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PAST BOOK TITLES
Below is a partial list of books that have been summarized in the past. All current subscribers have free access to all previous summaries of books.
If you are a subscriber and would like to download previous summaries, please enter the username and password provided to you.
If you are a subscriber and do not have this information, please email J.David-Lang@TheMainIdea.net |
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| by Heidi Hayes Jacobs (Eye on Education, 2006)
Literacy achievement is essential to academic success. To improve literacy at your school, you must ensure that everyone is working toward this goal consistently. This acclaimed author provides 7 practical strategies for all teachers – in every grade and every subject — to integrate literacy instruction into their teaching.
To learn more or purchase the book, go to: www.eyeoneducation.com |
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| by Tony Wagner and Robert Kegan, with Lahey, Lemons, Garnier, Helsing, Howell,
and Rasmussen
(Jossey-Bass, 2006)
This book presents a powerful approach to creating real change in schools. Based on a five-year study, the
authors provide concrete tools and exercises to show leaders how to help both their schools, and the individuals within those schools, change. By focusing on changing these two crucial elements at the same time, the authors present an approach to change that is truly comprehensive and realistic.
To learn more or purchase the book, go to: www.josseybass.com |
| Classroom Assessment for Student Learning
by Richard J. Stiggins, Judith A. Arter, and Jan and Stephen Chappuis
This book shows you how you can use formative assessment to actually improve learning and motivate students. They describe the different components of quality classroom assessments that create -- not just measure -- student achievement.
For 60-minute workshops on formative assessment to use with your teachers, email Jenn.
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| By David T. Conley (Jossey-Bass, 2008)
High schools often prepare students to become college eligible (gain entrance into college), but not college ready (able to succeed once they’re there). Conley provides vital research-based recommendations to help this problem. He specifically outlines what students must know and be able to do in order to succeed in college and shows high schools how to better prepare students for college success.
To learn more or purchase the book, go to: www.josseybass.com |
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| by Jane A.G. Kise and Beth Russell (Corwin Press, 2008)
Learning about personality type theory can help you better understand yourself as a leader. Because this book helps leaders discover how they lead, collaborate, and communicate, it is an important tool for developing principals and school leadership teams.
To learn more or purchase the book, go to: www.corwinpress.com |
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| by Harry K. Wong and Rosemary T. Wong
(Harry K. Wong Publications, Inc., 2005)
If you want to read one book to help teachers start the year successfully with vital classroom management, organization, discipline, and other strategies, this is the book for you. The book has sold almost 3 million copies because the authors identify the 3 characteristics of an effective teacher, and show teachers, in detail, how to become one.
For 60-minute workshops on classroom management to use with your teachers, email Jenn.
To learn more or purchase the book, go to: www.harrywong.com |
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| by Larry Ainsworth and Jan Christinson (Lead + Learn Press, 2007)
Rather than suggesting that your school abandon its current math program, the authors outline the five
essential components necessary for any successful math program, and show you how to fill in the gaps. These
five components are: computational skills, problem solving, conceptual understanding, mastery of math facts,
and common formative assessment.
To learn more or purchase the book, go to: www.leadandlearn.com |
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| by Michael W. Smith and Jeffrey D. Wilhelm (Heinemann, 2006)
Smith and Wilhelm share a brilliant approach to help boys (and girls) become more involved in and achieve
more success in their literacy learning. By studying the conditions that led boys to feel passionate about their outside-of-school interests, the authors learned how to increase the boys’ engagement in school by recreating
those conditions. The book presents those five conditions and explains clearly how to implement them.
To learn more or purchase the book, go to: http://books.heinemann.com/ |
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| by Richard DuFour, Rebecca DuFour, Robert Eaker and Thomas Many
(Solution Tree, 2006)
This is the book to read to learn how to set up collaborative teams of teachers that work relentlessly to improve student learning. These distinguished authors have argued for years that the best way to increase achievement is
by carefully crafting effective professional learning communities and equipping them with specific strategies and structures, all of which are clearly explained in the book.
To learn more or purchase the book, go to: www.solution-tree.com |
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To suggest other outstanding books that education leaders should read, please email
Jenn David-Lang at J.David-Lang@TheMainIdea.net |
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