W. James Popham

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

West Virginia

Social Studies

What Teachers Need to Know

Classroom Assessment: What Teachers Need to Knowis a brief, practical guide to assessment issues raised in classrooms. In a friendly, often humorous way, James Popham illustrates the relationship between classroom assessment and the daily instructional decisions a teacher must make. In addition to addressing more traditional issues such as validity and reliability, this book also provides coverage of alternative assessments.

Classroom Assessment

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Diane F. Halpern

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

New Teaching and Learning Strategies for an Increasingly Complex World

"Changing College Classrooms provides useful ideas on the four hottest issues in higher education today: active learning, diversity, technology, and assessment. Every faculty member will find at least one chapter well worth reading." —Wilbert J. McKeachie, Emeritus Research Scientist, The Center for Research on Learning and Teaching"Halpern's book is a great source of wisdom about the newest approaches to teaching and learning. It is an essential resource for anyone searching for ways to make classrooms engaging and challenging. It should be in every department office and used to stimulate discussions by faculty members." —Jerry G. Gaff, vice president, Association of American Colleges

Changing College Classrooms

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Alexander W. Astin

The cover has a small rip. No writing in the book. 

The Philosophy and Practice of Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education

Examines why assessment activity has produced meagre results and how existing activities can be improved. Astin's ideas include how assessment information can be used most effectively for evaluation; and how results can be used to enlighten and inform the practitioner.

Assessment for Excellence

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Stanley McChrystal

Tantum Collins

David Silverman

Chris Fussell

Learn how to effectively work in a team and lead that team 

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World

From the New York Times bestselling author of My Share of the Task and Leaders, a manual for leaders looking to make their teams more adaptable, agile, and unified in the midst of change. When General Stanley McChrystal took command of the Joint Special Operations Task Force in 2004, he quickly realized that conventional military tactics were failing. Al Qaeda in Iraq was a decentralized network that could move quickly, strike ruthlessly, then seemingly vanish into the local population. The allied forces had a huge advantage in numbers, equipment, and training—but none of that seemed to matter. To defeat Al Qaeda, they would have to combine the power of the world’s mightiest military with the agility of the world’s most fearsome terrorist network. They would have to become a "team of teams"—faster, flatter, and more flexible than ever. In Team of Teams, McChrystal and his colleagues show how the challenges they faced in Iraq can be rel­evant to countless businesses, nonprofits, and or­ganizations today. In periods of unprecedented crisis, leaders need practical management practices that can scale to thousands of people—and fast. By giving small groups the freedom to experiment and share what they learn across the entire organiza­tion, teams can respond more quickly, communicate more freely, and make better and faster decisions. Drawing on compelling examples—from NASA to hospital emergency rooms—Team of Teams makes the case for merging the power of a large corporation with the agility of a small team to transform any organization.

Team of Teams

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Lee G. Bolman

Terrence E. Deal

Help make the organization you lead excellent. 

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Artistry, Choice, and Leadership

Set aside trends to focus on the fundamentals of great leadership

Reframing Organizations provides time-tested guidance for more effective organizational leadership. Rooted in decades of social science research across multiple disciplines, Bolman and Deal's four-frame model has continued to evolve since its conception over 25 years ago; this new sixth edition has been updated to include coverage of cross-sector collaboration, generational differences, virtual environments, globalization, sustainability, and communication across cultures. The Instructor's guide has been expanded to provide additional tools for the classroom, including chapter summary tip sheets, mini-assessments, Bolman & Deal podcasts, and more. These recent revisions reflect the intersection of reader recommendations and the current leadership environment, resulting in a renewed practicality and even greater alignment with everyday application.

