping that has a research base theoretical rationale and model for successful implementation in schools. Total School Cluster Grouping and Differentiation details how the Total School... more

Intelligent Systems Reference Library: Computer Vision in Control Systems-2: Innovations in Practice (Paperback)

The research book is focused on the recent advances in computer vision methodologies and innovations in practice. The Contributions include: - Human Action Recognition: Contour-Based and Silhouette-based Approaches. - The Application of Machine... more

Teaching/Learning Social Justice Elusive Justice: Wrestling with Difference and Educational Equity in Everyday Practice (Hardcover)

Elusive Justice addresses how educators think about and act upon differences in schools - be they based on race gender class or disability - and how discourse and practice about such differences are intimately bound up with educational justice.... more

Multicultural Education: Sustaining Disabled Youth: Centering Disability in Asset Pedagogies (Paperback)

Asset-based pedagogies such as culturally relevant/sustaining teaching are frequently used to improve the educational experiences of students of color and to challenge the white curriculum that has historically informed school practices. Yet... more

Pre-Owned Supporting Children with Communication Difficulties in Inclusive Settings : School-Based Language Intervention 9780205379545

A textbook introducing basic concepts and practices of language and communication intervention and instruction; and offering practical guidelines strategies and methods for use in general classrooms and other inclusive settings. The 1997 first... more

School Social Work: A Skills-Based Competency Approach (Paperback)

Informed by a social justice approach this user-friendly text for social work students provides a comprehensive introduction to contemporary school social work practice structured around the 2022 CSWE EPAS Competencies. With a focus on skills... more

Educating Film-Makers : Past Present and Future (Paperback)

Cultivating Film-makers offers a timely consideration of both the history and the current challenges facing practice-based film education. Film schools have been about the cultivation of the film-maker as a cultural activist an artist or even as an... more

Research on Family-School Partnerships: Family-School Partnerships During the Early School Years: Advancing Science to Influence Practice (Hardcover)

This book presents research-based family-school intervention programs that target the specific developmental period of preschool through the early elementary years focusing on promoting positive child transitions into school. It explores critical... more

Knowledge to Action?: Evidence-Based Health Care in Context (Paperback)

Health services can and should be improved by applying research findings about best practice. Yet in Knowledge to Action? the authors explore why it nevertheless proves notoriously difficult to implement research evidence in the face of strong... more

Dialectics of Knowing in Education: Transforming Conventional Practice Into Its Opposite (Hardcover)

Dialectics of Knowing in Education strengthens the philosophical basis of formal education that has been weakened by neoliberalism over the past 30 years. It theorises and encourages human existence based on social action culture inquiry and... more

Teaching Eal: Evidence-Based Strategies for the Classroom and School (Hardcover)

This book offers an evidence-based guide to EAL for everyone who works with multilingual learners. It provides a concise helpful introduction to the latest research underpinning three key areas of EAL practice: How children acquire additional... more

Handbook of Classroom Management (Paperback)

The Handbook of Classroom Management Third Edition is an authoritative treatment of the latest science and development in the study of classroom management in schools. Evidence-based classroom management practices and programs are essential to... more

Prevention Practice Kit: Evidence-Based Prevention (Paperback)

This sixth book in the Prevention Practice Kit provides an introduction to evidence-based prevention in psychology. Counselors psychologists and mental health workers in schools government agencies community settings and in private practice are... more

Best Practice Examples of Implementing Ecosystem-Based Natural Hazard Risk Management in the GreenRisk4ALPs Pilot Action Regions (Hardcover)

One of the best ways to improve collective knowledge and practice is through sharing experiences and knowledge between different stakeholders. The idea for the current monograph followed such an approach. The monograph presents six best practice... more