What can 21st century educators learn from the example of a 19th century president? In this intriguing and insightful book, Harvey Alvy and Pam Robbins show how the legacy of Abraham Lincoln can guide today's education leaders--principals, teachers, superintendents, and others--as they tackle large-scale challenges, such as closing the achievement gap, and everyday issues, such as communicating with constituents. The authors identify 10 qualities, attributes, and skills that help to explain Lincoln's effectiveness, despite seemingly insurmountable odds:

1. Implementing and sustai...
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In a handful of nations, virtually all children are learning to make complex arguments and solve problems they've never seen before. They are le...
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In a handful of nations, virtually all children are learning to make complex arguments and solve problems they've never seen before. They are le...
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What does it takefor new readers to succeed? It takes 1.200 hours of exposure, instruction and practice, practice, practice.

Patrick knows all about practice. He learned that in music school. But a job in a professional orchestra hasn't happened. With a son ready to begin school, something has to change.

When the jaded principal of the neighborhood school presses Patrick to get involved, no one could predict the outcome. Guided by a flamboyant former professor, a salty science instructor, and a discouraged kindergarten teacher, Patrick discovers what is most im...
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In a reporting tour de force, award-winning journalist Steven Brill takes an uncompromising look at the adults who are fighting over America's failure to educate its children--and points the way to reversing that failure.

Brill not only takes us inside their roller-coaster battle...
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A writer's notebook is an essential springboard for the pieces that will later be crafted in writers' workshop. It is here that students brainstorm topics, play with leads and endings, tweak a new revision strategy, or test out a genre for the first time.

In Notebook Know-How, Aimee Buckner provides the tools teachers need to make writers' notebooks an integral part of their writing programs. She also addresses many of the questions teachers ask when they start using notebooks with their students, including: How do I launch the notebook? What mini-lessons can be used through...
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