ASCD

This guide provides insight on creating emergency operations plans that follow government guidelines and best practices, such as ways to decentralize authority and responsibility during a crisis. Keeping Students Safe Every Day teaches school leadership how to distinguish between three levels of lockdown, and to assess threats and vulnerabilities. School safety experts Amy Klinger and Amanda Klinger also guide leaders in planning for short- and long-term recovery following an incident. Co-author Amanda Klinger is featured in this month’s On Topic on page 12.

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Leverage Leadership 2.0: A Practical Guide to Building Exceptional Schools

Jossey-Bass, A Wiley brand

Leverage Leadership 2.0 includes the observations of over 20,000 school leaders to answer the question: What do great school leaders do that separates them from the rest? This resource features real-life success stories that showcase effective leadership and techniques that administrators can replicate in their own schools. The book also provides updated professional development materials, including rubrics, calendars and a DVD featuring over 30 videos.

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Learning Without Classrooms: Visionary Designs for Secondary Schools

Solution Tree

Learning Without Classrooms examines several strategies to support personalized learning by addressing school management issues such as facilities, funding, instruction, technology, time and community. The authors show how tech tools can change classroom instruction and be used to teach students the skills needed to succeed in the modern world. They also discuss the structure behind an advisory-based concept for school management and detail seven designs for renovating schools to support personalized learning.

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Out of Curiosity: Restoring the Power of Hungry Minds for Better Schools, Workplaces, and Lives

McRel International

This book delves into how curiosity can be cultivated intentionally to prime the pump for learning and create more engaged students. By examining how curiosity forms and how it’s nurtured, educators can develop questions that break away from traditional “boring” instruction to create an environment of inspired learning. The authors share guiding principles, research findings, thought-provoking questions and personal reflections to guide teachers through new shifts in pedagogy.

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Corwin

91¿´Æ¬istrators can learn organizational and management strategies in this book about pursuing education reform. The New School Rules describes effective ways to build team trust and to lead faculty without micromanaging. Authors talk about positive decision-making practices and discuss the importance of sharing information with school staff. The book also contains case studies—a section on effective planning, for example, tells the story of a rapidly growing district that had to create a road map for rolling out new technology, school designs and PD after hiring a new superintendent.

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Evidence of Practice: Playbook for Video-Powered Professional Learning

Edthena

Districts can follow the 12 video-coaching strategies in this playbook to effectively employ video-based learning in PD and in the classroom. Educators will learn techniques for analyzing classroom videos as well as for recording and sharing them. The authors also explore the benefits of using classroom footage from teachers across the globe as part of video learning communities.

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Exploding the Castle: Rethinking How Video Games & Game Mechanics Can Shape the Future of Education

Information Age Publishing

The authors explore the value and the most effective ways of teaching with games. For instance, they show similarities between classic literature and gaming storylines by connecting creative writing exercises with the choices students make in games. Rather than igniting a debate about gaming violence and gamification, Exploding the Castle illustrates how gaming can reshape instruction.

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Adventures With Arthropods: Eco-Friendly Lessons for Middle School

NSTA Press

This book features 26 lessons on three arthropod groups, including Madagascar hissing cockroaches and tarantulas. Students learn how certain species interact and react to temperature changes by observing them in certain environments, such as in transparent plastic food packaging. Adventures With Arthropods also includes detailed pictures for further guidance, and charts where students record insect behaviors and characteristics.

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