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Improving Your School One Week at a Time: Building the Foundation for Professional Teaching and Learning

Improving Your School One Week at a Time: Building the Foundation for Professional Teaching and Learning

Improving Your School One Week at a Time: Building the Foundation for Professional Teaching and Learning

Improving Your School One Week at a Time: Building the Foundation for Professional Teaching and Learning

Overview

Learn how you can work more effectively with your staff to improve your school. In this unique book, Jeffrey Zoul and Spiri Diamantis Howard reveal how a powerful tool, “Friday Focus” emails or newsletters, can help school principals communicate more proactively and consistently with their teachers while improving instruction and morale.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781040044124
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 06/19/2024
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 198
File size: 1 MB

About the Author

Jeffrey Zoul is a lifelong teacher, learner, and leader. During Jeff’s distinguished career in education he has served in a variety of roles, most recently as assistant superintendent for teaching and learning with Deerfield Public Schools District 109 in Deerfield, Illinois. Jeff has been recognized as a local teacher of the year and as an outstanding principal in the State of Georgia. He also served as principal at a national School of Excellence in Illinois.

Spiri Diamantis Howard has been a dedicated educator for over 25 years. Currently, she serves as a Reading Interventionist at Commonwealth Charter Academy, one of Pennsylvania's largest public cyber charter schools. Spiri's commitment to fostering a love for reading and learning in her students is at the heart of her work. Her dedication to education and her community continues to inspire those around her.

Table of Contents

Introduction  Part 1: The First Quarter  1. Opening Day  2. What Makes a Good Teacher?  3. Effort-Based Ability  4. The Dreaded Homework Dilemma  5. The Impact of a Teacher  6. Effective Listening  7. Bullying Prevention  8. Hope Is the New Grit  9. Questions, Questions, Questions  Part 2: The Second Quarter  10. Parent-Teacher Conferences  11. Student-Led Conferences 12. Teacher Observations  13. Supporting Parents of ELLs  14. Teaching: Art or Science?  15. Giving Thanks  16. In the Middle  17. Microlearning: Why Small is the New Big  18. The Big Rocks  19. God Bless Us, Every One!  Part 3: The Third Quarter  20. Managing the Classroom  21. Strategies for English Language Learners  22. Working with Students with Special Needs  23. More Classroom Management  24. Responding to Learners  25. Striving for Great  26. Universal Design for Learning  27. Differentiation: Inconvenient but Inescapable  28. Test Time  29. Gamification  Part 4: The Fourth Quarter  30. Professional Learning Communities  31. Choosing Positive  32. Extraordinary Teachers  33. Making the Connection  34. Dissolving the Screen: Online Relationship Building  35. Teaching People, Not Content  36. Artificial Intelligence and Equity  37. A Culture of Success  38. Overtime

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