administration

Explores the impact of big-time intercollegiate athletics on undergraduate education, explaining how many schools, because of their emphasis on research and graduate programs, no longer give the majority of their undergraduates a meaningful education.

A guide to using Google applications in schools that discusses Google Documents, Spreadsheets, Forms, Bloggers, Earth, Maps, Picasa, and more and provides instructions for their use and more than forty lesson plans.

Presents twenty-nine essays that provide varying perspectives on issues associated with prisons, discussing the rate of incarceration in the United States, rehabilitating inmates, prison sentences as a means of crime prevention, the rights of inmates, overcrowded prisons, and more.

An introduction to formative assessment that examines research supporting the method's effectiveness and presents step-by-step instructions for creating a framework for formative assessment in the classroom.

Presents a framework for implementing the Working on the Work (WOW) principles in schools, a plan designed to improve student performance by increasing the quality of schoolwork.

Offers advice to administrators on how to encourage the teachers in their schools or districts and create a climate that allows them to take risks and act as coaches to their students.

Presents a guide to facilitating conversations about student and teacher work using protocols, discussing the role of the facilitator in groups, preparation, and decisions about which protocol to use, and featuring a sampling of the challenges that can arise in protocol-guided conversations.

A principal's guide to creating a library media program that covers instructional leadership, standards, effective practices for integration into the curriculum, roles and responsibilities of media specialists, support, sustainability, and improvements.

Discusses the five features of effective leadership and explains how those features can be used in schools to increase student learning, parent participation, and community involvement.