school improvement programs

"... offers a thoughtful roadmap and guidance to help educators select, implement, and assess school- or districtwide initiatives that actually work"--Provided by publisher.

"Explore[s] how using instructional coaching techniques enables principals to balance learning leadership with their evaluative and supervisory duties"--Provided by publisher.

Provides tips and step-by-step guidance for education leaders on reform delivery, focusing on methods that can yield positive results, and examining reform cases from more than twenty countries.

A guide to using Response to Intervention (RTI) for literacy at the secondary school level, explaining why and how RTI is a viable intervention model for adolescent readers and outlining structural, political, cultural, and teacher and student identity issues related to its use in secondary school settings.

Contains a comprehensive guide intended to assist educators in designing and implementing a portfolio that effectively collects and documents important data relative to the administration of the school.

Describes methods for using data from curriculum mapping processes to improve learning and includes related cases as well as a discussion on the effective use of technology.

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.

"Complex times call for streamlined solutions--and leaders to pull them together. If initiative overload and fragmentation are keeping your best plans from becoming reality, it's time to lead with coherence"--Back cover.

" ... hands-on guide to the ... book, 'Coherence: The Right Drivers in Action for Schools, Districts and Systems, ' providing step-by-step protocols to help foster deep coherence for maximum student learning all within a reasonably short time frame"--Amazon.