Steven McShane

Mary Ann Von Glinow

Oversized Hardcover (4 to 6 lbs)

South Carolina

English

In their substantially revised Third Edition, McShane and Von Glinow continue the trailblazing innovations that made previous editions of Organizational Behavior recognized and adopted by the new generation of organizational behavior (OB) instructors. Acclaimed for its readability and presentation of current knowledge, this textbook's philosophy is that OB knowledge is for everyone, not just traditional managers. The new reality is that everyone -- sales representatives, production employees, physicians -- needs OB knowledge to successfully work in and around organizations. Organizational Behavior, 3rd Edition, is unparalleled in its ability to engage students by bringing cutting edge OB concepts closer to reality through the 'theory-practice link' approach. McShane and Von Glinow help readers connect OB theories to emerging workplace realities through hundreds of fascinating real-life stories from across the United States and around the world. McShane/Von Glinow's Organizational Behavior 3rd Edition also continues to be the source of the hottest topics, such as: workaholism, virtual teams, corporate social responsibility, Schwartz's values model, innate drives theory, workplace emotions, executive coaching, guanxi, appreciative inquiry, social identity theory, workplace bullying, workplace justice, and much, much, more.

Organizational Behavior

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Basil Castaldi

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Planning, Modernization, and Management

School administrators, teachers, community leaders, and parent advisory groups looking for specific steps they can take to improve their schools will find concrete ideas and insightful recommendations in this positive and practical book. Anyone bewildered by the recent barrage of educational reports, standards, guidelines, and innovations will be pleased to find a coherent and comprehensive description of the well-run school. From defining the school mission to evaluating the results of school improvement efforts, the authors pinpoint key questions to ask and outline procedures that will help school leaders devise their own solutions to the problems that affect their school. Readers will find a wealth of ideas in all aspects of school improvement - evaluating and developing the curriculum; enhancing, teaching and learning; assessing student achievement; hiring, evaluating, and supervising teachers; developing the school environment; and providing the school leadership needed to support desired changes. Every chapter includes specific examples that demonstrate how real schools have chosen to address the issues and solve the problems discussed in the book. Throughout, the authors emphasize the benefits of creating a coherent educational experience for students - one in which students consistently apply the information and skills they learn in one grade or subject to educational activities they encounter in other grades and subjects. Here are dozens of creative ideas any school can implement. One example shows how a school can deal thoroughly and effectively with a specific social problem that is affecting the school, such as interpersonal violence or an increase in eating disorders. Inother chapters the authors explain how extra-curricular activities that are popular with students and parents can be targeted to achieve important educational goals and how alternatives to traditional courses and homework (such as apprenticeships, investigations, independent projects and exhibitions) can be used to enhance learning and increase student motivation. In the difficult area of assessment, the authors suggest a variety of techniques (including questionnaires, interviews, observations, recorded data, portfolios, projects, lab experiments, and quantitative investigations) that can be used in addition to traditional pen and pencil tests to assess student achievement.

Educational Facilities

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Jamie Vollmer

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

A businessman's transformation from critic to ally, and his step-by-step plan to increase public support for America's public Schools

Schools Cannot Do It Alone tells of Jamie Vollmer, businessman and attorney,as he travels through through the land of public education. His encounters with blueberries, bell curves, and smelly eighth graders lead him to two critical discoveries. First, we have a systems problem, not a people problem. We must change the system to get the graduates we need. Second, we cannot touch the system without touching the culture of the surrounding town; everything that goes on inside a school is tied to local attitudes, values, traditions, and beliefs. Drawing on his work in hundreds of districts, Jamie offers teachers, administrators, board members,and their allies a practical program to secure the understanding, trust, permission, and support they need to change the system and increase student success.

Schools Cannot Do It Alone

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Lucy Calkins

Mary Ehrenworth

Christopher Lehman

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Accelerating Achievement

"As challenging as it must have been to write and finesse the adoption of the Common Core State Standards, that accomplishment is nothing compared to the work of teaching in ways that bring all students to these ambitious expectations. The goal is clear. The pathway is not."
-Lucy Calkins, Mary Ehrenworth, and Christopher Lehman

The Common Core is written, but the plan for implementing the Common Core is not.

Lucy Calkins and her colleagues at the Reading and Writing Project have helped thousands of educators design their own pathways to the Common Core. Now, with Pathways to the Common Core, they are ready to help you find your way.

