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Wink, John – Solution Tree, 2019
Teachers play a significant role in their students' lives. To support this important work, "A Teacher's Guide to Excellence in Every Classroom" details how K-12 educators can use the Hierarchy of Instructional Excellence and the Student Excellence Support System to maximize their impact and increase student success. Discover how to build…
Descriptors: Teacher Role, Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Quality, Success
Topping, Keith; Buchs, Céline; Duran, David; van Keer, Hilde – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2017
Peer learning allows a positive use of differences between pupils, turning them into learning opportunities. Yet education professionals often remain unfamiliar with the principles necessary to guarantee its effectiveness. The aim of this book is to help practitioners establish well-structured and effective peer learning projects using a variety…
Descriptors: Peer Teaching, Student Projects, Cooperative Learning, Interaction
Fisher, Douglas; Frey, Nancy; Almarode, John – ASCD, 2020
Student learning communities (SLCs) are more than just a different way of doing group work. Like the professional learning communities they resemble, SLCs provide students with a structured way to solve problems, share insight, and help one another continually develop new skills and expertise. With the right planning and support, dynamic…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Cooperative Learning, Problem Solving, Skill Development
Bui, Hong T. M., Ed.; Nguyen, Hoa T. M., Ed.; Cole, Doug, Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2019
The worldwide marketization of higher education has resulted in a growing pressure on universities' accountability, particularly in terms of more tangible learning outcomes directly related to paying higher tuition fees. Covering globally diverse perspectives, "Innovate Higher Education to Enhance Graduate Employability" uses a range of…
Descriptors: Marketing, Higher Education, Accountability, Universities
Sharratt, Lyn; Fullan, Michael – Corwin, 2012
Students are people--not data. Assessment data can bury you or give you focused information on how to reach every student. "Putting Faces on the Data" shows how to develop a common language for sharing all students' progress with all teachers and leaders and how to use ongoing assessment to inform instruction. Based on worldwide research from more…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, School Culture, Academic Achievement, Data Analysis
Komives, Susan R.; Dugan, John P.; Owen, Julie E.; Slack, Craig; Wagner, Wendy – Jossey-Bass, An Imprint of Wiley, 2011
This is a must-have book for leadership educators and all student affairs professionals who want to develop impactful leadership programs and the leadership capacity of students. This book contains: (1) Advancing Leadership Education (Susan R. Komives); (2) Leadership Theories (John P. Dugan and Susan R. Komives); (3) Research on College Student…
Descriptors: Models, Leadership Training, Student Development, Student Leadership
Dye, Angela – Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2011
"Empowerment Starts Here" covers an experimental approach to social change within urban communities by way of seven distinct principles for student empowerment. Turning classroom methods into a school model, Preparatory School for Global Leadership was the first to experience student empowerment at a school-wide level. This book provides insight…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Student Empowerment, Urban Schools, Social Change
Ferlazzo, Larry – Linworth, 2010
This unique new perspective and method for teaching English Language Learners is the proven result of the author's community organizing career and his successful career in the classroom. Great teaching is about facilitating intrinsic motivation and self-directed learning. It's about giving students the opportunity to learn by doing and encouraging…
Descriptors: State Standards, Second Language Learning, Prior Learning, Motivation