This timely guide will help leaders of color succeed within white spaces while working to dismantle those spaces for a new system where they--and students--thrive. As a leader of color, what do you need to succeed in the systems that often have marginalized the populations you represent? What skills and support will help you to replace these…

By the end of this decade, the U.S. economy will annually create hundreds of thousands of new jobs requiring a bachelor's degree in STEM fields, particularly computer science. This increasing need for computer scientists, coupled with an inconsistent agenda for managing dramatic shifts in the demographic landscape of higher education, compromises…

Grow as an authentic leader and retain great teachers with "Establishing a Lasting Legacy." Built on foundational leadership principles, this book offers practical tools and suggestions that will enhance what you are already doing and recharge your efforts toward making a long-lasting impact on those you serve. Learn how to develop…

Collective student efficacy--students' beliefs that by working with other people, they will learn more--can be a powerful accelerator of student learning and a precursor to future employment success. Harnessing twenty-five years of VISIBLE LEARNING® research, "Collective Student Efficacy: Developing Independent and Inter-Dependent…

Discover a pathway to improvement that is simple and field tested. Designed as a practical guide to school reform, this resource outlines a series of ten small-scale changes powerful enough to make a lasting impact in schools and districts. Within each chapter, you will find easy-to-implement strategies for strengthening culture, building…

We strive to empower our students to lead their own inquiry, discover knowledge, and construct approaches to solving real-life challenges. Often, though, we make the mistake of designing learning experiences that burden students with the unrealistic expectation of expertise that hasn't yet been developed. The solution: proper scaffolding for…

The purpose of this book is to provide an evidence-based theoretical practical model for professional development of pedagogical specialists in Bulgaria, Romania and Serbia. The framework steps on two key strands of knowledge, linked to online teaching evaluation and mentoring provision, informed by Jim Knight's impact cycle model. The model is…

Over the course of the past decade, the state of Louisiana has developed several documents to articulate expectations for children's learning and development and provide guidance for early childhood educators. The experiences and skills that children develop during the early years are critically important to their success later in school. What…

Discusses the use of career self-efficacy theory in counseling individuals having low career-related self-efficacy. Begins by presenting diagram of Bandura's model of perceived self-efficacy and then goes on to discuss its implications for counseling. Focuses on how society may alter women's career choices and women's socialization in relation to…

To complement recent articles in this journal on structural equation modeling (SEM) practice and principles by Martens and by Quintana and Maxwell, respectively, the authors offer a consumer's guide to SEM. Using an example derived from theory and research on vocational psychology, the authors outline six steps in SEM: model specification,…

This "Handbook" offers a broad definition of family and community engagement, seen through the lens of scholars and practitioners with a wide-ranging set of perspectives on why and how families, communities, and schools collaborate with one another. Taken together, the chapters in this "Handbook" sketch out the components of a…

Based on the idea that an individual's "brainstyle" is a particular set of gifts, this self-help book shows the reader that by understanding how the brainstyle mandates decisions, a person can deliver his or her best in any relationship. The book illustrates with case histories of people who used the brainstyle system to change their…

Dropping out of school may be laden with devastating personal and societal consequences. Actual and potential high school dropouts often face many problems in their lives, other than academic dissatisfaction. Low self-esteem may frequently be the source and result of these difficulties. This project, therefore, was intended to develop a manual for…

DC Public Schools has adopted new learning standards for core subjects, including reading/English language arts, mathematics, science, and social studies. The new standards show what students should know and be able to do: (1) in each subject; (2) at each grade level; and (3) in every school. Standards tell all students that they are expected to…