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A young innovator's guide to planning for success : developing an authentic personal narrative for students, educators, and parents / by Rao, Gitanjali,2005-author.(CARDINAL)870560;
"A Young Innovator's Guide to Planning for Success empowers students to dream the impossible and bring it to reality -- step by step."--
Subjects: Self-help publications.; Informational works.; Young adult literature.; Success.; Academic achievement.;
Available copies: 7 / Total copies: 9
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SOAR study skills : a simple and efficient system for earning better grades in less time / by Kruger, Susan Woodcock.(CARDINAL)487217;
Subjects: Academic achievement.; Study skills.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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U thrive : how to succed in college (and life) / by Lerner, Daniel,MAPP,author.(CARDINAL)630949; Schlechter, Alan Daniel,1975-author.;
Subjects: Academic achievement.; College students.;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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Raising minority academic achievement : a compendium of education programs and practices / by Walker James, Donna.(CARDINAL)461818; Estes, Steve.(CARDINAL)136663; Jurich, Sonia.(CARDINAL)461819; American Youth Policy Forum.(CARDINAL)208312;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-190).
Subjects: Academic achievement; Minorities;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Is your child in the wrong grade? by Ames, Louise Bates.(CARDINAL)139208;
Subjects: Readiness for school.; Academic achievement.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The pressured child : helping your child find success in school and life / Michael Thompson, with Teresa H. Barker. by Thompson, Michael,1947-(CARDINAL)654614; Barker, Teresa.(CARDINAL)641343;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-257).
Subjects: Biographies.; Education; Academic achievement.;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 5
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50 ways to close the achievement gap / by Downey, Carolyn J.(CARDINAL)381990;
Includes bibliographical references and index.context, and cognitive type -- Select or modify instructional resources for lessons to ensure full alignment with system objectives and tested learning -- Place students in programs and activities in an equitable manner and with equal access to the curriculum -- Implement effective programs and strategies with English language learners -- Standard four : use a mastery learning approach and effective teaching strategies -- Implement a mastery learning model -- Align teaching to the curriculum -- Provide differentiated curriculum and instruction as well as differentiated time to learn -- Provide practice to master the curriculum -- Use effective teaching practices -- Use powerful vocabulary development strategies -- Establish ILPs for low achieving students -- Standard five : establish curriculum expectations, monitoring and accountability -- Provide for high expectations for achievement of each student -- Monitor the curriculum -- Visit classrooms and provide feedback -- Use disaggregated data in the decision-making process -- Focus staff appraisal on professional growth -- Standard six : institute effective district and school planning, staff development, resource allocations and provide a quality learning environment -- Develop a district planning process that is strategic in nature and provides guidance for the development of district and school long range plans -- Create and implement a singular, focused, multi-year district plan incorporating change strategies for higher student achievement -- Align school plans to the district plan -- Implement aligned teacher training to reach district and school goals -- Implement administrative training aligned to the curriculum and to assessment and district plan priorities -- Provide differentiated staff development -- Link resource allocation to goals, objectives, priorities, and diagnosed needs of the system -- Provide qualified and adequate personnel -- Remove or assist to satisfactory functioning incompetentstaff -- Provide a quality learning environment -- Provide quality facilities.Standard one : establish a well-crafted, focused, valid and clear curriculum to direct teaching -- Embed external assessment target objectives in the written content standards and link to state standards -- Have clear and precise district curriculum objectives -content, context, and cognitive type -- Deeply align objectives from external assessments -- Sequence objectives for mastery well before they are tested -- Provide a feasible number of objectives to be taught -- Identify specific objectives as benchmark standards -- Place objectives in a teaching sequence -- Provide access to written curriculum documents and direct the objectives to be taught -- Conduct staff development in curriculum and its delivery -- Standard two : provide assessments aligned to the curriculum -- Develop aligned district pre/post criterion referenced assessments -- Have a pool of unsecured test items by objective -- Establish secured performance benchmark assessments -- Conduct assessment training -- Use assessments diagnostically -- Teach students to be test wise -- Establish a reasonable testing schedule and environment -- Disaggregate assessment data -- Maintain student progress reports -- Standard three : align program and instructional resources to the curriculum and provide student equality and equity -- Align programs to the curriculum to ensure congruity -- Use research data the documents results to drive program selection, and validate the implementation of programs with action research -- Evaluate programs to determine effectiveness to strengthen student achievement of curriculum objectives -- Align textbooks and instructional resources to the district curriculum objectives and assessment in both content and context dimensions -- Use technology in design or selection procedures to ensure strong connections to system learning expectations and feedback -- Provide training in the use of instructional resources and their alignment with system curriculum objectives : content,
Subjects: Academic achievement.; School improvement programs.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The myth of laziness / by Levine, Melvin D.(CARDINAL)330737;
Subjects: Academic achievement.; Educational psychology.; Performance.;
Available copies: 9 / Total copies: 10
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The myth of laziness [sound recording] by Levine, Melvin D.(CARDINAL)330737; Keeler, Brian,1953-;
Read by Brian Keeler.Dr. Levine shows parents how to nurture their children's strengths and improve their classroom productivity. He identifies seven forms of neuro-developmental dysfunctions that obstruct output and shows how to correct them so that underachieving students can become more productive.
Subjects: Academic achievement.; Educational psychology.; Performance.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Who speaks for the child? by Silberberg, Norman E.(Norman Esau),1931-2007.; Silberberg, Margaret C.(Margaret Catherine),1927-1982.(CARDINAL)858395;
Bibliography: pages 207-209.
Subjects: Child development.; Intelligence levels.; Academic achievement.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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