The first text to review local school policy in such vital areas as discipline, curriculum, personnel, scheduling, grouping, evaluation, homework, and programs for at risk students. Examples of local policy as a dimension of school effectiveness appear throughout the text.

School Policy

Education & Teaching

Canady, Robert Lynn

Duke, Daniel Linden

Schools & Teaching

Mcgraw-Hill College

Early Literacy Matters is an innovative action guide for elementary school leaders and instructional coaches dedicated to accelerating literacy performance in the early grades, when prevention of reading difficulties matters most. As a unique father-daughter team with combined expertise in literacy education and instructional leadership, the authors share best practices for literacy success. Readers will learn how to… establish and lead a literacy team, implement embedded professional development, utilize key assessments to frame daily instruction, and illustrate specific organizational and scheduling models needed to support systemic change based on the science of reading. 
Each chapter features reflection questions and explicit strategies and tools leaders can implement immediately in today’s classrooms.

Early Literacy Matters

Canady, Carol E.

Routledge

"Early Literacy Matters is an innovative action guide for elementary school leaders and instructional coaches dedicated to accelerating literacy performance in the early grades, when prevention of reading difficulties matters most. As a unique father-daughter team with combined expertise in literacy education and instructional leadership, the authors share best practices for literacy success. Readers will learn how to... establish and lead a literacy team, implement embedded professional development, utilize key assessments to frame daily instruction, and illustrate specific organizational and scheduling models needed to support systemic change based on the science of reading. Each chapter features reflection questions and explicit strategies and tools leaders can implement immediately in today's classrooms"--

Early Literacy Matters: A Leader's Guide to Systematic Change

This bestseller shows you how block schedules can enhance learning and instruction, increase opportunities for students, and improve teachers' performance. It provides practical tools for planning and implementation.

Block Scheduling: A Catalyst for Change in High Schools (Library of Innovations)

Rettig, Michael D.

With over 150 sample schedules, this book shows how scheduling strategies can enhance your school's capacity to offer exploratory courses, interdisciplinary teaching teams, teacher-based guidance programs, and other programs and practices which are responsive to the needs of early adolescents.

Scheduling Strategies for Middle Schools