academic achievement

Presents six principles for creating and implementing high-performance schools and provides ways to handle difficult issues, advice on team teaching and learning, and suggestions for continuous improvement and evaluation of methods.

Explains ten small changes in behavior to become a better student, including avoiding distractions, finding a study spot, and getting organized.

If we want girls to succeed, we need to teach them the audacity to transgress. Through the lives of students at three very different schools, an award-winning scholar-activist makes the case for 'feminist schools' that orient girls toward a lifetime of achievement.

Twelve-year-old accidental zombie Tulah Jones needs a really good reason to avoid joining the cross country team (an impossible activity for a zombie), so her friend Angela suggests that she join the academic bowl team instead. Unfortunately her nemesis Bella Gulosi is the team captain, and with the team going on a weekend retreat and contest Tulah is sure her secret will be discovered.

Presents a guide to building community involvement to improve effective school functioning, explaining a variety of ways to establish relationships between school and community organizations, including businesses, universities, social service agencies, and more.

Explains how teachers can incorporate regular physical activity into the classroom to help students increase attention span, wake up the brain, master new information, refocus, and stay alert.

Reveals in great detail how educators closed the "performance gap" for low-income students by linking expectations and results. Drawing heavily on the words and experiences of students, teachers, and parents, this book describes how students who traditionally had not succeeded academically in school began to do so.

Explains the whole-faculty study group process as an approach to school reform, discussing the role of the principal, the developmental stages of study groups, and other topics, and looking at why the process is so successful when properly applied.

Gives children advice on being successful test takers.