Imagine stepping onto your balcony, fire escape, or tiny patio… and snipping fresh, fragrant herbs for tonight’s dinner. No yard. No farming experience. No complicated setup. Just clean, organic flavor—grown by you. Balcony Herb Gardening for Beginners is the no-nonsense, real-world guide for people who want to grow herbs without pretending they live on a Tuscan hillside. If you’ve got a few pots, a bit of light, and the desire to stop overpaying for limp grocery-store herbs… this book was...

This CHOICE award-winning author has teamed up with national school resource experts to write a comprehensive book on supervision and improvement of learning. Everything you need to know about supervision and student learning, professional development, coaching and evaluation, standards, and creating an environment for professional growth are covered. The book starts with a history of supervision and then addresses models and standards for effective teaching, state and federal frameworks, ...

In the untamed wilderness of the American West, a group of weary travelers embark on a perilous journey to Trail's End, a remote outpost where secrets and danger lurk. Led by the enigmatic scout, Jim Bridger, they face treacherous terrain, hostile Native American tribes, and the unforgiving elements. As they approach their destination, they encounter a cast of enigmatic characters, each with their own hidden motives and desires. Amidst the rugged beauty and unforgiving challenges, the trav...

Why the education system is failing our kids and how we can start the revolution that will save our schoolsWith their emphasis on regurgitated knowledge and stressful exams, today’s schools actually do more harm than good. Guiding readers past the sterile debates about City Academies and dumbed-down exams, Claxton proves that education’s key responsibility should be to create enthusiastic learners who will go on to thrive as adults in a swiftly-changing, dynamic wo...

Schools across the world are struggling to balance the statutory requirements of a National Curriculum with their desire to provide the wide, engaging and exciting curriculum that they know children need. Concerns about standards often lead to a narrowing of the curriculum and many schools lack the confidence and approach to design that would enable them to resolve what seems like an impossible dilemma.In this authoritative yet engaging book, Brian Male looks at how schools can mee...

The foundation of successful school district/community relationships is communication that focuses on what most interests average residents – no matter what you, as a school district leader, believe they should be interested in. Communicate in their language, at their level of interest, and at their pace, and you and your patrons will soon be headed in the same direction more often than not.Based on more than 20 years of research data, and filled with real-life examples and specifi...

Maximize Your School Marketing offers school administrators effective ways to enhance their existing school marketing strategy using the essential elements of public relations, media relations, social media, community partnerships, and fundraising. Extensive examples and case studies serve to illustrate key information. Finally, three “real-life” school marketing success stories provide illustration, motivation, and inspiration. Throughout the book, information is presented in concise, top...

Each of the four volumes in this set, as well as each volume independently, provide comparative analyses for researches, practitioners, and students of the law and educationIn examining law and education in various countries around the world. Designed to allow readers to learn from, rather than copy, the legal and educational systems in these volumes, the books are designed to generate thought and conversation on how education can be improved around the world. By having chapter auth...

A public relations director and a principal have mostly the same goals in helping students achieve at high levels. While each might go about impacting student learning in different ways, they both work to make education better. In Having an Impact on Learning, the husband and wife team of Matt and Kelly Wachel, help show how both the principal and the public relations director can propel education forward. Whether it’s through perception, teaching and learning, communication, social media,...

This book explains why virtually all children can achieve proficiency or higher. And it gives educators the tools to help them achieve those levels of learning.The notion that schools are “waiting for Superman” or Wonder Woman to rescue them is at best a fantasy and at worst, damaging to schools and school systems that advance this type of flawed thinking. This is why in this book the reader will be encouraged to embrace the concept that only through building effective teams (colle...

High-impact strategies to improve student outcomesBased on first-hand experiences from one of the world’s fastest improving school systems, this comprehensive resource helps teachers and leaders increase student achievement and outcomes in elementary, middle, and high school education.Written by three educators instrumental in developing and implementing Ontario, Canada’s remarkably successful educational strategies, High School Graduat...

Surviving the Move and Learning to Thrive: Tools for Success in Secondary Schools, Grades 6-12 is collection of seven chapters that provide tools for all students, especially struggling and reluctant learners, to find a better path to learning while moving through middle and high school. Each chapter addresses critical areas of need from learning styles to parent involvement in a way that is easy to understand and implement. This text helps students and parents move with teachers ...