A text for early years practitioners and students, supporting them to reflect on, and improve the effectiveness of, their work with parents.

Teacher professional development (PD) is critical to students' success. This book demonstrates research-based strategies for planning, executing and evaluating the results of PD programs.

This book explains the basis principles and ideas that lie behind personalized high school learning, through the voices of Pathways students, with commentary by their advisors, parents and community mentors.

Common Core CPR is needed. Urgently. Embracing what is best about the standards, Lent and Gilmore explicitly connect ideal outcomes to strategies for coaxing reluctant learners into engagement and achievement.

Introducing the major concepts and theories of early years care and education, this text helps you examine topics in depth, using level appropriate tasks and further reading, as well as supporting your development of key academic skills.

The perfect companion to help you understand the benefits of flexible working in education and how to make it work in school.

This action-oriented guide provides school and regional leaders with the background, practices, and tools for leading instructional coaching efforts that measurably impact student and teacher learning.

Why a new edition of Culturally Proficient Coaching? Why now, especially?

Because several polarizing years later, there's even greater urgency for us all to critically examine our attitudes, beliefs, and practices when working with students who look or sound "different." No matter how broadly you define coach, no matter which coaching model you follow, this is the resource to help you get started.

With the first edition, the authors' big goal was to shift our thinking in service of standard...

Guides educators toward an understanding of the socio-cultural characteristics of classrooms and why such an understanding is critical to fostering academic engagement of African American students.