Offers teachers practical advice on how they can entice reluctant readers, with tips for finding interesting reading materials, helping students relate to stories, and introducing them to different genres.
Presents a comprehensive guide for developing adult and student goal-setting, and provides templates and forms for implementing SMART goals process into schools and classrooms.
Provides information about how problem-based school development works, and discusses the dynamics of problem-based school development from various perspectives, with stories from five school districts in Vermont where the system is being tested and refined.
Offers a reexamination of the American high school schedule, discussing the limitations imposed on teachers and students by single-period schedules; and investigates various forms of block scheduling and the effects those systems can have on the learning process.
Offers school principals practical advice and strategies to help them develop an effective library media program, with an overview of the best library media practices and strategies for dealing with challenges.
Presents the investigation of journalist Sheri Fink into allegations of doctors in New Orleans' Memorial Medical Center using drugs to speed the passing of triage patients in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, when the hospital staff was overwhelmed with difficulties due to the storm.
Presents step-by-step instructions for first-time library media specialists, covering such aspects of the job as ordering materials, cataloging, circulation, hiring staff, and designing the facility.
