$62.95

This book has become the gold standard text in many colleges and school districts across the country for studying generic pedagogy. Designed for both the novice and the experienced educator. The Skillful Teacher  is a unique synthesis of the Knowledge Base on Teaching with powerful repertoires for matching teaching strategies to student needs. Designed as a practical guide for practitioners working to broaden their teaching skills, the book combines theory with practice and focuses on 18 critical areas of classroom performance. A must for instructional coaches and mentors!

$54.95

This important new “Skillful Leader” book arms administrators and teacher leaders with step-by-step strategies to confront and raise the performance of teams and individuals who undermine student learning. The text includes methods of collecting data, strategies for intervention and tips for hiring and training. New individual and community profiles, together with legal notes, provide practical tools for busy leaders.

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$50.25

This resource helps data-team facilitators move schools away from unproductive data practices and toward examining data for systematic and continuous improvement in instruction and learning.
The book, which includes a CD-ROM with slides and reproducibles, illustrates how the authors’ model has proven successful in:

• Narrowing achievement gaps in all content areas and grade levels.
• Achieving strong, continuous gains in local and state assessments in mathematics, science and reading.
• Initiating powerful conversations about race/ethnicity, class, educational status, gender and language differences.
• Developing a vision for high-performing, data-informed school culture.

“This book offers a compelling message of hope and resolve. The authors’ three-year journey in a multiplicity of diverse, under performing, high-poverty schools across the nation has resulted in a treasure chest of knowledge and experiences about how to professionally develop data coaches in ways that benefit some of our most undeserved students. This book provides powerful resources to those who have the belief, passion, and desire to implementing collaborative data inquiries in schools and districts.” – From the Foreword by Ruth Johnson

$29.95

Leaders who watch video tapes of themselves handling difficult interactions confront their too tough or too nice approaches to improving performance in the form of sharp discrepancies between their self-image and how they actually behave: Leaders who believe they are open and truthful observe themselves withholding information, communicating opaquely, and speaking judgmentally without explanation or evidence. Leaders who think they are good listeners notice they seldom pay attention to what others are saying. And leaders who pride themselves on promoting an open culture of learning discover that they are closed and dismissive. As long as they remain blind to these discrepancies, leaders inadvertently foster mistrust - and lose the very credibility they are attempting to gain. Without trust and credibility (surely the bedrock of effective leadership), leaders cannot advance their agendas for improving performance.

Using stories that illustrate both inept and skillful communication, Talk Sense will walk you through a transformational process of:

• Discovering discrepancies between your self-image and actual behavior
• Inventing a new mind set, a new skill set, and a new rationale for communication, and
• Practicing in a "protected setting" through self-help exercises.

Your transformational experience will take place in stories about interactions at home as well as work, so guide your efforts to integrate home and work lives. Integrating the two is vital to leadership effectiveness.