Combining the latest research from organizational theory, organizational behavior, psychology, sociology, political science and more, the model detailed here provides real guidance for real leaders. Guide, motivate, and inspire your team's best performance as you learn to:

 * Optimize group, team, and organizational structure
 * Build a positive, collaborative dynamic across generations, teams, and sectors
 * Understand power and conflict amidst the internal and external political landscape
 * Shape your organization's culture and build a cohesive sense of spirit

Bolman and Deal's four-frame model has withstood the test of time because it offers an accessible, compact, and powerful set of ideas for navigating complexity and turbulence. In today's business climate, leadership trends come and go; today's flash in the pan is tomorrow's obsolete strategy, but a leadership framework built on a solid foundation will serve your organization well no matter what the future holds. Reframing Organizations provides clear guidance and up-to-date insight for anyone facing the challenges of contemporary leadership.

Reframing Organizations

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Pamela D. Tucker

James H. Stronge

Find ways to link student learning to teacher performance. 

In Linking Teacher Evaluation and Student Learning, researchers Pamela D. Tucker and James H. Stronge show that including measures of student achievement in teacher evaluations can help schools focus their efforts to meet higher standards. You'll see how four school systems have built such measures into their evaluation programs in these distinct ways:
 * Documenting how desired learning outcomes translated into actual student learning.
 * Tracking progress on key content standards.
 * Setting annual quantifiable goals for students' academic progress.
 * Analyzing changes in students' achievement test scores.



The authors explore the strengths of each approach, offer insights from teachers and administrators, and describe practical ways to incorporate similar measures of student learning into your own evaluation program. Detailed appendixes provide hands-on tools and resources to help you adapt these approaches to your school's particular needs.

For any school that is working to meet higher standards, linking teacher evaluation to measures of student learning is a powerful way to refocus professional development and improve student achievement.

Linking Teacher Evaluation and Student Learning

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Nancy Frey

Douglas Fisher

Book helps to learn how to engage students in group work while being engaging 

How to Engage Students, Build Teamwork, and Promote Understanding

Find out how matching research-based principles of collaborative learning with practical action can make all group work productive group work, with all students engaged.

Productive Group Work

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James W. Pellegrino

An excellent book that digs into how students learn and the data and science behind it. 

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

The Science and Design of Educational Assessment

Education is a hot topic. From the stage of presidential debates to tonight's dinner table, it is an issue that most Americans are deeply concerned about. While there are many strategies for improving the educational process, we need a way to find out what works and what doesn't work as well. Educational assessment seeks to determine just how well students are learning and is an integral part of our quest for improved education. The nation is pinning greater expectations on educational assessment than ever before. We look to these assessment tools when documenting whether students and institutions are truly meeting education goals. But we must stop and ask a crucial question: What kind of assessment is most effective? At a time when traditional testing is subject to increasing criticism, research suggests that new, exciting approaches to assessment may be on the horizon. Advances in the sciences of how people learn and how to measure such learning offer the hope of developing new kinds of assessments-assessments that help students succeed in school by making as clear as possible the nature of their accomplishments and the progress of their learning. Knowing What Students Know essentially explains how expanding knowledge in the scientific fields of human learning and educational measurement can form the foundations of an improved approach to assessment. These advances suggest ways that the targets of assessment-what students know and how well they know it-as well as the methods used to make inferences about student learning can be made more valid and instructionally useful. Principles for designing and using these new kinds of assessments are presented, and examples are used to illustrate the principles. Implications for policy, practice, and research are also explored. With the promise of a productive research-based approach to assessment of student learning, Knowing What Students Know will be important to education administrators, assessment designers, teachers and teacher educators, and education advocates.

Knowing What Students Know

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Stephen R. Covey

Great book to help organize your thinking and your life. #covey #leadership

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Restoring the Character Ethic

In The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, author Stephen R. Covey presents a holistic, integrated, principle-centered approach for solving personal and professional problems. With penetrating insights and pointed anecdotes, Covey reveals a step-by-step pathway for living with fairness, integrity, honesty, and human dignity -- principles that give us the security to adapt to change and the wisdom and power to take advantage of the opportunities that change creates.

Daniel Engstrom

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Team of Teams

Lee G. Bolman; Terrence E. Deal

Reframing Organizations

Pamela D. Tucker; James H. Stronge

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Team of Teams

Lee G. Bolman; Terrence E. Deal

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