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"Kendra James began her professional life selling a lie. As an admissions officer specializing in diversity recruitment for select prep schools, her job was persuading students and families to embark on the same perilous journey, attending cutthroat and largely white schools similar to The Taft School, an elite institution in Connecticut where she had been the first African-American legacy student only a few years earlier. Forced to reflect on her own elite educational experience, she quickly became disillusioned by America's inequitable system. In Admissions Kendra looks back at the three years she spent at Taft, from clashes with her lily-white roommate, to unlearning the respectability politics she'd been raised with, and a horrifying article in the student newspaper that accused Black and Latinx students of being responsible for segregation of campus. She contemplates the benefits of the education she got from Taft, which Kendra credits as playing a role in her career success, as well as the ways the school coddled her--perhaps, she now believes, too much. Through these stories, she deconstructs the lies and half-truths she herself would later tell as an admissions professional, in addition to the myths about boarding schools perpetuated by popular culture"--Provided by publisher.

A collection of articles selected from the New York Times that examines the role of the police in the United States, focusing on issues of racial profiling, police misconduct, and brutality.

" .. proposes a fundamental shift in how educators think about the meetings [they] attend ... [and] argues that these gatherings are potentially the most important venue where adult and organizational learning can take place in schools. The simple, succinct, and practical book shows how meeting planning can become a key strategy in the service of school improvement"--Publisher.

"Kendra James began her professional life selling a lie. As an admissions officer specializing in diversity recruitment for select prep schools, her job was persuading students and families to embark on the same perilous journey attending cutthroat and largely white schools similar to The Taft School, an elite institution in Connecticut where she had been the first African-American legacy student only a few years earlier. Forced to reflect on her own elite educational experience, she quickly became disillusioned by America's inequitable system."--.

Provides educators and school administrators with a guide to education equity, pedagogy, and school transformation that shifts away from big data such as standardized test scores, and towards "street data" that elevates the voices of marginalized students. Provides practical advice and tools on how to gather street data, and integrate it into a school or district's equity journey to achieve school transformation.

Introduces the concept of the "implementation gap" as a way of explaining why it seems ideas for reforming schools and increasing student achievement never seem to accomplish their goals. Discusses common pitfalls along the way to implementing these ideas and offers a five-point, field-tested methodology of implementation to develop goals worth chasing, create actions and instruments to impact schools and students, collect data and implement interventions, monitor progress, and scale success in school improvement and student achievement.

"Complement efforts in the classroom to work on social-emotional learning, and understand the affective needs of young people in library settings"--Provided by publisher.

"[Examining the] role of school librarians in student success, this instructional guide offers ... [librarians guidance] to develop, align, and evaluate curriculum with your library collection in mind. Includes charts, tables, models, and discussion questions ... Features specific process examples for effective collection development [and] explains both horizontal and vertical curriculum mapping"--Provided by publisher.

Presents a plan to transform the future of teaching and public education that demands more of the profession and the systems that support it.

Explains how to incorporate library media centers into a learning community and discusses such topics as social media, technology, makerspaces, and more.