This book introduces a streamlined, five-phase instructional improvement cycle: Plan, Instruct, Measure Learning, Data Action, and Professional Learning. Each phase is thoughtfully aligned to support continuous growth, instructional clarity, and student achievement. The professional learning component centers on teacher choice and autonomy. Instructional coaches will find this model particularly valuable as a way to guide conversations and practices toward student-centered, high-im...

Meet any challenge, any day, with clarity, competence, and confidence. Written with the needs of urban educators in mind, this essential guide shares specific action steps and ready-to-use tools for supporting successful Professional Learning Communities at WorkⓇ. From scheduling teacher collaboration time to using data to inform high-quality instruction, author Bo Ryan delivers field-tested practices that lead to high levels of student achievement.Collaborative teams will:...

Transforming school culture is some of the hardest work you’ll ever do, but the payoff is a school community where students and adults thrive together. With this book, authors Alexander McNeece and Bo Ryan bridge the gap between theory and practice, offering a practical, comprehensive how-to guide. Learn how to navigate tough conversations, strengthen collaboration, and build a healthy, sustainable school culture.K–12 school leaders can use this book to:

With the help of a freakishly wise janitor, a newly-hired membership director struggles to keep a fitness center afloat while being given ridiculous tasks from an ethically-questionable owner. Take an opinionated and all-around diverse group of fitness trainers, add a sketchy owner, a genius janitor, and throw in an endearing but largely incompetent general manager, and you have the perfect recipe for riotous, chaotic hilarity. You have Squat! Set in a large fitness center in the Boston su...

An analysis of U.S. ISBN data by ProQuestª affiliate Bowkerª reveals that the number of self-published titles in 2013 increased to more than 458,564–and this is only for self-published titles. No matter how outstanding your self-published book may be, it is not difficult to realize that it can get lost in the sea of books published each year. Competition for readers is tough, so your marketing has to be tough, as well.In the short book, 101 Book Marketing Ideas For All Budgets - Cl...

The all new 2018 edition of The Smashwords Book Marketing Guide. Updated and expanded with 65 book marketing ideas and dozens of new insights that will help authors, publishers and book marketers make their books more discoverable and more desirable to readers. Learn how how to put more of your marketing on "autopilot" so you can spend more time writing and less time marketing. Includes new "Deep Dive" bonus sections covering social media strategy for authors, how...

This invaluable glossary of terms can be used alongside Doug's brilliant new book, How to Start a Creative Business, a must-have for any creative-type wanting to start their own venture. This glossary of terms provides you with the basic tools for starting a sustainable, viable, creative business. It shows you that the 'business terms' that you need to know for your creative business do not have to be scary or confusing, they are all easy to understand and will be invaluable for s...

This Game requires nine Counters--four of one colour and five of another: say four red and five grey.Besides the nine Counters, it also requires one Player, AT LEAST. I am not aware of any Game that can be played with LESS than this number: while there are several that require MORE: take Cricket, for instance, which requires twenty-two. How much easier it is, when you want to play a Game, to find ONE Player than twenty-two. At the same time, though one Player is enough, a good deal ...

The complete dungeon master package contains everything you need to enhance your table top adventures. This FULL download package, contains the following: LONG WALL, SHORT WALL, DOORS, WINDOWS, and STAIRS. AND a SPECIAL CURVED WALL. All you have to do is print out the files, cut, and fold.

In a world rife with willful chaos, how can order be restored? Philosopher Thomas Hobbes’s answer, composed amid the violence of the English Civil War, revolutionized political thought. His solution was a commonwealth, or Leviathan, a body politic ruled and protected by an absolute sovereign. Its power would be dependent on the people to exchange their freedom for the security and order of a common law. Only with this social contract, Hobbes argued, can civil peace be established.A...

In writing upon any matter of experience, such as art, the possibilities of misunderstanding are enormous, and one shudders to think of the things that may be put down to one's credit, owing to such misunderstandings. It is like writing about the taste of sugar, you are only likely to be understood by those who have already experienced the flavour; by those who have not, the wildest interpretation will be put upon your words.The written word is necessarily confined to the things of...

Updated Edition of Best Seller!"You won′t find a more practical, detailed guide to improving school effectiveness than is contained between the covers of this book!"Leonard O. Pellicer, Dean School of EducationUniversity of La VerneLa Verne, CA"Few books on school leadership have effectively brought together the best of educational theory and practice for school administrators as Elaine McEwan′s Seven Steps to Instructional Lea...