400 Quotable Quotes From The Worlds Leading Educators

The wisdom of the most widely recognized and leading educators at your fingertips! How many times have you wished for the right words to inspire, persuade, or challenge your peers, your students, or even yourself? Enhance your speeches, proposals, and presentations--and enrich your days--with this unique collection of thoughts from widely recognized leaders in educational theory and practice. 400 Quotable Quotes From the World′s Leading Educators is a showcase of thoughts on important education issues by groundbreakers such as Dewey, Montessori, and Bloom as well as contemporary educators like Fullan, Glasser, and Lambert. You′ll be sure to find a wealth of subjects, indexed under dozens of pertinent headings. Included are: Inspirational quotes to apply to any project or to deliver to any audience New perspectives and fresh takes on old issues Deep thoughts to prompt reexamination of common challenges Insight from the icons of education to stimulate new ideas and understanding With the words of the world′s leading educators at your fingertips, you′ll maximize your reflection time while passing along a bit of wisdom of your own.

From Roland Barth to Harry Wong, this book showcases the world's leading educators—including their groundbreaking thoughts, inspirational quotes, and penetrating insights.

The issue of racial disproportionality in the child welfare system, particularly as it impacts African-American children and families, has long been a concern to practitioners and policymakers. However, disproportionality is not limited to the African-American community. Latino, Native-American, Asian-American, and Pacific Islander populations experience inequities in treatment. From leading voices on culturally-competent care comes a cutting-edge book that examines disproportionalities across all of these racial and ethnic groups. Eliminating Racial Disproportionality and Disparities examines a wide range of systems that often affect and interact with child welfare. Chapters are devoted to the juvenile justice system, mental health, the courts, education, and healthcare, making it the only book to offer a multisystemic approach to disparities and disproportionality. Filled with in-depth case studies, key terms, study questions, and resources, and written to reflect CSWE-mandated competencies, this expansive book gives students, educators, policymakers, practitioners, and administrators new knowledge for providing culturally competent services while simultaneously addressing disproportionality across various systems of care.

"United by the desire to help people learn, achieve, and get the best possible start in life, teachers play a crucial role in our society - and not one day should go by with-out acknowledging these selfless educators. Teacher of the Year honors our nation's true heroes by collecting more than 400 inspiring quotes from award-winning teachers across the country. This rousing compilation showcases the wit and wisdom of America's top teachers from all fifty states and the District of Columbia, including twenty-one who have earned the title National Teacher of the Year."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Create inclusive educational environments that benefit ALL learners! As schools become more diverse with students of differing abilities and needs, this self-reflective and action-oriented guide helps you create and support more inclusive schools and classrooms that intentionally educate all students. Using the Five Essential Elements of Cultural Proficiency as a roadmap, this book presents: Students’ learning differences as just that – differences rather than deficits Strategies that show you how to break though the common barriers to culturally proficient and inclusive schooling Assessments that gauge your awareness and show you how to best serve every student’s needs

Ideal for new or experienced school and district administrators, this book shows how to develop a strong superintendent-principal partnership. Written by a principal and a superintendent with decades of experience, this resource provides strategies for effective leadership, communication, and collaboration, and includes Both the principal's and the superintendent's perspectives on issues such as performance expectations and characteristics of quality teams, Critical experience- and research-based team components, Stories from the field about successful principal-superintendent teams, Reflective questions, summaries, and other tools to help readers apply the principles and strategies to their own practice. Use these practical and proven approaches to create a healthy school/district culture and promote mutually supportive professional relationships. Book jacket.

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School improvement is an increasingly complex field with developments in policy, research, practice and language making it difficult to get a complete picture. Leading authors David Woods and Tim Brighouse pull together the approaches, characteristics and technical terms needed for busy school leaders, teachers, governors and parents to quickly get to grips with current approaches and best practice. Combining their extensive experience of school improvement in action, they provide an authoritative and up-to-date overview of the field and easy access to the wide range of information, ideas and practices on making schools the best they can be. A comprehensive A-Z introduces the characteristics, approaches and language of school improvement ranging from appreciative enquiry to zero tolerance. Quotations, case studies and 'butterflies' (little ideas with big impact) illustrate the entries and bring them to life through the experiences of real schools. They include discussion of key debates and controversies to stimulate discussion and guided reading by topic to help with further research.

Take advantage of a resource that’s right in your classroom—your students! This book offers practical strategies for empowering students as co-teachers, decision makers, and advocates in the classroom. Ideal for K–12 general and special education teachers, this guide describes how to: Involve students in instruction through collaborative learning groups, co-teaching, and peer tutoring that foster self-discipline and responsible behavior Make students a part of decision making by utilizing personal learning plans, peer mediation, and more Use assessment tools, lesson plans, case studies, and checklists to put collaboration with students into practice

This second edition has been extensively revised to include improved exercises and reflective activities, a restructured case study, and an additional chapter on instructional standards.