Designed for teachers, school leaders, and professional learning communities looking to navigate the gap between their current literacy practices and the ideals of the Common Core, Pathways to the Common Core will help you:
* understand what the standards say, suggest, and what they don't say;
* recognize the guiding principles that underpin the reading and writing standards;
* identify how the Common Core's infrastructure supports a spiraling K-12 literacy curriculum; and
* scrutinize the context in which the CCSS were written and are being unrolled.

In addition to offering an analytical study of the standards, this guide will also help you and your colleagues implement the standards in ways that lift the level of teaching and learning throughout your school. Specifically, it will help you:
* become a more critical consumer of the "standards-based" mandates that are flooding your desk;
* craft instruction that supports students in reading more complex texts, developing higher level
comprehension skills, and writing at the ambitious levels of the CCSS;
* develop performance assessments and other tools to propel Common Core reforms; and
* create systems of continuous improvement that are transparent, collegial, and accountable.

Above all, this book will help you interpret the Common Core as a rallying cry that ignites deep, wide and lasting reforms and, most importantly, accelerates student achievement.

For more information, visit UnitsofStudy.com [http://www.unitsofstudy.com/default].

Pathways to the Common Core

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Kenneth D. Moore

Provides teaching strategies for pre-service middle and high school teachers. This book is organized around the four essential components of effective teaching: foundations, preparing for instruction, implementation of instruction, and the profession. It includes chapter objectives, key terms, check-up questions, application questions, and more.

Middle and Secondary School Instructional Methods

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Luz Santana

Dan Rothstein

Agnes Bain

A Powerful Strategy for Strengthening School-Family Partnerships

How can we make it easier for schools and families to work together on behalf of all students? It all begins by tapping into the different strengths educators and parents and caregivers can contribute to building a strong partnership.

Partnering with Parents to Ask the Right Questions, by Luz Santana, Dan Rothstein, and Agnes Bain of the Right Question Institute, presents a deceptively simple strategy for how educators can build effective partnerships with parents-especially those who typically have not been actively involved in their children's schooling. It distills complex, important ideas on effective civic participation into an easy-to-learn process that teaches parents two fundamental skills they can use to support the education of their children, monitor their progress, and advocate for them: asking better questions and participating effectively in key decisions.

Based on more than two decades of work and research in a wide range of low- and moderate-income communities, this book empowers overburdened and under-resourced educators and parents to work together and achieve their common goal of successful students.

This indispensable guide includes case studies spanning K-12 classrooms, and it explores ways to assist struggling students, collaborate on IEPs, and communicate with families of English language learners.

The accessible and easy-to-use format, field-tested advice, and vivid examples from schools that put the advice into practice make this a must-have for everyone from the classroom to the central office.

Partnering with Parents to Ask the Right Questions

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Matt Copeland

Electives

Fostering Critical and Creative Thinking in Middle and High School

The benefits and importance of Socratic seminars are widely recognized, but little has been written on how to make them happen successfully in the classroom. By offering real-world examples and straightforward answers to frequent questions, Matt Copeland has created a coaching guide for both the teacher new to Socratic seminars and the experienced teacher seeking to optimize the benefits of this powerful strategy. Socratic Circles also shows teachers who are familiar with literature circles the many ways in which these two practices complement and extend each other.Effectively implemented, Socratic seminars enhance reading comprehension, listening, and speaking skills, and build better classroom community and conflict resolution skills. By giving students ownership over the classroom discussion around texts, they become more independent and motivated learners. Ultimately, because there is a direct relationship between the level of participation and the richness of the experience, Socratic seminars teach students to take responsibility for the quality of their own learning.As our classrooms and our schools grow increasingly focused on meeting high standards and differentiating instruction for a wide variety of student needs and learning styles, Socratic seminars offer an essential classroom tool for meeting these goals. Socratic Circles is a complete and practical guide to Socratic seminars for the busy classroom teacher.

Socratic Circles

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Jay B. Cutts M.A.

John F. Mares

This brand-new title is a shorter version of the all-new Barron’s LSAT. All prospective law students must pass the LSAT as a prerequisite to admission at ABA-approved law schools. This manual explains and reviews the test’s four sections: Logical Reasoning, Reasoning Comprehension, Analytical Reasoning, and the LSAT Essay. Each review chapter includes practice questions with answers. The book also presents two full-length LSAT practice tests with answer keys and explanations.

Pass Key to the LSAT

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